The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-02

r associate, John II. Wilson. of Honolulc.
with whom he had been associated at
Stanford universit.-. TO bring the great
project TO successful completion.
California Claims Him.
A rather unique phase of the story is
that the San Francisco Chronicle, which
has an excellent illustrated account OF the
road, claims Whitehouse as a California;
boy. He is no Californian at ALL but was
born in Kalama Wash in 1874 and is
nephew OF DR.. George V. Calhoun, of this
city, with whose sons he attended STAN
ford university. While there he had a re-
markable career, not only standing we'll IN
his classes, but attaining eminence as an
athlete.
In the famous Yale-Stanford football
contest. in which the blue was trailed in
the dust before the cardinal. young White
house was captain Of his team. Immedi-
ateiy after the game. while the hilarious
spirit was upon the students. a crowd Of
them. including Whitehouse, went into
San Francisco saloon. Whtehouse was by
no means freGuenter of such places. and
his rigid athletic training, to say nothing
of his moral tenets had long made him a
stranger 10 their thresholds. AS If by the
irony of fate. just as he flung open the
door a pistol in the hands Of a student
named Roosevelt was accidentally dis
charged. and before Whitehouse had
passed the threshold he was shot in the alb
domen. Everybody thought the shot fatal.
and there was the widest excitement. He
was taken TO the receiving hospital and
after lingering there for weeks between
life and death he was nursed back 70 per-
feet health.
The Great Enterprise.
He belonged 20 the class Of 1888 at STAN
ford. but did not stay to complete his bac-
calaureate course. He went to Honolulu
and there formed a partnership with his
college friend and chum, John II. Wilson,
and started at once on the gigantic enter
prise Of building a road up the preci pitous
sides of Nuuanu Pail. The !nCredui0us
minister OF the interior was induced 10 call
for tenders for the contract last May. and
the daring youths bid II In az s37. so. They
attacked the mountain along the lines OF a
survey made years ago by W. W. Bruner,
the government road engineer. and with
such signal success that they viii this
week turn over % the government 4 road
over which a child might Dire without
danger. in the place % q steep and slippery
tran that has cost many lives in years
gone by.
The road begins s00 feet on the Honolulu
side of the Pail and follows the course OF
u
which point the grade IS twenty feet d.
rectly above he old road the embankment
being held IN place BY retaining wall Of
masonry 40 feet long. A. the end OF the
wall the road follows a narrow ledge ~
rock juttinC conveniently from the face Of
the cNn. for a distance Of 10 feet. This
ledge was compared by one of party who
went 20 see the works. when directed 20 Il
as A convenient tTail across the vertical
prec3pise to "a lead pencil stroke on the
side OF house" The remark was re-
cSived as a strtkingly correct description.
Dizzy stretch.
For This dizzy s;retch-leo feet or more
above any place 10 fall upon. II one missed
his foosng-the roadbed is obtained By an
extension ot concrete. artincially widening
tie ledge. tad on 4 projecting framework
a steel girders One hundred feet from
the termination Of the girders = another
stone wall forty feet long. and from the
end CO which the roadbed = benchea in
upon the face % the bluT for its entire
distance with the three following excep-
tlons. l. 4 nve-foot arCaed culvert aoo
yet from t5e top Of the Pau, where the
road crosses a mountain stream az the
head Of A waterfall springing leo feet
2 AZ the point where the road turns. TO
Wind down The b,urI from the upper levels
there - another stone wall eighty feet long
2. A. The point tne road recrosses he noun
tan Stream. 80 feet immediately below the
<rched cGiverf. there is wooden opening
upon which the road is built
ZEe total length u the mex rad fs : tn