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The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

The news that Aguinaldo wants to
surrender will make a gloomy Christ
mas for Edward Atkinson. 1t was Mr..
Atkinson's pious hope that Aguinaldo
would keep everlastingly at it until ne
had killed so many Americans as to
sicken the survivors of the war. Now
disappointment. like a worm l. the bud,
preys on his damask and colossal
cheek. Unless he gets better news
soon Mr.. Atkinson may resolve to re-
turn to his studies of the Aladdin
stove and give the enemies OF his
country no further cheer.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19
LOCAL PLAGUE SPOTS.

The report made to the Board Of
Health by the quarantine inspectors
10 an indictment of our sanitary rules
and methods. These inspectors find a
state of things in Chinatown that is
appalling. We do not believe that It
was worse In Havana and Santiago un-
der Spanish rule nor Is much worse
now In Canton under the neglectful
government Of the Mandarins. Wit
ness the evidence in these Official ex-
tracts. One inspector said:
The cesspools were horribly full Of
stencil. never could have found their
location except for this. I found them
under the floor OF the living -Quarters
and had to rip up the floors to get at
them. In some cases there was mass
Of solid, CONCEALED substance and II was
SO bad that some OF my men could not
stand Ii. These should be emptied at
once. or as soon as It Is possible to get
an excavator at work on them. Most
OF the woodwork In my block Is satur-
ated with filth through and through
and my opinion is that burning It Is
the only way to get rid Of 1t properly.
And another testified:
My block contains mostly Chinese;
the block was filthy In many places.
Most OF the cesspools and sinks were
In a terrible condition, and maggots
could be seen crawling about the sur
face. We have disinfected all this as
much as possible. but everything will
have to be cleaned out and carted away
before the cleaning Is entirely ac-
oomplished. ] don't consider that
had as bad block as some OF the
others, but II was bad enough.
Sounds nicely. does It not. from
city which boasts OF It's Board OF Health
and Of it's attractions for invalids and
tour!sts' A really admirable feature
Of the Paradise OF the Pacific And
the plague spot IL located quite In the
business center OF the city, withal, 80
that no one may escape It's influence,
Our Board Of Health has been long
On the inspection OF vessels but la
mentally short on the inspection OF
the Town, when We get new Hoard
under the municipality there will be no
mors ahips and shipping fees 10 look
after, for the Federal onieials viii at
lsnd "a lh.ss, ana this ipspFes the
hope that chlnatogn viii lhen have
tbs monthly or quarterly cleaning .up
which II demands and that its lnhabil'
anita VIII be punished for eyery nut
saRce they commit
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

The report that the neighborhood
where the case of alleged bubonic
plague occurred last night smells TO
heaven is not surprising. But the
statement that the smells arise from
the contents of odorless excavators
which were dumped there after being
gathered in Chinatown, is a thing to
provoke establishment as well as
wrath. Is there no better way to get
rid of Asiatic offal than to put it where
1t assails the health Of a populated dis
trict? Did no one ever suggest the
feasibility Of taking such stun out in
soows and dumping it in deep water
o. could it not have been buried in
well-limed pits?
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19
HEALTH BUARD RESPONS Billy.

We are informed by a member of the
Board OF Health that that body dis
Chains responsibility for the hideous
state OF things in Chinatown and lays
1t to the Legislature which refused to
give the Board enough money for Its
work. Let US see about that!
Chapter 50 OF the Penal laws OF Ha-
vail contains the following eye-open-
ing sections. To begin with We quote
Section SIT. $685.
The Board of Health and it's agents
shAll examine into all nuisancee.
sources Of filth and causes Of sickness.
On shore or In any vessel, and shall
canso the same to be destroyed. re-
moved. or prevented. as the case may
Svanire.
There have been nuisances of the
most appalling kind maintained in the
Oriental quarter Of Honolulu ever since
tho cholera scare subs.ded. The Inspect
ors Of the Board Of Health now re-
port that they find cesspools over
flowing with filth and swarming with
maSxots directly under the floors OF
rooms slept in by crowded humanity,
Oae Inspector speaks OF boards and
walls ooxy and dank with slime: an
other OF alleyways where the board
walks sink as one traverses them into
indescribable slush; and all the lr.
spectors tell of things which are un-
reportable in print. Such CHASTITY
places as are now depicted must have
hseu gradually forming for months and
years. Anybody with eyes could have
sssu them: anybody with nose could
have smelled them. IL was the lawful
duty OF the Board Of Health TO SEQ
sAAk these nuisanccs We're abated, Why
did that body let them remain 20 be-
come breeding ground Of microbes, a
lair Of the deadliest bacilli'
Wss Il a question Of Legislative ap,
pr0priaiIonY We do not understand Il
-. The Board has all along employed
agents and It's own members are en-
towsred 10 act Ia AN emergency ant
rhsy can do 40 without any other sN
esase than Ia provided Tor by law
Wtsasss section SIS
Whenever any such nuisance, souro'
- nD(h or Gauss VI sickness shall b'
ooupd IN private property the Hoard o
)1AaIth or any health akeDi shall ordel
~ owner ~ occupant thereof al nv
eve sspeass N Fem0ys The same with
- 6ostysstsht hours sad " tbs ownel
~ Nceuospt shall Neglect ~ " do b.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

