Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-23
PERCENT OF AREA
WILL DETERMINE
WORkSAYS YOUNG

CONTINUED fro-J paga ouel
work that was being done on Queen
street prior to the issuance OF a TEN.
porary Injunction when restrained the
city and county from further proce-
dure.
| From his experience as civil en-
glneer and in road construction, Mr..
Young was asked by Attorney c. II.
Olsen, representing the petitioner, to
define repairs, maintenance and re-
construction This he did as follows:
Maintenance - Slight repairs or
patches.
"Repairs-Anything less than 80 per.
cent of the surface of the road being
treated in order to restore It. This
passes beyond the maintenance stage.
"Reconstruction-W Where the portion
of the road treated is more than so
per cent of the entire surface
Never Had Been Road.
Mr.. Young remarked somewhat sar-
casticaIly that the portion of Queen
street in question had never been a
road since he had been in Honolulu.
There is no appearance of road ever
having been there, he added.
Asked as to his opinion of the char
acter of the work that was being done
by the city and county in July, he
said:
Il would call it permanent construc-
tion work"
This answer was stricken out, how
ever, upon the objection of counsel
for the respondents.
Mr. Young explained. that the road
was graded and rolled and then paved
with asphalt macadam to a thickness
of from, to 6 inches, and about
inches at the gutter line. He said,
by way of explanation, that a water
bound macadam road would not bear
the traffic like a road bound with as
phalt, and that naturally the method
of water-binding a road was now in
the discard
Referring again. to his statement
that reconstruction. in road work
means the treating of a portion that
is more than so per cent of the entire
surface, Mr. Young said:
The county did more than so per
cent on the Queen street road. Il
would say that 100 per cent was being
done.
Pamphlet BY Experts.
pamphlet issued by the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers containing the
report of special committee on what
constitutes repairs, maintenance and
reconstruction of roads. The defini-
ton for repairs was read as follows:
The restoration or mendiRg OF a
considerable amount of the metaled
or paved portion of the highway, but
not usually Of majority of the sur
face area. More extensively than
patching, but less so than renew
als.
When examined by the counsel for
the respondents, Mr.. Young said that
the portion of Queen street in ques-
ton is impossible when it rains, and
always has been since he has been in
Honolulu.
When first saw the work which |
was being done by the city and county
the road had been scarified and pre-
pared for the metal he added
The attorney for the respondents
read several passages from q pamph- |
let sent out by the road department
of the Department of Agriculture.
Oppose Deterioration.n
Operations to oppose deteriora-
tion in a road constitutes general
maintenance" read, Attorney ]. w:
Cathcart, What do you say to that?"
Il would not agree with that" ans.
wered Mr.. Young.
j. HI. Wilson, the local civil engin-
eer and contractor. who was road SUI
pervisor from 1909 to 1911, was an.
other witness called by the respon-
dent. His testimony was largely
along the line of what kind of work
was being done by the city aud county
on those road portions mentioned in
the temporary injunction
In 1911, he said, the road at the in
tersection of Beretania and King
streets, in. Moiliili, was pretty bad. 1t
had been paved with maeadam, he
said, and since that time it has been
patched with macadam.
What was its grade them" he was
asked.
The Lord only knows" was the
answer.
Regarding the portion of Queen
street in question, Mr.. Wilson said
that in the past the holes have been
patched with macadam taken from
other streets.