The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-07-10
KELLOGG
GETS BUSY
CFrom Saturdays Advertiser)

- a...,...S.. e,,y,-
H. ia! heoss' 'e
moned from California by the commas
sioner of Public Works to make an
xar,,rat,op of the work under con-
>- a,, a-r,,,ad
e''o'i
yesterday morning on the Aiaieu" 'iiN
went to work at once. Yesterday al
,erroon was spent bv him in the office
~ ,-ommissioner Holloway and of AS
sistapt Howland. where the plans and
snecificstions for the dam were Sc
.,,rod as ,yaI, as all the reports on the
,,rograss Of the work which were on
eia Resides these MIR Kellogg was
.,,,,an tho ,vr,tten orders for changes
a. ,he snaci6cotions
rbesa were gone over carefully by
Mr. Karogo YESTERDAY at his office in
,ha young Hotel where he has made
his beadouarters. and this morning the
axamination of the actual work at the
dap, viii no commenced. The engineer
taiLs freely of the work he proposes to
d. and has exnressed a desire TO hear
,,,hatayar suggestions anyone NAV be
dienosed IN make
az did not expect to find things as I
hoya,, s,td Mr. Kellogg. "as there was
nothin, In the cable sent me to show
+bat ~ was the question of the safety
Of the dam that I was to decide on. I
Sas s,,r,osad tnat some unforeseen con-
dition had arisen in the work and that
7 ,yos called In To give advice as to
IL. 90 40 put 7 And that the peoplc
corsider a nossible danger and | can
,oadu,, ,,ndar.tond how the letters that
aa,,,a orao+a onnrebension among those
xvho are not engineers.
ct intend tn 90 through the whole
mattar az Thoroughly as possible.
bove already familiarized myself with
tho mans and am now at work on the
.enociecat;ons have also secured the
,.snorts that led I'M to the adoption of
40 nlans On that have everything
that the Department of Public Works
can s,nnlv me with. including all the
,,or,, ranorts that have been nut in by
:tbe various ones in charge. 1 will say
.hot hove found very complete rec
nrds n, this work in the department.
ct have erst to decide whether the
dom called for nv the plans is a safe
ono. tben will see in what manner
tbe vorr has so far been done, after
,,,hioh think 7 can report with GER
,oin,v os IN the safety or danger of
,ba dam,
T., a,,s,,,or 90 a ,eadjno question. Mr..
ua,,oa. said.
..I ,Io not intend tn make any COM
o,,,s ,,hotayar on what T find until I
ho,,o oon,n,atsa tho Hyorl. and sent in
~, rano,., to The Governor II Is quite
,i,se,,, that u,,,, write tho renort after
leave As an abstract proposition,
boweyer and lavinp aside all question
nf tha Nu,aru dam will saw that
~ orao. p,oior,tv of careful engineers
ara not IN fayor of Garth dams being
,;ercea h., water mines nor do they
annrova os r,,Ie Of valve chambers in
~ dam wben.tbe work NJ doing such
&c not too axnensiva altogether they
vii, .i,or, &C.,, o,,t,at hv -n,.,.c,,,g the
- sa,.r,,atton ,ha s,is n, tho dam
s.,,,,a,,,o, ~ ,,aI,,a toysr inside IN.
sasa,vo,r
1T nn,ioa too NV tho naners that
share 10 comn,aint regarding the pres
enca of snrinps under the dam. Of
oorrsa 20 ,bera arc snrinps there Il
viii he n great source of weakness
h,,t M Rowland informs me that what
o. non,,1ar,,, oo,,ad snrings is onIv a
,-ni,nrrn seenage which would alter the
situation
",rbase are things that am going
10 and ont for myself am going To
1;stor 20 onvone interested but am
.roi,g 70 for,n NV own oninions T
boya hoo,, IN tba wor,, Iong anoupb 10
know that evervone can not see things
alike Mr. Rowland has asked me TO