The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-01-26
ROAD MEMS
PAY APPROVED
cFrom Saturdays. Advertiser,

(From Saturdays Advertiser.)
Salary demands presented by the
Roads, Bridges and Parks Committee
to the Mayor yesterday afternoon were
passed by the Board over the Mayors
head, after His Honor refused to put
the motion for passage. The demhnds
on the auditor aggregated $SSl.5O, COM
prising wages due various employees
under Road Supervisor Cummins, En-
gineer Gere, Park Superintendent
Young and the garbage bureau.
The Board not only passed the de-
mands for appropriations, but passed
another motion which calls upon the
auditor to draw warrants upon the
City and County Treasurer for the pay
ment thereof, and it is likely that the
appropriation deadlock between the
Mayor and the Republican members of
the Board of Supervisors will now be
brought into court, if the auditor re-
fuses to draw the warrants.
When the question of payrolls was
preached, the Mayor stated that he
had taken the matter under considera-
ton, and he desired this statement to
appear on the clerks minutes.
On motion of Cox the date for open
ing tenders was changed from the 10Th
to the 9th of each month.
Mr.. Kane then presented the report
of the Committee on Roads, Bridges
and Parks, carrying the various pay
rolls of the road, park and engineer
bureaus. His Honor said the matter
was up to the Board. He refused to
entertain motion, and Logan, with
tvn
presented the matters to the Board,
which passed, Mcclellan voting no.
Mr. Cox, on behalf of the committee
ON police, said he was not quite ready,
but would present the payrolls today.
Mr.. Logan stated that the special COM
mittee appointed to confer with the
Lincoln anniversary celebration com
mittee, had had member at the cele-
bration meeting.
AS to the proposition of Mr.. BONNIE
to make moving pictures of the Homo
| lulu fire department, the special com
mittee presented report to the effect
that Chief Thurston had been inter
viewed and all arrangements were en-
| trusted to the chief, with the recon-
mendation that he have sufficient re.
serve apparatus on hand to respond to
any calls, and that the chief consult
with the board of underwriters before
taking any action.
The Board then spent a dreary third
of an hour quibbling over the request
of the Superintendent of Public Works
for the return by the City and County
of the old fire-engine known as "China
No. So as the Department of Public
Works desired to place the engine in
a locality which was unprovided with
fire protection. Chief Thurston, who
was in attendance, explained that
"China No. 81 was an extra engine
in his charge, and had been used in
old volunteer days by Chinese fire
| company. 1t it was returned to the
Department of Public Works, then the
county could, in time, provide more
modern engine. The boiler WAS old and
a new one would have to be put in in
about a year.
Mayor Fern remarked that he under
stood the engine was to be sent to
Maui, and he questioned the right of
the Territory to call in any apparatus
from Oahu county and giving it to
another county. Mr.. Aylett said he was
a member of the 1905 Legislature when
the County Act was passed. The coun.
ties started OUT practically without any
assets. The Department of Public
Works of the Territory loaned the coun.
ties its road building equipment and
turned over what public utilities it had
in all departments, but it was merely
loan of such equipment. 1t was good
policy of the part Nof the Territory to
do this. But nevertheless it belonged
to the Territory, and was subject 10
the call of the Territory for its return
Mayor Fern did not agree with Mr.
Aylett. Cox replied that the property
was the Territory's and when the Ter
ritory called for it, it must be returned
The county had no right to hold it
Mr.. Mcclellan said he did not know ia
whom the fire engine belonged and
thought the matter should be referred
to special committee. Fern again re-
marked that the only objection he had
to returning the engine was because the
county would have to buy another one
Mr.. Logan said that Superintendent
Campbell had given him some good rea
sons for the return of the engine, but
the Mayor said that perhaps Kauai and
Hawaii and Molokai might want an
engine and the Department of Public
Works might keep on calling for en-
gines and the county would have to
buy new ones. After a long. drawn-out
discussion, with hardly any head or tail
to it, when nobody seemed to know
when motion was motion, or when
amended, it was voted to give the en-
CINE back to the Territory and the
board adjourned until p. m. today.
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