The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-02-23

others work.
AS regards the first of the causes,
unsuitable material, can anything
be more unsuitable for road max
ing than the red volcanic earth our
road-patchers are so fond of, which
having been laid down by the
load in dry weather, the finer
particles are forthwith blown
away by the trade wind in a
most annoying and penetrat-
ing form of dust, while the
remainder having been converted
into mud is either scraped together
and carted away at an expense
equal to the cost of bringing it in
the first instance, or else is left to
be reconverted into dust by the
first sunny trade-wind day The
second objection, viz, irregularity
of size and excessive material.
This excess is we'll illustrated in
the piece of road now in course of
construction from Beretania, oppo-
site Emma street, to Hotel street,
at the Fashion Stables, where from
four to ten inches thickness of
broken stone has been recently
laid. AS to size and regularity,
the writer we quote from says
"The largest gauge admissible is
two-inch ring through which every
stone may pass in its greatest di-
mansions. Even this gauge will
prove excessive for the harder
materials" at is doubtful if Il
the axiom laid down by McAdam
can be reasonably refuted." 1t is
every stone that exceeds an inch
in its largest dimensions is mis-
chievous." The third objection,
wrong transverse section, may be
amply illustrated in this city,
where the sections may be best de-
scribed as doubtful and various.
Upon the fourth, ignorance and in
capacity of surveyors and Ia
borers, we need not enlarge
just now; we have seen enough
of both, and are hoping for change
which must needs be for the better.
9th. The proper season for repairs
here-the rainy season. Nos. 6 and
Z may both be considered as appli-
cable to Honolulu. Our roadmaker
goes on to say that 'the incorpora-
ton of the finer chips Of stone will
be of positive benefit in filling up
the interstices that naturally exist
in stones, but road scrapings, con-
sisting of dead leaves, 'et hoe genus
omne,' together with sods of grass
and debris from the road edges or
waterways, should under no cir
cumstances be put back on the
road"
Further instructions are given
for laying coating of stone with a
steam roller. The new materials
are to be spread to a uniform thick
ness of full three inches. Town
pavements, scavenging and water
ing are also dealt with, as well as
financial questions these latter,
however, are for the most part ire
levant here, as referring to the
methods of various local govern
ment boards in England
Hints to country road men is
another of these sheets, where
ample instructions for road making
and repairing are given under
thirty-two different clauses. An
other pamphlet of thirty-two pages
is on the same group of subjects,
and is in it's tenth thousand.
All these papers are widely dis
tributed and highly appreciated by
bicycle riders or "wheelmen," to
whom good roads are as important
as they are to the drivers and own
ers of quadrupeds and vehicles.
Cycling is becoming so general and
so favorite an amusement here that
we hope that the wheelmen will
keep a good look out on the road,
men, and be sufficiently unanimous
and weighty to make their repre-
sensations worthy of consideration
by road boards.
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