The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-19
RECLAMATION


|lt bnd muauyoUt Improve Hnd mko
advantage oI thc orpoHnniiic ODE
has provided
Given surroundings of rohnomonl
beauty and entertainment and the
chauce to possess them and Honolulu
will acquire rapid, o. most desirable
population
Daily che unique position of these
Islands in relation 90 travel CON.
morco and national defense Be- maxi
ing stronger impression ON the
world at large Evidently the FEEDER.
al Government is alive TO the trend of
events. and aims TO make Honolulu
one of the strongest Of fortified cities
The result of the recent conflict In
the Orient fixes martial and naval
activity on the Pacific beyond perad-
venture.
with the Pacific Coast increasing
In population. wealth and enterprise
almost miraculously and the Orient
awakening. the Pacific Ocean will
become a pond. and Honolulu a port
Of call to a degree now Incompetent
sible Ocean sports are just start
ing. Steamships out-rival railways m
comfort, and voyaging TO our shores
Is quick and agreeable.
Already men of wealth have made
their homes with us, and once travel
assumes larger proportions, the I'M
pulse, already started, of owning
homes I'm Honolulu will gain Roadway
until there is no predicting its limits
Honolulu desires a population,
emitting the consideration of agricul-
turists, such as has made Los An
geles and other towns Of Southern
California what they are. Persons
and residents of private fortune, who
seek an agreeable climate and sur
roundings, and who expend large al
ready aconired incomes rather than
those who expect the community TO
furnish them the opportunity Of earn
ing a livelihood and even that of the
accumulation Of wealth.
Such persons as we seek desire to
find attractive and charming residen-
tial districts free from all objection
able features and neighbors. In all
cities of refinement such districts ex-
list, and from the residents thereof
come the lavish expenditure and pa
tronage that make the general pros
perity of the merchants and all class'
es dependent on their own exertions.
Excusing the absurdity of compar-
ison, the two ways of creating dis
tinguished city are strikingly illus
trated in the cities of Washington
and Paris. Washington was planned
by order of the government before
the site was occupied, and the same
foresight of plan and execution has
been strikingly continued, until it has
become a marvelously beautiful city.
Paris was recreated and made magnif-
icent by its reconstruction, at enor-
nous cost, under the genius of Baron
Haussman.
Incalculable financial economy, en-
inent results and opportunity are Sc
cured by foresight in municipal az
fairs.
1t has been claimed that the high
er ground and hillsides are preferred
for residence purposes. In Los Angel
es the growth of the city has not been
toward the hills, but it has spread
out on the level grounds toward tbe
southwest, The finest residence sec
tons of the city of Boston are on
filled ground where the State govern
ment reclaimed the Back Bay and
conforming to a we'll conceived plan
of parked avenues, parks and lakes
made it the attractive and rehnei
part of the city.
Waikiki, to the extent the beach
front will permit, is the choice part OF
the city of Honolulu, for it offers the
close attraction of the sea. The lan2
bordering on the sea commands high
prices, and little can be secured.
Other than few lots on Kalakaua
Avenue there are in the Waikiki dis
itrict hundreds of acres that could be
tmade. at comparatively small cost
exceedingly attractive and desirable
by a comprehensive plan under gov
ernmental control that must other
wise remain of only agricultural val
ne for rice and banana culture o
valueless, or be gradually eccupie
by class of population that Unite
means force onto undesirable and vi
sanitary land.