The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-08
TALES FROM THE ARCHIVES
Defending Honolulu
D. [. Mackaye

be occupied in any other way then 1t
Is at present Il order that it may be
available.
The spur from Punchbowl Hill i'm
med.a1eIy east Of the present British
. consulate i a good site for land fort.
1t commands two approaches to the
town and by reserying a broad road of
loo wards width straight from it to
Salt Pan Point, ii would assist in the
defense OF the harbOr and an enemy
IN order to take it would be obliged to
find artillery on PunchbowI Hill | re
commend that about twenty acres be
reserved on this spur below the steep
slope of the hill. being at level of
. about 40 feet above the sea
Civil Buildings.
The above are the reserves l recon-
mend for military purposes but as it
appears there are several public build
ings Tor civil purposes required IN Ho
noluIu / think they might be arranged
so as TO form part of the military de-
Tense above proposed. [ think the civil
public buildings of the town should al
ways be SO situated and 50 planned as
10 be capable of resisting an attack
by musketrv. The want of such pro
ing popular riots and it appears to me
that such provision is peculiarly de-
Srable in town like Honolulu where
a native Government has to control a
large and irregular foreign population.
| is in fact the only kind Of defense
work required in the Sandwich Islands
at present and in the early stage Of the
town very easily provided for. The
principal public buildings at present re
quired appear to be LIST, a goal. End,
magazines for arms and ammunition,
Bird, barracks for soldiers, 4th, police
officers. The following plan would
make these buildings defensible in
themselves against the sudden assault
and also form part of the military de-
tense of the place.
Goal, Magazines, Barracks
l, ,, 8, The Goal, Magazines aud
Soldiers Barracks | recommand to be
placed together on the site above men
toned OH the spur Of Punchbowl. 1t
is an advantage to have these three
buildings a little separated from the
town. There is space for all three on
that site and they will of themselves
form land fort proposed for that
position ana q place of security for the
Kings magazines and arms, ammunition
and money. They should be placed so
as to form a line Of buildings facing
Punchbowl Hill. thereby covering the |
ground in front from the fire of
musketry from the top of it. The ex-
IRENE building should project SO as to
flank the others. A deep ditch should |
be dug around them and thee bottom
of 1t planted with cactus or some |
prickly plant which would form de |
Tense in itself
Police Offices.
4th. There viii probably be two !
police offices required in Honolulu. one |
for native and one for foreigners. / |
recommend the native police office to
be placed in the center Of the square |
TO be reserved in the middle of the
town which should contain about two
acres and the foreign police office to
be placed in the reserve to be made for
the sea battery Each of these police
offices should should contain barracks
for the policemen, rooms for the court
and lock up rooms for the confinement
OF prisoners during short periods and
each building should be planned so as
to flank itself.
The broad road proposed to be re>erv-
ed from the goal to Salt Pan Point Will
include the space between the King S
palace and the native church ana would
serve rs boulevard for the inhabitants
Of the town. .
When the wharf along the coral reef
is to he made the Terra PuggoIana
which aboonds m Tahiti will be found
useful IS a cement.
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