The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-24
EMMA STREET
TREES SAFE
Road Work Is Progressing in a
Very Satisfactory
Manner.

members of the road committee OF the
Board of Supervisors, the monkeypoe
trees in Emma street viii be allowed
to stand. Chairman Quinn has beer
a firm champion of the trees and would
not hear of their being removed. He
has won his fight and there will be nc
tree cutting.
The trees which caused the dispute
line both sides of the street for a dis.
! lance of some two blocks mauka OF
Beretania avenue They stand out in
| the street about two feet from the
gutter line, and the law and order ele-
ment on the Board of Supervisors an
nounced that they must come down.
But Quinn had driven tourists along
the street, and he knew just what ex-
carnations of admiration those trees
had evoked. He said no, and he stood
/ to his guns, despite the attacks of his
| colleagues who thought that without
/ the trees the street would have more
metropolitan look.
| Work on Emma street is progressing
very satisfactorily and the thorough
| fare already presents much improved
appearance. From Beretania avenue
mauka the roadway is being ballasted
with crushed rock, on the top of which
a coating of heavy asphalt oil and sand
will be placed.
The Royal School grounds are being
put in frst-class order, prison gang
being at work there. The play grounds
are being sown to grass and by the
opening of the school year, everything
will be in readiness.
4hr e abjaaur1 roaI
and Emma street. a drain has been plac-
ed, and the dangerous hollow has been
filed. Formerly it was hardly safe to
turn from one street onto the other
after dark, owing to the great chuck
hole. The grade at the lower end Of
the road has been reduced, SO that it
can be climbed by a motor ear on
high speed without any difficulty.
The winding roadway, which an auto
could not traverse last year, has been
ballasted with rock and surfaced with
gravel. At all Of the curves, rock foun-
dalton has been put in, SO that the
danger of damage from storms is re-
dueed to the minimum.
The roadway has been fixed up clear
TO the top of PunehbowL and visitors
can make the journey to the summit
by carriage or automobile without
suffering the least discomfort from ruts
and uneven places in the road
The road leading down the Waikiki |
side of Punchbowl is also in excellent |
shape, as far as the United States Ex- |
pertinent Station. Decomposed lava, /
taken out in cutting the roadway, has /
been used as ballast furnishing a |
material right at hand.
Beyond the Experiment Station work I
has not been finished, owing to the re-
cent rains. The difference is decidedly I
ON descending the hill, for
the carriage or motor ear jumps from
he even surface Of the newly -graveled /
roadway to the ruts and iolts of the old
rail with suddenness that is far from
The work of finishing the
roadway win be completed early next
week, however.
It is Supervisor Quinn s ambition to
make Punchbowl road one of the pop
liar scenic drives of the city.
Makiki recreation park is rapidly be-
ng put in shape. The field has been
eveled, few dead tree trunks have
been removed, underbrush has been cut
nut, and grass has been sown. 1t is
he intention TO plant row of Poin-
siana regia around the four sides of
he square. These will be the only trees
N the ground.
King street will be repaired and oiled
rom the WAIKIKI corner of the Capitol
grounds to Nuuanu avenue. The ballast
las already been put in as far as the
main Capitol gate.
Merchant street from the Capitol +
1es 80 ~. L, L
asted and oiled. The grade stakes for
his work are already being set.
In the outlying districts. work is be-
ng rushed along equally expeditiousiy.
The Pail road is fast assuming shape.
The worst stretches have been passed
nd there yet remain only the, finishing
ouehes to be applied. Fl
Not only will Kaluanui and Kahana
'eaches be fixed up, but Heeia beach
viii also receive attention. This will :
% away with all of the beach stretches
n the around the-island tour. Surveys
re now being made and bids will be
allied for this coming week. Tt was
intended to change the road
ray at Kaluanui and Kahana beaches !
My, but it has been decided to do
way with all spots liable to cause
rouble at any time in the future.
The road from the bridge in Kapio.
mi Park around Diamond Head is also
eceiving attention. The work has
cen finished as far out as the Castle
ome
An effort is now being made to in
uee Governor Frear to make an ex-
hange with the Bishop Estate whereby | Z
.tkinson Park in Kakaako, and the
md lying Immediately makai down to
la Moana road, will come into the b
of the county. IF the deal
oes through, the whole will be thrown
,gether into one large park. :
Grass is being planted on the pay
rounds of all of the city schools and /
/ other ways the school grounds are
eing beautifed This work is progress.
lg rapidly, along with the repairs
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