The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-19
OUTING Of
WALKING CLUB
A Climb to DiCkey HOspice
on Heights of
TantaIus.

mat hlgn lea outing of the
Oahu Walking Club Saturday last was
a genuine occasion for those who
were able to respond to the summons
Iby postal. A few more than twenty
members, all of them in good standing
and footing in the "Aristocracv of
Health met at the beautiful entrance
to the Oahu College grounds at , in
the afternoon.
Leaving the Manoa car near the up
per terminus the steep zigzag trail near
the Castle homestead-now the Kinder
garten plant-was soon reached. The
youngsters from the big house and the
small cottages were greatly interested
in the tramping party and several de
sired to join it. All of the tots looked
fit to make trip longer than the one
| planned, but were soon left behind,
shouting happy farewells.
1t is a humorous legend in the Dickey
family-whose mountain home, Kuahi-
wi, was the objective point of the
walkers-that the head once cut rs
or 176 or 1876 steps in the sleeper
places of the Alexander trail The
energetic publicist who is chief of the
house of Dickey, by the way, is known
mostly up in the mountain country as
" Uncle CharIie.'' He ism t much of a
chief up there anyhow when the Chas.
Dole baby or the Merrill lads, his
grandchildren, are inhabiting at Kua-
hiwi. But back to the steps. They
are overgrown with grass, smoothed
down by rain and wind and this trail
for the most part is quite like what
a ballroom floor set at an angle rather
sharp would be.
Of course, the ladies were in the lead,
ignoring the directions or attentions of
every mere han in the party-except-
ing Melvin, bearer of a fine camera.
The pace set was just right and the air
delightfully."- cool few feet above the
valley level. Messrs. Wallace and Os-
borne cheerfully and capably acted as
rear guard. There were many pauses
for views of the scenes beneath, which
are soon choice enough pictures for the
amateurs or beginners but fail to i'm
press the seasoned climber, who treas
ures his enthusiasm for the panorama
that feasts the eyes and touches the
soul only from the very top.
To be a little personal again, it
might be related that Super pointed out
his new bungalow in lower Manoa TWEEN
ty times at least and that Ross and
Severance of the College of Hawaii,
neglected no opportunity to assist
in pointing cut "our land-east of that
big white house Nearing the Alexan
der place on Sugar Loaf, now the coun-
try home of John WaterhOuse, there
were had the first inspection of the ii
plant patches and hau groves or brakes.
Then Choking backward had its full
est compensation. 1t was clear and the
whitened reef framed the green of
Oahu and fringed the azure of the sea
the distance the Irregularities in the
rims and slopes of Punchbowl and
Diamond Head craters were lost and
they seemed symmetrical, but none the
less imposing The hills of the PalOlO |
ridge were glowing purple, the stand
ing water in the cultivated areas of
Manoa were brilliant as the mirrors of
mirage. In the massive, stretching
picture were all the colors and all the
forms that inspire the explorer and
scientist and fill with glorious appre-
citation the humble nature lover whose
greatest possession and whose keenest
joy is simply to look and look and look
again.
On to Kuahiwi, along the edge of the
premises of His Excellency Governor
Frear, touching lightly a bit of his
lawn that might have been brought
from Old England. That was a cordial
Mrs. Dickey and Mrs. Dole. Mr.. Eber
sole made the address of acknowledg
ment after the invaders had more than
satisfied the luncheon appetite. There
was of course plenty to eat-homemade
and genuinely good and served out of
doors.
Senator Dickey led the jaunt to ''the
new place" The route lay along the
Sugar Loaf road a bit down a lane
disclosing the grounds of the Gidard
mountain home, which are the best kept
grounds on Tantalus, to the cold Alex
ander lookout shelter This spot at
fords view sweeping from Mookai
reef to the Waianae mountains and is
big and grand and indelible. It IS
quick drop back in the loop style to
the guides show place, which is none
other than the guleh of Poloke, the