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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-15
DIRTY TENEMENTs.

These tenement houses are among the
dirtiest in the City. OF plumbing appli-
ances they have almost nothing. The
sinks where they do their washing and
cooking leak all over the floors; cluttered
heaps of debris cumber the floors; pools
of water stand everywhere; damp cloth
ing hangs from the ceilings; the stencil
from the outhouses pervades every crack
and Granny in the entire place. Just maui
ka of the last of these houses is still an
other pond, where the reeds grow high
and the water runs almost under the
house. Ducks and geese make their habi-
tations in the space underneath, where
the muck is deep and black and rich with
years of accumulation.
Crossing the pond on a narrow plank
which follows the water pipe there are
other houses and the sanitary arrange
ments there are such as to make an off,
weep.
w. W. Ahana has group of houses on
the other side of Beretania street, just off
Dowsett lane, and over these places the
Beard of Health had a notable struggle.
Ahana had commenced to erect them
there are nine of them-without securing
a building permit and he had them well
along toward completion before this was
cases We're brought against him in the
Police Court. He intended to fight them,
but he finally concluded to plead guilty
to one charge IL the others were dismiss
ed, He was fined 500 for the one offense.
Meanwhile the houses had been complet-
ed and people were living in them. SAM.
tary plumbing has been put in and a cess
pool has been constructed, but II was only
by constant watching that DR.. Pratt suc-.
ceeded in making him comply with tho
Board of Health regulations, even after
his Police Court experience.
But SAMPLES OF MANY.
These are but samples of the places
which the sanitary department is keeping
watch of all the time" said DR.. Pratt,
on concluding the tour I'VE are having
all these nuisances abated as fast as
possible and our inspectors are at work
constantly going out among the Chinese
ard Japanese trying to make them keep
their places clean. Sometimes We have
to go to a man two or three times TO
make him do what we require. Each or
our inspectors report from f25 to l5o cases
which need attending to each month.
They are all entered in a book and when
they are abated the time OF the amaze
ment is duly entered also. In that man
ner we keep track OF all that is pelng Gone
all over the City. But it is an endless
work and 1t keeps every one Of US at
work from early morning until late at
night every day in the year. With the
examples set by the Board of Public
Works it is not great wonder that tho
people object to spending money en- their
places"
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down, has been used as dumping ground
By the people of the neighborhood and Is;
full of tin cans and debris of all sorts.
COURT LETS THEM GO.
what can we do?" said DIR. Pratt, de-
spairingly. IF we have them arrested
and they promise not to do ii again. or
II we find a man building a lean-to with
out fling a building application and he
gees and gets the application. he is dis
charged in the Police Court. We have
found that it is useless to take the cases
into the court, for they are only delayed
and not one In ten ever results in any
thing. If we could get some of these peo-
pie fined we'll some time, 1t would fur
njsh an object lesson to the others, and
its moral effect would be immense. but we
find 1t pays better to get after them and
make them do the things we want done
and to clean UP their houses when we find
them in bad shape. We get results that
way. 1t Is a waste of time to have ar
rests made. That has been our expert
cree anyway"
Kawaiahao School is not far away and
there the closets were found in bad con-
dition with wooden vents and inadequate
tifully sprinkled about. showing the re-
suit OF the recent crusade against the In
sanitary conditions In the schools.
The Royal School Is little better. for
there also the closets have wooden vents
and the smell of the place is bad in the
extreme. The Kauluwela School on the
other side of the Nuuanu stream Is like
wise In bad shape, for the stencil about
the closets Is frightful. Lime sprinkled
all about II did not serve to down the
smell.
IN THE CENTER OF TOWN.
Right I'm the center of the city less than
half a block from Fort street is one of
the most filthy places in all the length
and breadth OF the town. 1t is a tene-
ment house on Merchant street, about zoo
yards Waikiki of Fort street on the mau-
ka side of the street. 1t is owned by w.
w. Ahana, and Is occupied chiefly by JAP
arese. You enter through narrow dool
directly on the street level and pas.
through dark little rooms where cooking
is going on and two or three japanese
women are nursing small babies. Out a
the back is where the family washing Il
done. the washing, in fact for perhaps {
dozen or more families. The whole yarC
IS wet, the ground is soaked with dirt!
