The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-09
.UL|HA STREET
INJUNCTION
Some of the Further Reasons
Advanced by the
Plaintiffs.

Among other allegations in the bill
for injunction against the Rapid Tran
sit Company filed late Saturday are
the following:
That that portion of Liliha street
over which the respondent company op-
crates it's cars is of about two miles
in length and runs through densely-
populated portion of the District of Ho-
nolulu. That the residents along the
line of Liliha street. and Immediately
adjacent thereto, aggregating about
six thousand, resort to and use the cars
operated over and along said Liliha
street by said respondent company for
! the purpose of transportation along
said Liliha street and other streets
within the District of Honolulu, over
which the connecting lines of the re-
| spon5cut company operate. That the
| residents o. the District of Honolulu
gene1 ally resort to and use the connect
| ing lines as well as the Liliha street
cars operated ty the respondent COM
pany, TO reach points along the line
of LiIha street and Immediately adj
jacent tterSto. That the convenience
of the public requires that ten-min-
ute schedule, as hereinbefore explained
and as now maintained Dy said re-
spondent company, continue in respect
to the cars of said company operated
over said Liliha street. Your orator is
informed and believes, and upon such
information and belief alleges it to be
the fact. that the said respondent COM
pany, IN violation of the rights of the
public and it's duties under the law and
the requirements of its charter, threat
ems and proposes to forthwith modify
the schedule OF the said Liliha- WaiaIae
line to the end that the said cars SO
operated over and along said Liliha
street between the hours of nine o'clock
in the morning and four O'Clock in the
afternoon, and between the hours of six
o'clock in the afternoon and twelve
o'clock midnight, viii operate under
twenty-minute schedule, that is to say,
cars on said Li!iha street viii travel
10th ways at intervals of twenty min
utes, and the said respondent COM
pany threatens and proposes to forth
with, during the said times, operate
its cars over and along Liliha street at
Intervals both ways of over ten min
utes.
That the aforesaid lines operated by
the respondent company are the only
public transportation facilities within
the District of Honolulu.
That C. B. High, John c. Lane, n. E.
Gedge, j. o. Young and l.. L. Nc
Candless are citizens of the United
States and of the Territory of Hawaii,
and resident within the District of Ho-
no1ulu along a line of and Immediately
adjacent to said Liliha street. That
heretofore. and on, to wit, the 18th day
of September, A. D. 1907, they did, both
individually and representing the resi-
dents along the line of and immedi-|
ately adjacent to said Liliha street,
complain to the Attorney General of
the Territory of Hawaii and present to
him that the convenience of the public
generally and the said residents in ref
erence to said Liliha street in partic-
ular, required a ten-minute service
upon and along said I4iliha street, and
that a service of a greater interval of
time than ten minutes between cars
would be serious Inconvenience to the
said residents in respect to Liliha
street and the public generally and
would prevent reasonably prompt trans
portation facilities, cause unnecessary
delay at the transfer point of the lii
Unavailable line with connecting lines,
unreasonably obstruct and retard the
transaction of business and the pursuit
of pleasure and render the cars of the
said respondent company useless to the
public as a means of transportation
going to and from Liliha street.
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