The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-01
BEGINS TODAY
Small Fee Will be Charged for
Collection of Garbage
in the Future.

a new system of garbage collection
goes into effect in Honolulu today. Be-
ginning today a fixed charge is to be
made to each householder, business
house or any citizen having need of gar
bage collection, which will be sufficient
10 pay the expense of collection. and also
relieve the present money stringeucy to
e small extent in the Public Works De-
partment.
Under a recent act of the legislature
the garbage and excavating department
was transferred from under control of
the Board OF Health to the Department
of Public Works. and immediate steps
We're taken to improve this service in
every way possible. While there has
been some complaint over the new sys-
tenn which will be inaugurated today, it
is believed that it will be much more sue
cessful than was the old plan. The
charges made are very small, and viii
not bear very heavily upon any one class
Or individual, but yet taken collectively,
will be amply sufficient for the mainte-
nance of the garbage bureau. The esti-
mated receipts under this new system
Will be not quite fifteen hundred dollars
per month. while the expenses of the gar
| bage collection branch is q trifie more
| than half that amount 1t will not be
at all too much, however, as soon as the
crematory is put into opeation, the ma
chinery for which has already arrived.
| Its construction cannot be commenced at
present, for the reason that there are no
| funds on hand for that purpose, though
the money was appropriated by the last
| legislature. As soon as the taxes begin
! to come in, in November, this difficulty
will be remedied, and the construction of
one of the most up-to-date crematories
in the United States Will begin. At pres
ent the garbage IS disposed of by burial
| in outlying districts; and ashes and other
| inoffensiye material is utilized for filling
in swamps, like IIiwei.
| Captain Johnson, who is at the head
of this bureau of the Public Works, has
| been preparing for the Inauguration. of
the new system for several months, and
a careful and systematic record has been
kept of all garbage removed during that
| time. 1t is upon these records that the
| charges for garbage collection are based.
In the case of many of the householdars,
| particularly among a portion of Portu-
7! guese, the collectors were met with a re-
fusal to give the needed information and
many of them would not comply with a
request for their names. A very simple
4ilSkIlON ileiS DSGll hAStl lpA NiSpOSlIS
of this class. q
! Blanks have been prepared, which are
to be filed out by each citizen desiring
to enjoy the benefits of the garbage sys-
TEN. These slips are to be left by the
collectors at each house and. store as
they make their rounds this morning.
The amount of charge is placed upon this
blank, and also a simple form of con-
tract, the signer agreeing to pay a GER
tain fixed amount quarterly for the serv-
Ice Those who fail to sign the blanks
and return them to the garbage coIlec-
ton bureau will be cut off from all par
ticipatioIi in its benefits, and the collec-
tors twill simply pass them by in max
ing their daily rounds.
The charges are reasonable enough,
though naturally the usual kicks are
made by@those who have been getting the
benefits without any charge whatever
The scale, as decided upon by the
, Board of Public Works, is as follows:
F Cottages, twenty-five cents per month
Dwelling houses, fifty cents per month
Lodging houses, stores and restaurants
seventy-ffve cents a month, up.
Hotels, spoi shops, saloons, from one
dollar month up.
Laundries, blacksmith shops, small
stores, barber shops, soda water stands
ETC., fifty. cents per month.