The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-05
.bUbON|C BILLS
Expenses Of the Plague
Epidemic.
Special Services and Ename!ed Bath
Tubs Versus Certain Small
Salaries.

Some interesting comparisons can
be made in today's instalment of the
bills incurred during the plague cpl
demic Some are apparently out OF all
proportion with others; however. the
following examples will enable the
reader 10 form his own opinion.
Among the accounts published be
low will be found DR.. c. \. Pe,erson's
| bill for $50 for a months services as
| a cal physician and medical inspector
of vessels in quarantine: then appears
H. bin Of $40 FOR an enameled bathtub
at Hilo for the use Of the doctors. Or.
Peterson would have TO work nearly
three weeks at the above rate to buy
the rub described.
G. b. Ripley. J. b. Edwards and G.. x.
Carter. each have bills printed below
for $50 for special work examining
Chinatown and preparing report of
sanitary commission" DR.. Peterson
and Other S50-per-mOnth call doctors
will be interested by reading these
on file in the Interior Department.
which have been presented by 'volun-
GERS"
Il will be noticed that G.. X. Carter
signs his own bill for $50 as the gov
ernment officer directly mourning the
expense" rs explained before. the
system of signing and O.King bills is
very indefinite and 81 il almost impOs-
sible 10 tell who is responsible for the
expenditures.
The twelfth instalment Of plague bills
- IS follows:
c. b. Ripley. Jan. 81. $50. for special
work examining Chinatown and pre-
pairing repor, Of sanitary commission.
e.. y. Carter mourning expense.
j. b. Edwards. Jan. 81. $50. for spe-
cial work examining Chinatown and
preparing report OF sanitary commits
sion. G.. X. Carter mourning expense.
Geo. X. Carter. Jan. 81. $50. for spe-
cial work examining Chinatown and
preparing report Of sanitary commits
sion. G.. X. Carter mourning expense.
Gonsalyes q Co.. Jan. 81. Sl5, for
olive oil for Kaiihi camp. q. X. Carter
mourning expense.
+. \. Bowman. Md. Feb. %, $3.50,
for salary as medical superintendent Of
the kerosene warehouse hospital for
month Of February.
Or. c. 4. Peterson. Feb. %. $50, for
services as call physician and medical
inspector of vessels i'm quarantine for
month of February.
Henry Wright. Jan. 81. S276.25. for
cart and carriage repairs. supplies. etc.
c. y. Reynolds. c. Il. Ripley and c. r..
Carter mourning expense.
Asada q Co.. Jan. 81. S1.761.23. for
shirts. drawers, socks, slippers, kimo-
nos. tooth powder. trunks, rice bowls.
wooden bowls, cups, tea, fish, and va
| riety of Japanese provisions. =. K.
Carter mourning expense.
John Mott, Jan. 81, S334.04. for coffee
pots. pudding pans, -four tins, Uncle
sam" range. sauce pans. boilers.
plumbing supplies. labor, tin cups.
range. stove pipe. pots. wash bowls.
iron tubs. sheet zinc, oil stoves. bath
tub. kettles. basins. gasoline. etc. G..
Il. Carter, G. b. Reynolds and G. b.
Ripley mourning expense.
club Stables Hackstand. Jan. 81. s3l
for hack hire. G.. II. Carter mourning
expense.
Evening Bulletin. Jan. 81. s3412S. for
advertising. G. II. Carter mourning ex-
pense.
Hilo Tribune Publishing Co. Jan. 81.
| s65.5O. for advertising. l.. \. Andrews
mourning expense.
Hawaii Herald Printing Co. $12i.25.
| for advertising. l.. \. Andrews incur
ring expense.
Joseph kalana. Jan. 81. $35. for FIVE
days hack hire. G.. r. Carter incur
ing expense.
VI. W. McChesney x Sons. Jan. 81.
| $4,000. for tea, soap. coffee. cOndens-
| ed milk. salmon, for KawailhaO
| Church camp and Kalihi camp q. Il.
| Carter incurring expense
| James n. Thomas. Waikiki. Jan. 81.
| s26. for special services rendered in at
| tending to- sanitary matters I'm town of
| Wai.uku and Kanului. Maui. :. VI.
| Baldwin mourning expense.
G. ~. Brown. Hilo. Hawaii Feb. 8.
| SSl6i. for supplies furnished 10 lumi-
eating house for Doctors use on Guar
aBtine Island. including an enameled
| BATH tub q; $50. I. \. Andrews incur
| ring expense as agent of tha Board OF
| Health.
Dr. G.. :. Peterson. Jan 81. SIS. Tor
services as call physician from jan. -