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Monday, October 2, 2000
By Ken Ige, Star-Bulletin
This fountain behind Iolani Palace has a strange
stairway leading to a door beneath it.
Clogged filter
forced shutdown
of Iolani Palace
fountain
Out behind Iolani Palace is a round concrete structure with stairs going underground. Our first suspicion -- that King Kalakaua constructed some sort of antique ICBM missile silo -- turned out to be incorrect. Climb up upon it, and you see it's actually a water fountain. One not in operation.
The groundskeepers at the palace suspected it had a broken pump, and we just missed catching palace curator Corrine Chun, so we tapped Jim Bartels at Washington Place, who's forgotten more about the palace than most have memorized.
It is indeed a fountain, confirmed Bartels. What's more, the site is where Kalakaua dug the palace well, which is apparently still functional, but only for emergency use. In the first flush of the territorial period, about a century ago, citizens erected the decorative fountain. And then let it go to pieces.
"It was refurbished during the Palace restoration, and I remember it operating," said Bartels. "But I think the primary problem was the trees that grew up around it on the grounds. The little flowers from the monkeypods would blow off and clog the filter. So it was turned off."
Burl Burlingame, Star-Bulletin
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