Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-01

i Secretary Fisher, his wife and Mr..
Meyer, his private secretary, will &C
company the Maryland to that island,
as the big vessel is not likely to re-
turn to Honolulu before sailing for the
mainland
lot for the purpose of obtaining funds
with which to purchase other public
property for the town of Hilo-for
I other purposes, Shat being the only
practical way in which it could pay for
4 the property. Shortly after that, / be-
lieve, Davies & Company applied for
three of the four lots in which the
Armory Site was to be subdiyided,
! and offered, I think, $500 for them.
: and agreed to erect concrete build
/ ing on the lots to cost at least $4,000.
i The matter was then referred to the
Land Board, which unanimously ap-
proved the proposition. The lots were
j then appraised, and the appraisers fix
CO the value at $1S,750 This was
! again referred to the Land Board and
] the Land Board approved Of the APP
praisement and decided that the lots
should be sold singly and not as a
whole. They were then advertised to
be sold on April Is, 1911, I think 1t
was. The sale was postponed to May
l., 1911. Davies & Company then ap-
| ped again to have the lots put to-
gether; and stated that they would
have to withdraw their application If
the lots were put up singly. The re-
quest was refused. Davies & Com
pany then REQUESTED the Superinrend-
eDt of Public Works to allow them to
construct a spur track from the rail-
road track up along side Of these lots
in case they purchased them. The re
quest was refused, being in the nature
pany then requested the Superintend-
dent of Public Wirks could not grant.
Then Davies e Company, as / under
stand it, got petition up signed by
property owners in that neighborhood,
and went to the Superintendent of
Public Works requesting that permit
be granted the Railroad Co. to build
spur track up that way. The rail-
road Co. not having cared enough
about it to have applied for this previ-
ously. The railroad company then put
in its formal application for building
a spur track and that was granted,
along what was a street ON the map,
but was not street in use, and wnlch
would have to be filled in good deal
in case the Railroad should construct
spur track on it. But nothing was
done. .. r. -" +
Fisher: Do you want to ask any
thing, Mr. Ashford?
Ashford: l assume you have read
what the delegate had to say on pages
80 and A upon that topic, or rather
those two topics?
Governor: Yes, 1 have read them.
! Ashford: Well, now, beginning
with the paragraph ut is significant"
on page 43, thence to the end of the
paragraph on page A, will you state
whether or not that fairly described
the apparent condition of public SEN
timent in Hilo at the time, namely In
November of last year, and that there
was at that time wide public senti-
ment there in opposition to the pro-
posed deal, both with regard to the
wharf and in regard to the laying of
a spur line, and the proposed removal
of the Armory. |
Governor: Yes, at that time there
was feeling in regard to the wharf |
site; the feeling in regard to the ar
mory site did not come up until long
afterward, not until after the lots had
been advertised for sale.
Ashford: l am referring to No
vember, 1911.
Fisher: Was there a public feeling
against those two proposals?
Governor: There was not so much
in regard to the removal of the ar
mory. There was, however, more or
less feeling there. Public sentiment
of Hilo favors the removal of the ar
mory now, and | think it Cd in No
Vember. -
Fisher: You think that there had
been some feeling against it, but that
feeling has largely disappeared now?
Ashford: Then you think there
was some feeling in that regard?
Governor: Yes, there was.
Railroad Monopoly?
Ashford: Do you consider that
statement over drawn on page A?
I Quotes from Charges). Do you think
D preferential right, in the then pro-
posed agreement, was given to the
Hllo Railroad Company against 9TH I
ars; that others could have no rights
TO the use of the wharf except when
he railroad company did not require ;
It, or when it did not interfere with
he business of the railroad company.
Governor: Well l think the rail-
road was asking too much. l was not
aware that they were asking for a Il
D. onopoly. In fact l never read the i
duplication of the Railroad Company, Is
# the agreement finally adopted by Is
he Railroad Company and the Terri {
cry.
Ashford: Was it not fact that Mr. t
Campbell was understood to express
himself strongly in regard to giving 1
he Railroad Company monopoly of I
he wharf? lr
Governor: Some understood that; |
md some did not. l don't know how Ig
;Iany thought that {