The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-30

is almost unique in the Hawaiian Is
lands.
From Kalaheo the party went on to
Eleele where the breakwater and the
,plans for the creation of better ship
/ ping and transportation facilities, were
shown:
ROAD MAKING ON KAUAI.
The road from Eleele to Waimea Is
much of it magnificent. Wherever the
Board of Supervisors has undertaken
to improve the roads they have done
it in the most substantial manner.
Grades are reduced to a maximum OF
five per cent. Bridges and culverts
are made of concrete. Perfect drainage
is secured. and on top of the macadam.
is sprinkled, at whatver intervals OF
lttime is necessary. a light dressing OF
sand, which Is found to be vastly
superior substitute for sprinkling,
keeping the dust down, saving wear on
the macadam. forming better sur
face for vehicles, and eventually work
ing in and forming a part of the maca-
dam itself. Over roads like this where
formerly the red Makaweh soil ground
itself up into an impalpably fine dust
hub deep. the Secretary was taken to
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
Gay. where a short stop was made
| Then the party passed through the
grounds of the Robertson home and
to the landing at Waimea. The land
ing shed had been beautifully decorat-
ed with bunting and palms. The words
aloha Garfield" lettered with fern ON
the canvas awning was strikingly ef-
fective. There was quite a large gath
ering here of both men and women, and
after they had been presented to the
Secretary by Mr.. Hofgaard, Mr.. Gar
field made a brief address which was
interpreted by Representative, Shell
don. At its close three hearty cheers
were given for Mr.. Garfield.
FRUIT FOR THE ST. LOUIS.
The Waimea people had expected the
I-cruiser st. Louis and had gathered
both large variety and large guam
tity of fruit for the officers and men.
Embracing on the Kinau, Captain
Gregory, which was placed at the dis,
Iposal of the party by the Inter-Island
Steam Navigation Company for the
trip along the Mana coast and the
northern shore of the Island and to
Honolulu, Waimea was left shortly be-
fore five o'clock. The crowd remained
at the wharf waving handkerchiefs and
hats until the Kinau was far along
the coast.
LEGENDS OF NAPALI.
Augustus Knudsen made the trip on
the Kinau at the request of the Sec
rotary and the Governor, because OF
his intimate knowledge of the history
and legendary lore of this coast. As
theKinau passed along where preci-
pices rise three thousand feet out OF
the water with scarcely foot of beach,
in many places none at all, Mr.. Knud-
sen peopled it again, by his Interesting
recitals, with the rebellious chiefs and
warriors who in the narrow, almost in
accessible valleys bid defiance for
years to their liege chiefs; with the
hardy taro growers who utilized the
trickling streams and springs of this
arid section to irrigate little tar0
patches perched seemingly on shelves
on the cliffs; with the priests and wor-
shippers who built heiaus and affairs
more sacred than any others; with the
gods of the Hawaiian pantheon who
haunted the cares and clefts: and with
the departing spirits of Hawaiians,
who, journeying TO Polihale, jumped
into Pc, the Stygian darkness of the
Hawaiian hades. -
Night closed down just before Wal
nina was reached. but the light Of
the electric plant there shines like a
beacon far out to sea.
SOME CONCRETE PROPOSALS.
On this trip some rather concrete
for a diversification of in
dustry, and for measures that will
break up large holdings into small
ones capable of supporting the very
class of American farmers President
Roosevelt pictured as necessary for
these islands in his message to the
Fifty seventh Congress, were present.
ed to Secretary Garfield. There were
the Kappa and other lands in the same
district on which Governor Frear is
seeking to work out an irrigation dis
trict, making small irrigated farming
possible. There was the Kalaheo
an actually, working out
now, in the direction of manning the
land. Then there was the project pre-
scented by Augustus Knudsen, a great
scheme by which, by the
aid of reservoirs, for which there art
suitable sites on government land at
an elevation of 5000 feet or more,
water for irrigation can be brought
from the great central region of KauT
onto the now arid table lands that lie
between the Kekaha and Mana lands
and the Waimea river, bringing into
fertility sugar lands roughly estimated
ut 1900 acres or so much of it as
there shall be water to irrigate- The
ands involved are all, or mainly, gov
lands. now under lease, the
eases of which will expire within 6
few years-just about
line enough to work out the project
md get it in operation. These thou
sands of acres, as Mr.. Knudsen
projects the plan, should be cut up
nto small holdings for individual
armers, each holding receiving its
'hare of the water. and the sugar pro
luced to be milled and marketed in
iome such cooperative way as the fruit
of California market their
ruit