The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-08-16
TRANSIT COMPANY'S
MEASURE ARRIVES
Reserves Many Privileges for the
United States on Proposed
Right Of Way.


company is hard at work in Washing
ton trying to get action on bills which
he has both in the house and senate
relating to the right of way sought
for by the Pearl Harbor Traction Com.
pany across the Fort Shafter military
reservation.
The Washington correspondent of
The Advertiser writes that Mr.. Peck
expects to bring his work to salts.
factory conclusion provided the session
lasts through the present month.
The senate bill, introduced by Mr.
Jones of Washington, is similar to the
bill SO long pending in the house aud
gives the traction company the right
to use n strip of land forty feet wide
across the reservation. The senate bill
provides that the United States shall
be entitled to easements along or upon
the entire right of way of the com
pany now owned or to be acquired for
the construction of government tele
graph or telephone line, and of a water.
pipe line for government use, all such
construction and the operation and
maintenance thereof to be so conducted
as to interfere as little as possible with
the construction, operation and main
tenance of the railroad.
The Jones bill is as follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Unit.
ed States of America in Congress as
sembled. That to connect the waters
of Pearl Harbor, the naval station, and
the Fort Kamehameha Military Reser-
walton, and wharf thereon, with the
Fort Shafter Military Reservation and
with the street railway system of the
city of Honolulu, there be, and is here.
by, granted to the Pearl Harbor Trac-
ton Company (Limited), a common car
rier corporation organized and existing
under the laws of the Territory of Ha-
wall, and to its successors and assigns,
n right of way forty feet in width
through the Fort Shafter Military Res.
ervation, upon such route as shall be
approved by the secretary of war,
and subject to such rules and regula.
tions in the interests of good order, po-
lice, sanitation, and discipline as the
secretary of war may from time to
time prescribe, but no part of the right
of way shall be used for storage of
rolling stock or material. The United
States shall be entitled to the follow
ing easements along or upon the entire
right of way of the company now own
ed or hereafter acquired: GAY For the
construction of government tele.
graph line and government telephone
line, using, if desired for such pur-
poses, the standing poles of the com
pany, and (b) of water-pipe line for
government use; but all such const=uc.
| tion, and the operation and mainten.
ance thereof, shall be so conducted as
to interfere as little as possible with
| the construction, operation, and main.
| tenance of the railroad. And said com.
pany shall, upon written notice from
the secretary of war, and within IA
| reasonable time, construct, operate, and
| maintain all such spur and side tracks
ms may be necessary to serve the re.
serve storehouses to be built upon the
| Fort Shafter Reservation by the Unit
ed States adjacent to said company g
| line of road, and shall also operate its
ears thereto upon any tracks construct
ed by the United States, and shall erect
able passenger shelter and n local
freight shelter at such noints No NAV
be DESIGNATED Inv the secretary 6f
war. Upon the construction bv the
United States Of sncb resarve storn-
houses the said pearl Horhor Tractinn
Comnony TimitedI viii cnns+rnct on
n rigbt of way ~ No aconirad b1 IL
for tbe nurnose an extnnsion If ;ts
lines TO connect With the Government
tracks ON the Fort Komebameba Mil.
tarv Reservation, and viii onerato its
cars on such government tracks sub.
iect TO such rules and regulations in
the interests of good order. nolice SAM.
tation, and discipline as the Department
commander NAV from +ime 70 timo
rrnscriha IT, H. ' Ill.,
roilrood rpon tbe Fort Sniff Rosor.
vation such earth or other material az.
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