The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-20
NEW THOROUGHFARE FROM
HOTEL TO THE ESPLANADE
Extension of Bishop Street and New
Business Blocks Which Will
Line Its Length.
ARRANGEMENTS complete

A RRANGEMENTS completed yes
ES terday insure the extension Of
q Bishop street from Hotel street
10 Merchant street in the near future.
and such representations have been
made to w. G. Irwin, now on the
Mainland, as are expected to secure
his acquiescence in the plan to make
the extension clear through to the es-
planade.
The last details of the deal comprls-
ed the forty-year lease with option of
purchase by W. c. Peacock of the Way
block, known as the Harmony Hall
block, in King street, and the assur-
auce from the Bishop Museum trustees
that a lease will be granted of the
lots in the rear. the holding of John
Emmeluth, and extending from the
ulines of that holding to Merchant
street. This gives an opportunity for
opening of the street through this block
from King to Merchant streets.
When the plans are complete for the
opening of the street it will be con-
tinued along the lines that have been
agreed upon by Mr.. Alexander Young
and the Bishop Estate. in regard to the
thoroughfare which divides their prop
erty in Hotel and King streets. This
is that the street shall be sixty feet in
width, with sidewalks on either side
OF ten feet in width. The street will
not be given over to the Territory for
the reason that it will always be kept
clear of poles and wires: there will be
rome of the standing ef horses and
hacks as on the public streets, and
the pavements will always be kept in
perfect repair This will be the plan
which will govern the agreements of
the men giving the land for the street.
and to prevent any claim of the public
that the street was dedicated through
perpetual use, it is provided in the
articles that upon January 1st. of each
year, the street shall be closed to the
PUBLIC. This will safeguard the pri-
Vate ownership of the land, and pre-
serve in the proprietors complete con-
troll of the uses to which it may be
put
The purchases of W. c. Peacock be-
gan when he took over the Emmeluth
lot in Merchant street. This gave him
u frontage in that street but he was not
satisfied. and so went on with nego-
tiations for the control of the entire
strip running through to King. The
price agreed upon with Way is pri-
vate, but it is understood to be upon
about the same basis as that paid for
the first purchase. This gives tc the
new owner about ninety feet on King
and a somewhat less extent on Mer-
chant, with the control of the entire
232 feet en- the proposed street. The
Emmeluth property. which is Il lease
mold having yet twenty-fOur years TO
run, from William Mahuku, fronts on
King street for 100 feet, and runs back
90 Merchant. This means that almost
the entire amount of the street will
come from his holding. The Bishop
Estate viii lease to w. c. Peacock its
strip of property running behind the
building from King to Mer
chant street. This has a frontage on
King, Eva of the Emmeluth building,
of forty-eight feet, the shape being
irregular. the frontage on
being only about thirty-five
feet. This will leave with the cutting
off Of the street a full depth for all