Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-03-01
Do
NOT Agree With
SUPT. CAMPBELL

Directors N the Merchants Asso-
| citation aren't satisfied with the plans
for the reconstruction of the Judiciary
building, and In some particulars they
disagree fatty with Superintendent OF
Public Works Campbell.
This was brought out at a meeting
of the Association directors held yes
terday afternoon. The point was frat
made in a report from the Committee
on Public Affairs, which found as fol-
lows:
Move the Assessors Office on the
| first floor to the rooms intended for
| Circuit Court No. !, moving Circuit
| Court No. | into rooms originally in
tended for the Assessors Office. There
by the Assessors Office would be on
the ground floor Immediately under
the Recorders Office. allowing for
standard freproof construction, max
Using the two rooms on the first floor
| Immediately OFF the room marked Cir
/ cult Court No. l. and now marked
Judge and Jury into fireprooi
! room or vault, the walls Of which
should be carried up through the sec
ond floor to the ceiling thereof, max
ing like vaults for the Recorders Of
| fee.
I'VE recommend that the proper au.
thorities be urgently requested to
| transfer the Assessors Office to the
rooms originally intended for the CIR
! cult Court No. on the first floor and
| that the two rooms on the first floor
marked Judge and Jury and a like
space Immediately above on the Sec
ond floor, be made into fireprooi
rooms or vaults by construction OF O
partition between these rooms and tine
main room marked Circuit Court No
! L. and treating the rooms above IN
like manner, of three i-inch reinforc.
! ed concrete walls with 3-inch all
/ spaces between, making total thick
ness of eighteen inches. also that a 4.
inch fire wall of reinforced concrete
be built inside of the main wall of thc
| building with 3-inch air spaces be-
tween them. and that the window be
of metal and wire plate glass. Each
window should have three pairs OF
sash with as much air space between
each as the thickness of the walls viii
allow. and that the windows be fur.
| ther provided with metal shutters;
and that the doors to these rooms ol
vaults be standard vault doors witt
dead air space between, and that tn,
ceiling Of the second story room o
vault be of standard freproof con
structiOn."
The committee recommended othe
changes also to provide against pos
sible loss by fire. and favored at som,
future time the expenditure of S5O,OOI
more to complete the building. Arch
itect II. l.. Kerr, whose advice wa
asked rs an expert, recommended In
stallntion of vaults In the Ewa-mauki
corner of the building.
The merchants intend to send cop
les of the report to Governor Frear
Campbell and the Chamber OF Com
mercc.
While In session the directors ais
discussed the proposed extension o
the coastwise shipping law to provid
for foreign vessels engaging In pas
senger trade from the mainland T.
Honolulu. Letters were read iron
George Mex. Mcclellan, representa-
tive of the commercial bodies Il
Washington, In which he mentions tn
change OF attitude by the Chamber O
Commerce and says that It will b
Impossible to get n favorable repor
ON the bill at this time. The director
discussed the matter which Is rapid
taking on the aspect of dead issu,
and finally the Public Affairs Commit
tee was instructed to confer with De
egate Kalanianaole on the subject.
The directors also discussed helpin
to boom the volcano observatory wor
but will probably not be able to hel
financially.
Three more memberships were ia,
orably acted upon. those Of George {
Beckley, Hawaii & South Seas Curl
Company and J. A. II. Vieira.
Il Kin IetIn aIs hast nuSI.a.a A. 4,