The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-10-13
MAUI WILL HAVE
MANY REST HOUSES
ON SCENIC ROUTES.
Trail and Mountain Club Aranges
For Chain OF Tayerns
For Travellers
tFrom Monday Advertiser.l

(From Monday Advertiser)
The Trail and Mountain Club has
arranged with the people of Maui for
the establishment and maintenance OF
series Of accommodation houses
around the Island that will make il
possible for the traveller and tramper
to find food, bed and shelter every
nine or ten miles along the roads and
trails. There will be a charge for this
service, and even those who hitherto
have entertained every chance passer.
by free of charge are pledged to make
the regular Trail and Mountain Club
house charge Of fifty cents a meal and
the same rate for a nights lodging,
whether in a bunk, cot or bed, the
proceeds to be used for the mainte.
nance Of the rest house service
This step on the part Of Maui was an
outcome OF the work at the civic con.
vention. Following Lorrin A. Thugs.
ton s lead in raising the money 10 build
the Haleakala rest house, Alexander
Hume Ford, another director Of the
Trail and Mountain Club, undertook to
circuit the Island Of Maui, securing the
establishment of a chain Of such rest
houses, while a third. w. +. POgue OF
Maui, remained in Waildku TO faeili.
tate matters along the line by tele.
phone, with the result that within four
days half a dozen Of these rest houses
were declared open for business, while
az many more are pledged and soon will
be in operation.
How the Plans Matured
Mr.. Ford returned from this work on
MIuat FL
account of the progress accomplished,
81 learned at the convention, y he
said, "of an offer made by a planta.
tion inarager who entertains at his
own expense hundreds Of travellers a
year, 10 build and donate rest house,
fully equipped and furnished, and that
others would gladly follow his lead and
do the same. Then ] began TO under
stand what il must cost the people of
Mani TO entertain tourists and others.
When Mr., Thurston sprung his splen-
did campaign in the convention TO ra'
the funds for the Hnlsakala rest house,
! withdrew the delivery Of my address
20 that he would have plenty of tim3,
but il was ell done in twenty minutes,
and so easily that realized that Maui
was ripe for the advance movement and
that then was the psychological moment
20 start around the Island to secure the
establishment Of a chain Of rest
houses. uH+ 1874. /.
F" Everything dovetailed, Gilbert
Brown, an original member aud expert
mountain climber of the Trail and
Mountain, now resident in Maui, was
at the rUuvehtiUn, aud there Is no bet
ter guide anywhere in these Islands
than Gilbert. We started out before
the returning delegates arrived IN Ho.
nolnln. We intended to tramp it, which
We should have done, but Harold Rice
insisted on providing horses, and we
weakened. In Paia young Jaek Walker
Joined MS as our guide through the era.
ter, and hereafter these youths will act
as official guides IN Maui for the Trail
and Mountain Club. n
IS Most Wonderful Trip
.'Let me say right here that, rack.
ing my brain to recall every sight in
every land visited on my recent trip
around the Pacific and around the
world, can recall nothing TO compare
with the trip TO the summit Of Hale.
akala, across the crater, through Kanpo
Gap, around the seaeoast of Kipahnla
and hama, and along the wonderful
Ditch trail. II is TO my mind the most
marvellous and varied scenic fOur-days
trip IN the whole world. Honolulu can
AFFORD q big outlay and investment to
make this an easily possible trip and to
popularize II. Worth Aiken has splen.
did place in Idlewild, half way up Hale.
akala, and the Trail and Mountain Club
may acquire another nearby. At Idle.
Wild Mr.. Aiken has his horses for the
trip. The rest house is soon to be built
on the summit, and in the crater, near
the waterhole by the bubble cave, we
selected a site for another rest house
lone Of the two on the entire trail
q will be necessary to build merely
for possible sleeping accommodation
and at small expense, as it is compare.
lively warm in the crater. Two Fill
Pine house-builders from the Nahiku
rubber plantation are 10 be loaned for
the erection of this rest house and an.
other in Kaupu Gap. ',..@.a.' .
Sore Fine Arrangements
In kaupo arrangements are being
completed with resident to have his
home used as a rest house. In Hama
a fourroom house, friiy fufnisbel ana
with native attendants to provide
meals, has been provided by W. +.
Pogue. In Nahiku, w. A. Anderson,
manager of the rubber plantations, is
fitting up and furnishing building
near the store and restaurant as an
accommodation house. In Keanae Val.
ley, Mr. Groves has arranged to accom-.
modate travellers at the ranch house,
while ia Huelo, Mr.. Pogue has turned
over quarters In his house there, where
a force Of servants is maintained, for
the accommodation Of travellers to and
from the Ditch trail or around Maui
The PiepeT house in Paia and the Wal,
lnkn Hotel will conform TO the rest
house rates so far AS the actual mem
bers Of the Trail aud Mountain Club
are concern aud those members OF
the Sierra an0 bther mainland mountain
climbing clubs affiliated with the Trail
aud Mountain. Rev. Frank Dodge is
arranging for accommodation houses
on West Maui "t&ta
"Plans are developing so rapidly
that soon il will be possible to an
nOunce the location Of each aecommo
dation house on Maui and to issue a
map showing their locations and dis
tanees between them. .rs..
1T Is expected that In time some
OF these rest houses will grow into
hotels, but not into hotels with bars,