The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-02
OF HILO \
APPROVE OF PLAN
Crowd Hears Governor Frear
Outline Proposed Scheme for
Developing Waiakea.
(Mail Special to The Advortiser.)

(Mail Special to The Advertiser.)
HILo, March 29.-Tho public was
well represented at the meeting called
to listen to Governor Frear with re-
gard to the development of Waialea
as residence section; and to dis
cussion of the location of the railway
rights of way and terminal at the
new wharf.
Doctor Elliott was elected chair.
man and II. w. Kinney secretary, after
which the Governor explained the
proposed plans of the Territory for the
furthering of the interests of the ma
kai section of Waiakea. The Governor
exhibited map which covered all the
properties under consideration.
The Governor stated that during his
visit in September people here seemed /
to take much interest in the plan to
open residence lots. The harbor com
mission had taken care of the devel-
opment of the waterfront, and it seem
ed well to consider these two schemes
together and to lay them out in ref
erence to each other. The wharf was
the natural starting point said the
executive, while the distance between
the wharves naturally controlled the
distances between the streets running
up from them, though this might be
the subject of readjustment. Front
street would be extended until it join
ed the right of way, when it would
way to the wharf, there being a reser-
- oh oil ba
shore.
Warehouse Section.
Maulta of the track would be the
warehouse section with long narrow
streets for railroad purposes and broad
streets for vehicles. This section might
extend as far as Reed IS bay or pos
sibly even further. A large area should
be reserved to accommodate future
business, continued the Governor. Fur
Their back would be the residence Sec
ton, with blocks of the same length
but twice as broad, as it was import
ant to make the street areas as small
as possible. Still further back would
be still larger blocks, some extending
as far back as the Wailoa River, close
to the Volcano road.
A diagonal road, on the Washington,
D. c., plan, was another feature of
this section. The present railroad right
of way to the breakwater is federal
property. The track is railroad prop.
erty and the railroad could use it, but
only as a tenant. The railroad COM
pany would be given tract of land
near the breakwater, but should con-
vey to the Territory it's present right
of way to the old wharf, which would
Ia 80 H. o
built, the Governor declared.
Plan Discussed.
John Bohnenberg, Doctor Elliott, j.
A. M. Osorio and Lorrin A. Thurston
then discussed the proposition as set
forth by Mr.. Frear, and Mr.. Thurston
moved that the meetings. approval be
given. Mr.. Metzger thought it better
to bring the right of way further ma
uka, where many street crossings would
be avoided.
Mr.. Thurston said that from n rail
road point of view the location sug
gested for right of way mauka by
Metzger, Lyman or, formerly, by
Southworth were good as far as the
present wharf was concerned. The rail
road might at any moment be forced
to leave the breakwater right of way,
when it would need another road to
the wharf to fall back on. Further
more, it would not pay to run the Ha-
makua trains so far back mauka
Then, when additional wharves were
built, the mauka line would involve the
laying of many tracks from the main
line to the wharves, and the entire
section would thus be gridironed. The
railroad access to the warehouses was
business and not railroad PROPOSE.
ton, as was the case in the armory
site case, he added. 1t made but little
difference to the railroad where the
warehouses were located, but change
from the proposed location might prove
somewhat more expensive to the mer-
chants. The nearer the wharf the
cheaper the storage.
The Panama Canal, thought the
speaker, will cause great increase in
Hilo's trade, not so much in merchan.
disc, but in fuel and supplies. Hilo
had a channel mile wide which the
biggest liners can use in all kinds of
weather. The building of the wharf
must not be delayed single day.
Moro Argument.
A further discussion was freely par
ticipated in by many of those present.
Some of those who did not fully agree
with the plans as outlined asked if it
was not possible to lay the matter on
the table for the present and perhaps
have another meeting, but Doctor Ell
lott, Mr.. Thurston and others claimed
that it would be asking too much Of
the government to wait now that it
wanted to go ahead and do things. The
Governor said that he wanted it
understood that he was at perfect lib
erty to bring new plans before another
public meeting.
Mr.. Thurston moved that it was the
sense of the meeting that the Governor
be asked to have a park reserve made
of the government lands at the Wal