Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-18
Mr.. WOLTERS ON
union Street
He Points to Sudden Action
When Brewer Estate u
Bought Property.

Mr.. VOTERS who has property
fronting on Fort, running through to-
Union street takes n very different
view of the bill presented to the Leg
islature for the relocation of Union
street than Is presented by Hon.
George x. Carter in his letter pub
lishcd this morning.
"ln the first place" says Mr.. VOL
tiers, the discovery Of the plan of the
Government to widen Hotel street was
not the discovery Of anything very
now. A bill to widen the street went
through the Legislature some years
ago and ] suppose the money was
not available. Under any circumstan-
ccs. If Hotel street Is to he widened
II should be made good width and
not two or three feet that would he
very expensive ana not accomplish
anything materially for the benefit of
that section. .
81 am not so sure about the Charles
Brewer Estate Ltd. starting on its
building operations. I expect to build
myself When they start | shall start
and have kept pretty close watch.
81 don't see why the peoplc or Off
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land for street purposes should go
only to that one corporation in con-
nectlon with the matter. MIR. Carter
says the estate, was approached, !
am property holder IN that section.
heard nothing OF the matter and IL
public land in that section Is To be
sold .or exchanged why should 1t not
be put up at auction or something
like that 50 that all those possibly in
tcrestcd might make a bid and the
public profit thereby. | can tell You
one thing. If | had known that there
was any possible prospect Of any Of
this land being available should
have been bidder for the Bruce
Cartwright property. Mr.. Cartwright
has told me that he has tried repeat
eddy TO get some action or considcra-
ton from the Government with view
to squaring up his property. not on
such an elaborate scale rs Is now pro-
posed but to correct small jog on
the Union street frontage. lie goi
no action. The Charles Brewer lGs-
tate buys the property and immedi-
ately the Government gets busy.
81 dent say who Is pressing the bill
now before the House but | do know
that the bill is misleading The Sen
ators had the impression that they
were voting for street Improvement
| but they row see that they are vot-
| ing 80 make an alley of varying widths
In the heart OF the business section.
II can assure you of one thing. II
| the plan of this relocation Is puI
| through. Union street will never b,
closed NJ as Is suggested by Mr.. Car
ter. The Brewer Estate builds.
shall build am sure IL would theT
cost too much To close Union stree
ana open Bishop street through q
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II can't understand why the Gov
ernment officers should have so sud
denly seen the light in connection
with this Union street business thai
has been hanging on for years. and a
the same time stop work on the ex
| tension of Bishop street that was sup
! posed to be one of the settled policie.
! for the bCttcrment of the business
section of Honolulu.
IL Of course can't say who origin
ated the Union street relocation bill
but am sure 1t has now been before
the public long enough for most ev
cryone to learn that II is great mis-
take and should not be approved b!
the Legislature"