The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-06-12
A MOTOR TRIP AROUND OAHU
A SPLENDID MILES A LITTLE OVER
NINE HOURS, INCLUDING sToPs-THE AND RE
SOURCES AS IN A PANORAMA

THE KooLAU COAST.

No one can realize the beauties which
occupy so much of this island until one
has taken the trouble to go and see
them. Nor is the going difficult nor
the beauty infrequent. with the ex-
ception of a few short places on the
Koolau side of the island, and one or
two places along the Waialua coast
there is a good road, practicable for
horse or horseless carriage, entirely
around the island by way of the Pail
and the great central plateau that
stretches between the Waianae and the
Koolau mountains.
Through the courtesy of Charles Bel
lima a party o. newspapermen yestere
day made the trip by motor car. The
car was Queen" sixteen horsepowe"
easy, and moving with little noise, and
Mr.. Bellina himself handled it. The
start was made soon after o'clock and
the course was up Nuuanu Valley to
the Pail. The ride to the Pail is an
old one to most residents of Honolulu,
but it is an ever pleasing one. The
work of reforestat on in the upper val
ley is beginning to show progress and
results, now, and one can look forward
in imagination to the time when the
upper valley will be a forest, as it was
in the early days of the islands.
! On the other side of the Pail there is
developing a surprising amount of Gull
tivation where since the abandonment
of sugar planting by the Heeia Agri-
cultural Company a few years ago,
abandoned canefelds had reverted to
grazing lands and guava.
Beyond Kaneohe, field after field is
being or has lately been prepared for
rice and planted in that staple. From
Kaneohe on for many miles the road
runs not far from the sea, and pro-
gress is but a continued unfolding Of
new beauties of landscape combina-
tions of mountain, valley and sea,
which ravish the eye and delight the
| senses. There is not wanting apprecia-
ton of the beauty of this region for
country residence for there are a score
or more of Honolulu people who al
ready have country residences there.
But there is room and to spare for
scores and scores more of them, and
the more there are the more enjoyable
life in them can be made.
The coast line is dotted with little
islets which spread out in opalescent
bays, the colors of the water giving an
effect to the scenery that heghens its
other varied charms For miles the
precipitous pail stretches along two or
three miles from the sea shore, here
approaching it more closely, there re-
ceding. Yesterday the crown of the
pail was yelled in clouds for miles. The
furrowing of the face of the pail by
the eroding power of water proves for
chilly the heavy rainfall which the
GROWING clouds suggest
At intervals the precipice is pierced
with valleys from which issue streams
that add a beauty of their own to the
landscape. Some of these valleys pierce
the mountains for several miles and
besides the myths and legends of which
they were the source and fountain in
the ancient days, when myths and leg
ends grew, some of them are connect
ed very wildly with later legends of
okolehao and moonshine distilleries,
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litics, the head of the office is elective.
Customary? Certainly it is customary
to have the force up for such purpose
as this? Where is it ever done? Why,
everywhere. They do it on the main
land. Why it's ridiculous to ask such a
thing. or course they do" And here
the High Sheriff leaned back in his
chair and smiled in a way as much as
to say, You can't catch me- I'm too
smooth"
mo, emphatically," replied the High
Sheriff. 81 do not propose to make any
use of this information against the
men. None of them will be discharged
If they said they would not support me.
I simply wanted to find out how the
force stood"
1t was reported that the men We're
first forced to sign a paper agreement
to support Henry, but this does not APP
pear to have been done. Several of the
members of the force did sign a paper
stating whom they favored and the
few who did sign are understood to
have signed themselves as Brown men.
The coercion does not appear to have
been carried 10 this extent. The men
were handled in squads and afterwards
were argued with by Parker. Captain
Kanae first declared himself for Henry
out later asked time to reconsider.