The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-09-25
POWER FOR
PUMP ING
W. J. LOWrie's Latest
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MAUI NEWS AND COMMENT
Va mku VANS a Hose Company
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Manager w. j. Lowre, to whose
foresight and irdomitabe pluck
spret ke,svilie 3 indebted for It's recent
big ditch, has inaugurated another
6reat enterprise. 10 less important to
the plantation, that of constructing an
electric power plant in lao Va ey for
the purpose Of bringing power 10
preckelsNi,le pumps.
Messrs. GrimwoCd & Richardson, of
Honolulu, have been given charge of
the construction of the plant, and have
already put their men to work. Pre-
limnary Surveys are to be made. on
which TO base estimates for plans, cost,
etc. AS soon as these are completed
the machinery will be ordered and the
work of construction commenced
1t Will be some months yet possibly
year, before the plant is completed
and the power ready for use at the
plantation pumps. But their construc-
ton Is definitely determined upon. and
1t is Mir. Lowries intent on to push
the work to completion at once.
The proposition of bringing electric
power from lao Valley to Spreckels-
sderation for some time and now 1t is
an assured fact.
WHAT HURTS BUSINESS.
The reason why there are not dozen
thriving business houses in Waikiki
today. handling goods which cannot be
purchased on Maui, is because of the
difficulty of shipping goods direct to
kahului and the practically prohib-
tive rates of charges for lighterage
and freight on goods from ships in the
harbor to stores in Waikiki. A pri-
vate corporation owns Kahului and its
wharves. and operates them,-as they
have an undoubted right to do,-as a
private corporation. True. the govern
ment owns from the high water mark.
but till the government builds a wharf
at Kahului, and the people open pub
lie road to this wharf, general trade
and business will have uphill road to
travel in Wailuku. HF
MANUAL TRAINING WANTED.
If the approaching legislature wishes
to make a record which will place the
Territory of Hawaii among the van of
progressive states and territories. 1t
will at once fell blow abolish the false
system of education now prevalent on
the 1sland,-a system which educates
young Hawaiians to become HELPLESS
and useless.-and establish in it's place
both primary and grammar schools
where trades and Industrial training
are made the principal feature, with
incidental instruction In the elementary
branches now taught. There Is not an
Int tra ~
really has the good of the Hawaiian
children at heort, who would not rather
see them instructed in useful and prac-
teal branches of knowledge than in
puerile ologies.
THE MUNICIPAL SCHEME.
1t is now claimed that the next legls-
lature can only appoint a commission
to prepare system of municipal coun-
~ government to be adopted two years
from now, or at some other time in the
dim future. If the proper committee
on counties and county government be
appointed bill effecting that purpose
and dividing the Territory into coun-
ties following our present judicial Dis
tricts, or better division. If possible.
IAN easily be prepared during the term
u the HtNl lSSlSluluTe anu Hluue OpeT-
alive Immediately afterwards. Where
there is a will there is always a way,
and il the county government bill Is
not passed at the next term of the
legislature and made operative imme-
lately afterwards, it will simply be
because somebody don't want 1t done.
HOSE COMPANY WANTED.
Wanted. hose company. There is
not town on the Islands or anywhere
Use, in fact, which has better water
supply than Waikiki. True, Mr.. Ro-
veil failed to furnish hydrants for use
n case of fire, claiming that he had or
Tered them, but that the parties from
whom he ordered them failed to furnish
hem. While this is probably true. still
I is no less true that we must and will
nave hydrants placed where they will
)e needed in case of fire. and hose
company should be organized and
steps taken to secure at least two hose
arts and sufficient amount of hose, /
md all this should be done at once.
single fire, If il occurs before means
IRE provided to extinGulsh It, will cost
more than dozen hose carts and hose