The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-23
DUTY CALLS
FOR FIRE
Interviews About the
Hotel Stables.
OPINION MOSTLY ONE WAY
Nc Discrimination Should be Shown
In a Work Vital to HoaoIu-
LUIS Sanitation.

InEview Of the fact that public senti-
mem has been so deeply aroused as
to the disposition by the Board off
Health of the Hawaiian Hotel Stables
from which have come two men whol
afterwards died Of the bubonic plague,
the Advertiser obtained the following
brief interviews with some Of the doc
tors and business men Of the city yes
terday, in which appear their opinions
on he,question of whether to burn the
stables or allow them to stand as they
are-infected by plague
]. B. ATHERToN-
Mr. J. B. Anterior said: We have a
Board OF Health and / consider it an
efficient body. The members of that
Board are honest and dependable men,
and I am satisfied that they are doing
everything in their power to rid Ho-
nolulu Of this dread disease-bubOnic
plague. ] criticize nothing that they
do, for | believe they are doing what
is right and what is wisest and best
under the circumstances. Yes, if had
the matter in my own hands I would
most certainly burn the Hotel Stables.
Most other places where plague cases
have occurred have been burned, and
1 would burn the stables On the same
principles. But I trust the Board of
Health, and am confident that they
will do what is right.
DIR. WAYSoN-
Burn them by all means, said DR..
Wayson. There is undoubted evidence
that the place is infected and insani-
tary 1 do not see why the Board of
Health should burn one building where
case of plague has appeared and
spare another where the same thing
has happened. There should be no
discrimination whatever; the Board
should act impartially and favor
should be shown to one property Own
er no more than any other property
owner. If We expect to clean out bu-
bonic plague in this city, tboroughness
in the method of going about it is the
only way that it can be done. They
burned a place where Mrs. Franz visit
ed and they have destroyed by fire sew
eral places where people, who after
wards died of the plague, had only
stopped for a little while; and yet the
Board did not burn Jordan's store, and
it does not seem to be going to burn
the Hotel Stables. The Hotel Stables
are every bit as dangerous as the Pan
theOn Stables; the latter were burned;
| the former should be burned also. The
Board of Health in many cases has
acted most effectively. l would like
to see them keep the good work up
and burn the Hotel Stables and every
other place where the plague has ap-
peared.
IG. D. GEAR
think, said Mr.. G. D. Gear, that the
Board Of Health has a most difficult
task to perform; the duties Of its
members are responsible, and I appre-
ciate the many difficulties with which
they have to contend. They are GER
tainly trying to do what is right, and
deserve the confidence of the people. /
do not know why the Board has not
decided to burn the stables, but |
imagine they must have some good
reason for refraining from doing so.
Yes, If ] had it to decide personally i
should most certainly burn the Hotel
Stables. From what I know through
general information, the place is in
fected, and should be destroyed. On
the same principle, l would burn Jor-
dams store and Warehouses; store and
every other place where the plague has
appeared. l have only been back
from the Coast a few days, and am
not perfectly familiar with all the
plague conditions, but while I have
confidence in the Board of Health to
do what it believes to be right, yet per
sonally l would assuredly burn where
infection existed. / don't like this dis
: elimination; there should be no in
consistency in the method Of work.
4 A. F. COOKE
Burn the stables by all means. They
are in the center of town. InasmuCt
as Mr.. Weaver's building, a new one
with all sanitary requirements, was
burned because one inmate was affected
understood as coming from the Pan
theon stables the Hotel stables shoul(
not be spared. The intimacy between
the Pantheon G1d Hotel stables is vast
" more serious. The stables were no
built under sanitary conditions bein:
low, without protection to the floor
b and so far as / know there is no drain
: age
F. L. DoRTCH-
The stables should be burned by al
means. I am personally acQuainte
I with the proprietor and know it wi
= work a harship but if the Pantheo
: stables had been destroyed sooner theT
S would probably have been one or tw
!, less cases.
= JOHN KIDwELL-
: am very strongly in favor Of tn
: destruction of the Hotel stables by fir
Il No favoritism should be shown; / d
. not charge there has been but frol
reading the papers such concluslo
might be drawn and have heard sue
u opinion expressed. 1t is net questio
of absolute proof of infection where II
It public health is vitality concerned;