The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-15

| way and one without car tracks. from
the business and westside districts IA
| WAIKIKI. With half the attention put
| upon kalakaua 1t ought soon to be
/ the popular way The development OF
your Waterfront entrance. the close
connection with the remodeled Union
| Square, and the Great ton of waterside
parks at favorable points along the
Beach road, make it-with its OWE
| beauty of scenery-the ideal park
connection with the city when it shall
be properly extended to reach Kala-
kau2 {, venue. / recommend that il be
planted on each side with cocoanut
Palms. which would thrive in the
sandy soil, which would preserve the
views of mountain and sea. and give
TO ii unique value while adding
immensely To the picturesqueness ana
tropical attraction of the city's water
front. Nothing could be finer than
this road, following the long curves
of the beach. when planted on each
side With cocoanuts. What 1 have
said in favor of planting out the car
tracks on Kalakaua avenue, applies
equally well to other wide streets
where the track is at the side. For
Waialae road especially. l urge it. as
this with its Improvement becomes y
link in the chain of boulevard and
parkway connections 1t is worth
while TO arrange these in order.
Starting at Union Square, the outer
circuit would be as follows: Richards
street, the water entrance park, Beach
road and its connections TO Main
avenue. Diamond Head road; then over
a short space that has yet to be i'm
proved skirting the west side OF the
Kaimuki reservoir: Koko Head road
now parked in the center and Offering
views on the one side of the sea and
kOko Head. on the other Of the plains
and the city, and with the mountains
before; Waialae road to the proposed
diagonal road leading into the Manoa
valley; Up that valley if one desired
or by Manoa Road to Wilder avenue,
to Punch bowl road and so to Punch
bowl summit or to Tantalus, and
some day on around the head of the
Pauoa valley to Pacific Heights Park.
and then down to Nuuanu, and to the
Pail or back to town. An inner loop
would go out Beretania street to the
extended Kalakaua avenue, to Kapio-
lani Park, and back by Kapahulu road
to Beretania. But there are SO many
variations that can be given to the
drives, the different loops touching at
such a number of points, that l have
had made and submit herewith a pho
tograph which shows on reduced scale
the Monsarrat map, coloring on it the
suggested park reservations and their
connecting drives. This illustrates
what an exceptionally fine system it is
easily possible to make here. The
one thing needed is the adoption of
the plan, that the progress of inn
provements will bring nearer, gradual
ly but steadily, it's realization.
In this connection one word more
needs to be said. 1t would be a mis-
take to try to boulevard all these con-
nectIons or to make them all boule-
wards and parkways. 1t is as i'm
portant that the drives of the park
system be varied as that the park units
she uld be, and good residential street
with its pleasant private gardens, or
q distinctly rural road with lovely
wild growth along the wayside is in
it's proper place as creditable and ex-
cel,ent and pleasant a park connec-
ticp as could be a costly and formal
boulevard. On roads of this character,
where they traverse fine scenery-as
most of yours will-seats should be
provided at advantageous points, as
I have already suggested for the Pail
road; and it should everywhere be
made a crime to deface rock or tree
Or earthern wall with lettering. In
this connection, too, let me- say that
all the town parks-that is, the play
the ornamental spaces, the
pleasure parks and the nearer scenic
parks, such as Punchbowl and the
summit of Pacific Heights together
with their connecting parkways and
ooulevards-should be under one au-
-hority. That authority should be a
park commission, responsible to the
ocal government Gas to your body
'ather than to the Territory.
CONCLUSION.
With the discussion of the drives,
he surrey of Honolulu and it's i'm
1rovement is concluded. 1T has been
| pleasant task, where nature has done
so much and where the citizens are
20 ready to work for Honolulus good,
% point out how the city may be i'm
proved. II has the chance, at won
1erfully little expenditure-so lavish
ire the gifts OF beauty that have been
showered upon ito make itself one
IF the most picturesque and beautiful
cities of the world-all one great park,
with a city tucked in between, in the
vacant spaces. And it seems to have
the will. 1t is a pleasure to tell you
that 1 nowhere have seen more uni
versal evidences of public spirit than
mere. The gifts of God have not spoil
"a you, but have Weakened you to the
wish to deserve them. / believe you
will do that by the Improvement of
your opportunities and I am proud to
have had this chance to connect my
1ame In some degree with the making
IF such a park-city. .ssas,ssss.ssssssass.sasasss
Where so many have been kind, in
hospitality, in courtesies of every sort,
and in cooperation, I can not attempt
% give names. My expression of ap-
probation, and of obligation, must be
taken nersonallv IN heart hv each