The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-05-05
NEWS FROM HAWAII.
HiIO's Water WOrks-The De-
mandS Concerning the Vol
canO Road.


graph bill in the United States Con-
gress, is much TO be deplored by us,
And although the Bulletin seems to
be delighted with Judge Hartwell's
non success, we believe that the
Senate was blind to Uncle Sans
best interests, for we believe that we
will have telegraphic communica-
ton with the Coast somewhere, be-
fore many years pass. A line con
Meeting to Vancouver will answer
our purpose and put us iG connec-
ton with the worlds great arterial
telegraphic pulse, and bind us into
closer relations with the progress
siye movements of our times.
To be connected with the outside
world means advance for us. Then
the Nicaragua ship canal is finished,
as it is bound to be before long, Ha-
wail nei will be the half way house
to Japan, China and Australia. Bust
ness will center here more than it
now does. We will be better known
abroad. Capital will be attracted
here as it has never been before.
Our nation will fall into the forward
march of the other nations on earth.
Our resources will be developed, our
ports crowded with the merchant
vessels of the broad Pacific; our
varied agricultural products will
have vastly wider market and we
Will generally be on the prosperous
highway to wealth.
So let the cable come, if not from
Uncle Sans domains, from Canada,
Mexico, Central America or any
other place. Let US become a part
of the living active world.
We have assurances from those In
authority in Honolulu, that work
viii! be commenced on both the vol
cano road and the wharf, before
long. As to the former it seems to
us that there has been an unneces-
sary delay in getting at the work I'M
less the Minister of the Interior has
determined to put it out under con-
tract which we hope is not so. To
anyone understanding the nature of
the land over which the new line of
road is to run it is patent fact that
no contract" road will be built as
that road should be built. The route
is through the woods and over soft
loamy soil where the bed rock lies
more than two to four feet below the
surface. The road bed material
must be quaried out from underneath |
the top soil and although there is
plenty of good road material there
when uncovered still it is easy to see
what great chance there is for a
contractor to slight the work and
give us a fair looking road on top,
but which in twelve months traffic |
would cut up into a fearful mud |
hole. In order to have the con-
tractor build solid road bed, it would
be necessary to keep a good honest
man and one who knows how the |
road should be built, right along
with the contractor.
A man suitable for this purpose
could do the work himself and thus
insure good road, and we would be
sure of getting good road bed that
would last
A few days ago with some friends
we drove over the Volcano road to
Olaa, and although for one year not
3 stroke of work has been done on
it, we found the road in first class
condition. The bedding is solid,
and although our last years rains
have washed off some of the top
dressing, which needs repairing in
some places, still the road is in good
order and will keep so for some time
yet. And this is the kind of road
We want Friend Charley" to build
again. We know of no better man
than Marlin, who has had the ex
perience in building the first part of
the road, to be put in charge of its
finishing. Hilo protests against its
being let out by contract.
On the last trip up of the Kinau,
the electric lights suddenly went
out and the whole boat was in dark
ness. 1t seems the main copper
wire from the dynamo was burnt off
and could not be replaced; SO dark
ness reigned, and had it not been |
that the nights were lit by bright
moon, the staterooms would have
been left in utter darkness.
The Circuit Court opens next |
week Tuesday, and business will be
Old the arrival of the
Court, on the next Kinau.
It is rather unfortunate that Her
Majesty the Queen arrives here just |
on the opening day of the Court. |
But still we will all be glad to do |
what we can to make her short stay
here pleasant. We understand that |
the Kinau takes her from here to
Kau on the next trip.
NJ. O.. Correa has assigned to |
Hitchcock & Hitchcock, for
the benefit of his creditors; this is
the third assignment in Hilo within |
a month.
The first drawing of the Wich-
man Watch Club was held last even
ing, and No. sc was the lucky num-
Der. Now is the time to get a good
watch cheap.
The social, held last Friday even
ing at the residence of Mr.. Loeben- !
stein, was very enjoyable affair. A
of our townspeople were out |
of town, but there was a goodly |
there nevertheless.
The latest from the Volcano is that |
the fire has returned to its old home, |
hut ia not vary active amalI lake |