Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-10-07
Will PLAN new
Fed. BUILDING
fiilo Merchants TO Advise Gov
eminent Architects OF
TropiC Conditions.


lIIlo, Oct. -3.--Now that every.
thing har bccE made ready for the
use OF the appropriation for the Fed
erai building, the Board of Trade of
ficers are beginning to get mu h in
tercsted In the plans for this struc-
ture. lIllo was without doubt OK.
ccedingly fortunate in getting the
appropriation at all, and now that IL
has IL. the business men ought to
see to IL that It is expended to the
greatest advantage possible.
The questions OF proper plans is
an important one. This is shown by
the experience of Honolulu. The
plans for the Federal building for
that city showed building without
veiandas, with steam heating appa-
ratus, on the whole a building which
might more properly be erected in
Alaska than In the tropics. The
propagation is now to take steps early
enough in the game to prevent Hilo's
getting a similar prize package.
The Idea was first brought up last
week by Architect M. Kerr of iHo-
noluiu and II. ID. Whitfield of New
York. The latter is the architect
who drew the plans for the Carnegie
Library in Honolulu, and he stated
with regard to that building that,
even though he had some idea of the
conditions here, he had to modify his
original plans considerably after he
became acquainted with the actual
conditions here on first hand. Both
he and Mr.. Kerr advised officers OF
the Board Of Trade that they try to
convey TO the authorities in Wash
ington some idea of what was want
ed here. before 1t was too late.
Secretary Mckay of the Board of
Trade had talk with these gentle.
men, and states that the board will
take the matter up, the idea being
to ask the Delegate to lend his as.
sistance.
II think 1t is an excellent plan
for the Board of Trade to take up
at this time the plan for IIilo's Fed
eral building" said the Delegate.
You don't want building with
steam heat, for instance, and there
are many features which you may
want which might not be included
In the plans unless you asked for
them. 4 ~.
Il shall certainly be glad to give
every assistance I can I'm this mat
ter, but m proposition such as this
the DelagateA does mot cut SO very
much OF figure. The authorities
want to give the community the kind
OLA building II wants, and the best
way IL for the Board OF Trade to
communicate with them direct, al
though they might also address me.
IL will be important for me, when
take up the matter, to show that
have the itizens of Hilo to back me
up.
The proper way to proceed would
be to communicate with the Scare
tary of the Treasury, although. as n
matter of fact, 1t is the first assist
ant secretary who has charge of
these building affairs. 1t might be
well to draft some kind of plan
showing what kind of building you
want Mr.. Taylor, the supervising
architect. has told me that he Is al
ways glad to receive suggestions from
the citizens Of the cities where Fed
eral buildings are to be located, es-
pecially as in many instances they
do npt seem to take any interest In
the natter at all, once they have Sc
cured their appropriation. For in
stance, I mentioned the incident of
the heating apparatus In the
Honolulu building to him, and he
said that It had crept In because all
the Federal buildings were provided
with such. However, such things
cost money, and II they can be cut
out In the first place that money can
be spent on some other feature.
ION the whole I must say that
think II Is an excellent plan for the
citizens of HilO to take this matter
up, and shall do everything In my
power to assist them. But In order
to make It possible to be of any SER
vice. | must be able to show that
the community of Hilo Is behind me
when ! point out what is wanted"
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