The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-02
NJ K|NLEY
MEMORIAL
The Association Turns
Down the Zoo Site
Proposal.

At meeting of the Mckinley Memo,
rial Association yesterday afternoon
the proposal of buying the Zoo prop,
erty for a children's park was rejected.
II was shown that the Association
owns revenue-yielding tract OF LAND
for which it paid $4,000 and a fund OF
$500 in bank. part drawing AZ and
part per cent interest. Discussion
land was anything but an elephant
lit was q park site capable OF high
development and convenient to town.
The meeting was held in the board
room of the Bank of Hawaii. There
were present Judge Sanford b. Dole.
president; Charles NJ Cooke. treasurer;
John G. Rothwell. secretary: Rev. w.
d. westervelt, F. A. Schaefer and John
A. McCandless. T. c. Davies, the re-
naming member. was absent on Ha-
wall
Mr.. Cooke submitted his account az
treasurer. showing that the fund hao
increased from $726s9O on Oct. .. 1903,
to J623.54 on Jan. 1, 1907. OF the IN.
crease $10S4.64 was derived from inter.
est and $270 from rent and sale of fire,
wood. The major part of the fund il
in certificate of deposit and the rest
in savings pass books. There was a
little talk about investing the fund in
securities bearing higher interest, but
it was concluded better to hold II for
the present in it's more readily avaii.
able state for expending.
President Dole stated that the main
purpose of the meeting was to con,
slider a proposal for the purchase OF
the Zoo property, to be auctioned to-
day, for the purposes of a children's
park as a memorial to President Me-
Kinley. He submitted the letter on
the subject from DIR. w. G.. Rogers.
chairman of special committee on
the waialae. Kaimkui and Palolo I'm
provement Clubs. DR.. Rogers and W.
NJ Minton were present and invited to
represent the proposal.
DIR. Rogers had little to add to his
letter. The club would take an inter.
est in the upkeep of the park II es-
tablished. He suggested that prison
labor could be had to tend it like the
other parks.
Mr.. Minton spoke at some length,
showing a diagram. A. p. Gear had
told him he would not let the land and
buildings go for less than $500. which
the figures showed was $4,000 for the
land, comprising 10 lots. Then the
speaker was authorized by L. Tenney
Peck for the Rapid Transit Co. to offer
an exchange OF certain graded and
curbed lots owned by Minton for the
land owned by the Association oppo-
site the baseball grounds. Other lots
specified could also be acquired for rg- |
ures stated. All OF these parcels of
and were offered for addition to the
Zoo grounds, making the proposed |
Kaimuki park site nearly six acres IN |
'or the Associations fourteen acres was
two and two-thirds acres. Mr.. Min
-on said they could not get $1,000 today |
'or the land they bought for $4,000. Mr..
Cooke disagreed with him there.
Mr.. Schaefer proposed that the com.
nittee and all interested pay a visfs
% the locality before any action was
AIKEN, and Mr.. Minton said that Mr..
Gear would postpone the sale for one
week to give time for Investigation.
Before we do that" Mr.. Cooke said.
I wish to see what we think OF buying
hat particular land. We already have
lot which We can lay out for a park
,etter than the land up there. 1 do not
hink it is appropriate for the McKin.
ey Park Association to have a place
o sell cakes. etc" (This was in ref
renee to an argument by Mr.. Minton
hat a revenue for maintenance coulc
e derived from such traf1c.)
Mr.. Cooke. continuing. said they
vanted a place near town. II they
ould not improve the ground they had,
ee If they could sell il and erect n
ronze statue.
Mr.. Schaefer thought they could not
ndertake the care Of a park.
Mr.. Cooke. on this point. said they
ad failed thus far to get the authors
es to promise anything for mainte-
ance of the park. They could not
ndertake to hold II as a perpetual
rust.
The president said IL the Kaimuk'
roperty was bought there would be Q
My s21O0 left in the fund. I
Mr.. Cooke did not believe in having Z
he sale postponed and Mr.. Schaefer {
lid he had only proposed 1t so as TO {
ave a full investigation. The presi- :
ent thought it might he in the public 4
terest to take time to look into {
lings. Mr.. Westervelt wanted o
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