The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-29
TO
QUIT SOON.
Board Will Accept His
Resignation.
SUCCESSOR NO PLUMBER
Probably a Civil Engineer Will Fill
His Job--More Trust
Bills.

Plumbing Inspector Duffy is going to
get right into the puddle with the big
ducks and take contracts openly. He
has written out his resignation, and
at the next meeting of the Board of
Health it will be accepted. If he hadn't
written it acceptance would have come
just the same. Meanwhile, Duffy is
laying pipes for some fat jobs, one OF
which is whispered to be the mammoth
Young building, for which the founda-
lions are now being prepared.
Duffy says that once out of Office he
will reply to the questions asked him
and prove himself much abused man.
1t is understood that Duffy will make
an affidavit that he never did anything
wrong.
Duffy's successor as plumbing in
spector will not be plumber. That is
settled absolutely The Board of Health
has had enough of that ilk. The new
inspector will be a civil engineer in all
probability 1t will be the aim of the
board to appoint man who will have
no social or business affiliations with
the plumbing trust or it's members. No
one standing in with the able-bodied
At the next meeting of the board
an important discussion of the pres
ent sanitary and plumbing regulations
will also take place with view to en-
tirely resembling or radically modify
ing the present rules. No definite ac-
ton may be taken at the next meet
ing on this subject, but the matter
will be treated fully in the discussion,
and recommendations made to make
the rules less stringent with the resi-
dents.
United States District Attorney
Baird has, as stated in the Advertiser
Saturday, written to the Department
of Justice at Washington relative to
the prosecution of the trust. Mr.. Baird
said Saturday: THE impression pre-
walls in some quarters that in order
to convict people Of such combination
it is necessary for the Government to
show that the trade restricted is be-
tween two or more States. This is an
entirely erroneous impression. The
Federal laws can do nothing in a sin
gle State, and 1t is only where monop-
oily is extended to the interstate trade
that the laws become effective Such
lis not the case with a Territory for
the Federal laws are applicable in a
single Territory, and it makes no diff
ference whether the illegal combina-
lions operate in single Territory or
with OtuST states, the OIIenQerS can De
held accountable to the laws"
Isaac Noar, whose well-founded COM
trlaint against the extortion of a GER
tain plumbing concern was presented
In Saturdays Advertiser. brings now
even stronger evidence of the startling
prices charged by plumbers Noar
bought part interest in the Star
building on Fort street near the Or
pheum some months ago. The build
ing is comparatively new, and cost to
erect and fit much more than it should
have. Noar says the reason mainly
was the excessive plumbing bill
brought in by Gehring & Butzke. 1t
seems that a Chinese firm had been
engaged at first to do the plumbing
but later the work they had done had
been ordered torn out by the inspector,
and Gehring and Butzke had come in
to take the contract. The bill of this
firm is presented as a model of the
ability of the members of the trust to
make all that the traffic will BEAR
Honolulu. II. L., July 81, 1900.
Oahu Lumber and Building Company.
tStar Building)