The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-11

- TT :: Sporting News T SIS:
WALKING CLUB
NOW ORGANIZED
An Enthusiastic Gathering of
Pedestrians in kaIihi
Valley.

The Oahu walking Club was success
fully organized at wailele yesterday
afternoon. Delegate from the several
schools. colleges and other walking
clubs kept arriving all day at Allan
Herbert's beautiful villas in Kalihi val
] ley and at four o'clock the meeting was
called to order by Ed. Towse.
| ]. H. Soper was there to represent
the baseball boys who couldn't come,
George Osborne. J. H. Cation. G. l..
Leonard, came in behalf of the stran-
ger in town, and the Waianuenu
Tramping Club attended in a body to
present the following endorsement to
the Oahu Walking Club.
I'VE the undersigned members of the
Waianuenue Tramping Club. who have
been enthusiastic participants in
! tramps and tours to the various pla ceS
| of interest on the Island of Oahu in
search of pleasure, health and recrea-
ton, as we'll as to view the wonders
and beauties of nature as typified by
the imposing hills and mountains, and
the valleys and gulches. with their
beautiful streams and waterfalls amid
veritable jungles of tropi,ai growths.
with pleasure note the increasing
interest anu the VI lnCSS
beauties by others as shown in the or
ganization of the Oahu Walking Club,
and we take pleasure in joining in the
movement, and to assist in the sue
cessful formation of the organization.
we hereby submit the following names
of our members to unite as body.
| "(Signed by)-H. S. Chandler, path
finder; u. McCaughey, trail-breaker;
Edyth NJ. Thompson, path-recorder;
Miss A. Stuhr. chief-forager; Alfred E.
Bailey, assistant-forager; Z. H. Hand,
| NJ. D.: Miss Helmstein. Miss Campbell,
Miss F. Winter, Miss E. Winter, Her
bert r. Thompson, V. o. Banks. Chas.
/ E. Melvin. J. E. Gunnison and H. E.
Balcomb.''
NO DUES.
Mr.. Towse opened the meeting by
announcing that the Oahu Walking
! Club would be a club without dues,
constitution or bylaws. and that while
there would be a monthly meet, it was
! his desire that on ordinary occasions
! three or four persons at most get to-
gether for some particular mountain
climb as that was conducive to best
results. He poke of the splendid work
| of the Sierra Club of California. an
amateur tramping organization that
had graduated famous mountain elm
bers, and of Mr.. Quick who had at
tanned world wide fame through his
tramps in the valleys of Oahu.
Mr. Towse hoped that the walkers
would enquire and find out on their
walks why some hills were of red
sand, while a few feet away, perhaps,
black soil predominated, and why the
white streaks existed in the mountain
sides. For president he nominated
we'll known pedestrian of Oahu, who
was also friend of Professors Muir
and Jordan, DR.. Scott of the High
School.
At the election of officers, DIR. Scott
was chosen as president, H. S. Chand-
| Ter vice president, and Ed. Towse
secretary and historian.
! The club members then settled down
| to routine business of appointing nee
essary committees.
! After the feast and inaugural meet
| ing. the club members followed Mr..
Herbert up the mountain trail, stop
! ping a few moments at Kaahumana,
! the club cottage, of ten-bunk capacity
with a modern bathhouse attached
/ then, following in single file, the party
! took to the narrow foot trail and far
| up the mountainside beside precipi-
! tous crag came upon a half-completed
stone rest-house that Mr.. Herbert had
! been preparing as a surprise during
/ the week. The rustic tirnbers for the
! lanai and the thatch for the roof lay
near, and the fireplace, blasted out
of the rock was all ready for the fire,
while within reach was a trickling
fountain. Mr.. Herbert will build adj
Joining this a hut of three hunks, and
to the brow of a beetlng crag an
other quarter of a mile mp the noun
tainside he will soon have the Jap
anese packing material for another
matched stone rest-house. A COM
pIeted wooden house for campers mes
ties just below the summit, and here
about twenty of the party supped.
Along the entire Gailside to the sum-
nit Mr. Herbert is planting flowers and
grape vines. The walkers returned TO
Honolulu by moonlight.
Hereafter bulletins of coming events
will be posted at the Y. NJ. G. A, the
Promotion Committee rooms and at the
office of r. H. Trent on Fort street.
Visitors and tourists in town are in
vited to leave their names and they
will be invited on various walking
trips and can select which they prefer.