Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-12-27
TROUBLES OF KEwALO

improve. partially at least, the kewalo
district, between South street and
Ward avenue co. kawaiahao and liza.
niwai streets. 1t has been entirely a
labor OF love on the part OF the Bulle'
Tin, but the ablest pen would fail in
faithfully depicting, In words, the con.
ditions now, and for some many
months past, there existing, and by
permission of the Government, in its
chief representative, the Board of
Health. Protest has oeen made, time
and time again, of the filthy miasmatic
condition OF the lateral bitches which
line Kawaiahao street and front the
premises of wealthy corporations, yet
the excreta from Punchbowl hill and
surroundings may be still easily seen,
sun.kissing, in the Kawaiahao street
bitches, .undisturbed. Men to their la.
bors, women to their visiting or shop
ping, children to their schools, are
compelled to pass along barefooted.
daily. through the flooded, Shiny, stink
ing streets of the district, and no help
Ia given. Ask DR.. Burgess. DIR. Water
house, or other medicos, who have pa.
tents in the district, of the pleas
ure 90 they have in visiting! Ask
DIR. Muckley. Mrs. Weldon, or other
members of the Sloane Christian Chap
el how they enjoy the freedom to
worship God" in this delectable dis.
trict. Ask the butcher, the baker, the
milkman, their trials. IN forwarding
their duties, of delivering the neces.
saries of life to their customers! ASH
the carriers of the newspapers IL they
serve their regular customers In ke'
walo! You'll hear story which has
more invective in II than that of Sher'
mans, and which locally relates to
conditions In the Kewalo districts be
tween Peck's pond and the sea.
To show that considerable effort has
been made on the part OF the residents
there, ! append a petition to the last
Legislature. to which obtained sigma
lures, OF business firms and others
which represented over SlO.000.O00.
Their petition obtained $4,000, in ap
preparation only, not a dollars worth
OF road-mending has been zone.
copy has since been forwarded to the
Superintendent of Public Works ant
the same mastery inactivity continues
But why this inactivity. ne reason ad
| vanced is. 'paucity of funds" Blu
why paucity of funds when specia
session OF the Legislature could re
move not only that cause, with regart
~ 'ne nu,en sna,a uu' mou,u ne,,et a.
hr.inaas niSc,as aucity nS funds
| laugh! Say, rather. s,ubJornness
willulness and a general public.bo
ID policy.
But, aside from all this, why shouls
NOT the hoara Oh Ieaitn compei tn'
Sieans n anu hevplns I,ean' vi w
ms ali water or mona, e''
knANK GODFREY.
Honolulu, December I'd, 1901.
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Hon. J. II. Boyd, Superintendent o
Public Works. Territory Of Hawaii
Sir:-four petitioners, the under
signed residents in the district know
as kewalo and more particularly with
III the boundaries OF Hustace, queen
South and Ward streets, all ~ which
petitioners are either residents, tax
payers, property owners, or nave bust
ness interests In said district 'espect
fully present that FOR very Ions
period past, and still existing. the con
dition Of the roads In said district, AM
especially In above stated portion o
said district, demand the immediate
attention OF the Department OF Publi'
WORKS.
Your petitioners respectfully present
that unnecessary hardship Is imposed
upon them by the existing deplorablt
condition OF the main roads through
the district, VIZ: Queen and kawaia'
mao streets from South to Ward streets
ana when said condition prevents SAT-
and proper travel either on foot or by
wheeled vehicles to and within popu'
lated points OF said Kewalo district
Although In the heart Of the city thu
unsafe and untravelaDle condition o.
the roads prevents the presence o.
physician or clergyman, II needed, I'M
less at great expense to your resident
petitioners and at great trouble to thu
professional gentlemen.
Your petitioners would further re
spectfully present that the sanitar!
condition OF many portions OF the sale
district Is most detrimental to the gen
eral public health and the lands there
In as a whole have received deserved
condemnatory notice by the Board o
Health.
And your petitioners would respect
fully present to your attention as Su
perintendent Of Public Works tina
since the Legislature has passed ap
| preparations amounting to over $50