Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-10
OUTRIGGER CLUB
WILL HAVE STILL
LARGER GROUNDS
Big Things Are Planned With
the Restoration OF Property
Consumed in Flames

The 0utrigger Canoe Club Is pre-
pairing for big things, the ladies nav
ing secured the Faxon Bishop prop
erty adjoining. it seems likely that
the two organizations will attempt to
secure the Seaside grounds when
their present leases run out, with its
thousand members the club should not
find this impossible. Plans are we'll
on foot to throw the two present prop
cries into one and do a great deal of
tearing down and rebuilding. already
Surveyor Wall has thoroughly survey
ed every inch of ground while Emory
and Webb are preparing drawings and
plans for the new grouping of build
ings. The plan in view is to create
a real Hawaiian village about the la
COON, with native grass houses in
which poi will be pounded by Ha-
waiians and tapa beaten by those who
still remember the art The caretak-
er's house, bicycle sheds and other
outbuildings will all be Hawaiian and
built partly over the waters of the
lagoon, the great canoe sheds will eX
tend, Hawaiian style, along the beach,
and it is planned to have the bath
houses all grouped together about
common suit-drying ground, so that
all of the area about the big hau tree
lanais may be utilized as a recreation
and beauty spot of which Hawaii may
well be proud, for with the women's
bath houses moved from their present
position there will be a vista in one
direction from the club grounds of the
most attractive cocoanut grove in the
islands, that of Kamehameha the
Great on the Seaside Hotel grounds,
the other vista being of the ocean
and the surf riders, from under the
hau trees. 1t is proposed to retain
the ladies' lanai for the exclusive use
of women visiting the grounds, where
no smoking will be allowed, no per
sons in bathing SUITS and men only
on special invitation. What is now
known as the mems lanai will be
greatly enlarged and thrown open to
the members of both organizations
for general use. 1t is also possible.
that at the next annual meeting
the word auxiliary" will be dropped
by the women's club, as this word
has led to many misunderstanding
the women's club not being an auxili.
airy of the Outrigger Club, but an en-
tirely separate organization, it is like
ly also with the greatly enlarged
facilities that in January the mem
bership of the women's club will be
raised from four hundred to five hun
dred, and it is expected that this will
at once wipe out the entire waiting
list of would-be members. Everyone
at the Outrigger Club is doing team
work now to make the Outrigger Club
a mighty force in the community
It may be interesting to know that
the Outrigger grounds once belonged
to royalty and that here the Princess
Emma, afterward queen, came daily
with her retinue to go out surfboard
riding and canoeing, and that is why
the Queen Emma estate so willingly
turned over these grounds to the
Outrigger Canoe Club on the condi-
ton that it would keep alive the old
Hawaiian water sports of which the
queen was so fond deyotee all her
life. The only grass houses, purely
on this island, are those
on the Outrigger grounds, one of them
actually Inhabited at one time by Ka-
the Fourth and by Queen
Emma.