The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-01
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Committee Of the Whole

| got 10 work at once on the items of the
| Public Works department relating to
| the harbor.
Single took back all be had had Ia
say previously about cutting down the
number of pilots. He thought yester-
day that the three on the payroll had
plenty to do and worthy of an increas
ed salary He moved. therefore that
| the pay be put at 1925 a month.
He then announced some changes To
| be made around the waterfront. Cap
tain Clark had been, he said, appoint.
| ed harbOr master in place of CAPTAIN
Fuller, resigned, and it had been further
| resolved TO abandon the present old
pilot house and shift the pilots TO the
present harbormaster s Office at the foot
| Of Alakea street. Then the pilots
would assist the harbormaster and the
| expense of an assistant harbormaste1
could be done without.
Single also put in a good word fol-
the pilot boat boys, celebrating on
their hard work and hazardous Jobs
He recommended raising their pay from
$45 to $50 month.
Rice and Kaleiopu asked few WINS
and Kaniho went on record as opposing
any increase in pay for the man who
ran the Logan ashore.
Hihio said the pilot boys should have
more money, of course, but not the
pilots. They seemed to be getting
along all right on 5000 and economy
could not permit of any boost. Hihio
rather felt that the boat boys should
.Ia,o h. La L
had 10 do the hard work of rowing and
the pilot simply steered.
The item increasing the pilots sal
aries carried in spite of Hihio s protest.
Watchmen Changes.
Shingle then explained that the work
of the pilot house Waterman was great
er than that of the man at Diamond
Head. He moved to raise the pilot
house Waterman to $65 month and
cut the Diamond Head man to the same
figure.
This passed and the boost of the
pilot boys was taken up. Single
moved to raise the pay from $40 to
$50.
Kaniho Immediately moved to make
it 500 and drew a narrowing picture
of boatboy eaten up by a shark on
the measly pay of $50 a month.
Kama said he knew something about
pilot boys because he used to be a pilot
boy himself. He knew $50 a month
would be satisfactory. Kaniho refused
to be satisfied and said SO from several
different directions for several min
utes, while the members waited for him
to run down. AS soon as he had. the
pay was voted at $50.
Shingle asked for an item of 5000
for expenses of upkeep of the pilot
boats. This carried.
Cut Out Diamond Head Man.
Kaniho then moved to strike out the
item carrying the pay of the Diamond
Head Waterman. quoting Single to tht
effect that the Waterman there got his
news about approaching ships from tht
Honolulu Waterman Single said thai
Kaniho was "dead right but the
business interests wanted to keep Z
| man at Diamond Head. In the mean
while Coney had gone to ask if thu
Waterman there was also the lighthous;
keeper. He found out that he was not
Shingle said that while the service
/, at Diamond Head now did not seem t.
| be satisfactory, vet a Waterman Their
was necessary. The item passed at Sc;
month.
Another item was then proposed b,
Shingle, a contingent fund of $1,000
He stated that Captain Lorenzen hat
served now for II years. Captain Ma
| caulay for 16 years and Captain San
| ders for Il years. Now Captain Lo
renzen was sick and off without pay
while boat boys and others might b
hurt The money was wanted to EN-
ploy extra help in cases of this kind
| The amount was voted, but as ''inei
dentals. -
| The items for Hilo and Kahului har
bors passed as in the bill and the tota
! amended to $43,7l0, am increase owe
F.! the bin of $624o.
Public Instruction.
Long moved that all items of expens
| in the Superintendent S office be
lump sum of $4,000. This is the sam
as in tn bill with the exception tina
school agents are to be cut down t
$1,000.
| Rice moved to cut the item out alto
| gether. He feared the result of Leaving
| the word "school agent" in the bill
Z" | know what il s going to mean h
| said, and added that he had seen tn
work of the department before.
| Long agreed to knock out the oh
| iectionable word. Furtado asked if tn
| idea was to knock out all school agent
and was told that it was. Furtad
also wanted to know why the Superin
| tendent did not do some work in hi
office instead of being around town al
| the time. No one told him. Long
| motion carried.
! Items for furniture, supplies, etc
were Jumped at $4,000.
/ Kaniho objected to any lump sur
votings 1t bred favoritism. accerdin
to his ideas. Long labored with hin
/ Industrial Training Fake.
Sheldon said that industrial train
ing was fake. simply an avenue fo
| spending money .'What does lad
teacher know about planting sweet pc
tatoes?'' he demanded, going ON t
state that most of the children kneN
i more about industrial work than tn
/ teachers did. He also took oceasio
to slam Superintendent Babbitt fo
| things left undone that he ought I
| have done for the other islands. pal