The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-08-14
THI PROPOSED ELECTRIC Road.

long expected ooom hSo ossun
I As Is well known. the ApvERTISgE
/ hiss been agiiaiiug this subject for
F several mouths, 50 that there Is nc
I need Of an elaborate rsSiztemsnt o:
views which are al-esdy we'll
known TO the public. We believe
that there Is = promising field for
such s rozd in Honolulu, aud that
If the line Is economically con-
structed sud judiciously selected.
il viii pay. These who Sre always
more interested in 6eerying than
in fostering new enterprises have
drawn attention TO the fact that
the Hawaiian Trsmways Company
I psys very small dividends, and
the inference Is drawn that s new
road. dividing the traffic, could not
psy any In the FIST place, it
should be borne in mind tha, the
service Of the Trsmways Company
Is fsr from satisfactory, and that
with 5 better service considers
bic increase in travel might reason
sb,v Dc expected. The number Of
ua-So1S who maintain their own Or
Use hired carriages Is indefinitely
greater than !: would De if
c.sauer. better and faster cars
were run, snd streets opened
up which the present company
doss no: reach. II Is s very COM
mon fac: :ha: the supply often
anticipates the demani and crea.ss
il This is particularly true in the
railroad business.
!: should Be remembered further
th2; the present company. with lis
King, Bsretania and Nuuanu street
lines, has 70 pay interest on stock
and bonds amounting 70 $4,000.
I, Is probable thst for the same
sum rozd csn Be constructed
which viii reach much further.
znd drain 5 larger field Of travel
with correSpondingly larger re-
turns. An electric line to Judd
street, Wis Nuusnu, Lilihs and
School, TO Wsikiki and the Park
by the besch. snd TO Punahou via
hinsu and Lunalilo streets and
Wilder Avenue, will get the bulk
Of the through travel. besides 3
considerable number Of intermedi-
ale passengers. Moreover. it viii
mske It's own customers By hasten
ing the settlement Of new localities.
With the Eveliec conditions which
vii prevail here in 2 short time.
there viii Dc s growth in popula-
ton and : b0on IN house building.
The electric line viii. 70 large ex-
tent. determine the direction in
which the city viii grow, and
streets which now exist chiefly in
the msps, o. in the minds ere,
viii give the company more pas
ssngsrs 10 the block than King and
Bsretznia-
These snticips.ions may seem
somewhat rosezte 70 the doubling
Thouzses who require the evil
denoss Of their senses 70 persuade
them. and who are hardly con
WINGED then. Such people are
lacking in commercial magma
ton : they lag behind the reforms
Of others The tine has come in
however, when the cOun-
.ry Is going 10 b developed. The
work viii b done. and the profits
-5aped by people who have CON
Imagination :" who can
count tLs:r chickens before they
are hztchei and count them night.
No d01b; the building Of an cleo
TIC stree; railroad viii Be very in
1-ious 70 the present TramEays
We are sincerely s0rry
'cr Il, but it's one Of those things
which cznno, b helped. The
present company h2s road worth
$4,000 with which It i trying to
.zrn 8 return on s500,000- This
: uphill work. We wish Il we're
.zsier We are sincerely sorry for
hose stockholders IN London.
Honolulu, however, must 90 ahead,
zhether those stockholders sink CT