The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-04-25
KAUAI CONTAINS
SCENIC MARYELS
FORMAINLANDERS
Promotion Committee Members
q Back From Island Tour, Fill
f.. ed With Enthusiasm
HARB0R FACILITIES AND
BETTER STEAMERS NEEDED
Chamber Of Commerce Approves
Suggestion For Road To
KukuioIono Gardens

The scenic possibilities of KAUAI are
little short of marvellous, says A. T..
Taylor, secretary Of the promotion com
mittee, who returned with the other
members of the committee from the
Garden Island yesterday.
a. Nowhere else are the potential
ties for attracting the tourist greater
than they are on Kauai declared Mr..
Taylor, enthusiastic over the results OF
the promotion committee 5 trip. "They
are unlimited, and we should see TO II
that the stranger who visits these is
lands should have the opportunity pre-
scented to him for visiting Kauai, dur
ing part of his stay in Hawaii. There
are great water falls, wonderful can
yons, green and wooded hills, and beau
tifuI brown and white sanded beaches,
where there is never hint of coral
Above all there are the roads-roads
that would make a New Yorker green
with envy
Trips Prove Valuable
That the trip to the Garden Island
is going to mean much not alone to
the Island itself, but to the members
of the committee, and to the whole
Territory, is the belief of the publicity
man. As he himself declared:
"Now that the members of the pro
motion committee have gained personal
knowledge of the hotel accommodations,
transportation and scenic conditions
we are going to be able to do a lot
more for Kauai and indirectly for the
Territory, than we have ever done be
fore. These trips to the other Islands
are proving their worth every day, in
the working in the committee on pro
Items applying to the Territory as a
whole.
"The chamber of commerce rules re-
quire that the committee visit each OF
the other islands at least once a year,
and so far we have managed to obtain
d deal of solid pleasure as well as
good deal of information from the
Journeys. From Waimea, where we
Landed. TO Hanalei and Haena beach,
Il Where we wont our last day on Kauai,
there was ever present the feeling that
here, if no where else in Hawaii, the
tourist NAV find all the delights of
sceneay, rest and amusement, as well
rs the tropical beauty the mainlander
has been tau hit to associate with
Hawaii-nei.
Hotels Are Excellent
eve found excellent hotels at Wal
fiea, Lihue and Hanalei. Managers
know where and how to send tourists
along to the Waimea Canyon, Olokele
canyon, Barking Sands, and many
other points of interest. Many of our
party rode horseback to Pu Ka Pele
the high point above the canyon, while
all mOtored up the beautiful Olokelt
canyon, which. in miniature rivals the
great canyons of Colorado and Arizona
Joseph du Fremes, the motion picture
operator, took much interest in those
canyons, and in the Wailua Falls, the
Scouting Horn Of Koloa, and the bean
tiful gardens at kukuiolOnO, which
have been developed under the persona
direction Of Walter McBtyde. the own
tr and which Mr.. Du Frenes described
as a marvel Of landscape gardening.
In my opinion the KukuiOlono Gar
,dens not only rival, but in some re
spects, surpass Golden Gate park al
San Francisco. 1t is always open Il
the public
Urged Good Roards
"The promotion committee arrive,
Mt Lihue, while a meeting of the cham
her of commerce was in session, and il
referring to the beauties of KukuiO
lOnO park. suggested very strongly tina
the park be connected with the mali
highway by macadamized driveway
n The chamber went on record in favO
of the road, and the chairman of thu
supervisors stated it would be done
and without delay.
4 "OuT tOuT was eminently successful
We will put in more energy than eve
to send more tourists there, Just as W,
are doing now for Maui and Hawaii
The promotion committee has, speaking
for my own administration, been con
sistent IN It's efforts to turn travel h
those islands. In the last few month
the committee, through its efforts ha
directed large proportion of tTaYe
II to those Islands, The committee is in
terested not onIy in bringing tourists
from the mainland TO Honolulu, but il
spreading them over the other islands
Building Fine Roads
"On the road to Iamalei we fOun,
much of interests particularly the new
road building operations which, in du
time will give the run from Waimea /
Iihue, then to llanale and then /
Haena, continuous boulevard o
smooth macadam. IIanalci, as ever
one knows is shore and bay an
mountain and canyon region full o
scenic marNrls. For the New Yorke
who wants to see these Islands as h
has imagined them, visit to Hanale
will give him rest and recreation an
plenty to see, different from anythin
else in Hawaii. %.
The promotion committee party il
cluded Chairman +. A. Berndt, Secr'
tary A. =. Taylor, George Angus, v
d. Adams, j. -. McIneruy, w. o. Ali
en- and George n. Wears, aud Josep
ia Frenes, the motion picture operato
There were two tourists from Ne
I York and Philadelphia, Mrs. +. Cai
and Mrs. Schroeder.
Approve Road Plans
After three days spent in viewin