The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-01-31
WAIALUA BRANCH WILL BE OPEN
ON APRIL FIRST.
Carl Jensen Gets the Contract to Lay
the Rails-The Roadbed in Fine Con-
dition.

Nnile lHe pOpulace OF tneSe Islands |
are anNiously awaiting the result of |
the annexation debate now uppermost
in the thoughts of the American
statesmen, the construction of the Wa
ialua extension of the Oahu railway
goes merrily on.
From present indications the pre-
diction made by General Manager
Dillingham; that the construction train
would steam into Waialua on April !
Fools day, will come true, but in or
der to accomplish this. it is necessary
that some lively rustling be inaugu- |
rated. The track laying out of >Waia- /
nae has already been started, but de- |
lay will he caused at Kaena Point, |
owing to the inability of Wilson q |
Whitehouse to get their part of the
work finished. Manager Dillingham;
and superintendent George Denison. |
on their inspection last week. saw that |
this delay was inevitable unless addi- /
tional help was given.
Carl Jensen. who has three miles of |
the meanest stretch on the extension,
will be the first of the contractors to
complete his work. He is now adding
the finishing touches 20 his grade and !
it will be completed this week. 1t is
altogether likely that Contractor JcI,-
sen will be instructed to put his large
force of workmen on Il portion of the
Wilson < Whitehouse Job. in order
that this part of the roadbed might be
in readiness when the construction |
train arrives. If this is done the coh
tract can be carried out within i've |
weeks time. and the delay in the lay F,
ing of the track will be averted
In Justice to Wilson & Whitehouse.
it must be said that the rough wealth
er experienced by them at the clo,c
of their Pail work, upset their calcu
lations fully month. The young |
contractors had planned to complete
the government job in due time to be-
gin on the railroad contract.
\ representative of The Star went |
over the proposed line of route of the
new extension yesterday, noting care
fully the work as far as it had pro-
gressed. Harry G. Morton is doing
the first work out of Waianae. His |
line extends to Makua. II distance of
seven miles, and it will require an
other two weeks time before he can
notify the railroad management that
his labor is completed. The work is
light and runs through immense de-
posts of sand, which in the near fu-
ture will prove good source of rev
enue for the company, as it is excel
lent for building purposes.
sThe heaviest toll on the entire
branch is around the slope of the lof-
ty and picturesque Waianae mountains
to Kaena Point. Carl Jensen has three
miles of this work and Wilson &
Whitehouse are engaged on one mile
and half of the distance. Jensen has
discharged over fifteen hundred heavy
blasts along his division, not including
many hundeds of smaller blasts. Had
it not been for the unfortunate acci-
dent last week--on the very eve of the
completion of the contract--in which
Martin Olsen met his sudden death
by a flying bowlder striking him on
the head, there would not have been
one mishap.
About two thousand feet beyond
Sam Andrews ranch house is II very
clever bit of railroad engineering The
roadbed runs around the point of a
stupendous mountain, fully thirty feet |
above the ocean. Below solid retain
ing wall of rock has been built to
protect the road from the mad sea
waves which continually dash against |
the mountains base. Several other
heavy retaining walls have been made |
by Jensen, some of them containing |
powders that weigh over a ton each
Jensen has been obliged to put in
some big fills. These he has made by |
,nfn al fal Of hn
cuts into the gaps. When short of
substance to fill up to the grade of the
roadbed he has gone up on the noun |
tain sides and borrowed rock and ,
earth.
James c. White, Il Stanford Univer-
sty lad, is in charge of Wilson & |
Whitehouse's gang. The character of |
the work is very similar to that en-
countered by Jansen. Their territory |
extends to Kaena Point.
From this interesting land mark on
in to Paula, which is situated in the
very center of Waialua, the road bed .
is being made by viii Armstrong and
Frank Andrade, both popular young
Island boys. The distance is nearly
twelve miles. Mr.. Andrade is in per-
sonal charge of the work.
For some little distance from the
Point the formation of the land along
the route is intensely disagreeablc and .
mean work is encountered.
There are not many cuts
of any unusual size but any number
of big fills have been made. These
latter are constructed in very sub
stantial manner. the heavy rock being
on the outside and hardpap filling the
interior. Three miles of the grade
from the Point is finished. \ great
many ravines running down from the
mountains near by have had to be
provided for. In order that the hea-
Wy mountain torrents which invariab-
ly follow after big rain in the up
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