The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-07
PEDESTRIANISM TO BE
DOOMED INTO POPULARITY


Territorial Transportation Committee,
the Oahu Walking Club, which Ed
Towse is organizing, the High School,
and Punahou College, will meet at Wal
lele, in Kalihi Valley, to perfect an or
ganization for popularizing tramping
expeditions, Alpine climbing, and gen
eral pedestrianism.
The Oahu Walking Club delegation
will descend upon Wai.ele from the re-
gion of the Kalihi Pail, after descend
ing the Nuuanu precipice and scaling
the perpendicular cliffs at the head of
Kalihi. The High School delegation
will take the direct route over the edge
of the ridge into the valley, the trans
portation delegates will enter from the
Moanalua side, and the Punahou boys
will begin their tramp in Manoa VAL
ley and proceed along the ridges. Mr..
Allan Herbert will meet the delegates
at Waialele, and provide them with a
hot fish ehowder with which to wash
down their cold lunches, which they are
to carry with them
Any delegates at large interested in
mountain scaling are invited to make
their way to Waialele next Sunday af-
ternoon.
1t was Allan Herbert who brought
about the proposed convention of walk
ers, by proposing to the Territorial'
transportation Committee that it do
something practical in the way of fol-
lowing out the New Zealand idea of
establishing accommodation huts and
cutting trails, which it so warmly rec
commended. He offered his houses in
Kalihi Valley as the first to form a
string of such rest houses, similar to
those established in Maoriland by the
New Zealand government, and which
have brought about the creation of an
entirely new travelling public.
Mr.. Herbert believes in securing by
deed to trustees, for public use, now
while such gifts can be easily obtained,
private trails, mountain tops and crests
of ridges, that today, having none but
a scenic value, will in time become
most useful as small public parks, con-
nected by trails, so that never will the
people be refused as right that which
they now enjoy only as privilege. Mr..
Herbert practices what he breaches,
his remarkable group of cottages at
Waialele, that string out all the way
up the side of the mountain to its sum
NIT, he places at the disposal of the
pedestrian visitor.
Speaking of his plans yesterday, Mr..
Herbert said: 81 believe that the very
best kind of promotion work is to do
something for Hawaii that will be of
pie at home. Our young men should
be encouraged to go on walking tours;
there is nothing so instructive and
healthy. Kalihi is the prettiest and
richest of the Oahuan valleys, and
should be the most frequented. mere
ly hope to set the pace and provide the
first few of line of accommodation
huts across and around the island, so
that everyone fond of natural scenery
may indulge his proclivities to his
heart Is content, and never be more
than ten miles away from shelter and
warm meal Our school lads cannot
afford to spend much money, and 1t
don It cost much to run accommodation
huts on the New Zealand plan. A Jap
couple to keep the place in order, make
the beds, provide simple meals, and
that s all.
There are deserted summerhouses
on several mountain sides around
Honolulu that could easily be renov-
ated and kept in order. by pedestrian
club or a chapter of one, and they
would pay expenses. The trouble is.
we ask people to come to Hawaii, and
when they get here they find we can't
tell them how to get about and don
know our own beauties within a mile
or so of where we live. If the Terri
torial Transportation Committee is in
earnest let it appoint subcommittee
to take charge of my cottages for the
benefit of the visitor and the man at
home who wishes to go out once in a |
while on a walking and camping
tour"
Mr. Herbert is not the only one who
has called upon the transportation |
committee to carry out some plan
that viii benefit those who travel
mainly on shanksmares. The Puma
hou College boys have asked for and
are organizing walking club.
Il think both ideas excellent ones
said Chairman r. H. Trent, and I will
take the matter up with our local /
committee, and work
on the matter myself. I also advo- /
cate such organizations on the other
islands, in fact we are taking steps /
in that direction. Mr. Coke will work i
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