The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-07-02
CITY engineer E..
NOW HAS CHANCE
TO MAKE GOOD
Supervisors Reduce His Salary
$50 a Month and Give HIM
Road Superintendent
lW0RK HERETOFORE HAS
BEEN TOO BURDENS0ME
/ Assistant Win Supervise Road
I Making and Keep Eye On
! District 0verseers

From July ! the monthly salary of
City Engineer NhitchOusI will l., 800
instead of $3.50 as heretofore. This
was agreed on by the supervisors yas'
terday Afternoon, i'll dI.russIns, 4 h. ..
budk t for the next six mUn,k,. VI ...
ny the appointment OF sW9e, in
tcndent of streets and h,g.ways,
Whit, house will he relieved OF - -reat
deal of outside work, and the eur IN
his salary will help to pro, ide the $l7j
per month voted in caucus by the su.
pervieOrs as the remuneration o. the
new road man. e
The superintendent of streets and
highways will be appointed by the ely
, engineer and will hr responsible 10 him.
| He will have direct supervi siOh of the
practical part of road making and wul
! be an Overseer of the district road
overseers, concerning the work of SUM
Of whom much dissati faction, to PUT it
| mildly, recently has been expressed
In other words, the board of su,,sr-
visOrs want to give Whitehouse a
chance to make good. They agree that
| in the past hH has been so overburdeuel
with duties Of various sorts that il has
been physical impossibility for him
co give unqualified satisfaction. p.
All UP To Engineer ..s.n,
| Beginning tomorrow, however, things
will he different. With thu oft ida
work taken off his shoulders, White
house will he in a position TO assume
the responsibilities of his Office, a con.
ditiOn which has rot prevailed before.
1t is up to him to appoint street.
and highways superintendent who will
make good If he fails to do thi, it
will be he who will have to bear thu
! brunt of the criticism.
If the superintendent reports that
any district Overseer is unqualified for
ais position or is not delivering the
goods, it will be up to WhitehOuse TO
; discharge him. .". *
In the past WhitehOuse has had 10
assume responsibilities of his Office
{ without having a fair chance to- dis
charge the same. In the future the
work of the department win lie so
ldivided that Whitehouse win be en-.
the reason why. (~lf he doesn 4, the
supervisors will want to know.
r By virtue of a resolution recently
% introduced by Supervisor Arnold, City
y Engineer Whitehouse will have to out
IlhV W WV bOah" piiOi W VIZ nav ~
every month Just what work he has
u mapped out for the ensuing month.
System VIII Be Outlined '""1
It The supervisors will pass on this an6
;" Whitehouse will be expected to ear.
= out the program as outlined. In thu
' event of failure the board will lie
- mand an explanation. This adyi ne,
- programing of road work promises :,
:" benefit road conditions on this ISLAM
u! inestimably. Unless the program |
- O. X. d by the supervisors, no man ha
~ A right to go out on the road. .@#
~. In the event of Whitehouse bein
a unable, for any reason, to present hi
!, program before the first of the nontl
no road work will not necessarily be hi
II, up, as there is an emergency approPrii
Of ton for road work which would ! ee
he road forces busy for few days
10 BY programing road work in AZ
Ms vance the board. will know just wha
o. work is going to be done and thel
~. will be no chance of another Kuhj
ey boulevard episode occurring to e.nha
ar rass the city dads.
stump Hole Worries Single
- Supervisor Single, chairman of II
ii" roads committee, stated at last night
az meeting of the board that he had Et
pccasioned less trouble and worry SCI
ing | ,OCO. shares Of stock than in IT,
ing to get Albion Clark S famous sun
hole at Kaimuki filed up, and that
hadn t managed to achieve the latt
object at that. .
ShingIe is making a stif fight {
efficiency in the road departments. I
says that City Engineer Whit, no !
has now an unequivocal chance to una
good and that he must make good
d1 i've place to someone who can.