The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-10
PROMOTION
PROGRESSES
Practical Suggestions
for Beautifying
Honolulu.

! Members Gartley, Spalding and SInit
i and Secretary Wood present. An earl
visitor, who met the members of tn
board, was DR.. Homer Brigham Of Ney
York, who spoke of the qualification h
felt in visiting the islands.
Mr. McCandless spoke of certain
street improvements and told of a new
idea recently started in Tacoma. Thi!
was to build a new line of curling be-
yond the established line and fill thi
in with lawn and trees. He though
this idea might work we'll here.
OPPOSES PARKING ROAD.
AS to Waikiki road, he felt that il
would be a mistake to park the avenue
in the center. The Rapid Transit track
was now at one side and that being
! the case he thought it would be much
better to run a double row Of trees
on either side of the road. The mauka
row would be on the makai side of the
railroad track.
Mr.. Spalding thought if this question
was left to Mr. Robinson, the park
expert who is to arrive here next
MONTH it would be a good plan.
Mr.. McCandless said he understood
$4,000 feet of curbing was being made
for the Territory at present and he
believed this was for Waikiki road. If
so, then something should be done at
once The Supervisors will be address,
ed on this matter.
HAVE DECIDING VOICE.
Mr. Spalding referred to the great
enthusiasm of residents over the city
Improvement plan. Various big prop
erty interests, he said, would cooper
ate in the movement. Among these
were Governor Carter and the John Ii
estate.
AS to ladies serving on committees
and in improvement clubs, Mr.. Spald-
ing said that they should undoubtedly
have voice in the matter, but in Sc
Letting names for the organization of
clubs he had selected men only to be-
gin with.
Their wives will have the deciding
voice anyway" said Mr.. Spalding.
Mr.. Spalding said that SO far there
was some indecision among those will
ing to form organizations as to how
to proceed in their initial efforts. The
best plan would be to call district and
section meetings and talk the matter
over in a neighborly way.
The deserted and weed-covered lot at
the corner of Punahou street and Will
der avenue, opposite Isenberg's, and
belonging to the Department of Edu-
cation, was commented upon One
member stated that Superintendent
Rabbit had reported the department
had no money on hand for improve
ments. Mr.. Spalding said the boars
had better sell the lot if it couldn't
keep it looking decent /
IMPROVE UNSIGHTLY LOTS.
The following letter from Mr.. Thurs
ton was read:
Honolulu T. H, Jan. 6, 1906. !
Mr.. H P. Wood, Secretary Hawaii
Promotion Committee, City. /
Dear Sir: Yours of the 28th ult. re- |
questing me to organize an improve |
ment club IN that division of Honolulu |
known as Bates street, is duly on |
hand.
In reply, I beg to state that 1 will !
be glad to do this or any other work of
similar character in which 1 can be !
Of assistance to the committee in do
ing what 1 consider most valuable work
for the welfare and progress of Homo
lulu and its inhabitants.
I would like to repeat what I said
orally to you and Mr.. Spalding a day
or two since in regard to open lot
parks.
I think that the cleaning up and
grassing over of open lots, such as
has been done at Palace square and
opposite the Young Hotel, is even more
important than the movement to keep
the door yards in good shape, for the
reason that residence lots, even though !
not kept in the best shape, are more
or less looked after, while empty lots
are left to be covered with unsightly !
weeds and become rubbish dumps; so
that they give a bad character to the
entire neighborhood which may other |
wise be quite presentable The few |
lots already cleaned and grassed over
through the efforts of Secretary Atkin- |
son have added greatly to the beauty
of the city. There are a number OF |
other lots, however, which can be made
equally beautiful at nominal expense
II there is someone to take the respon-
sibility of going ahead with the matter
AMI who can at the same time make
with the Government for
prison labor in connection Herewith !
The 'lpkeep of the lot such as keep
ing it free of weeds and irrigated dur
ing dry weather, requires supervision
and labor which in the aggregate will
cost considerable unless prison labor
can be had to attend to it.
If each of the forty or fifty improve
ment clubs are to have the super
vision and secure from the prison au-
horities prisoners to care for the lots.
am afraid they will wear their well
come out and be a nuisance to the
prison authorities, whereas if the mat .