The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 8

4 THI HONOLULU AOYlfHSH Sunday, Jan. 22. 133- First Used by Monarchy in 1869 A8 Sand Island 'Grew Up' From Tiny Quarantine Station Site as FOR SAND ISLAND, il War to whom was assigned By fe. II. BRYAN JR.

Back in the early days of dredgings had to be piled to; the north and west. has been built up, chiefly of the improvement of American dredgings, from a mud flat Honolulu, 150 years or more ago, there used to be some The latest figures for areas, given on the tax map, indicate land of Kahaohao, and in later years it was purchased by B. F. Dillingham and M. P.

Robinson and assigned to the Oahu Railway Land Co. Diseases came to Honolulu on the ships of foreigners. By low, muddy islets on the Kaho- that Quarantine Island had ioloa reef that stretched from the channel through which the harbors and river channels. A sea wall was constructed in 1906 and, as the coral and sand were pumped up onto the reef and mud flat more and more dry land was formed. By 1920 there was a sand fill, standing several feet above sea level, from the seawall, Nuuanu stream entered the 1869 it was decided that it grown to have an area of more than 71 acres.

From a barren mud andsand islet it had become a beauty spot, largely through the enthusiastic and energetic efforts of Dr. L. D. and reef to a dry land area or nearly 300 acres. Of this, 285.865 acres have been claimed by the War Department as havihg been the agency through which the dry land was made.

Only 12.3 acres belonged to the Territory of Hawaii, used sea to the winding cnannei through which the Kalihi stream reached the sea. jKAPALAMk ALOHA A MARBOfti KAHOLOLOA REEF 3 i 0 1000 2000VARDS 1 i should be a converrent, but isolated, spot near Honolulu harbor where ships might be detained and passengers or crew kept when there was any Fricks, one of the public The reason there were chan which bordered the channel health officers in charge; but nels through this reef, as there across from Pier 2 and Ft a sewage xreannewi. ncd. as that is another story. danger of infectious diseases are through most iringmg Armstrong, westward nearly to Quarantine Island.

reefs, was that corals cannot being on board. Japan Jet Experts Visit DURING THE 1920s the fill rparhpH Onaranfinp Tslanrt tiif flTllFR men Will 13KB anH worked arming its north Eighteen men who will help courses in interceptor control, Link trainers, and gunsight side. Then came the digging of jbuild Japan's jet air force passed KAMEIIAMEIIA VI in that year assigned Kamokuakulikuli island as the spot for such inspection and detention, and it became known as Quarantine Island or Mauliola. It was under the Marine Hospital grow where a stream of fresh water flows, especially when, periodically, this stream of water brings with it soil and mud suspended in the water. THE LARGEST OF the low mud and sand islets was called Kamokuakulikuli.

It wasn't a very large island, perhaps ten acres at low tide, reduced to four or five acres the "Kalihi channel" and the through Honolulu last week en dredging of Kapalama basinjroute to schools on the main-to make, room for more land wharves. Service in 1898. THE LEADER of the group, Lt. Col. Susumu Takaoka, was When Hawaii became a territory of the United States, The area between this channel and Quarantine Island was filled in solid, and during the Japan's first jet pilot.

Toward Quarantine Island was turned ITS YOURS for only JJ this beautiful, gleaming brass SWIVEL STAND (an $18.95 value!) 1930s sand was piled on the the end of World War II, ne over to the United States for reef side of Quarantine Island lasted a jet fighter built in Ja- $1 and put under the jurisdiction of the Public Health Serv sh-Day Blues? Lei the Famous ice of the U. S. Treasury De partment. as well. When the Keehi lagoon seaplane landing strips were dug from the reef, more sand and coral became available.

The north-south runway actually cut off the western end of Sand Island, and most of the pan. It crashed on its second Col. Takaoka and two other, officers, Maj. Hiroki Muto and Capt. Fujio Hayashi, are on their: way to Lackland Air Force to train in F-86 jet fight-1 ers.

The transfer finally was approved in June 1902. At that W7 WASH AMP MY time Quarantine Island had an area of 28 acres above high water, having grown by natural accretions and from the at high water. But, walking out across the mud flats from I the land of Kahaohao, where Piers 20 to 36 are today, to catch octopus and fish on Ka-hololoa reef, it was a dry spot where one could relax and eat one's lunch. On April 17, 1840, King Ka-mehameha III granted to Wil-jliam Sumner the land of Ka-jhaohao and with it fishing rights to the seaward mudflat and reef. Naturally, this included Ka-jmolonakulikuli islet and other smaller islets nearby, one of 'which lay about 500 yards to jthe west, on the edge of what I material which, over the (And Your Tears) years, had been dredged from the entrance to Honolulu har-j bor.

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