The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-09-08
URGES 4 PUBLIC
SERVICE BBILDING
Director Bryan Reports on Good
Work Of Public Service
Association.
tIrom Thursdays Advertiser J

Territorial and municipal aid IN rec.
commended by W. A. Bryan, director
Of the Pnblic Service Association, for
the erection Of centrally located
"Public Service Building" to house all
the commercial, mercantile, iuforma-
ton, civic aud philanthropic and similar
organizations of Honolulu, and this rec.
ommondation is made directly to Gov.
ornOr Walter +. Frear, chairman Of the
board Of control of the association, in
report presented yesterday.
Director Bryan believes the name
scope and purpose of the association is
an adequate basis on which to perfect
such beneficial cooperation among
those citizens, who, through one organ.
iEation or another are laboring for the
welfare of Honolulu and the advance
ment Of the Islands.
The report states that the associa'
ton plans to open an Office in tho Ala
kea wharf where visitors on incoming
ships can be met and welcomed and
at once be put in touch with the things
TO be done in Hawaii and the best aad
most economical way of doing them
The director also reports that tbs
placing of suitable markers at hun
bred or more historical legendary place:
about HonolIll and the Islands is 9
matter that has already been taken in
hand nv thu assOCintlOu
The director calls attention to the
number of organizations using the
rooms at present, The stimulus gain
ed from having headquarters has SC
regenerated the clubs of the city that
in many cases they have been stimn'
lated to new endeavor. The civic fed
GRAFTON, he says, is power in the
community. The Hands'Around-the'
Paeifc Club has already done much to
bring better understanding among
the races that live in the Islands. The
Hundred Thousand Club has done mach
to bring about realization of Its
ideal-a 100000 population for Homo.
lulu by 1915. The Trail and Mountain
Club has beea most active during the
summer months and an elaborate map
has been made of the trails about Ho'
nolulu. The use by the public of the
trails now bailt fally justifes the trif,
ling appropriation that is necessary to
open up the beauties Of our mountains
to residents and tourists ankle.
81 cannot conclude this general re-
port without bringing to your atten
ton the deplorable lack of a suitable
place in Honolulu in which to hold
large public or semi-public gatherings
writes Mr.. Bryan. awe very mucl
need in the city an open air amphi
| theater on the general lines of the ont
at Berkeley on the university groands
though of course not necessarily Sc
elaborate and expensive. Your direc
tor has been working on plans to pro
vide the city with this much needed
public convenience. A pergola amphi
theater at Kapiolani Park that could
accommodate two thousand spectators
need not cost to exceed five or sl
thousand dollars to build. If some Of
our generous citizens could be induced
through your committee to advance Il
the Is1blie Service Association such
l.mm your director feels confident thai
/ when completed certain large entertain
ments could be given which woul'
make it possible in short time to re
nav the sum advanced for the constrnc
/ ton of the pergola amphitheater.
| The board of control of the PIblll
Service Association, as now organized
has as members: Governor Frear
chairman; W. A. Bryan, secretary an'
director; w. r. Castle, treasurer
Arthur G.. Smith, president; j. W. Gil
more. J. p. Cooke, G. A. Stanton, Il. II
Ford, l.. A. Thurston, j. A. Wilder an'
A. H. Dondero.