The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-07-17

saying had been carried out, DO
unto others as you would have others
do unto you, the residents at ka-
piolani Park would have had more
water. | don't mean to say that
they would have had full supply,
but still they would have had water
enough for the necessaries Of life.
The BULLETIN also says that some
mistakes were made in the past, that
would never have been known as
mistakes had it not been for this pro-
longed drought. There are two mis-
takes ! know of in this case, and
both will be remedied very shortly.
The first is since the Kings we'll
gave out, no other well has replaced
it, but since then we have been fav-.
ored with a bountiful supply of wa.
ter both from Nuuanu and Makiki
sources, and the frtesian system was
abandoned from lack of power, which
will be shown further on.
The second mistake, if it can be
called mistake, may be summed up
in very few words. Waikiki has
advanced with the times, aud out
grown her water supply. Fifteen
thousand feet of 4-inch pipe
means great amount of frlc-
ton and this 4-inch pipe is I'M
doubleday great mistake to-day,
but twelve years ago this same A.
inch pipe gave ample supply to the
lheu residents of Waikiki. Look
back twelve years or so at Honolulu
and you will find that 6-inch pipe
from Nuuanu valley was sufficient
for all the requirements. Where Is
it now? Replaced by a pipe four
times the capacity. The 6-lnch pipe
becoming too small was also mis-
take, although it did good service
for years, and in few years from
now the Pinch pipe will be as
great a mistake as the 6-inch was
ten years ago.
In few weeks from now an g.
inch pipe will be laid down TO Wal
kiki, which will be ample size for the
requirements of the present time,
but if Waikiki extends as much in
the next ten or twelve years as il
has done in the past, this 8 inch pipe
will be as great mistake in thu
Waikiki water supply, as the inch
pipe is at present.
The error spoken of in the BULLE'
TIN of cutting off the supply formerly
had from the artesian well at Mr.. &.
A. Browns property can easily be
answered. When the Kings well wa:
in good condition the two wells con
jointly supplied the whole of Wal
kiki, but as soon as the Kings well
collapsed the one on Mr.. Browns
property was no use. When dis
charging into all open tiume it shows
copioos stream, but turn this into
4-inch pipe $4,000 feet long and
watch the result, the 4.inch orifice al
the well will discharge 1869 gallons
per minute, and the open butt of the
pipe 900 feet from the well will
barely discharge 46 gallons per min
ute.
The distance from the well to the
bridge at Long Branch baths is 5000
feet, and in that distance there are
% privileges; Is are half-inch taps
and 10 quarter-inch taps. A half
inch tap with the head of the wei
will discharge about ID gallons per
minute, and if five of these taps art
opened simultaneously for only one
minute, the tap or privilege 1900
feet from the well will have little OF
no water on this 4-inch pipe line.
The 8-inch pipes are on the way
and may be expected within the next
six weeks, and when they arrive will
he put down with the utmost dis
patch; but, mark my words, if Wal.
kiki increases as much as it has done
within the last ten years, someone
ltH wears lIUIl lON VIII uhNC III C'tI-
toral either in the BULLETIN or some
other newspaper, saying the S-inci
pipe was one of the mistakes of the
Water Works. A l0-inch well is
proposed to be sunk for Waikiki
alone, and if the flow comes up to
the expectations now formed there
will be no scarcity of water at Wal.
kiki.
| heartily endorse the sentiments
of the writer in The BULLETIN, who
ever he may be, that every endeavol
he made next Legislature TO have a
good, solid, and reliable water sup
ply for the city of Honolulu and su
hurbs, either by gravitaton, pump
ing, or both in case of an emergency.
Thanking you for your courtesy,
am, yours very respectfully,
JOHN G. WHITE,
Supt. Water Works
/ 81.