The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-12-22
BUSINESS MEN
MEET SUPERVISORS
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moro than afteen cents worth Of return
ont Of every dollar spent lie ehafhc.
tcrlzcd most Of tho streets built ns
fpasichoard Streets" charactcriza
tion which Mr.. Low did not like, M
Bishop said be would rather sec ten
blocks laid with permanent pavement
than thirty blocks Of mncadam which
would wear away. lie thought too much
politics was being played.
No Poiitics7 ROT
Mr.. Murray replied that the board
was not doing politics aud he consider
cd that sort Of statement Is "rot. %
To carry out Mr.. spalding' e street pro.
gran, he said, would cost $4,000, and
IL the roads were laid with permanent
pavement would cost three times that
amount. He said the board was per.
fectly willing to do what the public
wants. There was one drawback to-
ward laying permanent pavements on
some of the streets and that was the
failure Of the Territory to put in new
water pipes. The cost Of maintenance
of the roads now existing win take
$l5s,o0O.
o. Swain representing the merchants
asociation, said the merchants felt that
the Hotel street widening should be
done.
], NJ. Dowsett, representing the own
era Of the Pantheon Block ON Hotel and
Fort streets, said he favored the widen
ing of Hotel street, and at once. He
believed that section was the hub Of
the business section.
Cooke Voices Public Opinion.
]. z. Cooke fully endorsed Messrs.
Spalding and Bishop. The committee
was not 30 much Interested in the ap.
preparations as in the manner the money
was spent. There was general feel
| ing all over town that the money was
not being well spent. They might be
wrong he said, but they were open to
conviction. He asked the board if it
would be willing to make complete and
detailed statements after the end of
the year SO that the committee could
go INTO the matter systematically. In
this way they could determine just
what had been done during the past
year. If it was shown that the reve-
nues had been expended wisely the COM
mittee would be the first TO say 80.
In the Good Old Days.
]. A. Lucas, former member of the
board, also had a few things to say. He
praised the work done by their road
supervisor, Sam johnson, and pointed
with PRIDE to the splendid work he
had done all over the city, and the fact
that he worked early and late and kept
right on the job. This sort of work
was not being done today. He charged
the board with playing politics.
A Friend in Need.
Manager Glib praised the work Of
the board and pointed to his district
as one having excellent roads. HeFsaid
that autos today were tearing up the
roads, condition which did not have
to be met under former boards, HI
thought the present board was no worse
than former ones. He believed that thu
Puuloa road should be built. He sug
gested that the road fund moneys bI
turned over to the chamber of com
MERGE and let it take care of the roads
"I would recommend that any on,
OF the supervisors run Mr.. GIbb s plan
tatiunn returned Mr.. Cooke quickly.
! l.. l., MeCandless favored the earl,
building of the road to Puuloa. He alst
criticized the board for some of it
, expenditures and lack of work il
F, some districts, particularly windwar,
Oahu, but he came back again strongl,
| in favor of the Puuloa road, first am
last.
Low Defends Board.
: Supervisor Low, chairman of tn
, ways and means committee, then rea
long statement as to the manner i
which the board had spent money dun
, ing the past year and said directly tina
Mr.. Spalding was incorrect about sixt
. per cent going to salaries There weT
. ''no foolish salaries" he said9 Civ
, us more time and we win show You W
: are all right He said that $4s,0O
!, were given out by the city in dom
: tions every year including the Leal
: Home, promotion committee, human
; society work, hospital, band, Kapiolal
: Park, etc.
! Supervisor Murray put things in
!, concrete form and asked the bushes
> men Just what they wanted. There wei
? three things widening Hotel stree
i building the road to Puuloa and mai
tanning the city's streets, for whiC
:. Halter project there would be $50, 90
d He Thought it wise to take up the hot
a street matter at once, and let the pu
y lie as represented at the meeting gil
an expression of opinion.
= Fire chief Declares Himself.
Eben Low made some statemen
about the FIRE department, saying Z
department could get along very W.
with it's present equipment land ~
motor chemical wagona already ord'
ed, and not much damage by fire HI
n been recorded lately, anyhow.