water. Two or three women lean owe
tubs and splash suds and water all abou
them; from the closets, so near that yo'
can touch them, comes fetid odor tina
sickens the visitor; the planking over tn
cesspool whose cover occupies nearly al
the space IN the tiny yard Is rotten an
so soaked through that II Is spongy an
exudes water to the touch of the foot
There are little alleys here and there GU
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-15

OF this tiny yard that lead to a number
Of different sleeping rooms by narrow and
dark passage ways, where neither light
nor fresh air can come without passing
through the gloomy sleeping rooms or
the evil-smelling yard
THE only thing to be done with place
OF that kind" said Dr. Pratt as he took
long breath Of fresh air on emerging
from the den, lis to have it torn down
entirely. Yet they tell me that we have
no right to order it torn down. We have
condemned 1t dozen times but it has
done no good, and it stands right there
liz the center of the business district
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There is another building of exactly the
same character on the Waikiki side of
Nuuanu street just mauka of Vineyard
street. Over the door Is the sign of Hung
Chong and the property Is owned by w.
r. Castle, SO DR.. Pratt stated. Going in
through the store there is a narrow alley
that leads far back into the rear. Over
head is another gallery leading to sleep
ing places, a half dozen of them. The
cooking and sleeping are done In the
same rooms. The plumbing is leaky and
the water and filth is all over the floor, so
that one must pick ones way daintily to
get through at all. Lean-tos and addi-
tions are built on at every corner. Dark
stairways lead up to other tenements
above and at every corner Chinese are
run across in all stages of dress and I'M
dress, lolling on the floor among the
cockroaches and eating greedily out OF
little bowls of food taken from tiny
stoves that make the rooms unbearably
hot. There Is a big cesspool in the yard,
but the drainage to it Is defective, and
under the building the ground Is saturat-
ed with water and chickens scratch in
the mud for worms
I'VE have come to the conclusion that
the best way to deal with that kind Of
PidSct AL L at sldteu, IL TO prosecute
the owners for not taking out license
to keep a lodging house. We furnished
the police with long list Of places which
have no licenses, and when the owners
have been prosecuted for not having Ii
censes We shall simply refuse to give
them any until they tear their places all
to pieces and put them In such shape
that they will be fit to dwell In.
NEAR KAUMAKAPILI
The property back of the ruins of Kau-
makapili chapel adjoining Nuuanu street
just where It crosses the branch OF the
Nuuanu stream, has been In bad condi-
ton for some time, but the Bishop Es-
tate has been filing the land in witS the
dirt and rock taken from the Arlington
grounds and the green, scuT e3vered
ponds that stood there for SO iJ.ig are
nearly wiped out of existence. E'h there
is a Demonstrating pond on tie john
Broad premises across the ,<c,,.nr
stream near the Vineyard street bridgs
that ought to be filled in at once. This /:
supposed to be drained into the stream
but the drain is too low and the tide
waters that run up the stream flow II
and out and at low tide the pond Is COW
cred with scum and smells to high heay.
en-. There is a Japanese school on TIT
hanks of the pond and to 1t the odors arr
waited by every breeze that blows dowI
Nuuanu valley.
OF even worse description Is a shallow
pond just mauka of Beretania street
few hundred yards from its junction witt
King street. This is one OF the wors
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AEHuRr presented to- the Hoard
H'alh on Wednesday pr Pratt.
ri ''r Sanitary OTcor. called at
20 iha nsaHiiiry conditions which
WI 81 ihe public wash-houses. and
l hii iho Institution was ~ hy-word
pc ns people NJ The nelrhborhood
hn he health officers had great az.
w h eomre.i.ns private individuals
'se sanitary reforms when they
'wi bad daily evidence that the
i'n'h' mrousb tbo Board ~ pubIi-
'' Maintained a1 Institution which
"'h hsanliarv condition that n
|" pace 20 every one living In the
p Fel af 90 Tho many thousands
~ u'F clothing and linen cleans
.l'f 'hai tha TRUE condition % ~.
+. m' public wash houses might b.
+a'' he public ln detail and with
'.e. n Advertiser reporter ac-
~ Pratt mo city Sanitary
W' v'.h houses and made 4
'n.haiHn ot them. A tour 4
N'i cleo made over "a consldl
'h or iho more thietiv popuI
h' enough was CLEANED
.i'f slate of Tho city In gen.
