The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-17
Supervising Architects Office Will
Take Its Time About Draw
ing Plans. ]
Joseph G. Pratt Working Hard for Post of Ter.
ritorial Secretary--Carter Probably Has
the Say---forestry in Hawaii.
fmA11 SPECIAL TO TIE ADvnRr1snn.,

WASHINGTON D. c., Nov. Sit will probably be several
months before work actively begin immigrant
Mr Charles F. kepe the chief executive officer of the supervising
architects Office today developed that reply has yet been received
from the Secretary of the Navy formally outlining
the site for the station agreed upon after conference with Admiral
Merry summer
eve take any steps towards building station said
Mr. Charles E. Keeper the chief executive officer of the supervising
architects office today until officially notified by the Navy
Department of the site that has been allowed for the But
after that will probably be several months before material
be made with the work Commissioner Sargent of Immgra
Honolulu consulted architects
there about the plans for the station He secured plans which
TO what he desired
Il not speak definitely yet about it but things
doubtful whether build the station after the plans
of Honolulu architect Probably only of will be
open to US We make the plans and the construction OF the build
n matter open competition under the provisions OF the arey
the plans here the Office II
should the latter the probable but
said, nothing be stated definitely yet
Il" will certainly be months before the be
begun The office here crowded with work and there be
for making the Station Honolulu special thus
giving right OF other government buildings now being
4 TERRITORIAL SECRETARY
interest here Gov Care
of the Territory 1t believed that President Roosevelt will be likely
choose the whom Gov Garter indicates acceptable to him
applications for the office of secretary have been received
Pratt winter seeking
for the secretaryshp public Washington
what Secretary
will legislation Hawaii The report
been befed the Department for presentation
Secretary done about the he make
recommendations for the various matters coming under his admnsra
tive jurisdiction:
Jonah k1o kaananaole reached Washing
the has been heradd
certain dispatches printed here One of these showed him
where he reported denying vigorously
5tateen had gone the Home Rule party. If
probable he will the Republican
caucus House OF Representatives which will be held in the hall
of the House Saturday afternoon
FORESTRY IN HAWAII
Department OF Agriculture has issued the following bulletin
regarding forestry Hawaii and the visit of Forester Hall
Islands recently
of the Hawaiian Islands win appoint
this winter furnished by
Bureau will take charge projects
the ette11t of The appointed will
the of determining the location and the boundaries
and later of experimenting
of forest planting both public and private lands
The forest the islands unlike that prevail
In this country William Hall of the Bureau of Forestry,
has lust returned from months of the islands,
1orts peculiar interesting problems which there
The islands scarcely capable of yielding timber
value for lumber all the lumber used for building purposes
comes from the several hundred Thousand
acres the value for protective Indeed
of these forests that their
epends the industry and that equivalent
saving the continued prosperity the islands The OF
the last fiscal and practically the
nIv export raising of requires of
being carried and bitches FROM the mountainous
r the islands plains which the
The rainfall islands nearly all confined TO the northeast and
east where it is tremendously heavy some years more
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