The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-10

Of BREAkWATER
Strict Labor RuleS-DetaiIs of
Structure - Various
News Items.

HILo, February From a set Of
the plans and specifications prepared
for the construction of the Hilo break
water the Herald summarizes the
main features.
The contractor assumes full respons-
Utility for the safety Of his employees,
!: plant, and materials, and for any dam
| age or injury done. The employment
of persons undergoing sentences of i'm
prisonment at hard labor is prohibited.
The contractor will be required to dis
charge any employee who, in the opin-
ion of the engineer, is Objectionable or
incompetent. No work shall be done
on Sundays or legal national holidays
except in cases Of emergency, nor shall
any work be done at night unless au-
thorized in writing by the engineer.
The eight-hour a day law will be in
force.
The contract contemplates the con-
struction of a rubble mound break
water in Hilo harbor, beginning at a
point on the shore 1000 feet northeast
of Reeds bay extending aboAt 1875
feet northwest by west, thence almost
due west about 2425 feet, or as far
along these lines as the funds provided
will allow.
The amount available for beginning
the work is 100000 and it is expected
that 100000 additional, for which con-
tract was authorized, will be appro-
priated hereafter.
| The breakwater is to have uniform
top width of Is feet, and a uniform
height of II feet above mean low water
throughout its entire length.
Below the level of three feet below
mean low water the stone shall weigh
at least $50 pounds per cubic foot. The
the run of the quarry above % pounds
at least, one-half by weight to weigh
over one ton, and the slopes for a
thickness of ten feet shall be composed
of stones weighing at least two tons
each, the largest stones to be placed
in the sea face. The top or cap stones
shall weigh at least eight tons.
Above the level of mean low water
the stone shall weigh not less than $50
pounds per cubic foot. The slopes
shall consist of stones roughly reetan-
guIar in shape and be laid up in steps.
On the sea slope, each stone shall
weigh at least eight tons, and on the
harbor slope at least three tons, no
joints on either face to be more than
Il inches wide.
| WANTING LAND BADLY.
| George Kalauao still holds the rec
ord, thirty-two days and nights of
weary and patient waiting for little
| homestead at Olaa, the Hawaii Herald
says :
But there are others just as land
hungry as Kalauao. Last week Land
Commissioner Pratt advertised in the
Herald that six lots at Upper Maulua,
North Hilo and three lots at Honomu,
South Hilo, would be open to appli-
cants as right of purchase leases on
Friday, February 81.
On Sunday morning, Feb. 2, the
home seekers began to arrive in Hilo,
and by Monday morning there were
eleven of them seated in a row out
side the door of the office of sub-Land
Agent Williams, with a stretch of
twenty days and nights before them.
These applicants are Portuguese and
Spaniards The first six lots. at Upper
Maulua, are of 100 acres each, their APP
praised value running from $3.50 up to
81 an acre, with improvements II be
paid for in cash in three instances.
The three Honomu lots run from
1886 to S1-69 acres and are worth from
SIS to Sc an acre. Just what each one
wants it is impossible to say, because
the applicants start in with equal parts
of the silence of the grave and the
patience of Job. Their second night
VI waiting was d rainy one anu II -
possible that, later in the game, there
may be some betting on their respec-
tive staying qualities.
ITEMS.
Information to the Herald indicates
that a Chinese lottery game is run
ming in Kohala. It is also alleged that
there is plenty of liquor selling, IN I'M
| licensed places, all over the Kohala
district
After the Federal Court was opened
by Judge Dole on Wednesday evening
| of last week, Deputy Sheriff Fetter
acting as bailiff, the court adjourned
till o'clock the next morning when
the accounts of the clerk were approv-
ed for the October. 1907. term. This
was all the business before the court
and Judge Dole declared the term to
be closed,
w. 0. Smith met his son, L. K.
Smith. who arrived on the Enterprise
on Friday morning and thew both went