The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-07-22

| Exchange at its rooms in the Elite
building yesterday evening.
Secretary j. d. Avery read the min
utes of several meetings, including the
latest one of the board of directors.
The roll call showed the meeting to be
constituted as follows:
John Emmeluth of Emmeluth & Co..
John L. Bowler Jas. Mott Jr., Thomas
Sharp, Stanley Stephenson, NJ. j. Car
roll of the Hawaiian Trading Co., w.
j. England of the plumbing company
| bearing his name, j. Rosenstein and j..
d. Avery representing the Hawaiian
Iron Fence and Monument Works
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
Mr.. Emmeluth, from the rooms COM
| mittee, reported that the matter of
proposed new quarters in the Alexander
Young building had been passed up to
Alexander Young but no reply had been
received from him. 1t was stated that
| Mr.. Young had gone away shortly after
| being addressed on the subject and,
now that he had returned, it was agreed
| that the matter should be left in the
| hands of the committee for further pur-
| suit.
1t was voted that the secretary should
| communicate with the committee on
Asiatic children in the public schools
with a view to obtaining a report there
| from.
The matter of filling the vacancy on
the board, caused by acceptance of the
| resignation of w. E. Rowell, was taken
up. j. Rosenstein was nominated and
there being no other he was unan-
imously elected.
| DIVIDING PUBLIC CONTRACTS.
The following communication from
the Superintendent of Public Works
was read:
Department of Public Works.
Honolulu, T. of H., July is, 1904
Builders and Traders Exchange, Ho-
nolulu, Il. H.
Gentlemen l beg to acknowledge re-
ceipt of your communication under date
of July IA, signed by several of the
plumbers of Honolulu, in which the re-
quest is made that the Government
segregate the plumbing work on all new
buildings to be erected and bids called
for on the plumbing work as separate
item. / note that the reason given for
asking that this be done is owing to
the fact that they claim that the Gov
eminent will secure a higher standard
of work than heretofore, but l do not
see why that would be accomplished by
separating the contracts and it has al
ways been our endeavor to secure the
best work possible and in conformity
with our specifications. There are other
distinct classes of work in the erection
of our larger buildings, and should we
segregate the plumbing we would I'M
doubtedly have further requests to
make separate contracts for all the diff
ferent classes of work. This would re-
quire a great deal of additional labor
and our office force having been reduc-
ed on account of cuts in the appro-
priation would not be sufficient to car
ry on the work properly. l should be
pleased however, to discuss this mat
ter with you should you deem it advis
able to appoint a committee to take
the matter up with me.
Yours respectfully,
c. S. HOLLOWAY,
Superintendent of Public Works.
Mr. Emmeluth in explanation of the
matter, stated that on the date of the
communication to which this was a
reply there had been a meeting of
IluiilDtio WIN tiit pi'Sib'il VI t'iS ia
change. The desirablity of having
separate contracts for all distinct
classes of mechanical work was dis
cussed and it was decided that re-
quest to that purpose be presented to
the Superintendent of Public Works.
Accordingly it was agreed that the re-
quest be preferred in the name of the
plumbers. Although the letter to the
superintendent was written on the
letter-head of the Exchange, 1t really
was not until now a matter belonging
to the Exchange.
MIR. BOWLER'S VIEWS.
John F. Bowler, on a motion to ap-
point a committee to confer with the
Superintendent of Public Works, stated
that he had always been in favor of
the principle of segregating different
classes of work in Government con- ,
tracts. 1t would prevent speculative
builders, who knew nothing about the
practical details, from using the en-
ploying tradesmen to serve their own
purposes and to get commissions on
the wages paid by such tradesmen. The
system In practice here made the en-
ploying tradesmen instruments for
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was not tolerated In San Francisco or
In New York. The speaker gave a
number Of local instances OF how the
thing worked II all resolved itself
into the fact that the speculative |
builders worried on the capital OF their |
sub,eontraet0rs and the Government |
backed them an ia a. They brought |
mechanics here from the Coast 90 take |
the work that should be given 20 the |
mechanics who lived hers ana paid the |
taxes that supported the Government |
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