The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-28
To MEET
SUPERVISORS
Mckinley Committe Is
to Arrange for
Conference.

a meeting of the Mckinley Memorial
Committee and the Board of Super
visors for Oahu is to he arranged by
J. A McCandless of the former or
of the transfer of the Mckinley Me-
mortal park and it's cash in the
bank to the county, to be merged into
the Kunst Waikiki beach property now
controlled by the county and to bear
the name of Mckinley Memorial Park.
At a special meeting of the Memorial
Committee held yesterday afternoon
at o'clock in the office of c. NJ. Cooke,
there were present Chairman S. 3.
Dole, Secretary J. G. RothweIl. Messrs.
c. M Cooke, J. A. McCandIess, F. A.
Schaefer and Rev. W. D. Westervelt.
Mr.. McCandless was appointed
committee of one to arrange for such
a meeting and also to request the
county attorney, Mr.. Douthitt, as a
matter of courtesy to the Mckinley
Committee, to look up the law regard
ing the ownership of the Waikiki
Beach lots and the powers of the park
commission.
Mr.. Westervelt opened the meeting
by stating that an item had recently
appeared in the Advertiser regarding
the proposed transfer of the memorial
property and money to the county to
NailxjLxi i1JSt q
quired by the purchase of the lease
from the territory on the Kunst prop
erty and name the property, the Nc
Kinley Memorial Park" AS a public
park, connected with Kapiolani park,
and with bathing facilities, Mr.. West |
ervelt believed this would be a splen- |
did move. He had spoken to Mr..
Cooke about it, also Chairman Geo. w.
Smith of the Board of Supervisors, |
who was very favorable to the prof. |
ect.
Since then the question has come
up as to whether the land is territorial
or county property and whether it |
would be perpetual ownership
Judge Dole referred to the revised
laws of 1896 which he believed contain
ed a bill outlining the powers of the
Park Commission. A copy of the laws
could not be found in the bank and
the question was not satisfactorily de-
cided.
Referring to the question of the coun-
ty maintaining the park in proper
shape if turned over to the Board, Mr..
Cooke said: 1--WE may not always have
such a good board of supervisors"
Mr.. McCandless said that supervisors
everywhere. no matter whether they
were good or bad, generally kept parks
in good condition.
1t was decided that the transfer of
the memorial property to the county
would be a matter of contract between
the two parties.
Mr.. Cooke gave statement of the
finances of the committee. Besides the
near the ball grounds ac
quired for park, there was cash on
hand in the bank, drawing interest at
per cent, now amounting to S824424
There was also rental coming from the
property at present.
Judge Dole then turned the discus
sion into another channel. He said
there had been some talk of a replica
of some bronze statue of the late
President Mckinley.
IF we can not reach any practical |
result in any other way" said Judge
Dole, sit might be we'll to devote our
energies to some object of that kind
to be erected somewhere in the city"
Mr.. Schaefer felt that replica would
cost not less than $4,000. The first
cost of the original Kamehameha |
statue, which was lost en- route to Ho-