The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-20
IS HIGH-LIFT
PUMP ANOTHER
USELESSNESS?
HowIand's Coast Purchase Has SO
Far Proved a Dismal Failure
Works on a Four-Year Schedule.

Was Hastings Rowland the Superintendent Public
Works. famous FIVE thousanddOar pump
uicing construction during his little unt
the cstg THAT what good asking the the
pump pumping installed looks like another OF those
This the which there was
umus purchase bid the Coast firm being dated
BIDS the explanation having been that
ground sellers of the Coast and kne" @
exactly pick the thing in the pump line
At he got the pump had installed on the g0o
something thousand dollars an
the pump do its work
When the pump was installed and up the present
that it to sce down the
Hill and into place hundred yards of earth
approximately be placed the pump was
do it two everything ready
which time it has been running Up une
running down the hume carried
with it yards, the of about fifty yards
day. hundred yards day but the figures @
proportion of months which the whole dam
haveb built to the number likely to be taken
The pump in the first place only handling little third of the
water it supposed capable the only reason for the
showing made during the eight days has been a.
thirty hquaters hours Bakdo"n jam
ming furnish the explanation but the payo goes
just suppong the OFead0"
habits of be cured HOwnds estimate
of four stretch out into four years
Another thing pumping plant is that 1t mas
been in the wrong place ana
again right What earth the water delivering
turns principally excellent spage material but poor stun
The shifting of the pump again expected 20
while the pipe line is to be altered 50 haS ne nea
better chance to do the work for wncn
Nowth the eHe
up number of revolutions but unfortunately the water ~
come .1oon
from twenty to thirty oveng the fume but five men have
much earth into the hume as TO jam " more
the could handle
the v pump for the spot knowing
exactly wanted and he was asked whether ne considered
pump reported Mr. Holloway did not He a
that with some fixing true that the spot
selected for it had but that could be
trying again lie dand an
about the wok the pump
would would He informed the reporter
handling well twothrds OF s
Guaranteed capacity having probably that the
the fe onehrd of the guaranteed a
b of the pump was being when the dam
Mr. Holloway would not venture TO even guess
THE CONTRACT NEARLY PAU.
The raus of the regarding nmated yesterday
Holloway call the WhitehOuSe contract pau as soon I
priat which will be- he thinks about the END OF ~
be department without any further
advertise for bids for any WORK
Ito be doneun he explained
THE DISPUTED PAYBoLIs
connection with that the disputed
~ cropped M this month"; the installing hauling the and
pump anu @ % the Honolulu vaterworks a charge
which to the Attorney General ioF ms o
A
connection and the general running OF the VINO" @
glance Auditor office VIII snow that Io '
amount money actually the work the cost OF watching
excessive =, a. sr
The estimate the month of July is less than four
sand dollars by him and also his com
missions and spent according to specifications 'e
government inspectors other officials the ground the
value includes Hastings Howands salary OF sou anu ~
ms 0oA''' APPROPRIATION BALANCE.
- tic of 1ulv there remained of
the rainv with the continued progress OF the
work 50 that there the original appropriation left to run
the work through By that time may be that the ne" ~
win be available at least soon after ,,, vr,s
may be the views of the Superintendent OF Fuoe ~
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