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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