The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-09-15
SUPERVISORS
LAST EVENING
rrom saturday,s AdvertIser.,

, chair with information that sprink-
ling wagon would be necessary for use
in making macadamized road down
in the country; giving the hard-worked
Hawaiian band well.deserved vaca.
tion for two weeks, buying three new
sprinkling carts, and discussing tenn
porary pension proposition for day la
borers injured in the pursuit of their
duties, the meeting of the Board of
Supervisors last evening was not very
important, excepting that the election
proclamation under the new municipal
act, calling for general election for
Tuesday, November 3, 1908, between
the hours of s a. m. and 5 p m, was
adopted.
As to the pension proposition, Super
visor Fern referred to the case Of q
teamster who had his ankle broken by
being thrown from his wagon on a
downhill grade, one of the mules going
over an embankment. The man, he
said, had gone to the police station in
a hack, and was then transferred to
the Queens Hospital in the patrol wa.
gon, but fearing that the doctors were
about to amputate his leg, he left the
hospital and had since being under the
treatment of Japanese doctor. He
wanted to know if, in similar cases,
the man. g wages could not be con-
tinued, or medical services furnished
gratis, because the laborers received
small pay and its sudden stoppage and
consequent expense entailed many
hardships.
Road Supervisor Cummins said that
in such cases the mans pay was con.
tinued, but not beyond month.
Chairman Hustace thought the pres
ent system could hardly be improved
npon, and even this would have to be
safeguarded because of the liability of
its misuse.
The September estimate for county
Nf~"H' P"y ioiiot tlC., W
10, included the following:
Kapiolani Park, $1S4.50; keepers of
parks, 500; electric light department,
$4,000; police and fire alarm system,
$40; County Clerk, $40; County En-.
gineer, S2l2.50; County Attorney, $40; /;
fire department, $ls325O; road depart.
ment, $6o750; garbage department,
$132.5O; police department, $322s.65; !;
Hawaiian band, $675.
The board approved the following
expenditures for August:
Koolaupoko road district, $479.2S:
coroner's expenses, 5000; Kailua
road, $l44.65; County Auditor, $25.6
Waianae road district, $44.75; County
=. Clerk, $42.95; fire department, $77S.67; F;
electric light department, $6Sl AS; po.
lice and fire alarm system. $66.55; po-
lice department, $64s.24; Waialua road
district (Wamea bridge), $4S7.17; Wal
amaze road district, $45497; Eva road
district, $52l.70; Eva road district
(culvert), $52.l3; County Treasurer,
$l.75; poundmaster advertising fees
returned), SO; election expenses, $163;
County Engineer, 1890.
A communication from Superintend-
ent of Public Works Campbell, grant.
ing permission to the Honolulu Gas
Co. to lay gas main along School
street, was referred to the roads and
bridges committee.
Sheriff laukea made a report, giving
the total arrests in the county for An.
gust as 800, against 1923 for August,
1907, with convictions 269, as against
252 in 1907.
Fire Chief Thurston reported the
number of fire alarms for August as
six, with property loss of $50, the
property at risk amounting to $1,000.
G. s. Holloway, president of the
John Ii Estate, notified the board that
the estate desires to make use of the
strip of land obtained by the estate
and the present lessees, the Oahu Su-
gar Co., along the new road near XII
paka Gulch, Wahiawa. He called at
tention to certain agreement made
between the Territory and the estate
which the county was to carry out;
that is, constructing a fence along the
strip. The road department was an-
thorized to put up the fence ON the
lines agreed upon.
The election proclamation was taken
up, being the first proclamation of the
kind under the Connty and Municipal
Act. The proclamation was passed
unanimously by all members of the
board present, Supervisor Cox being
absent. Being very important doc,
ument, each Supervisor subscribed his
signature in very careful manner.
Consideration of the tenders fol-
streetsprinkling wagons, deferred from
the last meeting, was renewed. The
tenders were submitted by the Schu
man Carriage Co. and the Honolulu
Iron Works.
Road Supervisor Cummins said he
wanted an s00-gallon wagon with gas
oline engine. He said the Iron Works
had not complied exactly with the
call for tenders for a tank of this size
The Iron Works bid was for 750
gallon tank, and they offered to fur
nish gasoline engine and hose 70
5000 additional to the wagon. TIL
chair said the Iron Works offered
wagon with smaller tankage thal
Schuman and charged more. Schr
mans bid for an s00-gallon WACO
and engine was $685., and the 750,ga
Ion tank of the Iron Works, with ell