Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-02
STARBULLETIN, WEDNESDAY,. OCT Q. 1912.
sTARBULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, OCT ., 1912.


made up to that time of rights-of-vay
| and station sites occupied BY the rail
road company was put into one gran,
and formal deed made to the Hilc
Railroad Company thereof by MIR
: Cooper We had another map attach
ed 20 this grant showing the changes
! incident to the exchange with the Ko
hala-Hilo Railroad Company. (Shows
! map to Secretary Fisher and MIR. Ash
ford, and explains the different loca
! tons. etc, referred to in his state
! meuts eDOYe.D
! Fisher: That is TO say, Mr. Thurs
! ton. as a result of the exchanges be-
! tween the two companies, the kohala
! HilO Railroad Company acquired prop,
erty on the side OF the shaded black
; line shown on the map, which is to-
ward Hilo Bay.
Thurs;On: Toward Wailuku River.
| Fisher: Whereas the Hilo Railroad
! Company retained the portion on the
other side OF the shaded black line
which is toward the corner of Front
street and Waianuenue street. Is that
correct?
ThurstOn: That is correct. There
still remains the POStOffice lot on the
corner, which was not conveyed to
either company.
Fisher: The POstoffice site was not
conveyed to either company. Is that
correct?
ThurstOn: That is correct.
Thurston: TO proceed, shortly al
ter this the kohaa-HilO Company got
into difficulties, financial difficulties
and the lot granted them was sold al
public auction and bought in by a
private party by the name of Hum
berg. He attempted to get title tC
it before the Courts, but failed to get
registered title. He thereupon at
tempted to sell the title to the Hil0
Railroad Company, it being at thai
time evident that the kOhala-HilC
Company was apparently going out OF
business; and the Hilo Railroad Com
pany took up the project of trying TO
extend the line north from HilO. The
Hilo Railroad Company bought the
title from Mr.. Humberg, paying a
nominal sum therefore, being the
amount of his claim against the no
hala-Hilo Co. The question then
arose as to whether or not the HilO
Railroad Company had acquired a
good title through Mr.. Humberg, the
grant to the Kohala-Iiilo Company be-
ing made for railroad purposes only,
and it having passed out of the rail
road company into the hands of a
private citizen; and the question was
whether or not the title would there
by lapse. 1t seemed to be a pretty
good question to look up and settle,
before anybody else raised it. And
we then brought the matter up be-
fore the then Governor.
Fisher: Who was that?
Thurston: That was Governor
Frear. At that time the Federal
Government had acquired a lot for
the Federal building. and an appro-
priation was made by Congress, for
including the postoffice. The lot &C.
cupied by the postoffice would not
then be needed for this purpose; and
the Hilo Railroad Company accord
ingly applied to Governor Frear and
the Superintendent of Public Works,
Campbell, for a grant covering both
the lots which it and the Kohala-
Hilo Railroad Company had previous
ly had; and also including the corner
where the postoffice site was located,
as the reason for not granting this
corner to the company had now pass
ed. The Hilo Railroad Company had
perfected plans for extending north,
and would require the entire lot, OF
approximately an acre, both for rail
road and public reasons, for a rail
road site. The matter was under con-
sideratiOn for some time, and finally
the application of the railroad COM
was placed in the grant that so long
as the U. S. Government desired TO
continue the use of the postoffice site,
they should have the use of it; and if
the railroad company at any time
contemplated the erection of a per
manent building, and should erect
such permanent building, it should
be made to provide for the postoffice,
giving the same amount of room as
it now occupied. This is on the face
of the grant. Those were the condi-
tons incident to the Waianuenue
Street Lot which | have mentioned
here, although not connected with
the line "A"
Up to this time there had been no
suggested plan OF the extension of the
railroad to Kuhio Bay or vicinity, al
though it was known that in view Of
the breakwater appropriation, sooner
or later something would have to be
done at that end of the line Here a
couple of years ago the railroad col-