The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-08

o"irSu, on INC ucoCu EOdu near the ROD-
inson place, at the Moana Hotel and
at Makee Island.
The scope of territory covered by the
nre system Is almost the same. The ex-
tieme box at the east end of the city is
near the residence of Judge Hart, and
that at the west Immediately at Kane
hameha School. As there are sixty five
boxes there will be closer locations than
in the case of the police boxes. There
Will be more of the alarms in the CEN
ter Of the city, and both the plains and
the valley will have additional calls
The boxes in the downtown district
will be placed as follows. The Pacific
Mail dock, the custom house and the
planning mill district on Fort street each
" i'll have a box, while another will be
put at the electric light works. The
Queen street locations will be at the
following crossings: Nuuanu, Fort,
Richards, Punchbowl and South Mer-
chant street will have two boxes, at the
poStoffice and at Alakea street. King
street will have a box at Liliha, Bere-
tania. Nuuanu stream. Maunakea
street, Nuuanu avenue, Fort street,
Punchhowl and South streets. There
will be one at Pauahi street and Maui
nakea and on Hotel at Nuuanu, Fort
ard Alakea Streets Beretania street
will have the boxes at the stream, at
Nuuanu avenue, Emma street, Punch
bowl street and Alapai street. On the
plains there will be boxes at King and
Piikoi. Keeaumoku and Punahou
streets. on Beretania at Victoria and
Pensacola streets: on Lunalilo At Ka-
pioIani, Pensacola, Kewalo and Makikf.
Wilder avenue will have three boxes at
Pensacola. Keeaumoku and Punahou
while there viii be others at Heulu and
Kewalo and at Omihi and Makik and
College streets. There will be boxes
at Judd and Liliha, at the Nuuanu ave-
nue. bridge, on School street at Liliha,
Nuuanu, Fort and Emma, and on Vine
yard a. the stream, at Nuuanu and En-
raa streets and Punchbowl On the 9TH
er side of Punchbowl there will be
b xes at Alapai and Green and on
Thurston avenue. There will be a box
at Iwilei, the Oahu prison and on the
Asylum road about opposite School
street, in addition to that at the school.
At Waikiki the locations will be prac
tically the same as the police boxes.
The effect of the box system is thus
put by Sheriff Brown: There will be
a great increase in the effectiveness of
the force. With the box calls for the
patrol wagon there Will be four calls
where there is now one. The boxes
will be quite ornamental and viii be
fastened at IA convenient height on the
poies. There will be several calls in the
inside The wagon, the ambulance and
finally the telephone viii be indicated,
so that there will be the greatest eff
Ifectiveness. The boxes will be so placed
that there will be a necessity for the
men to keep on the go all the time to
answer their calls on schedule. Should
airy man fail to ring in as usual there
will be a patrol sent out to look him
up. This insures perfect service.
Each box will be equipped with ten
keys. These are for use by responsible
citizens all over the city. The key will
fit the lock only at one place and
there it is arranged that the instant the
citizen uses his key there will be a
lock hold it until the police come to
release it. The keys will be numbered
and issued only to men who can be
trusted, but in case there should be one
lost it could not be used to call the po-
lice more than once"
Chief Thurston of the Fire Depart
nent said; 1--WE will have in the down
town district twenty boxes which viii
be of the open variety. The handle pulls
without any door being unlocked, so
thai there will be no delay in getting in
an alarm. 1t is probable that the boxes
will be so arranged that the handle will
have to be turned a half circle. When
the quarter circle is reached the box
makes such sound that there appears
to have been an alarm sounded, but
this is not the case. This is to throw
Oft the person who may try and turn
in false alarm. There viii be a num-
Der Of 81 ecial keys put into the houses
of responsible citizens for the use of
the Geighborhood. These have the same
editions as those of the police they
cannot be released without the key of
a fireman
In 9th departments there will be
automatic switches which will at the
! moment the alarm is sounded release
the horses SO that they may be put into
place in the wagon or engine. The po-
lice boxes will be blue and those of the
| firemen red.