Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-02-16
QUESTION OF CEMETERIES
Discussion by Conference Of Three Bod
les Yesterday Afternoon.
Kahauiki vs.. HalaWa Diamond Head and
PunChboWl Distance and Soil and
Water are Matters in Question.

question was held ia PresideD
Dole's office at 3 p. M. yesterday
There were present: PresideD
Dole, Minister of the interior
King; Attorney General Smith
president, and DIR. Emerson, DR.
Day, DIR. Wood aud l.. d. Kelli
pic, of the Board of Health; A. S
Cleghorh, David Dayton and II
M. Won Holt of the Oahu Gene
terry Association; +. A. Schaefer
vice-president, Mark p. Robinson
and Geo W. Smith of the Quee n +
Hospital Trustees, and DR.. Gar.
win.
Attorney General Smith ex-
planned, with the aid of maps, diff
ferent propositions for new GENE
teries, one to each end of the city
Reserving the Nuuanu and Ma
kiki cemeteries for the present,
the Attorney General advocated
two such sites. Whatever loca
tons were deemed most suitable
the land, if not owned by the Gov
eminent, should be acquired up-
der the Eminent Domain Act.
The sites when obtained should be
turned over to the Oahu Cemetery
Association. He had little doubt
that the revenue from the lots
would pay the expense. Either
Halaws or Kahauiki he would ad.
vocate for the cemetery at the
northwestern end. Halawa, how
ever, could not be obtained within
ten years except by condemnation
proceedings.
Mr.. Won Holt asked il Kalibi
valley had ever been considered.
The Attorney General answered
with two objections to Kalihi val
ley. One was the distance, the
other the fact of that being
source OF water supply.
President Dote asked for opin-
ions Of choice between Halawa
and Kahsuiki.
Mr.. Schaefer was decidedly in
favor of Kahauiki. 1t was about
three miles from the center of
town, and would be convenient to
the growing suburbs in that direc
ton. Halawa was too far away,
besides being in the midst Of new
canefelds. He did not agree with
the Attorney Generals opinion
that the residence section would,
for a long time at least, crowd
against cemetery in that place.
President Dole asked why the
old cemetery surrounding the
Asylum grounds could not be ex-
tended for the present needs.
Mr.. Dayton replied that the
ground was too rocky. 1t took
about day to dig a grave there.
Mr. Won Holt had ridden over
ground in the vicinity and believ-
ed that sufficient depth Of free
earth could be found not far away.
Mr.. Dayton, after further con-
versatiou, said the Association
would hold a meeting and decide
whether to put the scheme through,
AS the President had suggested,
whenever a site had been selected.
President Dole, in the course of
general conversation, mentioned
that all along he had been 10 favor
of Punchbowl crater. There might
be other suitable places not yet
mentioned. s. 7. Alexander had
suggested the crater of Diamond
Head.
Mr.. Cleghorn spoke of the prac-
ticed he had noticed in European
countries of having cemeteries on
hillsides overlooking cities. He
thought the Punchbowl and Dia-
mond Head propositions worth
considering.
DR.. Day was sorry if the con-
ference settled upon any site that
was liable to ts brought within
the city limits. His idea was that
it Halawa could not be obtained,
they should go farther. He ask
ed Mr.. Dayton it it was not a fact
that the Catholic cemetery in
King street was when started
away out of town. Mr.. Dayton
answered that it was nothing but
a bullock pasture. DIR. Day,
proceeding, urged that it was in
advisable to have a cemetery en-
croach on ground that was likely
to become residential property.
Some of the outlying suburbs
were already 80 beautiful as to
cause people to drive there to see
them. When electric cars would