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THE GARDEN ISLAND. TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1917.
Beautifyiug The Land We Live In
Paper rend lvfore tin- Mnkiliiina Chili ly Mr. .1. A. ('ampUII. Vin
l'r-!i Ji-iit of tin Out Door t'inie, of
I Iullcilulll.
This is the first time I have been
on Kauai and I am greatly charm
ed with your beautiful Island. It
is unique. I am delighted with
the remarkable work your club is
accomplishing and I cotisider vou
are working quite along the right
lines
I also consider it a decided com
pliment to be asked bv your chair
man to come here and address' you
and I will endeavor to give vou
some data in connection with our
work in Honolulu.
Possibly many of vou remember
the former Art League which was
in existence for manv years and
under its 'auspices manv a credit
able exhibi: was given and many
pleasant and profitable atternoons
and evenings spent.
In Jauuarv 1912 a new circle
was formed by Miss Lawrence to
be known as the Out Door Circle
of the Kilohana Art League. Mrs
r . J . Lowrev as chairman with a
membership of seven.
The Kilohana Art League dis
banded April 4. 1913 and then the
Out Door organized as an inde
pendent club, with Mrs. F. 1.
Lowery as president and Miss
Lawrence, secretary.
The Circle members constituted
the executive committee. This
committee adopted a constitution,
formed neighborhood circles and
had the right to appoint special
committees.
The aims of the Circle were as
follow and are still the object
toward which they are working:
1. riant shade trees on streets.
2. Secure sidewalks and curbes,
urging concrete sidewalks.
3. Removal of all old fences.
4. Rid city of Bill Boards.
5. Clean up vacant lots.
6. Get a much hibiscus planted
as possible.
7. Park open spaces.
S. Establish play grounds for
children.
9. To conserve and develop the
natural beauties of the land scape,
but encouraging the growing of
native trees and shrubs and the in
troduction of such new ones as be
long to tropital life.
The first annual meeting of the
Circle was held January 20, 1913,
thirty ladies being present. The
reports for the vear were most
satisfactory much work having
been accomplished. From this
small beginning the Out Door Cir
cle has grown until we number
over five hundred and twenty-five
members. Each vear we are en
larging our Circle of industry and
improvement until sometime in the
future where nature has been so
lavish in showering her beauties
upon us we expect our Islands
to be the most beautiful and pic
turesque spot on the face of the
globe, all "one great park with our
cities and towns tuck in between
vacant spares,"
Mrs. F. J. Lowery remained our
president for five years and under
her able leadership a wonderful
amount of work has been accom
plished although at times it seem
ed as if she was working against
unsurmountable odds.
We now have neighborhood cir
cles in all parts of the city work
ing under strong and efficient
chairman, each chairman reported
work accomplished at each regular
meeting. During Mrs. Lowery 's
time wo undertook the improve
ment of the executive grounds
which were in a deplorable condi
tion and through our efforts ugly
tiees and straggling shrubs have
been removed, palms planted, trees
trimmed and grass properly at
tended to. About one thousand
dollars has been spent bv us on
the executive grounds. We hav
ing made most of the money ex
pended in an entertainment given
on the Roof Garden of the Young
Hotel called '"A night in Roof
Land." At different times we
have given entertainments thereby
realizing funds by means of which
we have been able to carrv on our
work. We have also had volun
tary contributions, but have never
solicitated funds. Our entertain
ments have been unique and worth
while and people have responded
most generously.
We have planted many trees on
our different streets, on Kalakatia
Avenue alone we have one thou
sand oleander hushes, seven hun
dred cocoauuts and, as far as
where the street car intersects the
avenue a main parking planted
with inn mahogany trees. We
keep a man mi Kalakatia Avenue
all the tune attending to the glass
and trees.
Our fight against Bill Boards has
been very strenuous Wher we com
menced our work in 1913. fortv
local firms wetc using bill boards
all over the island now only four
local concerns are using them. We
also had many foreign firms ad-
Ivertise in the same wav, there
number had been reduced to about
the same as our local firms.
Our educational committee is ac
complishing a verv fine work
among the children of the various
schools encouraging them to care
for their school grounds, teaching
them to plant rud care for plants.
We have had buttons made with
"O.D.C." on them winch are giv- j
en to the children who ate consid-1
ered worthy. In your work here in j
Kauai, encourage your school chil-:
dren, whatever the nationalitv, .to
care for and beautify their schools
and their homes, intetest your
teachers so thev may interest the
children and much can be accom-1
plished in this way.
