The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-12

| the erection Of either an elaborate IA
cade TO such building, or at the pres
ent time of a monumental gateway to
the city. such as was proposed by Mr.
Charles Milford Robinson in his report
Whatever may be the wise, thing TO
do in the future. the members Of your
committee are a unit in thinking that
the time for an arch has not yet come;
in brief that such a project is now
neither possible, advisable nor desir-
able. To erect an arch on the water
front of such artistic design and suit
able material as would make it add
| dignity to the city's water gate would
in the opinion of persons qualified TO
quote figures on such subject, cost from
| $4,000 to 100000
In such a project temporary make
shifts, be they of wood, "staff'' or even
concrete are inadmissible. It is equal
| ly undesirable to put up a structure
that is supposed in time to give place
to a permanent one. Far better that
no arch ever be built than that Homo
| lulu suffer the blight of a cheap
atrOcity.
But a weightier reason is that were
there money available for a really
worthy arch, Honolulu has much more
pressing needs. In the fields of educa-
ton, charity and philanthropy are de-
mands that are to be met before the
city has the right to turn to adorn-
ment.
| Considered from another standpoint,
there are economic uses TO which the
fishmarket can be put. Under the loan
act there is money available for wharf
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son wharves. The ffshmarket building
can be utilized for this purpose at a
considerable saving to the Territory
over wholly new structures. BY the
removal of the building the ashmarket
square would be left open and could
at small cost be grassed over and kept
as park, perhaps with memorial
fountain as it's central feature, until
such time in the future as 1t became
advisable and possible to develop it in
| a more pretentiouss way.
We are at a parting of the ways;
the building should either be recon-
structed. simply. where it stands, as a
public hall. suitable for meetings, ex-
hibitions and other public functions,
or 1t should be removed and devoted
to economic purposes and the square
made into a park. AS 1t is now, the
structure is unsightly and there is an
increasing danger that it may some
day suddenly be transformed into a
coal she'd
/ Your committee has a strong lean
| ing toward the town half idea-pro-
vided the elaborate facade were left
out and some other changes made, SIM
plifying the plan suggested by the Art
League. Did 1t appear practicable, the
committee would recommend the re-
moval of the present fishmarket struc%
/ ture to the drill shed site, provided
| that site could be made available, and
the fitting of it up as an auditorium.
But having canvassed the situation,
| the committee feels that it is improb-
able that a sufficient amount of money
could be obtained from any source to
carry out the plan.
The committee therefore recommends
the endorsement of the following plan:
PLAN A
| I'd The removal of the present fish
| market structure.
/ (2) The maintenance of the fishrnar-
ket site as a park.
go The economic use of the struc-
ture by the Territorial authorities for
ing. however, it's use as public hall
within the present boundaries of Aala
park
| On account of the pressing necessity
of keeping the building in repair and
the danger of it's appropriation for
storage purposes, and its consequent
loss to the public, if the above plan
cannot be carried out, the committee
suggests, as a final alternative.
PLAN B.
ID The making of the present fish
market building over into a hall for
public use, in accordance with the
plans of the Kilohana Art League COM
mittee whose design, with the exeep-
! ton of the facade and with some de-
| auctions for. elaborateness, is in gener-
al satisfactory, and whose efforts ara
now bent toward the securing of money
/ for it's execution from the Mckinley
| Memorial Association and other
sources.
90 The use Of the rest of the lot