The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-24
MAUI EDITOR
SEES THINGS

frfe, teau aea itouolulu waa rhfys.
Iaus today " 10 huttctny This o. q
ltiic metaphor, hut it falls short " de-
lsrntinr The metamUfphosia which has
ItAten place. The Judd building was TIE
sniy Indication IN pa " tie era of build
ling which was 10 begin In Honolulu To-
day Honolulu IL n rustllnE little fnetrop-
oils with dogcus ~ large, substantial
business blocks IN course " erection. At
I pr, sent the principal business houses
cluster on Fort street. which T. narrow.
crooked aud altogether UNIT for n bust.
ness street Rents are cNorhitantly high
aud Vt IN safe prediction .aat I'm u few
years keen competition which will de-
mand lower rents will cause an exodus
from Fort street TO Alakoa or some ct
the wider streets where rents are cheap
,r aud the business Of the town Wa.
shift from Fort street. just as In san
Francisco 1t once shifted from Kearncy
and Montgomery streets to cheaper 10
calitios ON Market street, and for the
same reason Is again shifting from Mar
<ct street to the side street toward the
western addition.
While there is no line OF business In
Honolulu which at present can be fairly
said to be overdone sull competition liz
beginning to make itself kecnly felt,
and the time is surely coming when the
survival of the nttest" viii prevail.
An hour spent in the Senate chamber
gives one who is familiar with such
matters a very clear conception of the
real trouble which the present Legisla-
ture has had to encounter, and 1t is a
solemn truth that there is more need FOR
pity than blame. The Home Rulers are
trying to do their duty and their earnest
hut fruitless efforts are pathetic almost
to tears. The truth is that they do not
know either who or how to do, and 1t is
unfortunate for them and Tor the people
of the Islands they were elected. On
Monday, the Appropriation bill was I'M
der consideration, item by item, and the
ignorance which was displayed by the
members as to the actual needs of the
different departments was refreshing.
This is not surprising, and could be cas-
lily overcome, If practical methods of get
ting at the truth were adopted. If the
Senate would resolve itself into prac-
teal, businesslike body, and appoint a
committee of three or five members, say,
for instance, Baldwin, Kalauokalani and
Crabbe, and instruct them to summon
expert witnesses and report back at
once to the Senate. the actual needs of
each department., inside of two weeks a
fair and proper appropriation would be
ready for the Governors signature. A
few questions could be reserved, If neces-
sary, for discussion by the Senate as a
body. not necessarily. but merely to give
the inveterate takers something to wag
their jaws about.
Last week and the early part of this
saw number of prominent Mauites in
Honolulu, notably Attorney George Hons,
Mr.. ]. Kirkland of the Kahului store,
Judge Kepoikai, Attorney John Richard
son of Lahaina, W. G. Taylor, auditor
of Alexander & Baldwin, A. Omsted OF
Hama and Manager Gjerdrum of the
Hama plantation. By the way, Honolulu
is full of exMauites and of course they
form a very desirable and altogether de-
lightful class of metropoltans.
The hotels of Honolulu are all full,
and more coming all the time. The Ha-
waiian is pre-eminently the business
mems hotel, and you meet everybody
worth knowing at the Hawaiian. he
Gently Manager Allen designed lovely
crest for the hotel, and nad large de-
sign Of 1t erected over the entrance. The
design is copied in part from the shield
on the Hawaiian half-dollar. This de-
sign in mammoth size (twelve feet over
alD. and circular in shape. Is wrought in
colored glass, illuminated from the inte-
rior by electric lights. Above and on
either side of the shield are the initials
of the hotel. and underneath this the
word aloha" Three systems of
lights are attached, one of which lights
the interior, one the initials and lettering
and one the outer circumference. The
whole design is marvelously unique and
beautiful, and 1t is singular that 1t has
not attracted more notice from the Ho-
nolulu press, being merely alluded to by
some of them recently as "transpar-
News.