The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-05-06
COUNTY LIBRARY
PROJECT READY
TO TAKE ACTION
Committee from Trustees of
Present Association Will
Present Proposals to Super
visors at Meeting.

W. BlOJtCiS VIII Ut put DtlOIt lilt
board of supervisors next week look
ing to compliance with the County
Library Law which makes available
the $4,000 appropriated by the legis-
Iature for county library for Maui.
"A committee of three from the
trustees of the present library associa-
ton will present the proposals.
The ibraIy association trustees met
yesterday, filled three vacancies by
the appointment of Mrs. w. A. Bald
win, Mrs. d. H. Case and J. H. Gray,
considered the situation in it's vari-
GUS aspects and named a committee
composed OF d. H. Case, chairman,
Charles Wilcox and j. H. Gray to
take the subject up with the supervis-
OrS.
One proposal is for the board TO
purchase a site and building and for
the present association to turn the
present library over to the county.
The second proposal is to offer to
enter into a contract with the board
for the conduct of the library provid-
ing the county will furnish an avail
able site and building, not necessarily
owned by the county. 1t is suggest
ed the town hall can be used for
library purposes since the county has
long lease on the property.
Questions of Sites
Choice of site for the Maui County
Library has come in for attention of
the reading public since the enact
ment of the County Library Law and
it is expected that a request for the
purchase of site will be made of the
board of supervisors when that body
meets next week. Some difference of
opinion exists as to the part of town
where library should be located as
was discernable at the meeting of the
Woman's Club on Monday, when the
subject was discussed and referred
back to the library committee Of the
club.
Expressions of preference for To-
cation in the vicinity of the court
house and other expressions for one
in the vicinity of Main and Market
ireets are heard. In the former Sec
lSon two sites have been proposed,
oneapf which is certainly available if
it Fin be taken at once. In the lat
ter there are good grounds for objec-
tion to every proposal that has been
offered.
Sites Are Suggested
Among the sites which it is said
could be secured are the property now
occupied by d. H. Case, the town hall,
Grand Hotel lands, Weddick property
on Main street above Market, land ad-
jacent to the Fashion Store on Market
street, leasing of a store in the new
building which the Baldwin Bank is to
erect on Market street, piece of the
Church of Good Shepherd property,
and an indefinite location on the sand
hills. An option has been given on
the property occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
D. H. Case for the present month at
price of $500, and it could be put into
shape for library use by expending
$500, the county engineer is reported
to have said. The Case property ap-
pears to be the most suitable and
available of any that has been sug-
gested.
Those who advocate a location on
High street present strong arguments
for their proposal. The locations there
are more slightly and larger, giving
ample room for further improvement
and growth. 1t is the civic center of
the community and is more available
for the school children than any other
part of town. In answer to the asser-
ton that it is remote from the more
populous sections of town and the
business center is the fact that it
would be as conveniently located as
the court house and county offices,
more so than the Wailuku Union
Church and the school, as the town
hall, and nearly as much so as are the
Chamber of Commerce rooms.
Most Sites Faulty
To secure the town hall condemna-
ton proceedings would be necessary,
and the statute is such as to make
eminent domain action almost imprac-
ticable.
The Grand Hotel site would cost
much more than would the Case
place, and the corner is one of the
noisiest in town.
Church Of Good Shepherd property
faces on no generally travelled street,
but on a narrow and little travelled
side street, and if handsome build
ing be erected on it, such building
would be hidden away instead OF an
ornament to the town.
The Weddick property is desired by
Alexander Settlement, if 1t can be
purchased, and the Settlement needs
all the lsPd in that vicinity it can Sc
cure REFUSES of its own. The prop
erty adjacent 10 the Fashion Store is
not on a mair thoroughfare, not so
large as either the Case OF the town
hall site, has garage next door on
one side and a frame building on the
corner and the question OF price