The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-10

binary road repairing would have to be
stopped. Mr.. McCandless said that
enough could probably be squeezed out
to keep up necessary road repairs.
really important point was brought
out relative to sidewalk construction.
The Superintendent said he would see
that property on streets already
widened and graded should be required
to construct sidewalks along the front
of their land. 1t was finally resolved
that Mr.. McCandless be requested to
have construction of sidewalks as above
stated enforced.
One thing of considerable benefit
which can be done at present is laying
the suburbs of the town out into blocks
by surveying new street lines and ex-
tensions of old streets, so that people
building before the streets are built
will know where they are at.
NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.
! j. a. Scott, the vice-president of the
| Hilo Electric Power and Refrigerator
| Co, Ltd, returned by the Kinau from
I an extended trip to San Francisco and
the Eastern seaboard, whittier he went
with full power to purchase machinery
and other necessary materials for the
establishment of the plant.
/ The officers of the company are: w.
@. Irwin, president; ]. A. Scott, vice
president; G. II. Fairer, secretary;
George Rodiek, treasurer; r. l.. Auer-
! bach, auditor: G. c. Kennedy, w. II.
Shipman, w. NJ. Giffard, directors
The machinery for ice manufacture
VIII be shipped about November 1st
and the electric machinery about De-
cember LIST. The whole plant will be
in operation in five or six months. The
capacity of the ice plant will be ten
tons per day, with possibility to in
crease to fifteen tons. The ice manu-
featured will be of the kind known as
plate ice. equal If not superior in quail
ity To natural ice, as it contains but lit
tie air. The cold storage will have q
capacity of 10000 cubic feet with all
modern facilities in this particular line,
and viii be three-story building The
electric light plant will have capacity
of 5000 sixteen-candle power lights. The
plant will be run by water power. with
900 feet head. An auxiliary steam pow
or will be added. for use in case of
shortage of water. The company is
capitalized for 5000. 900. with power OF
increasing to 100000.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Superintendent of Public Works Nc
Candless yesterday appointed j. A
Scott. Sheriff Andrews, Philip Peck, Z.
y. Holmes and j. T. Stacker, an advis-
DRY board of street commissioners to
work in connection with F.. d. Baldwin.
The commission provided by law con-
sists of two officials in Honolulu and
the local land commissioner, Mr.. Bald
win.
At a meeting of the Republican Pre-
. cinct Club of kohala held on Friday,
August 31st. it was resolved: That
Hon. Samuel Parker is the unanimous
choice of the club as Territorial Dele
gate 10 Congress.
Miss Helen Willis left by the Kinau
10 spend couple of weeks at the Wal
psiua Hotel on Oahu.
III Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Schoen are now in
v Kona, where they will make their home
Nor an indefinite period.
Mr.. John Hamilton OF Honomu is Sc
riously i'll at the Hilo Hospital. whittier
. ne was taken on Sunday morning.
, Henry Item of Olaa sends down this
I week a. shipment of coffee. the second
= recently. to make room for the enor-
= nous crop which he will have next
= month.
!. Sam Parker and twelve delegates ar
Q rived at Kailua on Thursday from
North and South KOhala. The S. s
g Upolu made a special trip, and the can
i didate and delegates were entertained
= right royalty.
. Superintendent McCandless as heaC
Q Of the department is determined tha
g the streets shall not be blocked. Fol
|. that reason he called for estimates yes
terday for the removal of the post offic,
q building so that it would be on the new
! line of Front street. Contractor james
q Lewis submitted a price that wa
4. promptly accepted and the work of re
: moval to a point makai of the presen
a stand will begin at once.
= Er. Jose Serrao will leave by mex
le Weeks Kinau on three months tri
( Through the United States and Europ
II Ito Madeira
d The Board of Registration held it
$. first session at the Courthouse yester
T. da/
r. The Hilo Free Kindergarten will ope
oil for the autumn term on September i
SCI Messrs. Beamer, Mitchell and Jane
ID way are taking a bicycle trip aroun
e. the island.
~ Mrs. and Miss Lewis, Mrs. LII
s. bridge and Miss Ellen Lyman are {
Dy PohakuIoa, Olaa. for two weeks va
s. cation.
nd The following persons arrived by II
bark Annie Johnson on Saturday la
OF from San Francisco: Miss 7. r. Dillo
4: w. s. Dillon, Miss Aiken, j. NJ. Salv;
CT dor and wife. w. Mcknight.
of 1t is rumored that the GovernmeI
Il. will claim the tide lands up to high W:
IS ter mark. This win include a numb
of small places on the Waiakea riv
e- from the occupants Of which rents W
c. be collected. This is one of the matte
or, being investigated by McCandless al
m RowelI
n Otto Rose is out again after a lig
irI attack OF fever.
John A. Scott and wife returned fro
ths Coast last night \
officer John Kelly has been appoint
counted patrolman for Olaa.
~ I There was quite a large fire ragi,
~, an the cane on Paauhau plantation we
W terday.