The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-09
BELT ROAD SUIT
MAY Be STOPPED
All Concerned May Agree to Call
for New Deal on New
Specifications.
lrrom sntnrday,s Advertiser.l }

(From Saturdays Advertiser)
Yesterday afternoon, three heavily
loaded drays passed over the new road
recently completed on upper Nuuanu nv.
enue After they had passed, for a dis
tanee of three hundred feet, the road
showed wheel marks over two inches
deep, where the tires had picked NJ
the surface material and carried it
away.
If promptly repaired, the damage !
will be slight; if not, there will be
deep burrows in this new road before
a week has passed.
The report that the new Nuuanu road |
is already showing signs of wear and
tear has been passing around and has
created decided interest among those
who know that the Nuuanu road was
built on the identical specifications
upon which the Oahu belt road con-
tracts are based. If the Nuuanu sam
Pile is going to prove unable to stanu
any fair amount of traffic for month,
then the sooner the belt road commis-
sion calls off its contracts the better.
report that the Nuuanu road Is already
wearing out,r said l.. NJ. Whitehouse,
soon. .to.be city engineer, yesterday at
noon. al inspected that road this
morning. The inspection was made,
however. before the army drays gouged
tracks in the oil-macadam.
May Drop Contract.
There is some talk that the belt road
commissioners, the LordGoung Con-
struction Company and Johnny Wilson
may get together within the next rev
days and agree to call for new deal
on the Heeia belt road contract, when
is in the supreme court and hkely 10
stay in the courts for long time to
come unless the litigants reach an out
side agreement.
Some of the members of the belt road
commission are commencing to feel the
pressure of public opinion and are
about willing, if they can once get out
of court, to cancel the Lord Young con-
tract. revise the specifications so as to
call for good, ordinary, macadam road,
and issue a call for new bids.
Such an arrangement would be salts
factory all around, especially in view
of the decidedly dubious behavior of
the Nuuanu sample of the model boule-
ward proposed.
Warrenite for Nuuanu
1t is likely that the Warrenite pro
cess controlled by the Gilman bitulithl'
company will be given tryout on
Nuuanu. mat road is only one-hait
built and the suggestion is that the
present oil-macadam be paralleled witt
a Warrenite strip, in order that the
relative merits of the two might be
properly tested.
Mr.. Gilman at one time proposed to
try to interest the Nuuanites in tins
heretofore locally untried road material
his idea being that the residents might
share with him in the difference be
tween macadam and Warrenite and in
-duce the supervisors to use the latter
It is understood now, however, that ht
will have a chance to submit figures
to the supervisors for a test strip OF
his road.
Experimenting Plenty.
On the new King street roadway be
tween Punchbowl and Alapai, Roa'
Supervisor Caldwell is trying out mum
ber of experiments with asphalt-ol
The road is being made in several sec
tions, each treated in a different wa!
with the oil. The object of this is t.
learn what treatment is best suited t.
tho heavy traffic of the street befor
any other large construction jobs ar
undertaken.