Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-10-06

to do this under their property
rights.
The meeting has ADJOURNED un-
I'll 10 O'Clock tomorrow, no result
having been obtained from today's
session.
JDeputy Attorney . Milverton has
written a letter to the Board, stat
ing the County's position, which
reads as follows:
The Honorable Mayor ana Board of
Supervisors of the City and
County Of Honolulu.
Gentlemcn:---
Relative to n communication, I'M
der date OF October LIST, 1909. from
@. X. Carter, ESQ. treasurer OF the
Mutual Telephone Company, Limited,
In which Mr.. Carter states in sub
STAGE that he is willing to recon-
mend to the Board or Directors of
the Mutual Telephone Company,
Limited, that the company furnish
the City and County with facilities
for placing It's police and fire alarm
wires underground in the conduits
of the Telephone Company for the
period OF fifteen we; RS, for fifteen
cents per duct foot and exemption
from inspection fees for opening In
the roads, which the company may
hereafter make throughout the City
and County, would advise the
Board as follows:
On the first day of August, 1901.
the Mutual Telephone Company,
Limited, and the Territory OF Ha-
wall, by the then Superintendent of
Public Works of the Territory,
James N. Boyd, entered into a
agreement whereby the Telephone
Company granted to the Territory o,
Hawaii the right and privilege of at
taching to Its poles and other struc-
lures all wires and other apparatus
that might be deemed necessary by
the Territory OF Hawaii TO carry on
and maintain a fire alarm telegraph
system. together with all the right
and power Of extending and main
tanning ythe same. on any and all
public streets, lanes, alleys and
places In Honolulu and elsewhere on
the Island of Oahu, where the Tel
ephone Company might have erect
ed. placed or was maintaining poles,
or where 1t might have other struc-
lures and places for the attaching
and maintaining OF wires. II was
iurther covenanted In the agreement
mat the fire alarm wires might be
attached to and suspended from the
poles and other structures of the
Telephone Company at any time,
ana might be maiDtained there for
the whole OF the period that the
Telephone Company might be en-
utied to maintain the same by vir-
tue OF the laws OF the Territory of
Hawaii and otherwise. The agree
ment reserved the right and privi-
alter or replace It's wires or poles @,
alter or replace It's wirs or poles OF
other structures, or to change their
location, and further provided that
any expense or charge for the re-
moVal or the wires, boxes and othe.
apparatus of the fire alarm system
should be borne by the Territory of
Hawaii. The right to use the poles
or other structures or places of the
Telephone Company for the wires OF
me hre alarm system was, under
'his agreement, to be without charge
10 the Territory of Hawaii. and the
only expense that the Territory was
10 Dear, In case OF the altering O,
replacing OF the wires, poles or 9th,
err structures of the Telephone Com,
pany, was the cost of the removal
shifting or alteration of the wires
etc. OF the fire alarm system.
| Subsequent to the execution O.
this agreement, and evidently rely
ing upon the rights and prixlleges O
the Territory OF Hawaii under Il
large sums OF money were expende,
by the Territory of Hawaii for tn,
installation of what is known a
the Gamewell Fire Alarm and Polic
Telegraph System, large humble
OF the wires constituting such sys
TEN being strung upon the poles O
The Telephone Company under tn
agreement referred to.
Inc recent plans of the Telephon
COMPANY for the nlacIng ~ 4, ,o,. =,