The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-09
HEIAUS AND GRASS HOUSES
ALONG THE KAUPO GAP TRAIL,
Where Oranges Rot Because There Is No One
to Buy or Eat Them.-.LttIe Work and
Much Rest Bring Peace.
la1 Special TO The Advertiser.)

Mail Special to The Advertiser.)
rsUPO. September 2.-After
s,ssnt day by the sea 1 started for
tonse of Anton V. MARCEL, think
!. 10 sleep there and make an early
- for the crater. The trail to Mar
A. house runs mauka from the new
,.nlbouse which has just been fin
"a The site of the schoolhouse has
IN changed, the old location being
much out of the way for many
Elren.
sstveen Joshua AhuIii's place and
' /. new schoolhouse is famous heiau,
. !. Of the finest in the Islands. The
,1res hereabouts credit its construc-
an which is said to have taken
" ae in one night, to the menehunes.
hire are several other heiaus in the
srbborhood. The eastern wall of
big one is topped with pinnacles
reks giving it strange sawhke eff
ii when viewed from a distance.
II is nearly two miles from the
dollhouse to Marciel's house, the
81 running past several pohaku
uses, grass matched, and aIl-grass
uses. The occupants raise pigs and
beet potatoes and working a little and
sng a great deal, appear to drift
from day to day happily enough.
Good Fruit Without Market.
All fake a turn at fishing at times
b the toothsome aweOweo IS so
sniant hereabouts that it helps out
ccmmissary problem materially dur
the moonlight season.
Excellent oranges and lines are
nEn at Kaupo, the former being
rset and finely favored.
The Kaupoans could earn many a
Mar by shipping their fruit to Homo
ID, could they rely on regular
amer. As it is it is impossible to
when steamer is going to call.
Be steamer Claudine used to call here
(galarlv once a month but the service
ss discontinued last July, the steamer
bow going direct from Hama to Ha-
aii and return.
Several shipments of lines and or
las from here have rotted on the
Esf waiting for a steamer to call.
he Kaupo people suffer in another
F by lack of regular steamer ser
e. Many of them order their house
ID supplies from Honolulu and are
Zen reduced to famine rations as far
some of the necessaries of life are
aeerned.
Kaupo Kamaaina.
NJ. MARCEL has lived in his present
kidence over twenty years. He is now
Hyfve years of age and has been
aged in the cattle business all his
& His daughteria-law, Mrs. Lily
1elel has taught school here for
IEly ten years.
The Marciel's extend the hospitality
their home TO all passers along the
u to and from the crater and do
aythlng in their power helps the
anger intending to pass through Ha-
aaa by way of the Kaupo Gap.
Parties who have passed through the
per from the Olinda side always rest
mile at Marciel's place before pro.
slng toward Hama.
One Wrong Start.
started out for the Gap at SIX
Ssek this morning and after tramp
Steadily upward for a couple OF
realized that | was on the wrong
this when / had almost arrived
ne Gap. | learned later that where
ated was within a hundred yards
Of the right trail into the crater
9a, from the red hills. is said to be
I. y and fairly easy.
R hillside is crisscrossed with cat
dails and it is very easy indeed tc
Inc right one.
1er beating about for an hOul