If Senator Quay is seated on Gov
ernor Stones credentials California
will have Senator Burns to divide
honors with him. 1t is an open secret
that Governor Gage. who has been de-
scribed as the smallest man in public
life except notary public, is commit
ted to the furtherance. of Dan Burns
ambition for a toga. As the railroad
candidate Burns stands opposed to the
Nicaragua canal and his appointment.
on that account, would be a piece OF
ill-fortune of which the commercial in
terests Of North Pacific ports would ex-
perience the effects.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

Old Honolulu is passing away from
the business section at least and pho
tographs of it will one day be at .
premium. Every little while we chron-
icle the adoption Of plans for the
building Of a modern block on the site
Of one that has stood for a generation.
When Hackfeld & Co. get their splen-
did structure on its pins and the Hall.
Stangenwald, Boston and other blocks
go up. the city will be changed indeed.
Five years from now a returned-to-Iife
kalakaua might easily get lost coming
up town from the boat house. At any
rate he would rub his eyes more than
Rip Van Wrinkle did when that worthy
returned to his native village and tried
to find the tap room.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

There ought to be no dearth Of staple
provisions here at any time. including
fish, vegetables and poultry. Fish are
dear in this market. yet the seas TEEN
with them. II they were followed up
as they are in Japan there would be
enough for everybody and at a fair
price. The uplands back Of town have
been waiting for years for people to
raise vegetables and grow poultry on
them and they may have to wait for
years TO come. What are the Portu-
guese doing? They supply San Fran
cisco with cheap fish, poultry and gar
den truck they and the Italians.
There are plenty of private capitalists
who would lease them fishing boats
and small tracts of hill land to do the
same kinds OF business In Honolulu.
Why don't they go in for supplying the
demand?
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19
INTERRUPTED SPORTS.
Field Day ut Kanishs mehs On
Last Saturday.

Last Saturday was 6sld day at ks-
mehameha. Preparstions had been
m.aa "a mana, h,, tho a,,eoSanc. WAS
- -.
Iliueh sna''er inan IN io'"e
The weather, although promising dur
ing the early part of the afternoon.
proved unfayorable. A heavy shower
al 3 O'Clock drove everybody 20 shel-
ter and soaked the ground. Hoveyer.
the tunior events were finished. The
following Is a summary of events.
Rnnninp Broad Jumn--Pirst Mac.
W. CampbeIl. second Mace. A. Hotter
dors n,.,.n.a ~ 90 sn.h.s
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

The Star. which represents intelii-
gent and candid Journalism in The
evening neld--giying all proper credit
foi brightness and good sense u It's
contemporary the lndependent-ha
the following about the responsibility
for the present situation
For the condition OF affairs two sets
OF people are 10 blame. The Landlords
and the Board OF Health, The Board
of Health has been distinctly Lax.
While protecting, or striving to protec,
The town from disease from without, II
has allowed a disease bearing dislrlo
10 grow up within, And when the facts
We're laid before It's members, Il persis-
tsntly ignored them and failed 20 take
any sseps towards cleansing the filthy
tsnomsnts and their sull hlthisr Ger
ronndings The attention ~ the BOARD
has been directed 20 other things
THIS IL truth according 10 all ,hr
gospsls Ani u 10 what NJ lrusi the
Star, IA common with tho Advertiser
VIII keep before The public until tbs
Law eompalllng the authorities 10 maze
tho ppopo VIA osB Honolulu ksap
Il clsaa 10 fsltbfully and continuously
observed
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

