The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-01
LET THE Old
F|SHMARkET co
Bert Peterson Thinks 1t Would
Be Bad to Antag0nize
Hartman.

| Editor Advertiser: Anent the dis
cussion of pros and cons of the Fish
market site, let US calmly consider the
situation. Who knows Hartman
knows his prediction to the Wander
ibilt idea-in other words. 1.-THE pub
llic," etc. Honolulu has a hshmarket
building, or structure. call it what you
please, that is not kept busy, it has
never worked overtime since it was
erected, and as far as am able to
learn through the public prints, it is
for the crapster. We are in need of
additional shipping facilities, more es-
pecially passenger steamers, and we
are doing our utmost to get better
service. The Promotion Committee and
the more progressive business men are
especially active in this respect. With
one exception, the Pacific Mail Com
pany runs four of the largest steamers
between America and the Orient.
That company, through its attorney,
has applied for two acres of ground
near the waterfront, for which it is
willing to pay 100000. The deal is OPP
posed by certain element in the COM
munity on the ground that the prop>
erty should be retained and incorpor-
ated in the park project advanced by
Mr.. milford Robinson. Another ele-
ment believes that the government
should hold all waterfront property.
Still another element objects for the
reason that the place may be turned
into coal shed.
whole city is a beautiful park, and ever
will remain so-but, unfortunately,
there are some shacks on prop
erty in the vicinity of the
Fishmarket, and they belong to
private individuals, that will always
be an eyesore and make the approach
to the park, which is the city, rather
unpleasant. With the gateway sug-
gested by Mr.. Robinson, these insight
that the beauty would be even more
marred than by the erection of any,
thing SO bad as a coal shed. And
these same conditions are maintained
for several minutes ride after you
leave the waterfront. $50
1t is folly to speak of the F'ishmar,
ket structure as being on waterfront
property when it is a good hundred |
feet away from the front. If the prop
erty is sold to the Pacific Mail or any
other corporation, the frontage on the |
bay would not be decreased an iota.. /
The argument which points with fear
to the establishment of a coal yard |
is weak indeed. Surely the coal on a |
Pacific Mail property would not appear
any blacker in the eye of the tourist |
than that of Uncle Sam only short
distance away. / have never heard
any serious complaints about that
shed, perhaps because it is the clean
est property in the immediate local |
lty, excepting none. But If the vision |
of a coal pile looming up before the
eyes of the Observation-Disclosures joltsl
them ingloriously, let the sale be con-
ditional upon the purchasers planting
lronwood or other ornamental trees. |
something that viii not spread too
much, along the outer boundary of
the block. This would surely shut
from view the alleged gloomy aspect
of pile of coal and might appease
the wrath of those who lend greater |
aid to the establishment of certain |
parts of the city than to progress and |
To make it still more to
the liking of those individuals, it |
might be nominated in the bond that |
Post No Bills signs shall be placed |
on the fence.
The Pacific Mail Company. while
benefiting itself. has helped to bring
and keep Honolulu, before |
the public. One hundred thousand dol |
lars per annum is the appropriation |
used by the company for advertising |