The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-09-03
ISLANDOF MAUI
WANTS A WHARF
FOR PROMOTION
La ing fIace At Lahaina Would
Attract Many More Tourists
To HaIeakaIa
A. P. TAYLOR DIRECTOR
OF PROMOTION BOARD
Re1rganzed Committee Holds
Its First Meeting and Begins
Work With Energy
CFrom Wednesdays Advertlser.)

The Hawaii Promotion Committee at
its meeting yesterday decided to make
campaign for an appropriation by
T. legislature for a wharf at Lahaina
Naui in the interest Of increasing tn
tourist travel there.
This action was taken after W. o
Al en- Of Maui, who represents that
laud in the committee, had declared
Maui would not get its share Of the
torr'ts until dock had been built
for the Int 'r-IslaEd steamers. Pa 'sen
gers to IahRina now are compelled
land in small boats.
Mr.. Aiken unfolded his plan for tn"
construction Of a wharf at lahaina i"
connection with the recital Of recent
promotion work in Maui. He told o
the construction of the rest house on
the summit Of Haleakala, but said that
in connection with the UrnpOsGd quito
mobile road to the summit it would
be necessary to offer Better lan1in"
facilities for tourists IL they were in
dreed TO come there in Increased mum
hers.
Usleakala rs Magnet
Mr.. Aiken said he believed manv
who made the trip to Kilauea on Ha
wall would sto0 one way Or the othe
to see Haleakala if a wharf werr
built. Mr.. Aiken added that this yea
had seen more tourists on Maui and
that he believed it was due to the
work Of the promotion committee. 1t
is planned to. establish a commissarv
at the rest house on Haleakala, Mr.
Aiken said, to save tourists the bottle
of carrying food with them up tn
'nNa oil In nj
there.
+. A. Berndt. chairman of the com
mittee, facetiously suggested that tn
next meeting of the committee on
Maui be held at the rest house on the
summit of Haleakala, whirh is above
the clouds. Members Of the committee
seriously declared the idea a good one
and II will be considered. The next
meeting on Hawaii may be held on the
Pa hrink Of the crater Of Kil'uea, If Mr.
= Bkrndt = flea is carried ont.
Hralalai Sublime Attraction
l.. A. ThurstCn, who has Just return
ed fror, two months stay on Ha
waii, told his fellow committee mem
hers of a plan to put rest houses on
the Summit of Mauna LOa. Mr.-Thurs
ton sroke of having been on the sum
nit of Hualalai on the west coast,
where he went over all the crater
Thoroughly. 1t impressed him with be
ing the most sublime of all the ex
tinrt volcanoes, he said because thu
explosive effects appear as if they were
only a day old, whereas the last erup-
ton was more than century ago.
Mr. ThurSton told of a trip he made
to the Kona district He went back
into tn Woo - on the slopes and founil
an entirely different condition there
than is generally believed. The foTes
is not a great Iungl', but there is free
riding space throughout and the LAM
is dry.
Fine Roacn In Construction
In certain parts of this district, h
said, the Bishop Estate is building fin
roads and opening the country. One
n aradam ROAD several miles long has
.Nrst Feen opened. There are tens of
thousands of acres to be developed in
this vicinity, Mr.. Thurston said.
The possibility OF getting the Gas
Men Is Congress for Honolulu in 1916
vas brought up. The committee de
cited to send lima lPis to San Fran
ci.ro. when TIE congress opens there
ia the early part of October, for the
delegates, as means of Impressive
upon them that Honolulu s invitation
is sill standing.
IT was said that II. L. Strange
manager of the Honolulu Gas Com
rany tie delegate from Honolulu tc
the convention, would take the dele
gates to the Hawaii exhibit at the
exposition for Fan afternoon in Ha
wRii.' rs n means of boosting Homo
lulu in the 1915 convention race.
A. P Taylor Is Director
A. p. Taylor, acting director of tn,
committee, was elected secretary an'
director He fills the place made va
cant by the resignation Of II. P. Wood
Hawaii fair commissioner.
Mr.. Taylor appointment Gomez
just seventeen years to a da, from tn
time he accepted his first job in Hon
O!ulu. Seventeen years ago yesterday
he rGcame a clerk Of the circuit court
Mr. Taylor WIS authorized to sci c
DESIGN for uniform Made in Ha
wall label and to work out the plan
II is his intention ultimately to have
the legislature recognize the label an,
to pave l. copyrighted.
4 l"tter from Mr. Wood urging al
INIT ltior to Cal Stone, general man
Rgrr Of the Great Northern Paeif
Steamship Company, to come to Homo
lul' aud discuss with the business mel
the proposition Of putting steamers o
the l'ne on the Honolulu run, was dis
cmsGed and Il committee Of tire
pam"d to con"id"r it and report a
the ncyt meeting. Chairman Berndt
Mr. Th"rstOn and A. f. Wall are tn
eNta'uittce.
. This was the first meotng of tn
Teor~nui7ea committee. Thasn presen
Woo MceFrq Rerndt, ThurstOn, AiF N
Wa ard y. 7. K. lsenberg, who rep
rescnts Kauai.