The return of Mr.. Oleson to Hawaii
as president of Oahu College would be
a pleasing event. Mr.. Oleson is a good
teacher, a good citizen and good man;
and 1t is not the least among his titles
to esteem that he carried a gun
whenever the interests of good govern
ment in Hawaii required it.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19
shall be fined In sum not exceeding
one hundred dollars

shall be fined In a sum not exceeding
one hundred dollars.
How many complaints about the
state Of things in Chinatown has the
Board of Health or any health agent
made since the abatement Of the chol-
era scare? How many cesspools has II
caused to be regularly emptied? We
do not say there are none, but the con-
dition of the Asiatic quarter shows
that there has been very much left un-
done. The question could not have
been one Of cost. The Board was not
obliged to pay the bills for removing
filth. That was a charge against the
owner OF the property where the filth
accumulated. We should be 10th in
deed to think that any fear OF incur
ring the enmity OF the owners Of big
estates kept the Board from obeying
the law that created 1t.
Even when the Board itself is COM
PEELED to remove filth the cost does not
So"V out vi tHt dpPi opi alioh. cVc
Section S79
If the owner or occupant shall not
comply with such order of the Board
of Health. the Board or any OF Its
agents may cause such nuisance, source
OF filth or cause OF sickness to be re-
moved; and all expenses incurred
thereby shall be paid by the said own
err or occupant, or by such other per-
sons as shall have caused or permitted
the same.
At every turn we find ample machin-
cry of law at the disposal Of the Board
of Health independent OF it's own ap-
preparation. For example the Board
may complain of any person. the owner
of pest hole. for maintaining a COM
| mon nuisance. When 1t does SO the
Attorney General has the power to
take the matter up and the Supreme
Court. the Circuit Court or the District
Court, whichever may be appealed to-,
may in its discretion order the nuis-
ance to be removed or destroyed at the
expense Of the defendant.
The Advertiser Is willing to give the
Board of Health the benefit Of any
reasonable doubts. 1t does not aim
to be merely censOrious. But 1t recog-
nizes the fact that the highest duty OF
the press in this emergency is to pre-
vent the occurrence of another emer-
gency and that there is no easier way
to do It than by showing the guardians
OF the city's health that they will be
held publicly responsible for any off,
eial neglect which may imperil the
lives of their fellow-citizens. That
there has been such neglect appears in
the reports OF the Boards own Inspect
ors: and what makes the matter worse
is that this neglect followed the dread
full experience OF the cholera visitation.
There are men enough on the Board to
attend to the sanitation Of the town;
there Is law enough behind them to en-
| able that attention to compel results.
Under Section SSi the Board has full
power to enter any land, building or
vessel for the purpose of enforcing ITS
regulations. In truth II is backed up
by all the law 1t needs; what has been
wanting until now IL the energy, the
courage and the zeal for the public well
fare which might have kept Honolulu
clean and healthful. year in and year
out.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

The easy way in which doctors may
fall into error about the bubonic
plague is shown in the case of the
woman Maria, whose death was report
ed yesterday. She had all the symp-
toms, Jumps" and bubonic hemor-
rhage, ad libitum. ad nauseam, but she
did not have the plague. Later, when
the doctors got down to the cultures
and set their traps for the bacilli, they
had to confess their error. Poor Ma
ria had died of something much less
sensational than the Asiatic scourge
and had to go of the list of victims.
Are there any others who should have
gone with her? #.r ... .r.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

A man with a pimple on his toe was
accused in New York the other day of
having the bubonic plague. In the
presence of bubonic scare 1t is not
safe to have a corn while as for the
victim of boil or wen he will find
life hardly worth the living IL he ever
gets near an off-hand bacteriologist.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

The Christmas trade has been badly
hurt but there is yet time to revive
it. So far as the plague is concerned
1t is not doing half the damage an cpl
demic OF measles would and ought no
longer to be permitted to interfere with
trade in the white mans business
quarter. '.''
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

