Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-25
LIGHT TURNED ON
BIG PAVING ROW
LETTERS DECLARE
LOW WAS INCORRECT
IN HIS ATTACKS


According to your issue of yes
terday afternoon, as well as this
mornings Advertiser, Acting
Mayor Low has made the follow
ing statements:
First-That the Pahoa Lumber
Mill has a monopoly on ohia
blocks.
Second-That the Ohia company
is interested IN the Rapid Transit
Company.
Third-That the Rapid Transit
Company is interested in the Ohia
Company.
All Of the foregoing statements
are absolutely and unqualifiedly
false.
A statement of the exact facts
is due to the citizenship of Homo
lulu as well as in justice to my
self.
They are as follows:
First-The Hawaiian Develop
ment Company 1.-THE owners Of
the Pahoa Lumber Mill have no
monopoly of the supply of ohia
and its steadfast policy and prin-
ciple is uncompromisingly OPP
posed to. any combinations or
understandings" or 'gentlemen's
agreement" whereby ostensible
competitors become practical mo
nopolists. / will state that upon
more than one occasion the Ha-
waiian Development Company
has been undersold in straight
competition for ohia products,
and instead OF having any mo-
nopoly of ohia blocks in any po-
tential Rapid Transit street work
1t is directly in competition to
secure any such business with the
lava paving block or anything
else that may arise suitable to
the work of the Rapid Transit
Company.
Second-The Hawaiian Develop
ment Company neither collect
lively nor by any individual
stockholder Except w. r. Castle,
who holds one share of the Ha-
waiian Development Company,
Ltd, stock in order to qualify as
a directory, has a dollars inter
est in the Rapid Transit Com
pany, nor has had any such in
terest since many years before we
ever dreamed of manufacturing
ohia blocks or anything else in
which the Rapid Transit might
have an interest that / might
know Of.
Third-Neither the Rapid Tran
sit Company collectively nor by
any individual stockholder, ex-
eept as above stated, are interest
ed one dollar in the Hawaiian
Development Company, nor in the
lumber business thereof.
In all of this. controversy we
beg to state that we stand for but
one thing, the fair and square deal
to every citizen of a straightfor-
ward, open competition. We
have received from the Supervis-
ors so far one such opportunity
that of lower King Street, the
contract for which was won by
the Bitulithic Company. The next
opportunity that might have been
giyen,so far as we know, was the
Queen street job when the con-
tract, without any opportunity
for any other competition, was
awarded to the Bitulithic Com
pany with commendable steam
roller speed and method.
1t is pertinent to remark apro-
pos of the manifest constituencies
(according to the newspaper re-
ports of the conferences of the
Board), of the members of the
Board, to implication or innuendo
of graft, that there is one way
and one way only. so far as
know, to quash any such implica-
tion or thought on the part of any
citizen and that is to steadfastly
maintain straightforward, open
competition without any tricks or
jokers in the specifications or con-
ditions, patent or no patent, there
by fulfilling their elementary duty
to the public, for whom they are
trustees. of securing the best
value possible for the expenditure
of the peoples money.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) j. B. CASTLE.
Manager Hawaiian Development
Company, Ltd