"In lv05 a movement was start
ed for the improvement of Hono
lulu. Those interested saw the
need of a well considered plan for
the beautification of the city in ac
complishment of which all efforts
should tend.
"The civic federation commit
tee on streets, parks, and public
works opened- negotiations with
Mr. Chas. Mulford Robinson, the
well-known civic adviser of Roch
ester, New York.
"Through the interest and acti
vity of the chairman of the road
committee, the Board of Supervi
sors of the County of Oahu made
an appropriation to bring Mr. Rob
inson to Honolulu. Mr. Robin
son arrived in Honolulu. February
19, 1906, and his report met with
general approval and from it manv
ideas may be gleamed to be used
by other island towns and cities
besides Honolulu. We as a club
intend to follow his plans as near
as possible. In fact, Mr. Mulgard,
who spoke at our last meeting, ad
vised us to take it as our Koran,
the following paragraphs a r e
quoted from his report.:
"When all is said, whatever de
velopment is given Honolulu and
its surrounding country . should be
first and foremost for the comfort
and enjoyment of its own citizens.
They pay the bills, they live in
stead of visiting here atid in sug
gesting improvements for our city
we have to consider what will im
prove it for them, make it better
worth living in, add to the com
fort and the pleasure in life of its
own citizens. If we make the city
more beautiful to them, adding to
their contentment and happiness,
we shall also make it more attrac
tive to strangers.
"For a town is not like a pic
ture simply to be looked at and
admired, it is to be lived in, and
loved; and the more lovable it is
the more people will come to it.
The lovable quality is personality.
The home is attractive, however
modest its cost, that expresses per
sonality. So the town which is
the home of manv, must have it, if
it is to please them and to attract
others, and towns do have indivi
duality. There never have been
two cities just alike, and he would
be a ruthless iconoclast who would
try to pattern one city after an
other. We must preserve the in
dividualitv of our cities, or their
charm will depart.
"Cut through broad avenues and
boulevards, build a hot and sunny
quay, widen your streets and
straighten them, spend enough
money in such measures hoplesslv
to bankrupt your city, and when
the work is done the winsonieness
of Honolulu will have departed,
and it will always be spoken of as
the city tliat was spoiled.
"So be true to yourselves do
not dream of what other cities
haye done; but far isolated from
them davelop your own individual
it v. be Hawaiian, be a more beau
tiful Honolulu, Then vou will
have distinction and only them."
So it is with every town and
city in Hawaii or anv other coun
try forget the checker board sys
tem, pieserve vour own indivi
duality first and foremost.
Studv your town collectively
then individually garden by gar
denstreet bv street park by
park preserve vonr old land
marks if attractive. Make theit
attractiveness a nuckus u p o n
which to build, preserve vour tree
if possible unless thev are so locat
ed or so unsightly in appearance
that the beautv of the surrounding ;
landscaus would be enhanced with
out them. I
Retain your curving lims, where i
rnggedness is the ke note plant;
your pine trees or cacti as tlieras'
requires. White nature laughs and'
dimples pre-crve her smiles round j
out and assist her, do not trv to
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improve her natural charms it is
as impossible as to paint the illu
siveness of the rainbow.
Flower gardens properly con
ducted need no sponsers, they
speak for themselves. What a
wealth of vegetation we can raise
in these Islands of ours, in what
other clinic will one find the gera
nium and orchMs, pines and palms
hob nobbing in the same garden.
Wealthy and poor alike may
indulge in natures riches if thev
will only give a little forethought
and time as to the proper diet and
care of these children of mother
earth.
But in arranging and planting
vour gardens preserve their dig
nity, retain your open lawns flow
er bordered. Xo matter how beau
tiful the plant specimens may be,
do not destroy the dignity of vour
lawns by dotting them all over
with single specimens'
'Another important matter, study
vour color scheme, keep your gar
den also your neighborhood har
monious in this respect.
Our Islands as time goes on will
become the playgrounds of the
rich as well as the resting place of
the traveler, may all find here tjie
Elixa of life.
"In many parts of America a
movement of first importance and
of great proportion is taking place,
natnelv the replannig of cities. In
many cities the plans for the fu
ture are most elaborate and of a
most magnificent character,"
The subject is one which is of
vital importance, not only to the
people in public lite but to every
citizen who has the good of his
country at heart.
The planning of a city invo ves
first the thorough and complete
work of a city engineer, who is
master of his work who under
stands the structural elements such
as water supply, lighting, main
tenance, traffic svstem, refuse dis
posal, and all the factors which
form a part of the complete city,
he- must understand the practical
as well as the theoretical side of
the question.
