The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-02-10
NICE STATE OF
AFFAIRS SHOWN
Politics, Favoritism, Blind Pigs,
Loan Sharks and Luaus
in Road Bureau.
(From sunday Adyertiscr.)

Mschinist walker ana Helper Kimo-
zoo frcdi
A dozen laborers flrcdi
Road supervisor Thomas +. Kennedy
with his head on the block awaiting
tho AL
BENJAMIN Dole to take the place Of
Rathhurnl Ne ~
y. o. Olivcra to take the place Of
Dan Komomua as blacksmithl
A hui Of loan sherksi
Gambling and blind pigsl
A luau for the supervisors to be paid
FOR from tho proceeds Of blind pigl
Financial retronchmentl
Bitter charges and countereharges;
mere bitter charges and eounterchargesl
! Breach OF pclitieal faith and prom.
isesl
And e Is promised that the end 10
not yeti
The above is some Of the dust which
was raised yesterday by The bpaW OF
when the memhors grabbed
q hrooh and started TO sweep IN tbs
city and county stables, of Queen
street, nenr South Street When the
sweeping was concluded d clopd hung
over the Institution that fairly OBJ.
Fcpred tho sunshine for the regime
which has hpcn IN control
The wholesale llsrnissils came rs a
ont OF clear sky. declare
those who fell under the nx. The su.
pervis0rs held. sacsct session Friday.
Early Yesterday morning a special mes
sen9er delivered a batch OF letters at
tho stahlas.' A fair @tinple is the fob
lowing letter, received by Foreman
Rathhurn;
"Dear Siri--Your services as stable
foreman Tor the Fourth District will no
longer he required after todby As vow
are on the monthly payroll, your wages
will continue until the cnd of the
month, but as soon as convenient You
will remove your effects from the static
and transfer everything in your chargs
TO Benjamin Dole. - (Signed) l.. M
Whitehouse, City and County ,Engi-
ncer. t..
Retrcnehmeut. Says whitehouss. !,
Engineer Whitehonse stated last
night that he knew Of no reasons for
the dismissal Of the men at the stables
other than that Of financial retrench,
ment. He said: a.. ~ At
AFTER investigation ] WIS deter
mined that the work at the stables
fould be performed for about half the
present cost Hence I recommended re.
luction Of the force to the supervisors,
and they acted upon my recommends
lion. Fourteen or fifteen men were laid
off az told, including three men at the
hioilii!i quairies.
Loan shark Hal
Supervisor Potrie also gave retrench. 1
nent as the reason Of most of the dis.
nisSals, but admitted on questioning
hat Others were discharged because OF
their connection with an alleged hui
1f loan sharks who had tecn operating
Vt the stables. Among this number. he
'aid, was inelndel Foreman Rathburn.
Supervisor Petrie said that reports
rad como To the road committee Of the
existence Of the hui of loan sharks, and
also that gambling and Hind pipgine
we're permitted at the stables. He said
hat he had made personal investiga.
lion and Eccamc convinced of the ex-
stelee of the loan shark hui, but was
also convinced there was no gambling
Or liquor selling In the stable promises,
though he said this had existed before
he ineumbeney of Foreman Rathburn.
However, as result of his investiga
lions he was determined that all en-.
ployCs eolgected with the money Joan.
ng hui had 20 go.
When asked IL Road Supervisor Ken-
nedy was slated for dismissal, Petrie
was non.eommittal, stating that time
would tell lie admitted that the su.
pcrvisOrs Ind had the subject Of Ken
nely's dismissal under discussion.
Politics, Says Kennedy. !.
Kennedy, when seen last night, said
le had received no intimation that he
would he discharged, but admitted that
the action Of the supervisors in order.
ing changes and dismissals at the sta
bles had boon taken entirely over his
head and that he had at no time been
ralled into consultation, He styled tho
action OF the supervisors = result OF
lnderhande1 work, performed By dis.
grHnilnd employees aud political api
pointees holding positions at the stable.
10 this declaration no is supported by
hhhbnTD, Hs eti
Both mon place the blame OF The
trouble largely on Clarence North, eu,|
lineer in charge, and VAIN Kaaihua,
stat lemnn. both style North as
trouble maker. They claim that last
August, shortly after Kennedy became
supervisor. North assumed the preroga.
tivcs of Kennedy in issuing orders to
kathhurE. The latter performed the
ordors given nv North and was repri
nanacd for so doing " Kennedy. Ken
needy also Teprimandod North for as.
sqminI 10 dictate to Rathbrrn. Since
that time there has been friction. say
both men, They aver that North Is 10.
competent aud that the work of the en-
gineer 3 Office has been done by Walter
Jarrett, who IL among the list Of dis,
charged men. Kennedy and Rathburn
both declare North has paid little atten.
,ipn TO his duties as engineer. This Is
denied by Petrie and Whitebouse.
North Is a relation of Mayor Fern and,
u is said, draws his salary on these
grounds. Kennedy has reported him as
paompetent and insuhordinate, but has
been told that North must stay, what,
'Ner he dpes or does not do
Rathburn claims he was dismissed
without a hearing; that other en-.
DloNcs OF the stableR were called into