The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-12-20
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He thought there should be a separate
building for the quarantine depart
ment, immigration inspector and Ship
ping Commissioner away from the
noise of opening merchandise. He call
ed on Appraiser Sharp to explain the
difficulties of his department under
present conditions. Mr.. Sharp COM
planned principally of the lack of light
for examination of textile fabrics. Inn
migration Commissioner j. X. Brown
was shown to be forced to often exam
Inc forty Japanese with possibly con-
tagious diseases in a room totally in
adequate in size.
f. A. SChaefer thought the present
building, now AZ years old, should be
done away with altogether. Collector
Stackable thought the building should
be moved back block to conform with
the forty foot clear space requirement.
He added that while rates were so low
that private individuals could not go
into the bonded warehouse with profit,
the Customs department would require
space for the storage of bonded spirits.
Mr.. Thurston stated that an alterna-
tive roposal for a site had been laid
before him which he thought advisable
TO take up in case of a hitch between
the Bishop Estate and the government.
He stated that there was some diff
Guilty in the appointment of a board of
appraisers to value the lands which
the government would exchange for the
Bishop property, the estate not agree
ing to outside valuation.
The alternative proposal consists of
an acre of land now owned by the
Union Feed Company on which the
company intended to erect buildings.
The property lies back of the Hack
reid building and runs almost to Ala
kea street. Down to this property the
Bishop street extension would run. Mr.,
Macfarlane explained that this site
would be exchanged for land without
cash. He himself would vote for an
other site, but merely suggested this
as an alternative. Collector Stackable
stated to Commissioner Eustis his
Willingness to agree to including the
customs House on this site, unless it
was possible to give his department
separate building in which case he pre-
ferred the present site as the most
central for his work.
Chairman Thurston wished to bring
the point to an issue and get a recon-
mendation from the committee, pre-
sumably on the Bishop Estate, provid-
ed an arrangement could be made with
the government. This recommendation
could be submitted to the other bodies.
not to the commissioner. General Hart
well thought the committee would stul-
tify itself by recommending a site. still
with string to it, and George Carter
agreed.
Commissioner Eustis stated that the
question of purchase of property
would be an idle one to consider as far
as the Federal government was con-
cerned.
1t was not thought advisable to let
the Commissioner take back any pro-
posed site to Washington unless a clear
title was forthcoming. Mr.. Eustis
mentioned the Gore site and was in
formed that the sense of the meeting
was that that site, while ideal, was not
ready for consideration from the num-
Der of owners many of them absentees |
The fact that one of the estates inter-
ested would want cash effectually dis
posed of the matter The following
motion was then made and passed una
nimously.
That it is the sense of this committee
that If the Bishop Estate come to a sat
isfactory agreement. of exchange with
the government, this committee will re-
commend the Bishop estate lot at the
corner of King and Bishop street for a
building site for post office and fede-
raj offices other than the Custom house.
Chairman L. A. Thurston was APP
pointed a committee of one to confer
with the estate and obtain an agree
ment as soon as possible.
A motion of c. r. Carter's that 1876
feet on both King and Bishop street
should be acquired to allow ample room
passed as did motion of recommended
ton by the same mover that the ter
ritory should make over to the ma
tional government blocks 2S, 20 and 80
of the esplanade adding this to the pre-
sent site of the Customs House, giving
plenty of space for the architects and
ample room for expansion, in all an
area of 325700 feet. This land is part
ly covered by lumber, the blocks as
quoted being so number ed on the under
writer's map. The plan was to park
spare land in similar manner to the
naval station.
1t was brought out that 95 office men
were at work in the customs depart
ment aside from DR.. Cofer's force. 1t
was felt that with both sites offered
free there would be good chance to get
both buildings.
Commissioner Eustis thought the
parking of the grounds admira BILE: I'm
migrants would have a pleasant place
and the waterfront made more atrac-
tive. Collector Stackable emphasized
the latter remark and said that when
the canal was cut the shipping would
vastly increase. Commissioner Eustis
stated that his first pleasant impress
sion in Honolulu was the Hawaiian
hotel its grounds and a fine building on
the water front surrounded by tropical
trees would greatly benefit the town.
The suggestion was brought up that
the land belonging to the naval reser-
walton behind the quarantine wharf, /
surrounded by the stone wall into which |
the sand dredgings of the channel were
dumped and on which the South Sea |,
village once occupied the seward end |
should be turned into a park where tro- |
pical palms and grasses should catch |
the eye of the visitor Commissioner
Eustis strongly urged the identifying !.
of the harbor front, which was at pre-
sent, he said, not calculated to en- |
nance the inviting aspect of Honolulu. !
II present lumber and coal piles could .