The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-10-25

on in and about Honolulu, and that, al
though the attention of some of the Fed
eral officers has been called to II by the
police department, they have not seemed
to pay any attention to the Information.
We also suggest to the Judges of the
police courts that they intiiGt more Sc
we're sentences in the many vagrancy
cases. In giving this class OF people
the limit of the law. we think vagrancy
VIII diminish. We find that the appro-
pr.ations for the police department, 50
slaughtered by the last Legislature that
1t has hampercd the present efficient po-
lice officials. in not being able to give the
citizens the police Profession they are
entitled to. We find that sums of money
are constantly being paid ont OF the rri-
vate resources of the high sheriff and his
deputy, in caring for the public safety,
and would suggest tina. the auditor be
more liberal with the police department
emergency fund. We recommend tnat
the police force be increased AS the pres
ent force is not sufficient. We find there
are twelve mounted police, SIX doing day
duty and six niylt dIty. Each watch
doing duty from the tramway cur stables
at Palama to Kapolani Park, including
Nuuanu as far as the tram terminus.
Punchbowl and kakaako, thereby leav-
ing that portion of the resident section
of the city from the pumping station on
Beretania street mauka. and TO Punahou,
without any police protection day or
night.
a tour of inspection was made, accom-
panied by the deputy sheriff, on the night
of october 18TH and many no %, ious
places We're visited. We feel that the
police force is doing everything possible
in their power to patrol that part OF the
city where so much vice exists, with the
limited number of men at their COM
mand. We would call the attention OF
the Board of Health to the unsanitary
condition in and about Palan;.. AMI espe-
cially around the Chinese theater on Lii
liha street The odor arising from nui-
sanccs is very nauseating, AID very dam
gerous to the community. We think that
a general cleaning up of this part of the
c''y would be In OCT. II seems T. MS
jury that If the last leg stature had at
tonde. to their duties as public servants S,
and looked more to the protection of our
citizens and the public welfare IN general,
that these facts would not exist
AS many of the cases brought to the
notice of the grand jury originated in
Kewalo and Kakaako. the jury visited
those localities and inspected two of their
tenement houses and their surroundings.
As rain had recently fallen the streets
were found to be in a wretched condi-
ton. They should be drained and graded
by the government Wherever 1t has juris-
diction, ana where claimed as property
OF private persons or corporations, they
should be improved thereby at the COM
pulsicn of the Board of Health as they
constitute not only nuisance but are
n menace to the health of the entire
lncighborhood. Under the present law
I . 90 Il 1.
structlon Of dwellings upon ground that
has been raised to a level of four feet
above tide datum, but II does not COM
| pei the til!ng of the streets upon which
! IL abuts or of adjacent property. The
result Is that hundreds of people are liv-
ing amidst unsanitary surroundings. The
grand jury therefore recommends that
the streets In the neighborhood of the
junction Of Queen and South streets and
makai thereof be put in a passable and
sanitary condition. and that in the future
dwelling house permits be withheld AS to
lots in low lying districts until the sur
Iroundings thereof shall also have been
put in proper sanitary condition. AL
though but little money comparatively
speaking is expended upon the streets
| of this section the road taxes thereof
! alone amount to hundreds of dollars each
| year, while the total assessed value OF
real estate for the year 1900 exceeded half
n million dollars, and taxes collected for
the same period exceeded $500 which
| figure will show "A large increase for the
current year
In this district, poles carrying light OF
! telephone wires, were found to be placed
outside of what would be proper curl
lines, thus obstructing the free passage
of vehicles in the present roadway. Two
large frame tenement houses were in
spected in this district, which were occu-
! pied by people of a half-dozen differen,
nationaltics. Violation OF sanitary and
other regulations were noted which have
since been called to the attention OF
owners, agents and proper Territorial
authorities. With the regard to the
Ibuilding laws of the Territory the granc
jury found that the administrat there
of by the Department of Public Works
while in compliance with their letter
was to Il large degree ineffective In thai
while building permits are only ISSUED
upon the approval of plans and specin.
cations first filed with the department
actual inspection of the buildings them
selves while under construction or upor
compile ton, Is not made, and variations
from plans ana specifications can easily
be effected, without detection or hind
rance. The old law. which required ap
lIibNbl VI pui.uliiB plhils ny tHt IRE mar
shal, seems to have become ignored viii
the abolition of that office. that duty no
having been specially placed upon th'
chief of the fire department since its re
organization on a salary basis. As
result proper attention to the erection o
chimneys and of stairways for fire es
capes is lost sight of.
The grand jury found six saloons es
tablished in contracted area In the sal,
district of the city, and while II was in
formed by the high sheriff ana the Ter
ritorial treasurer that beer licenses wcr,
granted largely in order to diminish III,
manufacture of and indulgence in swopc
lswipcs and ''okolehao," which result ha,
been practically achieved with fewer ar
rests for drunkenness than formerly b,
the police, nevertheless II would recon
mend that, rs in heretofore indicated
the Federal authorities use the mean
within their power to break up by sum
mary measures the Illicit manufactur,