Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-11-16
CIVIC FEDERATION
WORKING ON PARKS

The following committee report WAS
presented at meeting of the execu.
tive committee of the Civic Federation
yesterday afternoons:
Honolulu. T. H., Nov. Is, 1905.
To the President and the Executive
Committee of the Civic Federation,
Honolulu.
Conference.-The committee on
parks, streets and public works begs
leave to submit the following report:
Certain matters have been referred
to this committee by the Executive
Committee: /. The ACCESSIBILITY or
placing cans for rubbish at various
points on the city street, especially At
the Post Office. .. The investigation
of provisions in the Charles r. Bishop
Trust in regard to parks, and money
to be spent on parks.
!. The chairman of this committee
has conferred with Postmaster Pratt
IL regard TO placing can for rubbish
at the Post Office. He desires that We
wait until he completes repairs now be-
ing made on the walks in front of tho
building. The kind of can desired Is
being investigated.
2. a letter from the secretary Of
the Bishop Estate informs this com
mittee that there are no funds in con
troll of the trustees of the Chas. r.
Bishop Trust from which to furnish
aid for park purposes. We are informed
that, by an amended trust deed, provl'
| sion for assistance to parks, originally
contained in the Trust, has been re
| sCinded
The committee takes pleasure in re.
porting that m appropriation of $500
las been made by the Board Of Super
vlsors to bring out here Mr. Charles
milford Robinson of Rochester, n. Y.
prehensive park system for Honolulu.
Your committee got in torh with Mr..
Robinson through correspondence in
regard TO the sign board evil. He eX.
pressed desire TO come out here and
as he made the very reasonable offei
10 come out here and do the worI;
planned for $500 1t seemed to be an
| opportunity to get first rate man at a
| comparatively small cost. The com.
mittee decided that II was desirable
first to work Tor such a comprehensive
park plan and secondly to try to get
this particular man out here to take
UP the work. While no one here has a
personal knowledge of him, he has
been on special missions to Europe for
fiarper's and the Atlantic Monthly. He
Detroit. Colorado Springs, and other
cities. He has written two, at least,
standard books on this question. He
has the heavy recommendation of such
men as Secretary Mayo Fesler of tho
Civic Improvement League of St
Louis Under the circumstances, /,
seemed best to take active steps to get
the appropriation and to bring him out
here. Mr.. John Lucas ChampiOned the
measure in the Board of Supervisors,
and to him a large measure Of the
credit Is due. The committee wishes
to call attention to the fact that this -
just the lightning and that the final
success of the project will depend first
upon getting a feasible and attractive
Park plan and secondly upon gradually
building to it. Both of these ends will
require the united support not only OF
the Civic Federation. but of all who
ere Interested in the improvement OF
the city.
The committee wishes TO call atten.
tion to the large amount of interest
that exists among the officials of the
administration and among individuals
in civic improvement. 1t hopes that
all persons, official and unofficial, may
cooperate in this good work.
Respectfully submitted
A. f. GRIFFITHS,
Chairman, Committee on Parks
streets and Public Works.
Other members of the COMMITTEES
are +. j. LOwrey, G. W. Smith, +. S.
Dodge. Il. S. Hosmer. Money was ap.
prOpriated for the cans for rubbish to
be placed near the Post Office. 1t was
voted that the Federation affiliate with
the American Civic Association.
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