The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-21
ROBlNSONS GATEWAY TO CITY
The Best Features of
the Park Experts
Report.

The three features in the report OF
Charles Mulford Robinson on the de-
velopment of Honolulu upon which the
park expert laid special stress were
! the Waterfront improvement, the Pal
| ace Square changes and the boulevard
| system. The two first named We're il
Iustrated by outline maps which ac-
| companied the reports, and which are
I herewith reproduced. OF these, the
most important. perhaps, as it will be
| the plan whose carrying out will first
catch the eye of the stranger, is the
proposed water entrance to the city.
1t will be the gateway, SO to say,
| through which the world will come TO
| Honolulu.
| The big new slips, whose location
will establish the location of this en-
trance, extend east from Alakea street
and as far back as Allen. This gate
way. in fact, will be right on the site
of the old government fish market.
Those who have read the Robinson re-
port as it was printed in the Adver-
tiser. and that is everybody in Homo
lulu, will remember that the park ex-
pert wanted to construct an immense
gateway on the water side of the mar
ket, with the word Aloha worked on
it if that were desired, and that the
whole fish market square be given up
to a kind OF park to set off this en-
trance.
THROUGH THE GATE.
Passengers landed in Honolulu from
the steamers from overseas wound
thus pass through the city's gate, get
ting an idea of something beautiful
right at the start, instead of meeting
the present rather squalid waterfront
views, and this waterfront park could
be kept in excellent order at slight
expense. In fact, it could be estab-
Iished at slight expense, too. The gov
eminent owns the ground and it is
of no use now, since the fish market
has been moved up to King street.
Sweeping ways would lead from the
gateway on the water side to Alakea
and Richards street at Halekauwila,
and these two streets-that is Alakea
and Richards-would form the natural
highway up town from the new slips
as they will in any event. The adj
visa bility and general excellence of
Mr.. Robinson's suggestion in regard
to this improvement will be apparent, |
indeed, at a glance.
PALACE SQUARE.
The plan for park at Palace
Square is rather more elaborate, and
would in the carrying out involve the |
expenditure of very much more money. |
Mr.. Robinson begins by calling atten- |
ton to the fortunate grouping of the |
buildings for the purpose |
nends the parking of that hot and |
sunny square of irregular quadrangle
lar shape that lies between Richards |
and Militant STREETS, and and forms the |
junction of King and Merchant. This |
would make a park with the Execu-
tive and Judiciary buildings and the
Kamehameha statute included in it, |
but Mr.. Robinson desires to go much |
farther than that. 1t is his idea to |
take in, likewise, the Kawaiahao
church, and to do this the plan calls |
for the tearing out of the buildings |
that stand between the Waikiki end of |
the Judiciary building yard and |
street, thus making an |
other irregular quadrangular section |
of park, with trees and grass on the |
on King street. This would give Il |
parked street from the corner of King
and Richards streets to the corner of /