The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-04-01
MAUI TWENTY YEARS AGO
(From Maui News, March 80, 1901


The Waikiki Sugar Company will
soon erect a large plantation store
probably at the corner of Main and
Market streets near the Settlement
building.
Rapid progress is being made on the
II. c. q S. Co., tunnel in lao Valley
and considerable water has already
been developed.
A large force of men is at work
changing the current Of lao River to
prevent further washing out Of the
abutments on the Waihee side of the
stream.
A meeting of the voters of Spreckels
vile was held Thursday night for the
purpose of free discussion of the Dis
pensary Act now pending in the legis-
lature.
William Goodness is erecting a
handsome residence on Vineyard
street.
The Chinese hui which has pur-
chased a large part of the Sam Park
er lot will cut through a street from
Market to Center streets and erect 4
number of stores and residences.
1t is regarded as probable that the
location of the wreck OF the Inflated
Rio will forever remain a mystery.
On Thursday amid the screaming
of whistles and waving of flags the
Leslie Baldwin steamed gracefully in
to Kahului Harbor, her new home.
She is not built for speed but can ne
gotiate 8 knots an hour and her sea
going qualities are excellent. She
will be used principally to handle
lighters and will do some towing.
1t is extremely gratifying to not that
Lahainaluna School is to receive
ter of suitable and interesting and at
the same time time, profitable occupa-
tons for the patients who are able to
do something. The more intelligent
and energetic ones, especially, have
an intolerable longing to do something
with brain and hand. Recently Miss
Anna Silva, a patient whom many of
you know, has become greatly inter
ested in this problem. She is doing
bead-wOrk, and making really beauti-
full little baskets, and interesting 9th
ers in the work. She may also posi-
bly, take up leather-work. But it is
somewhat questionable whether finan-
cially it will be a success; the only
way to determine this is to try it out,
which she is doing. The incentive is
largely taken away if there is not a
ready and remunerative sale for the
product made. l have here a beauti-
full specimen of leather work which
was made for me by a friend who
learned the trade while a patient III a
California sanitorium. He was much
interested in this work and enjoyed
it, and although the occupation was
Of tremendous Value to him in that IT
helped to keep his mind from brood
ing and becoming desperate, yet he
finally had to give it up because he
could not compete with the manufac-
turerS who do the work on a big scale
and with machinery. | think that
eventually we shall have to have a
regularly organized department Of
crafts, 4 school in which many crafts
ale taught, suitable for men, women,
and children and for patients in the
various stages of their illness. Sug-
gestions along this line will be thank
fully received and carefully consider
ed.
In conclusion may l suggest that
possibly the Woman's Club would
care to take the initiative in a 0
quito campaign for centers such as
Kahului, Waikiki and Lahaina. The
campaign should not be sporadic, but
continuous. Until this work is done
we cannot boast of any very high de-
gree of civilization. If the ONE do
not take the initiative in this work
then perhaps in the dim distant future
the men will do something about it;
but as the mosquito nuisance pertains
to the home it seems a fitting activity
for the Woman's Club to undertake.