The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-12
THE STORM.
Unusual RaInfsII-Iucidenfs of the
FIOOd-PrOperty Injured.

last has left behind it the traces OF much
damage done in and about Honolulu. Dur
ing the storm 10 inches Of rain fell at Pun
ahou; at DR.. McKibbin's, in town, 10. 50
inches; al the ice works in Nuuanu Valley,
8.8 inches; and at Hon. q. II. whitney,, II
inches. All this fall was in less than TWEEN
ty-four hours, and between 2 and P. m. Of
Sunday 4 inches Of this quantity fell. Dur
ing the afternoon of Sunday, while il was
raining at the rate Of one inch per hour the
streets of the city were simply impossible
for people on foot, and as a large number
had waited until the last moment to witness
the funeral procession, if it came of, all
the hacks in town were kept busy for an
hour or more taking people home. During
the night the rain fell steadily but not in
such volume as during the day. Yesterday
morning it was still raining, but by noon
the storm had apparently ceased, and people
began to move about again.
TOUR OF Inspection.
Early in the morning our reporter started
out to see what had been the effect of the
storm, and the following is his report: All
the streets in the city leading to the harbOr
have been washed very clean. In many
spots the upper layer of black sand has been
swept away, exposing the filling Of white
coral-rock. The grade of Beretania street
to the level of Smiths bridge has been con-
siderably tosn away, and in fact through
out the town wherever the water found a
rut or inequality in the roadway it quickly
made a channel of the one and deepened and
widened the other. Standing on
SMITHS BRIDGE
And looking up stream the river was seen to
be running there bank-fulI, and from the
debris line, high up on either side, it could
be seen that when the storm was at its
hight the volume of water must have been
very great. There is a Chinese Joss house
on the low fat Immediately above the
bridge, which looks from its position as
though its builders would have been wise if
they had built it on fiat boat to insure its
safety in such freshets as came down last
Sunday. But somehow or other it was not
moved by the waters that surged around il,
and it still continues to bear aloft its gilded
dragon and red paper inscriptions. On its
veranda the circular furnace in which the
prayers of the faithful are consumed is in-
tact, and the scent of the sandlewood still
stiles the smell of the sewage. Passing be-
yond the bridge and keeping on up the west
bank of the stream there was plenty of indi-
cations of the force of the freshet. The
bank in many places has been torn away,
and the banks of the numerous taro patches
have broken down. A large number of ban
ana trees have been uprooted, and groups Of
native children of both sexes were amusing
themselves by plunging, ACQUIRED as they
were, into the yellow water, and riding the
slippery green trunks down the stream.
THE sCHooL-sTREET BRIDGE
And it's approaches are uninjured, and from
that bridge, looking upwards to the noun
tain, the two streams that unite near this
point presented a fine appearance. Their
channels are rocky and the banks precipi-
tous, and from the nature of the ground the
surroundings are still natural and pictur-
esque. At the second bridge in Nuuanu
street the debris remaining on the banks
showed that the water at its hight had
touched the braces of the bridge under
of the abutments, the road has been caved in,
and two lengths of the fourteen-inch water
pipes strung along the road have tumbled
into the bed of the stream below. Return
ing from the second bridge, and going along
School street towards Punch Bowl, en- all
sides is seen the effect of the misdirected en-
ergy of the water. On the corner of Nuu-
anu
MR.. AFoNG's HANDSOME GARDEN
Is partly under water, and, further along,
Mr.. Serene Bishops lot is submerged in it's
lower part. As the grade of the street rises
near Punch Bowl, the ruts worn and dug
outs made by the rushing torrents grow
deeper and the gardens on the downtown
side of the way have been badly washed out.
It is about the base of Punch Bowl that
the small streams running down its sides
gathered themselves for grand rush sea-
ward. Their combined forces, augmented
every few feet by fresh currents, tore up the
loose soil of the irregular bitches, and bore
it and confused medley of modern broken
crockery and tinware-as well as more
ancient, missionary shards-which, with
brushwood, broomsticks, bottles and broken
bricks (from the old kiln that some may re
member as standing years ago on the hill
side), down Punch Bowl street to the Bere-
tania-street crossing.
The course of the torrent was to de-
post this rubbish on the grounds of the
North Pacific Theological Institute, but hap
PLY for that praiseworthy institution the
stout board fence surrounding the Central
Park Skating Rink checked the wide stream
in its descent upen the harmless theologues,
and forced it to deposit its rubbish else
where. With a recognition of the
ETERNAL FITNESS OF THINGS
The stream backed up the street a little
way and flooded the yard of the Road Super
visor. Then it backed still further up and
wantonly forced an entrance into other gar
dens. BY this time the pressure brought to
bear on the fence to the skating rink proved
more potent than the foods of denunciatory
eIoquence that have been poured on the in
stitution from the religious press, and down
it went.
THE WATERS RUSHED OVER THE SKATING RINK
FLOOR,
And began depositing a coating of mud on
its smooth surface III a way to delight The
Friend. This accumulated until it was
about two inches thick, but as the floor
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