The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-11
iTKINSON'S LATEST PARKS.
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upon the many villa premises at Wal
/ XXI. All that is required consists in
/ labor, grass roots ana water. For the
! first prisoners are available. Grass IS
abundantIy within reach and the Super
| inrendent of Public Works will furnish
water. 4 two-inch pipe is to be laid
all the way and the necessary hose Is
/ in stock.
| Mr.. Atkinson is confident that the
/ entire area Will be parked in six
/ months from now He is enthusiastic
over the scheme, probably the last,
| though not the least, of the park inn
| provements of his four administrations.
Chairman Hustace OF the Board Of SUI
pervisors, whom he has consulted about
otherwise improving Ala M0ana to
make it the oceanside boulevard orig
inalIv intended, is quite in sympathy
with the scheme. All that gives hlm
hesitation about committing the coun-
" TO making the road what 1t should
be is the matter of money. That which
the county is wanted to do is the re-
grading and curbing of the road. Then
either the county or the Honolulu Park
Commission Mr.. Atkinson hopes, would
plant row of cOcoanut palms along
the land side of the road, which would
give it the always -to-be-sought tropical
ASPECT from both land and sea. Palms
would not obscure the view of the
mountains and valleys that, from all
along this road, form one OF the most
magnificent expanses of scenery in the
islands On the ocean side park strip
if is proposed to plant more trees where
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have groves so dense as to shut out
the sublime view of the ocean.
The whole plan is one that may well |
invite the active aid of the Hawaii |
Promotion Committee to bring to ac-
scribed Ala .dOana would be one OF |
the finest automobiling driveways on
this island. Connecting with the pro-
posed route around Diamond Head,
which only needs perfecting across the
Kaimuki tract, a circuit of ten or
twelve miles ending in town by way
of Waialae road could be made For
a large portion of the way the ocean,
on two sides of the island in turn,
would be in view and for the rest the Il
route would lie amidst beautiful noun
tain and valley scenery.
Withal the Ala Moana park-a part
of the scheme that is assured of being
fOrthwith-wilI afford a II
delightful ground for seaside picnics
A hundred parties at once could have
an outing without coming into contact,
one with another, too close to be
Besides the Ala Moana park scheme
about being put through, Acting Gov
ernor Atkinson has made a new park
at Kakaako about which few people in
the city know anything. This is on a
tract of four acres belonging to the
Bishop estate. 1t is just back of the
Honolulu Iron Works. Fully one-half
of the area has been smoothly graded
and grassed. Being right in the midst
of the worst part of the Kakaako
slums, this park will vie with Mr..
Rider s benefcent mission hall in
and moralizing effects.
Already Kakaako park has been
utilized by the boys of that quarter
for baseball games, and no doubt it
will result in the sprlnging up Of a
Kakaako league to enhance the stand
ing of the national game in Homo
lulu. For Aala park has produced two
full-fedged bali leagues and Pauoa
park-one of Atkinson 's-has it's
league. Argument would be superfuous
to sustain the proposition that parks
attracting boys to heaithful outdoor II
sports must have powerful influence
in the prevention of vice in the rising
generation