The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-22

I the Secretary expressed a doubt if the
| S132. 900 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
Howland 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 G. 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 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
nalf 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 I
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,
p tunnel was driven under the dam and
the water drained off. The tunnel cost
a thousand dollars and the driving of
it in the first place and the building
IF bulkhead. such as Patterson sug-
gested. would have saved the big
bill.
Along the Pail road the earthen en-
is being put into place by
land. The original plans of the dam
lid not raise the water level up to the
evel of the road, but the ten feet ad-
litfonal to the water level, added by
will leave the road below the
ligh water level of the reservoir.
GOVERNOR STUDIES DOCUMENTS. {
Before leaving for his home on Tan
alus after the inspection, the Governor
the Superintendent to the I
department of Public Works and OBJ
aimed copies of the Whitehouse con-
ract and the reports of Kellogg and
chuyler. These he will study before
laking up his mind concerning any of 4
ne matters in dispute.
Neither Auditor Fisher nor Attorney
eneral Hemenway had any comments
make on the work, the latter only d
pressing surprise at the apparent II
,lidity of the dam in the face of the
,eat amount OF comment regarding Il
S probable safety. \
McCANDLESS rs EMPHATIC. S
Senator McCandless, in an interview
.sterday. expressed his opinion of af- 81
irs in connection with the dam in
blunt manner.
''You can quote me- he said, "as a!
wing that the Nuuanu dam will never Il
built until the Public Works De- al
rtment is cleaned out. Put me down dt
saying that as long as Holloway is al
perintendent of Public Works it viii er
yer be successfully huilt--and that ~
I only Holloway but the whole de- y
rtmeut needs cleaning out. re
why" continued the Senator, they tn
: building the dam now wrong way as
st. They never put a drain in TO st
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