Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-04-12
ANDREWS ON THE CARS.
ARRANGED SWITCHES 50
CONNECTIONS ARE POOR
CORPORATE DISREGARD OF PEG
PIES RiGHTS-REME8 THE
TRAMWAY FATE, SAYS
ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Attorney General Lorrin Andrews
has the following to say in re the
Rapid Transit discussion:
Its actions in claiming that the at.
tempt Of the Government to make 1t
conform to its franchise will paralyze
the road, so that it cannot give ehec.
tive service and its conduct in deliber
ately conducting such service since the
bringing of the suit so that II will in.
convenience the public as much as pos.
tended, from the time of the granting
OF the franchise to live up to its terms,
OF else 1t has reached the state where
its motto is the public be damned
In this connection it must be re.
membered that the Company is allowed
by law to run its cars at the rate of
II miles per hour East of Liliha street
and West of Alapai.
The remarkable statements that II
compelled to run within the rates Of
speed prescribed by law, 1t cannot give
the public an efficient and satisfactory
service shows to what length 1t will 90,
and the power it believes II controls, to
tie up the traffic and business of the
city.
IF it has deliberately arranged its
schedules and switches so that 1t can.
not run enough cars to make proper
connection and accommodate the
public without violating its franchise,
then 1t is time to see whether the
franchise of the company cannot be
taken from 1t, and the public be pro.
tected and given proper transporta.
ton for the grant of public utilities
while the people are long suffering,
there is an end to patience when con.
fronted with corporate disregard OF
their rights, and the managers of the
Rapid Transit Company should re.
member the fate of the Hawaiian
Tramways Company for its disregard
of the public interests.
THE speed regulation in the fran.
chise. requiring IL to run its cars in
the business portions of Honolulu at
a rate Of not more than s miles an
hour and In other portions at a rate
of not more than ~ miles an hour.
is a regulation in the franchise for
the safety of pedestrians and vehicles,
and was known to the managers of the
corporation when they arranged their
schedules and put their cars in oper.
alton.
The trouble has been that they pre-.
Ter to reduce expenses and run a small
number of cars, making these cars go
4, at dangerously high rate of speed
in order to make connections. Since
the installation of the system, the fol.
lowing persons have been killed:
Manuel Peters killed Nov. IA, 1901;
Suen Lum killed July 10. 1902; Masa-
10 killed April 20, 1903; Kozai killed
April "a, 1903: Geo. Parker killed Sept
%, 1908; Pelapela killed Sept. 20, 1903;
w. II. .Kaleikuiwa killed May 30, 1904;
l.iwai Makanei killed Dec. s, 1904; All
Lin Tai tgirD killed March s, 1906;
Wong Chez killed March q, 1905.
This list does not include the large
number Of persons manned and other.
wise disabled, where the result was
not fatal.
THE distressing spectacle of
hearse being run into by rapidly
moving car In broad day light on one
OF the principal business streets, the
hearse upset and the body of the de.
ceased thrown into the street before
the gaze of relatives and friends is
fresh in the public mind.
These matters became so fragrant
that the Superintendent of Public
Works directed a letter to the COM
pany on March 23, 1905. which quote:
march 90, 1905.
Honolulu Rapid Transit & Land Co.,
Limited, City.
Gentlemen: ! beg to call your at
tention to report made by one OF