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WAIKIKI in the GAY N3METGES by EDWIN NORTH MCCLELLAN -i (PART TWO-Concluded from August 1956) There was no Outrigger Canoe Club to add charm and value to the Co Beach of Waikiki in this Delirious Decade; but its ancient foundatic were being strengthened by Hawaiian and Haole surfers with their boar and outriggers. And over them all was the Blessed Spirit of Waikiki. W> \ EDWIN N. MCCLELLAN kiki had not yet "lost face" as the OCC peeked around the Rainbow's erw "I can close my eyes and think and dream of those olden days before the Westei liaoles brought Our Islands to the attention of America and Europe," wrote Dul Paoa Kahanamoku. "I can visualize those early Polynesians running their outrigg., canoes up on the coral-sand beach at Waikiki . Primeval Waikiki is somethii for my mind to enjoy even though it seems gone forever." EXQUISITE MUSIC OF SURF SANS SOUCI — GEORGE LYCURGUS "I was resting in my hammock, swung "The bathing facilities of Sans Sou in the shade of a mammoth tree at Wai- are superior to those of any place on tl kiki," wrote Anne M. Prescott in early Beach," reads an advertisement in tl 1893. "There is no undertow, nor any- Advertiser, July 1, 1896. The lease thing to mar a joyous sea-plunge by day George Lycurgus having expired in D or by night." "I hear the exquisite music cember of 1899, San Souci reverted to i of the surf as it slaps the shore so easily owner, Hon. F. M. Hatch, reported tl and gently with its white foam." Advertiser, November 20, 1899. Mary H. Krout at Waikiki in the Early Nineties, wrote of a "dip in the warm LONG BRANCH, BRIGHTON TROUVILLE lagoon;" of the "King's Singing Boys;" "1 lie most popular resort is tf and of a "succession of fine private villas" famous Waikiki," wrote John R. Music1 on Waikiki's shore. September 1, 1897. "It is the Long Branc of Honolulu, its Brighton or TrouvilL CURVED SHORELINE WITH LOVELY VILLAS There are a number of private residence "The favorite drive and bathing resort . close to the murmuring sea . BoapJ, for the leisure class, white and tinted, is ing one of the plain, airy cars drawn t along the Road to Waikiki," explained a span of mules ... I made the journe Lieut. Lucien Young of the U.S.S. Boston at an easy gait." in 1893. "It is a curved shoreline occu- SEASIDE HOTEL SITE pied by lovely villas." George W. Macfarlane leased in 18£ The "average fellow hasn't an idea of the site on which later the Seaside Hot< what Waikiki means," declared the In- was constructed. It had been the summc dependent of May 25, 1895. "Long home of Kamehameha V, later passed \ Branch, The Villa, Ilaniwai and other Princess Ruth; was inherited by Prince beautiful resorts . Sans Souci is the Bernice Bishop and next was the home « Haven of Rest." W. W. Dimond. On July 1, 1896, the Advertiser ad- SEDUCTIVE WAIKIKI vertised the Seaside Resort of Wright's Villa as being a "short distance from the "The ideal is reached by a sojoui among its seductive groves where tl | Bridge Waikiki." sound of the restless surf dashing on tl The Beach or Sheltering Palms Hotel, guarded reef or wavelets rippling on i on site of the Niumalu Hotel, center of sandy shore, sings a sweet lullaby, an present domain of Henry J. Kaiser, the pleasure of ocean bathing in a ten adorned the curve of Waikiki. perature that, like its skies, its seas an jtmosphere, is surpassed by no other spot 1 all the world," proclaimed the Hawai- FAMOUS VISITORS OF NINETIES kn Annual 1899. John L. Sullivan (pugilist), Peter This same Annual explained that the Jackson (pugilist), Robert Louis Steven- >iost notable building improvement dur- son, Mark Twain (cholera prevented jig 1898 were the "Hawaiian Hotel An landing), John Watson Foster, Isabel An- ^ex cottages at Waikiki." derson, Professor Alexander Agassiz, Henry Adams, Charles Warren Stoddart, HE MOANA HOTEL Burton Holmes (1898 when he took first A design for a de luxe hotel at Waikiki movies of Waikiki) . fas published in the Advertiser of Au- tist 8, 1896. The plan lagged but was re- MONARCHY ENDS-AMERICAN HAWAII ived in 1899, when a contract was signed In January of 1893, Queen Liliuoka- y Lucas Brothers for moving the house lani was deposed and a provisional Gov- [ Walter C. Peacock to make room for ernment set up with Sanford Ballard ne Moana. Dole as President. Republic of Hawaii (Dole as President) inaugurated July 4, tINCESS KAIULANI — AINAHAU 1894. Nowlein-Wilcox Revolt in 1895. (Princess Victoria Kawekiu Kaiulani Annexation Treaty signed June 10, 1897. mnalilo Kalaniniuahilapalapa, daughter Spanish-American War started April 28, Princess Likelike (Liliuokalani's sister 1898. President William McKinley signed >id wife of Governor Archibald Scott Joint Resolution annexing Hawaii eg horn), died in 1899. Her home, Ai- (Treaty had failed), July 7, 1898. Presi- hau, was a beautiful part of Waikiki. dent Dole, at his Waikiki residence Aqua- marine, heard of annexation. Flag raised UTRIGGER, SURFBOARD, SEABATHING over Hawaii, August 12, 1898. I. Long Branch Baths (Jim Sherwood, op.), located on the general site of the SERENE WAIKIKI IN TURBULENT HAWAII tesent OCC, was popular during the Throughout the ten Gay Ninety years, J ay Nineties. filled with turbulency, international "Most popular and delightful was surf- hazards, changes of government, small Ming," wrote Lieut. Lucien Young in wars and uneasy peace, Waikiki wTas gen- $93. "They used a board generally six erally happy and carefree—a spot for re- • ten feet long and rather more than a laxation and the enjoyment of Nature's cot wide." . blessings—including surfboarding, outrig- "Surfboating is one of the many pleas- gering, seabathing, fishing and suntan- res afforded by the sea," wrote Charles ning. As, May 1, 1908, the Birthday of . Taylor, Jr., of Philadelphia at Wai- the OCC, neared, no one dreamed that ;ki in the summer of 1896. He was the on May 1, 1958 thousands would com- 3k est of Col. Macfarlane. "The canoes memorate its Golden Anniversary. The ted are very long and narrow, being Spirit of Waikiki, The OCC's Guardian ipt in place upon the water by two Angel, knew all but was as silent and i-avy timbers. Our party .. row out to sober as a Waikiki Sphinx. !e reef," and when an "unusually large id strong" wave appears, "we begin to iddle" and the wave carries the canoe toreward "at the rate of fully a mile a OLYMPIC VB timite." The International Olympic Games flERICAN LEGATION MOANA Committee has added as another com- llsabel Anderson arrived in Honolulu petitive sport, Volley Ball, lt is not out- :out 1897 on the Gaelic. She wrote of side the realms of the possible that a ting on "the lanai of the American team from Hawaii and the OCC in partic- 2 gat ion Moana, home of Minister Har- ular might be the U.S. entry. The games H M. Sewell at Waikiki and watched to be held in Italy in 1960 are not too • surfboating." She took an outrigger far off to start training a real team for tfie. This Legation Moana was site of the U.S.A. Championships. How about a £ Moana Hotel and Old Moana Pier. try for it? [ 21] .
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