The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-04-30
HILO ENGINEER
MAY SUCCEED
CAMPBELL
Rumor Picks Bishop as
the Next Head of
Public Works
HE WON'T DENY IT
Admits He Has Been
Mentioned by
Friends"
HE WON'T DENY 1T
(From Mondays Advertiser.)

While the names of number of pos
sible appointees to. the office of superin-
tendent of public works, vacated by
Marston Campbell, have been upon the
popular tongue of late and while Gov
ernor Frear has been impartially nom
communicative about the chances of all
of the suggested superintendent, the
capitol atmosphere has been surcharged
during the last few days with rumors to
the effect that the latest and most likely
candidate is III. X. Bishop, consulting
engineer for the belt road commission,
and, as if to confirm the rumor, En-
gineer Bishop very quietly and unosten-
tatiously dropped into Honolulu Satur-
day, from Hilo.
1t is true that the approaching allot
ment of funds for the road work offer
him an excuse for his presence in the
city at this juncture, but in conjunction
with the aforesaid persistent rumors it
is interesting to note that H. K Bishop
admits that his name has been suggest
cd to the Governor Shy a number of
friends" that the Governor does not
deny that the Hilo engineer is being
considered, and Bishop does not deny
that he would accept the office if it
were rendered him.
Conference Today.
"I have had no conference with Gov
ernor Frear as yet on any question, I"
said Engineer Bishop yesterday, "but
expect to be present at the conference
tomorrow in my capacity of consult
ing engineer, when the chairman of the
comm ssion takes up the matter of al
lotment for road work on Hawaii in
August. [ do not care to say whether
would accept the position which Mr.
Campbell has vacated or not, for it has
not been offered to me yet" While
conforming to good taste in his reti-
cence the engineer did not attempt to
give any reason why-he would not ac-
cept the Office if he is appointed nor in
any way to deny that he is candi-
date.
When interviewed upon the matter
last night Governor Frear expressed
surprise when he was told that Bishop
was in Honolulu and in spite of the fact
that the engineer, according to his
statement, made trip to this city to
confer with the Governor and the belt
road commission today, he asserted that
he had no idea of the engineers pur.
pose in visiting Honolulu at this par-
ticular time
Wants Appropriation.
The conference which will probably
be held in the Governors office today
will consider the allotment which will
be granted the Hawaii belt road in
August.
"The. total appropriation, said En-
gineer Bishop, yesterday, twas orig
inally 100000. We have already re.
ceived $4,000 of this and we want to
get just as much of the remaining
$45o,0OO this August as we possibly
can. We have already let the contracts
for the building of portions of the road
between Hilo and Hakalau and there
are fifty or sixty miles of very bad
road between Hilo and Waimea which
we should like to get to work on as
soon as possible, if we can get the al
lotment. The best roads in that district,
where the climatic conditions are hard
on good roads and still harder on bad
ones, necessitate good deal of road
work and a good deal of expensive up
keep. In this projected conference 1
shall be there simply in an advisory ca
pacity.