The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-15
CHURCH SITE WILL. BE
TRANSFERRED TO A NEW PALAMA BLOCK

YYAUMAKAPILI CHURCH will no.
20 be rebuilt upon the site which for
IA more than sixty years was that
Of the home of the second missionary
parish of Honolulu. Instead, as soon
as there is some decision reached in the
matter of the claims which have been
made before the Fire Claims Comm:s-
sion for the loss of the church there
will be erected upon the block at the
Waikiki side of the junction of the
Asylum road and King street. opposite
the Reform School, a new structure.
The new site has been secured by an
exchange with the Bishop Estate The
old site of the church will be opened
"a the extension of Smith street. which
will then continue on to Kukui street.
thus opening up for building purposes
large number of building lots which
would be otherwise idle as rent produc-
ers. The street will be continued on the
lines followed so far, the width being
fifty feet. The Intention of the Bishop
Estate is to improve these lots i'll The
same manner as the surrounding prop
crty has been built up. There will be
something like two blocks of property
opened the estate defeating the land
to the Territory
By the exchange of its old lands.
which contained something like 24,O00
square feet, fronting upon Beretania
street, the church receives three times
the amount in area. close to -, 900 feet.
This land lies in two bodies One piece
takes up the entire block bounded by
King, Kukui extension, Asylum road
and a new street which cuts up the
seventeen acres which the estate has
just subdivided at this point. This
piece has 22O feet front upon King
street. and the same upon the new
street running Al right angles. the
Asylum road side being the longer
owing to the IRE gular shape of the
tract. There are about 81, 900 square
feet in this piece of land. Immediately
mauka Of this tract mentioned is the
second piece with something like 21,OOO
feet in It. This piece has the entire
block frontage on Kukui street.
The intention of the trustees of the
church is to build upon the main site
newt church, and to erect upon the
rear lot d parsonage and perhaps 9TH
er cottages, which will be a source of
revenue TO the church. There is now
claim before the Fire Commission
erS for sum above $40. 900 for the
loss of the church and its fittings and
the belief of the trustees is that there
will be no delay i'll the settlement of
this claim. owing to its peculiar fea-
lures. The trustees have called to the
notice of the court that at the time of
the fire the church was practically out
Of the control of their representatives.
as it was used as storehouSe for
| goods which We're to be fumigated.
| This fact is pressed to show that the
! loss should fall upon the Territory as
the edifice was being put to a use 9TH
er than that for which it was built,
and that the Board of Health had it
under its entire charge. The speedy
reimbursement of the church is ex-
| peCted. SO that the building of the
| church may go forward.
The wiring out of the Kaumakapili
| site for I, church will destroy one of
| the old landmarks. The kaumakapili
| church was organized in 1887 by the
Rev. Lowell Smith, who came to the
| Islands in May, 1883 and spent the
| first year of his service at kaluaaha.
He then went to Eva, and after two
years of hard work there, came to this
city as superintendent of Kawaiahao
! Schools. 1t was while at this duty that
he organized the second parish.
The church site was chosen in the