The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-04-30
CITY TO PURCHASE
BIG KANGAROO AND
. ANELECTR|C PIANO
Supervisor Larsen Declares
Young Men Are Making
Fool Out Of Board
BUT DESPITE PROTESTS
APPROPRIATION PASSES
instrument and Animal From
Antipodes win Be Installed
At kapiolani Park

Shall the city become the proud pos
SCISSOR Of q flfteen.dollar kangaroo and
n three. hundred dollar electric player
pianof The supervisors last night fa-
vored such an appropriation, although
before voting aye Supervisor Homer
took of his glasses and wiped the tears
of merriment from bis streaming eyes,
Larsen was the only supervisor to
object, but what he lacked in support
he made up in vigot. .y.z.,.
~ objecti" he declaimed. 81 oh.
iect most emphatically to a lot Of young
men coming In here and making a fool
out of. this board. Why, it's a joke.
"What do you think we are here fort
This city is not in the business of run
ming circus sideshows and musicales.
Why, the next thing we know. wen
have the, Outdoor Circle in here buying
baby dolls for u.s."
Protest Comes Too Late
Larsen's protegt.came too late. In
fact IL was only allowed by courtesy
Of the chair, for the resolution had
passed before he found breath to ridi.
Guile it and any debate later was be.
side the question. As offered by Chair
man Hollinger, the committee report
was as follows; a..
your committee on public expendi.
lures, to whom proposition has been
made for the purchase Of an electric
piano and n kangaroo, beg leave to re-
port as follows: ..
HThis property Is owned by the man
agement Of Ainahau. The electric
piano, which sis as good as new, is Of.
fered for $500 and the kangaroo for
fifteen dollars. Your committee be.
lieves that it would be q good thing
to purchase the piano for the public
bath of Kapiolani Park. As it works
on a nickel.in.the.slot arrangement, it
would soon pay for itself. The kanga-
roo would be valuable addition to the
small zoo at the park.
d "Your committee recommends that
$3l5 be appropriated for the purchase
as aforesaid" pr.
Hollinger, Horner and Logan eonsti-
tute the committee.
Kicks at Appropriation
After having objected too late to the
adoption of the report, Larsen again
vainly objected to the adoption of the
resolution passing the appropriation on
first reading.
Supervisor, Logan, acting as tempo
rary chairman in the absence Of Mayor
Lane, defended the resolution. The
Bergstrom Music Company, he ex-
planned, already had a piano at the
baths, which was taking in fifty dol
lars q month, of which the city re.
ceived ten per cent. In six months o
new piano would pay for itself and be-
come n source of revenue to the city
thereafter.
As for the kangaroo, and he smiled
when he said 1t, why mott Other cities
maintained ZOOS. The old royal gov.
eminent had bought black swans and
pheasants to stock the pools and parks
just because a kangaroo happened ia
have an unusual gait, there was moth
ing essentially Tisible about investing
4 in one.
whole City VIII Ridicule
~ don't care whether the piano
makes any money or not" rejoined
Larsen, sole guardian of gravity. "Itt
the look of the thing. We're making
fools of ourselves, and tell you we !
have the whole city laughing at us
| You see If we don T."
at suppose the next motion in orde
will be to ask the mayor to appoin
somebody to take care Of the kanga
roo.D
, Nobody believed Cassandra, prophe
sying woe. Why should a world n,
wiser listen to Larsenf The supervis
ors didn 7, and the resolution passed
first reading.