The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-10
KAL|H| CAMP
TheCitizens' Committee
Meets There.
Well Nearly Finished--Five Lights
Ordered aking More
Room.


tee on detention camps was held at 4
O'Clock yesterday afternoon at the Ka-
.lihi camp. All the members of the
committee were present. The commit
tee inspected the camp and the we'll.
which McCandless Brothers are sink
ing just mauka of it. Operations on
the we'll are being prosecuted day and
might, and the well is now down $40
'feet. 1t is anticipated that unless un-
[foreseen obstacles are encountered the
well will be completed at the end of
next week, although it is expected that
la depth of quite 600 feet will have to
be reached before a sufficient SUNNY of
water is met.
Mr.. Kennedy was appointed a COM
mittee to procure all necessary pipe
and fittings to be laid from the well
land to connect with the flushing fumes
also with the bath and wash houses So
that as soon as the well is completed
the connections can be made. When,
this has been done the pumping of
lsalt water for flushing purposes will he
| discontinued
| Mr.. McVeigh, the manager of the
camp, stated there was a great need of
more light at night; the only light
now available was furnished by lam
lterns and incandescent lamps, as the
wires were not large enough to furnish
arc lights. The committee decided to
take the five Washington lights which
mad been purchased originally for the
use OF this camp, but had been loaned
to the Board of Health for use in Chi
natoWn, and move them to the camp
". A. Thurston was appointed a com
mittee of one to attend to their re-
i.moval
/ Mr.. Thurston reported from the Cit
l'izens' Sanitary Committee a matter
(which has been brought very promi-
t'nently to their notice during the past
Flew days, viz, that there were many
leases of distress among the people.
discharged from the camps, who were
unable to secure lodgings. The relief
Eeamp on Punchbowl street was Obliged
to turn people away on Thursday, and
yesterday they had room for some Chi
ilnese and Hawaiians, but the Japanese
Iquarters were full.
The Sanitary Committee suggested to
1.-THE detention camp committee that the
400 people now in the kerosene ware
thouse camp should be removed as soon
las possible to Kalihi, and that the
kerosene warehouse camp be then
thoroughly fumigated and hereafter
| used as a relief camp. The relief camp
on the west end of Vineyard street was
now able to hold several hundred men,
W nv fnd k1oN
accommodation would be provided for
| 1000.
| The Punchbowl camp was estimated
to be capable of holding $50 people,
and If the kerosene warehouse camp.
! with its capacity for 1900 can be made
available, accommodation would be
made for about 5000 people The bat
terry camp, under DR.. Nichols, can hold
400, or 800 without crowding; but at
present there are only about 100 there.
| Of the 400 at the kerosene camp $50
were awaiting the decision as to
whether the native, Koalii who was
taken from that camp, is suffering
from the plague or not. The man is
in the suspect hospital, but DR.. Hoff-
| mann is unable to say positively
whether it is a case of plague or not
If it is decided that the case is plague,
then the whole camp will have to be-
gin its term of quarantine over again,
and the occupants can be removed to
either the battery camp or Kalihi.
Mr.. McVeigh stated that he had room
in the camp for 400 more persons, and
it was resolved that it was the sense
of the committee that hereafter all
quarantining of persons from infected
districts should be done at Kalihi and
that the kerosene warehouse should, as
soon as possible, be thoroughly cleans
ed and renovated and turned over to
the relief committee for relief camp.
| The position of the kerosene warehouse
is particularly favorable for relief
camp, situated as it is so near to town;
if persons in search of servants are
obliged to proceed to Kalihi, unneces-
sary trouble is entailed both to the en-
ployers and the men in search of work.