The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-07-16
THE RAPID TRANSIT
RACING AGAINST TINE
EFFORTS BEING MADE TO H4vg
FIRST DIVISION OPENED
BY AUGUST FIRST.
Authorities Make Allowance fer I'm
Pedimenss 70 conssruction--moeh
Skilled Labor Required on Rolling
stOek-cOnnee,ins Up Tracks

Al the close Of the past week the
honoiulu Rapid Transit and Land
| company had made track connections
between the power house at Aiapai
and BeretaRia streets with the Puma
hou route by way OF the former street
/ Strenuous efforts are being made by
I the company to have the first division
ready for the running of cars BY the
( first OF August:
This first division will connect the
business part of town with Punahoa
AMI Palama on either hand People
living on the Knlaokahua plains. which
extend 10 Punahou. will travel in
one direction by way of Young and
Hotel streets and in the other by way
of Queen. South and Alapal streets.
According 20 the original contract.
had there been no impediments. the
company should have forfeited a pc
nalty Of $4,000 if it did not have ten
miles of the system in operation by
the 18th OF this month But there have
been impediments that are recognized |
by the Department of Public Works
One was a real transition stage in the |
matter of the administration of pub- |
lie lands.
For nine months the Government of /
Hawaii could make no disposal even l
OF lands required for the right of way
of the Rapid Transit line. This pc
Rod is therefore amicably credited to
the Company against the penalty con-
dition. Then there was more or less
litigation. partly invited but to some
extent forced upon the company. in
controversy with the Hawaiian Tram
ways Company. For this also allow
ance is made by the present broad
gauge superintendent of PublicWorks.
Col. Jas. II. Boyd. Again. the liber-
ai-minded contingent of the general
public will probably harbor a senti-
ment OF complaisance toward the cor [
that promises to give Honolu- (
III up-to-date transportation. on &C
count of the financial stringency follow
ing the industrial development boom
Of two years ago. Money has been Z
light and it takes an awful lot of the I
stun to equip a modern electric rail {
vay
While the company is pushing the
completion OF its permanent way and
roiley outfit. it is also rushing work
'h IT'S rolling stock. II anyone has
'een disposed TO be captious with re-
erence 10 the time the concern is TAX
ng IN getting the system under way.
UGH an one might become Modified to
ONE degree by looking into the mower
louse. There he would be confronted
Win such an infinite variety of me :
requiring to be assembled as
night well appal anyone having never
by the man VINO never puts
lis nose into any doorway beyond
where he thinks his own pecuniary in
erest does not Immediately lie. to
nave been imported fully set up and
for the steel parallels. It is +,
not so. The parts of these combina-
tons of intricate machinery and COM
Portable vehicles of passage transpor-
tation are brought here considerably in
the rough. Timbers and panels and
are finished as to surfacing.
etc. but require great deal of skilled
before the car is ready to
be sent out for business. A large
force of picked carpenters, painters
and machinists. engaged in Honolulu 1
and working under the direction of an /
expert car-builder from the place OF
manufacture has been employed for |
manv weeks in setting up the cars TO.
the Rapid Transit system.
The power plant and the cars. as
they will appear when the system is
put in operation. have been already |
described in these columns.
There is testimony of visitors from |
METROPOLITAN parts on the mainland to /
the effect that the plant will be sec
ond to none anywhere in efficiency |
and style After what Honolulu has |
endured in behindhand street trans |
portation since horsecars became OBJ |
solete in every other progressive |
town. let ii be August l or September. |
or even October 1. the community viii |
forget and forgive much when once tie
clang of the electric car gongs re-
sounds along the thoroughfares