Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-18
LEGISLATORS
READY TO AID
HAWAI- ICOUNTY
Big Party of S0lons Gets valu-
able Information from Week
End Junketing Trip
BY z. {. MATSoN.
tStar- Bulletin Staff Correspondent
With Legislative Party.l

tleg Caught S0OFI steep at the VOL
cano House, and after they had inyes-
I tigated as thoroughly as possible, the
! land, highway, wharf and numerous
other development problems of the
county, the territorial legislators
Boarded, the Mauna Kea yesterday
afternoon at Hilo. bringing to a close
the busiest special session" the pres.
ent law-making body has yec expert
enced. The Mauna Kea reached Ho-
nolulu early this morning.
II is safe to say the lawmakers have
returned to Honolulu with a broader.
more definite knowledge of the Big
Island. its people. needs anc oppor-
tunities than any one of them ever
held befores 1t goes without saying:
since this is the first time a legisla-
ture has officially called on the coun.
| ty, that this present body will be bet.
ter equipped to help Hawaii solve her
problems than any previous one;
while the best compliment that can
be paid the hospitality OF the citizens
of the island is to repeat what was
common gossip in the party On the
honeward trip last night-tnat. thff
junket will be worth several hundred
thousand dollars to Hawaii county.
Not that Hawaii is going to get all
she asks for in appropriations; the
hosts at the big luncheon at the Hilo
Hotel yesterday afternoon confessed
in the presence of the eighty-odd din
ers that they didn't really expect to
get all they were demanding, that
many items must be siasned and
slashed deeply. But the point was
made that the meritorious projects.
which need aid are really vital to de-
velopment and the Industrial life of
the Big Island. will be recognized,
and that, in total, the county will get
more than she would have received
had this personal inspection not been
made.
Trip Good Thing for County.
1t was no secret that the Big Island
was slated for severe treatment al
the hands of the present. legislature;
the bursting of the county auditor
scandal only intensified the feeling
and If that junket had not been taken.
and the solens given an opportunity
to learn at first-hand that the people
there are just as sincere as else
where It is certain Hawaii would
have Jared very badly indeed IN APP
preparations.
Arriving Sunday morning, the So
Ions were greeted at the wharf by
/ the Hawaii county band and a crowd
of several hundred, including gem
erous sprinkling of the feminine sex.
The reception committee Immediately
took the lawmakers in hand in mas
terly way. rushed them off the boat
and onto the special train, hurried
them uptown, and an hour later had
them speeding out over the OOkala
line, up the Hamakua Coast
Mr.. Thurston An Expert Guide.
At. points of interest enroute, the
train paused a moment while L. A.
Thurston, who is reputed to have more
details, statistical information, at his
finger tips concerning the Big Island
than any other living person, briefly
pointed out the salient features.
The party was carried right up to
the end of the line. which is still
building outward, and the train final
iy paused at the KealafIaka bridge,
several miles beyond Ookala, the pres
ent extreme point of travel on the
line. After brief inspection of the
work there the train hurried back to
Hilo. Enroute the Laupahoehoe brass
band, an organization of seventeen
rieces directed by school principal
Of the Laupahoehoe district, joined
the party and rode down the line sew
eral miles.
After lunch at the hotel in Hilo the
party again started out, this time to
the volcano A few went, up by auto
mobile. but the majority rode up to
Glenwoed by train, taking the auto
busses and arriving at the Volcano
house early Sunday evening. After
dinner they went down to the volcano,
where until nearly midnight the sol
ons gazed in awe upon the ever-chang-
ing wonders of Madam Pele.
See Experiment Station.
They were shaken from their slum-
bers yesterday morning between ) and
s o'clock, and after an excellent
breakfast, took the downward trail
again. At Glenwood the entire party
visited the federal agricultural exper-
iment station under the guidance of
Fred A. Cloves, the director in charge
of that institution. Thence to Hilo by
special train, which paused in the vi
cinity of. the new breakwater at kuhio
bay to permit the solons to disembark
and inspect that big project, the fea-
lures of which were explained by
Mr.. Thurston. r..
Attorney W. T. Rawlins, who ac-
companied the lawmakers to Hilo as
legal counsel and investigator for the
house lands committee, remained in
that city Sunday night, and with one
or two members of the committee and
a number of citizens, investigated
thoroughly the Waiakea, Piihonua and
other land propositions concerning
which Hilo is asking special legisla-
ton ....sE .-...-
Much Of Hilo Seen
After inspecting the breakwater and
site of the new territorial wharf at
Kuhio bay the party broke up into
sections, the various house and senate
committees, under the guidance of To-
cal authorities. visiting the inStitu-