The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-13
Many Locations
Downtown Are
Proposed.
COMMITTEE WILL.
DISCUSS THEM ALL
Places Suggested Where Federal
Structure Night Be
Built.

New propositions for sites suitable
for a Federal building are coming to
the front daily, and the committee
which has under consideration the
making of recommendations to Com
missioner Eustis will have plenty OF
plans before it when next it meets.
There has been no final meeting called,
but it is expected that the first of next
week will see a gathering of citizens
for the purpose of talking over the old
locations and some new suggestions
which are occupying the attention of
the people interested in the making of
a choice.
among the newest propositions was
one contained in letter received by
Chairman Thurston yesterday from the
Henry Waterhouse Trust Company,
calling attention to the grounds at the
corner of Alakea street and Hotel,
which, including the library building,
are offered to the Federal Government
for use for the proposed building.
This site is commended on account of
its being surrounded by the various
transit lines, and thus brought close
to the people of every section of the
city. The letter OF submission is as
follows, the dimensions being omitted:
Honolulu Dec. IL, 1902
Mr.. L. A. Thurston, Chairman Federal
Buildings Committee.
Dear Sir:-In connection with your
search for a site for the proposed Fed
eral buildings, will you kindly allow
US to call your attention to the property
on the mauka side of Hotel street be-
tween Alakea street and Adams lane,
and running back from Hotel street
along Adams lane and AIakea street
to a point just makai of the Pacific
Club premises.
Being on the Rapid Transit line, in
close proximity to the tram cars, con-
venient to the hotels and shopping dis
tricts, at the very crossroads between
the residence and business districts Of
daily pass, and having frontage on
sEzgee different streets. we think this
&C will appeal to you as peculiarly
Suitable Cor postoffice building.
We understand that the Honolulu
Library and Reading Room Associa-
ton, which occupies the main corner
III this block, is not averse to making
an exchange for another location that
win be as suitable for their purposes,
and we are in position to offer the re-
naming portion of the property above
outlined at valuation that we feel
sure win be entirely satisfactory TO the
Federal Government.
Yours very truly,
HENRY WATERHOUSE TRUST CO.,
Ltd,
BY Richard H. Trent, Treasurer.
Another site which has been offered
for the consideration of the committee
is that piece of land at the corner Of
Union and Hotel street, of a triangular
shape, the property of Bruce Cart
wright. This piece is only some 1000
square feet in extent, but will be con-
sidered by the committee at its next
session. There has been also the sug-
gestion that the block at the corner of
Fort and Hotel, known as the Wide
mann property, be taken into eonsid-
Grafton, though this does not come
from the present owners of the land,
II is said.
Perhaps the most comment which is
being made among those who have
been present at the meetings of the
committee is devoted to the use
ot the vacant spaces in the E1-
ecutive building grounds. 1t has
been figured that there is a space Of