The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-31
DON LIKE It.
Waikiki Opposed to a
Steam Laundry.
The Place Would be Insanitary and
DisadvantageOus to a Fine
Residence District.

The proposal TO build a steam laun-
dry on lot of John Ena's at Waikiki
has aroused some of the owners of res
idence property there and the following
opposing petition is being circulated;
Honolulu. H. l., Jan. Goth, 1900.
To the Board of Health,
Honolulu, II. !.
Gentlemen: In reference to the prop
! osition TO establish a so-called
"hygienic laundry" at Waikiki on
ground near the John Ena premises,
your petitioners would respectfully call
the attention of your honorable body to
the following:
1. To Section z of the Revised SAM
tary Regulations of the Board of Health
which reads as follows:
u. No building or structure shall be
used as residence or place of human
haOItation or abode which is situated
upon land where there IS standing
water within eighteen inches of the
surface of the ground; nor shall any
building or structure be so used that
is placed on land that has been made
by filling in with garbage or refuse. or
that is declared by the Board of Health
to be foul or of corrupt material"
If dwelling house cannot be per-
mitted on such soil then no business
should be carried on, especially one
which employs large number ofyoung
females as ironers, etc, who would be
exposed to miasma for twelve hours a
day.
z. To the report made to the Legis-
lature of 1898 by Civil Engineer Rudolf
Herring of New York on the question
OF sewerage system for Waikiki.
3. To the fact that owing to the
presence of the reef which extends
across the front of the beach at Wal
XIII any sewage matter if conveyed to
the ocean inside of the reef would
necessarily remain there, especially the
heavy part, and be returned to the
shore by the next tide. thereby result
ing in a nuisance and effectually de-
stroying the use of the beach for build
ing purposes.
4. That the low beach lands in front
OF the proposed location of the laundry
are already insanitary and would be-
come more so by the addition of the
refuse matter from a laundry.
.. That such refuse being largely
composed of soap in solution affects
and eventually entirely obstructs the
ordinary filtration of the refuse water
through any soil, and would naturally
become worse as time elapses.
D. mat owing to the marshy and in
sanitary condition of the soil at the
proposeu site and the impossibility of |
making suitable drains or sewerage. |
the locality is now absolutely untitled |
Ior any such use. To carry a drainage /
pipe 10 deep water would cost about /
i've times the capital of the laundry /
y ana necessltate pumping plant. (See |
Herring's Report.)
(. Ihat owing to recent develop
nents and the sale of the McC1,Ilv tract
% a syndicate which proposes To CON
Iert 1t into choice residence property
ne establishment of any laundry or
'ther similar mechanical industry is
inadyisable, to any the least. and
would OF course greatly depreciate the
'alue OF all the surrounding propertv
or r. sidence purposes.
8. That it is the earnest wish of at
east nine-tenths of the property own
RS or the Waikiki district that the es-
ADJUSTMENT OF laundry or any similar
BUSINESS be prohibited in that district
nd that the same be reserved for resi-
ence purposes.
y. That the purchasers of the Nc
'ully property, the Bishop Estate and
ther large property owners expect to
pend large sums Of money in filling 4
their lands in the near future for
he express purpose of making them
I for choice residence sites and that a
the establishment of a public laun-
ry or other similar business be per-
litted near by it will result in pecu-
larry loss to them.
Wherefore the undersigned residents 4
nd property owners of the district
espectfully request that your honor
bic body will refuse this as or anv
imilar application for the establish
lent of laundry or other obnoxious 4
usiness in what is now the choicest
esidence district of the city.