Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-08-04
HILO HELPED
j. 5. BUILDING
Business Men All Pulled
Together for Needed
$4,000

shortest possible order. II will not
be the fault of the business men OF
this city, who inside of few days
by initiative and energy have done
what was ne essary to make avail
able the appropriation OF 100000
recently made by Congress. The &C
ton of IIilo is in marked contrast
to that of Honolulu. as the commu.
nifty here has in a few days, through
unanimity. accomplished that which
the Honolulu people have been pre-
vented from doing through squabbles
and wire pulling.
When the matter of the appropri.
alton for the building was brought
up at the meeting OF the Board OF
Trade recently, It was pointed out
that the 5000. 900 could not be spent
before two obstacles had been re.
moved. One of these consisted In
the securing of the Federal site free
from all encumbrances, and the Other
provided for the building Of road
from Waianuenue street to the river,
beginning about where Firemen's
Hall now stands
A committee was appointed to at.
tend to this matter. and this COM
mittee has certainly not let the grass
grow under its feet.
The first step was to ascertain how
the site could be turned over free
from all encumbrances. Here the
trouble lay in the fact that Mr.. Lu.
Their Severance owned lease of the
mauka part of the lot. and on this
land there are several buildings
standing. The committee had con
ference with Mr. Severance, the re-
suit of which was that he agreed to
surrender his lease on the payment
of $4,000, which figure Is considered
very reasonable.
Chairman James Lewis of the
Board OF Supervisors was asked
whether the county would agree to
build the street mentioned, hut Lewis
said that he could make no prom
ises, the lack of funds from which
the county Is an acute sufferer being
the reason. Lewis intimated, how
ever, that II the merchants would pay
for the Severance lease. the county
might be induced to follow such an
example of generosity.
Last Friday, Chairman Richards Of
the Board of Trade went to Honolulu
to confer with Superintendent of
Public Works Marston Campbell
! about the matter. That his mission
was successful is shown by the fol.
lowing wireless received from Rich.
ards last Saturday afternoon:
Tribune, Hilo.
Can have buildings and rentals.
Balance local. Everything satisfac.
tory. RICHARDS"
The first sentence of the message
refers to the plan of the committee
to secure funds through the sale OF
the buildings now standing on the
land leased by Severance, and by Sc
curing the rentals paid by the ten
ants of these buildings until such Il
time when the buildings will have
4 to be removed. II is estimated that
II VIII take at least year before
the plans for the new building have
been completed and approved and be
fore the actual building operation
Will begin. and as the rentals re.
ferred to amount to about $500 a
year, they, together with the money
u .! u u u q u u .. .; .! .; 8; .: .. ., .,
ten japanese and seven Porto Rlcans
in two different places.
Kalua, the Hawaiian who was TAX
en- TO face Judge Matthewman at Ko
hala on a charge OF contempt Of
court, escaped with reprimand
County Attorney Beers pointed out
that the man had already received
considerable punishment, having beer
held In jail for two months waiting
for hearing.
Manuel Moniz, young Portuguese
was last week committed to the Cir
cult Court by Judge Swain on 8
charge of attempted rape on a Jap
anese woman. The crime is alleged
to have taken place below the Hack
field lumber yard where the young
fellow was employed. ,
A demurrer has beer filed In tn,
suit of Manuel Vieira against his step
mother Maria vieira, for the annul
ment OF a deed, on the grounds thai
there is no equity in the bill, ant
also because the bill Is uncertain IL
that IL does not set forth who are
die heirs OF the! property Of the lat,
Joao Vieira, the father of the com
plainant and the maker of the deco
which II is sought to have set aside
Rex Hitchcock. formerly of Hill,
but now a resident OF Molokai, VISITED
Hilo last week to see his relatives
He was accompanied by his oldes
son
News has been received here O
the death on July 4th, at Dayton
Ohio, OF Brother lgnacus. who was
one OF the first two teachers of st
Mary's School and who lived in HilC
for many years, leaving some twelve
years ago. He was the first instruc