The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-10-18
CITYBADLf STUNGI
BY ERECTION OF.
u IHATROSE GARAGE
Now That the Building Is Up and
! Must Be Paid For, Owners Of
Land Increase Rental Price
BOOST FIGURE TWENTY
.r. FIVE DOLLARS A MONTH
And Honolulu Must Pay It Or
Lose Its Nice, New, Unauthor-
lied Police Station Auto Home ~

The new police station garage was
the subject Of bitter wrangling at last
night s meeting of the board of 81.
peFvisoFs and when the smoke Of bat.
tie cleared away, the city fathers woke
up TO the fact that they had gotten
stung to the extent Of twenty FIVE
dollars month for the next five years
rs rental of the property on which the
much discussed garage stands, i..-H
The garage in question has heen
completed and Contractor Henry Der.
tleman hSs not received his money for
it, which amounts to $l122. The land
belongs to me Austin Estate. Before
this garage was built the sheriff's de-
Ipartment had the land on a month to
month rental basis of ten dollars q
month. Now with a nice new $1l00
garage on it which the city fathers
will have to pay for somehow or other,
the Bishop Trust Co., which represents
the Austin Estate, want thirty five dol,
lars month and a lease for Ave years,
were Stung''
eve re stung!n some one of the
board muttered and then the superVis.
oTs had nothing else to do but accept
the lease. The discussion on this gar.
age question then became general and
at times heated. Supervisor AHA was
the only one of the board who accept
ed any responsibility in the matter and
said that he had "authoriZed one
seventh of the work to go ahead as
he was one of the seven members of
the board
Supervisor Bcllina was quite haZy as
to just what he had told Deputy Sheriff
Asch regarding the building of the
garage. Supervisor Mcclellan also
tried to get out from under along with
Supervisor .ITollingcr, but Supervisor
Mott Smith sprang the records and a
letter from the sheriff which did not
put either of them in the clear.
Supervisor Mott Smith seemingly en-
joyed the discontinue of his colleagues
and emphasized the fatct that it was
just procedure as this which was get,
ting the board in disrcpute with the
public.
Hoilinger To the Rescue
Supervisor Ben EIoIlingcr, who since
his recent disappointment over the APP
pointment of a park superintendent
has constituted himself the opposition
of the board, flew to the aid of Sheriff
Rose, who Was severely criticised by
Supervisor Mott Smith for going ahead
anl on his own initiative ordering the
construction of an unnecessary and un.
authorized police garage.
HoIlinger submitted to the board a
long, rambling report as member of
the finance committee, in which he
made a series of personal attacks on
Inn ha
tail of the five page document Holm.
ger naively remarked: "All through
this brief report | have tried to be
fair and courteous and make no person,
al reflections upon the maker and pub.
Usher of the initial report on the gar
age matter
The burden Of Ilolhnger : plant was
that the police needed the garage, that
Rose was a fine economical sheriff be-
cause he saved the money to pay for
it-and anyway, why raise II howl over
an accomplished fact
Supervisor Ben also made play to
the gallery, writing mournfully of the
poor tax payers in the heavy voting
districts who need roads and things
which Supervisor Mott Smith won t
let them have. He took fling at
the advCntitiOus aid of partisan
press and intinatcd that Mr.. Mott
Smith is not anywhere near as careful
over the expenditure of city money a.
he might be. lie hoped the board
would not rrpudo'c its just bills nor
waste time in ordering the payment
Of the bill for Roses garage
Following the reading of this lin
personal rebuke' Supervisor Mott
Smith announced that all he wished TO
say in answer to this UNJUST criticism
was that the report he made matter
nf fecord Of the board.