The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-06-04
WA|AHOLE TUNNEL
!. PROVES AN OBJECT
LESSON FOR CITY
Mayor and Supervisors Are
Shown How Water Problem
v Can Be Solved
SIMILAR BORE WOULD
d. SUSTAIN MUNICIPALITY
John T. McCrosson Tells Board
u Members How To Give Ho-
nolulu Permanent Relief ID
(From Thnrsday's Advcrtiser)

Supervisors of Honolulu and Mayor
Lane inspected the waiahole water
tunnel yesterday, seeking information
that may be Of use to the city in soly-
ing its water problem. They left the
city hall in automobiles at eighty
thirty O'Clock yesterday morning and
returned at four o'clock in the after.
noon. Another trip will be made to.
morrow, to Waiswa, where work on
the other end of the big water project
is going forward. Co., 49,. ~. "
When the supervisors had returned TO
the end Of the tunnel railroad, John T.
MeCrosson made an extemperaneous
talk at luncheon. In this he gave
the supervisors something to think
about. .... .....
Talk about your promotion commit.
tee and promotion literature--why, If
we could say that Honolulu receives
water that Is filtered through from
1900 to 1000 feet Of volcanic rock we
would be able to say something that no
other city in the world could say"
'aid Mr.. MeCrosson.
Fine Municipal investment
lyon have seen today what we have
lone. l believe that the city, for
l,5OO,0OO, could dig tunnel that
would supply 5O,QOo,OOO gallons of
water a day. The city uses from
100000 to 1s,000,0 900 now. Say it
Ises 30,000,000, which leaves 10000, 900
that could be sold to sugar planters.
they win pay $4,000 million gallons
year.. and that means an income Of
100000. This would pay the interest
at four per cent, on the tunnel 8 cost,
and leave sinking fund to retire
the bonds. The tunnel not only would
supply the city with water of unparal.
leled purity, but it would be fine in:
vestment; it would pay for itself.
All the supervisors except Supervisor
Larsen went to the tunnel H. q. Muir
ray, superintendent of waterworks,
planned to 60, but he made an address
to the Ad Club yesterday noon. ... p
The feature of the game, as the base.
ball reporters say, was the exploration
If the tunnel. After ride on the tun,
mel railroad, a narrow.gauge line which
twisted and pulled its way up the
mountain side, the party arrived before
the mouth of the big bore. Each man
removed most of his clothing and put
on an oiled coat and rubber hat. i
Tenderfeet Shed Shoes
They didn't wear shoes. Mr.. Nc.
CrOsson said: my feet are as tender
AZ yours; look at me!r He wore no
shoes, so no one else did.
A little electric locomotive took two
small ears, loaded with the city's ex-
ecutive and legislative dignity, into the
| dim tunnel. Each man bore candle
Along the walls electric lights cleaned
The Outh dwindled to a narrowing
quare Of blue. Jets Of water gushed
from the basalt walls. The electric
locomotive stopped with q bump. II
was walking from this on. -. v.
Everyone stepped into the water,
bare feet and all. 1t WASH I ice-cold,
but it was next door in the same street.
One cOuldn' t exactly call 1t warm. But
after ones feet got used to it, he
didn t mind the cold so much
Besides, there was the lava rock un,
lerfOot. The exquisite torture boy
feels at the first barefoot days of
| spring was nothing to what the supervi.
sors-and others-felt. Nothing at ALL
1t seemed that hundreds Of needles and
'azor blades were biting hungrily at
the soles of feet. -
"Oh, why didn I | wear nv shoes as
| planned" mOaned "BOb" Single.
He is what might be called tender
foot. ... :
"Watch out for the wires!'' some
| one called out. That meant that the
, electric wires on the right had Juice"
enough to make one forget all about
the lava. That showed how nicely
things ran. The lava made one forget
the cold water and the electricity made
one forget the lava. Still, no one
sampled the wires. Sc
And the superintendent others
moaned and stumbled through $50 feet
Eof tunnel, 1900 feet into the heart of
the mountain. The walls were solid
| rock Here and there, everywhere, II
seemed, solid streams of cold shot from
the walls, where the arteries Of the
mountain S heart had been pierced by
the bore. Candles went out in an in
slant. An emplOye carried tin case,
in when candles were protected from
the jets of spray.
Watch out for that siphon!" warn
cd Mr.. McCrOsson. at would cut you
in two in a secoLd!"
That also was comforting-but it
helped one to forget the razors and
needles that Pele had hid In that noun.
tain when she forged it.
A dim, splashiug form was seen. 4
-"norter leaned down. 1t was Mayor
Lane. He had removed his "sliker"
and was in ecstacy.
"Bv golIy!" exclaimed Hizzoner.
~ feel strong"
The mayor was taking sort Of
swim. But why swim when shower
hH'" ""n'd be bad for nothingt
Waianu Means Cold Water
The mayor said later that this was
Waianu mountain, which means "coId
water. " Everyone who was there