The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-07-21
kALAKAUA AVENUE
Improvement HAS
ANOTHER SETBACK
"8tRt 49, : ! : 4 !
Territorial Hotel Company and
Guardian Trust Protest against
So-caIIed Squeeze Surfacing
THEY DEMAND CHANGE
IN ADOPTED MATERIAL
F.. . = r."
Unless Supervisors Come To
tsroEerys Work viii Be Held
Up Six Months

At what the city supervisors prayer.
tIlly hope was their final public hearing
on the subject Of the famous Kalakaun
avenue paving, the Territorial Hotel
Company and the Guardian Trust Com
paHy fled q new protest agninst the i'm
proyement last evening. Their objec
tion is to the so.called squeeze sur
facing for the concrete base suggested
by City Engineer Collins, and they
state that the protest is to be consider
ed withdrawn II the board will accept
the proposition of the Bitulithie Paving
Company to use two-inch bitulithic
surfacing instead.
Attorney +. W. Sutton, who attend
ed the meeting as representative of the
protesting property owners, insisted
that a number of other owners whose
protests had been heard by the board
last January, are still, protesting and
that the total amount of frontage rep
resented by these and the two com
panies mentioned is more than fifty
five per cent of all the frontage affect
ed along Kalakaua avenue by the pro-
posed project. ...
Legal Problem Is Involved
G. N. Arnold, chairman of the road
committee, and Deputy City Attorney
Cristy took issue with Sutton on this
statement, however, insisting that the
only protests now before the board are
the two fled yesterday. The city en-.
ginecr's figures show that these two
have a frontage Of only about twenty
three per cent of the total.
A legal problem is involved in the
matter, II seems, and the deputy city
attorney will undertake to solve it and
ascertain whether Attorney Sutton s
statement has basis in legal fact.
Ii Sutton s figures are incorrect, prep
aration for the improvement viii 60
ahead in the near future; IL Sutton is
right, there is a prospect that the en-.
tire matter will be held in allegiance OF
least another six months.
The Bishop Estate, one of the larg
est landowners affected in the Kala-
kaua district, withdrew its protest early
in the year. @. II. Gear, the Estate 5
land agent, informed the board last
night that while the trustees still would
prefer bituhthie to squeeze dressing for
the pavement, they would enter no OBJ
lection to the latter, hoping to get
some kind of decent going along the
thoroughfare.
e tate Wants Good Roads
tWe want the board to remember
that what the Bishop Estate seeks now
is good road, just as soon as you can
give il to U.S., he said.
Sutton made IL plan, however, that
the Territorial Hotel Company and
Guardian Trust Company entertain no
such idea, and that they stand ready
to block the Improvement for six
months more if the board does not
accede to their wishes and they are able
to hold up the affair. ..,
After all the discussion ended, Super.
visor Logan, commenting on the posi-.
tiOn of these two owners, recalled that
only recently the automobile insurance
man in The OnHamm Young Com
pany's service had condemned Rala-,
haua. avenue 5 condition and threaten
cd to cut of further automobile in
suranee until that road is put into
shape.
'"Thus the same people who are
seeking to block us now are condemn.
ing the highway wee want to make
safe" said he. at surely does secm
that we must always be between the
devil and the deep blue sea. "
Speaking before the board. Attorney
Sutton said his clients, looking at the
pavement matter in a purely financial
way, consider that they will get more
for their money with bitulithie two
inch surfaeing than with the squeeze !;
that ii would be an immens saving in
the long run, though the initial ex.
pense, for the entire district. would be
increased approximately $4,000
81 don 7 think that even your city
engineer looks upon the squeeze as
more than mere temporary make
shift. which will have to be replaced
within very few years." said the
lawyer.
Eix Months Holdup Threatened
He added that be believed more than
flfty-Gve per cent of the frontage in
the street to be paved is represented
by those having protests before the su,
pervisors, and that if the board is de
trrmined to use squeeze, over the pro
test of this fftvfve per cent, it can.
net proceed 10 so improve the thor
oughfare until six months after the
protests were filed. He figured yester
day could be considered as the date Of
some Of the protests.
The deputy city attorney does not
consider that the protests filed last
january can be considered in effect
row. since the majority of them were
v itbdrawn at the public hearing helt
that month.
Engineer Collins estimate of the
total cost of the project, using a con
crete base aHd squeeze surface for the
nrea from Ena road to Park road. is
$lQ7 407. OF this he figures that 800.
7l4,70 will be assessed against owners
Of admitting property, under the front
nge tax syftem. Arnold said in the
course Of the argument last evening
.tl,at use Of bitulithic for top dressing
viii Increase the total cost to some.
thirr like $l24,O00.
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