Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-13
INSURANCE MAP expert POINTS
To real DANGERS IN HONOLULU
Bartlett Cooper, After Years
Work, Tells of Conditions in =
Congested Districts


cape the control Of the department in
that section of Honolulu north of Nu-
uanu street and east of Pauahi street.
and if a strong wind from the noun
tains SHOULD be blowing at the time.
II would sweep the city to the harbor
line and no power on earth could stop
It. It is unfortunate that the city and
county of Honolulu has allowed to be
constructed the existing class of
frame buildings, as their presence Is
ever a menace to the valuable prop
critics located and now under course
of construction in the main business
section of this city" -
In a recent interview with the Star
Bulletin, Bartlett Cooper, an insur-
ance surveyor who has spent the last
year in Honolulu and who is now
a detailed map of the bus
mess and residence sections of the
city in the interest of a New York
map manufacturing concern with
which he is associated, made the fore
going statement based on exhaustive
Investigations carried out in connec-
ton with his work.
Mr.. Cooper Is not a critic; he has
no criticism to make of the condition
of the congested districts of Homo
lulu as he has found them. That is
not his work. During his stay here,
however, in which time he has covered
every nook and Granny Of Honolulu
from Fort Shafter to Kapiolani Park
and from the waterfront up into the,
valleys, he has become especially i'm
pressed with the fact that In Homo
luiu's great blocks of frame buildings
lies the city's one great enemy when
the matter Of fire is taken into con.
sideration. ID
Has Been at Work Here q Year. b.
Mr.. Cooper Is a representative OF
tie Sanborn Map Company of New
York City, concern which has man
ilfactured maps for insurance COM
panies in all parts of the United
States during the past 45 years
maps which are considered by these
companies as being official. He came
here year ago this. month, in COM
pany with his family. and expects to
complete his local field work by the
first OF next month. Following the
completion Of. his work here Mr.. Coop
err will visit Hiio and seven or eight of
the smaller towns in various parts OF
the territory. When finished, he will
furnish his company with what viii
perhaps be the most complete set OF
Insurance maps of Hawaii ever pre-
pared. % ~~. ID
In pointing out the use to which
such maps are put, Mr.. Cooper exc
planned that, when completed, they
are sent to the company's office In
San Francisco. where they are care
fully looked ovs-.. They then are for.
warded 10 the manufacturing plant In
New York, where they are drafted and
Autographed on stone, being colored
In accordance with the type of con-
struction of each building. For in
stance, in a certain block, there may
be several Il frame and a number Of
brick or concrete structures. Color
Ing these with yellow, red and blue.
respectively, the insurance man con-
sulting them Is able to gain at a
glance any Information needed in re-.
gard TO the material used in the con-
struction of any building In any part
OF the city. Aside from this, the maps
contain considerable data to inform
the consu1tor OF the hazard. habita-
ton and fire protection in each block.
Insurance companies have come to re-
aliZe that 1t is impossible for them to