The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-21
ROWLAND WILL HAVE To co
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1 NO1llAuC0 1dSS OAS,1
| in the wrong over it as the department
! tries to make out, why don't they try
| to cancel the contract? They seem
very willing to talk about canceling the
Nuuanu dam contract. but why not
start in on this contract which they
say l have violated the terms of?
'On this contract so far they owe me
about $3100 / want that paid. Then
/ want them to arrange about the COM
pletion of the contract. I took the con-
tract to lay that pipe according to the
secifications for $3.50 According to
the specifications, remember, but not
according to the whims of Rowland.
When I had done considerable
amount of the work I had the govern
ment engineer go over it and he put in
an estimate that had completed sixty
five per cent. of the total contract. On
that basis 1 applied for payment, the
contract being that I was to be paid up
to ninety per cent. of the value of what
l had done. This estimate went to
Rowland. Without consulting his en-
gineer or anything else but his caprice,
he struck out the figures IS and sub
stituted the figures so, thus knocking
me out of a considerable amount of
the money due me.
''In addition to this were other mat
ters which cropped UP, and I quit
work and will stay quit until either the
department will do things on a common
sense and fair basis or the department
is cleaned out and common sense and
fair men are put in charge. Just think
of this. My contract read that I was
to lay a section of the pipe through the
Dowsett Estate. When my men went
on they were kicked off, because the
Department of Public Works had let
a contract for the laying of d pipe
across private lands without having
taken the trouble of procuring permits
sion from the owners to cross their
lands. Then the department coolly
changed the plans so that I would
have to make 900 cubic yards of a fill |
and $50 yards of a cut additional to the
contract and wanted to make me be- |
lieve that this change was one of the |
ordinary chances any contractor would |
have to run in rendering for govern
ment work. They must think that |
don't know any more about contract
ing than Rowland does.
made on the lower end. On the upper
end I agreed to put in 1000 feet or
wooden stave pipe, the slaves to be
supplied by the department in lengths
Of not less than sixteen feet. But
when l saw the material the depart
nent had sent up for me kicked. The
slaves supplied were of eight, ten and
.welve feet. Anyone knows that these
would make the carrying out of the job
much more expensive. Again 1 was
old that this was another of the
,hances I would have to run.
t.Now, I don't intend to run any more
# such chances. and 1 won't have to as
DON as someone gets into office in the
department. who knows anything of en-
cheering. I think that it is certain
hat Rowland will have TO go. So far
S Holloway is concerned, the con-
FACTORS I have talked to think that !
lie is all right except that he sticks
Ip for Rowland and let's him have his
wn way, right or wrong--and he is
generally wrong.
II will be back in about six weeks, + c
nd by that time there ought to be
omething doing towards Strengthening
ut things I am not kicking so much
or myself in this matter although I
ave had lots of trouble with the de-
artment. but / know that am saying I
hat every contractor and every COM I
etent engineer in the Territory J
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