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

| The Trail and Mountain Club VIII
soon undertake to send its members
and others from Honolulu to the sum
nit OF Haleakala and return for per-
lhaps as low sum as $25
i This IL the statement made by its
lsecfetary, Alexander Hume Ford, who
has just returned from q trip through
Haleakaia 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 Ga
hu.
I'VE 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
as the summit Of HaIeakela, its stu
Ipendous crater, Kaupo gap leading
out OF IT. drop in few miles of
5000 feet to the sea, the Kipahula
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 attact 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 of Mr.. Worth Aiken. Mr.. w. F.
Pogue, Mr.. c. d. Luflin. the Washes.
w. A. Anderson and other Mauites
we have succeeded In establishing a
chain OF accommodation houses
around Maui the charges Of which
win 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 nights accommo-
dalton or food. The fixed charges are
made not for profit, but to enable
school lads, school teachers and those
cut for vacation to travel fairly com
fortably end see the marvellous seen
cry that Hawaii has to offer her chill
dren and the whole world
Some little misapprehension seems
to have arisen In regard to these rest
houses; they are not hotels. and no
liquor will be served, or allowed, on
the premises. Some Of them In the
mountains are merely three-roomed
houses. one room for men, another for
women andt q general room in which
meals may be prepared. Generally.
however. there win be caretakers who
win provide meals. Several of the
leading men of Maui. to encourage the
movement, are either building accom-
mediation houses or turning their coun-
try homes into such that all may be
encouraged to visit the wonders of
Maui without feeling that they are ip
any way dependents upon the hospi-
tality Of strangers. No sane man who
has travelled can recommend the plac-
ing Of a bar In q small hotel, and the
smaller the hotel the greater the pre-
ponderance Of the barroom influence.
It is only In great hotel that the bar
can be hidden away so that in these
accommodation houses there will be
no liuqor and they are expected to
pay expenses In the Wailukn 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 orgsntza-
lions. there viii be an offer Of the
rest house rates. No one is asked to
invest in these rest houses for profit,
yet IN other countries at the end Of
few years enc out Of Eve of these
becomes q proft-makiug hotel: the
Aubrey hotel, on windward Oahu.
grew from two rooms over the rail-
way station. patronized by Trail and
Mountain Club members. to what It IS
today and It was done without the bar
Leverage.
The traveller and the tramper has
been kept away from seeing Maui
because he does not care to sponge:
he asks to be permitted to pay; 50
cents is fair price for the average
meal on Maui and no hotel there as
yet sets meal worth dollar. there
fore why charge thst rate merely to
support q barr Maui Is getting into
splendid shape to take care OF the
tourist In better shane 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 In Maui. is organ
izing and training a guide service and
win follow up the rest house work
BY placing a complete system OF