The letter from President Wilder
and Clerk Manson. printed elsewhere.
shows that 1t is never safe to blow
down the muzzle of Legislature even
when the thing doesn't seem to be
loaded.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19
Money eIl0UCN
Officers Of he Senate Answer Dr..
Days Charges.
APPROPRIATIONS WIRE AMPLE
Two Last Legislstsrs aaa CosscI
Of Stste Gave the Beard
Nearly seq. 900.
APPROPRIATIONS WIRE AMPLE


Editor Advertiser: In a com
munication published in todsy's
paper DIR. +. r. Day makes some
charges against the last Legisla-
ture which are not borne out BY
the facts. He says: 1t may not
be generally known that the
Board, through its former presi-
dent, Hon. w. o. Smith, peti-
toned the last Legislature for
sumcient funds to cope with the
evil, but that august body saw
fit In its wisdom to deny the re-
quest" The facts are these
When the appropriations for the
Board Of Health first came be-
fore the Senate Attorney Cen
eral Smith explained the items
as they were read. and gave rea-
sons for asking a consider
able increase of money over
the former biennial period. The
items were reported fayorabiy
by the Committee on Public
Health. and passed on second
and third reading Of the bill
unanimously. There never was
any question about giving the
: Attorney General every dollar
he asked for for the Board of
Health or the institutions IN
its control. Indeed. the Legisla-
ture went further. and on the
recommendation Of a special
committee which Investigated
: the Insane Asylum largely in
creased the appropriations asked
for that institution. The recol-
lections of the cholera were
fresh in the minds Of the legis-
lators and the president Of the
Board of Health was given
everything he asked by both
Houses almost without ques-
ton.
AS DIR. Day has precipitated
discussion on this subject II
may be well for Us to call at
tention to a few facts not gener-
ally known to the public. The
Legislature of 1896 appropria-
ted for salaries and payrolls Of
the Board of Health 111S. ll2.00
and for running expenses ez73.-
405.50. The last legislature ap-
propriated for salaries and pay
rolls $15S, 3z4.0O and for generai
! expenses $324. 10000. In other
! words the Board Of Health has
! had under its control 39.51z.o0
for salaries and $50.594.60 for
: general expenses more during
: the present biennial period than
: IL had for the last. That these
appropriations have become ex-
:. hausted Is certainly not the
! fault of the Legislature. but OF
! a miscalculation of the needs Of
+ the Board Of Health by the for
I mer Attorney General. II Mr..
7 Smith had consulted with the
7 members of the Board Of
7 Health as to how much he
/ should ask the Legislature 10
! appropriate. the amount would
! undoubtedly have been in
! creased.
7 w. {. WILDER.
President of the Senate.
GEORGE MANSON,
! Clerk Of the Senate.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19
na,- NIL are purely vegetable. re
0OOO s f1llS liable. benefciaL &c

The Belgian hare has been refused
admission. Good for the Government!
These Islands have enough pests now
without letting in another. the like OF
which has half devastated Australia.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

ihe pos,oibee Department requests
thai plser bs Coz ovi u sasb spd ~ =
istlsr an,slops osiors piasiDs u ~ "a.
mail bos This sill facilitate lhs 90
misa,lop " tbs mail
The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-19

Total ........... S392,517.50
For the biennial term beginning in
1898 the Legislature appropriated for
the Beard OF Health these sums:
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A SUCCESSFUL BIGAMIsT.

