The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-14
Funds Needed for
the Fire Claims
Commission.
GOVERNOR DOLE
ON THE SITUATION
Business Men Appoint a Com
mittee to Confer With Mer.
chants and Planters.
n ovERNoR DOLE spoke before

= the Chamber of Commerce yes
terday afternoon and made a
strong plea to that body to assist the
Planters and Merchants Associations
in advancing the sum OF $4,000 with
which to continue the sessions of the
Fire Claims Commission. The matter
was presented in the strongest light
and the Chamber promptly appointed a
committee consisting of the president
and secretary to confer with the presi-
dents and secretaries. respectively, of
the Planters and the Merchants AS
the Commission viii be exhausted to-
morrow. the conference viii he urgent
1t is believed from the manner in which
tae Chamber of Commerce acquiesced
in accepting the views of Governor
Dole that there is little doubt about
the advancing of the money TO the gov
ernment. to be refunded with interest
by the Legislature.
II was expected that the matter of
assisting in the raising OF funds for the
permanent improvement OF the wharves,
as a means OF assisting in the exter-
mination of rats. would be taken up at
yesterdays meeting, but IT was not
mentioned. 1t is understood that there
were certain members of the Chamber
OF Commerce who had promised the
Board OF Health they would bring the
matter up for discussion, but none of
them were able to put in an appear
ance at the meeting, and the matter
was therefore passed over without
comment
There was some misunderstanding as
To the manner in which the committee
having in charge to raising OF funds to
reimburse Castle & Cooke for the $500
advanced on the Quarantine wharf con-
struction last year. was 10 have gone
about it's work. There seemed to be !
an impression among some of the mem !
bers Of the Chamber that much of this !
work devolved upon the secretary. The /
latter, however, showed concIusively /
that his part in il was merely in the !
making up of lists of the Chamber of /
Commerce and other local commercial /
organizations and furnishing these to !
the committee. The refunding matter
was therefore laid over until the next !
meeting.
Yesterdays meeting was to have
been held at ; O'Clock but owing TO
the departure of the steamer Alameda
at O'Clock, the time for meeting was
half an hour later. President Cooke
and Secretary Spencer had to do a lot
OF telephoning around town before a
quorum could be brought together.
There were present Governor Dole, c.
NJ Cooke. j. G.. Spencer. F. J. Lowrey,
w. a. Bowen, L. E. Pinkhan, w. W.
Hall. Mr.. Wodehouse, II. Focke. Z. +.
Paxton. George Robertson, T. Give
Davies, ]. a. Gilman, Mr.. Parmalee.
Owing to the difficulty and time lost
IN getting a quorum together, the read J
ing OF the minutes of the previous meet :
ing was dispensed with. report was :
asked from the committee having in :
charge the raising OF funds on the quar-
antine wharf advances made by Castle
x Cooke. The matter had been referred {
back to the committee at the last meet q
ing. for collection of the money pro rata. [
Mr.. Bowen, of Castle * Cooke said he c
had inquired during the day as to the c
status OF the matter from Mr.. Pfoten- G
hauer and the latter had informed him '
hat the committee had submitted it's re- .
port to the Chamber, which thought 1t a
.ould obtain more members before COM e
mencing the collecting. The question of h
securing more members had been left a
o the secretary, and therefore the whole n
matter rested with the latter. Secretary z
Spencer denied that Such was the case | u
he said he went so far as to get the list
IF the charter members of the Mer- q
,hants' Association and the proposed s.
He had reported to the COM v
nittee he had these lists. but no action n
vas taken, and it was not suggested that W
more members be added to the Chamber ! Il
Il was for the committee to act upon. Z
rot for him. =
Ar Bowen remarked that Castle * II
-ool.a had not received anything on the
money they had advanced. Mr.. Spencer f,
splIed that no instructions had been cl
.iven him to this end. He said the list g