The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-10-21
ALONG THE HIGHWAYS
OF THE GARDEN ISLAND
BY Il. N. Ayros.

mea the next place Of Importance is
Makaweli, three miles further on. On
the right Of the road is the vast estate
of Aubrey Robinson. The grounds are
enclosed with high board fence and
nothing can be seen of their beauty
from the road. Access to the Robinson
mansion is gained by road quarter
of a mile long running through an ex-
tensive park.
Across from the Robinson place is
the residence of Francis Gay, set in
beautiful grounds. Mr.. Gay, a we'll
preserved man of middle age, welcomes
the stranger in his gates with the Gus
tomary cordiality of Kauai 5 sugar mag
mates and land barons.
Bidding farewell to tho two lords Of
the manor we ride through fields of
waving cane until the buildings and
smokestack of Makaweli plantation
loom up ahead
MAXWELL Society.
Makaweli is the largest plantation on
Kauai and last year produced over &C.,
600 tons of sugar Nearly 1000 labor
ers are employed on the place. The
residence section of the plantation, that
cerned, consists of three parallel streets,
well shaded by trees, Along the main
street are the residences of the lunas
and other important workers on the
place. Street Two is peopled by those
whose pay envelopes are not quite so
bulky as those of them who dwell on
MAXWELL Boulevard, and ON Street
Three the humber whites of the great
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| Makaweli is right pleasantly situated
and the many white people employed
| there are responsible for more social
life than is usually found on a planta.
tion outside of Oahu Tea and card
parties are of frequent occurrence and
there are tennis courts whore many a
hard.fought game is played.
Prosperity and Labor.
The plantation is most prosperous
one and Head Luna Schultze states that
prospects for the future are very
bright indeed The company pays a
dividend of eighteen per cent, with an
occasional interim dividend thrown in.
The Filipino laborers are doing good
work on Makaweli, according to Mr..
Schnltze, and he thinks that they will
become rs good canecutters as were the
Chinese, whose equal in this particular
branch of labor has yet to be found.
| The Russians arc hard to keep. on the
place as they seem to have taken a
dislike to Hawaii and to have made
California the goal of their ambitions.
The white colony at Makaweli CON
tains a number of men well known in
Honolulu. Doctor West, once of Queen Is
Hospital, is plantation doctor and gov
eminent physician for the districts as
well as U. S. quarastine officer at
Port Allen. Then there is Hoopai, a
st. Louis College boy, who is lunaing
| f. K Deverill, the old Punahou half
miller, and others. There are several
Britishers, on the boulevard, and by
the unfailing signs of the Weekly Times
and London Punch lying on their tables
are they to be known.
They all dwell together in brotherly
love, working hard by day and running
over to Waimea to get the correct time
of an evening. And over haole an6
Japanese, dividend making red dust
hangs like pail and Sits into and
permeates plantation shack and man
agerical mansion, with rosy impartially
Morrison Hall, memorial to the
late manager of Makaweli, well furnish
ed with books and periodicals, provides
pleasant place in which to spend 9
quiet hour after hot day in the
field.
/ There is no regular rest house for thu
accommodation of visitors to Makaweli
as sleeping space is at big premium
The fellows are most hospitable. how
ever. and one is sure to be well an,
comfortably taken care of for as LON
as he chooses to remain.
Prosperous MAXWELL, proud of it
past and confident of the futurel Stocl
; market upheavals fail to affect it
shares, water trouble is unknown, an
its army of lab0rers work hard AM
contentedly. May its divideids neve
grow lessl
Hanapepe.
Three miles from Makaweli is Hama
pepe, a center of the rice-growing in
dustry of Kauai, and made famous b.
the song of one good fellow name
Swadling, who once upon time dwell
in this district. How the name re
calls the tuneful chorus of the cap
, tivatingly clever ditty:
Ny name is Sing Chong,
, como from Hongkong,
Me hanahana nuinui all the day;
} Night time smokee dopee
Till very nearly chokee,
a Down by my lillee lieee patch at
= Hanapepe.
g Ii4kapepe is a village of shack
z pheIe is onle one white man in til
: placer His name is Brodie and he
+ school teacher, mayor, tax assesso
|, postmaster, banker, financial advise
: philosopher and several ether thing
: The population is composed mostly Z
q Chinese and Japanese. One can obtai
room at Japanese hotel and meal
of sort at Hop KEGS coffee sho
across the way. MalSai'of the road al
rice patches by the score, presenting
I very pretty sight, especially when til
lines of emerald spears have just pricl
ed their way from the water. Throug
S them flows the river and on both side
rise high bluffs The stream emptiC
itself into bay bounded on the Wa
v men side by n rocky promontory an
Is on the other side by Eleele landing
n The Falls.
y Mauka of the road there are MOI
rice and many taropatehes, The riv,
4.