The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-02-04
This Matter Win Be Left Entirely
IN Hands Of Individual
Merchants
EFFORT TO INACCURATE :. j.
UNIFORM SCHEME FAILS
Now Festival Dress win Be Up To
Business Men Of
:. City

/ 49, 70. as -
BY vote Of four 10 two, the Oarni.
val decorations committee yesterday
Withdrew the unit plan for which IL has
been soliciting support from the mer.
chants. The resolution offered by Harry
l.. Strange, chairman of the sub.conl-
mittee, which evolved the plan and has
been pressing IL, follows:
Resolved: That, after canvasslng
one. half of the area which the decora-
tions committee proposed TO decorate,
the results show that the merchants Of
Honolulu are not in favor of the
scheme presented to them by the com
mittee but are in favor of decorating
according TO their individual prefer.
ences) and that Is
Therefore, this committee recon-
mes.is that the merchants Of Honolulu
decorate their own stores individually
and that this committee concentrate its
energy on lighting effects IA n..F a.
"We also draw attention to the fact
that joel 9. Cohen is willing 10 dupli-
cate for twenty-five cents a running
foot the scheme Of decorations erected
last year, for which one dollar a run.
NtAtE AtADN " - AMCu IutiNKN0.
Merchants win Decorate :
Emil A. Berndt, chairman Of the
decorations committee last year, was
one Of the strongest advocates in favor
Of letting the merchants decorate this
year to suit themselves. t." ~
"Dont think, Mr.. Chairman" he
urged, "that believe for an instar.
that, if this resolution carries, the city
will not be decorated for the Carnival.
know that il will be. ~-~.S ~. r@
Tho merchants always have decorat-
ed in the past aud they win again, but
they have not yet reached an attitude
Of. mind in which they all are willing
70 unite on one consistent scheme. They
won + evolve plan Of their own and
they won support any plan presented
TO them il Is neither in our power nor
is itrour place to force them. y
I'VE can fhanee our plan, = said Mr..
Strange, we want to. Give me. o
CERTAIN telephone connection that ] can
name pfd ! guarantee IN fifteen min,
utgs II hing you Q promise Of q check
for $1,000. BUT we are tired OF forever
dumping AQwn on the shoulders OF those
who WI The burdens east on by those
who wpn,t II ism I just and we refuse
! TO lrer0h6nshd il, %
D4Heik Was On sight s.s 49,. -. ~ q.
Getting down to figures, the data at
hand showed that Clarence Waterman,
one Of the committee, had canvassed
SITS feet of the 1000 feet il was
! proposed TO decorate and that the total
amount raised and pledged was $1534.75
which reduced to an average OF about
! thirty cents foot, whereas, the esti-
mated costs were fifty cents foot. Z.
This took in the best of the Oriental
district and the cream of the central
business district, banks anil large agen-
eics excluded. What the engineers would
call experimental b0rings into other
strata showed that the yield to be ex.
pected elsewhere was much smaller. In
short, there was = certain deficit in
sight, which somebody would have to
I shoulder. ..,.
j. Morton Riggs, chairman of the
general decorations committee, argued
against the motion earnestly, and Ray,
nTond q. Brown, who also tried to stem
the tide Of opinion in its favor, said
he saw II adopted with regret.
orientals More Liberal 80 IN, ,
Clarence Waterman related the re
cePtioR he, had met from individual
firms. He had found the Oriental mer-
chants mUch more liberal than the small
American houses. II had proved inn
; possible to get anything like uniform
! iy Of support from the whites.
One man would agree to pay the as
scssmcnt set opposite his name II all
others as assessed for like amount
agreed to pay Another w0IId Subscribe
only on condition that everybody else
4 In the same block paid the same amount.
1 These conditions practically invali.
[ dated their pledges, so that the actual
amount to be expectsed was undOubt
eddy much smaller than the book show
ing, for. it had been recognized from
the first that no absolutely uniform
basis Of assessments could hope to sue
eeed, even in any one block.
The small merchant SAYS: HWhat!
1 you expect me 10 pay the same rate
for my frontage that So and So down
the street rays, when I do only q
fraction Of the volume of his busiPess
Net to he thought Of. IL decorate
Merchants Given Own Way " rs @
4 So attct discussing the sltnatlon IN
til past six O'Clock the majority finally
resolved TO concentrate on illumination
effects and let the merchants have their
own way. If they wish to support the
plan Mr.. Cohen has afoot, the commit
tee will do nothing TO stand in his wy
! II win even cooperate with him by add
ing Illumination which he cannot sup
ply.
Cohen financed the unit plan attempt
ed last year. 'se lost money on II and
held as security the saIvaged material
This wear he oTered the material at .
figure which thr committee did not nc,
ropt On h"i ~ refused, he applied
to the SuDc" ''ors for permission Il
place the n"""' orv scatfoldino in posi-
tioh again. AZ a charge Of twenty Ave
cents trout II. His application waf
r'ferred TO = lighting committee
where il now oses.
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