The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-02-04
SCHOOL IN THE WYTHE VEGETABLE FNRN WOODEN RUSSIA


THE filling Boo OF Aulu Park She city
breathing space situated between King
and BerctauiB streets. Immediately EVA
of tho Nuu8uu stream. iE going swiftly
ahead under the orders of Commissioner
Boyd of the Public Works departments
and viii soon arrive at q = Oint wha.e tn
laying out of the park in regulation
fashion with trees grass and seats will
be ready t1 proceed with when the pres
emit obstacles are removed
These stumbling blocks iu the way
Of completing the park and creating a
resting place for noon hours and a
strolling place for the young folk of
kuiuiu and Euwili after dark, consist
of the space now occupied by the Royal
schools and an old warehouse or two
that still cumber the ground laid out
for the park.
Until the Board of Education gets an
appropriation from the Legislature
and is able to replace the present
make shift school buildings with
a regulation school house for
that district, the work of beautify-
ing Aala park cannot be completed. AS
it is the presence of the school has de-
layed the present operations and VIII
make the work of grading much heavier
than if it had been all ready to be done
at one time.
The filling i'm material is being taken
D
being transferred into carts and taken
up to the ground by a small locomotive
engine there DUMPED onto the park site
and properly graded, The filling is be-
! ing heaped up at present between three
and four feet above grade in readiness
for the time when the school buildings
| and warehouses are vacated. Then
these will be sold and carted away and
the low lying space left, filled in with
the superiiuous three or four feet of
| dirt above grade now being spread,
which will be taken off by scrapers
until the whole park is graded to one
/ level Then the work Of planting and
otherwise identifying will probably be
completed.
There is considerable speculation as
to who will ultimately benefit by the
| park when it is all nicely laid out. The
| population of the neighbOThOOd consists
of a mixed element of natives. Chinese
| and japanese with the Orientals in the
majority. It is yet to be shown whe-
! Their any of these will show appreciation
! of a public park otherwise than as a
pleasant place for the pakes and Jap,
to smoke a soothing pipe of opium tain
/ ted tobacco after the heat and burden
Of the day AS one of the forenoon car
trying out the work says however there
| is no telling what an Americanized
/ Chinaman will dc" and they may take
] dS hluhig W TIE lNet VI a pADllt par
as a native born American.
The children will undoubtedly make
it a playground and enjoy the oper
space heartily while beneftting them
selves by a few hours in the open all
away from the close atmosphere of thei1
own dwellings. 1t takes but a shor
flight of Imagination to see gaily dress
ed little Japanese playing contentedly
on the grass and little Aladdns fyinl
kites while their elders sit on the
benches and discuss the latest news O
tOngs and societies.
The worllmen in the neighborhood an,
along the waterfront will probably fully
appreciate the park as a noon day opeI
air dining room. But until the board o
! Education gets an appropriation and
new school house, there will be no SHADY
lawns and comfortable benches in AalI
Park for many days to come.
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