'' 'l' l.croulcan task which
l.llm has on lis hand. 4,
IVY clean tBI free from epi-
"'al.r be- after Wishing a. few
W1' Honolulu H. not now
% another epidemic. and
V a h a. family good state Of
.,. 20 he constant vigilance and
/. ''oif % tho board Of ffenith
pr h't that fbo city ha. been
'y .leas',I
IVA sIa a1y coin. wb., A..
\. "''''h .s ty law given tho rlrbt
49, burn down the hundreds
.,f nhe'etn sbaoka and teno-
soa M' 'o 'o found on every
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n n. \. e' aa.l.my place. IN tn.
.,u. ueuor danger han
H., .eh boussa. I'M lns,I,u,ioo
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h..fe'i H.nolulbns who are Ir.
a A., '' existence o. this In
y, .'''a.n.y most ~ the peo-
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~. " "'ft u,t 's done there
~ d., Geo. when Chinese
a,. '' "HhlIahod In ffon.-
i,,rr,., ','fed ma, if they were
,al,s -. y ran IN The City and
Nae. J, '''yre The iaundrymen
snls,,s, W ,h' whole city would
WIN ho hih from the
~, 49,. vas no adequate sewer
p,.uu..' 7, y 'iI. m fact-and The
W. 49,. '''l W1ior which were
%, .,0.1h' '. vnsh houses soon
SF. about uaat sor sasI.
y aop,1 decided that public
:, urn .'' '' allowed insld. !,
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81 sa,. .' should cause A hard.
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'''o'Ins on Ksiibt s.v
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-15

disease-breeding spots in the city. Tho
hlling-in of Beretania street up to grade
has stopped the outlet to the pond and it
lies there simmering In the sunshine COW
cred with scum, the depositary for
half dozen tenement houses that border it
In the filth the Chinese children wade
and make little boats Of shingle to sail
them by the occasional breaths of air
that the houses let by AS they paddle
about their little legs are covered with
the scum from the stagnant water and
they are In constant danger from broken
Kettles and timed meat cans which lie
half buried in the slime
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ANOTHER FILTHY HOLE.

sowing the seeds of contagion through
the whole neighborhood.'
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-15

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N"s N. TO ,.,m The Euwm road
ana adjoining tho
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-08-24

The GOOse H6b NO S6OW.
When fox occupies the judges
bench the goose on trial has no earthly
ohow.-Chicagc Daily News
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Il is a fact Of peculiar significance that
Mr.. Bryan could reply 10 the notihca-
ton committee in speech bearing as
little trace of partisan politics as the
constitution of the United states or the
declaration Of independence. This Goes
MOI indicate that Mr.. Bryan is not
good democrat. but rather that the
democratic party is contending not so
much for certain theories OF admins
tration in free government as for free
government itself. Hence il is that,
fighting for the very existence OF the
-epublics. the position of the patriotic
.itizen who stands for free government
ind the position OF the democratic par
~ becomes Identical. Mr. Bryan was
great enough 10 recognize this. Mr..
Bryan's speech was remarkable on ac-
count OF the things he said. Mr.. Me
Kinley's Canton speech was chiefly re-
markable on account of the things he
did not say. The Canton speech abounds
in vague limitations and promises. 1t
does not hold out to the Filipinos the
faintest hope either of independence on
the one hand or of the freedom and
rights of American citizenship on the
other.
The voter has only TO read so much
OF Mr. McKinley's speech as relates 10
this subject in order TO find this state
ment to be correct. He will find some
thing about giving TO the Filipinos as
much self-go, ernment as they are fit
for-as though the right of peop.e TO-
600 miles away TO seif-goyernment was
not God-given right. but right to be
granted by some authority in Wash
ington. But he will find not the faint
est whisper OF such thing as indie
pendence for a people over whom we
have no authority except such as Spain
somehow is supposed 10 have had a
right TO give us.
In Mr.. Bryan's speech. however, the
voter may find a pledge that il he Is
elected he will convene congress at the
earliest moment TO declare the nations
purpose:
FIRST. To establish stable form Of
government in the Philippine Islands.
inst as we are now establishing a stable
form Of government in Cuba.
.Second. To give independence TO the
Filipinos. just as we have promised to
give independence to the Cubans.
