The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-02-09
COncede Asphalt Macadam AS
Style Of Pavement And B
Wider Streets "
REFUSE TO PAY ANY
PART OF IMPROVEMENT
Declare That Providing Sewers
Or Engineering Would Estab-
Iish Deadly Precedent

District and the universal application
/ OF the frontage tax law in futur
street and road building advanced on,
more notch toward contamination las
night at the meeting Of the board o.
supervisors in committee of the whole
When the fans were stopped and tn,
chaff was piled up in great heaps in tn,
| assembly room these were the kerneli
ieft deposited on the table Of Chairman
| HOllinger:
That the supervisors will meet in eau
Gus at clock this afternoon to pre-
pare their final report for submission tc
themselves at their regular meeting to
night.
Wishes Of Mandates Respected
The wishes of the Mandates that
their streets be Of asphalt maeadam be
respected; also that their wishes that
the street widths not be made of uni
form width Of sixteen feet but be made
to fit conditions and environments be
respected.
That it was believed asphalt macadam
would serve as well in suburban dis,
tricts as a permanent road as would
asphalt concrete 'or WarreRjte and at
much less cost.
Fear for Frontage Law
That the enforcement of laying
asphalt, concrete or Warrenite pave,
ments, would absolutely kill the front
age tax law. "%
That the price Of street improvements
in the Manoa district must be kept at a
cost of cents per square foot or less
or the protests sufficient to kill the en-.
tIrp nnlart 70 L In q. /
That the majority Of the supervisors
are absolutely opposed to paying for
any portion of the cost of improve
ments in any improvement district be-
cause OF establishing deadly prece-
dent.
Mandates Furnish Gallery
Supervisor Hollinger presided as
chairman of the meeting and AHA, Ar.
mold, HOrner, Larsen and Logan were
present. Chairman Quinn of the road
committee, who has attended none of
the committee meetings, was again alb.
sent. The gallery was small and was
made mp of Manoa residents who have
figured prominently in the Improvement
district project since its inception.
A report presented by City Engineer
WhitehOuse at the request of the com
mittee in regard to dividing the orig
inal district into zones so that a differ
ential tax might be levied according to
property valuation and to the effect that
the street construction should be War
renite; that the original widths of the
streets should be reduced until thew
would range from 10 to "a feet and that
the city should pay for the cost of storm
sewers and part of the engineering work
started the argument.
Do Not Want Alleys
A. Stuart johnson started the bah
rolling with an argument that the
property owners Of Manoa wanted wide
streets instead of alleys and that they
felt they would get as much satisfact ton
from asphalt macadam roads as they
would from Wrrenite. johnson went
into detailed statistics and pointed out
in his argument that If asphalt ma.
eadam be laid, which the residents Of
the district want, that local eontrac tors
could compete for the contracts and all
local labor would be employed, mas
much as local street builders were ia
TDiar with that style of road construc-
ton.
Difference Of $4,000
He stated that the difference of cost
to the district between Warrenite and
asphalt macadam would be approx.
mately $4,000 and that this sum would
more than equal the cost of any guar
antee which the property holders would
have to pay any contractor for such
guarantee.
Chairman Hollinger who has stood
out strongly for Warrenite and mar.
rover streets, argued that it would be
to the advantage of the district to lay
the more permanent pavement, and that
in the side streets a width of sixteen
feet was sufficient.
Johnson came back with the argu.
ment that the upkeep of the district
roads for ten years would not amount
to $4,000, and the property owners
were simply paying out a great sum
for roads which they did not feel they
needed.
Want Twenty-foot Streets
He also argued against any street
being built of any width less than
twenty feet, pointing out that on a
sixteen.foot street two automobiles, If
lined up on opposite curbs, would allow
ohIy sPdce VI TWO 1eeL between.
Holiing6r continued to contend that
asphalt macadam was not acknowledged
Ly road experts as permanent pave.
ment and that no guarantees would be
given by contractors. He stood for
Warrenite because that process of
street building was guaranteed for a
period of ten years.
supervisor Logan arose to state that
he was more interested in the frontage
tax than. he was in the Manoa district
or the values Of different kinds of pave,
ments, adding:
Opposes Forceful Methods
But l want to tell you, gentlemen,
that II You legislate against asphalt
macadam in favor of any certain kind
Of road You will kill the frontage tax
law. l have always been a supporter
OF bitulithic or similar pavements
where traffic is heavy.
~ believe that if asphalt macadam