The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-02
H0OkUPU WAS
WELL ATTENDED
Hundreds Took Gifts to Hawai-.
ahao Seminary and Admire
New Building.

For three hours yesterday afternoon,
from two clock on, the handsome
building of the Kawaiahao Seminary
in Manoa valley was visited by throngs
of guestssat the New Year reception
anu hookupu, probably FIVE hundred
friends of the institution in all accept
ing the invitations to be present Many
of these brought hookupu gifts and the
variety III these offerings to the institu-
tion was almost as numerous as the
number contributing. From a bunch of
bananas to a herd of mich COWS. from
potted plants to pictures and from en-
broidery scissors to garden hose the
gifts ranged, the whole amounting to
a great deal in value and all being of
genuine practical value to the ninety
and one girl pupils and to the members
of the faculty.
One of the most pleasing gifts to
the institution and something that came
as gratifying surprise to the bene,
fcent patron of the seminary, Mrs.
Atherton, was a pair of beautifully en-
larged photographs of the late Joseph
B. Atherton and herself These were
hung on the wall of the big reception
room, in which she and the lady trus>
tees of the institution received the
many guests during the afternoon.
The new building of the Kawaiahao
Seminary was seen close at hand for
the first time yesterday by the majority
of the visitors and the beauty of the
great building and the massiveness of
the stone work excited general admira,
ton. In all respects, both as to beauty
of situation, handsomeness in architec-
tural effect, interior finish and convent
ence, the new building is one of which
all Honolulu may well be proud. The
view of lower Pa1olo valley, Kaimuki
and Waikiki from the institute lanais
is grand. Already the work of laying
out the lawns and terraces is under
way and the various appointments of
the forty-acre tract that lies below the
building-the proposed athletic field,
dairy location, gardens and fields for
the boys of the new Mid-Pacifc in
stitute-were pointed out by the trus-
tees.
Many of the visitors walked the
short distance from the seminary to
the site of the boys building, now in
course of construction. This building
will be about third larger than the
seminary and will be the largest build.
ing in all Honolulu with the excep-
ton of the Alexander Young Hotel.
The excavations for the foundation are
now completed and the work of bring
ing in the crushed rock for the con-
crete work and the building stone is
going on. The building will face Met
calf street, and the building site is
contiguous to the land now owned by
the College of Hawaii, where a $780,
900 building will go up if the LegisIa-
ture votes the necessary appropriation
for the work. The MidPacifc Insti-
tute building will be very much along
the lines of the Kawaiahao Seminary
building, a companion structure, but
larger.
The land of the Mid-Pacifc Insti-
tute in Manoa is celebrated in history
and in legend. Almost midway be
tween the two building sites is a great
moss covered rock known as the Rock
| Of the Princess of Manoa, around
which is woven a succession of stories
and legends. This is close beside the
original Wailele springs, from which
ultimately the buildings will be served
with their own pumping plants. The
japanese contractors at work on thf
new building managed to blast away
a portion of the historic rock before
they were stopped.
The Mid-Pacifc building will b.
completed and ready for occupancy be
| Fore tbn apd of the present wear