The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-10
NUMBERING THE STREETS THE LUALUALH LANDS SI
SUPERINTENDENT BOYD HAS A
NEW BUREAU.
Carrying Into Effect The Provisic ms
of Act Number s Of the Last
Legislature.

A street numbering department mas
been ADDED to the many departments
under Superintendent of Public Works
J. II. Boyd In accordance with Act s
of the recent legislature, Boyd has APP
pointed A. NJ Murphy to take charge ot
the work of numbering houses, and
Murphy is now organizing the bureau,
with the assistance OF street numberer
Stanley Stevenson.
The act of the legislature requires
that 1T shall be the duty of every per-
son owning any building fronting on
any street, road or lane in the District
of Honolulu, to number the same or
cause the same to me numbered cor
fectly within sixty days after the re-
cApt of designated number or num-
belrs from the superintendent of Public
Works and to remove or efface any
wrong number upon such building. and
1t shall be the duty of every person
owning any building hereafter erected
to apply to the Superintendent of Public
Works and so number the same within
one week after it's completion or oc-
cupacy."
The buildings are to be numbered at
the expense of the owners. The pres
ent charges are so cents for numbers of
two figures and 81 for numbers of three
or four figures.
The act requires that the numbers
that they shall be so placed as to be
readily seen from the street, shall be
substantial, and not of chalk or other
easily effaceable material, and shall be
of different color from the back
ground upon which they are placed.
The numbering system of the city of
Honolulu stretches from King street
and Nuuanu avenue as a center. AT
King street the thoroughfares going
makai begin with 999 and run down and
mauka they begin at 1000 and run up
Streets crossing Nuuanu or which
would cross it if extended, begin num-
bering with 1000 south, or Waikiki anC
No. / north or Eva. This system will
very likely be continued owing to the
large amount of work that has been
done under it.
Murphy proposes to prepare and keeI
records that will be very complete as tC
streets and numbers along them. The
next city directory of Honolulu should
have the street directory that is such
a useful feature of city directories II
other large cities, enabling strangers
to locate any street and any number
OF the street within a block.
The numbering is compulsory under
he new law. Every owner of property
Nhll have to accept the number giveI
Him by the department, and place 1t VI
according to the requirements. There
is no rule as to what sort of figure:
shall be used, individuals being free t
use any kind they want as long as tnt
regulations as to size, etc, are kept
The last section of the Act provides al
follows:
ANY owner of building in the Dis
trict of Honolulu who neglects to mum
ber such building as herein provided o.
who shall place, maintain or auOw to re
main therein any number other thar
that directed by the Superintendent o
Public Works after being notified II
writing by the Superintendent of Pub
lie Works or who shall number sucl
building without first obtaining the pro
per number from the Superintendent o
Public Works shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction thereo
shall be punished by a fine of not les
than five dollars nor more than TWEEN
ty-five dollars, and a further penalt!
of like sum for every two weeks there
after that he shall neglect or refuse t.
properly number such building or t,
efface an improper number"
There is a great deal of work to b
done in the new bureau. Practically n
records have been kept of numbering Il
the past, and Murphy has to begii
anew Stevenson is at work on the out
side, and already a number of peopl
have been notified to put up the mum
bers allotted to them.