The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-24
ROADS ON HAWAII.
An Agitation Has Been Com
meneed to Secure Good Ones.

MeHC6u W OeCUlo uUOu OAOo'
The following correspondence is
self explanatory. 1t refers to roads
on Hawaii and was brought out
by letter that was recently pub
Iished in this journal:
Mr.. \. B. LOBENsTEIN.
DEAR SIR:-I have carefully read
the letter to the editor of the HAWAI-
IAN GAZETTE that you left with me
10 be revised or forwarded as written
by you for publication. l have mace
two changes that / am sure you Will
approve of on second thought. You
said in your letter, "The road through
the Hilo district, between Hilo and
Honomu can well afford to be rele-
gated to the future" etc. rms
T changed to read, Between HIlo
and Papaikou, can never Afford"
etc, as you must have forgotten
for the moment the exceedingly bad
road beginning at Papaikou, crossing
the layas of Paihoaloa and kalaoa,
the Leinahapuna gulch, and steep,
shoe-Ioosening, horse killing climb out
of the Onomea and Kawainui gulches,
and the bad crossings between kulal-
manu- ard Honomu, and the steep and
narrow roads across HOnOmu ana
Kolekole gulches, all the places L
mention being, as you know, utterly
impassable for wheeled vehicles OF
any kind whatever, and must remain
so until the grades are changed, no
matter what may be done IN the way
of filling up mud holes anu throwing
out loose stones.
Won said i'm YOUR letter. "But from
Honomu or Hakalau on to Laupahoe-
hoe means the construction of an en-
tireIy new graded road" This L
changed to read, "But from Papaikou
on to Laupahoehoe means the con-
struction of an almost entirely new
graded road"
In what you say of the expenditure
during the last "ten years on the sec
ton lying between the Waikiki river
and Hakalau, a distance of 14f miles,
the district road taxes of about $4,000
per annum, besides liberal amounts
from biennial appropriations" you are
not quite correct, as all the work
that has been done on the streets OF
Hilo, the grading and macadamlZlng
of Jail, Pleasant, School, Kalepolepo,
and Front streets, and the care OF
about seven miles of the new Volcano
road, and all other work on the mo
streets, and the necessary tools, AMI
naIS anu SIdDIeS AdNS DCCh l'StiA III
out of the funds you mention. Ihere
have also been built during the last
seven wears the steel bridge at Homo
lii, costing with the approaches about
SII 900, and modern bridges across a
number of streams.
Pulkihae, 80 feet span.
Kapui, go feet span; approaches
raised.
Honawi, 80 feet span; approaches
raised.
Kawainui, so feet span.
Hononue, % feet span and APP
proacheS.
Hononue, 80 feet span and APP
Kaiwiki, 40 feet span, abutments
and approaches.
Pahoehoe, 80 feet span.
Wailuku, 200? feet span; suspension
bridge entirely rebuilt, and long
trestle bridges at Wainaku and Ku-
nunuiake, and a number OF small
bridges across other streams.
After all these Improvements had
been paid for, there remained very
small amount for road building be
tween the streams and for improving
the grades.
The petition spoken of was started
in Hamakua in North Hilo and the
change in the heading was made with
the full approval of the residents of
those districts, and not on account OF
any local prejudices or feelings, but
because it seemed best to us all to be-
gin the new work on proper grades at
Papaikou, which is now at the era of
fairly good road for wagons, and
continue the good road through the
districts north of here, with every
mile of road built opening new coun-
try for trade or settlement and bene-
fitting the thickly settled portion of
the district first.
With the other sentiments eX-
pressed in your letter 1 agree, and the
changes made L am sure you would
yourself have made, had you written
less hastily. Yours truly,
WIN. w. GOoDALE,
Papaikou, Hawaii, July Is, 1894.