The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-02-14
WILSON HAS DROP
ON SUPERVISORS
FERNS Protege Is Very Bold Man
and Refuses to Garry Out
instructions.
(From satnrday's Advertlger. J

| Inc hOruian Knot, into which Road
Superintendent Wilson has tied the
municipal affairs, is growing tighter
and the supervisors have so far failed
in their endeavors to unite It. Point
blank he has refused 20 obey the orders
given him to draw less number Of
dollars at the end of each month, and
| equally as blunt has been his refusal to
/ do without the services of the two
clerks in the road department who were
dismissed recently by the supervisors.
Wilson spends his time sitting in the
chair at an attorneys Office and laughs
at the whole board. At the city hall,
Mayor Fern sits in his chair and also
refuses to assist the supervisors, Incl.
dentally he is backing Wilson up for
all he is worth.
Another climax is expected today,
when City Physician Bruce v. Mackali
is to make a formal claim for the hand
ing over to his charge of the garbage
department, as ordered at the last meet
ing of the supervisors, which Wilson up
TO yesterday had refused to do Super
visor Kruger is also to go down and
make a formal demand, but how Wilson
will take it or what the supervisors
will do if he refuses, as it is thought
he WILL remains shrouded in deep
mystery.
Luna Becomes Stableman.
Wilson made another move yesterday,
which has also got the supervisors riled
and clearly shows how the game is be.
ing worked. At their meeting, Tues.
day night, they discharged Horace
Crabbe who was acting as fifth district
luna. Wilson had warm spot in his
heart for Crabbe, however, and found
him another job as stableman, in the
| place Of the man who was not watching
out the night Eben Low did the mule
borrowing stunt.
As Supervisor Harry Murray explain
ed yesterday this places the supervisors
in worse position than ever and EN-
! pbasises adj the more the need for a
revision of the charter. "At the pres
ent time," he said, "we are in the
position that we are not even able to
discharge lsborer when we want to.
How we can be expected to manage
the affairs of the city with such state
of things existing beats me-"
Duties Of the Mayor.
It all boils down into the question
| of whether the affairs of the CITY can
be efficiently managed with a Demo
cratic mayor, possessed of a certain
amount of power, and a Republican
body of supervisors. The mayor abso-
lutely refuses to cooperate with them
or in any way help them out of their
difficulty and seems to delight in MAX
ing things more complicated. The board
put it up to him that he should work
in with them in getting rid of Wilson
and having the affairs managed by En-.
gineer Gere, but this was worse than
red rag to a bull They pointed out
to him also that, under the charter, he
was in control of all the departments
and that he had the power at any time
to come around and see that things
were being done properly, but Fern
could not see things in this way at ALL
The matter has reached such state
now that although. under the charter,
the mayor is virtually responsible for
all the work that is carried out in the
city, he is sitting back and instead of
helping the board, is blocking the car
rying on of any work at all. The su.
pervisors are of one mind, with, of
course, the exception of Democratic
"No" Mcclellan, that the legislature
must be asked to take away the powers
of the mayor, for unless this is done,
no work can be carried out in the city
Political Interests Cut Out.
''From the very outset,' said Mur-
ray, 1--WE have tried to cut out the po-
litical aspect of the question and do
what we thought best for the city.
Fern has, however, been as stubborn as
a mule in his efforts to do all that he
could to block us. He has refused to
come in with us in anything at all, and
in this case of Wilson is backing him
up against the opinion of everyone of
the board. We are anxious to get on
with the work as quickly as we can,
but we don't Just exactly see how we
are going to do it.
"Wilson has refused to comply with
any of our requests, even to the hand
ing over of the control of the garbage
department. What he will say at the
end of the month, when we refuse to
appropriate any money for him, and
also for the salaries of the two clerks,
whom we discharged, or rather tried to
discharge, but whom he ordered to re-
tain their jobs, remains to be seen.
can assure You, however, that not one
cent over the amount we have laid
down for will be drawn, and Mr.. vii.
son can WhlStle Tor the rest.
Proposed Works.
"In order to get line on the work
, we have in front of us, and what the
cost will be, We have ordered, or, ]
should say, asked, Wilson to prepare
estimates on all the work. Whether he
win condescend to do it or not / don 4
know. When we get the estimates We
will then divide it all up and see what
, we can do. Among the main items
- which win require attention are tbs
q matchmaking of Iwilei road and TEN
!, poraTy repairs to Fort street. We ar,
puTposely only going to make temporary
repairs in this street until the question
of new watermains has been settled
and also the matter of permanent pave
ments.
. "Then there is the cutting Off OF N,
+ end of the Fishmarket, SO as to leav,
Q room for a driveway for carriages in
D side the curve The road from Tn.
+ Kalihi store has also 70 be macadamizet
Q aud the road passing the fertilze
= works 10 be widened and macadam nu
? down. A new storm sewer Is to be pu
IN NJ the back of the Honolulu Iroi
4 Ia - a.