Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-20
THOSE WAIKIKI NUISANCES
Interviews With Prominent Property
Owners Near By.
Entire Waikiki Marsh Lands Need a Sanitary
OVerhaulins Some Say They Should
Be Filled In.


Waikiki for the abatement of nui
sances set forth in the petition
and already printed in these COL
umns was presented to the Board
of Health yesterday and referred
to the Sanitary Committee, which
already had the matter under con
sideration.
Under the statute the Board OF
Health has ample powers to stop
the nuisances complained of and
it is hoped they will act promptly.
Another Chinese shanty was put
mp close to the Waikiki road only
yesterday and another was started
only this morning within few
feet Of the road.
The residents of the vicinity
have taken the matter up in earn
est and do not propose that it
shall drop after the first spasm.
If the Board of Health
cannot grant the necessary
relief an appeal will be promptly
made to the Legislature. Indeed,
there is already a measure before
that body which prohibits the
keeping of hogs within mile of
the radius of the postoffice. If
this bill WIS extended so as to in
clude an area of 500 feet on either
side of any main travelled road it
would help matters out in Wal
kiki.
Among the many sufferers
along the Waikiki road from these
nuisances may be mentioned the
American Minister, Frank Hus-
tace and James Sherwood to
whom life is made a burden at
times from the stencil arising
from the refuse of the Chinese
poi shop across the road.
w. Il. Irwin, in signing the
petition, said the entire marsh
property ought to have been con
demned and filed in long ago. 1t
was public nuisance aud the
stencil arising from the various
manure piles and hog ranches
along the road made people sick
from just driving by. The
cost Of filing in would
not be very great, as it
was easy enough to run n small
railway track to the foothills for
the material required.
w. w. Dimond said every word
in the petition was true to his
certain knowledge. Tie matter
had been allowed to run along
until the evil had obtained larger
proportions than people not living
out there were aware OF. The
nuisances complained of should
be stopped, and if possible the
property filed in.
Marshal Brown said he was
heartily in sympathy with the peti
tion and would be only too glad
to carry out auy orders the Board
of Health =. or Attorney General
might make in the matter. He
was one of the sufferers and
thought that all of them had suf-
fered long enough
L. G. Macfarlane, speaking for
himself and brothers, said: The
nuisances have got to be simpl
abominable. The beauty of the
only drive in the country that we
can offer tourists is virtual
ly destroyed, for there
can be no pleasure in good com =
psny or fast horses when one has
to hold his hand to his nose all
the way out to the beach. We are
making arrangements to put up a
big hotel at the beach, but we
can't expect people to stay there
when they have to drive back and
forth through such nuisances as
are set out 10 the petition. Let the
good work 60 on until all these
places are abolished.
f. A. Schaefer gladly signed the
petition, saying the nulsauces
complained of ought to have been
looked after long ago.
T. s. Douglas said he never
signed a petition so readily in his
life. He hoped the agitation
would be kept up until there was
a permanent improvement al
along the Waikiki road.
Cecil Brown said the matter
had been allowed to go too Ions
already and the nuisances should