The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-14
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Merchant, King and Bethel streets. 1t
was bounded by four streets and was
as desirable a block for a government
building as could be found anywhere
Taylor remarked that only two
streets We're necessary for boundary.
Gear said that the block was in the
center of the wholesale and retail bust
ness district and pointed out that there
We're no expensive buildings in the
block
c. J. Hutchins said that the present
location of the postoffice, custom house
and Judiciary building had been fixed
upon with regard to convenience and
utility, If combined in one building
the nearer the business center of the
city it was located, the better it would
be. The most central point in his opin-
ion was on Queen street between Fort
and Alakea streets. If a site there
abouts were selected it would not ne
cessitate the moving of the postoffice
or the Judiciary any great distance.
and the custom house would only have
TO be shifted a block. The Union Feed
Co.'S block was a point as near the other
three points as it was possible to get.
Judge Dole said that he was interest
justice of the Federal court. He pre-
ferred that the site should be located
on the Waikiki side of Fort street.
Business followed the development of
the harbor and Anglo-Saxon business
was extending on the Waikiki side of
Fort street. The Bishop site was salts
factory. Personally he preferred the
gore in Palace square. A Federal
building facing the square and the
other public buildings would be in as
fine a situation as could be desired.
L. A. Thurston said that before Mr..
Eustis made his report he had favored
the gore in Palace square as a site.
Since then Park Expert Robinson had
visited Honolulu and in the interests of
civic Identification recommended the
grouping of public buildings about Pal
ace square The only drawback to the
0ueEdl size IOGdleu
the square was the distance from the
present postoffice.
L. Tenney Peck was of the opinion
that if Bishop street were extended to
Allen street and the Federal building
placed on the makai side of King street,
diagonally across from the Young hotel,
nothing better could be wished for.
The building would front on three
streets and would be in an airline with
the hotel, Stangenwald building and
Hackfelds ablishment, three of the
finest structures in Honolulu. The site
would be half way between the present
Federal building and the postoffice and
Immediately accessible to the harbor.
Alexander Young believed that the
best sites yet suggested were that men,
toned by Mr.. Peck and the lot in front
of the hotel. He hadn't come to talk
but had stated his honest opinion. He
wasn't interested in any one of the pro-
posed sites. He thought that the ma
kai side of King street would be found
to be very dusty.
]. A. McCandless said a good word
for the block bounded by King, Mer-
chant, Nuuanu and Bethel streets. Over
two-thirds of the shipping in the har-
Dor, he said, went west of Nuuanu
street, besides, Captain Slattery had
as good as said that future extension
of the harbor would have to be between
Quarantine island ar Iwilei. The site
he favored was at the meeting place of
the two civilizations A postofice To-
Gated there would be as convenient to
ninety per cent of the people as could
possibly be. He didn't think that any
other site could be compared with the
one he had mentioned. The govern
ment would have the entire block to
themselves.
A Hooking favored the gore from the
standpoint of Identification and archi-
tectural effect. If a central location
was all that was desired, McCandless'
suggestion was as good as any.
Mr.. Taylor asked who represented the
ng-Merchant-N uuanu-Bethel streets
block
r. c. A. Peterson said that it hadn't
yet been offered for sale.
Mr.. Taylor remarked that the price,
he understood, would largely exceed
the amount of the appropriation, I'M
less condemnatory proceedings were
instituted.
S. NJ. Damon based his suggestion
on where the greatest number of peo-
pie moved from day to day. Fort and
King streets formed the vortex of the
crowd. The postoffice and federal
building should be as near this point
as possible; which was and had ever
been the center of the town. In his
opinion the site selected should be
within a block of the junction of King
and Fort streets.
Mr. Taylor said that there was no
doubt that the junction of Fort and
King streets, Halls corner, was the
center of town. It would be wise to
accommodate all interests and get a
location as reasonably near the center
of town as might be. All the sites
were convenient to the bust
ness center of the city, it was a ques-
ton of choosing the best. Wherever
the building might be, the public
wouldn't have to go a great way TO
get to it; that was one good thing.
F. s. Dodge said the lot opposite the
Young hotel was accessible to all the
city car lines. was convenient TO the
wharves and on account of the wind
and dust across the road it would sure
" be better to select a site on the maui
H. e;5o IF KING street than on the ma