The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-12-22
BUILDINGS AND BEAUTY.

People who imagine that the Post Office other Federal
buildings will go up with the rapdy OF magic are reckoning
without their host Even site, which there
every feel assured Of and give clear title
which qua non will be long time before the buildings
completed the grey boards who have been
ing upon where the buildings should should not be placed will
be comfortably tucked up under the sod the buildings
in There quite number Of those who have been dis
cussng the question who will put foot within the wallis and
will be tired walking them wherever they be placed
or eXpend one quarter in hack hire to get there.
The first thing get a lilo fortunate in that
there government land perfectly suitable for Site and there
question OF negotiating with private parties for an eX
change We have suitable without exchanging or buying
The gore would be an excellent site but it owned by several
parties, of them absenees, that site
the choice narrowed down such make exchange
and this to be the Bishop Estate land opposite the
" constructed Young Building The Custom House site
remain the same, and additional lots be added to it.
Having cleared away choice Of site difficulties and having given
Mr. Eust abstract OF clear title hope for favorable
report and of money for the erection of the buildings dur
ing this session OF Congress- The money tor this however, would
not be available till August the earliest There will have
be plans made and submitted then there will have be worked
in detail bids will have be called for and the will
have be let gentleman well with Federal work.
informs the Star that is very unlikely that designs specihca
tons and forth will be ready as as the money available
that may look for the letting of the time
after the time that the becomes available Then to The
completion of the work the same authority puts if at from five to
years. AS the buildings will be erected considerably
century this is by exravagan estimate.
There therefore need of of worrying about the
too much The young generation should have far say
about it than their elders.
There thing however, that may sure about and
they will last What their style of architecture will be- whether
they will adapt themselves to the country whether like all
public buildings they will be replica of buildings elsewhere
mains to be We take for granted however, they
will not strike out in new lines.
Out OF the discussion upon the sites OF the buildings
train of ideas which, to be hoped will fall into the limbo
OF Orgetunes The fact that going Federal
buildings has aroused the eshetc begin
talk of identifying the city We should have done this long ago
Our orerunners woefy negecu and have been
ourselves.
Mr. Eust has struck the right when urging the beaufy
OF the harbor front He suggests grassy lawns and shady
trees and depreca the coal heaps and lumber piles which
greet the OF the when he the harbor Modern
civilization welded the practical and the wharves though
interesting by eshetc The San
Francisco can hardly lay claim to being JOY the
estheC whatever it may be in practical the
stranger first landing shores could steamer
into lawns and under shady trees he certainly would get
pleasant impression. But there places in the world
which present such advantages
In classic times people did beauty their arbo had some
OF their most beautiful buildings the that was
measure because though heaens they intensely and
earnestly religious and sailor wanted devoons
to the deies OF the Hence magnificent temples and
those broad massive steps which swept from waters edge to
the foreshore decorated with Symbols while magnh
marble granite quays formed barrier against the waters
Those old harbors the Praeus Of Carthage Alexandria, of
Tyre must have been worth seeing but their has gone We
pcaly beautiful By all means let set good example