The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-01

Otner lSlanuS WIN q view OF DING
ing about a combined working plan.
Dr. Doremus Scudder and his party
are still on Maui, and some of the
Trail and Mountain Club members
are still camping on Molokai A. II.
Ford, of the two organizations who
returned to Honolulu on Sunday,
after a week on Molokai and Maui
with other directors, gave an inter
esting interview on what is being
done He said:
ut was my good fortune to meet
the supervisors again in Lahaina, and
my very good fortune to be invited
to accompany them on their trip
around West Maui. I left Waikiki
at six a. m. in the sheriffs seven.
scatter, and We picked up the super
visors at Lahaina. Let me say that
Maui puts Oahu to shame when 1t
comes to building good roads. In
three-quarters of an hour we spun
around from Waikiki to Iahaina
over a perfect road, and when this
road is finally carried around West
Maui the islands will have one of
the most magnificent scenic auto runs
in the world / know that Chairman
Pogue, of the board of supervisors,
is in favor of first building the road
from Waikiki to the summit of Hale
akela, and in this he has the backing
of the Mauites. The cost would be
about sixty thousand dollars, as there
are but eight miles of new road to be
built to enable an auto to run from
Lahaina or Kahului to the summit or
Haleakela. DR.. Scudder and his party
are now on their way over this route
and will report.
Maui's Proposed Belt Road.
The Trail and Mountain Club hopes
some day to see the crater of Halea-
kela set aside as a national park, but
certainly the West Maui belt road
would prove splendid attraction to
tourists and others. 1t would make
splendid halliday spin. We left La
hama about seven o'clock in the
morning, and with Supervisor Hen
ming, went over the entire township,
locating the proper places for new
roads and water mains. then began
the spin around West Maui. To the
tourist this is an ideal run; first there
are the cocoanut and bread fruit
groves, then the algaroba, and after
that the cliffs and sand beaches 10
gaze down upon. The blue, clear
water permits a study of reef live
and the larger colored fish may be
seen swimming over the white sand
The auto road extends for more than
thirty miles along the coast to Homo
kahau, on one side the ocean, on the
other the mountains and Tavines. At
Honakahau an exchange was made
for horses, and the school house Wis.
tied.
Here began the unfamiliar bit OF
Maui gulches, in which the native
grass-dwelling house may still be
seen, and swinging wire bridges
across the streams. The trail ascends
for perhaps two thousand feet, but
lines for a carriage roadway have
been laid at a lower elevation. Fol-
] several hours we logged along admir-
! ing the scenery, until at noon we rode
! into Kahulluloa, bit of old Hawai-
] where the traditions, superstition'
4 ! stood with my hands behind my back
! still prevail. Far out at sea score
of heads were bobbing up and dowr
: and a couple of canoes were beini
padded about in a semi-circle. Or
= the shores the rest of the population
of Kahakuloa was seated watching
the fishers. Far up on rocky poin
two natives were watching the water
and signaling the fishermen where t.
follow the school of fish Their,
would have been a good haul, but
and grass houses of the ancient days
Every man and woman shouted Il
me, but it was too late; l ha,
offended the fish good and earned tn
name of Haoli Kahuna. The mel
came ashore in their Malo's
grouchy, and cast unpleasant glance
at the kahuna. The women praye
him to sit under the lanai of tn
grass house nearest the sea and kee
his hands in front of him, only tn
youngsters in swimming laughed a
the kahuna, but they were reprovet
by their elders. There should be
book on signs for the molahini.
Primitive Village.
There were some fish caught, how
ever, and they were served to U
raw at the luau that followed. Their
We're plenty of raw shrimps also, sti
kicking and some that had hoe