Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-02

way ONbI tHSII property 10 get there ,
and others charged a comparatively
small sum for such Tights-Of-Way. AC
COrdngiy a petition was drafted by
myself and submitted TO the property
owners and the principal residents, set
ting forth their desire that this eX.
tension be made Upon that being
! signed, and all The property owners
ana residents to whom it was sub
lnittcd did sign il, there was petit
ton ard tentative line Of extension
brought by me 10 Honolulu and sub
nitted to Governor Dole and TO the
I Superintendent OF Public Works, Mr..
| McCandlesS, mis- being. as | recOlIeCt
il. in 1901.
The question OF the location of the
depot site was a vital one. In the
! opinion Of the railroad administration
! ghe best place vas about two-thirds of
the way to Hilo. at the foot of Waia-
nuenue street.-The present station
! site, being on the piece OF land own
! d by W K. Castle and the Hitchcock
! Estate Negotiations were had with
! hose property owners, and the sta
! ton site secured and the building
I
! he foot Of Waianuenue street was
also considered, and it was thought
that that would be a convenient loca
| ton for passenger travel. The only
| objection to it was that it was so
| small, containing only an acre. More
over, the POstOffice was located there
on, and about a half of it was under
ease to a merchant at that time. The
matter was therefore discussed with
| Dole and McCandless, and an objec-
ZION was made to granting the portion
On which the PostOffice land this 9th
er store were located; and according
~ the application at that time was
limited to the portion in the rear of
the POstoffice, toward the river, eX-
Guiding all but a very small edge
leased to Mr.. Holmes. The railroad
company made private arrangements
with Mr.. Holmes for the piece leased
10 him. For some considerable time
after this was approved by the Gov
ernor and Mr.. McCandless, nothing
was done toward putting a station
there. My recollection is that it was
q couple of years; and the station was
put on the Castle-Hitchcock premises.
Our expectation as to where travel
and business would center proved en-
tirely false. Practically nobody went
to the station, and everybody wanted
to get aboard at the foot of Waianue-
nue. street Meanwhile, the other
railroad company, the kohala-Hilo,
which had undertaken to build north
from HilO, changed its lines to come
down to the waterfront with it's plan.
The approval of the location of the
Waianuenue street station, and the To-
cation along the waterfront, was a
bear approval, there being no deed
passed. 1t had been the custom with
other railroads of the company to con-
slider such approval as passing the IT,
tie, and there is apparently good law
supporting that view on the mainland
under similar statutes. The question
i am getting little ahead of my
story.
Before the site applied for at the
foot of Waianuenue street was ap-
proved, the KohalaHilo company ap-
piled for the same piece of land, both
of US asking for the whole of it. Half
of it was not enough. Mr.. McCand-
less, like Solomon, finally decided to
divide the lot and gave each of US
half. Neither company was satisfied. |
but took it as it was the best we could |
get The reasons specifically given at
the time of why the Hilo Railroad |
Company was not given the full half
of this mauka lot was that the Post |
office was located there, covering an
area of about 41X20 feet. The bal |
ance was rented. The Kohala-Hilo |
company at that time intended to run
their lines across the Wailuku river. |
They later concluded that they wanted |
to go up where the Hilo market now
is, swinging inland, and they accord |
ingIy proposed to the Hilo Railroad
Company to exchange certain rights
of-Way. An exchange deed was exc
cuted between the two companies,
which have here. l produce it more [
particularly because the map shows
the situation very clearly. Later on
the suggestion having been made from
responsible sources that the govern
ment was approving too many loca
lions, rights-of-Way, etc, cutting |
lLA1OuSI SoON NIlSIS
ing up to- that time II such applica- |
tiOns), as shown in letters on file in /
Mr.. McCandless' office, is was thought |
that it would be preferable to put I
them in the form of a formal grant |
which could then go on record, and be
filed with other conveyances of gov
eminent land Accordingly, in 1908,
Henry E. Cooper then being superin-
tendent of public works, a computa-
ton Of all the apprOVals that had been