The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-09-13
CIVIC PRIDE AND
COOPERATION
These Are Needed to Make a
City, Says Lyman Before
Commercial Club \
tFrom satprday,s Advertlper.l )

(From Saturdays Advertiser.)
Civic pride, cooperation of citizens
clubs and Capitalization of effort for
public welfare, were the principal ele
ments Of an able address before the
Commercial Club at noon yesterday by
David B. Lyman, leading attorney of
Chicago for the past forty years, but
born at Hilo. The address was digni.
fed and contained many features which
point to necessity for action along civic
lines in Honolulu.
The speaker has a dry humor which
pervaded his address which was repete
with homely tales for illustrative pur-
poses. Forcibly he called attention to
the need of action of making the vol
cano of Kilauea and the drive leading
to it from Hilo a national reservation,
saying that this was the age for public
parks and public reservations through,
out the American republic. His ad.
dress was also filed with tributes to
| the Hawaiians who left estates of hered
itary ownership for charitable and
educational purposes, and dwelt upon
the example so set as being capable of
duplication by other moneyed residents
of Hawaii.
Mr.. Lyman was a guest at the table
Of President f. H. Paris, at which we're
also guests United States Judge Rob
ertson, Doctor Emerson, Attorneys Oh
son, Stanley and F. Z. Thompson. Mr..
Lyman, in opening, said he realized
more and more the power of commercial
clubs and other kindred organizations.
This is an age of Capitalization. Men
were busy nowadays and it was neces'
sary to centralize efforts for all to
-, do each his share in the common work
Every growing city has commercial
clubs and wherever they are those cities
are always clean. He referred to the
progressive commercial club of Chicago
which was one of the most active or
) CARNATIONS and helps TO create civic
pride and to raise public issues above
sectional and faetional struggles.
Honolulu needed a commercial club
The city was in the formative period
and the world is beginning to realize
that Hawaii is in the midst of one OF
the most active sections on the globe
He always felt proud to have been borr
III tilt oHldlltSl hluSlNlll III bhC MNllNs
4 AS to his own city of Chicago he haG
seen the city grow from 10000 t.
100000 population. They had haC
e most terrific civic problems, and it ha!
n all developed good, strong law-abidin(
0 citizens who dropped personal matters
with organizations which tackled al
y live questions. studying them all tn,
/ time, getting in touch with the politica
:, parties and always winning out. Their
5 was the great fire which brought then
all together. Then followed the riot
g when the streets were held by mobs
n which brought law-abiding citizens t
a the front and reesta blished order.
"a Then came the question of parks
e when the world laughed because Chi
n cago was only a city or plains, withou
II a hill or a precipice. The Chicago rive
ran "I don't know how many miles
week, and gave forth a horrible odoI
:. The stockyards were horrible smelling
places. These things the citizens OF
ganized against and tackled, and nov
Chicago has one of the finest system
of parks and drives in the world; tn
: stockyards are clean and sanitary, TIL
- Chicago river is drained and where be
! fore man falling from bridge woul
>. hardly sink in it. the river is now blu
u water and they fish in it. All this ha
g been brought about by the development
" of civic pride.
le Mr.. Lyman said he had read the He
u nolulu papers and found them progre'
$ sive, and among them he found ole
TO timers which he knew in his boyhoO
ld days-The Advertiser and the Friend
H. He rather humorously commented o
the advances of the city, and especial
Of in the matter of clothing, which he sal
lr might be responsible for the cOmmen
p of some that it was sometimes war;
e. here. In his day clothing was scan
lie and everybody was comfortable. TheT
RS are too many clothes today and peopl
re are not so comfortable.
IL He reioiced to see so many charitabl
le institution and as to these he said thG
B. when men were selected for committee
ce the busiest men were the most depend
ut able as they put their hearts into tn
OF work ard were better Mt organizin!
&C. The Hawaiians who became owners {
n great estates through hereditary d
scent, had erected splendid monument
i'll to their memory in public institution
ar- they left behind, particularly Lunali
lst Home, Queen s Hospital and the X
I'm mehameha Schools.
it He spoke of the former glory of Hill
en- where cocoauuts were in groves an
lined the beach, but all had disappearC
- and even romantic Cocoanut Island WI
deprived of its beauty. He believe
these should become public reservation
and re-cOcoanuted. The volcaI
should also become a reservation, sue
as the Yellowstone and Yosemite park
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