The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-22
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the supervisors will have our men ar
rested. And, anyway, the ordinance
has not yet been signed by the mayor,
and it has to be published ten times
before it becomes law
Neither is the request of the mer-
chants association for hearing on
the telephone controversy to be allow
ed to interfere with the progress of the
work. The company is going ahead as
fas as possible to give Honolulu a new
and satisfactory service and to install
its proposed new system. Explanations
are now a thing of the past. They
will be accorded to whomever wants
them, but they will not be allowed to
interfere with the work.
Yesterday the merchants associa-
ton, acting on suggestion of its
president. Fred Waldr0n, sent a letter
to George R. Carter of the Mutual
Telephone Company and to Mayor
Fern, asking that a hearing be granted
its representatives on the telephone
question. 1t was stated in the letter
that the merchants would like to be-
come acquainted with the details of the
proposed agreement between the COM
pany and the supervisors.
Decision Is Final.
Mr.. Carter has replied to the letter
with a communication, in which he
states ON behalf of the company that
the telephone people have accepted the
action of the supervisors in refusing to
agree to the contract as final and the
company is going ahead with its work.
In the meantime the company will be
glad to afford to the merchants any in
formation that may be desired. But it
is too late for arbitration. The super
visors have turned down the contract,
and it is now their next move.
A Few Questions.
What is to be done with the fire and
police telephone wires is a question
| that is liable to become burning one
so far as the supervisors are concern
ed before the work OF putting the Mu-
| tual Telephone Company wires under
ground has progressed very far. Even
| if the contention of the county attOr-
new and his deputy is correct, that the
! telephone company, on account of ITS
old agreement with the county, can not
| remove its poles throughout the city,
| the question still remains serious one.
| Granting that the company may not re-
movezats poles, who is going to main
| tain them2 And who is going to main
| tain the police and fire wires that are
strung to them3 Also, who Is going to
hold up the poles when the company :
wires are removed-for it is a fact well
/ known to those who are familiar with
| such matters that telephone poles are
| largely maintained in their upright pc
sitiOn by the wires that are strung to
| them-and two. or three little p0hce
and FIRE wires are not going to hold up
| ffty-foot poles. 1t can not be expect
ed that the telephone company, after
| it has removed it's own wires. Is going
to any trouble and expense to main
tain the poles for the city and county
or to renew the city and county fire
and police wires that rust out or break.
Still another question will confront
| the supervisors: Are they in any event
| going to keep fftyfoot poles standing
in various parts of the city 10 main
tain single wire, or even two or three
| wires2 There are several questions
that the supervisors are going to have
to answer before they are done with
the business.
Who Is Behind Aylett7
Another question, the answer t.
which would be interesting, though per
haps not important, is. "WhO Is behind
/ Supervisor Aylett; who is writing the
letters in correct English that have
been published lately over the name OF