Home Rula Repubalika, Volume I, Number 3, 9 November 1901 — PACIFIC HEIGHTS. [ARTICLE]

PACIFIC HEIGHTS.

Few cities in the world can boast of as many scenic attractions in the same area as Honolulu. Waikiki, Diamond Head and Kapiolani Park are but an hour from the center of town. Moanalua's magnificent landscape gardening is about the same distance. The world-renowned Nuu anu Pali is but an hour and a half from I the harbor over a most attractive and excellent macadamized road. The less "accessible places, such as the head of Pauoa Valley and Pearl harbor, present sights well worth the trip, but the easiest, most comfortable and quickest way to see them all is to take a Pacific Heights electric car at the end of che Nuuanu tramway. It is safe to say that five cents never was able to give pleasure in tke Hawaiian Islands as a nickel spent in a ride up to where Desky's powerful naval searchlight attracts attention of all the residents of the city. By day or night the trip is equally delightful and the view excellent. Both day and ■'light the cars are filled with those who want the benefit of the higher altitudes and purer atmosphere. The ravine between Nuuanu street and the foot of the heightauaHEL The winding road-

way up the heights proper is full of ' surprises. But the climax isS reached when the car stops at Ilie quaint Japanese teahouse at the uppei end of the line. Here all kinds of temperance refreshments are served. By an easy footpath still further lipighls aie accessible. From this poiti*. Pearl Harbor spreads out as a map. Diamond Head cuts the sky on one side and Punchbowl's dishy slopes lie many feet below. Tn the other direction the incomparable coloring of the skv where tliev meet the peaks of the mountains at the head of "Pauoa Valley and Nuuanu Valley make a picture 110 painter has ever been able to accurately reproduce.. A residence on such a spot is an incomparable boon to any city, and to tropical Honolulu it is almost the "seventh heaven" in the Paradise of the Pacific.