The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-28
REP AIRING
OF STREETS
Much Work Ahead For
The Department.
WHAT CAMPBELL FOUND
The Greatest Destruction by the
Storm Was in the Makiki
District.


Streets. was confronted on Monday and
yesterday with a problem which called
out the energies of his entire depart
ment The washouts In the street sys-
TEN which resulted from the heavy
downpour early Monday morning and
forenoon have made the street lepart-
ment no end of work.
Supervisor Campbell and his assist
ans have 10 n on constant duty since
o'clock Monday morning and have
gone over the entire city to note the
results Of the waShouts.
When the storm began to assume
proportions Monday morning before
daylight, which convinced Mr.. Camp
bell that efforts should be made to pre-
vent damage by the overflow of the
bitches along Punchbowl and on the
foothills below Tantalus, he summoned
his assistants and gangs of wo1 kmen
and repaired to the big ditch which
winds around Punchbowl.
I'VE did our best to divert the water
| into the proper channels" said Mr..
Campbell to an Advertiser reporter,
but could do nothing. Since then we
have worked overtime and are still do
ing our best to clean up the debris and
put the streets back into semblance
of their former condition.
THE greatest destruction was done
in Makiki district and most of the
trouble in the vicinity of Piikoi and
Keaumoku streets was caused by the
breaking away of Makiki ditch"
This is the ditch that intercepts the
old Makiki creek, runs around by
Lunalilo and runs thence parallel with
iPunchbowl street. The tremendous
amount of water that came down from
the mountains overnowed the ditch
and washed away the diverting dam,
and then tore down the old channel,
crossing Wilder avenue and through
the property at the corner of Kewalo
and Lunalilo streets. 1t then crossed
the baseball grounds. down to Piikoi
and went into Keaumoku direct. All
this water came from the slopes of
lTantalus. 1t was a flood which has
rarely been seen here. The ditch was
washed out. banks cut away. Streets
and cutters were cut up badly and de-
struction was spread about generally.
I'm Palama. King street was badly
cut up. Everywhere 1 drove in Palama
and Kalihi / found that the water had
done damage at every point. But 1 am
glad to see that the new streets we
have just laid there came out all right
They stood the test in fine shape.
Considerable damage was done to
the culvert that crosses Waikiki road
at Kapiolani Park. The wall was un-
dermined and left in a very dangerous
condition. / had a fence put up there
to caution drivers.
I'm Kalihi, where we are construct
ing a new bridge over Kalihi stream
the water was up before we could cleal
= the stream, as the old abutments haC
]. been removed. The tagging and othe
3 constructing material took up a gooC
e deal of room and formed a dam ant
in this way caused an overflow bu
there was little damage done.
! THE Punchbowl ditch caused all tn
mischief to the streets running dow
from the slopes to the main boulevards
1t overlooked and no amount of worl
on our part could prevent the foo
from swelling over the banks and tear
ing down on the property and street
below.
70 ION the whole, considering tn
amount of water that fell on the hill
- and which rushed down upon the city
we came out of it very lucky indeed
You can form some exception of tn
amount of water at Pifkoi when ever
bit of rain on Tantalus came down t
that point through the valleys.
The storm sewer for Fort street
/ being advertised for bids and whe
y that is in all the surface water will b
drained off and there will be none c
the inconvenience which pedestrian
now have to endure"