The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-24
POWER FOR
PUMP ING
w. J. LoWrie's Latest
Enterprise.
MAUI NEWS AND COMMENT
Wailuku Wants a Hose Company
Fusion on the Crater IsIe--
Municipal Scheme.


foresight and indomitable pluck
ISpreckelsville is indebted for its recent
big ditch, has inaugurated another
great enterprise, no less important to
the plantation. that of constructing an
electric power plant in lao Valley for
the purpose of bringing power to
lSpreckelsville pumps
Messrs. Grlmwood & Richardson, of
Honolulu, have been given charge of
the construction of the plant, and have
already put their men to work Pre-
liminary 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 Mr.. Lowrie's intention to push
the work to completion at once.
The proposition of bringing electric
power from lao Valley to Spreckels-
vile plantation has been under con-
sideration for some time and now it is
an assured fact
| WHAT HURTS BUSINESS.
The reason why there are not dozen
thriving business houses in Wailuku
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
|
harbor to stores in Wailuku 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 wharf
at Kahului, and the people open a pub
lie road to this wharf general trade
and business will have uphill road to
travel in Wailuku.
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. it
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
intelligent man on the Islands, who
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 legis-
Ilature can only appoint a commission
to prepare a system of municipal coun-
ty 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.
can easily be prepared during the term
of the next legislature, and made oper-
ative Immediately afterwards. Where
there Is will there is always a way.
I
not passed at the next term of the
Legislature, and made operative imme-
diately afterwards, it will simply be
because somebody don't want it done.
! HOSE COMPANY WANTED.
| Wanted, hose company There is
not town on the Islands or anywhere
else, in fact, which has better water
supply than Wailuku True, Mr.. Ro-
well failed to furnish hydrants for use
in case of fire, claiming that he had or
dered them, but that the parties from
whom he ordered them failed to furnish
them. While this is probably true. still
| 1t IS no less true that we must and will
nave hydrants placed where they will
be needed in case of fire, and hose
company should be organized and
steps taken to secure at least two hose
carts and sufficient amount of hose.
and all this should be done at once
A single fire, if it occurs before means
are provided to extinguish it. will cost
more than dozen hose carts and hose
to equip them.
FUSION IN MAUI.
! If. as now seems likely, the Demo-
lcrats and Independents of Maui effect a
A"oiOil, lhc ItSult Will De TO so evenly
divide the two surviving parties as to
put both on their mental in the matter
! of nominating candidates to the legis-
iature, and the result will probably be
that the best men on the Island will
be selected as candidates. May the
| fittest survive.
MISCELLANEOUS.
! The framework of the big sugar
warehouse at Paia is about finished,
and the building will soon be complet-
| ed.
Judge Kalua, accompanied by his
wife, is visiting on Molokai He will
return in time to reopen court on the
first of October.
| An epidemic of coughs and colds
amounting almost to the dignity of la
grippe is prevalent in Waikiki.
We are reliably informed that there
| is an escaped leper at Lahaina, now
living with his wife who is engaged in
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