Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-03-08
the MAUI RAILROAD WAR
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u has constructed its new road.
including the portion Of the land
where u crosses the kahului
Railroad Company's track.
Judge Perry issued the re
straining order prayed for, which
enioius the Railroad Company,
It's officers, servants, etc, from
interfering with the track or the
crossing laid down by the peti
tioning company, until further
order Of the Court.
Il. l.. Wander Naillen, the Com.
mercial Company's engineer, is in
town. When seen by reporter
and asked in regard to the trou-
bic, he laughed and said. "The
entire matter has been grossly
exaggerated in the newspapers.
The simple fact is that | was in
structed to continue the company's
road to the beach and to put in
the railroad crossing in the night
time so ms not to interfere with
the business OF the Kahului Rail.
road Company over its Waikiki
line. / had to throw up a road
bed and complete about eight
hundred feet Of track before the
crossing was reached, and iD or.
der to do this work and get for
ward the necessary materials
considerable force of laborers was
required. 1t is ridiculous to say,
as the newspapers have done, that
there was a force of three
to four hundred armed men.
We were working on our own
property and for a lawful pur-
pose, and with a confederate re-
gard for the convenience of the
kahului railroad traffic, and there
was not the slightest occasion for
us to employ force. The security
of property rights depends upon
upholding the law, and the policy
OF our company is directly oppos-
ed to high handed proceedings of
any kind.
There has of course been con-
siderable jesting about the matter
over on the Island aud the EN-
ployes of the Kahului Railroad
Company have been forced to
undergo considerable good natur-
ed but irritating chatting from the
townspeople in Wailuku, Kahu-
Iui and Spreckelsville, and this
has made some of them lose their
beads and threaten to tear up the
track which we had constructed.
Had this been attempted it would,
of course, have led to trouble, and
the company thought it best to
sue out an injunction and 80
establish its legal rights, and
bring all controversy to peace
able end. Iimg
81 do not believe that the head
men of the Kahului Railroad
Company are back of the ridicu
lous threats that have been made,
for they have but recently repre-
sented to the Court and have pro-
duced Witnesses to show that the
Hawaiian Commercial aud Sugar
Company possesses and is able to
use these very harbor frontage
facilities. The suit, in which this
t simony was given, was the con
demnation suit now pending be-
tore the Supreme Court, wherein
the Kahului Railroad Company
is seeking to take away from the
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar
Company a part of its water front
at Kahului. The lands which we
have crossed in constructing this
new piece of road are not a part
of tue lands involved in that con-
troversy. The facts of that case
are that all of the Kahului Rail.
road Company's buildings,
wharves and terminal facilities
are upon lands which be
long to the Hawaiian Commercial
and Sugar Company. These lands
are held by the Kahului Company
under leases which expire in the
year 1901, three years hence. In
these leases it is agreed that at
that time they will surrender up
the lands to our company with all
buildings and improvements
thereon. The company has in the
past expected that this covenant
would be lived up to and has
charged mere nominal rentals for
its property leased to the Railroad
Company with the idea that all of
these buildings and improvements