The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-20
ALL APPROVED
Big Budget Of Bills
BubOniC.
Ordinary and Extraordinary Items Of
Expense Incurred During the
Plague Epidemic.

When this community was first
startled by the knowledge Of the bu-
bonic plague being within its midst
and the careful housewife looked with
suspicion upon the tradesman who
brought the daily provisions to her
door and the Oriental domestic who
tended the baby or prepared the meals.
strong men, fired with the earnest zeal
of defending their homes and the peo-
pie generally against the threatened
scourge, arose lit their might and VOL
unteered, gratis, to lend their strenu-
Gus efforts towards stamping out the
epidemic in its infancy.
Many OF these philosophical citi-
zens are still volunteers, have done
their work, and are willing to do more.
unremunerated; but among the mass of
bills accommodating in the Interior Of
flee there occasionally crops up one
here and there filed by-a volunteer for
services rendered" These state
ments, as are all bills filed in the In
terror Department, are published in
the Advertiser as they are approved.
| Today's list of plague accounts Is
headed by a bill filed by Mr.. Beal, who
was a volunteer according to his own
statement and the statements of 9TH
ers, has worked as hard as anyone else
in the campaign against the plague,
and has certainly earned $500 per
month; but the unpoetical fact still
remains that he volunteered his SER
vices.
CHANGING over further bills in the
/ 81
waiian Hotel breakfasts and dinners
at 81 each and lunches at 80 cents; al
so that H. f. Cooper stopped at the Ha-
waiian Hotel at the expense of the
plague appropriation for about a week
at SO per day, while Miss Morse, city
nurse, put up at the Arlington for about
the same period at $3.50 per day.
The first champagne bill published
appears today in the account for whis-
| ky, brandy, beer and wines. G.. II. Car
| ter certified to the hoods being receiv-
ed in good condition, though 1t would
be unjust to imagine that he directly
| incurred the expense" as the bill says,
for as a matter of fact he did not.
G.. r. Carter signs for Tom, Dick and
Harry as long as he thinks or knows
the bills are just and properly con-
tracted; perhaps his name covers a
multitude of sins, but 1t Is impossible
for even Mr.. Carter to know definitely.
Desks at $40, $3525 and S34 figure
| in this batch, together with other
| items of interest This is the twenty
first installment Of bills bubonic:
Chas. l.. Beal, Feb. 2S, 5000, for SER
vices as accountant to Finance Com
mittee, Board of Health, for the month
of February.
Chas. l.. Beal, March 81, 5000, for
services as accountant to Finance Com
/ mittee, Board of Health, for month OF
March.
Hawaiian Trust &c Investment Co.,
Feb. 2S, $50, for rent of rooms for Feb
ruary to Finance Committee, Board of
Health, including safe deposit box and
lights.
Hawaiian Trust e Investment Co.,
March 81, $50, for rent of rooms TO
Finance Committee, Board of Health,
for March, including safe deposit box
and lights.
Hawaiian Hotel Co., Jan. 81, $177.50
for meals served at Kawaiahao Church
ordered by Mr.. Taylor, and at Drillshed
ordered by G. A. Doyle; lunches soc
breakfasts and dinners 81, also room
and board in January for seven and
one-half days at SO for III. z. Cooper.
Honolulu Stock-yards Co., Jan. 81
$50. 60, for horse and wagon hire, etc
G.. r. Carter "incurring."
The Arlington Hotel, Jan. 81, $3.50
for board and room for seven days al
81. so for Miss Morse. city nurse.
Henry May & Co., Jan. 81, S21.O5, FOL
provisions.
w. C.. Peacock e Co., Ltd, Feb. %
s237.25, for whisky. zinfandel and beef
for Kalihi camp; Scotch whisky, large
: gin and port for the kerosene ware
house: champagne for the pest hospl'
tai; sherry, whisky, brandy and caDl-
net for the Drillshed camp, and beer
mineral water, whisky and bitters fol
the main office. II hereby certify tha
the above has been received in good
| condition, G. r. Carter, Government
office directly mourning the expense.
Henry Waterhouse e. Co.. Jan. 80
: s117.75. for fat top oak desk $40, stand
Z ing desk $35.25. roll top desk s34, ant
two stools at 1925. G.. X. Carter 'in
!. curing expense"
|. Payroll for guards, Kahului, Feb. %
J. 81 .245.75, for guards at $1.5O, $3.50. S3.
so. 81 and other help at 75c, 81 and y
per day.
I. N. Hayden, April 4. s32, for fitting
up dispensary at fumigation station
Drillshed, and removing same iron
Likelike street.
Pearson &c Potter Co., Ltd, Feb. "a
s31.S5, for camp stool for Kalihi camI
by DR.. Howard; revolver $3.50, cart
ridges, holster and searchlight bicycl
lamp for DR.. Nichols; rubber football
: and rent OF bicycles.
. s. Kimura, Feb. %, $213.15, for Jap
anese provisions.
Yamato Shim-bun, Feb. 2S, s6S.S'
1 for advertising.