Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-14
0'SHAUGHNESSY
CITY engineer
Appointed at San Francisco at
More Than Double Salary
of Predecessor

The San Francisco Chronicle of Sep
TENDER ] has the following which il
Of interest locally:
N. NJ. O'Shaughnessy was appoint.
ed City Engineer yesterday by Mayor
Rolph, the Mayors choice being rati-
| fled by the Board OF Public Works al
special meeting. His salary was
! fixed at $4,000 per annum. The high
est pay heretofore received by the
City Engineer has been $1,000 year
which was the salary of the City En-
gineer who retired yesterday
0'Shaughnessy has been earning much
more than $4,000. 1t is said, and this
was the least sum for which he was
willing to give up his engagements to
enter the city,s service. 1t was said
at the Mayors office that O'Shaugh-
messy had refused two offers of $20,-
900 Atyear each from New York, pre-
ferring to remain here. The Mayors
letter t.. the Board of Public Works
tells Of the new appointee's expert
ence and ability, some of his import
ant doings being mentioned.
The residence qualification, which
it was supposed the City Engineer had
to have to be eligible for appointment,
was point that gave Mayor Rolph
much concern, and he had q careful
legal examination made IN relation to
II, with the result that.he was assured
that there was nothing In the charter
to prevent 0'Shaughnessy, who has
been residing in Mil Valley, from
taking the office.
O'Shaughnessy got on the job Inn
mediately, and devoted part of the aft
ernoon to going over the details Of
the Bureau OF Engineering with Man.
son.
Mayor Rolph's letter to the Board
of Works In part is as follows:
The matter of the selection of q
City Engineer has given me great
concern, because the City Engineer
Will have TO plan, initiate and accom-
plish during the next three years work
of the very greatest extent and inn
portance.
.IIe must carry out the prelimina-
ries of the Freeman plans for bring
ing the Hetch- Hetchy water to our
city, and this will include undertake
ing the construction of immense
dams, tunnels and pipe lines; in short,
he must organize the construction
and administration of water system
which will involve the economical and
efficient expenditure of approximately.
$40. 900 900.
sin addition to this system, If the
city purchases the Spring Valley wat
er works, he will take charge OF the
engineering department of that sys-
stem, and carry to completion the dew
elopnent OF the Spring Valleys source
Of supply and the much needed extern
snions of the distributing plant, In
Guiding all the work heretofore done
by Herman Schussler.
"He must also take charge of the
construction and completion of the
railroad and the contem-
plated extensions thereof
In addition, he will have charge OF
the completion of the sewer system,
the auxiliary high-pressure water sys-1
tenn for IRE protection. the consTuc-
ton Of the PROPOSED tunnels, and of all
the ordinary work of the City En-
gineer.
Mr.. 'OShaughnessy Is 40 years or
ago, and was educated in and grad
uated from the Royal University of
Dublin, Ireland. In 1884. He has lived
in California for twenty-seven years.
He was chief engineer of the Mid
winter Exposition in San Francisco in
1898 and 1894. He has been chief en-
gineer Of the Mountain Copper Com
pany OF Shasta county, chief con-
strncting engineer of the Croker
Human Company, during which
period be constructed its, irrigation
dam across the MERGED river, and
chief engineer Of the Southern Califor-
MIA Mountain Water Company, build /
ing its dams and ecqueducts. The Mo-
rena dam Is the largest dam In CALI
fornia. which he built. He also tuilt