The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-03-04
THE WATER FRONT
CAR SERVICE
f. w. MACFARLANE MAKES PRO
TEST AGAINST THE QUALITY
OF SERVICE RENDERED.

EDITOR HAWAIIAN STAR: l read
some little time since a communica-
ton from ?. c. Jones, to one of our
local papers, complaining about the
service of the Rapid Transit and Land
Company incident to taking off some
! cars with a view, no doubt, of ecOnO-
MIXING at the expense of the dear pub
lie
| am constrained to register a mild
! kick on the present service i'm the down
town part of the town, and it is in con-
nection with the service on Fort street.
Heretofore, you could take a car every
/ ten minutes on Fort Street and go di-
rect down to the Iron Works, the ter
minus of the road, without transferring
at any point, but now you take a car
on Fort street, whenever it is your
| fortune to strike one, and it will stop
at Alakea street, and transfer you from
that point to the Iron Works, a dis
lance of about a block. You get off
the car, and it Immediately goes back
/ to Fort street, and the conductor will
tell you that the Alakea street car will
be along in a minute to take you down
perience, as we'll as the experience of
others who have their place of bust
ness in the neighborhood of the Homo
lulu Iron Works, that it is nearer ten
minutes than one before the Alakea
street car arrives, and therefore in
every instance person can walk from
the Alakea street corner where he is
dumped by the Rapid Transit company
| down as far as the Union Feed Com
pany before the Alakea street car
shows up.
| Now, as regards the return trip
| heretofore, the Fort street car would
remain at the Iron Works terminus
between five and ten minutes and then
return direct to Fort street, whereas
now, when a car does arrive at ter
minus, it stops about a quarter of a
minute and then goes to Alakea street,
arriving there about a minute after
the car has left to go up Fort street,
necessitating a wait there of about five
or ten minutes, to catch the next car
! going to Fort street. This change for
| the worse in the service is, no doubt,
| due to the company's ecOnomizing at
| taking off cars.
! l notice N report of the Legislative
proceedings, that the representatives of
the Rapid Transit Company and the
Oahu Railway & Land Company APP
peared before a special committee to
! whom was referred the Lucas Railroad
| bill, and it certainly was amusing to
read their objections to said railroad
bill In the case of the representative
of the Rapid Transit Co., he objected
! particularly to certain tracks of the
new company paralleling certain
tracks of his company, and considered
it would be a great injustice to his
company if permitted, but it perhaps
did not occur to the representative of
the Rapid Transit company, when
! making his protest, that his company
paralleled certain tracks of the Ha-
waiian eTramways Company, SO that
what is sauce for the goose is sauce
for the gander. The representative
OF the Oahu Railway & Land Company
also comes in for a protest of some
kind, and he should be the last one to
raise howl particularly as a large
part of his company's roads have been
built by government subsidies under
one of the most liberal franchises
granted by the Hawaiian government.
l have not read the Lucas Railroad
bill, and therefore have nothing to saw
for or against it, but l do think if
there is any capital available to put
into a railroad to open up the Koolau
side of this island, protests from other
established roads should be most eau
tiously considered
Now that the legislature is in SEES
sion, it might be well for both Houses
to limit any further concessions to the
Rapid Transit Company such as al