The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-15
MANDATES KEEP
Up THEIR KICK
Intend to Do So Until Things Are
Fixed the Way They
Want.

There was big crowd at the meeting
of the Manoa improvement club on
! Tuesday night at Judge Cooper s resi-
dence. It was sort of Indignation
meeting.
''We have been to see the super
visors of the county" reported the
chairman Of the road committee, "and
they say that the reason for not com
plotting the upper Manoa road and the
extension of Oahu avenue IS that all the
money intended for Manoa valley had
been spent on the swell concrete bridge
over the stream near Sam Parker's s. -
1t was decided that it was a good thing
to put up an expensive bridge, but also
that the residents Of Manoa generally
want good roads first, and viii see tina.
they get them if talk could accomplish
anything. 1t was resolved. to carry
this out to keep up perpetual attend
ance upon every meeting of the county
fathers from henceforth until relief is
had from "the horrible mud trails -
known as Manoa roads. A committee
was appointed and it will press the
claims for better roads on the super
visors early and often.
Water Service Bad.
Water was another theme of discus
sion at the meeting and Superintendent
of Public Works Campbell, who was
present, acknowledged the water in the
lower Manoa mains to be equal to the
thiekest mud soup claimed by the Nuu-
anu residents. The pipes are too small
and inadequate to carry enough water
for the large increase of water con-
sumption in College Hills, and there was
no storage reservoir so that the water
could settle before going into the mains,
he said. No remedy could be hoped for
until the Legislature made the proper
appropriations.
Car Service Kick.
The service on the Manoa ear lines
was the occasion for many complaints
on the part of the members 1t was
suggested that mandamus might
legally hold for ten minute service
all day, but it was hoped to prevail on
President Peck of the Rapid Transit to
grant such regular service between five
and seven in the evening instead of the
continual twenty-minute service, which,
owing to ears not keeping on time, was,
IN the opinion of the meeting, practi-
cally thirty-minute service for the
tired business men of the city.
Lights All Right.
Among the things accomplished by
the CLUB during the past year was the
extension of street lights all over the
valley and unstinted praise was given
City Electrician Frazee who was doing
everything in his power to light up
ManOa. Incandescents will be strung
all over College Hills within the next
month.
Keep Off the Grass.
Fifty dollars per month at least and
as much more as necessary was voted
the road committee of the club for
abating the rovingcow nuisance. 1t
seems a thrifty pake dairy in Pawaa
has been getting free pasturage off the
kindly citizens of the valley by driving
its cattle slowly up the valley in the
morning and down again in the after
noon, letting them browse off the ex-
pensive foliage and lawns bordering on
the roadsides. But these gentle kline
viii now meet with a lariat in the hands
| of paid cowboy and the owner will
| look for them in the pound hereafter.
The following were the officers elect
ed at the meeting: President, Judge H.
f. Cooper; vice-president, F. l.. Wald-
ron; treasurer, Won Damn; secretary,
/ s.. De freest; executive, r. A. Lyons.
Ten new members were elected and
the total membership now is upwards
| of one hundred with goodly sum in
| thp treasury some of which will he
used to beautify Cooper Park on the
upper Manoa road, on which will be
erected a bandstand which the club
thinks, will make Aala and Kapiolani
parks green with envy.