Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-10-12
TRAIL AND MOUNTAINECuJB PLANS
Observation-Disclosures FOR SIS

The TRAN and Mountain Club VII
soon undertake to send its members
and others from Honolulu TO the sum
nit CT Haleakala and return for per
haps as low sum as $25.
This is the statement made by Its
secretary Alexander Hume Ford. who
has just returned from q trip through
Ifaleakala crater and around Maui
breaking in the first two members Of
the Trail and Mountain guide service
on the valley isle and establishing a
system Of accommodation or rest
houses, one every nine or ten miles
along the route.
1T Is probable. said Mr.. Ford this
morning, that the Trail and Noun.
tain Club will launch actively in the
local tourist work. opening an office
with the Wells-Fargo Express Com.
pany on King street and organizing
excursions to and about the other isl
ands, as well as local trips about Ca
| hu
We must recognize the fact, how
ever" continued Mr.. Ford, that our
great nearby available attraction for
mountain climbers and trampers is
the island of Maui-the entire island
OF Maui from end to end and sea level
to cloud level There is no such sue
cession OF scenic wonders so grouped
together anywhere else in the world
as the summit OF Haleakela, its stu
pendous crater, Kaupo gap leading
out OF Il, drop in q few miles of
5000 feet to the sea, the Kfpahula
trail along the sea cliffs, and then the
ditch trail In the mountains with a
thousand waterfalls, any one Of which
In another land would intact sight.
seers from great distances All of
these senic wonders the Trail and
Mountain Club with the assistance OF
the Maui people is bringing into easy
access to everyone. with the coop
Grafton or Mr.. Worth Aiken, Mr.. w. F.
Pogue. Mr.. G. d. Lufkin, the Washes,
W. A. Anderson and other Mauites
we have succeeded in establishing a
chain of accommodation houses
around Maui the charges of which
will be uniformly SO cents meal and
so cents nights lodging, so that no
one may now hesitate about visiting
the circle OF wonder sights on Maui
for fear that he must impose upon
some stranger for q nights accommo-
dalton or food. The fixed charges are
made not for profit, but to enable
school lads, school teachers and those
cut for q vacation to travel fairly CON-
fertably and see the marvellous seen
cry that Hawaii has to Offer her chill.
dren and the whole world
Some little rnisapp Tension seems
to have arisen in regard to these rest
houses; they are not hotels, and no
liquor wiz be served, or allowed, on
the premises. Some Of them in the.
meuhtailis are merely three foon1ed
houses, one room Tor men. another for
women ana Il ggenefals f6ofn in which,
meals may be- PREPARED. Generally,
however, there win be Saretakers who
will provide meals Several Of the
leading men Of Maui. b encourage the
movement, are efrfdildihE accom-.
mediation houses or turning their coun.
try homes into such that ali may be
ENCOURAGED to visit the wonders OF
Maui without feeling that they are in
any way dependents upon the hospi-
talitykof strangers. No sane man who
has Travelled can recommend the plac-
ing OF bar in q small hotel, and the
smaller the hotel the greater the pre-
ponderance Of the ha1rooms infiuence.
II is only In 9 great hotel that the bar
can be hidden away So that inethese
accommod ation houses there will be
no liu1or and they are expected to
pay expenses. In the Waflukn hotel.
than which there Is no better hotel
and table outside Of Oahu, there Is no
bar and there is no COMPLAINT Of lack
OF profit and patronage. Yet from this
hotel, to members OF the, Trail and
Mountain Club and affiliated organiza-
tons. there VIII be an offer of the
ret house rates. No one Is asked to
Mvest in these rest houses for profit. /
yet q other countries at the end OF
q few 4ears one out Of five OF these
becomes q proatmaking hotel: the ,
Aubrey hotel on WindYard Oahu. /
grew from two rooms over the rail-
way station % trQnized by Trail and
Mountain Club 1feinbers, to what it is
today. and II wasdone Without the bar ;
leverage.
The traveller and the hamper has !
been kept away from seeing Maui
because he does not care to sponge:
he asks to be permitted toy Hay>. so |
cents is q fair price, for the aver3ge
meal on Maui and no hotel there an |
yet sets meal worth dollar, ther62
fore why charge that rate merely tot
support a bar? Maui is getting into
splendid shape to take care Of the
tourist. in better shape than Is any
other island, her chain of accommo-
dation houses is arranged for. many |
Of them already opening TO travellers. |
Gilbert Brown. one OF the charter
members Of the Trail and Mountain |
Club, now resident ii Maui IS organ
lzing and training guide service and |
will follow up the rest house work