The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-12-13
'K|NLEY
MEMORIAL
Active Canvass to
Be. Inaugurated
at Once.
(From Thursdays daily)

held a meeting yesterday afternoon In
The office of c. VI. Cooke. at which were
present Governor Dole, presiding; c. NJ.
Cooke, Rev. W. ID. Westerveit, Roy II.
Chamberlain w. II. Harrington, ]. S.
McCandless, T. Give Davies, and a. G.
HAYES. The result of the meeting ind-
Gated that there was a desi e to begin
active work IN oahu to collect money
for the memorial fund.- in return for
which the souvenir certificates Will be
issued. 1t Is expected of the members
of the committee that they Will make an
early canvass of the city. They W II post
sample certificates in the school houses
as an incentive to the young Americans
to aid the fund. Certificates will also be
placed in the banks and in other gather
ing places, and the attention of the pub
lie drawn to them in every possible way.
1t was also requested of the newspapers
that they publish the lists of subscribers
| from day to day as received, from all
parts OF the Islands, to give the pubic
an idea of the accumulation of the de-
sired fund
! 1t was also suggested that the news
papers take up the matter strongly and
advocate accumulation of fund and ask
suggestions as to the form the memorial
should take Subscription lists ave to be
placed in the hands of the committee
men, and the newspapers will also re-
ceive subscriptions to the fund. passing
the money and names so received over
to Treasurer c. NJ Cooke by whom the
souvenir certificates will be issued
When the meeting opened w. o. Smith
spoke to the committee on behalf of the
National Mckinley Memorial Committee
: relative to the letters he had received
! from Washington, and which were pub
/ l!shed in the Advertiser on Tuesday. a
resolution was presented by T. Give Da-
vies, favoring the plan already adopted
by the local committee, but no action
was taken. 1t is generally understood
that the committee is in favor OF apply
ing whatever fund Is raised in the Ha-
waiian Islands only to the object first
settled upon-that of a memorial to be
| located in Honolulu.
! Letters from various committees and
treasurer's statement were read. The
latter showed that there had already
/ been accumulated the sum of S50.l5,
mostly from Hawaii. Roy II. Chamber
lain suggested Il plan OF action to stlmu-
late interest In the proposed memorial.
. He said he had had conversations with
several persons on the subject OF the
/ form which the memorial should take.
one said he would contribute II monu-
he would contribute If "A public play
ground was established, and for no other
object one made the same specification
for his donation for n fine fountain. Mr..
Chamberlain said this gaugcd the public
feeling, and he thought that each person
subscribing to the fund and receiving a
certificate should designate their idea OF
the memorial. This suggestion was fav-
orably considered by the committee. NJ.
. In no vi nj Of haI nTa
to give $500 II 1t was decided to establish
a playground.
! Mr. McCandless said he personally fav-
ored n public recreation ground for foot
I ball, baseball ana other sports Of the
kind with space set apart from the larg-
| er area for children only. Mr.. Earring
/ ton personally advocated n public play
ground. He suggested that for active
and telling work I'm swelling the fund,
there should be additions to the person
mel of the committee. Governor Dole
said he would be glad to have this done.
Mr.. Osborne. sculptor and modeller,
was called into the meeting to speak of
certain drawings he had made for the
memorial He stated that he had made
three sketches which he would exhibit at
the next meeting one of them repre-
scented a figure of President Mckinley in
bronze, mounted on Il pedestal, which
was elevated on a series of about a dozen
steps. Around the pedestal Were several
allcgortcal figures representa- Hawaii,
Porto Rico, the Philippines and Cuba,
all supposed to represent the awakening
Of civilization.
Another took the same figure OF the
president, with the pedestal on three
steps, around which were groups of five
or six figures representing the advance
Of the Territories. Still third sketch
was of a group OF figures about the ped,
cStal, representing the history OF the
Union in the past few years. Mr.. Osborne
was asked TO make an estimate OF the
cost of such a memorial. The sculptor
could not give rough estimate of the
cost here. but IL it was made In New
York, the cost would probably be some
whore in the neighborhood of $4,000 or
S3O. 600 The statue would be OF bronze.
the remainder of stone.
Another meeting will be held next sat
urday at the office of Henry Watcrhouse
Acknowledgment was made to the Ha-
wa.ian Gazette Company for 1000 OF the
souvenir certificates. the company's do
nation TO the memorial fund and to AL
Ian Dunn for his gratuitous work in de-
signing the certificate.
The following lists of subscribers have
already been received by Treasurer
Cooke:
Contributions to the Mckinley Meme
rial Fund;
MAHUKONA
Hawaii Railway Co. .......,.......... sic 90
H. y, Fraser ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10 90
, j. LUZ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 10
NJ. Luiz ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5 90
J. >. Sm.thies .....................,..... 5 90
All ',''''''''' '.'.''.'.''''.,'...'.'''... b 90
\. Luiz Observation-Disclosures. ,......... 2 ~
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