The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-12
SUPERVISORS
LAST EVENING
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upon, and even this would have to be
safeguarded because of the liability Of
its misuse.
The September estimate for county
expenses, payrolls, etc, to September
10, included the following:
Kapiolani Park, $1s4.50; keepers of
parks, 500; electric light department,
$370.5O; police and fire alarms system
$50; County Clerk, $40; County En-
gineer, $212.50; County Attorney, $40;
fire department, $1s32.5o; road depart
ment, $697.5O; garbage department,
$l9250; police department, $3228. 65;
Hawaiian band, $675.
The board approved the following
expenditures for August:
Koolaupoko road district, $479.2s;
coroner's expenses, 5000; Kailua
road, $14465; County Auditor, $25.6O;
waianae road district, $4475; County
Clerk, 1926; fire department, s77S. 67;
electric light department, $6S1.4S; po-
lice and fire alarm system, $685.; po-
lice department, $64s24; Waialua road
district (Wamea BRIDGE, $4S7.17; Wal
amaze road district, $454.97; Eva road
district, $521.7O; Eva road district
(culvert), s52.1S; County Treasurer,
S1.75; poundmaster advertising fees
returned), So; election expenses, $16S;
County Engineer, $9s.90.
A communication from Superintend-
emit 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 Iaukea made a report, giving
the total arrests in the county for Au-
gust as $50, against 323 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 $I700 |
c. s. Holloway, president of the |
John Ii Estate, notified the board that
the estate desires to make use of the |
and the present lessees, the Oahu Su- |
gar Co., along the new road near XII
paka Gulch, Wahiawa. He called at
tention to a 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 au-
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 Coanty and Municipal |
Act. The proclamation was passed |
unanimously by all members of the |
board present, Supervisor Cox being |
absent. Being a very important doc
ument, each Supervisor subscribed his |
signature in a very careful manner.
Consideration of the tenders for !
street sprinkling 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 I
call for tenders for tank of this size
The Iron Works bid was for a $50
gallon tank, and they offered to fur
nish a gasoline engine and hose for
$500 additional to the wagon. The
chair said the Iron Works offered a
wagon with smaller tankage than
Schuman and charged more. Schu-
mans bid for an 800-gallon wagon
and engine was $685., and the 750-gal-
lon tank of the Iron Works, with en- /
CINE, was $3.50. Smaller tank -wag-
ons were also offered by each bidder.
Archer wanted to know how big the
engine was. Engineer Gere said it
was two and a half horsepower.
''I don t care what horsepower, -
said Archer; 81 want to know the
weight. -
Nobody knew the weight, but h. p.
did not appeal to Archer. He wanted
it all in pounds.
The awards were finally made as fol-
lows: Schuman Carriage Co., one 500
gallon wagon, with engine, $685.; Ho
nolulu Iron Works, two 600-gallon
wagons, without engine, 1875 each.
Engineer Gere then asked for a
sprinkler wagon for the Eva road
work Hustace jumped the engineer
at once First he had only asked FOR
a roller and ne did not suppose he
wanted anything else.
''You mislead me many times, -
shouted the chair.
Archer explained that secondhand
sprinkler could be bought here.
Ell want to know these things in adj