The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-01

AT the annual meeting OF the Homo
| lulu Rapid Transit &, Land Co, Ltd,
held on Tuesday at the Chamber of
/ Commerce room, the reports of officers
We're presented, read and ordered to be
printed. The old board of directors was
reelected as follows:
L. Tenney Peck, president; L. A.
Thurston, 1st vice-president; J. B.
Castle, End vice president; G. P THE
len, secretary; c. Fl. Anterior, treas
urer; F. w. Klebahn, auditor; w. r.
manager and ex officio director
Following is the report of the man.
ager:
MANAGER RALLENTYNE'S RE-
PORT.
Honolulu, Jan. 80, 1906. :
The President and Directors, HonoIu-
III Rapid Transit & Land Co.
Gentlemen: / have the honor to
submit herewith my report Of the opef-
ations of this company for the year
ending December 81, 1905.
CONSTRUCTION.
Very little in the way of track or
other construction was done during the
year, short extension of the King
street line of 1880 feet running from
the Kamehameha ". road to the Ka-
hauiki stream; an addition to the
Queen street line of 1925 feet. included
in which is a spur track of $50 feet
leading to a fuel oil stand pipe; a curve
at the intersection of Alapai and Bere-
tania streets and a turnout of 400 feet
in length. with crossover, on Bere-
rania street between Richards and Ala
kea streets. comprise all the work IN
this respect done during this period
The extension of the King street line
enables us to reach the new military
post at Kahauiki, from which consider
able traffic is expected upon the COM
pletion of the post buildings and the
occupancy of the same by the troops
assigned to this post, while the Queen
street extension gives US direct con-
nection with the yards of the Oahu
Railway & Land Company. The OBJ
ject of the construction of the curve at
Alapai and Beretania streets and the
turnout on Beretania street was to en-
able US to make certain necessary and
desirable changes in the routing of the
cars on the Punahou and Hotel street |
lines.
The only work in the way of build |
ings performed during the year was the !
erection of a car storage shed at the |
rear of the boiler-room.
The erection of the ten new cars |
to in my last report was COM |
pleted during the early part of the year |
and the cars placed in service on the |
King street line to the great comfort
and convenience of those of our patrons
" no use that line.
During the year we constructed and
put in service an express car, in con-
nection with the Wells Fargo Express
Co., with very satisfactory results. In
December we began the construction
of an oil tank car of 20 barrels capa-
city, in which it is proposed to trans
port our own fuel oil as we'll as that |
IF other consumers throughout the
city. This will enable us to effect
reduction in the cost of
our fuel. in addition to which there
will be the profit derived from the
of oil to others
RENEWALS AND REPAIRS.
AS our track, especially al crossings
and turnouts, is beginning to show the
result of wear and tear we have found
t necessary to replace number of
these special pieces. all of which were
made in our own shops at consider
,bIe reduction under the cost of sim
lar imported articles. The track gen
orally and overhead structure have
,een carefully looked after and both
ire in good condition. We have given
, large amount of consideration to the
of our cars and have given
he majority of them a thorough over
hauling so that with few exceptions
hey are all in first-class condition.
I am glad to be able TO report all
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