The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-27

Editor Advertiser: Some time ago i
was decided that as the county hat
money to spend, some of it should b'
| expended in making much needed re-
! pairs to the Waialae road. There was
great rejoicing among the users of the
| road when it became known that the
| thoroughfare was to be fixed. One fine
| morning, three weeks ago, as husky q
| gang Of laborers as ever tore up a
to ninety minutes, foregathered near
| the Zoo and after a few preliminary
| flourishes, went to work. The road just
| there didn't need fixing, but that was
| evidently not taken into consideration
and it was soon put III much worse
| condition than it originally was. Just
three weeks have elapsed since work
hstarted and about $50 yards of good
road have been torn up and smoothed
down in a half-hearted manner.
bitches have been dug and redug
pipes laid and relaid, and a sidewalk
is being constructed along Frank
Cookies property, the like of which has
never been seen before and for the
making of which there wasn't the
slightest necessity. Between twenty
and thirty men are employed on the
work and several teams, the gang be-
ing bOsSed by native. The Road Su-
pervisor may visit the scene OCCASION
ally, but if he does the progress of the
work does not indicate it. Jack Lucas
brother is sometimes seen gazing at the
whether he is acting in his brothers
stead or not, 1 cannot state. The men
are having a very pleasant outing at
kaimuki and are ali looking well and
healthy They are not what one could
cali first-class road laborers, but are
doubtless excellent voters, and with
an election coming on, voters must be
kept in that state of health and spirits
which regular exercise and paydays
alone can bring about. The luna is a
nice considerate man and cannot be
accused of overWorking his gang. It'll
is pleasure to see those men work, |
they go about it so good naturedly and
in such a quiet orderly manner There
is no unseemly rush to see who shall
do the best days work, no indecent
haste to get the job over and done
bright and early in the morning and /!
work for at least ten minutes before !
there is q lull in the picking and show
cling, and cigarettes are rolled / have |
figured out that each man in the gang
smokes four cigarettes in an hour and
consumes four and two-thirds minutes
in the manufacture of each little
smoke-stick This gives them quite
breathing spell and keeps them from
getting over-heated. About ten O'Clock
the time to eIapse before the lunch
hour is eagerly discussed and the men
begin to SHOW signs of their mornings
work. Hardly half a dozen men can 4
be seen working at one and the same
time, the others are admiring the beau
lifu1 view, chatting with friends rest
ing, watching the others work or roll
ing those eternal cigarettes. Lunch is
partaken Of in whatever shade may be
and then a snooze is in order
and strange as it may seem, this re-
cess appears to affect the men strange
", for they appear to like to work less
after dinner than they did before it.
The fat luna jollies them along and
sits down but little, but the men work
ng under him appear to treat his pres
ence as joke and as soon as his eye
s off them, commence to soldier"
The afternoon drass along with but
title to show in the way of results
md ten minutes before quitting time
everyone appears to be SO exhausted
is TO be hardly able to stand up Yes
erday morning a little diversion was
,reated by one of the Iaborers dump
ng a huge rock onto the platform of
he Waialae road car, smashing it to
plinters. The Kaimuki folks regard
he road-menders with affectionate in
crest OF late it has been the custom
# certain sportively inclined residents
Who go to town on the early morning
ar to wager on how much work will
ave been accomplished before the next
morning. Eleven feet won first prize
It only needs the "Porcu-l {
zine" machine to complete the burles-
lue- There is about $4,000 to be ex-
pended on the WaiaIae road repair
cheme and the three weeks work al
eady done. has cost the county, per-
laps $1,000. The parts of the road that 4
re in crying need of being mended
ave not even been touched and the
hances are from the present outlook, I
hat the appropriation will have been
long before Sixth Avenue is
cached. The road is pretty good down
o this point. What that noble gang
+ laborers would do if they struck the
wamp spots near the Kapahulu road
t is parlous to consider. They'd get
0st and never be found-until payday
oiled round. Meanwhile users of theIl
Vaialae road are compelled to witness
he throwing away of county money
n so-called road repairs without re-
Giving any appreciable benefit from