The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-05-09
Visitors on Trip Around
Oahu See Beautiful
Sights.
BELT ROAD BETTER
Made Highway Is in
Orderand Other Parts
Built Up.
(From Monday s Advertlser.l

(From Mondays Advertiser.)
Great improvements are apparent in
the belt road on Oahu, and although
there still remains great deal to be
done, the work is being steadily carried
out. Wherever there is any chance of
a road being patched up at all it is be-
ing done, and the trip around the island
is now fairly good except for the places
where the track runs over ordinary
grass. The road to the Pail is being
attended to and the places where it
was beginning to wear are being
metaled and oiled.
Dropping down the other side of the
Pail and coming along to where
Libby's new canneries are being pushed
ahead the surveys are being made for
the new track, which will cut out the
bad hill that has brought so many
autoists to grief From there on to
Haleiwa the road needs an enormous
amount of work done. Parts have been
patched up, however, and here and
there the building of new roads has
been carried out.
The town side of Kahuku, bad
stretch, has been filed in and fine
coral road started. This used to be one
of the worst places on the island, bat
now the autos can skim over it well,
At the Waimea bridge the new cutting
is being pushed ahead and soon the old
double twister will be done away with
and also the nasty little pitch at the
end of it.
Magnificent Scenery.
Leaving, the town in the early morn
ing and slipping along Nuuanu Valley
towards the Pail, the scenery is mag
nifcent. AS the. machine purrs over
the good stretch to that historic look
out, away behind, Honolulu gradually
comes into view The whites and
browns of the houses are thrown out
into clear relief against the green
foliage and the deep background of
blue where the ocean washes the reef
protected shore. Turn after turn of
the road is made, and there comes a
fresh viewpoint.
Now it is the waterfront that shows
through the gap in the foliage. Then
comes the wide stretches of many-hued
foliage that surround the town. The
morning light rejecting on these plays
with a rainbow effect scintillatlHg
against the deep color of the sea.
The scene is cut out from sight and
the road winds on, fringed on either
side with algaroba trees. Ahead OF
the machine, and seemingly never
nearer, are the peaks of the Pail,
guarding their secrets A sleepy China
man is passed, his horse plodding up
the hill and like the driver not half
m ~ - ha hlo q
through the morning stiffness and the
echoes come back from the nils. The
gaunt peaks of the Pail show nearer
and rugged. The machine sweeps
around a corner and the wonderful
panorama lies below.
From the Pail.
Kissing the foothills are morning
mists. Splashes of red, following the
ribbon of road, mark the cultivation
Cattle, looking like small dots, are NOV
ing slowly. Mile after mile of country
stretches away, bathed in fine morning
light Where land meets water there
is a white fringe as the breakers roll
in and wash the cleaning sands. Soil
tary islands jut abruptly from the
water - rugged, romantic rocks, each
with Hawaiian legend attached to it
Over on the horizon the sun glints as
it slips up between the crack that is
left between the underworld and the
heavens, that Maui and his kindred
pushed up so high. Holding it in a
pocket are the tremendous pals that
extend right and left - gaunt, rugged
walls, with the soil torn away from
their sides in days when the fiery lava
was belched out of the bowels of the
earth.
The machine drops all the time, wind
ing in and out. On one side rises the
high walls, and on the other is thu
sheer drop. Back and forward windI
the road, and gradually the descent il
made. Then follows the long ruI
through the country distriets.> Smoke
is rising from the ehimneys and curling
lazily in the still air. People come
hardly awake, to look at the passing
auto. Little settlements slip by. TIL
road yerges towards the sea and fol
lows the line of>the coast. A few hg
ures are seen in the fields, turning tn
water into the channels, but It is Sun
day and day of rest for the majority
a wonderful Picture.
So the road goes on One tim,
through leafy lanes, the next througl
rugged cutways; then with the purrinI
sea breaking on the sands almost with
in touch. A solitary sampan Is an
chored out IN the hue. II Is al d
still that Il seems sacrilege 10 disturb
IL with The burr Of the painting machine
Mile after mile slips by. Scenes tina
would capture the artist and make hin
famous II he could put them on eanva
ait by.
Picturesque little rocky ihlcls, Wit
the fishers nd work. The browns Of tb
rocks frlnged with the deep hlue q
the deep water and the green anI