The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-06

Washington fir and cedar is to be ship
ped 10 Honolulu to furnish ties, poles and
other wooden work for the new electric
railway under construction there. All ma
terial for the road, including steel. rolling
stock. machinery, wire, etc, amounting
to between 5000 and 6,o0o tons, purchased
in the East and elsewhere, will be brought
over the Great Northern to Seattle and
also shipped from this port. the first con-
sgnment arriving here about May l. All
the brick to be used in the construction
of the power houses and other buildings
will be bought in Seattle.
To make these purchases and look af-
ter the shipments c. B. Ballentyne, pres
ident Of the Honolulu Rapid Transit and
Land Company. arrived in the city from
Honolulu yesterday. He is a guest of the
Rainier-Grand. In speaking OF his mis-
sion here last night he said
our line will be twenty-one miles in
length, but II is the intention to extend IL
fourteen miles in the future. Ten miles
will be in operation this year. and eleven
more next year. The brick for all our
buildings will be purchased in Seattle. l
am here also to purchase 1880 poles and
from 100000 to 1.40o,0oo feet Of ties. either
fir or cedar. This material, with all other,
including equipment, etc, bought in the
United States, will be shipped from Sc
attic.
equipment OF the Plaut.
THE foundation for our power house Is
in. Our track will be laid with eighty-five-
pound steel rails as all our rolling stock
is very heavy, and our wire is the largest
manufactured. Our power house will be
modern and equipped with 1.020 horse
power and provision made for increasing
II. All our electrical equipment will he
from Westinghouse, and | know of no
road in the United States that will be
five motor cars, each fitted with two No.
40 thirty-five horse power motors. Besides
these. we shall have eight duplex convert
ible open and closed cars. The ties we
ship from Washington will be treated with
carhonlineum.
Business mas developed on the islands
to such an extent within the last two
years that there is not enough tonnage
on the Pacific at our command to care for
our trade. Therefore we sre short OF ma
tertal. "he government has commenced
the building of 1000 feet of wharf at Hon.
oulu. in addition to the large quarantine
wharf built during the plague.
THE plague is now stamped out. Dras-
tic measures improved our condition as
no others would have done. Old China
town. which was burned, can never again
be as 1t was. The entire area will be
covered with lime and allowed to lie in
the sun for year. Then the blocks will
be cut up with other streets and alleys,
and Chinatown moved to another district
Every street in the city, even those on
the mountain sides, will be equipped with
sewers. This cnce done, The dangers of
plague will be greatly lessened
Board of Hcalth's Edict.
THE order forbidding the Importation of
certain articles of food from the Orient
as made public in American papers today
was issued by the board of health. 1t
has not yet been definitely determined
upon, and although issued may not be en-
forced. The supreme court controversy
may and probably viii be settled by the
appointment OF one Of the associate JUS
tees to the supreme bench. The aues-
ton of constitutionality was raised under
the Hawaiian republic constitution
Seattle is a port fayorably looked upon
by Hawaiians for shipping their goods
from. There is but one disadvantage here
While there are sufficient Of the products
Of this section wanted in the islands TO
command a good trade from Seattle to
Honolulu. the cargo this way is lacking
The sugar trust has contracted the prod
ucts Of our plantations for delivery In san
francisco. where, upon arrival, a credit
Is established. AT present this cannot be
done in Seattle. With this item changed
there is a big business for vessels be-
tween Seattle and Honolulu.
Conditions on the islands are prosper.
Gus, but We are laboring under many dis
advantages, which will. however, be
straightened out with the passage Of the
Hawaiian bill by congress That hin
practically does away with contract labor.
and will undoubtedly increase wages
throughout the islands We should like
10 secure white labor. but after several
attempts have had TO give It up"
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