Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-18
KAIMUKI in ARMS
over WATER
SUPPLY

Roads, lights, free mail delivery, the
garbage service. nuisances, grading of
Liliuokalani school grounds, the Moili-
iii park site and the water supply all
were subjects of discussion at the
meeting of Waialae, Kaimuki and Pa
lolo Improvement Club last night.
These topics were introduced through
requests, complaints and reports,
Broken promises of the authorities -
federal, territorial and municipal -
were facts made evident.
With regard to free mail delivery,
the club was now informed that when
the neighboring section of Manoa was
ready for the service both sections
would likely get it together, although
more than year ago Kaimuh was
assured that whenever it complied
with the conditions service would be
started along Waialae road including a
block on either side. ." -:
A nuisance of loose paper blowing
about the streets at the car terminus
and opposite the schoolhouse was. re-
ported still undated. The committee
on the grading of the school grounds
reported that prisoners could be OBJ
tanned to do the labor at the cost of So
a day for their transportation. 1t
would be cheaper, in the opinion of the
chairman of the committee, A.. Frank
Cooke, to raise $500 and have the
work done by contract. M. H. San
ders relieved the gloom by promising
that the Democratic precinct club
would procure county prisoners to do
the work without cost to the club.
1t was reported that the Moiliili gore
donated some years ago by the Bish-
OPP Estate for park-had been decided
by the government to a firm of con-
tractors, which would hold it for a
certain time with q view to reconyey-
ing it to the government through ex-
change. This places the matter in a
somewhat less promising condition
than appeared several years ago, when
the government assured the club that
the land would be reconveyed to the
Bishop Estate, which would fill it in
and then return it to the government.
With regard to the water supply,
several angles of the subject were pre-
scented in a report by President T. M.
Church. There are two sources of sur
face water available in the rights on
Palolo ridge lately acquired by the
government at d cost of $4,000. One
is spring water of pure quality, the
other stream fed by the rains, which
is so impregnated with organic mat
ter that it refuses to surrender its
rich brown dye when subjected to the
settling process. Reports had been
y,,o5o ~, HAS, tuatorS no m q Cad0.
wick, expert in, the public works Of
flee, and President j. W. Gilmore of
the College of Hawaii, which practi-
cally agreed fl he conclusion that one
water was good and the other unfit
for domestic use unless scientifically
filtered. Mr. Church stated that he
would endeayor to have rider put
on the appropriation of $4,000 for
developing the Palolo water system,
which would prohibit the mingling of
the tainted water with the artesian
fluid in Kaimuki's pipes.
No, less unsatisfactory was the re-
port of the intentions of the water
works authorities with regard to the
Kapahulu pumping station, from which
the Kaimuki reservoir and mains are
now supplied. The additional pump
that was promised, contract for
which has been placed, is going to be
installed at Makiki instead of Kappa
hulu as categorically promised last
year by the. superintendent of public
works. T.. . =.
AS Kapahulu station supplies the
Diamond Head reservoir as well as the
Kaimuki, also serves the largely set
tied district of Kapahulu, and so poor
ly in some parts that ratepayers fire.
quently can obtain no flow from the
pipes for a large portion of the day, it
was predicted at the meeting that if
the district continues to grow at any
thing like the rate of the past two
years, a serious water situation will
have developed before the end of an
other like period. ......~ 49, -.
Kapahulu Improvement Club will
take up the matter at its next meet
ing, which has been called for Sunday
afternoon. -"- .s"..