The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-19
TRIP DOWN
COUNTRY
Pleasures of an Outing
Amongst Waia!ua
Mountains.

Il
| lulu and Waialua our train passed two
| in bound trains of empty fuel oil cars
headed no doubt for the great oil tanks
| at 1wilei to be refilled and again sent
| to the industrial centers along the
| railroad. These oil trains accentuate
one important change of economic con-
| ditions in Hawaii. They seem to have
Isalmost entirely taken the place of the
coal cars that no longer ago than year
We're plentifully in evidence. The great
! sugar estates along the railroads.&c.
| Kahuku-and the railroad itself, for
! all the road engines are now burning
! oil instead of coal as formerly, for
which the travelling public ought to re-
| joice, is engine cinders no longer ir-
ritate the eyes and bedeck the cloth
| ing-now use the new and cheaper
fuel. And so the story of changed
ways of doing the worlds work-more
production at less expense-goes on
| Solomon's old saw, There is nothing
new under the sum-" is as untrue in
| found in the Chronicles. Figures? 1
| haven't attempted to get any, huE I'll
wager the difference in the cost of fuel
in favor of oil, is making a merry
| jingle in the pockets of the railroad
and plantation people. And this uues-
! ton of oil also brings to notice the fact
that some of the newly graded streets
| of Honolulu are being given a surface
coat of crude petroleum. Those of US
who are come from the oil districts of
California, where an oiled surface is
saving many dollars that formerly
went for repairs of roads, believe the
, innovation a wise one for our island
metropolis. The roads are better for
oiI-are freer from dust and mud, and
last longer.
POPULAR BEAUTIFUL HOUSE"
Haleiwa is losing none of it's popu-
larity under Manager Bidgood's care.
Last Saturday night the hotel was I'M
questionably full. the canvas annex"
even having to do its share towards
accommodating the throng of towns
people and tourists who had gone down
for the week's-end holiday-which had
the added attractions on this occasion
of Kamehameha Day and-politics.
| Luckily for the writer, he was bound
for the mountain charms of Opaeula
and so had no need of accommodation
/ at the sea shore. Some disappoint-,
ment might be avoided if people bound
! for Haleiwa secured rooms in advance
of going.
Opaeula has charms of its own Its
| first Importance, of course. lies in the
/ fact that it is part of the great water
system of the Waialua plantation; but
/ it is unique in its climate, so unlike
: that of the sea coast. A moonlight
| buggy ride of an hour and a half from
! Haleiwa-only about six miles, but up
! hill all the way-with my friend, D. w.
Shelhamer, brought us to his home at
| the dam, from which headquarters he
looks after the excellent ditch and tun-
mel system of that part of the big
plantation. 1t may sound like a fairy
! tale, from the tropics in mid June. but
near big wood fire while waiting for
! an hour or so before retiring for the
! night. And thus it was every evening
| of my too-b stay in the mountains
SOCIAL LIFE ON PLANTATION.
! The large number of people in man
! agerial positions on the plantation
: under Mr.. Goodale evidently appreciate
the fact that ali work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy for they re-
! lax from duty sometimes-as l dis
covered. Early last Sunday-Kameha-
meha Day-quite a procession of bug
gies carrying jolly men and women
and children, made its appearance at
Opaeula and took possession of the
ditch mans home. But besides light
! hearts they brought lunch baskets
: galore, and if the long table didn't
/ groan il was not for lack of tempting
homemade dainty edibIes. I under
. stand such outings of the plantation
| people are not uncommon. I obtained
the following list of names of the pic
| nickers, most of whom live on the
! plantation. although the list falls far
| short of including all the plantation
! people: Mr.. and Mrs. Novel;. Mr.. and
Mrs. Todd Mr.. and Mrs. Weiss. Mrs.
| Steele. Mrs. DR.. Wood, Mrs Churchill,
Mrs. Carver, Miss Taplin, Miss QUEEN
| tin, Miss Churchill and Messrs. De
Cew, CrDlI and Evans.
A BUG STORY.
They have a bug mystery at Opaeula.
At the upper camp. some time ago, the
people sometimes heard what they at
first thought was a distant steam
| whistle. Then they located the noise
| on the roof of the house They CON
Guided il might be aerodynamic, until
the peculiar whistle was heard in the