The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-04
ONE DEATH TWO LIKELY
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a courtyard which in appeas aDca was
similar 10 1Gad7eds Of others SO sand
w.ched in front the street StairYays.
passag ways, kitchens. sleeping rooms,
groups OF Chinese men, women and
children, formed an inn0cent-locking
picture. seemingly devoid of any secret
openings leading TO foul opium dens.
Yet the guide mounted a Eickety stair
way at che top of which was a landing
and an ordinary whitswashed door eX-
actly like the dozen others facing the
courtyard. 1t was apparently two and
haif feet wide, but when pushed open
by the guide after giving a signal, only
a half of the door swung on hinges
Stepping through the aperture thus
formed a space just wide enough 10
turn around in was discovered and
/ further movement was stopped by an
other and evidently heavy plank door
The first door was three inches thick
AnoLher signal and the second door
I moved back about twelve inches dis
closing a dark passageway hardly a
/ foot wide and heavily planked on both
sides. through which the reporter had
TO walk sideways. The door was tim
beTed and bOlted together until il form
ed a formidable barrier Of wood. five
inches thick. The end of the passage
way terminated in n room about ten by
five feet lined with hunks and had con-
tanned a full complement of opium
I smoking outfits. The IOOm had no
windows, was planked in with two
inch timbers. small Sits at the caves
providing the only means Of exit for
the smoke and ventilation.
The entire arrangement of landings,
doors, passageways and heavily plank
ed room displayed a clever ingenuity
TO defeat the police regulation which
is only found in the CELESTIAL ZOOS
A second den showed even more
cleverness of arrangement ana sOlidity
than in the first one. This was reach
ed by mounting stairway which led
into the second story of a house in the
rear of King street store. The door
selected by the. guide as the one lead
ing to the secre,ed den, was a white
washed affair and looked as though il
/ might lead into a small storage or attic
\ room. When swung open, only half
| the door moved on hinges and was
/ barely wide enough for one to squeeze
+ through. The door was four inches
thick, heavily planked. a peep-hOle,
( which had the appearance of a knot
/ hoe had been bored directly in the
center of the door After edging
through this door a narrow and very
steep stairway was enCoun tefetf "a the
/ top of which was another doo-. in1ront
OF which were bars of wood three
inches in diameter. placed vertically,
. and so arranged in the sill slots that
/ they could not be removed except from
the inside when the door was opened.
A circular peep-hOle was in the center
of the door. which was opened imme-
diately. that is the usual six inches of
it. The wooden bag sVsS PliiSSl j p %
the room allowing 8en&raBc9- TO 5ale in
terror. which in this Cass y as ATe4l VEN
tilated and lighted by horizontal Sits
underneath the caves. Bunks We're ar
ranged around the cramped and i'll
smelling room, and a full kitchen out
fit was also instafleda ~ The room was
heavily boarded, and the upper door
was nearly six inches thick. \ chute
led from this room to the cellar be-
meath, which was evidently used to
drop the opium and outfit into when a
raid was being made by The police A
neatly fitting trap door covered the
aperture, defying detective from cas-
ual glance. i.......--
4 One peculiar feature Of the Sits and
/ holes in the door was their arrange
men., which permitted a Chinese guard
looking through the upperTnOst doors
/ through all the others all the way
down to the courtyard, giving ample
/ time to conceal opium and pipes if a
! police officer was discovered.
( Board Meeting Last Night
/ \ mH meeting of che Beard1oS Health
! was held at the Judiciary Building at
| . o'clock last night, for the purpose OF
4 discussing the metffod1of continuing
I g ,1a a.
In opening the meeting President
/ Cooper spoke of the magnitude of the
work with which the Board was now
confronted. To continue the present
method OF burning the houses in the
/ immediate vicinity of buildings in
which plague has appeared, will place a
\ heavy burden of respOnsi biHty upon
their shoulders, and the present meet
ing was called to obtain the general
opinion of the publieeiA' nesard to their
present method of stamping out the
disease. and TO assure themselves Of
til, public. ss7z sssa-s4A g3g sc-.g
The matter of securing warehouses
for fumigated goo,dsn taken from the
! condemned stores is also one for SER
Gus consideration. The present accom-
mediation is barely sufficient, and any
further demand or storage will mean
an additional burden.
Presiuent Cooper said the response
biity should be fixed now regarding
the destruction of buildings in the
future.
Judge Carter. addressing the Board,
said the press had supported the Board
OIL Health, and so had the citizens. gen
orally, and he could not see how more
support could be given. If man has a
bunu.ng that is condemned 1t is only
his own fault.
DR.. Day said it would require most
drastic measures to rid the city OF the
4 plague. judging from ghe experience OF
O1her CiL.eS These infected buildings
should at the earliest possible moment
be destroyed.
President Cooper said he had been
studying al day TO devise methods oil
going ahead. The question of handling
the merchandise in infected buildings
was also TO be considered. The idea
way" said President Cooper, would bt
TO have barracks into which We could
move every man, woman and child now