Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-07

never be solved without such ma
chine.
The following is his report:
January 6, 1914.
To the Honorable Mayor and Members.
Board of Supervisors OF the City
and County Of Honolulu.
Gentlemen:
Sometime ago the board requested
me to furnish them with all the data
] have regarding power flushing ma
chimes for cleaning streets. | have
gone into this matter very thoroughly
and have accumulated a large amount
of data regarding the operation of
these power flushers, from the expert
ences of the various cities in the
states that have them in operation.
Rather than cumber up the minutes
Of the board with this large amount
Of data, / think ii advisable to simply
refer to various maps, letters, cata-
logues and quotations that l. have on
file In this office where they are avail
able for inspection by the members of
the board.
The only pavements that it is prac-
ticable to use power flushers on are
those having hard wearing surface.
such as wooden blocks, lazy rock
blocks and bituminous surfaces. II
was necessary to make an area map
OF large part of the town and sew
eral small surveys of the various
streets to determine the area that
could be cleaned. by power flusher.
"A summary Of the areas Of the va.
rioas streets is as follows:
King street, 97,051 square yards;
Fort street, 7IG1 square yards; Bethel
street. 2471Ik square yards; Mauna-
kea street, 1851 square yards; Ke-
kaulike street, 2507 square yards;
Queen street, 1879 square yards; Be.
retania avenue, 13,0S1l1 square yards;
Emma street. 1906 square yards; Ho-
tel street, 2574Iz square yards: Ra-
lakaua avenue. 1904 square yards;
Merchant street, 1894 square yards;
Beretania' avenue, S797 square yards.
Total area 172,725 square yards.
A summary of the cost of cleaning
various streets in town. by power
hrooms and hand broons has been
made and general average shows the,
cost to be $0.526 per thousand square
yards, and the sprinkling cost aver
ages S0.I2S per thousand square yards.
giving a total of S0.754 per thousand
square yards for cleaning and sprink-
ling This work on the streets men,
toned above could be done with a
power flusher. either drawn by horses
or propelled by motor.
The cost OF a horse drawn flusher
is approximately $500, while the cost
of the motor propelled f1usher is ap-
proximately $4,000.
The total area to be cleaned by
flushers is as above 172,725 square
yards; this area could be gone over
in two days by a motor driven flusher,
while it would take at least four horse
propelled flushers to cover the same
area in the same time.
In order to work these flushing ma.
chimes economically. larger standpipes
viii have to be provided, SO that the
time OF loading would not be more
than five or six minutes at the most.
II the present standpipes were used
the machines would be idle over half
the time on account of taking such a
long time to load the tank. ..
/ have talked with a representative
of the water works department and
he did not favor connecting larger
pipes to the water mains for stand.
pipes. as. in his opinion, when wagon
was being loaded at the standDipes,
the pressure would be soreduced over
that particular district that consumers
would be unable to get any water. l
also had n conversation with the rep
resentatiyes of the Hawaiian Electric
Company Of the Won Hamm- Young
Company The former informed me
that a standpiDe could be connected
on to their well at their plant, which
would enable the wagons to be loaded
in three or four minutes, and would
cost approximately $500 to install
same. He said that he believed that
could be made with the
company. whereby merely nominal
charges would be made for the water,
simply enough to pay for the amount
Of current used in running the motor
to work the pump to be used in fill
ing the wagon. The Won Hamm-Young