The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-10-17
SUIT TO EXTEND
MAHUEA SITE PAU
District Attorney Gets Order to
End Proceedings Until Con-
uross Can ACT.

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District Attorney Brcckons has 70
eeived orders from Washington not TO
proceed further at this tine with tho
Condemnation proceedings TO extend
tho Mahuka site for tho federal build.
ing, this information confirming the
word from Washington published last
week by The Advertiser.
This moans that the courts will not
! be asked to net, at least until next
year, II at all.
Secretary MaeVeagh, Of the treas
ury department at Washington, has
complied with the wishes Of the peh-
TONERS for the building of the proposed
federal building at the civic center Of
Honolulu, and win permit the question
to rest until congress has had chance
to take the matter up at its next ses.
sion.
This is distinct victory for the
petitioners who are in favor of the IT.
win site, and committee of prominent
men. who have the best interests of
Honolulu at heart will be organized
this week, or soon after, for the pur-
pose of placing before the congressional
committee having such matters in
charge the details of the situation and
the arguments in favor of the Irwin
site for the federal building
VIII Get Figures.
w. G. Irwin, owner of the site de.
sired opposite the Capitol, is now in
San Francisco, but it is expected that
he will return to Honolulu on the Pacific
Mail S. s. Mongolia, when conference
will be held with him by the committee
in charge and final figures win be
secured on the property, including the
ground upon which the opera house now
stands, and an option asked for.
With all the necessary data ready to
be embodied in a properly drawn brief
for congress to consider, it is believed
that the plan for the federal building
ON this larger and ideal site win pre-
vail with congress over that for the
Mahuka site, with its cramped position
its threatened lawsuit and the inevita.
Bile delays which will follow.
The committee, it is expected, will
gressional committee when the matter
comes up and all interested in the
movement are sanguine that the civic
center idea win appeal strongly to the
impartial congressman who will have
the final decision in the case.
! Judge Dole Surprised.
A. l.. G. Atkinson, who has had
charge of the petition, now in Wash
ington, has seen a letter from Judge
Dole in regard to his expected trial of
the condemnation suit of the property
on the Waikiki side of Fort street, be
tween King and Merchant streets, to
extend the Mahuka site.
The letter is largely a personal one,
but in it he expresses some surprise
that he has not been ordered before
this to return to Honolulu for the pur.
pose of trying this suit. To eliminate
any objection to his being able proper.
ly to sit in the case it is understood
that Mrs. Dole has been ree,ly to sell
her stock in the E. o. Hall Company
Ltd. But under the present arrange
ment it is hardly probably that she will
be forced to do this for that reason.
Mr.. Atkinson is much pleased at the
order which has been received by
United States District Attorney
Breckons, regarding the abatement Of
the condemnation suit, indicating that
the Mahuka site is pau, at least tenn
porarily, as the place for the new fed
eral building, in the estimation of the
treasury department officials.
Meanwhile what has become of the
Mahuka site petition, which was gotten
/ out by the opposition under contract
Whether it has been forwarded to
Washington or not is not known, as
far as an authoritative announcement
is concerned.