The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-19

mental iunfful W thr Nniifn hIrn
Involved
ruuno ere Dlstrc, imperative
To install nn adequate sewer nff
iom nnd nouof surface drainage. tho
entire WalkiN district and some nd.
iacoui land under consideration ro
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uom Hto to sp,cn looi above boa ioy.
c Neither enc bills mauka nor che
beach con physically or economical,
furnish che material
The Lagoon.
M order 10 secure nlling material
great lagoon would, as consc.
ouenco. De- formed This circum.
stance would give the opportunity TO
create quite marNelously beautiful
unique district. a Venice In the midst
of the Pacific. within such a lagoon
might be anchored the pleasure
yachts OF our great neighbors
Man Is becoming disconnected with
short distances and tame sport lie
desires ocean racing and thirty-one
seconds per mile automobiling What
may happen if Honolulu can furnish
the most attractive means Of salts
flying these longings in our incOmpar-
able climate may be imagined. The
filling required would necessitate q
waterway nearly $50 feet vide, TWEEN
~ to twenty-eight feet I'm depth, and,
including the Makee branch, fifty feet
wide 22.763 feet long, with channels
to the deep sea 1900 feet additional
length. The lagoon would furnish the
best boat racing course in the world.
Straightaway nearly two miles, with
a full course of four miles without
doubling back is secured.
Frequent boat landings are suggest
ed.
illuminate the lagoon and boule-
wards, on each side of the lagoon,
with electric lights, and nowhere on
the face of the earth could the scene
or attraction be paralleled.
The boulevards on each side would
furnish eight miles Of asphsltum
streets for automobiling, not to NEIL
ton eleven miles Of parallel streets
or avenues, to say nothing Of the ad-
ditional streets adjacent
In the lagoon the water would be
constantly freshened by the entrance
of tide water and valley and surface
drainage. Tide gates at the Beach
and Makee entrances would be clos
ed at high tide and the waters be
thus forced through the lagoon 10
the exit at the Ala Moana bridge.
The feasibility Of this plan has
been proven by us for the past nine
months in flushing by automatic tide
gates on a moderate scale at Waiki-
XII. Several bridges would necessari-
~ cross the lagoon, and design for
a bridge is submitted to give crude
idea of what might be appropriate.
Proposed Waikiki District.
The best rock available for street
work is extremely friable, and under
traffic is ground into powder, and the
top dressing soon begins to be blown
or washed away, by rains, heavy
storms, or scraped up and carried
away by the street cleaners. Vegeta-
ton soon makes it's way through it.
Oiling the streets improves the sit
uation, but is still an expedient, and
not perfect construction.
Asphalt, or asphaltum, furnishes
the ideal street surface,
II is maintained and cleaned at III
tie expense, and can easily and cheap
" be washed down from the fire by
drants.
The recent application Of expandei
metal to reinforcing concrete gives
the means of securing a foundation
for street construction that insures
Ipermanency of grade, contour and
surface, especially where there is no
occasion to ever disturb a street as
in the suggested plans. No loads
probable could ever break down this
/ foundation, .-.u..
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