The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-06

branch Office at the Alakca Slip. whore
visitors on incoming steamers can be
met aud welcomed and at once put
/ Iu touch with the things TO be done
in Hawaii aud the best and most
economical way OF doing them. There
seems to be field OF usefulness In
the establishing at the Public Service
rooms. as soon as the new library "
Hawaii is completed. OF a downtown
branch OF that institution, with some
plan Of book delivery for the city.
The placing of suitable markers at a
hundred or more historical and leg
endary places about Honolulu and the
islands is matter that has already
been taken in hand by your director
Exhibits Of Products
Arrangements are being made
with the producers and manuiactur-
ers OF island products to place on
view in the Public Service windows
exhibitions Of their products
The Civic Federation, through it's
seven standing committees on civic
matters, owing to its large member
ship, is a recognized power for good
i'm many lines. The work on the Lii
uokalani gardens project and the i'm
/ provement and repair of Punchbowl
trail, the plan of planting the water
front with a cocoanut grove, and the
public drinking fountain agitation and
the Improvement in moving picture
4 show entertainment in Honolulu are
few of the many lines of activity Of
this well-established institution that
have been materially forwarded dur
ing the past three months through
| Public Service cooperation
The Hands-Around-the-Pa Club
has already done much to bring about
a better understanding among the
races that live in these islands. It
has entertained here several distin-
guished visitors from other Pacific
lands, is laboring with every evidence
of ultimate success to send a Pan
Pacific train about the United States,
and the establishment of joint trav-
eler and settler bureaus for the Pa
cifc in San Francisco and New York
are among its worthy objects.
The Hundred Thousand Club,
through its president and members,
has done much to bring about the re-
alization of it's IDEAL Mr. Stanton is
now on the mainland in the interest
of settlers excursion to the islands,
and letters of inquiry as to conditions
and opportunities for settlers in Ha-
wall have begun to come to the Pub
lie Service rooms, indicating that the
influence of the united effort of these
organizations has already made itself
felt outside of the islands.
The Trail and Mountain Club has
been most active during the summer
months.
Need Amphitheater.
/ Il 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.
We very much need in the city an
open-air amphitheater on the general
lines Of the one at Berkeley on the
university grounds, though of course
not necessarily so elaborate and OK
pensive. Your director has been
working on plans to provide the city
with this much-needed public conven-
fence. A pergola amphitheater at
kapiolani Park that could accommo-
date two thousand spectators need
not cost to exceed five or six thou
sand dollars to build. If some of our
| generous citizens could be induced,
through your committee, to advance
to the Public Service Association
such sum your director feels conf
dent that when completed certain
large entertainments could be given
which would make it possible in a
short time to repay the sum advanced
for the construction of the pergola
amphitheater."