The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-01
WUHk WILL
Be STOPPED
Funds Exhausted
at Experiment
Station.
MUST NOW WAIT
ON CONGRESS
Director Jared Smith Sees no Way
But to Cease Operations
Until July.

Unless the unexpected happens al
work at the United States Agricultural
Experiment Station back Of Punchbowl
will cease next week. 1t is not unlikely
that all workmen will be paid off by
Director Jared Smith tonight and no.
titled that their services are no longer
required. There Is but one and that an
Impossible solution of the difficulty
donation of funds from some miracu-
lous source, for the entire appropria-
ton for the Agricultural Experiment
Station is practically exhausted, and
for some time Director Smith has been
relieving the situation by donations
from his own salary. There appears 10
be no way out of the dilemma and Mr..
Smith is thoroughly discouraged at the
present outlook, from which he can see
no possible sign of relief AS the mat
ter now stands all work at the station
will cease Immediately, and nothing
further can be done until the first day
OF July. when the appropriation for the
new year becomes available if Con-
gress passes the bill with the recon-
mendation of Secretary Wilson and Di-
rector True for an appropriation of
Station.
The climax. as it appears today. has
been foreseen for some time by Direct
or Smith. but he has managed to con-
tinue the work on the plans laid out
without interruption, though the ever
increasing shortage in funds was al
ways apparent. What makes the mat
ter worse is that the work already done
at the station may have to be abandon
ed for want of the few hundred dollars
needed to continue it for the next four
months, when the new appropriation
will become available. There is no
method by which funds can be obtain
ed from the national treasury, nor is it
possible to borrow money fin anticipa-
ton of the money which will become
available for use next July. Conse-
quently even though an advance OF
money was obtained for the use of the
experiment station for the next few
it could not be legally repaid
out of the next appropriation, and the
only means by which it might be re-
placed would be through a special act
OF Congress.
The present unfortunate situation is
due to the failure of the Territory to
appropriate a sum sufficient to estab-
'ish the experiment station, at the out
set. In majority of cases in the past
it has been customary for State or Ter
ritory 10 assist in the establishment of
a United States Experiment Station,
which the Department OF Agriculture
then agrees to maintain. This was not
done in Hawaii and consequently it be-
came necessary to use the funds ap-
oropriated for the maintenance of the
experiment. station for the construction
If buildings. preparation of the land for
cultivation and purchase or apparatus; |
md naturally though every possible |
was exercised, it was INSULT |
,ient for all purposes. AS it now is |
here Is quite a complete station built |
Upon the slope of Punchbowl and it
would become even more valuable in
he future. A handsome cottage and l.
flee has been completed; the pumping
pparatus is ready for use, and nearly |,
IL the land required has been cleared
rocks and underbrush. though at a
considerable outlay of cash. Though
De equipment is far from complete, a
God start has already been made. and
ithin another year would become of
luch benefit to the people of Hawaii.
Not only that, but a
rye number of plants, seeds, trees,
neapples, ETC., have been set out. and
re growing, and will soon be available
II the purpose OF experiments There
still considerable work to be done in
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