The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-14
STREET CLEANING.

Dulcu plOHS ouS liihS'p"i ehoio'Sh
fares scraping up the accummula-
tons of muck, dust, debris and
manure which have given so much
offence to the asthetically disposed
portion of the Inhabitants. The
work has now been in progress for
several days. Some of the streets
are showing greatly improved APP
pearancc. There is no installing
that fact. The plan of operations
nevertheless is one that it may not
be judicious to mention. But as it
is evidently original, and one which
Mr.. Kaiaikawaha, the contractor,
may be disposed to claim special
credit for, it ought to be fully des-
cribed. 1t is only necessary to be
widely known to secure for the new
official share of the fame that falls
to the lot of the ingenious and enter
prising, the world over. In case
the plan should be adopted by other
cities, the honor of Hawaii requires
that it should at once be announced
and designated emphatically the
Honolulu method of cleaning streets.
This being done, it will not be in
the power of any smart Yankee
civic official to introduce the scheme
and appropriate the honors of in
venting it.
A considerable amount of abuse
has been heaped upon the heads of
the conservators of our civic rights
and comforts during the past three
months for the dirty condition of the
streets. Whether this had anything
to do with the operations recently
commenced is no part of our bust
ness to determine. But there does
seem TO be sort of sarcastic humor
about the processes now going on.
They have gone to work to clean the
streets certainly. And the grumblers
are grumbling with bated breath,
although they cannot but have some
rather disagreeable notions that Mr..
Kaiaikawaha has thrown them out
of the frying pan into the fire.
Those who howled at the powers
that be for the unsightly and unsalu-
brious dirtiness under their feet are
now being choked with immeasur-
able quantities of the same stuff
going down their threats, in
at their doors and windows, and
demonstrating to them in the most
palpable manner that the streets are
being cleaned, for-was not that just
what they wanted? Whether the
method adopted is sort of sarcastic
way of doing what the public have
long enough been waiting for, or an
accidental popularity some people
have of performing the plainest
services in the worst manner posi-
BILE, or both, is not of much conse-
quence to determine. If it is joke,
it certainly is a rather dirty one.
And those disaffected people who
would not let the authorities alone,
cat all at ALL" have, unquestion-
ably, had their mouths closed as
they went about the streets during
the past week, and, according tc
present indications, are likely tc
keep quiet enough outdoors, fol-
some weeks to come. Of course il
would be audacious to suggest, il
this connection, that possibly tho
street cleaning operations may 60
on until after the elections.
The foregoing remarks may b'
considered impertinent, and no
consistent with the dignity of pub
lie journalism in the treatment of /.
matter of public interest; but any
person who will take a walk or /.
drive along the line of the stree
cleaning operations cannot fail to be
impressed with the ridiculous man
ner in which the contract is being
carried out. The dirt of the streets
is scraped up into small hillocks
from six to eight feet apart. 1t is
then left to dry, a process that only