The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-07
HONOLULU ROADS.
Demand Early Attention
Throughout.
F-UitS OF Sewer and Street Car
Companies - Opinions Of
LOG People.

Where do you stow the fine roads
yCu talk of as being a special feature
of your city," said recent visitor to
Honolulu 10 his friend, as the wheels
OF the hack in which they were ridz
ing, after skidding for about five
yards on a car rail- dropped into a
four-inch rut and abruptly changed
the topic OF conversation. From
your enthusiastic description of
them" he continued, y expected to
find smooth and level macadamized
roads, pleasant to orive over, but an
ordinary cattle track can give you
points in many respects
Take, for instance, your main
avenue, King street, I think you call
it, from the bridge down near China
town to beyond Thomas Square.
Along this stretch you will find in
many places, the car rails protruding
at least an inch, and sometimes more,
above the street level; then you will
drop into veritable spring destroying
and tooth-loosening holes all along
its length, varying the monotony by
an occasional climb over a man-hole
grating. This experience will con-
tfnue till beyond the native church,
when, if you keep to the right of the
road, you experience all the pleasure
of an electric shock on account of the
surface dressing having been washed
off the roadway, leaving innumeraSle
small stones exposed. In future when
| have occasion to travel along that
road 1 guess I'll walk"
Complaints in respect to the pres
ent condition of the city streets are
by no means scarce. A well-known
business man, who is almost continu-
ally on the road, in speaking of the
matter said
THE state in which the roads have
been left by the sewer contractors
and the street car companies, after
having respectively laid their pipes
and rails, is little short of disgraceful
and in many places positively danger
Gus. Only last night while driving
with my wife along King street, be-
tween Fort and Bethel streets, the
wheels of the rig skidded along the
car rails in an alarming manner, and
nothing but the presence OF mind "a
the part of the lady in grasping the
back of the seat, prevented her from
being roughly thrown out. AS it was
she received heavy blow on the side
of the head from contact with a part
of the buggy top. [ have seen many
similar experiences on the part OF
others, and think somebody should see
that the evil is remedied before a seri-
Gus accident is reported"
Another gentleman has lot of any
thing but complimentary words tic
say in regard to street corners. par
ticularly Fort and Halekauwiia, For
and Allen, and the condition of the
mauka side of Beretania between Ka.
pio1ani and Alapai streets.
A cyclist thinks the roads pretty
rough" with a big, big D, but reck'
ons the average wheelman can find {
few comparatively smooth places or
one side of the road or the other; al
though the practice of watering GER
tain streets, notably Queen street be-
tween Nuuanu and Fort and Nuuanr
| between Hotel and Beretania, with
out regard to requirements, is resoon
sible for numerous accidents through
wheelmen having to pick their way
or suffer a fall through slipping, Al
night especially are the roads unsafe
| by reason of the absence of street
lamps, and wheeling under the cir
cumstances is anything but joy.