The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-08-21
.HUSTACE GIVES
M'CANDLESS ROAST
SUPERVISORS CHAIRMAN MAKING
FIGHT FOR THE NEW oRD1-
NANCE REGARDING AWNINGS.

OIS CHdIleS IluSldCS last ulBuJ gave
excitement to the meeting of the Board
by few warm remarks anent a petit
ton presented through ]. A. McCand-
less, signed by many prominent bust
ness houses, asking that the so-called
awning ordinance be laid on the table.
Now l want this Board to under
stand the meaning of this petition"
said Hustace, land how it came to De
presented. There is only one man be-
hind it, who is fighting the ordinance.
j. A. McCandless, because he will have
to spend $3.50 in putting cutters on his
new building and the firms who signed
this petition did so only to get rid of
McCandless when he went to them to
waste their time and they are, almost
without exception, in favor of the ordi-
nance. I want this Board to do what
is right in the matter and not to allow
the dictation of any one man to pre-
vent it from doing it's duty"
Hustace created something of stir
by these remarks and he continued:
I'VE have had just about enough of
this one man power in the Territorial
and Provisional governments and we
cannot allow it to upset the County
government which is of and for the
people"
Growing more emphatic, the Chair
said: Il want to tell you what Mr..
McCandless said to me. He asked me
what l would do if the ordinance was
passed and the County Attorney refus-
ed to enforce it. I told him that the
first steps in enforcing the ordinance
would lie with the Sheriff. That's
the man l want to see then was his
reply. To intimate that he would stop
the enforcement of a law by seeing
the Sheriff is more than I will stand.
We are here to represent the people,
gentlemen, and the poor shall have
just as much of chance as anybody
else. This ordinance would be welcom-
ed by the merchants for they do not
want to see their customers drenched
on a rainy day because there are no
cutters on their awnings. The matter
must and shall be attended to, for the
condition in which some of the avn
ings in this city are today is a dis.
grace"
Supervisor Cox was absent from the
meeting and for this reason the matter
of the ordinance was put over for a
week.
The petition which excited Hustace
to such an extent was as follows:
"The undersigned, property owners
and taxpayers residing within the
County of Oahu, or, if non-residents,
duly represented, do hereby humbly
pray that the Ordinance or Order
Number 8, and being entitled
Regulating the construction and
maintenance of awnings, shades and
balconies within the fire limits of Ho-
nolulu,' be laid upon the table, or be
not enacted as an Ordinance or Order.
THE reason of this petition for such
action as the case may be, being that
the taxes on property and the income
tax paid are already heavy calls upon
the taxpayers, and the enactment of
this order will cause the outlay of
large sums of money without any re-
turns for such outlays, and without
being made necessary as a sanitary
measure, and is unnecessary, and in
all probability will cause the expendi-
ture of sums of money by Hawaiians
owning property within the fire limits
who can i'll afford to be called upon
for the outlay that the passage of this
order will necessitate.
And your petitions will ever pray:
For The Estate of James Camp
bell, Cecil Brown, Trustee; Cecil
Brown, H. M. Won Holt, Trustee; Bish-
op & Co., E. S. Cunha, Hoffschlaeger
Co., Ltd, per Robert F. LANCE, Sec.
and Treas; Jonathan Shaw, j. M. Dow
sett, G. P. Castle, Henry Waterhouse
Trust Co., Ltd, by Robert Shingle,
president; Bank of Hawaii, Ltd by
C. M. Cooke, president; Jos. NJ Dat,
Bishop Trust Co., Ltd, r. r. Reidford,
manager; Bishop Insurance Agency,
Ltd, Arthur Berg, president; P. e.
Jones, The McCandless Building Co.,
Ltd, by it's president ]. A. McCandless;
G. ]. Campbell, for The Estate of Jas.
Campbell j. o. Carter, Trustee; Cas-
tie & Cooke, Ltd, e. D. Tenney, man.
ager; H. Hackfeld & Co., Ltd, w.
Pfotenhauer vice president; Wilder q
Co., Ltd, S. G. Wilder. president Har-
ry Armitage, James H. Boyd, M. +.
Robinson"
Sheriff Iaukea reported buying two
horses for $575 for the police depart
ment. A letter was received from the
Leah Home trustees asking that the
Board pay for the care of five patients
at the rate of seyenty-five cents a day.
Hawaii and Maui have been paying
seventy-hve cents per day for each pa
tient sent to the Home from those
Counties but tha Counties of Oahu and