Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-05-07
plan FOR NORMAL
IMPROVEMENT BOARD
MAPS OUT GOOD WORK
For Improvement Of the Grounds of
the School-Report of Board
to the Educational De-
partment

OF the Honolulu Improvement Advi
sorry Board was brought out at tn
meeting of the Board of Public In
struction yesterday afternoon, wheI
report of the Board on the Norma
School grounds was read. The recon
mendations of the committee ar
given below and furnish definit
scheme for work at the Normal.
Will not be possible to accomplish
all in a year, but it gives what i
needed in dealing with the surround
ings of public building The lette
follows:
Honolulu, Oahu, April q, 1907.
Inc commissioners of Public Instruc
ton, Honolulu.
Ladies and Gentlemen AT the re.
quest of Mr. Edgar Wood, principal o.
the Normal School, the Honolulu I'm.
provement advisory Board has taker
up the matter of the Improvement OF
the grounds surrounding the Normal
School building. At meeting of the
Board held on April 23rd the follow
ing resolution was unanimously adopt
ed and the Secretary was directed to
send copies to the Commissioners of
Public Instruction and to Mr.. Wood.
Resolved that the Honolulu Impbve-
ment Advisory Board hereby recon-
mends to the Department of Public In
struction that improvements be made
on the grounds of the Normal School
In Honolulu, as follows:
| % That it is the sense of this
Board that 1t is not within its province
to pass upon the project of construct
ing an amphitheatre for out of door
exercises. this being a problem which
should be left to men of architectural
training.
(2) That the Commissioners of Pub
tic instruction be urged to take the
necessary steps for the ultimate ac-
quirement of the full square embraced
Ey Hackfeld, Spencer, Alapai and Quar-
ny streets, but especially and in any
event of the lot at the corner of Hack
leld and Spencer streets known as the
VOTERS property.
(3) That steps be taken to cause
the construction by the proper author
tiles OF suitable cutters on Spencer and
Hackfeld Streets to care for the storm
water.
"a That the stone wall following
the Alapai Street property line be con-
tInued to Spencer street. to properly
enclose the school grounds and to de-
fine the limits of the garden.
90 That the wall on the Hackfeld
street side of the grounds be complet-
ed to the line of the Woters property
the wall for its entire length to be four
1oet above the sidewalk, in order that
Danger to passersby from falling over
the steep bluff may be avoided.
60 That sidewalk be constructed
along Spencer street, with provision
FOR the planting of street trees along
the outer edge of the same.
CD That retaining wall be built
on the property line, along Spencer
street, from the corner of Alapai street
to the Wolters property the wall to
be OF sufficient height above the side
walk to turn ordinary storm water
coming down the hill into Spencer
street; that a second re.aining wall be
bailt from Alapai street to the VOTERS
property just back of the janitor's
house; that the knoll of earth and
black sand at the corner of Spencer and
Alapai streets, resulting from the ex-
cavation of the reservoir, be levelled
OFT, the material being used to fill up
the gnlley now existing between the |
knoll and the VOTERS property, and to |
bring to an even grade the plot be-
tween the two retaining walls In this |
work provision should be made for
pockets Of good soil in which fruit |
trees can subsequently be planted
(S) That the remainder of the space |
between the lower retaining wall, back |
CT the janitor's house, and the private !
on the Ewa-makai corner of |
The grounds be levelled to a uniform
grade and used for the school vegetable |
and flower gardens
90 That the Manual Training build
ing be raised so that the level of it's
foundations shall conform to the level
0f those of the main building, thus al
owing space for filling in and grading
he grounds about it so as to avoid
1ooding during heavy rains.
tl0) That the janitOr's house be
moved toward\ AlaDai street so that it
viii stand at short distance from
he property line rather than in the
center of the lot.
Cd That recommendation as to L
he rocks wall between the proposed
and Hackfeld street be
postponed until rock for the retaining
walls has been obtained and some def
mite understanding reached as to the
construction of the amDhitheatre
tl2) That copies of these resolutions