The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-11


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floor, explaining the why's and where
fores of the gathering and introducing
the following:
Whereas, Congress has appropriate
ed an amount not to exceed $350,000
for the purchase of additional ground
space for a federal building in Ho-
nolulu, and
Whereas, The additional space de-
sired consists of ground and build
ings adjoining the Mahuka site and
located on the Waikiki side of Fort
betkeen Kink and Merchant streets,
and
Whereas, 1t seems doubtful that
said property can be secured for the
amount of said appropriation, in
which event further action will have
to be taken by congress with the pos
sibility of long delay covering possib-
ly a number of years before a per-
manent and satisfactory site for
federal building can be secured, and
Whereas, Mr.. Rudolph Spreckels,
for the SpTeckels Estate, has offered
the property bounded by Merchant,
Alakea, Queen and the proposed ex-
tension of Bishop street, which pro-
perty is located diagonally across the
street from the Mahuka site, and
which property is in area almost
equal to the area of the Mahuka site
and the additional ground space de-
sired, and
Whereas, Mr.. Rudolph Spreckels
has promised not only to hold the
Spreckels land open and available
for purchase for a federal building
site for such reasonable time as it
may be necessary to definitely deter
mine by awards through condemna-
ton proceedings the value of the adj
joining property bordering on Fort
street, and to allow of further action
by congress, if necessary, provided
the Spreckels site is selected by the
business community as a second
choice, and
Whereas, Mr.. Rudolph Spreckels
has also promised that the Spreckels
site will be available for purchase
for federal building at a price con-
siderably less than the appropriation
of $4,000 for additional space;
Be 1t Resolved, That if the federal
government can not acquire the ad-
ditional land now sought and erect
thereon a suitable federal building
within reasonable length of time, it
is the sense of this meeting, that the
property known as the Spreckels site,
being the block bounded by Mer-
chant, Alakea, Queen and the pro-
posed extension of Bishop streets, be
hereby considered as the next best
available location for federal build
ing.
Be 1t Further Resolved, That the
United States Government be imme-
diately notified through the secretary
of the treasury of the action taken at
this meeting, being a joint meeting
of the Honolulu Chamber of Com
merce and the Merchants Association
of Honolulu.
w. A. McInerny seconded and
Cecil Brown supported the resolu-
tons
Mr.. Single offered an amendment
making the whole block including the
Mahuka site the first choice and Ma
huka site proper the second, not men
tioning any other sites. Cecil Brown
caan1o6 tO bovo cbongad hio mind a
little and also endorsed this proposal
Seeing that the bars were about to
be let down, G. j. Falk also had 60,
600 square feet of property to offer
pretty cheap, it being the Union Feed
Company's block away down between
Queen, Edinburgh, Halewauila and
Alakea streets. 1t was bigger than
the Spreckels lot and would cost less.
]. A. McCandless asked If the
Spreckels proposals included the old
telephone Office lot, and was inform
ed that it did not. The speaker con
sidered that to be a snag. Ed. Paris
said that while the proposal did not
include the telephone building, Spree
kels had promised to deal with H. e.
Hendr!ck in such a way that that lot
would be added to the property.
James Steiner made plea for the
people who had plunged up for the
extension of Bishop street, these
large sums being subscribed on cou-
dition that the Federal building go
on the Mahuka site.
r. w Single stated that he (Shin-
gle) had personally solicited and col
lected between $1,000 and $4,000
from the business men of Honolulu
for the extension of Bishop street
with the understanding that the pub
lie building would go on the Mahuka
site. For this reason, if no other, he
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