The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-04-21
DOUBLE ACCIDENT PUTS
RAPID TRANSIT SERVICE
PARTLY OUT OF BUSINESS
fFrom Monday,s Advertiser.)

thirty-minute schedule. just one car
being kept running between Pawaa
junction and the Kaimuki terminus
The Manoa valley line ran about as
usual, one car handling the business
! between Punahou junction and the
head, of the valley Emma street and
! Alakea street spurs. meaning one car
each. were continued.
This reorganization was made with
creditable celebrity and there was the
most evident anxiety on the part of
all concerned to accommodate the pub
| lie to the best possible advantage in
spite of the setback of unavoidable
accidents. The motornen and conduc-
tors volunteered to work all night If it
had been necessary.
There was of, course, the humorous
side to the occasion. Hundreds of
people in the morning who did not
wish to wait for the cars to start run
ming again took to their feet for the
pathways home, and the people. most
ly women and children, who walked
comparatively short distances, half a
dozen blocks or so, looked very much
like professions. and joyful professions
at that. for,' being Easter. all were
in their best, and the general public
got more view of hats than would
have been the case had the cars been
running as usual.
The cars that took the church
crowds home in the evening were load
ed to the footboards, one Punahou car
carrying nearly two hundred people.
and she went up the incline from the
car barn, along Alapai to Lunalflo.
very much as a fat man would go
up rope over a ships side.
With two boilers, two-thirds of the
power, disabled, half of the power or
dinarily used being cut off. it followed
that only about half of the cars could
be run. The delay in the morning.
after the blowing out of the tube in
No. 1. was in getting up steam in the
emergency boiler, and it takes an hour. .
or nearly so. to get up energy in a
cold boiler.
When the second blow came, the sys-
tenn had to be cut in half
The Honolulu Iron Works was noti-
fled last night of the accident almost
as soon as the doctors had been sum-
moned for the scalded men. and new
tubes for the boilers were quickly on
hand.
This morning, though the system.
may open up on half schedule, that is.
half the number of cars, it is expected
that during the forenoon the entire
system. will be running as excellently
as usual.
There seem to be no explanations for
the accidents. The morning and even
ing events. as far as is known by en-
gineers and all concerned, could not
possibly have any connections: even if
there had been no accident in the
morning, the evening occurrence would
not have been prevented. The boilers
are examined and cleaned every week
or so, and both No. and No 2 had
been cleaned within the last two
weeks
Not long ago there was installed a
special automatic cOntrivance which
cuts off one boiler from another in
the event of any accident to one. and
this contrivance was in operation,
otherwise two boilers, or three. may
have at once suffered. All safety ap--
pliances known to the profession are
used in the engineering scheme of the
Rapid Transit.
Yesterdays accidents to the two men
in the engine-room were the first to
the engine force in the history of the
company. Two years ago there were
some tubes which occasioned trouble.
but they had become pitted and the
results did not cause injury to any
body.