The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-11-15
Legislature win Be Asked to Buy
Kalakaua's Former Home to
Add to Ainahau.
oRIT WILL BE CUT UP
Report Credits Federal Govern
ment With Designs on Moana
Hotel Property.
(From saturday.s Advertiser. )

NHiOlu <AuNCAtAbSAsJ
If plans do not go astray, Honolulu
will have another breathing place out
at Waikiki, or rather, the present beau
tiful Ainahau park, which has been
donated to the Territory by the late
Governor Cleghorn, will be enlarged
and extended until it faces ON Kalakaua
avenue all the way from Kaiulani ave-
nue. to Liliuokalani avenue.
Some two weeks before he died, Gov
ernor Cleghorn wrote John f. Colburn
to the effect that he was considering
the matter of purchasing that portion
of the Kapiolani Estate that adjoined
Ainahau. This area, which amounts to
about six acres, would have made Alma
hau more of a square block, and in
many ways have enhanced the beauty
of the place. Unfortunately, Governor
Cleghorn died before matters had gone
very far.
1t is now proposed to add the whole
eighteen acres of the Kapiolani Estate
to Ainahau, and to make it the show
place of the city. The legislature will
be addressed on the subject early next
year and it is thought that the project
will go through.
May Resume Whole Beach.
The probability that the federal gov
ernment will resume all the foreshores
from the Seaside Hotel to the free
swimming bath, was touched upon and
the statement made that even the No
ana Hotel would be included in the
condemned property. This wholesale
resumption of beach property would q.
suit in enhancing the value of the Ulu-
niu estate, and making it the natural
resort of all people who frequent the
beach.
J. F. Colburn, in speaking of the
matter, seemed to think that, in the
course of time, the whole beach prop
erty would be resumed. This drastic
step would be the cause of much shift
ing and changing and, if the proposed
new park is not gone ahead with, the
building lots on the Uluniu block,
should find ready sale.
May Cut Up and Sell.
In the event of the territorial gov
ernment not taking the whole block
and adding it to the Ainahau park, It
is probable that the Kapiolani Estate
managers will do as the late owner de-
sired and add the six acres to the
domain. The balance of the block, with
the exception of three acres, which will
be reserved for Prince Kuhio's home,
will then be cut up into lots and sold.
Should the government decide to take
the whole property for a park, the
Prince would give up his reserved por-
ton of three acres.
The tract that will either be turned
into a park or else cut up and sold is
known as Uluniu, and comprised the
estate and residence of the late King
! Kalakaua and Queen KapiOlani.
Residential Suburb.
If the subdivision and sale of the
land takes place next year, the lots
will be fifty feet by one hundred feet,
and it is proposed to sell two lots to-
gether, and with building clause at
tached. None but the best of bunga-
lows and cottages will be allowed to be
erected, and the whole frontage to KA-
j lakaua should present beautiful aspect
when the houses are complete.
The estimated value of the eighteen
acres, as the place now stands, is $780,
900; if six acres are added to Ainahau
and three reserved for Prince Cupid g
home, nine acres will be subdivided and
sold. AS before stated, if the whole
estate is added to Ainahau, Kuhio will
give up his three acres to the park.
The project of turning the whole OF
the Uluniu property-in addition to the
Ainahau estate-into big beach park
is thought to be fairly certain of OBJ
tanning the sanction of the legislature
Should the scheme fall through, the
subdivision will at once be started
Fifty feet roads will be run through
from .Kalakaua avenue to Koa street
which runs parallel to the famous
drive. The lots will be graded and al
present number of men are at work
on the property. All the underground
will be cleared off and the blocks Of
land will be made ready for building
operations.