The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-10-08
.UL|HA STREET
PEOPLE TESTIFY
(From Saturdays Advertiser.)

A great deal of interest was display
ed yesterday in the suit of the Liliha
street contingent people against the
Rapid Transit Company to keep the
ten-minute service. There was a con-
siderable attendance in court nearly all
day. Former Governor Carter and L.
L. McCandless were two of the most
faithful, each of them being in court
nearly all day.
There was a more or less good ma
tured badinage between opposing coun-
sci during the day, the testimony that
a good many people in the Liliha street
region had sold their carriage horses
after the Inauguration OF the line be-
/ ing met by testimony that since the
/ Inauguration of the line, also, a good
many people in that region had bought
automobiles. The inference from this
was that though it was not exactly
horse and horse" it evened up things
as that might.
Manager Ballentyne was on the
stand most of the forenoon. He was
put on the stand by the complainants,
but by consent he was also examined
on direct examination on behalf of the
defense. The testimony sought by both
sides was as to statistics of travel
and finances of operating. Manager
Ballentyne proved a source of an i'm
mense amount of accurate information
on both subjects. He seemed to have
exact figures at his command and to
have studied the source of every fare
that came into the Golfers of his COM
pany and just how it was divided up
into wages. wear and tear, material
and supplies, betterments, deprecia-
ton, light, power, dividends, taxes,
and every other element of outgo.
c. V. E. Dove, the surveyor, was
another witness called. He was put
on, the stand to show the typographical
and geographical relation of this part
of the town to every other part of it
and to testify to its population and
the general street-car riding habits of
the people of that region.
Tax Assessor Holt was called on to
testify his expert opinion as to the pop
ulation of Honolulu derived from his
intimate knowledge of the number and
location of the taxpayers. He estimat-
ed the population of Honolulu as about
40 900.
Then there followed a long process
sion of people from the Liliha street
region. They were called on to testify
that they lived in that region, that
they used that line of cars to come to
their work and to go home from it, to
take them when they went to church,
to funerals, to marriages, and on most
other occasions when they had occa-
sion to go from one part of town to
another Also that it was used by
their children in going to and from
school,, and that their children came |
home from school along about half
past two in the afternoon, which would |
be during the time that it was propos- |
ed by the company to have the twenty
minute schedule in force. Also they |
testified that this Liliha street line
was used by their families in going
about in the course of their social life.
1t was also the testimony of each of
these that a ten-minute service fairly
well met the requirements of the pop
ulation dependent on it, but that a
less than ten minutes would
not.
Among those who thus testified were
James and William McInerny, ]. o.
Young, Senator Lane, F. T. P. Water
house, Oliver Stillman, Norman E.
Gedge and nearly dozen others. Emil
A. Berndt, resident of Kaimuki, tes-
titled that from the standpoint of the
resident of Kaimuki a fifteen-minute
service to that suburb would be better
than twenty-minute service.
Subpoenas for about twenty more
residents of the Liliha street region
We're placed in the hands of the High
Sheriff yesterday afternoon for service.
Those thus subpoenaed are wanted to
testify this morning.