The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-12-07
OF WIDER STREETS.
The Money to Be Applied
is Not Very Much.
for -Status-Extension OF
Queen-BeretaniaS Street.

Captain King, Minister of the In
terror, spoke freely yesterday of street
widening and road improvement pro-
jects. First he wondered how it had
been figured out that there was avail
able the sum of $500, 900 for the widen
ing of Fort street.
In it's appropriation measures, the
last Legislature granted from the Loan
Fund a total Of $4,000 for road dam
ages for all Islands" The only other |
money that could be applied in this
direction at all was $4,000 for the |
same purpose from the current funds
of such realization as taxes and Ii |
cenSeS.
There had never been a well defined
plan for the widening of Fort till a
petition was presented about the time
the Love block was built. There could
be no disregarding the petition, and
such steps as were required to be taken
by law were followed up without I'M
| necessary delay. The end, for vari-
ETY. of excellent reasons, is involved.
| The second is the unreasonable spirit
| in which a request for few feet OF
| frontage is met. with by some of the
property holders. Still, considerable
has been done.
| Between King and Hotel consent
has been obtained from proprietors on
| the Eva side of Fort with the single
exception of the Odd Fellows. Over
lures have been made in due season
and it may be said that the transaction
is pending" The Waikiki side of
Fort between King and Hotel has not
been touched yet. The authorities
aver they are doing the best that can
be done and this statement can scarce
ly be denied or contradicted. The
business is thing of considerable
magnitude. Exchanges have been
made and money has been paid. There
is very little, if any money left now.
On Fort between Hotel and Bereta-
MIA there has been a settlement with
quite a number of the owners. But to
be dealt with yet there remains for
one alone, the Catholic Mission. Their
holding extends quite distance on
Fort street and is very valuable
Mr. Irwin was very accommodating
in the matter of the widening of Mill
ilani street He readily accepted fail
exchange for a strip of six feet on the
Eva side of the thoroughfare and the
result is perhaps the best short street
in the town The Government took
quite piece off the Eva side of the
Judiciary building ground.
The construction of Vineyard stree
has been expensive. There has beer
no real great single item, but man!
claims have been settled with none!
and an enormous amount of labor ha
been used, to say nothing of materia
and it's production.
Men who are making a study of thu
streets and roads of Honolulu wan
:. Fort widened above King and will
. make every effort to induce the mex
Legislature to furnish the means, il
the interval continuing negotiation
with property holders. 1t is frequentl
remarked as great pity that Fort i
so narrow between Merchant and Kin
7 that in time it's lack of width mus
harm it very much as business ave
nue.. Below it is much better, widen
ing nicely to the Esplanade, after open
ing between Merchant and Queen.
Queen street is to be much improve
without delay. Work is now in pre-
gress. Some frame buildings in iron
of the Honolulu Iron Works were sol
yesterday and will be moved before tn
week is out. The street will then b
fixed up clear around to King and tn
new route along Nuuanu promise
when the cholera was on will be CON
pleted at last.
Aside from plans for Fort stree
Captain King has a pet scheme fc
Beretania. He was almost afraid
talk of it, because advance talk o
such plans has an effect on the size I
claims. He desires to widen Beretani
into a good street from Punchbowl
Nuuanu. The latter itself has not bee
| forgotten