Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-19

and at the present ralof $2.50 per
so. yard.
1T is also plain to seen that II
Smiddy had built onSlock OF per
maneAJ pavement witfhe new ma
chine, the cost of conuction would
have been a standard regulate the
work given out by coThct.
AS this was an eveito be jealous
ly avoided our briiliai road commit
tee took steps to guai against 1t by
asking for his dismisspn the ground
that he was building political ma
chine
"1'he article is sopainly due TO
malice and inspired petty politics
that hesitate even. take notice oil
it, said Mr.. Gilma1this morning
when the Star-Bulletiasked him for
a statement as to King street
work
The figures are wig and tho inti-
nation that any offid or officials OF
the city are interest in the Btu
lithic Company is abtutely false.
ION the King strt job the price
i put In to the cou1 for laying the
warrenite paving isl cents . yard.
The lump figureyE ga for the block
is $500, and there ; $500 yards on
tnfs job.
supervisor Petri9nade the state
ment to me and at board meeting
that under the mebd ispropo by
the city to lay thi3aving, the cost
would be 5000, and le Increased cost
because, of the chge to warrenite
would be $20eo. Tit makes a total
of Approximately 500 for this job,
or 80 per yard chplete.
It will cost the fty $3.50 a yard
when wes completdhis paving, not
$3.50 a yard, as is Iated in this arti-
Gle. My own figurfor the warrenite
covering is, as He said, SO cents
per yard.
Furthermore, til paving the Btu
Ilithic Company laj wiki last half a
dozen years, where's the kind of paw.
ing the, city is lang will begin to
wear out and brtk up in a few
months.
Though the eli is buying a bot
asphalt mixer, thefty cannot lay the
same kind of pavg / do because OF
the patents that eyent anyone else
from using a mixfe like ours, The
city can lay cheap hvements, but they
will not last and ley cannot lay oul
paving at all. Xix about $4,000
profit on mile obaving! | wish We
were certain of a 1000 profit.
Did Not Oppose tty, Mixer.
The insinuatid has been made
that we opposed ae purchase of this
hot mixer. That not true. nevel
talked with a Supervisor about the
asphalt mixer an{didn't know it wa,
to be bought uil l saw 1t, in the
paper. / see no eason why the city
shouldn't get oni ii 1T thinks it car
save money by 5 use and would
not oppose such move.
There is nota city official thai
owns share of sock in the Bitulithit
Company. 1t is Mned and controlled
by myself and Ihe Warren people
with the exceptid of few shares o.
stock held aTong my persona
friends"
Political Fight Eident.
The Aloha Ala, together with the
statements, quotd above. which are
printed in EngEh, deals with the
same subject inh long article in Ha
waiian. A tranlation made for Tho
Star-Bulletin SAP in part:
I'VE wish to call the attention o
the public to til manner and way il
which the majfity of the member.
of the present board of supervisors
who were eleeed to their positions
by residents an{ voters of the city am
county of Hoplulu are conductin,
their office.
According I'd their bone-head idea
they seem to think that they hay'
the full running power of everythin,
about them, aud running things t
their own bentfit according to thei
own ideas; tho are the Smart-Aleck
OF the Democritic party. They hav,
rot appointed | man in Whitehouse'
place, who is tie head of the road de
partment of tie city and county o
Honolulu, According to them the,
haven't a Denocrat fit for the pos
tion. The sands true with Mr.. Mich
stein, the buihing and plumbing in
spector, Charks Thurston, chief o
the fire department, and William Fra
zee, of the electric light department..
OF Supervisors Petrie, Hardesty an
Markham, the article says:
These are The traitors who are cal
rying on the dirty work. Therefore
know We, you tax payers, that the
have just made an agreement with
Bitulithic coripany, last Tuesday, a
ter the road department. had gone an
built up good reads they have give
to Mr.. Gilmai, head of this company
an agreement merely to smooth, 0
surface-a yellow whitewash, Gale
Warrenite. They will plaster that o
top of the rad and try to make
stick, go that the owners of automC
hiles will slide smoothly over the toI
And while the road was already /
good condition Beside this, bear
mind that the electric cars will run
double track on King street and tia
will be another job for Mr.. Gilman
What benefit is the public gettin
from this while the public is spendin
lots of money. which is the taxpayer
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