The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-24
THE GRAND JURY REPORT
MAKES MANY INTERESTING RE.
COMBINATIONS.
Great Number of Criminal Iuyestlga-
tions and an Immense List OF Indlct-
mtuts Found.

The Grand Jury this afternoon made
It's report TO Judge Gear
The general report was read by Juror
Peck in lieu OF Foreman Prince David
the latter having a cold. FOrty-niue
indictments have been found. In the
matter Of the insane asylum and the
rOck-Crusher the latter was considered
and distressful To the patients. The
jury asked that the rock-crusher be re-
moved from the vicinity
The ventilation Of the asylum was
stEmatized as bad and the older pOr-
Jions Classed as unfit for habitatiOn.
The drainage system OF the place was
condemned throughout The absence
of physical exercise and means of ra-
ional amusements We're noted and a
change recommended.
The present method Of commitment
was suggested to be Inadequate.
The Reform School was also noted for
lack Of proper employment and fur
ther suggestion of the need of a visiting
physician
The oahu prison regime was heartily
recommended but the conhning Of wit
nesses with offenders of serious crimes
was deplored as unjust by the jury. A
new prison was recommended. At the
police station, new cells for drunks
We're recommended with a property
room, the kitchen store was condemned
A receiving hospital and ambulance
were recommended. The new police
call system was also praised Illicit,
distilling was drawn attention to.
The Jury expressed the opinion that
the appropriation for the police depart
ment was too small. and declared that
1t had information that in a number Of
cases necessary money had been sup
0plied for the work of the department
from the private funds of the High
Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff. 1t recon-
mended that the appropriation be in
creased to a sufficient amount to enable
the department to handle the extra
business resulting from the increased
population of Honolulu.
The jurors reported that they had
made a tour of some of the notorious
places in the city, and found that the
police were doin0 all in their power
in those places. The roads in Kewalo
and Kakaako were found to be in
wretched condition. The report of the
jury stated that if the last legislature
would not exist today. Among the ten
epent houses in the districts mention
ed streets were found TO be in most in
SANITARY conditions, an dthe Jary rec
commended that I'm future before grant
gin building permits, the Board of
Health see that the surroundings OF
proposed buildings are in good condi-
ton. In this connection the Grand
Jury found that the enforcement of the
building regulations by the Department
of Public Works, while within the let
ter of the law, was hardly in line with
the spirit of the law, in that there was
not enough supervision exercised over
the building.
In one case beer saloons We're found
within a very small area. The High
sheriff had informed the jury that he
favored the granting of licenses to these
places, as a means of diminishing the
manufacture of okolehao and other like
harmful drinks. The hope was express
ed that the federal authorities would
make strong efforts to suppress the
making of such bad liquors, so that
the reason for allowing so many sa-
looms would no longer exist.
The closing of the night schools was
declared to have been unwise. The jury
stated that ignorance and crime went
hand in hand, and that it had evidence
to the effect that drunkenness had in
creased since the closing of the. schools
in the districts were the schools for
merly We're.