The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-08
CALLS FOR
The WATCH
Police and Fire
Systems to Be
Perfect.
HOW BOTH WILL
BE INSTALLED
Every Improvement Known Will
Be Brought Into Use
Here.

WITHIN eight mouths there will be
placed in the service of the Police and
Fire Departments Of the city the new
alarm boxes and calls The apparatus
will come from the East and 1t Is ex-
pected that the first of the necessary
boxes and switches will reach here
within three months With these will
return Special Agent Coffey of the
Gamewen Company, who will have the
direct supervision of the work. The
wires and other parts which may be
secured here will be furnished by the
Oceanic Gas & Electric Co, which iwll
do the work of installation
| The police call system will be in
stalled first, the fifty boxes being plac-
ed as nearly as possible at the same
time as those for the fire service, the
preference in the work being given to
| that branch on account of the greater
amount of work necessary in its per
Torrance This is due to the fact that
the police system will embrace as we'll
| telephone call and will have to be
safeguarded all the time from induc-
will be peculiar owing to the deIicacy
of the system. The fire system Will
have only the call boxes and there Will
be less intricacy of the workings of it,
| The systems which are to be install
! ed will place the Honolulu departments
| in the front rank with the best bureaus
for the safety of the people, in the
country. The boxes will be of the
! best styles and the arrangements for
the automatic release of the horses and
the system of signals Will be a revela-
methods in working order. The police
sy stem is, the most peculiar owing to
/ the multiplicity of the calls which may
be sent over the one wire. The fire sys
tenn viii consist of the fire call only,
! but there will be two styles of box,
ard the latest patterns. will be used, so
that in the event of the turning in of
! two alarms at enc time, there will be
no loss of one, but the two will register
/ in succession.
! Contracts have been made with the
electric light and the telephone COM
ipa1ies for the use of their poles by the
Government so that in the installation
: of the new systems there Will be no
other expense than the wires and their
stringing. The wires for the depart
ment Will be placed on arms which will
be placed at the top of the poles, thus
Offering no danger from induction eX-
ceIt where the heavy lighting current
is encountered For this reason the
police wires will be strung on the tele-
phone poles alone, though the fire sys-
tent may use the light poles. The plans
made vii reduce the expense to such
an extent that the machinery which is
to be put in will be of the highest class.
The limits placed on the two systems
at present are Makee Island and the
Kamehameha Schools. Judd stree is
the Nuuanu valley extreme. The police
boxes are to be placed so that there
will be one at the extreme of the beat
of each patroman. This will mean
that there will be no chance 20 lose a
patrolman. but that to ring III he must
be on the move all the time This is
! taken to account for the opposition of
the policemen to the system, an oppo-
Sition which was not manifested until
too late, or the friends of honest SUM
Der in the Legislature might have pre-
vented action.
Along the waterfront there will be
five calls of the police. These will be
placed at Kakaako, at the Pacific Mail
dock, the custom house, the boat-land-
ing and the railway docks. There will
be one box at the Iwilei wash houses.
The fishmarket will also be given a
,call. The locations along Queen street
are as follows: Fort, Punchbowl and
South streets. A fourth box will be
placed at Kawaiahao street, just one
block beyond South street. The boxes
along King street will be at the follow
ing places: End of the street car line
in Kdpalama, Reform School, Liliha
tstreet, road to Iwilei, Nuuanu street,
Fort street, Alakea street Opera House,
I Punchbowl street. Victoria street, Wal
kil<i road. Along Hotel street there
will be three boxes at the following in
| tersections: Nuuanu Fort and A1akea
streets. Pauahi street and Maunakea
will have a call box too. Beretania
lstreet win have seven at these corners:
Nuuanu, Fort. Richards. Alapai Pen
sacola. Keeaumoku and a street near
the Pawaa rice mills. At the corner of
Vineyard and Punchbowl there will be
Ia box and another at Emma Square.
The bridge over the stream at kuSui
street will be given one. and one will
be put half way up Emma street from
Vineyard. School street will have three
at Emma, at Nuuanu and at Liliha
streets, which, with boxes at Liliha and
Judd and at Nuuanu where the Pauoa
Iroad leaves the avenue, will constitute
the protection there. There will be an
other box at the end of Punchbowl
where the bridge crosses the Pauoa
stream. There will be boxes at Green
and Hackfeld and at Lunalilo and Vic
toria, and on Wilder avenue at Keeau-
molxu and Punahou streets. The four
boxes ar Waikiki will be placed at the