Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-06-14
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in hand and thinks important enough 10 pub |
lish thr study oi meh Improvements o. feHid
be made 10 ow city, and which onfh 10 be
accomplished, and quickly. II We do not want
tho reputation and perhaps the future deslinie'
oi tho capital to he injured. on course that 80
uany glazing inconvenience and defects have
been allowed to stand through town lpt 90
many years, is undoubtedly the result Of tho
present system pi administration, and would
not have been suffered had We had an elective
municipal corporation To attend specially to
thr wants Of the city Hut | always considered
it a surprising iael that among 30 many intelli
gent aud clever men in or midst NO ono
should have ever raised his voice systematically
on the subject this apathy may he considered
result OF the climate However could not
help often giving some attention Ia the matter
and would myself have undertaken the study
allude 10, had I not been deferred hy not
thinking myself competent enough And
now congratulate you on the fact that the
Saturday Press has stirred the subject up and.
what Is better still promises to keep II up.
Also have thought that you would perhaps
allow mc to point out occasionally some items
which have come more specially under my Al
tcntiun.
Ever since | have been here have advoca
ted land probably not alone) the project oi a
new street at the foot and round punchbowl,
so disposed as to establish new aud direct
communication between the rapidly growing
district Of Makiki Plains with Nuuanuu Avenue,
giving al the same time new opening to the
now forlorn Pauoa Valley. This street. start
| Ing nom Wilder Avenue on Makiki Plains.
| could bc divided into Two branches, one run.
| ming mp the hill back Of runchbowl and falling
into pauoa Valley after having opended an
access into the crater itself the other
either following at frs, portion Of Pensacola
steet o. else striking of from Wilder Avenue
block higher and following the base Of the
hill, then running above the new and already
important Portuguese settlement growing be
hind the hospital, up to its junction with the
present paoa road at the top Of Emma street.
All this being nearly absolutely on Govern
ment lands of very sterile quality, II would
cos, bu, very little to open, and from its dom.
mating situation over the whole town, il would
constitute the most favoritc drive of the cap
Ilal from which the enchanted eyes Of those who
drove along it would embrace the whole pan.
Drama OF our Kona district, from Diamond
Head and Waikiki unto Eva and the Waianae
hills. The population are now always com.
| nj tptp nf he ypry lri ted
resources for driving, the drive being csnfned
to Beretania and King streets. The fu,uae
street am alluding to would be a new and
Important adjunc, to our 'promenades,' es
pccially as it could with very little of ftrouble be
carried out as to join Beretania street near III,
Kamoiliili Church; for this it would be sufticen
to Join Wilder Avenue to Bcckwi,h street. and
continue this one up to kamoiiili, and thus
the new artery would then present from it,
initiating point in Nuuanu Valley, total es.
tension Of nearly miles.
mus, here be excused for mentioning tina
have already been working personally, as
far as am concerned, for rendering possible
. the latter part Of this scheme, by opening-a
, my own expense--on my property, continue
{ alton of Beckwith street, below Punahou
, College, down to its intersection with Met
calf street And | have also labored 70
obtaining the junction of Beckwith street will
, Wilder Avenue, but here have painful
statement Of Official mismanagemcnt to relate
missing link between Punahou ami Makik
streets, on land belonging to His Majesty Kim
, Kalakua, who very kindly offered TO make an
exchange Of the necessary strip Of land, 81
that the only expense TO the government
would be the erection Of bridge on the Makik
gulch. Something like IS months ago tool
the trouble of drafting petition which wa
signed by over 50 importan, persons, to
the purpose of obtaining from the gov
: ernment the necessary red.tape measure
prescribed by law viz; examination of reques
: by the cour, andbya jury; and although the onl
i land owner in,erfered with had willingly adhe
redto the plan, nothing yet has been done fo
n this reason that this petition was handed to th
VI then minister Of interior. Mr.. Bush, who, wit
his Characteristic indifference and neglect, mi
+ laid it, When minister Gulick cameto Office
submitted the matter to him. But with h
IS melliAuous and pompious way Of promising I
/. do nothing, the only satisfaction could obtai
S from him in matter in which the king hin
ir self was interested, was tina, it would Sin du
e time, receive the attention of the adminis,r'
l. ton, as there were then no more funds to E,
)f pend on streets mot even on a stree, whic
5, was to cost nothing but some trifing formal
D. ties.
ct Can we hope that now that money will
ID again plentiful viz, as soon as the Appropri'
)r ton Bill has been voted--Minister Gullc
T. will condescend to bring the ebulous height
Of the official promises into the brief cham
Of practical go.towork business. really de
'e pair Of it, unless the Press so thoroughly SUI
=, ceeds in making the high servants Of the publ
~ attend to their duties in road matters as we
. as in others, that the whole project frol
' Nuuanu Avenue to Kamoiliiei Church aroun
:. Punchbowl and ria Wilder Avenue and Becl
- with street, be declared urgent matter an
v put at once into the hands Of the survey -offiS
y for practical developments. i, is useless here
y mention that in additoon to giving the i
habitants oi Honolulu new and favor
4 drive, the present proposition would. for
d small cost. render hundreds Of acres Of laI
Al valuable ios building purposes. in the nc
20 desirable parts Of the territory, and conseauen,
a augment the value Of taxation thereof, SO tn
al even if--which is not the case--the expen
he i,ure for completing the were road even lar
IT, enough to oblige the government, to make asp
er cial loan for ii, the importance Of the result
would justify any such action.
Bu, enough for to-day.
- A. MARQUES.
u y Honolulu, June 5th, 1854.
Nt NaSt ON shs Ner oanh.