The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-24
FROM MAUI TO
THE KONA COAST
Continued from Page One)


sugar making was watched in the vari-
Gus processes at the new Waikiki mill
and the children of the Waikiki school
gave an exhibition of patriotic exer-
cises unanimously decided by the Wis
itors as the best they had seen any
where in their lives. The welcome adj
dress to the party was delivered by a
little Chinese girl, this fact adding to
the impression made by her remarks
that in Hawaii there was no class line
and no race line, but that all were
Americans despite the color of the skin
or the accident of birth.
The wonders of lao valley were
thoroughly explored by the majority of
the party, others going to the formal
opening of the Waihee- Waikapu ditch,
which has been two years in the MAX
ing and which will bring under cul
tivation twelve hundred acres more of
the Maui plain.
In the evening dance was arranged
in the Waikiki armory, many of the
visitors taking the opportunity of meet
ing the young people of the town.
DOWN INTO THE DEPTHS.
Thursday morning the party inspect
ed the Puunene mill and were then
train to the Kihei underground pump
ing station. Here, at a depth of 325
feet, the visitors watched the mighty
machinery pulsing, the heart of the
plantation, lifting the waters to the
surface to force the red soil into fer
tility. This subterranean pumping
plant impressed more than anything
else upon the Congressman the Won
derful adaptations adopted by the su-
of their plantations and the scientific
methods employed here to make use of
every available means of increasing the
productiveness of the land.
After lunch at the Puunene Club,
served delightfully."-, the party took the
train again for Paia, where carriages
were awaiting to carry them on their
way up the mountain. After a drive
of several miles, passing through the
pretty little hamlet of Makawao, the
carriages were met by men with saddle
horses, and all mounted to continue the
climb. As height after height was
aoI1o %Enr ;xz Irr4s al &C.
ride to Olinda proved to be one of the
pleasantest features Of the various
Maui excursions. At Olinda the party
received hearty greeting and prep
arations were made to make the men,
bers comfortable and at home until the
hour for recommending the ascent ar
rived A few members of the party
decided to continue their climb that
evening to rejoin those members of the
party who had gone on direct from
Kahuui for the crater in company with
the boys of the National Guard who
had come from Honolulu to pitch the
shelter tents at the summit and flicker
any needed messages with their hello
graph to their comrades watching fog
the flashes down below on the plains
1t may be well to mention here that
the services of the militia boys We're
invaluable and highly appreciated the
detail proving most useful in looking
after the comforts of the party on the
morning of the ascent
ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
Before daybreak on Friday morning
the ascent was made by the members
of the party, seventy-one in all being
at the summit at SUNRISE the largest
party which has ever made the ascent
of Haleakala. To attempt to describe
the glOries of that sunrise would be
futile. The most eloquent of the many
statesmen in the party found himself
at a loss for words to describe the
ERECT produced by the combination CT
billowy clouds rolling and twining
thousand feet below, of the great bIaz-
ing sun which shot above the horizon
almost without warning of the daz-
zling lights and shadows deep down in
the cone-dotted crater and playing with
Kaleidoscope effect upon the gnar1ed
sleeps of the crater walls. The guides,
many of whom had made the ascent