In the latter part of the seventeenth
century thee was practising in the town
of Banbury young surgeon named Will
liam Morrell. OF his antecedents little
was known, except that he came from
Worcestershire, and had been ships
doctor. He married a respectable widow
of the place, a prosperous and h lGr-
able professional career before him
But Morrell's social gifts were not
wholly to his advantage. He was the
best of god company, and this recon-
mended him to the society of the gentry
of the neighborhood While he enjoyed
their Inequalities his practice became
hopelessly involved in money difficulties.
| Under these circumstances he made up
| his mind to take French leave of all his
troubles and responsibilities and start
on new career-to begin life as a pro-
fessonal bigamist.
| He had a man-servant as little troub-
| led with scruples as himself who agreed
to share his adventures, and who prov
| ed a worthy Sancho for such Don
Quixote. Their first exploit was achiev-
ed at Brailes, a Warwickshire village
not many miles from Banbury, but on
the particulars of it we need not enter.
The wife married, and deserted in a few
days. was the daughter of well-todo
artficer; and the affair had no special
influence on his future career, except as
furnishing funds to enable him to APP
pear shortly afterwards al Ludlow in
all the splendor proper to a fine gentle
man of the period, where he married
the sentimental daughter of prosper
Gus brakeman.
The whole of this hero's exploits
would take long in the telling; but a lit
tie later he was at Bath, where in the
character of Norfolk squire he carried
off the daughter of a rich innlleeper; at
Slough, as a wealthy London merchant,
he wooed and won the only daughter
of a gentlman of property; and from
fashionable boarding school at Wells he
eloped with an orphan heress. All these
with several other wives, he plundered
and deserted; and after time, we find
him in London, under the name of Sir
Charles Bowyer, paying his addressese
to the widow of a wealthy citizen.
The climate of England was now be-
coming somewhat over-warm for our
adventurer, and with the widows gum
cas- he betook himself to the wars in the
LOW COUNTRIES, WDGlt lpl ii lllllG ne
served as a volunteer. But he did not
distinguish himself-his talents We're
rather for love than war-and he was
soon home again, penniless, and living
by his old tricks.
OF the Ludlow wife it is to be observ-
ed that she was, however romantic her
ideas may have been, young woman
of spirit and resolution. To hunt down
and bring to justice her faithless spouse |
was now the chief object of her life. |
1t had been suggested to her that some |
about him might possibly |
be found in the records at Newgate; and |
on this she came to London. The inn |
at which she stayed was at the bottom |
of Holborn, and here she met with a !
kind, matronly person newly arrived /
from Oxfordshire, The two women nat
urally confided to each other, the bust
ness which had brought them to Lon
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ed, and disputes adjusted by both par
| ties, because we We're dealing with
| body held together by a rope of sand
the agreements have not been enforced
for lack of power and the second trou
BILE has become greater than the first.
Another subject comes to mind Whici
It would be desirable to present to sucl
a congress as assembled in Syracus
last year, if occasion should arise again
! for such a meeting, The subject was in
PRODUCED by eX-President Pugh, in hi
| annual address at Cincinnati, in 1891
| 1t is the question of a gradual scale O.
! wages in all our printeries, predicted or
| the ability of the employed. We al
know that such a grade is recognized il
every line of work, except by the class
who choose to call themselves organ.
| tied labor
In the coming years, when the num-
| Der of really good men employed in
| typesetting, either by hand or machine
must constantly increase over the num-
| Der of poor Workmen--why should the
capable and energetic man, working
day by day by the side of an inferior
man be contented that each should re-
CeiVe the same wage? In piece work,
there is actually no grading, though by
the week, the superior man does receive
some consideration, but not in proper
ton to his deserts. The unions do alb
solutely nothing toward stimulating eff
flciency and progress, and the superior
man by the piece, carries the weak man
along The bright man. who does and
H.. IL.
an error, and whose revise proof is
perfect, is handicapped by companion
whose proof Is full of errors, causing
double, yes threefold, and oftentimes
more labor for the proofreader. His re-
wise is still foul proof frequently
creating more serious errors in the
revise than in the first proof This re-
wise is hurried to the author, for lack of
time to correct it, and with the
authors return the office is saddled
with the corrections, thus entaiins an
extra cost. The plant must live from
the profits of the perfect compositor,
while the foul man. receives the
money earned from the good workman.
The subject of q grade in wages is one
of vast Importance to the journeyman,
much greater than ts usually suspected.
Is 1t not wise for us to try and educate
our employees along this line?
Is it not possible for us, as the years
go on, to impress upon the members
of the Trade Unions connected with our
business that we are really their
friends? That our successes are their
gain, and our losses their misfortune?
That our interests and theirs are one?
Is it not possible that we can so in
huence for good the action o. their
Unions that they may become, like the
Boston Franklin Society, a center
around which all of our most respected
may gather, and thus elevate
the standard of workmanship, and i'm
prove the moral tone of the craft? Is
not the time propitious for thoughts like
these to come to the front?
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ONE HALF THE TROUBLE in your
work of Frightening up your furniture is
prepared paints and your troubles are
ended while your labor will be rewarded
with a handsome and lasting finish. Put
up in all sized packages, It's easy to buy
just what you want-no more-and the
DEN. 369-39S and 442 State St.,
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1t appears from the foregoing that
cheese has only two-thirds as much
water as the average beef, has twice as