The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-04
ROUBD-T HE-|SLAND
AUTO ROADWAY

Before the feet leaves Honolulu the
Territorial Transportation Committee
will call meeting to arrange for reg
ular organized efforts to bring about
the construction of a round the-i island
macadamized automobile roadway. A
further enlargement of the transpor-
tation work has been started by the
appointment of Allan Herbert, A..
Leckenby, Frank Damon, A. II. Ford,
J. NJ. Pond, James Castle and Henry
Macfarlane on a committee to arrange
for the construction of accommodation
houses around Oahu on similar lines
to those so successfully carried out In
New Zealand. This committee will
cooperate with the good roads commit
tee composed of the leading automo-
bilists and with the Walking Club, of
which Ed. Towse is president. Al
ready considerable Roadway has been
made. James Castle has established
one accommodation house at Hauula,
and a camp in the mountains on the
trail he is cutting from Punaluu Al
Ian Herbert has agreed to secure lot
at Kahana near the end of the rail-
way and construct a model accommoda-
ton house which he will maintain at
his own expense or profit, as the case
may be. Henry Macfarlane will build
one of these rest houses on the road
passing through his ranch, and either
place man in charge Or have phone
connection with his house SO that a
cook or earetaker may be sent down
at few moments notice.
The Hawaiian Board is considering
favorably the matter of turning the
ruins of it's big church near the Nor
mon settlement into a rest house. The
four coral walls are still standing and
this site is one of the ideal ones on the
windward side of the island; it but
remains to roof and partition the old
building to fhake it perfectly habit
able. Pm. Pond is repairing two
rest houses on the trail to Kaala, and
with other assurances already given it
seems that within another year Oahu,
at least, and possibly some of the
other islands, will be provided with
rest houses every ten miles along the
main roads and chief trails.
The rest houses of New Zealand af-
ter which those of Hawaii are to be
with changes suitable to the
tropics, are usually built in two sec
tions-one, the main house, of wood
and tar paper, contains the diningroom,
kitchen, caretakers' quarters and the
ladies sleeping room. The other sec
ton, a separate oneroom house, con-
tains the great wide commodious hunks
for men. Mr.. Herbert Is house, which
will probably be the first completed,
will serve as model no doubt to those
that follow. Wire gauze, hickea s, and
hammocks win be among the distinct
tive features. The native stone lying
about and rough hewn trees from the
nearby mountains will be freely used,
while wide lanais will all but surround
the buildings.
With a necklace of rest houses
around the island of Oahu, a perfect
and wagon road seems in
avitable. AS soon as the auto road
reaches the Kahana rest house, George
Osborne and his associates will place
4 NOTORIOUS and freight car on the run
30 that visitors may go around the IS
and in a day. Chairman Trent does |
well to get the two committees in
harness together, and it is likely now
hat the construction of an auto road |
around Oahu viii become an issue of |
he coming campaign.