The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-09-26
PROF. BRIGHAM'S
AQUARIUM PLANS.
Will be the Best of the Kind
in the World.
PHILANTHROPY OF C. r. BISHOP.
A Fortune for Science-StudentS VIII Come
From All Parts of the World Selection of
a Site-Opportunity for the Public to Study
Marine Life-Fish Growing in Tanks.

Prof. w. T. Brigham, curator of the
Bishop Museum, returned by the Ala
media on Thursday from tour of the
world which he made for the purpose
of visiting every known museum
where it would be possible to find col
lections of curios from the islands of
the Pacific generally and the Hawaiian
Islands particularly. Incidentally
Prof. Brigham inspected the aquari
ums of the world for the purpose of
Charles R. Bishop whose devotion to
the educational interests of Hawaii is
such that he has expressed desire to
add to his munificent gifts by estab
fishing in this vicinity the largest and
best equipped aquarium in the world.
Prof. Brigham was seen by an Ad
vertiser reporter at his cozy home yes
terday He is the picture of health,
having been greatly benefited ply
sically by his tour, and was willing to
talk. Speaking of the enormity of the
enterprise, he said:
Yes, 1 have asked Mr.. Bishop for
$3.50, 900, and he says 1 am an 'extrava-
CANT beggar'-he always says that
when hand him an estimate and usu-
ally ends up when it is over by saying
Brigham, it could not have been done
for dollar less 1t seems like a large
sum, but it is less than Mr.. Bishop
gave last year for educational purposes
in Hawaii; and l am reasonably certain
that he will give me what 1 want for
the aquarium.
"An institution such as 1 want will
be a greater advertisement for Hawaii
than all the pamphlets or political
speeches than were ever printed or de-
livered. When 1 was in Naples and
told them of my plans one of the prom
inent men said, Yours must be a won
derful country to contemplate such a
thing as that; it will be the greatest
waii must have a stable government
or you would not undertake such al
But the government will have noI
control on the aquarium, Professor
None whatever, but no one man orI
a collection of men would put three
quarters of a million dollars into an
institution like this aquarium will be
if the country is to be in tumult all
the time
How do you propose using the
amount named as necessary for the
work?
81 will do nothing without a fund
of half million to carry on the work.
The buildings as 1 estimate them, if
they are built of material other than
stone will cost 100000, the rest of the
fund will be for interior fixtures and
Then, too, there will be a
powerful engine for pumping the water
and reservoirs for keeping a supply
of pure water for use when a storm
happens along and stirs up the mud
and water in the sea and puts it in
a condition unfit for use in the tanks.
"Just now the most difficult thing to
solve is the problem of location. We
need a place convenient to the beach
so JndJ the water may D6 readily
pumped up into the building and so
our launch may come to a pier which
must be built out from the shore I
was in hopes that Mr.. Bishops prop
erty at Waikiki would be available,
but that has been turned over to the
trustees of the Bishop estate and can
not be had. We may have to go out
by the park if land can be had In
that case a channel will have to be
cut through the coral reef, and that II
will expect the government to do with
the dredger. We must have a place
wide enough-twenty feet will be plen-
ty, to permit the launch to pass in and
out. 1 have selected the launch, a.
of the latest pattern. This
will be used by the professors and stu
dents in dredging expeditions; then
there will be the launch which will act
as tenders on these trips. And to car
ry on these and maintain a corps of
scientific men money will