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WAIKIKI in the GAY N3METGES b y E D W I N N O R T H M C C L E L L A N

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(PART T W O - C o n c l u d e d 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> \ 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 u p 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

"I was resting in my hammock, swung in the shade of a mammoth tree at Wai-kiki," wrote Anne M. Prescott in early 1893. "There is no undertow, nor any-thing to mar a joyous sea-plunge by day or by night." "I hear the exquisite music of the surf as it slaps the shore so easily and gently with its white foam."

Mary H. Krout at Waikiki in the Early Nineties, wrote of a "dip in the warm lagoon;" of the "King's Singing Boys;" and of a "succession of fine private villas" on Waikiki's shore.

CURVED SHORELINE W I T H LOVELY VILLAS

"The favorite drive and bathing resort for the leisure class, white and tinted, is along the Road to Waikiki," explained Lieut. Lucien Young of the U.S.S. Boston in 1893. "It is a curved shoreline occu-pied by lovely villas."

T h e "average fellow hasn't an idea of what Waikiki means," declared the In-dependent of May 25, 1895. " L o n g Branch, The Villa, Ilaniwai and other beautiful resorts . . . Sans Souci is the Haven of Rest."

On July 1, 1896, the Advertiser ad-vertised the Seaside Resort of Wright's Villa as being a "short distance from the Bridge Waikiki."

T h e Beach or Sheltering Palms Hotel, on site of the Niumalu Hotel, center of present domain of Henry J. Ka i se r , adorned the curve of Waikiki.

SANS SOUCI — GEORGE LYCURGUS

"The bathing facilities of Sans Sou are superior to those of any place on tl Beach," reads an advertisement in tl Advertiser, July 1, 1896. T h e lease George Lycurgus having expired in D cember of 1899, San Souci reverted to i owner, Hon. F. M. Hatch, reported tl Advertiser, November 20, 1899.

L O N G BRANCH, BRIGHTON

" 1 lie most popular resort TROUVILLE

is tf famous Waikiki," wrote John R. Music1

September 1, 1897. "It is the Long Branc of Honolulu, its Brighton or TrouvilL There are a number of private residence . . . close to the murmuring sea . . . BoapJ, ing one of the plain, airy cars drawn t a span of mules . . . I made the journe at an easy gait." SEASIDE HOTEL SITE

George W. Macfarlane leased in 18£ the site on which later the Seaside Hot< was constructed. It had been the summc home of Kamehameha V, later passed \ Princess Ruth; was inherited by Prince Bernice Bishop and next was the home « W. W. Dimond.

SEDUCTIVE W A I K I K I

" T h e ideal is reached by a sojoui among its seductive groves where tl | sound of the restless surf dashing on tl guarded reef or wavelets rippling on i sandy shore, sings a sweet lullaby, an the pleasure of ocean bathing in a ten perature that, like its skies, its seas an

jtmosphere, is surpassed by no other spot 1 all the world," proclaimed the Hawai-

kn Annual 1899. This same Annual explained that the

>iost notable building improvement dur-jig 1898 were the "Hawaiian Hotel An

ex cottages at Waikiki."

HE M O A N A H O T E L

A design for a de luxe hotel at Waikiki fas published in the Advertiser of Au-tist 8, 1896. T h e plan lagged but was re-ived in 1899, when a contract was signed y Lucas Brothers for moving the house [ Walter C. Peacock to make room for ne Moana.

t I N C E S S K A I U L A N I — A I N A H A U

(Princess Victoria Kawekiu Kaiulani mnalilo Kalaniniuahilapalapa, daughter

Princess Likelike (Liliuokalani's sister >id wife of Governor Archibald Scott

eg horn) , died in 1899. Her home, Ai-hau, was a beautiful part of Waikiki.

U T R I G G E R , S U R F B O A R D , S E A B A T H I N G

I. Long Branch Baths (Jim Sherwood, op.) , located on the general site of the

tesent OCC, was popular during the J ay Nineties. "Most popular and delightful was surf-

Ming," wrote Lieut. Lucien Young in $93. "They used a board generally six • ten feet long and rather more than a cot wide." . "Surfboating is one of the many pleas-

res afforded by the sea," wrote Charles . Taylor, Jr., of Philadelphia at Wai-;ki in the summer of 1896. He was the 3k est of Col. Macfarlane. "The canoes ted are very long and narrow, being ipt in place upon the water by two i-avy timbers. Our party . . . row out to !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 timite."

f l E R I C A N L E G A T I O N M O A N A

llsabel Anderson arrived in Honolulu :out 1897 on the Gaelic. She wrote of ting on "the lanai of the American

2 gat ion Moana, home of Minister Har-H M. Sewell at Waikiki and watched • surfboating." She took an outrigger

tfie. This Legation Moana was site of £ Moana Hotel and Old Moana Pier.

F A M O U S V I S I T O R S OF N I N E T I E S

John L. Sullivan (pugilist), P e t e r Jackson (pugilist), Robert Louis Steven-son, Mark Twain ( cho le r a prevented landing), John Watson Foster, Isabel An-derson, Professor A l e x a n d e r Agassiz, Henry Adams, Charles Warren Stoddart, Burton Holmes (1898 when he took first movies of Waikiki) .

M O N A R C H Y E N D S - A M E R I C A N H A W A I I

In January of 1893, Queen Liliuoka-lani was deposed and a provisional Gov-ernment set up with Sanford Ballard Dole as President. Republic of Hawaii (Dole as President) inaugurated July 4, 1894. Nowlein-Wilcox Revolt in 1895. Annexation Treaty signed June 10, 1897. Spanish-American War started April 28, 1898. President William McKinley signed Joint R e s o l u t i o n a n n e x i n g Hawaii (Treaty had failed), July 7, 1898. Presi-

dent Dole, at his Waikiki residence Aqua-marine, heard of annexation. Flag raised over Hawaii, August 12, 1898.

SERENE W A I K I K I I N T U R B U L E N T H A W A I I

Throughout the ten Gay Ninety years, filled with turbulency, i n t e r n a t i o n a l hazards, changes of government, small wars and uneasy peace, Waikiki wTas gen-erally happy and carefree—a spot for re-laxation and the enjoyment of Nature's blessings—including surfboarding, outrig-gering, seabathing, fishing and suntan-ning. As, May 1, 1908, the Birthday of the OCC, neared, no one dreamed that on May 1, 1958 thousands would com-memorate its Golden Anniversary. The Spirit of Waikiki, The OCC's Guardian Angel, knew all but was as silent and sober as a Waikiki Sphinx.

OLYMPIC VB The International O l y m p i c Games

Committee has added as another com-petitive sport, Volley Ball, l t is not out-side the realms of the possible that a team from Hawaii and the OCC in partic-ular might be the U.S. entry. The games to be held in Italy in 1960 are not too far off to start training a real team for the U.S.A. Championships. How about a try for it?

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