Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-08-17
CONKLING GIVES
HAWAII A BOOM
Treasurer's Activities for Bond
Issue Attract Favorable
Mention.

moro NaluaDle pUUlltlly lot ifuWult
than almost any other individual inl
the islands just now. Conkling's hus-
Ting work for the st.5Oo.0OO bond is
sue. together with his boosts for IIa-
vail generally, occupy columns of the
mainland press. and this Territory
and its needs and achievements are,
presented to the public in a straight
forward way.
The New York Sun conservative toI
degree. prints column about Conk-
ling and Hawaii in its issue of July
90. The Sun says:
ID. l.. Conkling, Treasurer of the
Territory of Hawaii, Is a boomer; he
wouldn't be all the way over here In
New York selling 4 per cent. Hawaii
an territorial bonds IL he wasn't. But
he Is not one of that kind of real Wes-
tern boomers who tell stories of wat
ermelons used to sprinkle the streets
In Grey Wolf or of alfalfa In Okla
homa that grows so fast II chokes the
cows in the pasture. The Hawaiian
lily needs no painting, according to
Mr.. Conkling's creed.
Yes, Hawaiian territorial per cent.
bonds. that's what brought him here
and any day you may find him at the
Hotel Belmont ready to answer ques-
lions touching upon the value of these
4 per cents. as investments. II you
ask questions about our little sister
of the palms out in the Pacific Mr..
Conkling will answer them without
frills. lie used to. he n newspaper man
in Honolulu before the cable got there
and the papers did not have to wreck
themselves paying telegraph tolls:
therefore he knows the island Of Oahu
and all the rest of the group back
ward and forward.
"The boy has outgrown his old suit
Of clothes and he needs another-bad-
ly," is the explanation Mr.. Conkling
gives for the necessity of the issuing
of these territorial bonds. Were
growing so fast down there in the
islands that we haven't been able to
keep up with ourselves so we're bor-
rowing money on our first class Gre
dit to spend In fixing ourselves up
with some necessities.
There are 81 100000 worth of these
bonds on the market. The entire
public debt of the Territory of Ha-
wall, including these bonds when they
are sold win be only s5,500,000. That's
yghn,, ctr IN N.
slider that the assessments of the Ter
ritory run about sl55,O00,OOO.
"The money that we raise on these
bonds is going right into public i'm
provements. The water and sewer
systems of Honolulu need extension
Within the last two years between
500 and 600 new homes have been
built on the outskirts of Honolulu and
the town is growing away beyond its
original limits. Then there are the
roads in the islands-always good, but
needing extension and repair. Tho
Territorial Legislature has already
appropriated s15O,OOO for the pur'
chase of property within the city OF
Honolulu for the erection of neces
sary buildings for the College of Ha'
wall; we want to put SIS 900 into thost
buildings at the start.
Another necessity down in the isl
| ands is the Improvement of the har'
bor and dock facilities in Honolulu
We anticipate doubling and TRIPPING
| of our trade and of the number o
steamers that will put into our har
| Dor after the Panama Canal Is open
ed. The Federal Government takes
care of our outer harbor but II Is III
to the Territorial Government to max,
| Honolulu harbor capable of accommO
dating all of the increased business
that will surely come our way whel
the big ditch is dug
The Territorial Treasurer said tina
the preponderence of the population
of the islands was still with the ORR
entails; there are about 10000 o
these, as against $4,000 whites. Bu
die Chinese, he said, were shown;
themselves more and more amendabl'
to Americanization. They were wor
thy citizens, good laborers and peace
able residents. One native born Chi
nese, whose name is Tony Ahlo. wa
graduated from Oxford in Englan'
and Is now a member of the highes
court in China.
"The effort of the Territory to brin!
over lot of Russians to do the labo
on the plantations little more THAI
year ago was failure" Mr.. Conk
ling said. "They came from Hardin
In Manchuria, and the Territory pal'
their passage out. When the got Their,
the Russians were not satisfied, qui
their jobs and drifted back to Man
churia or over to San Francisco AM
Portland. Labor is big problem II
Hawaii; we need all the white lab
orers we can get.
THE Japanese in the islands are Of
the decrease. Much that has beel
written about the menace of the Jap
anese from within is twaddle. w,
do not consider them n menace, an,
we should be the best judges of thi
situation. The japanese vote increas