The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-01-17
PAVING PLANS
BOOMING AHEAD
New Road Committee Takes Hold
In Proper Spirit for Best
interests OF Public.

While 70 took the previous board OF
supervisors six months or thorcnhout
% pave one Hook OF The city's streets,
from present indications the new board
viii have the entire business section OF
the city either paved or in process OF
being paved within that time.
Under the leadership of Chairman
Pctric of the road committee. the SUI
pcrvisors have decided that technical.
tiles shall not interfere with the bust.
ness of paving the city. They have
found allies in Superintendent of Pub.
tie Works Bishop and in Manager Bar.
'cntyne of the Honolulu Rapid Transit
Company and the plans for paving King
street, from Liliha street through to
Richards street, have already been
started.
Manager Ballentyno, in an interview
yesterday, said his company was pre-.
pared to go the limit in the way or
doing its share of the paving. Two
blocks of King street were paved under
the old hoard, this between River ana
Nuuanu. The present board will pave
the street from Richards to Nuuanu
and from River TO Liliha streets mt
once.
1t is probable that upon the compile.
ton of this work, or even before, the
work of extending the paving on Fort
street to Beretania will be started, ana
Manager Ballentyne is preparing for
this by ordering ohia blocks sufficient
for this stretch when its paving Is
authorized.
II is said that the majority Of the
supervisors are strongly opposed to the
continuation of any arrangement where.
by bitulithic pavement is used entiresy
by the city. Arrangements, il is saiu,
are being made for the use of other
pavements, said to he equally as good,
and no more contracts let by the city
will specify bitulithic alone if it can
be avoided it is said.
While it is said the city may con.
tinue to lay its permanent paving on
concrete foundations, the rapid transit
company will use rock filing for the
base of the paving between the tracks.
In the opinion of Superintendent Of
Public Works Bishop and Engineer
Whitehouse, the rock filling makes just
as good a foundation as concrete and
in number of instances it has proved
better and more enduring.
All questions at issue between the
city and the rapid transit company
with relation to the street paving, were
settled satisfactorily at the conference
held Monday between the mayor, ROAD
committee, Superintendent Bishop and
Manager Ballentyne.
1t was ascertained during this con
ference that the supervisors legally
have nothing whatever to say under
the law as to the character of the paw
ing, and that this rests entirely Wits
the superintendent of public works.
The latter told the supervisors, how
ever, that although the law gave him
the power to decide he would act only
after consulting the supervisors and on
their suggestion.
1t was finally decided that the peo-
pie wanted good roads rather than long
continued and expensive litigation, SO
the supervisors decided to take no ao-
tien against the street railroad Super
intendent Bishop will take no action,
and the rapid transit company and the
supervisors will go ahead ana give the
people what they want, without fur
ther fuss and litigation.