Third. To protect the Filipinos from
outside interference while they work
out their own destiny, just as we have
protected the republics of Central and
South America and are by the Monroe
doctrine pledged TO pro,ect Cuba
This Is a sufficiently clear and sue
cinct statement OF the democratic po-
sition. OF its correctness. Of course,
there .an be no doubt.
This. with what Mckinley says, ana
with what he significantly omits to say.
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maxim tn pay av a soldier ayqual to
hot az a polaceman-wan hundred
dollars tn month. An anither appro-
priatin' money TO buy hutther for III
soldiers to put on their pie. An he
said thot he would atiind to il TO wanst.
An he niyer ayin smoiled. Az coorse.
| rayulized thot he were daft or he'd
niycr agree to bill givin' soldiers but
Their on their pie.
AN thin he introduced me to an
ither wee runt av man. phwat wore
Snectacles an looked loike tn picture
az Mr.. pickvck in tn novel book. This
second loo-natic said his name were
Geary and he loikewise imagined he
were n congressman. He tould me that
a country Of mine named Dinnis
Kearney were a great bunkie av his.
An were INTRODUCED to lot more Az
thin. phwat ali thought they were con-
crissnin. but / forgit me tn names av
Thin. 'ewas thin thot tn loo-natic
who thought his name were Geary says
10 me:
".Me man. we've done noble act be
savln our lrihc Nahh"n - o"a ""'"S'J
grave
".Mayhap.' said ]. 'mayhap. But av
| raylly behaved he were tn haythin
Mormon thot he thinks he is. I'd pitch
him in again an lave him swim out as
best he could.
AN with thot the who.e parcel OF
donates fell to yellin' with laughter
an rowlin in tn sand an playin' at
lapc-frog. Sure, crazier min ! niver
saw. an livery divil av thin raylly be-
Ilaived thot he we're mirsoer OF con-
griss."
Sevcnspot stretched out on the news.
paper. lifted his hat over his eyes and
proceeded to dream of the halcyon days
when a soldier will get butter on his
ME.
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the past month the events have been
productive of much encouragement TO
the democracy.
The dissolution of the gold democ-
racy at regular meeting. and the
quick assimilation of all its infiuen-
tial members by the regular party
marked the end of the truancy OF
1896. When the Ohio Bar association
met in yearly convention few weeks
later and the president. Judge \. 4.
Laubie. lifelong republican. de-
nounced McKinley's policy of imperial
ism. he found no dissenters. though
fully half the members were repub-
Leans.
Quickly following this, DIR. Silas c.
Swallow candidate for president OF
the United Christian party. addressing
his followers in a convention said: III
we must choose between the two can
that should support man who clings
TO principles and adheres to what he
believes TO be right rather than the
man whom the people never knew
where 10 find on any vital issue Ac-
cordjng TO the press reports. this
statement was received with remark
able expressions Of approval. During
the Same week Father Heldman. a
prominent Catholic clergyman Of Chi
cago, in an address before the Ger
man Veteran league brought the en-
tire audience TO its feet in a sponta-
neous expression Of approval when he
scored the administrations policy in
the Philippines and Porto Rico.
In Ohio the detection from republic
an ranks has been especially marked.
The Germans who gave Mckinley such
strong support in 1896 are coming
over in droves to Bryan. Besides this
Frank $. Monnett and Cleveland's for
mer mayor. Robert Mckisson. men
with enormous personal followings.
are fighting Mark Hanna tooth and
nail. Then. too. that vast independ-
ent element headed by Jones. Of To-
ledo. are practically unit for Bryan
this year. 1t will he remembered that
Jones polled 100 900 votes when he ran
for governor last year.
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THE BANKING TRUST.
some Questions Upon which the
Laboring Men Will Do Well
10 Ponder.

Here are some questions upon which
the laboring man will do well to ponder
before voting for a continuation of the
present administration.
III is well-known fact that the power
in private or corporate hands 10 control
the money for people is the power
practically to enslave them.
This power has been given by the
republican party into the hands Of the
banks. Moreover, the republican par
ty. represented by the administration.
has practically formed gigantic bank
trust that possesses power TO issue two
thirds of all the paper money of this
country.
You are not to get your money from
your government. but from the million
aires and the private bankers as they
may see fiji to issue il TO you.
