Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-17
THINKS UNION WILL.
FORCE BISHOP STREET

Editor Evening Bulletin: go ! think
your criticisms on the Superintendent
of Public Works in an editorial last
, Friday in re the relocation of Union
| street are unjust. There is nothing in
the proposed act to stop the extension
of Bishop street through to Beretania.
! Surely there can be nothing secret"
or undetermined in the action of the
Superintendent of Public Works in try.
ing to get O bill through the Legisla-
ture. Are not all bills printed printed
In the newspaper Offices? IL not the
nature Of every bill introduced in the
Legislature open to the public--that
Is, If 1t cares to look into the proposed
act? In the nature of things, how
could 1t be "sumshoc" method?
Now. II is well understood by the
public that the Brewer Estate has ac.
( CURED the property where the Palm
Cafe stands, and the adjoining proper
! ty, to the east, and intends TO erect a
Z fine fireproof business block. Their
! frontage on Hotel street is A feet.
The street runs in circle around and
up Union street. II Is proposed by the
! bin TO sell to this Estate some "a feet
along Hotel street, leaving Union
street. as vice at the junction of Hotel
rs it is farther up is It not better
I that such q sale be made now and
permit the Brewers to go ahead with
/ their building, than to tie IN opera
( lions indefinitely, or force them to put
B up building half the size. and thus
leave Union street temporarily 100
| feet wide at Hotel street,
am strongly in favor Of the extern
sion of Bishop street through to Bere-
tania, but this sale need not stop the
extension. In fact IL can now he used
to force the extension. And let both
he done. If matters arc pushed. the
extension can be accomplished by the
! time the Brewer building Is completed.
The very first efforts of the Govern.
mcnt to extend BeTetania street met
with strong opposition, like that en-
countered by the U. S. Government In
the postollicc site. Is II not generally
the case that many try to hold up
the government In all such improve
ments? Then in the proposition to ac-
lCommodate the Brewer people, the wild
cning of Hotel street through their
holdings Is to be accomplished. This
| Is of great interest to the public. II
IL to be hoped that those who kick will
! investigate first and know whereof
| they speak. There Is nothing In the
proposed act inimical TO the people,
but on the contrary favorable. Let
the Brewer people have the fifty feet
to lengthen their building, and at the
same time push the extension of
Bishop street, and the closing of I'm
ion or instead land which might well
be worth seriously considcring) the
widening and Strengthening of Union
street with the opening on Fort street.
mauka of the MUtt.Smith brick on the
corner. instead of on Hotel street, as
now. With Union street opening on
Fort street ut this place, and widened
10 the width of Fort street, a straight
street running through to the Junction
of Emma and Aleakea. would not Fort
and Hotel have n now real rival? All
travel leads ;'rOund punchbowl, either
out Bcrctania or up NuuRmi, aud a
shortcut towards Emma, as here pro
posed by the widening and straightcn-
ing Of Union street, would give Homo,
lulu another splendid business street.
| Thanking you for the space | have
taken In your columns,
| j. NJ,