The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-11
CORAL DREDGINGS
MAY REDEEM THE
KAKAAkO SWAMP
The Tenement Section of Town Can Be Made
Decent if City Fathers Use Matera!
Easily ObtanabIe.

yet very little has been done so far
to put the street all the way through.
At the end of South street near the
Union Feed Company's warehouses, a
hill of coral stone is forming. There
is located the dump composed of the
dredgedout material from the new
Alakea slip. \ railroad track extends
from the slip to the dump and the
pile is increasing daily in extent. This
dump is not far from Halekauwila
street.
Supervisor Lucas believes this dump
| to be a gold-mine to the county 1t is
in this dump that Lucas wants to put
! some of the county funds. He wants
to have this material. so close at hand,
carted up South street and dumped in
to Halekauwila street SO that the road
way will be built up of the hardest
roadmaking material in the islands,
and complete one more good road for
the city.
As is well known a street was start
ed from King street through the Old
Plantation, or the property of Mrs.
Ward, to Waimanu and Queen streets
in Kewalo. This street is an extern
sion of Kapiolani street and runs from
the Eva side of Thomas square through
the Old Plantation cocoanut grove.
| About five years ago an agreement
was made by the Territory with Mrs.
Ward to convert the strip into street
without delay. Mrs. Ward gave over
the strip, but up to the present time
there is only a trail through it. 1t will
De a wide thoroughfare, when complet-
ed, but now it is mainly a swamp.
Marsh reeds grow in this street
Ward street is an important artery to
the Kewalo district, and is conve-
nient short cut from King street for
its residents.
Lucas plan is to extend the Alakea
slip railroad track from the present
dump near the Union Feed Company |
through the Ward place and fill up |
not only the street but all the extern |
sive area Eva of the street. /
1t is marvellous what few train |
loads of coral will do for a half SUBJ
merged section. The streets running
from South street to Ward street are
in pitiabie condition. In the past it |
has been the policy to build a road on |
half the street, leaving the other side
deep down in the mud. These streets
tn hn Tn faa
is not a street in Kakaako and Kewa-
10 that is not in need of prompt at
tention, and the most important thing |
is to raise all of them a couple of feet.
They are spending thousands OF
dollars on the parks for the people to
Lucas a day or two ago, ''and yet in
damp weather the people down there
can't get out to go to parks or any
other place. The wealthy sections OF
the city have pretty good roads and
streets and street railways and when
it rains they don't have to get covered
with mud, or wade up to their knees to
get to town or back again. But those s
poor people down there have fairly to S
wade out of their houses to the streets
and then wade through the streets
Rich people know that it costs some
thing for shoe leather, but these poor
people in Kakaako and Kewalo ruin
their cheap shoes in no time, and
-ell you it becomes pretty expensive
% them. In proportion their shoe
Gather costs them more than that Of {
'ich people. Z
There is big dump of fine hard
oral down there which is a quarry,
f the County Supervisors will only
ook at it that way. There will prob
Lbly be no such chance again as this
n years to get material so close at o
land, and therefore I say that the
money expended now in getting that t.
material into these swamps of Kaka-
.ko and Kewalo will be the cheapest s
hing the government has attempted
own there.
otherwise, material will have to be 81
auIed from the mountains and guess r.
he rest of the supervisors know that Il
hat costs something "
And as a breeding place for mos Il
uitoes Kakaako and Kewalo take first W
rize.