The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-02
Quarry Harbor TANNED With De-
bris When Temporary Break,
wafer Goes Out Contractor
Gets Busy At Once On Repairs
. FORBES NEARLY GOT y,
+. = A SEVERE ROAST
HiIo Traction Water License Runs
The Gauntlet and Some I'M
portant Omissions Are Pointed
0ut-citizens Want Protection

mail Special to The Advertiser.)
HILO, October 29.-The past weel
has been anything but monotonous In
Hilo. ...l Il. s.s.a g.. WI
a A storm from the north made severn
mall breaches in the partially con
rueted Hilo break water, but did nc
image to the finished portion. r..
At the waipio quarry sixty miles ~
ne coast, things are in bad mess
rhe northerly swell, with all the powe
of the broad Pacific behind it, ha
washed a large part of the breakwatej
which had been built to protect the
landing, into the harbOr. This viii,
have to be dredged out before it ear
again be used The sea also washed
away the loading railway along thu
beach and wrecked the gasoline launch
which handles the rock scows at Waipio
One man was hurt, but fortunately nc
me was killed. =.
Contractor Marshall has gone prompt
y to work to try and bring order out
of chaos, but II may be weeks before
rock hauling begins again., ~.
Railroad Buried :.
During the same storm a fume be-
longing to the LaupahoehOe Plantation
became blocked, and OVERLOOKING,
washed out the bank above the HilO
Railroad in Laupahoehoe Gulch and
took down o landslide which buried the,
rails for some fifty feet The slide was
cleared during the day, passengers be.
ing Transferred to and from trains
which met at the slide.
Helene Cargo Saved
Not to be left out of the news
columns, the Inter.IsIand steamer
Helene, with some 700 barrels of lime
and considerable fertilizer aboard, de
veloped a case of spontaneous combus
ton while at anchor in Hilo harbor on
Wednesday night. The hold was
promptly battened down and q let o.
live steam injected. This was kept ~
for over twenty -four hours with entire
success. Upon opening the hold large
portion of the cargo was found to b.
uniniured.
Grave Charges Made
The grand jury has been in session
and as a result has indicted chauf
fenr for attempted criminal assault or
two women passengers and has likewise
charged a Porto Rican with assaultine
a fouryear-old girl.
The board Of trade has had before It
the Waiolama swamp reclamation prof
ect, on the request of Chairman Kau
hame Of the board Of supervisors, to do
what they could to help the project
along. The superintendent of public
works had made the threat that unless
all the land owners agreed to the
project he would drop it, and stated
that two owners had not yet agreed.
Forbes Caught It
The threat. aroused strong hostile
feeling, as, it was felt that the super
ntendeHt had no right to hold up the
whole project which had been approved
by the board Of health and the Iegisla-
ture, when there was ample law under
which to proceed without consent of
the owners. A hot resolution was pre-.
scented setting forth this view and pro
testing against Hilo receiving the usual
short end of the string to the public
treasury. This resolution failed of
adoption by only two votes. 1t wa:
finally referred TO a committee, which
took the rough edges off and reported
back an amended resolution urging that
the project be proceeded with under
condemnation proceedings If necessary
This was adopted unanimously. Mean
while word has been received from
Honolulu that the two owners who had
not heretofore agreed had satisfied the
superintendent, and that he will go
ahead with the project Tenders for
making the gil are to be opened at
Honolulu on Tuesday next.
Hilo Traction Charter .ta.~.. :
The request of the Hilo Traction
Company for an exclusive franchise to
use the government water power in the
Wailuku River for thirty years was also
referred to the board of trade by the
land department for consideration
The terms of the proposed license were
so poorly set forth that nobody was
able to decide just what was proposed,
however.
Points Left Open 49,.
Three important points did not ap,
pear TO be covered.
Their, is nothing in the license re.
quiring the lieensee to build a street
railway in Hilo, to supply power for
which Is the purpOrted object of the
licerse. The licensee could. therefore
abandon the street ear end of its
Powers and still hold the water license
to speculate on or use FOR any other
purpose.
Second, the license, which is for
thirty years, provides that the licensee
shall begin TO build a power plant
within two years, but fixes no time limit |
within which the plant shall be finished.
The licensee would therefore have the
whole thirty years within which to
6nish-meanwhile the light to use the
water would be tied up for that length !
OF time "s .a'
Below Second intake
In the third place. the license re- '