The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-05-25
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT.

We many things be In point Of fact
hesitate where begin The last Legislature
left the financial condition the territory tangled that only
1he meager work could be done 1t was process
ping gaps rather than systematic effort carrying complete
system OF public works The Territory had along best could
with drbbles money the funds and had
only needs but in certain improve
ments which ought from current but from loan funds
seeing that future generation was to benefit by them
That much done has been DONE speaks volumes for the
with which the funds of the last years have been adj
need rev places could have passed through suCh CRISIS as
easily When consider that much income has been taken
from by the Custom House going into Federal hands wonder
how the exigenCes have been
The Territory has now before it very difficult task
get much help from the Legislature The idea of the awmaker
stuff the appropriation bill without any reference to the
of income likely the of loan which be legally
which will begin and provision for paying it, why that is
hardly worth consideration Men who willing discount
their salaries at modest ten cena month are not likely to rou
BILE themselves about Territorial interest
continue improvements Much has done
the Island of Hawaii but like those of Oahu outside of Honolulu
they dirt roads and become slippery muddy and worthless in the
rainy From the amount of money the roads during
thirty great results might expected
but owing the which has been expended and to the
lack of system the results have been unsatisfactory and great deal
OF money has been practically washed into the
Public buildings required all over the and not all
of the public buildings need extensive repairs Whaves
called school teachers cottages called
Prison buildings a and lockuPs needed throughout the Ter
many things wha wait for Improvement be made
i'll the first six months.
But however important these things may be- there thing
which should take precedence of other public work. and that is
the harbor Honolulu Upon the Improvement of this depends the
prosperity only the city, but of the commercial interests of the
community large We want be position to take the largest
vessels Oa the Pacific The wharf scheme which has been
posed excellent all for the present. but the time
will when it will have be much extensive than is
designed Standing Pacific Heights and regarding the line
and the ka BASIN takes stretch fancy that there
is for expansion and that that unutzed basin will be filled with
ships occupying slips of the shallow The Kah basin
VIII form an inner arbor somewhat similar to that OF Syracuse in
Sicily.
These improvements coming, directly, later
There improvement which is absolutely imperative This is
The deepening of the channel into the arbo This be DONE
be done 1t of little building slips
and handsome comodous wharve the approach
the harbor unsatisfactory The crucial point the whole plan the
the arbor Some people the business congress
do this work This may be granted but has great
things attend and afford wait till
round Heaven helps them that help themselves have
help ourselves.
Everything should first harbOr Improvement The
build a
ton for habor and have the knowledge of improved
channel throughout the commercial fleets world
the earlier this article the Star has dwe the press
ing needs but nothing pressing the habor
OF having for public improvements energy should
pushing forward the habor extension and the deepening
That rs clear and unmakab and there
M swerving from the responsibility involved