The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-22
PROVIDING FOR ARCHIVES
OF HAWAII TERRITORY

Editor Advertiser: At the last of the Legislature
appropriation of $4,000 made for Hall of Records In March,
(1apuwa Hale laid,
being felt at that time that essential to have isolated
afterwards devoted other pur
The intention of the Legislature that it should be
lated building the ground floor to be used for the current records
depository of the old
those ancient archives appealed to the love the people had for the
monarchy
was put in money obtained
bonds and lies in the treasury Apparently nothing done
the said that the considered the build
and there difficulty in selecting site 1t is
seem however in his report that the of 2Oo OF the fund has
paid plans difficulty
selecting site eligible site be had which the
uehty and maodorous stables and water carts occupied
The for the archives brought home
who familiar with them their condition. and much scattered
places of deposit
time Legation presented Hawaiian
Of Congressional Reports reaching back the 1913
we'll other valuable books of reference giving with them
copous general
would be willing supply those reports 1913
vel missing numbers complete the set to date 1t might
willing do if known that what have
cared for The insects work the old arch
ives and playing havoc with the books and Those little
fellows dislike disturbed periodical ovehaung papers
is the only antidoe against their ravages.
of in there was found the
Palace and Judiciary Building immense number Of books of al
descriptions Some of these given the Bishop Museum
the Public Library and others scattered through the
department The pertaining agriculture handed
the BoarG of Agriculture and Forestry The Patent Office
REPORTS Were carried down to the office OF Mr. Ripley never knew
why and there hundreds of others through the
in the basement and tower of the Executive Building.
The correspondence received from all world
envelopes they
welmade chests, of
During the occupation of the judiciary building by the
these chests opened their Uttered all
premises the soldiers robbing envelopes
found o them
Now that the settled duty
and all those archives of the beloved of the
Kamehamehas and all for reference nothing which
much appeals the natives and old kamaana of
respect for the old flag and the munmens of the old Hawaiian
Government which represented the well
other foreign capitals century which
its consus in every civilized country.
In reagard the suggestions
chve IN the small the cellar of the Executive Building
would be treating them and their disrespect
On the would be better
the isolated freproo building contemplated by the last Legislature
and if $4,000 insufficient complete building
further for the purpose No money putting
good structures for of the
lie that of
$4,000 be made the first for building
for barracks If had the building
by and had
this Hall Of Records completed there would be
excvc officers and the departments for many years When
barracks suitable and
locality stands ready for the of the
purchased O~ small refer the building erected
for automobile company and which is in the vicinity
buildings would respectfully purchasing
building and the acquiring by exchange of the balance
Judiciary square and the removal of the unsghy
occupy frontage adjacent Kawaahao church
Respectfully,