The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-11-07
NENROCKQ UARRYO OPENED
ONE STARTED NEAR LUNALILo
HOME.
Prisoners Get out Macadam for the
City's Streets-Mr. Henry Preparing
for Labor Discussion.

Tailor Henry, in conjunction with the
road department, has opened near Luz
nalilo Home new rock quarry and
black sand bed. This gives three in
which prison labor is utilized. The
new quarry is about 200 yards above the
old Makiki rifle range. 1t is against
the side of a low hill, but the very
hardest and best stone is obtained.
How long the supply will last, however,
is matter of some doubt.
Up to now all the work of the prison.
ers has been on the surface, no extern
siVe digging nor blasting having yet
been found necessary. Boulders weigh
ing from a half ton to two tons are
then broken with sledge hammers into
chunks about as big as a mans head
These chunks are loaded upon small
cars and taken over a tram track to
the crushing plant, which is about
hundred yards away. In this machin-
cry all grades of macadam are turned
out.
From the crusher the road depart
ment gets in it's work. Wagons are
lined up under the chutes and are then
loaded, one after another, with the par
ticular grade of material required. Up
to this point the system is first class in
every detail and an immense amount Of
material is sent out in a day. From
the crusher, however, to the street
about 300 yards away is one of the
worst roads in the country. 1t is badly
cut up and nearly all the time has sew
eral inches of mud upon it. During the
recent wet spell it was nothing to see
wagon wheels up to the hubs in the
slush. Double teams had to be brought
in to pull the wagons up to the good
grounds.
The new quarry was opened for more
than one reason. Besides the fact OF
It's convenience and the increasing de-
mand of macadam Mr.. Henry is antici-
pating the need or if in disposing of
very serious question that will doubt
less come before the next legislature.
Ihat OF prison labor. Indications are
are that there will be a red hot war
against the employment of prisoners
upon work that citizens may undertake
On Hawaii and Maui there will be no
special kick. 1t is true that the pri-
soners work on roads there, but the i'm.
provements are so greatly needed AID
labor so hard to get that doubtless
nothing Will be said. In Honolulu are
10 hard labor" prisoners. This is a
large force for a small place. Prisoners
nave been withdrawn from the streets
on account of the competition with free
lapor. There is nothing inside the pri-
son Tor them to do, so that Mr. Henry
forecasts that the only solution of the
approaching problem will be to work
them IN the quarrieS as now.
Another matter in connection with
prisoners that must be handled by the
next Legislature is that of the character
OF work to be performed by the diffe-
rent degrees of criminals. Under the
law there is no distinction made be-
tween man who steals chickens and
one convicted of manslaughter in the
nrst degree. Both are sentenced to
hard labor, and hard labor both must
get. rms question was brought out
strongly In the case of w. H. Marshall.
the man who was convicted of Incl
HIS offense appeared in a different light
10 that of murderer or an embezzIer
ana yet under the law he was sent out
win these convicts to break rock in
the quarry alongside of them. In the
case OF Marshall the jailor has taken IN
so ms own hands now to keep the prt-
soner inside the Jail on some lighter
work. or course this is contrary 70
the court mittimus, which reads "hard
apor but Mr. Henry believes nominal
sentiment in the matter will sustain his
action. AT the same time numerous
men IN prison for petty crimes are
working side by side with dyed-in-the-
wool criminals.
MI Henry has an idea for working
ne ne oetter class of hard labor prisoners
i tndt VIII probably be suggested to the
IesIslature. 1t is to establish an ex
perimental farm upon which thew could
learn good business and at the same
time promote agricultural Interests
throughout the country in the wav Of
experiments to be carried on. The hard
er Grass or criminals would be sent to
the quarry as before, and the better
on the form. WI n