The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-08-23

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teed supply of water, only forty per
cent, in fact. At 200 revolutions the
pump failed to supply any water at
all, so it is reasoned that HOO revolu-
/ lions will bring water up a-plenty.
! As the pump is only made to run
| trifie over what it is now doing the
increased speed may involve serious
internal complications, but Rowland
! thinks not. He is willing to risk it
anyhow, as with him 1t is either case
/ of make good on the pump or smash
1t. To make the speed he figures on
} he will have TO race the engine also
faster than it is supposed to run, 2SS
revolutions per minute, in fact, while
the maximum speed guaranteed is on
ly 200 revolutions
Holloway did not seem to be par
! ticularly anxious to discuss any posi-
BILE danger to the pump from this
promised speeding, but remarked:
1T won't hurt the engine anyway"
MOTT-SMITH EXPRESSES DOUBT.
In conversation with the contractor
the Secretary expressed doubt if the
s1S2,00O voted by the last Legislature
would be enough to finish the work.
He, as well as the other officials, SEEM
ed surprised at the magnitude of the
work. which to be appreciated must be
gone over in detail.
Il do not believe that there will be
money enough to finish the job" he
remarked, looking over the basin of
the reservoir from the hillside near the
quarry.
oh, yes, there will be money
enough" answered Whitehouse reas-
uringly, provided they go to work and
quit experimenting and throwing the
money away"
FREAR ASKS QUESTIONS.
The Governor gave Holloway and
Rowland turns in answering the multi
tude of questions asked. The financial
side of the matter was dealt with by
the Superintendent, who told of the
different amounts and appropriations
already spent and of the appropriation
of the last Legislature to finish the
work. He also explained his view of
the Whitehouse contract, repeating his
claim that once the money of the pres
ent appropriation was expended the
contract was pau. Asked for his rea-
sons for so thinking by the Governor.
he explained the opinion of the Attor-
ney General regarding a parallel case
with Lord & Belser.
Have you ever talked this matter
over with Mr.. Whitehouse?" asked the
Governor.
No answered the Superintendent,
'Whitehouse comes to see me very
seldom and 1 have never had the op-
portunity"
WHAT is BEING DONE.
There are about seventy men at work
! now at the dam, some of them working
| directly on the Whitehouse contract
and others on extra work, under the
government engineers. The big rock
fill, suggested by Kellogg for the front
of the main dam in the gulch, is about
half completed. Rock for this is being
brought down the hill on a tram line.
Inside the reservoir, in the bottom of
the basin, the earth fill is being sluiced
into position between the core wall and
the hand placed earthen toe. 1t is in
this place that twenty thousand dollars
of the public's money was dumped in
an attempt to pump dry a mud puddle
fed by the freshets coming down the
valley, the place where the gravel was
taken out time and time again and
washed back again when the floods
came, delaying the work and piling up
an expense bill. After spending this
twenty thouand in trying to pump out
the puddle and allow work on the low
er part of the core wall to go ahead,
tunnel was driven under the dam and
the water drained off. The tunnel cost
thousand dollars and the driving of
1t in the first place and the building
of bulkhead, such as Patterson sug-
gested. would have saved the big
pumping bill.
Along the Pail road the earthen en-
bankment is being put into place by
hand. The original plans of the dam
did not raise the water level up to the
level OF the road, but the ten feet ad-
ditional to the water level, added by
Schuyler, will leave the road below the
high water level of the reservoir.
GOVERNOR STUDIES DOCUMENTS.
Before leaving for his home on Tan
talus after the inspection, the Governor
accompanied the Superintendent to the
Department of Public Works and OBJ
/ tanned copies of the Whitehouse con-
tract and the reports of kellogg and
Schuyler. These he will study before
making up his mind concerning any of
the matters in dispute.
Neither Auditor Fisher nor ATTORNEY
General Remenway had any comments
TO make on the work, the latter only
expressing surprise at the apparent
solidity of the dam in the face of the
great amount OF comment regarding
its probable safety.
McCANDLESS IS EMPHATIC
Senator McCandless, in an interview
yesterday, expressed his opinion of af-
fairs in connection with the dam in a
decidedly blunt manner.
You can quote me-" he said. "as
saying that the Nuuanu dam will never
De built until the Public Works De-
partment is cleaned out. Put me down
as saying that as long as Holloway Is
Superintendent of Public Works II win
never be successfully built-and that
not only Holloway but the whole de.
partmeut needs cleaning out.
why" continued the Senator "thev
are building the dam now wrong vav
first. They never put a drain in to
carry away water until 1 asked them
why they had not done so. Tban +ba,,