The Pan-Pacific Peace Palace at Hawaii.

Progress, Volume XV, Issue 1, 1 September 1919, Page 591

The Pan-Pacific Peace Palace at Hawaii.

For the great Pan-Pacific Peace Conference to take place in 1920 and 1921, it is proposed to erect a large hall for . conference meetings. The Hawaiian legislature has set aside £2OOO towards prelimin-

ary expenses in calling the proposed congress to Honolulu and other Pacific Governments have either appropriated or promised financial support to the scheme.

"In the window of the Fort Street headquarters of the Pan-Pacific Information Bureau," says the Honolulu "Commercial Advertiser," "is displayed a big model in plaster of the proposed Pan-Pacific Peace Palace and conference auditorium to be

erected in Honolulu. The information bureau will be permanent."

The proposed Peace" Palace has been designed byMessrs Dickey and Wood, of Honolulu. It will be a community building, housing not only the PanPacific Union, but many other welfare organisations. It is anticipated that the building will be endowed, so that the Boy Scouts, the Hawaiian organisations, the women's clubs and the soldiers' we!-

fare workers will be given free homes. One of the trustees of the Pan-Pacific Union has already assured a site for the building "facing the civic centre and it is believed that governments of the Pacific as well as private capitalists will subscribe liberally toward the building of an auditorium for the holding of the Pan-Pacific conferences, as weir as toward a permanent home and offices for the workers who conduct the business of these conferences. "'

In the meantime a prospectus of the proposed Pan-Pacific Peace Palace is being prepared, for the trustees of the Union are already contributing twice as much .toward the work as is appropriated by the Hawaiian legislature. The design for the palace was first suggested as a soldiers' and sailors' memorial. It comprises a Greek theatre that will seat 5000. In front of this is the main building, one wing of which will house a theatre seating 2000, the other a picture gallery and memorial hall and auditorium. Artists' studios will be housed in the upper part of the connecting corridor between the great wings, the main floor of the corridor being reseved. for the " executive officers of the Pan-Pacific

Union. Behind this is the big stage before the Greek theatre auditorium. In the ample space beneath the back tiers of seats in the arena will be the headquarters and offices, offered to the useful civic clubs and organisations as well as banquet halls, etc. .Above .these in a second storey, will bo housed the Pan-Pacific Commercial Museum. Tho facade of'the main building- will be reflected in a pond of clear spring water. In the' basement around the entire block of buildings it is proposed to house permanently the scenic dioramas of Hawaii as ell as others of scenes from all Pacific lands.