The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-02-26
The CITY Hair Dream,

TN recent interview, Supervisor Hollinger was
y quoted as saying that the city needs such a
building more than anything else" referring at
the time to the recommendation of Mayor Lane
that the municipality be allowed to discontinue its
maintenance OF revolving fund and that provi-
sion be made for the raising OF large sum with
which to build city hall,
We are inclined to the belief that Mr. Hollinger
spoke without due consideration. There are a
number of things decidedly more important to
Honolulu than city hall. .-}.' -.
One of the very essential things just now is an
adequate street survey without which practically
every street Improvement under the district inn
provement law and under the sidewalk law is
blocked. 1t is surprising state OF things that
there are grade maps for ninety per cent OF
the city streets but fact nevertheless, and with
out such the sidewalk ordinance cannot be en-
forced nor can the frontage tax system be put
into any wide effect. A proper set of street maps
at this time is much more necessary to Honolulu
than city hall. .. -. "tE
r A very liberal increase in the police force is
necessary. At the present time Honolulu is less
than half policed. The enlargement of the force
by at least as many more patromen are now
on the muster roll is something greatly more of a
necessity than city hall, -.
A proper place of detention for minors awaiting,
trial is necessary, as well as some improvement in
police station conditions whereby women under ar
rest may be segregated from the men under ar
rest. Each is more important to Honolulu at the
present time considering our Limited revenues,
than city hall .@,aruy
Street lighting conditions in Honolulu are by no
means all that they should be-. Honolulans as
community are certainly more in need of addi-
tonal street lights than they of new city hall,
An institution where orphans of the city may
be kept at public expense or some better financial
arrangement made whereby the expense of keep
ing these proper wards of the city in some one
OF the private orphanages and homes, is something
of immediate and pressing need in Honolulu. At
the present time there are babies, whose only of
tense consists in their orphaned state under court
sentence at the industrial schools, charged with
Heading an idle and disso1ute life" To remedy
this disgraceful condition is matter of much more
importance to Honolulu than to have the city
fathers gathering under frescoed ceiling. -. .
II Mayor lane and titoseaof his colleagues, who
feel that the dignity of the city government re-
quires costly building in keeping, will only go
through the records Of the city for the pact Rev
years they will find that many things recognized
as essential have had to be done without for fea-
son of lack of funds They will find that the city
has declared itself unable to build the necessary
sidewalks along the street frontages of city parks
and schools, andthus placed the government under
serious handicap in trying to induce citizens to
build sidewalks. They will find that recommends
tons from the sheriff, the fire chief and the super
intendent of the electric lighting plant have been
turned down because of lack of funds. They will
find that street and road repairing, the repairs Of
some school houses, the maintenance of INDECENT
sick, the protection of parks and the enforcement
of some laws have all been seriously affected by
the lack of funds
At the present time, magnificent city hall is
something worth dreaming over, but the time has
not arrived for any serious consideration of the
project The dignity of the city will be better pre-
served in well paved Streets with proper sidewalks,
adequately policed and kept clean than in any
structure that could be planned and erected