The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-05-24
FROM MAUI TO
THE KONA COAST


Gus processes at the new Waikiki mil
and the children Of the Waikiki schoo
gave an exhibition Of patriotic exer
eises unanimously decided by the Wis
itors as the best they had seen any
where in their lives. The welcome ad
dress to the party was delivered by q
little Chinese girl, this fact adding to
the impression made by her remark,
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 a 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
whisked across country in a special
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 SUI
gar men Of the Territory in the creation
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
reached the air became cooler and this
ride to Olinda proved to be one of the
pleasantest features of the various
Maui excursions. At Olinda the party
received a hearty greeting and prep
arations were made to make the MEM
hers fnrf1 hla M until
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
kahului 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 for
the flashes down below on the plains.
1t may be well to mention here that
the services of the militia boys were
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 loss for words to describe the |
effect produced by the combination Of |
billowy clouds rolling and twining a
thousand feet below, of the great blaz-
ing sun which shot above the horizon
almost without warning, of the daz-
cling lights and shadows deep down in
the cone-dotted crater and playing with |
effect upon sthe gnarlei
sleeps of the crater walls. The guides,
many of whom had made the ascent |
n score of times, were delighted, stat
ing that none had before seen "thn
house of the sun" under better cond,-
lions.
The ride up had not been the forInid- |
able undertaking feared by so many, |
and the varied reports of the hardships |
Of the trail proved to have been most |
pleasantly exaggerated. some or inc /
ladies of the party who had never nd |
den a horse before, came over the
trail like veterans, and the next day, |
the critical time, found not a member
of the party any the worse for the
trip.
A FAREWELL LUAU.
Friday at noon saw the members of
the party all safely returned at Ol.rda |
where lunch was served. The return
To the plains was made comfortably in
carriages and on horseback. and the
afternoon was spent in ,9stlng at the |
hospitable residences of the people of
Paia and the neighborhood. In the
evening a reception was given at the
residence of Mr. Baldwin, ut whose
house number of the party were en-
tertained, aud who proved TO be de-
lightfu host.
on Saturday. the last day on the is
land. the party We're entertained at an
elaborate luau at the fisheries at Ka-
hului, Judge kepoikai making the well
coming speech To the luau and the fare
well speech To mark the close OF the
too short visit, Il
During the stay OF the Congressman
on Maui the various members OF the