Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-15
City Fathers
Put On Dainty
Skit To Music
"Rocks and Roads" is Title of
"Headliner" at Meeting
of Supervisors

With the biare of trombones. the
rattle and boom Of drums and the
pang-pang Of cymbals from the Con.
stabulary band rising over Bishop
park and drifting In at the windows
of the assembly room, six stalwart
city fathers last night held forth in
session.
Had the session been vaudeville
rather than supervisors meeting. It
would probably have borne the title,
Rocks and Roads"
Rocks-crushed and uncrushed -
started the performance, Deputy At
torney William T. Garden submitting
3000-word thesis IN order to inform
the city that It could not sell rock In
open market. A second lengthy opin-
ion dealt with the substitution OF
crushed rocks for the kind the city
carries round In its pocketbooks, the
opinion stating that the city could
contribute rock FOR an Improvement
project providing proper notice had
been given previous to public hearing.
Larsen thought the city ought to
sell rock in open market, and Arnold
was OF the same opinion. The two su.
pervisors and the attorney threshed
the question up and down the floor
until the lights grew dim In WEAKNESS.
Uncle Sam Does Il
I'VE are public body, working q
public quarry, and laboring for the
good of the people" said Larsen, fin.
ally. Il don't see why we can't do
these things just as the federal gov.
crnment does them.
Mr.. Garden reminded Larsen that
considerable difference exists be.
tween the United States and the city
Of Honolulu The federal government
is sovereign power he said, you
are a limited power, Mr.. Larsen"
The authority on heavy weights and
bulldog trailers shifted uneasily as II
doubling the statement, and Daniel
Logan, presiding in the mayors chair
pro tenn, called for vote on new
report.
Then followed more reading of re
ports and opinions. At $50 the Con.
stabulary band struck up the Star
Spangled Banner" and Larsen lit q
fresh cigar.
Talk then began ons the paving of
Sixth avenue, KaimukfE with q four.
inch layer of concrete. The talk drift.
ed from Kaifnuh to Lusitana, out Kat
lakaua avenue and back again to Kai
muki.
Doubt Four.Inch Coat
Engineer Whitehouse voiced the
opinion that four inches Is not enough
for Kaimuki. Hollinger thought like.
wise. Arnold and Logan did not be-
lieve residents would pay for more
than four-inch mizture on the.
street.
Concrete with 1 squsegee coat was
opposed by HolIingeB who said that
the coat would peel eff.
How do you know 1t will peel Off
asked Supervisor Larseu,
1--WE seen twas the reply.
"Oh, you've seen so many things,
Larsen retorted gruffiy.
Then Logan interposed, declaring
that so much talk on experimentation
being permanent is all +.moonshine.
He was at once rehqked by Larsen,
who expressed the belief that Logan
Is becoming old-fashioned and that
such retractions and sgoings back on
concrete are silly. Il thought better
of you than that. Mr.. Logan he end
ed.
Arnold finally stopped the argument
by suggesting that heavy drays can
be kept off Sixth avenue in case the
four-inch pavement Is laid. He NOV
ed that Engineer Whitehouse be in
structed by the clerk to draw up
report on the avenue as q
light traffic thoroughfare. considering
the pavement as fourinch concrete.
The motion carried and the supervl