The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-27
FOR STREET
NUMBERING
General Plan Agreed
On Yesterday.
GENITAL SYSTEM FAVORED
Hundred Numbers to Block Will
Give a Clue to Location
of Houses.

The numbering of houses by system and
the prospects of the Inauguration of the
free carrier delivery are certainties for
Honolulu. A meeting was held in the
Surveyor Generals office yesterday after
noon at which were present NJ. II. Flint
postoffice inspector and special agent;
Surveyor w. d. Alexander, j. A. McCand-
less, Superintendent of Public Works: w.
r. Rowell, Assistant Superintendent; Sur
veyor Wall and Stanley Stevenson of Cal
ifornia, who numbered the houses and
streets of Alameda
The entire situation was gone over and
system adopted which will be put into
effect as soon as detail maps can be pre-
pared by the surveyors department for
Mr.. Flint
1t was proposed to divide the city into
four sections, taking Nuuanu street as
the divisional line to divide the Eva and
Waikiki portions of the city, and King
street to divide the upper and lower
portions.
Thus it was proposed to commence the
numbering of all business blocks and
residences at Nuuanu street. Streets
running from Nuuanu toward Waikiki
will be designated in a general sense as
South and streets branching from the
Nuuanu stream and running Ewaward
would be styled North" The first build
ing on South King street would be No
l South King street." or NO. 2 South Ho-
tel street" Numbering in the direction
of Kalihi, the numbers would be mo. l
Cor and so on) North King street, or
North Hotel street."
One of the principal difficulties met with
in arranging the system of numbers was
the unevenness of the blocks. Some are
exceedingly short, while others are too
long, but acting upon Mr.. Flint's sugges-
ton, which was heartily endorsed by Mr..
McCandless, it was decided to give each
block 100 numbers and have a uniform
system. By this means No. $50 South
King street" would give person an idea
where NO. 526 Beretania avenue" was
located. 1t is the aim of the postoffice in
spector to have such numbers correspond
in the same relative positions on each
parallel street.
King street will also be an important
line for the reason that all streets run
ming from King street toward the noun
talns VIII commence at No. 1000. 1t is
proposed to allow ten blocks space arcm
King street to ,ne ocean shore, and 81
numbers will commence al the shore anu
run up the streets toward King street
OF course in the business section between
the water front and King street there will
not be space enough for ten blocks. Sup
posing, however, that five blocks are
Wedged between, the numbers will at
once commence at 500, that all streets
running into King from any point along
the shore Will end with No. 999 and all
streets continuing on from the mauka
SIDE OF King street viii, as above stated
begin with No. loo.
This system of dividing the town on
King street will be continued through
Waikiki as far Diamond Head the
numbers to stop when Governor Dole's
beach residence is reached. A street line
drawn from the present terminus of King
street through an unopened tract viii
give plenty of room to make up the ten
blocks space allotted for the Waikiki por-
ton. 1t is proposed to give the residents
along Waikiki road the benefit of the
prominence of the name, and their mail
can be addressed mo. l Waikiki road"
and so on, insurIng a certainty of loca-
ton.
In all there will be a stretch of about
nine miles to be covered by the free de-
livery system-about four and half
miles from the center of the business DIS
trlct to Diamond head and relatively the
same distance Ewawards. Mr.. h INT WILL
however, make a driving tour about the
city within a few days to determine just
what the carrier limits will be-
Whenever a lcCg block is met, it is
proposed that Il. . allotments of 100 num-
bers be set aside, thus keeping up the
uniformity and relative distance on other
parallel streets. Mr., Stevenson and Mr.
Flint both stated that this was the gener-
al system carried out in almost every
city of the Union. For instance, along
King street, between Victoria and Piikoi
Is very long stretch. Instead of receiv-
ing only 100 numbers, 200 would be allow
ed.
Streets like Union, Adams lane and Gar
den lane will be allowed to form separate
numbers from l to 80 inclusive. In the
case of interior courts such as at Emma
Square, the addresses would be No |
Emma Square," and the same with SINH
lar locations
In the case of Alakea street, running in
to Emma street, the numbers would con-
unue regularly without break, with the
exception of changing from Alakea to
Emma street, the latter beginning with
No. 1900
Quite a controversy was raised as to
the general direction of King street as
compared with the compass. Some thought
II should be East and West King street
others North and South King street 1t
is almost impossible to designate the di-
rections clearly, and arbitrary directions
VIII have to be selected, probably North
and South"
Every ten feet a number will be given
Thus If building is erected on a twenty
loot lot, two numbers as No. 1 and No g.
can be used. or a choice of the two taken.
In the business district this large allot-
ment of numbers is on account of the
snort length of many of the business
/ blocks. The same idea Will be carried out.
IN the residence portion. This will pre-
vent such contingency as making half
or quarter numbers in any section.
by giving long blocks 200 figures. as from
NO. 200 to No. S99, the possibility of their
| peing cut into smaller sections is fore
stalled and the proper numbering is not
disturbed.
II was also proposed to have the even
numbers on the mauka side of all streets
running lengthwise along the city from
diamond Head to Kalihi, and the odd
numbers on the makai side.
on the streets running from the water
front toward the mountains the even
numbers viii be on the Eva sides and
the odd on the Waikiki sides.
Ihere is stretch of $500 feet between
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