The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-21
ALL IMPROVEMENT
. PROJECTS DELAYED
Kalakaua Avenue and King Street
Extension Go Over For
More Consideration s
Beach Walk Folk Demand Read
Work On Any Basis That II
~ "a. Is Reasonable ~

The BOARD Of supervisors last might
did a lot Of business and postponed the
| opening of tho bids on the Manoa I'm
provcment district, set another, dat,
for the hearing of the KaIak aua avenu,
Improvement project and also Oh th'
King street extension matter. Tho
Kalakaua avenue project was held NJ
NY the property owners along the road
Who insisted that warranite lie used In
stead of concrete for the paving
Enough of them protested against the
use of concrete TO make the board take
step which was considered the best
fot all concerned The spec fcatious
were amended to read btulithic" in.
stead Of "concrete,' on motion Of
Shingie, but the relative cost TO be as.
sunied by the board of thirty.thrco per
cent was left in and il was distinctly
understood by the protcstants, that the
board would not stand for more. The
matter will be heard again ON the tf,
teenth Of February. .'. :
Strong Delegation Of Protesters
Those protesting against the work
for the purpose Of getting postpone
ment were: Martin Mossr. Emmeline
Magoon, j. A. Magoon, Emily G. judd
5ishop Estate, August Ahrens, !. r
Bowler, Territorial Hotel Company, A.
A. Young, G. Bolte, James Steiner, Will
liam Daniels, l.. B. Kerr, NJ. +. Raw.
ms j. II. Love, Mrs. II. silva, Bruce
Cartwright, Liliuokalani Trust, Guard
ian Trust Company. Sixty.three pei
cent of the property holders were rep.
resented in one way or another in the
protests and only those representing
less than two hundred feet out of q
total Of thirteen thousand feet did not
want any Improvement. The Others
want the work done but were moi
agreed with the city on. the material Ia
he used, or the cost TO be assumed by
the municipality. o.. H.. +.
The Beach Wall people, representa-
by Alec Lyle and Jack Milton, stated
that they were in favor of concrete
with top dressing, and all they want.
ed was for the supervisors to get busy
and start the work so that the proper
ty holders could have some roads to use
and they we're willing to, pay, They
wanted action and were not asking the
city to put up any money. They were
promised an early settlement of3S the
project. = 3 y y I, Ssls.sANTl IA, -
Engineers Discuss Paving ". W.. ,
The relative merits of concrete AND
other material for paving streets wer,
discussed by several engineers present
and Others interested and each one wa,
certain that his fayorite pavement wa,
the hest. A report OF the former city
engineer was read, in which concrete
vas highly recommended as the suit
tble pavement for this city as Il wonlt
last fifteen years. After the report wa,
read, at the request of Supervisor Lar
sen, Supervisor Shingle arose to stat,
that since the report was made to thu
supervisors, Whitehouse had change,
his mind and had asked that the report
be withdrawn. "thus putting himself
IN rather embarrassing position,
said Single. -
City Engineer Collins backed up b,
Engineer James 7. Taylor, stated thai
concrete could be used here as well n,
any place else if 1t was properly nike,
and laid 1870.
King street exte.-siOn was postDoneC
for lack of time. Manager BaIlentyn,
Of the Rapid Transit and Land Com
pany was present and stated that h,
did not think there would be anv pro
tests against the work.
Puunui Is Postponed
The matter of the Puunui improve
mcnt almost lead to a breeze mt tho
protests received from property hold
ors of the district were referred to tn,
road committee and the interested
parties will meet and discuss matter,
In the board room tomorrow Afternoon
at four clock. s.. IL"
Appropriations. TO pay the water
rates for the different city department,
which had been forgotten, were intro
duced and passed first reading, all ex
eept the appropriation to pay for tn,
water uscd in the city parks. Supervis
or llollinger said that he had received
no bill from Supervisor Larsen 3 water
department for the use of the water
and until he received an account h,
would not vote to pay the bill. Tbi,
caused laugh at Larsen 5 expense AM
the resolution was tabled '.
An appropriation for the placinp Of
sidewalk in front Of pat Of the nrop
erty, OF the Peabody property in Vine
yard street amounting to 1919 passed
hrst reading. This expenditure on pari
OF the city will mean the Improvement
OF the sidewalks of Vineyard stree,
from Nuuanu to the river on both side,
and work will be begun at once.
Two other appropriations one for
$I69.7O to pay Eben Low for damages
and the other for sl99 to pay the ex.
penses of the purchasing agents Office
were passed at first reading.
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