Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-09-09
HEhENWAY BLOCKS
SCHEDULE CHANGE
Serves Injunction On
Rapid Transit
Company

Land Company had made plans to be-
gin this morning the work OF removing
certain switches and installing others
Oh the LilihaWnialae line for the pur-
pose OF changing the Liliha street
schedule. But It will not commence
today, nor for some days to come, II
II commences at all. Last Saturday
night an Injunction, with the Territory
Of Hawaii, represented by Attorney
General Hemenway, rs plaintiff, was
served on the company restraining 1t
temporarily from changing the SEIZED.
ule.
E. c. Peters is named as OF counsel
for the Territory, and II was by hls
advice that the Liliha street. commit.
tee, consisting Of c. b. High, John C.
Lane, N. e. Gedge, J. o. Young and
L. L. McCandless went to the Attorne!
General and induced him to bring the
injunction on behalf OF the Territory.
The injunction was issued by Judge
De Bolt. It was the announced inten-
ton Of the company to change the Ii
iiha street schedule so that between
the hours OF nine In the morning and
four in the afternoon and between six
n the afternoon and twelve midnight
the cars would operate under .
twenty-minute schedule. During the
rest of the time when the cars are
running the ten-minute schedule was
20 be In effect as now.
The bill OF complaint states:
THAT for the purposes OF reasonably
prompt transportation facilities in the
pursuit of business or pleasure, the
making of reasonably prompt trans
lers to connecting lines, the prevention
Of unnecessary delay In travelling over
Liliha street In respect to the distance
10 be Travelled, and for the prompt and
rapid attention to business, the public
convenience requires that at all time,
there be maintained on the Liliha-Wai-
y,ae line ten-minute schedule N re-
spect to Liliha street, and that cars
running over and along Liliha street
proceed both ways at intervals of not
less than ten minutes; that unless the
said respondent company Is prevented
by injunction. It will proceed forthwith
TO install and inaugurate the said mod
fled schedule and operate its cars over
and along Liliha street both ways at
intervals Of twenty minutes, and will
prevent thereby reasonably prompt
transportation facilities over Liliha
street, cause unnecessary delay at the
transfer points Of the Liliha-Waialai
line with connecting lines, unreason.
ably obstruct and retard the transac-
zion of business and the pursuit OF
pleasure, and render the cars so ope-
rated by It along said Liliha street
useless to the public as means OF
transportation, all Of which Is to the
detriment and irreparable injury OF
the public, and contrary to its rights in
that behalf"
The fact that the Territory is made
he complaining party to the suit IL
due to the advice OF Il. C. Peters, who
had been retained as attorney for the
;.iliha street residents and who Is
named In the injunction papers as "of
counsel" His advice was to the effect
that the Liliha street committee OF
complaint should call upon the Attor-
ney General and state their case. The
committee. consisting Of C. B. High
John c. Lane, N. f. Gedge, j. o.
Young and l.. l.. McCandless. did so.
with the result that the fight Is on
between the Territory and the COM
pany.