City planning determines the
destiny of a city. It develops ar
tistic taste, civic pride and patrio
tism; it makes better citizens and
artisans, it adds to the comfort
and happiness, it helps to increase
the population anil to produce in
dustrial prosperity, it also attracts
industries, commerce and visitors,
it produces better transportation
facilities impiovcs hygienic con
ditions, and more adequate and
less expensive living quarters and
fiod supplies,
"City planning is a business J
proposition of the first importance.
We might call this the Renaissance
of American cities, a re-awakening
it ueie. The art of city,
planning is of great antiquity, j
The remains of the earliest com-;
nuinal abodes of man no matter
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how primitive show a certain defi
nite arrangement.
"With the development of races,
villages became towns and town
cities, continually on a larger
scale, and it is undcubtehly true
that the higher the degree of civi
lization of a people, the greater
will be the size of its cities also of
its possessions. 1 he civilization
of the Romans was largely ex
pressed in the city of Rome. The
glories of the ancient people gen
erally were expressed in their
cities.
"Sir Christopher Wien in 1666
after the great fire of London. had a
plan to reconstruct the city which
would have made it one of the
most beautiful in the world. but he
was ahead of his time and London
was permitted to grow up into the
disordered mass of streets and
lanes that makes it the greatest
spot of confusion today on the
face of the globe.
Thus look ahead embrace vour
opportunities and build your cities,
not for today but for tomorrow.
Most city planers have to recon
struct their cities. Not so with
L'Enfant wdio planned the city of
Washington, the most beautiful
city in America, but he was for
tunate in having the support of
the founders of the republic as
well as an unencumbered site up
on which to build .
"Equally fortunate was Baron
Ilaussnian who rebuilt Paris. He
was. given a free hand and a plan
was developed, in which concep
tion of order, variety and grandeur
were not allowed to be interfered
with bv question of expense. Great
avenues were cut through laby
rinth of streets and foul and con
gested districts were replaced with
parks and spacious squares. Hun
dreds of millions were spent and
Paris is still spending gladly with
a lavish hand for the extensions of
his plan,
"The early masters left us only
their accomplished works as ex
amples. Modern or practical city
planning, therefore, is a new art
based upon principles, theories.
and piactice only recently placed
on n scientific basis."
The planning of a city like the
planning of anything else should
be made in view of its uscfullness,
and in addition make it as artistic
as possible.
"Strength of design should be
first and foremost, it should have
breadth of view and boldness of
execution. It should be built with
an eve for its future usefulnees. A
C'ty should not only house its peo
ple but should be an inspiration
ior iuuire aenicvcmer.ts ami an
object of civic pride.
"The numerous and important I
problems of the cities are dcmnnd-l
ing a specialized form of engineer
ing in America. The detail en
gineering of a city has been the
province of the civil engineer often
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called t h e municipal engineer.
But the making and unmaking of
cities demands special engineering
features and requires special prep
eration and studv. The problems of
the citv should be studied in all
their phases. Many blundeis and
much money is spent bv well
meaning people who have the good
of their city at heart, but are not
thorougly conversGiit with all sides
of the question.
"First obtain the most compe
tant engineer available better a
stranger wdio sees his work in the
largeness of the whole, without
sentiment. A good example of
this was when the continental gov
ernment not governed by false
ideas of patriotism sent to France
and had the French engineer L'
Enfant come to America and plan
the city of Washington. Every
city should have on file a compre
hensive plan of its ultimate im
provement. "Although the expenses at first
may seem beyond the limits of the
city's finances, in the end it proves
to be the economic standpoint and
profitable to all.
"In planning for vour cities
have bigness of vision, boldness of
execution and far sightness out
look into the future that at times
seem almost beyond the kin of
man. Take for instance San Fran
cisco out of the destruction caused
by the earthquake and fire a more
lovely city is rising although manv
of the sentimentalists will tell one
that old San Francisco was far
more attractive.
'It is almost impossible to es
timate the good the Pan-Pacific
Exposition did for the West. Cali
fornia with her slumbering ideas
of art was aroused and awaked
and made to understand what a
jewel could be produced in almost
a day fiom one of the most uglv
unsanitary .unattractive situations.
It seems as if it would be almost
impossible to surpsss the wonder
ful arrangement and beauty of the
jeweled city.
'So here in Hawaii where we
have been so gifted by nature let
lis all work toward an ultimate
end so thnt sometime in the fu
ture these "the most beautiful
chain of islands ever anchored in
any sea" may be added to and
beautified until they are a verit
able emerald in a sapphire set
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