The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-10-28
PUBLIC WORKS
PLAN AND ACTIVITY
STORM SEWER TO CARRY OFF
KING STREETS-THE HARBOR.

A storm sewer is just being completed
down South and Hustace streets to
carry off the water which pours down
Klapai street from the sunny slopes of
Punchbowl after every heavy rain, and
for years has made a reservoir of the
intersection of Alapai and King streets
1t is expected that hereafter this in
tersection will not be an impossible
pond of water after every rain, as it
has been for long time.
The dirt taken from the trench dug
for the sewer was hauled over the
Rapid Transit road to Kapiolani park
, where it is being used in the effort to
' start grass and help the growth Of trees
in the sandy parts of that public place.
Preliminary work has been started in
the cutting out of brush for the extern
sion of School street from Liliha street
to Kamehameha " road. This i'm
provement is to be made from the loan
fund and will open up fine suburban
! tracts of land.
Waikiki road from King street to
Kalia road is being oiled for the maui
ka half of its width as an experiment
to test that method of road perfecting.
Traffic on that side will be tabued
until the crude petroleum dressing has
had time to dry
Bids for the removal of Brewers
warehouse in Queen street Will soon be
, invited.
The A. Harrison Mill Co. Ltd, has
been awarded the contract for building
the Oahu Jail, it's bid being the lowest
at $16,S65 with an undertaking besides
to do the work in four months.
Work has been started on the COM
pletion of Diamond Head reservoir,
also in raising the frame of the Oceanic
wharf shed. This will be one of the
most commodious wharf sheds in the
Pacific.
Surveys having been completed for
section of the harbor, the results are
found to be such that the Department
of Public Works will include section
8 with section l in the call for tenders
for dredging, so that one contract will
cover the work to be done under the
special appropriations.
Section l is the bar outside the har-
Dor. Section is what is called the
outer harbor, where the large ocean
steamers are to be accommodated, in
the improved harbor scheme. 1t eX-
tends from the entrance to a line
drawn in extension of Fort street.
Section is the inner harbor, consist
ing of the water inside of the line just
mentioned.
The surveys of section 2 show that
the dredging of that part done two
years ago is still good. This was to
a depth of 80 feet below low water and
for a width of 400 feet from the docks.
By the soundings just completed it APP
pears that with the exception of a
small area toward an outer point there
has been hardly any filling up of the
bottom where it was then dredged.
Therefore, there is no need for any
present expenditure of money on that
section.
! Section will be dredged to a depth
of "a feet for a width of $50 feet in
general, the outer bound of the plan
| beginning on the Fort street line at a
distance of 600 feet out. The inner
| lines are drawn to include all pubic
locks, leaving the owners of private
wharves to do their own dredging.
| When the work is completed, there
will be room for a steamship 400 feet
long to be swung around within the
inner harbor.
Tenders for the work on both Sec
lions l and will close on November 16.
| Superintendent Cooper has taken into
consideration the published objections
to the judiciary building premises as a
site for the N. G. H. Armory. 1t was
stated yesterday that the site was not
| lie he
struction will close on December 7.
| Twenty-flve cents paws for a Want