The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-01-26

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most convenient noress.
Io meet this immediate and press
ing need. / submit the following work
ing basis THAT THE Sanitary China
town CO.. Ltd" or a similar corpora
ton be organized by responsible citi-
zeus who will contribute or secure
funds to erect stores and tenomenu
Eva of Nuuanu stream. No monopoly
or special privilege to be granted this
company except the guarantee OF the
Board Of Health that no buildings with
less complete sanitary appointments
shall be permitted elsewhere.
The present Citizens Sanitary Com
mittee or a special agent of the Board
of Health to personally inspect and
pass on each building site to see that It
affords chance for natural drainage;
all plumbing to be so placed that 1t can
be readily connected with sewers as
soon as they esn be extended there.
Buildings so constructed could be
tenanted as fast as completed and
should yield a steady and fair return
on the investment. This should make
available some trust funds held here
for investment and so make the least
possible disturbance of ordinary bust
ness capital.
Such a work carried out on sensible
following results:
/. Give immediate employment TO
the unskilled labor in the digging Of
vaults and the rougher work of con
struction.
2. Help to relieve the Government
in the construction OF temporary quar-
lers.
3. Turn the relief question into
commercial lines
We cannot go on Indefinitely hand
ling the situation at sheer expense TO
the community.
L. Protect the city from an indis
criminate scattering of Asiatics, which
once done could not be eradicated for
a decade.
5. Provide decent housing for the
Orientals, which they and all human
beings are entitled to.
6. Most important of all, give Ills
reasonable guarantee that we shall not
have TO again face another such in
tolerable experience and disgraceful
filth revelation four or five years from
now.
/ am aware that there are Difficult
ties to be met and that criticisms can
be made on this plan. Comments that
will improve this plan or offer a better
one, will welcome. Others we can
we'll dispense with, as this Is the hour
for action and not for speechmaking.
i wish to poiat out also that if this
plan will permanently better Honolulu
and protect it from epidemlcs. there
is general obligation upon planta-
ton stockholders, as well as local
and business houses,
to back the project with prompt finan-
cial support. as well as with business
judgment and organization.
During the darkest hours of the Civ
il War President Lincoln was always
insistent that construction work on
the National Capitol building should
never be interrupted. This is time
of pre-occupation with temporary
problems, and state of mental ten
sion which tends to dull the public
mind to future needs and possibilities.
But the vigorous carrying out of such
a constructive policy would both bet
ter our mental state, provide employ
ment and homes for many needy ORR
entails, and also make for the better
ment of the greater Honolulu that Is
to be. GEO. B. MCCLELLAN.