Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 400, 1 March 1892 — A MAN TRAP. [ARTICLE]

A MAN TRAP.

»stbe six ?eer old soo Mr. of Kinau St was walking along the aide walk of tbat street sear tbe top of Miller B*., his <bot heeame «ntangled io a waterpipe, whieh threw tbe ehi id on his £aoe and severely injured bis noee and disfi«ured him. That bis Unele wae not aleo injored is dtie to tbe fact that he did not happen to be walkiog in the middle of the Bide walk, as tbe smali waterpipe is a Uap iu tbe form of ao acote angle whieh oommenoes from tbe oenterof the footway. Bome day there will be an action against the Hawaiian government for injury or aooount of loes oflife or limb tbrough several of sucb mau traps it> tbe same vicinity, and the gre;it circumlocution office will then spend a hundred do)lars tryiug to find <>ut whieh of two depftrtmentB, tbe Waterworks or RoadB, )8 responBiblo for the trap. Iu tbe mean time we suggest to the new Eoad Buper?ifor to send two men for one day in order to bory the water pipe the late Road j Management left expoeed in cutting the road down. |