The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-24
MUST TURN
TO RIGHT
Pains Plans Must
Call for a
Change.
.NOPERMITSW WITHOUT
THIS PROVISION
Department of Public Works Will
Insist on it in New Five
Minute Switches.

| Pains mules must learn to waltz if
the plans of the Department of Public
Works are carried out and at the same
| time the existing switches are allowed
| to remain.
| Superintendent of Public Works Boyd
will not permit any more of the I'M
American turning to the left on switches
which are to be constructed under
a permit from his Office. There is a
law in the land which compels all
users Of the public highways to turn to
the right when passing another vehicle.
Any one suffering damage from a COLI
sion with a vehicle which has endeavor-
ed to pass it on other than the right side
can collect damages from the offender.
according to some persons who think
they know, as of the Understanding
Pake.
The surveys far the placing of the
new switches. which must be put in to
permit of the affording of five min
utes' service instead of the present ten
minutes car movement, have been
made and the applications for the issu-
ance of the permits are now in the
hands of superintendent Boyd where
they are being given consideration The
gone over the plans and have made
some progress. but not enough to indi-
cate what will be their decision upon
the matters at issue. The policy to do
away with the left-handed switches has
been decided upon, however, and there
will be no deviation from 1t. Whether
or not there Is power to compel the
Tramways Company to change the
switches now in place is a question, but
if this is not done then the course of
the Pain mules will be as tortuous as
it is slow.
With two turns to make where they
now make one the mules would have
to learn to reverse; they could do this,
of course for they are Americans and
not English; but the next question
would be whether or not there would
be any schooling prior TO expecting
them to do their ong-distance waltz
down the lines. It would be an inspir-
ing thing, this waltzing of the piebald
buckskin horse and the dwarf mule,
hitched to an ark which is careering
down the avenue. There might be &C
ton brought by the Humane Society
If the poor creatures We're asked TO
dance their way about without music
which would compel the company to
invest in music boxes or an American
photograph, which attached to each
car would grind out Strauss strains to
which accompaniment the dance of the
bitches could proceed. The only thing
in the way might be that the animals
would get out of the troughlike tracks
and endanger the passers-by, through
their exercise.
There is much feeling being aroused
by the continued use of the left handed
switches, now that the streets are filled
with hacks which are drawn by i'm
trained horses, driven by more
trained, drivers, the Orient
ais predominating. The usual course of
some drivers IS to follow car and |
when the ark turns to the left to go
with 1t and thus block the right pas
sage, where the tracks lie close to the
curb. for all passers who take the
proper side of the road. Many promi-
nent men have called the attention of
the officials to this condition and asked
that the new switches may be provided |
for in the usual lawful plan Of right |
hand turning.