The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-08-23
HONOLULU TO HAVE
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efforts in the making of a greater and
more beautiful Honolulu.
CAS- real estate men, we have in our
hands the city's welfare. We obtain
from our clients the privilege of sell
ing, exchanging and leasing property.
and by the class of people to whom we
sell, or by the class of buildings that
we encourage built, it is in our power
to either destroy or build up values.
We can tear down one district and
build up another. We can better our
class of citizenship, or make it worse.
We can make Honolulu an overgrown
village, or make it one of the most
beautiful and attractive cities in the
world Now, what shall we do? Shall
we get together and bring about better
conditions, or shall we continue Sc
parately as we are now doing, without
system or any purpose other than our
commission fees? This is a matter
that I hope all of you will give proper
consideration tonight
at is my opinion that no city in
the United States today needs the sup
port and protection of a realty board
more than Honolulu Our mixed popu-
lation causing various kinds of inn
provements all over our city, is prob
lem that we should take up immedia-
tely. If we organize a realty board,
and do nothing more than put a stop
to the building of dirty shacks around
our beautiful homes, we will do more
good than any other organization in
the city.
'In this connection, want to say
that real estate man who sells lot
to an undesirable person for the pur-
pose of building $50 shack alongside
of beautiful $4,000 home, is not do
ing the right thing by himself or the
city in which he lives. He is not do
ing the right thing by himself for the
reason that when the time comes for
the handling of that $4,000 home, the
shack that he encouraged to be built
for the sake of a few dollars commits
sion, will affect his prospects for a
$4,000 sale, and he is therefore the
loser. 1t is the duty of all real estate
men to protect and uphold values, to
keep the different districts and classes
of people separated as much as pos
sible and not let the undesirable class
To- do al
fortunately it seems that very little
protection has been given our best re-
sidential property. 1t is no uncom-
mon thing to find many of our beau
tiful homes surrounded by shacks that
would not look well on the outskirts
of an interior village in China. These
shack buildings, with their undesirable
occupants, cannot help but stop the
future increase of our American popu-
lation. Hundreds and thousands Of
pople from all over the world, who
come here every year, Immediately get
enthused over our city, and want to
buy property; but just as soon as they
make an investigation, and find that
they will have absolutely no protection
| from an undesirable neighborhOOd,
they change their minds. 1t is like
this: The man who buys a summer or
winter home wants to feel sure that
when he leaves to return the follow.
ing year, that he will not find his
house surrounded with dirty shacks.
mot very long ago had the pleas
ty to very prominent real estate man
of Portland, Oregon, and when | point
ed out a beautiful home for sale on
Nuuanu avenue he observed the neigh
borhood and said: 4 find no objection
to the property and improvements.
They are beautiful and the price is
reasonable. The climate is ideal, and
/ would like to live here, but do not
like the neighborhood. l expect to
| live here only few months of every
| year, and during that time | do not
care to have my children mingling
with those of Japanese laborers or
playing around a Chinese laundry To-
Gated in front of my lawn and under
the very shade of my palm trees
could not reply to this argument with
the fact staring me in the face, so
simply diverted his attention to unim-
proved property in the Ocean View
Tract at Kaimuh. l mention this as
only one of many instances in order to
show you where the real estate bust
ness of Honolulu is drifting. Unless
we get together and resolve to put a
stop to these shacks and other unde-
sirable buildings obstructing the beauty
and comfort of our homes, we will new
er be able to bring Honolulu to the
high standard of an American city.
81 am very optimistic about Homo
lulu's future, and sincerely believe
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