The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-30
|TIC|SM Of
NEW DAM IS
JUSTIFIED
Experts Reports Fail
to Uphold Claims
Now Made.

elf it hadn It been for this general
kicking and criticism, which every
large engineering proposition of pub
lie character has to undergo, the dam
would have been completed by this
time,.' said j. Hastings Howland in an
interview yesterday.
What is the general kicking and
criticism referred to by Rowland?
Patterson criticized the manner in
which the wooden stave pipes were
going in. Of the pipe complained of,
Expert Kellogg said in his report: 9 |
do not consider that it could be safe
ly depended upon.'' Without criticism
the pipe that could not be safely de-
pended upon would have been left by
Rowland, the engineer in charge of
construction.
The plan of buildiag a dam along
the lines originally planned by Brother
in-law Walker was criticized. Kellogg
said: 81 do not consider that it would
be safe to construct a dam on the
proposed PLAN
The manner in which the outlet pipe
was being put in under the charge of
Howland was criticized. "Take out
the work now constructed, ordered the
expert.
The location of the valve tower in
the center of the earthen dam was
criticized. Kellogg recommended that
it be moved away from the center of
the dam, saying: This may seem ex-
pensive, but deem them (the changes
ordered) necessary to secure a safe and
permanent DAM
Without the criticisms, the valve
tower, the outlet pipes and the other
criticized things would have remained
where they were, and possibly the dam
would have been completed, as How
land says. but it would not have been
a safe and permanent dam, something
which Rowland seems to think is not
the business of the public to demand.
The general specifications of Engin-
eer Walker were criticized, the unrea-
sonable general public and those who
did not know what they were talking
about being agreed with by Expert
Schuyler, who said in his report to
the Legislature of 1907, regarding the
pipes recommended by Walker, "a
novel arrangement which should be at
only by skilled workmen and
never even by them if it can be avoid
ed
The same expert pointed out where
savings could have been made in car
rying out the different phases of the
work if the engineer had used broader
judgment.
The changes recommended by Kel-
logg, changes which he said were abso-
lutely necessary to have a safe struc-
ture, were fully concurred in by
Schuyler, something which Rowland,
in way not apparent to anyone but
himself, twists into commendation
Of himself and the manner in which
he was insisting the work should go
forward.
From figures on file in the Auditors |
off1ce it can be readily seen how radi- |
,al were the changes recommended by |
Kellogg to make a safe dam. On the |
work recommended by him there has
already been $4,000 spent. On the |
work done on the original plan Of the |
lam, including the cost of the work /
hat was condemned as unsafe and
ordered to be done over again, only
in all has been spent.
Two noted experts were brought
lere to investigate the conditions Of
he dam. Did they find any fault with
NY work? Didn't they say it was all
light and that 1 had done everything
IS it should be done?" demanded How
and in an interview in the Bulletin
asst Saturday.
Spending seventy-two thousand dol
ars so far on changes on a fifty-eight
housand dollar job. according to this
is evidence of everything
aving been done all right evidently.
In the same interview Rowland
ointed to the record of the work done
y the Department Of Public Works
S vindicating the department from
whatever charges 'those who do not
now what they are talking about" ere
Outside of a few minor un-
such as the putting in Of
ONE small culverts and the building
f some minor bridges, such as any
mechanic could handle, the
ecord of the department includes the
blowing: the Brewers wharf. the
ewr insane asylum contract, the Hiio
ever system, the Hilo arTnory, the
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