The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-11

PROTEST.
Will Investigate the
Mckinley Park
Scheme.
Local Club Prefers a
Monument to the
Martyr.
Committee OF Three Will Confer
With General Committee
on Matter.

The Buckeye Club, through a special
committee, will shortly begin an in
vestigation Of the Mckinley Park
scheme, and may bring pressure to
bear upon the Mckinley fund commit
tee to give up the park idea and take
up the monument plan originally pro-
posed as Honolulu memorial to the
late President.
At the regular meeting of the Buck
eye Club held last evening at the resi-
denee of DR.. and Mrs. J. M. Whitney,
Punahou street, the Mckinley memo
rial was the principal topic of dis
cussion. AS the Buckeye Club raised
a large fund toward the memorial and
turned the cash over to the general
committee in charge, the members
thought they were entitled to make
known the desires of the club as to
what form the memorial should now
take, as the statement was made at
the meeting that nothing would be
done to improve the park site for at
least year.
Rev. w. D. Westervelt, member of
the general committee, and also a
Buckley, reported to the club that at
recent meeting of the general COM
mittee, it was shown that fourteen
acres of land had been bought on King
street opposite the present baseball
grounds. In the left hand corner
there is pond fed by spring, which
This property cost $500. There was
also $500 in the bank for the develop
ment of the park. This was consider
ed enough to cover the premises with
earth for lawns. Mr.. Westervelt said
thatsat the general meeting it was de-
cided that there was insufficient money
to carry out the original plans for the
park. After a full and free discus
sion, the decision was reached that it
would be better to wait until the next
convenes, prepare the park
and present it to the Territory with
the understanding that it be maintain
ed properly by the government as a
pleasure resort for the benefit of the
people.
DR.. Rogers said he had favored a
Mckinley monument, for the reason
that the park might not always be
cared for, and would there
fore not be a credit to the memory of
President Mckinley. He felt that the
Buckeye Club, hailing from the State
of McKinley's birth, was deeply inter-
ested in the matter.
w. A. Bowen said the facts in Mr.
Westervelt's report We're disappoint-
ing in that policy of delay had been
deliberately decided upon. AS for the
park idea he thought that it was to be
a breathing place near at hand where
young children could enjoy it. He
was not certain that the Legislature
would accept the park and maintain
it. 1t might be neglected. Mr.. Bowen
favored a Mckinley monument as a
proper memorial.
Mr. Westervelt said that he individ-
ually also favored a monument. 1t
was his opinion that the Buckeye Club
should take the matter up with the
general committee, and decide upon
the Improvement of the park and also
to procure a monument to be erected
upon the grounds.
Mr.. Bowen remarked loosely that at
present he had an indefinable fear of
trading property with the government.
The Club he said was originally in
favor of monument, and subscrip-
tons in the club had been raised on
that basis. He felt that a monument
was the only proper memorial to a
President like Mckinley, and it should
cost all the money the committee has
in the bank and all that could be real
lied from the sale OF the park site.
J. K. Brown, the temporary chair
man, had always favored monument,
and hoped yet to see the memorial
take that form and upon motion a
committee consisting of DR.. Rodgers.
w. A. Bowen and Rev. z. S. Muckley
was appointed to make a complete in
vestigation of the memorial matter and
report at the next meeting. which viii
be held at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. r. c. Brown.
To the suggestion that the park idea