The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-18
The insane Asylum
Controversy is
Ended.
ROCK CRUSHER
SOON TO CEASE
Nay be Removed From Present
Site. Governor Dole Helps
to Adjust Difficulty.
Y USE at the moment of the exneot

KUST at the moment of the expect
ed collision between the Board OF
Health and Superintendent Boyd
of the Public Works Department, over
the location of the rock crusher, the
white dove of peace descended upon
the yesterdays conference and a COM
promise was effected. The Board of
Health agrees to continuation of the
operation of the rock crusher until the
present supply of rock is exhausted,
and Supt. Boyd gives. assurances that
after that time the blasting and stone
crushing in the vicinity of the insane
asylum, will be stopped, and he will
seek a new location for his plant.
There were present yesterday at the
meeting of the Board of Health when
this happy settlement of sethe long
standing dispute was effected: Gov
ernor Dole, Supt. Boyd, Treasurer
Wright, and Assistant Superintendent
Marston Campbell, on the one side, and
on the other, the following members of
the Board of Health: President slog-
gett, DR.. Moore, Or. Cooper, E. A.
Mott-Smith and Executive officer Pratt
For the greater part of the conference
it appeared as if all efforts for a COM
promise were to be futile, and DR..
Sloggett, believing settlement impos-
slble. had called for a vote of the board.
To take summary action, when Supt.
Boyd gracefully capitulated, and the
war cloud passed.
In calling the meeting to order Pres
ident Sloggett said:
Gentlemen:-The Superintendent Of
Public Works having notified me that
Governor Dole and himself were desirous
OF meeting our Board to discuss the mat |
ter of the rock crusher," in accordance
with your instructions I informed Super |
intendent Boyd that this Board would |
be pleased to meet Governor Dole and |
himself at our regular weekly session |
to be held here this afternoon. So I will |
now ask the Governor as senior official |
of the government, to give us his views |
as our Board has already plainly stated |
their view and made the request TO the |
Snperintendent of Public Works thaI the |
rock crusher and blasting operations car
r:ed on mauka of the asylum, rnust csas, |
at once to avoid further mental fu:ury |
and distress to the insane under treat |
ment there.
Governor Dole, who appeared as ar
olrator between the warning depart |
ments, suggested that d compromise
was possible. He said in substance:
Il look at the matter in this light, Mr. |
PRESIDENT BY the location of the rock |
erusher upon its present site. the prod !
uct of road material is greatly inereas- |
cd at much lessened expense. There |
~ great amount of road building being |
uohe IN that neighborhood, and if the
'oeN crusher Is removed to some other
cauoh' II will greatly increase the ex-
p'nse or widening these roads. I am
Al hopes that the trouble at the asylum
may De lessened, without going to the
expense OF removing the crusher to an
other locality, which must be at preat
expense and which is almost impossible
at the present time, because tha .oy,-
ernment is short of funds
: 1T is my impression that tho o.,,,,,,,
patients are not so much i,inro7 ar
people think by these noises ana .ba
prejudice against the crusber is 5,a
L a h.
asylum during the operation of tba
crusher, and l failed to find that tbo
patients noticed the noise to any great
extent, or were in any way affected hv
It, This view is strengthened nv ra-
ports have received from DR. Walters
and DR.. Herbert, formerly in charge of
the asylum, and neither of whom were
able to say that any injury had been
caused the inmates by the location of
the quarry, their position being that
the crusher was theoretically objection |
able. The blasting in the first stage
OF the location of the quarries there.
shTas so close to the asylum as to be
serious, and the occasional discharge |
ei stone into the asylum grounds was
something not to be tolerated. The
men have been working away from the |
buildings quite gradually, and are now l