The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-05-08
CAMP LILIUOKALANL.
Wilson'S Water Workers The
Weather and Progress a
Move of Camp-Nearing
the End.

ceedingly pleasant weather has favored
the workers of Superintendent VIII
sons water party, in the wilds o.
Waikolu, and, as a consequence, RAPID
progress has been made in the COM
pletion of the labor of placing the
water supply pipes in position, and in
connection, at this point. The bridge
layers, under the superintendent OF
Mr.. Sam Gandell, have completed
their labors, and now two 100-feet
truss bridges span the sparkling and
clear waters of the Waikolu stream at
two points. The bridges were con-
strueted after plans supplied by Super
intendent Wilson, and are well capa-
bic of fulfilling the part assigned them
in forming the connecting links be-
tween the river banks and sustain, it
may be for years but hardly forever,
the pipe lines placed thereon. With
the bridges thus in position and pipe
lines laid and connected, the much
wished for consummation of a con-
tinuous connection from the reservoir
at Waikolu to the Waileiia stream at
Kalawao, or more properly Papule, is
almost I'm .fdH dccon1pLi, and will be
so ere these lines appear in print. The
line of pipes thus finished will sum up
a total of nearly 1000 feet.
The pipe-laying and bodybuilding
/, nj IL,
lions of the work which required the
attention of the sojourners in this vale
of "three waters,n other necessary
labor being required in combining the
dashing waters within such bounds as
would insure the formation of a never
failing reservoir, cordoned by Natures
own appliances, in the shape of huge
boulders, whose bulky fronts would
buffet back the powerful beat of eX-
pected freshets, and much thought
and labor were expended in the re-
moval of dreaded obstacles and the
placement of the running waters in
proper channel. This has been salts
factorily accomplished, and now, by a
sort of paradoXical measure, an artifi-'
cial natural channel, the supply
reaches a well cemented receiving
cistern, and once there is soon "cabin-
ed, cribbed and confined within the
line of pipe that leads onward to the
very doors of the long-suffering people
at Kalawao aud Kalaupapa. The
finishing touches are now being given
to the connections and receiving els
tern, and it is the intention of Super
intendent Wilson to test this line by
I'm I1n prh
II 900 feet of pipe on Sunday, May 9th.
Besides the work at Waikolu con-
tinuous line of pipe has been also con-
nected and covered from the point
mentioned lPapule) to the summit at
Kalaupapa nearly opposite the en-
trance to the well-known Waihonou
valley And again along the main
road at Kalaupapa running towards
Ilioli is another stretch of supply-pipe
whose usefulness will not be allowed
to remain long uncalled for. Alto
gether, up to this writing, there has
been laid and will soon be called into
active service a total of over q 900 feet
of pipe. Good work, think you?
should say so, and / most particularly
wish to impress upon you the fact that
this represents not merely the connect
ing simply, but also the travelling,
of pipe and the many, many
weary trips under the dangerous per-
pendicular precipices and over the
rough bouldered beach between Wal
lolu and Kalawao. But the end
drawett near.
Business and pleasure combine well
together if taken i'll properly mixed
doses, and as ] have written pretty
fully of the laborious portion of the
life here, / think that may be you will
be pleased to lightly turn to more in
reading, so I'll write of our
pleasures. They are, however, of little
extent bathing, fishing, target prac-
tice and walks after hog tracks 1--WE
rarely sight the hog, occupying our
leisure hours. By the way, mention
ing target practice reminds me that
the pigtail which Godfrey has been
haunting around so proudly ever since
he shot his boar, has taken a
tumble and now lies in some unknown
corner of the Camp. Superintendent
Wilson with his little gun caused the
covering of the pake accompaniment,
ne on recent evening shooting the
veritable "terror of Waikolu,n a boar
over 325 pounds and "holy
terror even in death. Natives who
had been attacked by the hog previ-
0usly, recognized him, and reioiced.
Within few minutes after the death
Of this cluster" Superintendent Viii
son further added to his record by lay
ing out another boar, 800 FOUNDER,
with tusks about four inches in length.
The game thus obtained was raised
Dy an accidental shot into a pile of
rocks while Wilson was engaged at tar
ret practice l will give Godfrey little
credit by saying he did "stopn the sec
md boar by $50 yard shot, but he did
not kill the terror
1t may sound strange to you but
more of our pleasures consist in the
are sport of shooting whales and por-
loises, the latter especially being plen-
iful, while cetacean representatives
Ire now very rarely seen. In the val
ey fiocks of the iiwi, red-plumaged |
Hawaiian bird, may be seen and sew
raj of them have been trapped, with |
he aid of breadfruit gum, by the ma
ives.
The steamer Mokolii, on which we
lad all so strongly built hopes of |
our regular letter carrier. has /