Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-11-13
ART LEAGUE SUGGESTS
M'k|NltY MEMORIAL
Would Make Fishmarket
An Open Air
Pavilion


furnishing memorial suggestion &c
the Mckinley Memorial Fund Com.
mittee for the most appropriate and
lasting, and well as city-beautifying
memorial to the martyred President
The following letter from the Art
League has been sent to the McKln-
ley Memorial Committee, in which
are set forth the advantages to he de-
rived by an adoption of the sugges-
tions of the Art League.
This matter of Il Mckinley memo
rial was treated on at some length In
yesterdays Bulletin, wherein II
was stated that the Kilohana Art
League proposed the remodeling u
the fishmarket into general assem-
bly, pavilion and building at the sea
end a memorial gateway or arch.
The Art League people are deslr-
Gus of designating the structure they
suggest as Mckinley Pavilion in
stead of Mckinley Memorial
Honolulu, T. H., Nov. 8, 1907.
TO the Mckinley Memorial Commit
tee, Honolulu, T. II.
Gentlemen:-In reply to a recent
article appearing in the morning pa
per in which you invite suggestions
or criticisms respecting the proposed
building of Mckinley memorial in
Honolulu, the City Improvement Cir
Gle of the Kilohana Art League re-
specially submit the following:
We know that no cause, however
good, is benefited by undue criticism
of another cause, and therefore would
lather urge the merits of a new plan
for establishing and maintaining a
Mckinley Memorial, which we believe
TO be more practical than either the
monument or the amphitheater plans
which your committee have under
consideration. Both plans before you
have merit, and If Honolulu had the
public buildings that the city re-
quires, 1t would then be difficult to
know which of the two plans you are
considering should be first carried
out.
But we call your attention to the
fact that there is not in our city a
single available building where large
public or private meetings, exhibit
lions, fairs or entertainments may be
satisfactorily held. We need large,
airy meeting place under cover. A
place where our citizens could meet
and mingle when occasion requires,
and in so doing secure the advan-
tages which surely come from such
gatherings.
The Government now has roof
worth more than 100000 located on
a block of government land, valued at
more than 100000, which is being
held for public use. We have every
reason to believe the Territorial Gov
ornment would be willing to join
with the Memorial Fund Committee
for the purpose of providing a digni-
fed permanent Mckinley Memorial
where large public gatherings can be
held.
From preliminary estimates, we
find that the remodeling of the mar
ket, on Alakea street, into McKin-
ley pavilion completed to the salts
faction of all. can be accomplished
for the sum which your committee
now has available in the Mckinley
Memorial Fund.
The advantages we call your atten-
ton to in this building are its ample
size, central location, permanency,
perfect ventilation and not inartistic
design.
The remodeling of the market
would include enclosing the outer
walls with heavy wire netting, suit
able to serve as trellis for climbing
vines, which would preserve the pres
ont airiness of the building, and al
the same time give the seclusion q
public entertainment would require
The architectural feature which
would change the building from q
market into memorial pavilion, ant
to which we invite your especial at
tention, would be the erection of the
Mckinley arch at the waterfront enc
OF the pavilion. Thus the Robinson
plan for The Beautifying of Homo
lulu" would be carried out by dig
nified city. water entrance, that would
also serve as the main entrance Il
the pavilion. The Art League is pre-
pared to submit design for this fea
ture of the building which would for
mally dedicate the whole structure
building and arch as Mckinley Me
mortal.
The interior of the building coult
i've divided into stage, floor, dress cir
Gle, etc, as suggested in the accom-
ranying rough sketch. Those famil
lar with the building will recall tina
two rows of pillars divide the entlr'
building into three sections. We rec
ommend that the center section b.
made shorter by placing a stage IL