Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-10-18

low and .Iet II soak in" The case in
favor Of the issuance Of bonds is for
the first time given detailed and strong
presentstion.1
"Who wants to block the way?"
This was the straightforward ques-
ton put before the Ad Club at It's
weekly luncheon today, and Supervisor
r. NJ. Hatch put it. The query was
!. put on the subject of the pending city
bond issue, and the club lunch was de-
voted, almost entirely to discussion of
this plan OF municipal financing.
Supervisor Hatch put the question
when he was two hours out OF Homo
lulu, steamer-bound for San Francisco.
but he left behind him paper. SO full
of "meat" that IL was greeted with
prolonged applause when read to the
Ad Club members.
Supervisors Arnold, Logan and Hor-
ner spoke, Logan at some length,
favoring the city's proposals for bonds.
A. r. Clark, chairman of the road
committee, spoke briefly, advocating
bonds for sewers and waterworks i'm
provement.
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interesting IL voted to hold another
luncheon meeting on Friday, when the
bond talks will be continued
City Treasurer Conkling opposed
the bond issue on the ground that it
piles up too large debt and that the
territory should share q large expect.
ed balance with the city
Judge Thomas of Santa Ana,
Orange County, Cal, who was a
guest at the lunch, contributed fea-
ture the members appreciated when
he said that his county put up 1900
coo for good roads recently, built 300
miles of road, and the people consider
il about the best investment they ever
made.
Ed Towse. speaking aginst the en-
tire bond issue plan, said in brief
that he had boiled the issue down to
the bonds for roads and sewers, which
he believed should pass. He then
went into figures to show that IL the
entire bond was passed the people
would only get $4,000 worth for an
expenditure of $4S0,000. When. asked
how he derived this figure he explain
ed that the interest on the bonds for
Is years amounted to $4,000, sub
tracted from the total issue left $780,
000. He said. that IL the city wanted
money for the rest of the work IL
should be obtained from taxes or the
territory.
Supervisor Hatch's paper was as fol-
lows:
AT the outset and as preliminary
observation. | desire to say: am
not addressing those who are satisfied
with present conditions, and would do
nothing because il costs too much
That is perfectly logical attitude: II
there be any among us who wish to
tester over cesspools because too
stingy to pay the cost of sewers, am
not going to try to argue with them
What should be held up to derision
is the attitude Of those who are over
flowing with criticisms of existing con.
ditions, want the best possible in
roads. water, ETC., and object to pay
the price
Addressing you now as men who
think that Honolulu has outgrown her
public facilities in many items and
details. and who realize that the prob
lem at this time is that of selecting
proper methods OF procedure to fin.
ance our improvements, must say
the situation looks to me about like
this:
az Ne are facing grave emergen-
cies:
I'll. in times of emergency it is
iustifiable to take advantage of mod
ern methods of financing improve
ments; in fact ali methods available.
These are simple propositions. 1t
should be easy for fair-minded peo-
pie to convince themselves of the
truth Of the first and the good logic
of the second of my texts.
Some Facts
Il. As to the fact of emergency:
The very rapid growth of our city
in the last 10 years has left many of
the public utilities which are essen
tial and beyond the reach of argu-
ment, in the rear. The growth has
been without unhealthy spurts. but it
has been steady. Does this club be-
lieve we have come to the end Of the
growth? Criticism of past efforts to
keep the town up to its class will
not help us much. The thing to do is
TO look the situation in the face as il
is today. .
Il. How great is the emergency?
Nuuanu Water
Let us consider the filtration sys-
tenn for Nuuanu water.
The doctors and the board Of
health give NIuanu water a bad
name; undoubtedly, at times soil from
the hills is washed into the mains.