The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-05-11
ARMY POSTS come
TO- ASSISTANCE OF .
|. PLAN ORY. N. c. A.
Fund For Purchase OF Hawaiian
Hotel Takes Over Fresh
Vim and Grows Fast
| MORE THAN $4,000 NOW
COLLECTED FOR BUILDING
international Committee In New
York Is Notified BY the Local
Workers Of Progress

on the strength Of the showing tabu
lated above, w. A. Horn, supervising |
superintendent of the Y. NJ. g. A.,
sent the Following telegram last night
to the International Committee Of the
Y. NJ. g. A., now in session in New
York City:
"sixty-thrce thousand subscribed.
Hope TO get balance soon..'
And on the strength of the fore
going telegram the International com
mittee win decide whether or not ~
! shall appropriate $l75,0 900 for the pur-
chase Of the Royal Hawaiian hotel
premises and the establishment in
them of an Army and Navy X. M,
| G.. Al. ~
New York agreed to do this If Homo
lulu would raise 100000. The ques-
ton now is whether Mr.. Horn 3 tele-
1 gram is sufficient assurance that the
4 full amount will be realized. He does
not commit himself or the community.
\ He hopes and believes the entire hun
j dred thou will be Forthcoming, but
he caL,iot promise it. In the last
analysis, it is the community itself
that must rise to its own opportunity.
nHAs for the probable effect of his
message, Mr.. Horn had this to say;
1faThere are two possibflities. New
i York may telegraph back: sThe $780,
900 Is waiting for you just as soon as
q YOU round out the full 800, 900. That
is what | expect them to do. ~
'b "Or they may do this: This inter.
national committee adiourns Saturday.
!. They may refer the whole matter to
~ the executive committee, with power
|, Ito act That would leave the exeeu-
!, tive COMMITTEES, which can be called
together at a few hours notice, with q
free hand to deal with the situation as
it shaped itself in the near futureS'
What pleased the Adj Club committee
, on army and navy, in charge Of the
4 campaign more than any one thing IN
: Yesterdays developments was the
, splendid showing made by the army.
: In placing the matter before the
. different posts, General Strong sug
I gested that the minimum contribution
= for enlisted mon be twenty five cents
and for officers one dollar. me re-
turns Yesterday from Fort Kamehame
ha, which happens to be the only posi-
which turned in separate accounts fol
= men and officers, shows q ratio OF
", about eight dollars from the men fol-
IL Il every dollar from the officers.
- Allowing for the larger payments
y mdde by the officers, it seems fair II
assume on this showing that the aver
- age payment was not more than lift!
" cents an individual. In other words
" u on this assumption, 5705 members o
~ the service in all ranks, contributed u
u the fund. If the average was lower
3 the number of contributors wa
= greater; if higher, the number was les
., TO bring home the lesson, it must b
. remembered that the committee
" civilian list was only ] 10 names. Their
y, have been a few voluntary addition
- to the list, but only few. Agains
this is an army list of 5705 names. .
OF this list of lis, the numbe
Nv Sigucd up thus far Is forty -four. Onl
= two HAT refusals have been eneoul
% ." tered. OF the seventy,one person
~ who have not yet given a. final answe
=. the greater share have been seen; bI
a. they have not been asked, with blan
y" pledge before them, for a positive "
of or no. e, -.
y, On the whole, the committee fee
u, u, that its progress has been satisfaction
y aud it remains quite confident of Il
III ultimate result, E>.
49, 49, The campaign is by no means owe
y" IT will continue until the 100000
~ raised and contributions still may
' to addressed TO J. r. Gait, IIawaiii
o ~ Trust company. The mile stone pass'
az last night was the showing made
VI New York As Mr. Horn said in h
,te telegram, he hopes to get balan
'SI soon" lie and the committee W
~. continue to 60 after it today.