Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-22
CHOOSE Central
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
GROUND FOR FETE
Children's Festival During Car
nivaI to Be There; Permanent
Grounds Badly Needed

Superintendent Kinney OF the de-
partment of public instruction, who
is chairman this year OF the Children 8
Festival, notified the Carnival directors
today that the best site he can find
for his event is the grounds OF Cen
trail Grammar school II was not his
first choice and IL leaves much to be
desired in point of beauty and some
thing in point OF space, but II is the
best that circumstances will permit
Last year the public school chill
dren's exercises were held in the capi-
toll grounds Application for use OF
the grounds was made again this year,
but permission was withheld. The ter
ritorial government has to try to do
a little business in Carnival week, and
dancing and singing during office hours
right under the eyes and ears OF the
department forces are not conducive
to the despatch of public affairs.
Then began a campaign of looking
over all available sites. The children
must have the sun at their backs, they
must have wall of some sort to
form q sounding board for their voices
and the site must be such as to be
reached easily by the street cars.
No Room for Onlookers.
The space in the shade OF st. An
drews cathedral and the parish house
was ideal for the children, but there
was room in Emma square adjoining
TO seat only few hundred onlookers.
Thomas square proved out OF the
question There are too many trees
to permit the placing OF bleachers and,
IL the children were to sit where their
voices will carry down the wind, they
would be facing square into the sun.
There are no trees In Makiki square,
but the objections OF sun and wind
were the same.
Punahou campus is one of the beauty
spots OF the city, with ample seating
space, but Superintendent Kinney did
not wish TO ask permission for the
public schools to use the property of
a private institution. That exhausted
the possibilities and the final choice
came back to the Central Grammar
School, where there is shade. a sound
ing board formed by the walls OF
the school itself for the children's
voices, and space to seat an audience.
Each year makes ii more and more
evident that the city needs Carnival
field, track and auditorium. The pal.
ace capitol grounds are not the proper
site for Carnival festivities. Public
business is disturbed, the public
grounds are marred by the erection
of temporary structures and the tramp
ling of thousands of feet, and the gov
eminent has no fund out Of which to
defray the costs Of restoration.
Must Find Pleasure Spot.
Recognizing the existing situation,
the government goes out Of Its waySto
meet the requests of the Carnival, but
ii does SO with reluctance and with
the growing conviction that some other
pleasure spot for frolic, more suitable
than the grounds Of the capitol, must
ultimately he found.
The military tournament that was
such an attraction last year Is out OF
the question this year. Kapiolani field
Is under lease to the polo club, which
naturally does not want It pitted and
narrowed by galloping horses AMI
heavy artillery wheels. And Kapio-
fanf field is the only one in the city
big enough for cavalry exercises on q
military scale. Moiliili encloses about
enough room for one troop to turn
around it, with care.s
A large, permanent enclosure, with
room for tennis, baseball, field and
track sports, side shows and conces-
sions, dancing and entertainments, is
what the Carnival urgently needs II 1t
is to grow in pace with the increase
of tourist business.
How to finance such heavy In
yestment as would be necessary is
another matter. Thus far the idea IS
only a distant dream in the minds OF
the Carnival directors.