These millionaires forming the bank
ing trust can contract and expand the
currency at will. They can give YOU
much or as little as they may desire.
You are not under a government by
the many. but under government by
the few. The republican government.
represented by Mr.. Hanna. Mr.. Rookie
Teller and Mr.. Mckinley. thus dele
gates its power for rule and ruin to
private parties.
How do you like the prospect?--N.Y
Journal.
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Journal.

Drawing from memory Is one Of the
most difficult things in the world to
do. Even professional artists find that
they must rely largely upon hasty jot-
tings made upoa the spot, as sug-
gestions for their pictures. Those
who are not artists need to look keen
ly and closely at what they wish to
reeollect. for they must depend upon
their memory to bring details back to
them. At IL IN excellent corrective OF
superficial observation to sketch .
scene ms We think we saw II, ana
afterward return to the scene to take
another view. 1t is training both in
accuracy and humility. for we learn
how easy Il II TO deceive ourselves -
to what we have remarked.--Florence
Hull winterbsTa. In Woman's Hone
CownonioA
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cs,haps the men OF Mars are blessed win
tslescopic eyes
IA .I.arly see us without lens through
o. distance or Disguise
,bousand years ahead OF us in science.
skill and art.
ra,,,iar with great mysteries In each mi
nutest part:
Alternating our Inventions OF the pres
ant day.
40 ss.ing clearly through US with per-
~" iected Roentgen ray.
r.,, them our schemes electric may be
stories stale and old.
pa,huus they cheaply manufacture dia-
monds gems and gold.
49, patent things electric which would
- mike tis earthworms stare.
49,. rnyigate with ease the ocean depths
md upper arr
u., patent baby-tenders bringing UP
thelr babies bright.
Nm, keepers run by magnets and ma
,hincs which Danish night.
rl.esric politicians which save all the wear
and tear
rn.t mere make bosses corruscate. fret,
worry, fume and swear;
strange telerathic pathways which trans
NIT silent thought,
And aynamic propcllers which make iolks
40 as they ought;
rt.,,rle aggravators to make criminals re-
form,
Electric breeders which produce
the calm or storm.
u must be quite amusing for such knowl-
edgeous sharp folks
Tn note what earthly sparklers call good
sermons or good jokes.
ror they. OF course. have microphones
which magnify all sound
And coax whisper from the earth through
Star-spaccs profound.
Electric gizzards probably discount dys-
pepsias bites.
Electric livers may be theirs, likewise cleo
trio lights.
w. Garth folks boast OF wisdom and ad
vancement I'm all things
And sim we have not yet produced a trusts
pair OF wings!
We may be dull and backward beside folks
Oh other stars.
Mnre kindergarten gropers as compared
with men OF Mars.
IT. rather vain to hug ourselves in prid'
~ brain and birth,
To think all wisdom stuck 10 this small
sized but uppish earth.
l. EDGAR JONES.
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sufficiently defines the issue as 10 the
Philippines.
The broader issue OF imperialism,
which includes that Of the Philippines.
may be stated thus:
Mr.. Bryan stands upon the doctrine
OF the declaration of independence, thss
governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed.
Mr.. Mckinley stands for the utter
reputation of that doctrine and for
''the doctrine OF the thrones, that man
is too ignorant 10 govern himself and
must DE subject 10 those who rule by
superior might and divine right.
Mr.. Bryan upon leaving indianapolis
went TO Chicago. where he has been in
conference with the leaders Of the par
ty at headquarters. To say that the
outlook for the democratic party at
the present time is hopeful would be
putting it mildly. Mr.. Bryan's speech
seems to have put new aspect upon
the campaign. kilograms OF congratu-
lation from republicans and gold demo-
Gratis have been literally pouring in up
, on Mr.. Bryan and the executive COM
mittec Influential papers that have
been hesitating as to their policy. upon
receiving Mr.. Bryan's speech openly
indorse the candidacy. The converts
OF week would fill column. When
such conservative papers as the Spring
field Republican become enthusiastic
for the success of the party; when
such papers as the Boston Post. the
New York World and the Baltimore
Sun, all Of which supported Mckinley
in 80. openly indorse Bryan. the out
look must be considered bright
But these papers have not been the
only additions to the force OF the
militant democracy. Wherever large
bodies of men have gathered during