The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-22
Admirable System, Being
Put in Place.
Description of Work That viii b
or Vast Sanitary Benefit 70
This City.

ing site at Kakaako.
| The average person sees only a gang
D. men in the various streets of the
city, engaged in cutting a trench with
many branches, and an occasional large
circular hole, and burying therein long
ines of ironstone piping of diameters
ranging from eight, ten and twelve
| inches.
These pipes all have a gradual slope
and increase in diameter as they ap-
preach Punchbowl street, where they
connect with the main sewer. This lat
| ter is twenty-foUr inches in diameter.
and is a solid cement and concrete
pipe, leading to a concrete screen
house which receives all heavy matter
and IN turn connects with the reservoir
proper by two strong and heavy iron
gates, which arc operated by the use
o. handwheels placed above ground
Tie reservoir is a solid concrete and
cement faced pit, 100 feet square and
IS feet deep. It's walls, floor and roof
are thirty-six inches thick and its root
| is supported by massive pillars. placed
eight feet apart. A thick coating of
earth is spread over the roof and turf
is.to cover everything from sight.
On the mauka and Waikiki corner.
is the site for the pumps, and through
them the sewage is conveyed away
out TO sea, a distance of 1880 feet from
the reservoir.
One OF the most interesting portions
OF the great work, is in the arrange
meHt Of these discharge pipes. For
the first 1900 feet, the sewage is car
rjed through ironstone piping, TWEEN
ty-rour jnchGs in diameter, which con
meets with wrought iron pipes Of the
same diameter, encased in concrete fol
the remainder Of the distance to the
mouth Of discharge, which is just leo
feet below the surface of the water
IN reply to q remark that the pipes,
as being laid throughout the city,
seemed small for the purpose. Mr.. ]
II. Be!ser, who is experimenting tbs
construction CT the work, stated tina
i has been found by experience, tina
small pipes were better than large ones
and pointed out that at the dead enc |
OF every sewer is flush tank, which |
contains 900 gallons OF water and works |
automatically, discharges this quantity |
ii Wa.er at stated periods and keeps |
the pipes clear OF distractions, anG |
again, at every 200 or 500 feet of pip |
ing is placed manhoIe, which may bl |
used should the flush tanks fail, though |
has proven their absolute |
in this direction. As the |
work progresses, branches are carried |
from what may be termed the limbs o. |
the sewer, that is, the pipes through |
the streets to the roadside and securely |
capSed, 50 that no difficulty may be ex-
perienced in connecting the houses. |
No bands are put in, but at every |
corner is placed a cisCern, and by this |
means the danger Of obstruction j. |
The system fer the present, embrace |
al the city area between the water
front and Beretania street and River
and Alapai streets, although the King
street line will be carried as far a.
Thomas square.
As to when the work will be COM
pleted, Mr. Delser estimates the length
Of tino 20 finish the ground WORK at
FIVE months, and, reckoning on another
three months for the power mouse, cree
ton OF machinery, ETC., places the date
Of operation at between eight and nine
months from now. He considers the
Honolulu system about the best he has
been engaged upon. His firm is at
work upon two other contracts at the
same time, and both in California, one
at jacksonville, draining some fifteen
miles of property, and the other al Red
Bluff with a total of about eleven miles
Of pipe. All three systems were de-
signed by Herring, who is considered
the ablest man in the States at such
business.
1t is interesting to observe the mixed
races at work side by side IN the
trenches. Americans, British, Hawai-
ans, Galicians, Portuguese, Negroes,
laps, Chinese and representatives OF
Guiana, and the South Sea Islands. All
work well and silently, for CONVERSE
ion under the circumstances is some
what difficult. About eighty men are
in the various gangs and the
contractors, Messrs. Vincent and Be-
ser. speak highly OF their work
There was a young man from Lenore