The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-01-10

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er and determined attempt t.
interest Honolulu people in an auto
mobile. According TO the letters re-
ceived by his firm, c. $. Holloway OF
Grmwood, Richardson G Holloway
| has taken for these islands the eX-
elusive agency for the Mobile Company
of America, and win bring with him
several carriages, which will be used
for tests in runs about Oahu.
| The carriages which are to he re-
ceived at this time comprise n surrey
a dos dos, "A wagon and a wagonette
4 the latter having capacity of at least
twelve passengers. These are of the
| latest patterns, the ones which have
met with the greatest success in the
| States, and which are now in use in
great numbers, especially in the East
Upon the arrival of the vehicles they
will be put into commission and will
be given public trials, which will afford
| the greatest possible tests of their eff
cheney.
1t is learned that there have been
given tentative assurances that in the
event of the successful operation of the
cars in this climate, that these will be
the kind of vehicles which will be put
on the run between the city proper and
Waikiki by w. c. Peacock of the Mo-
ana Hotel Company. Several kinds of
carriages have been investigated by j.
II. Rothwell OF the same company, in
the States, and the fact that there will
be exhaustive tests made right on the
ground, had the result of securing the
conditional contract for the new firm.
The cars which are reported upon the
way here are not OF the lightest pat
tern as have been the preliminary
steam carriages which have been seen
here, but are solid enough to stand the
strain of a heavy pun. Thus the small
est carriage instead of three horse
power engine, which is the size put
into the same vehicle under ordinary
circumstances. VIII have six-horse-
power, and the larger cars an engine
in proper proportion to this one,
The carriages are those which are de-
signed for out OF town use, and for this
reason their capacity for storage of
fuel and water is SO great that they
may be run for 100 miles upon n full
reservoir of fuel. II is estimated that
this will permit the longest trip which
might be wanted by any driver here,
as there would be no difficulty in Sc
curing a supply of gasoline or distl
late within that radius of Honolulu
The carriages would be able to MAKE
the trip around the island with ease
and it is estimated nat there would
be no difficulty in obtaining fuel on
any island of the group within the
sphere of action of the machine.
There have been placed already sew
eral orders for the vehicles contingent
upon the tests being up to the eXpec-
tations. The carriage is the same one
which made the sensational ascent of
an inclined plane To the top of Madison
Square Garden during the automobile
show last winter, and is manufactured
at Rhinebeck- on Hudson, just out of
New York, by a company of which
John Brisben Walker is the head. The
firm of engineers which is making thu
departure in securing the agency, ii is
said, will make careful tests before
committing themselves to the carriage
as a success in this climate. 1t is
thought that owing to the warmth here
the objection to the steam wagons,
which is made in colder climates, of
the condensation of the steam leaving
a white trail behind the wagon will be
done away with, and there will be NJ
such disturbance and little noise ac-
companying the operation of the ma
chimes.
1t is said to be planned to hold
public test as soon as the machines
have arrived and have been set up.