The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-22
P|NkHAM'S
PARK PLAN
Board of .1eaIth Favors
Ills Reclamation
Scheme.

President L. E. Pinkham of the
| Board of Health yesterday afternoon
| laid before that BODY his scheme for
reclamation of the Waikiki marsh
| lands, including the banana and veget-
| able patches and the rice fields of the
McCulIy tract and Moiliili In a
lengthy statement he expressed the
opinion that the district was incapable
of reclamation by any expenditure that
private owners could afford. Maps,
plans, profles and soundings were sub
mitted with the statement. Indeed,
nothing but the financial estimates
were lacking, and these will be forth
coming in due time, as Mr. Pinkham
is only awaiting the receipts of certain
expert reports TO complete his figures.
Streets aud sidewalks, conduits and
bridges, as well as the great drainage
canal, are all specified in finished de-
tail. It is scheme to cost some hun
dreds IF thousands of dollars-perhaps
miIlion-but if building be allowed
to advance inward beyond the edges
already more or less occupied by dwell
ings, the district Will become as foul,
as great a menace to the public health,
as the Kewalo swamp section.
With the president were present
Fred Q. Smith, Abraham Fernandez,
Attorney General E. G. Peters, mem
bers; c. Gharlock, secretary, and Miss
Mae Weir, stenographer. Besides hear
ing and considering President Pink
ham s scheme just mentioned, only one
Indifferent item of routine business
was transacted.
Efr. Smith, when the president had
concluded his statement, said that so
far as he had seen the president was
in the way, not only of making that a
sanitary district, Dut of aiding very
much in making the city beautiful. 1t |
was certainly matter that involved a |
great deal of study and calculation. |
Either the Territorial or the County |
could go about the scheme |
and bring it to completion by degrees. |
Mr.. Peters said that, when shown the
original drawings, he was struck with |
the feasibility of the scheme. 1t was |
nothing merely IN the air, it was all |
practicable. Perhaps it would be diff
fcult to show the taxDayers its prac
ticability. At first sight it looked like
4 residence district plan. 1t must be
taken as part of a park system. In
hat respect the idea was splendid. The
Government could set aside portion
# the tract as a park and dispose of
he rest under the Lard Act. 1t seem
ii to him a plan that was eminently
PRACTICAL; one that could be taken UP
'ither by the Territory or the County.
q that in ten or fifteen years it would
re show place having its equal no.
where on the mainland.
cit has connection with the sea-
President Pinkham interjected.
Mr. Peters, continuing, said it would
e eminently fitting to have pamphlet
rinte5, with fly leaves containing the .
laps, Cor information on the subject
The president remarked that he had
lready ordered an edition of 1000
opies of such q pamphlet.) A copy
hould be sent to each member of the
legislature. The merits of the scheme
And absolute necessity, "Mr. Smith
emarked) would thus be properly rep-I
scented
President Pinkham made a remark
bout figures vet to be obtained
Mr.. Peters then moved in effect that. \
accordance with the statute law
nd with the statement read TO the
oard, the scheme of President Pink.
AM be reported to the Superintendent
Public Works as having the recon-
endatiOn of the Board of Health in
lie interests of the public health; also 4
lat similar report be sent to the
oar6 of Supervisors of the County of
ahu; also that an opinion be request
of the Attorney General as to the
cans, if there are any, under the
ublic Domain Act, for acquiring the i
operty for public purposes. /,
The motion carried unanimously.
q feel like shouting bully, bully.
e whole plan is so comprehensive and
adapted to the necessity of the
Sc. - the Attorney General remarked
st before the Board adjourned.