Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-01-10
VALUE Of STREETS
Is ABOVE PRICE
Mrs. EameS Writes of
Facts Pertinent to
Honolulu.
WHAT MODERN CITIES
HAVE DONE TO BEAUTIFY
What Has Honolulu Done to Beautify
or Wipe Out Crowded Sections
System That Has no System
Popularity Of Paris.

municipal administration. The street
system is to the municipality what the
cirCulatoTy system Is to the human or
ganisnl. and upon its eiiicacious plan
and workings depend the health and
wel!-being Of every department of bust
ness and social life. There are two
kinds of streets in all systems just
as there are two kinds of municipal
transit. The great cities have, LIST,
their network OF minor streets and I'd
their system of great thoroughfares aud
boulevards pertaining to the metropolis
as whole.
Says Mr.. Albert Shaw, THE expert
ence of Paris candidly studied, ought to
convince the most skeptical that there
Is no modern community of civilized
men which cannot afford to provide for
its areas of dense population the most
perfect public appointments that tech
nical and scientific knowledge have dis
covered and prescribed: well made
and clean streets: good water, proper
drainage. convenient transit facilities
complete schools, thorough sanitary or
ganlZation. these at least should be
considered the irreducible minimum.
No ci,v sbould tbi,t itse,, rich epough
20 ,rosnor ,,,,,ho,,, ,ho,, ona M cil,,
- s, ,,,., 4. -, o., IT,, n,
Il has any reason for continued exist
- ,i'.' ~, r.. -. -,
90 a. ",. -, ~, Ut;
a.. 80 ~, az, aa."ra ana ,r,,i,. -,
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,Inn ,ha, dosoryo. orr homaaa"
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'ne i"'''p'"'"o'' '"'"
tnat is tne hrst concern oi hoho'"iu'
Inc iocatioh vi Hohoiuiu as cosho-
poil'an port mas hau sohethihs u n'
with the prevalence OF ihiectious us
80 $50 , 60. 49, ,,nros.rn,a,
~ 81 $500 sana., anu ,,',s,a, 49, au, ,,s
,ard,nass IN ,ho adon,ion ana en,orc,-
mani ~ moderp sanitary administro
tive methods has had more II in Homo.
Iulu proup of the enlightened and
energetic men would unsparingly cite,
in the face even Of derision and dis
dain the hest results achieved in other
towns not only those of France, hui,
also those of Germany. Belgium. Italy.
England and even of America, for the
awakening of their fellow-citizens.
much might be gained, There Is no
reason why we should receive every
scourge and pestilence here with open
arms. There Is no reason why instead
the death rate should not be steadily
| reduced in a corresponding rates with
that of other cities with energetic sani-
tary administration. Low figures In
the death rate speak eloquently OF good
municipal housekeeping. that Is to say
of satisfactory water and drainage.
public cleaning. food inspection, and
vigilance against infectious diseases.
yhar tho graat ci,y ~ Amsterdou N,
with a nonu,ation NJ Jag 657 souls the
death ratio 40 IN ,se2-aa was less tbrn
off, fha whole NJ uoIIand in the face
=, 49, o,a rov,n, ,ho. dooth rates
',.i. -, o,a,ioo, 90
.io 90 ,ans,,, inonaasas ,hon s,roJ,
- .a,,,,.,, ,,,nro,,on,a,,s ,nJ
"an,,n,s,uot,ra n,o,hoa. 40. ,,,nd,ootoI
La,, -, a,,,.a,ora,,
IA,
ine s,ounu pa" VI ,ne in ,r,. s
'ne ,po' 'ah' son -,
uS"", ~ nN1 ny. Ca ,,s,on, :,
'h,., ~. IT. go 80
49, ,',.s a. aoatana,,,ar ond nar,i
e VIZ vic - 49, - -
~, a. ~. Ao ., ,ns,on, ,s hn %,
tha r,os, oesoot,yo
m anhnrhan ,ondorov domonds IN.
,,at,no, roooani,ion n, a Sorios of mai,
thona,,a,, 20 ras ,rhioh sbaII male easy
49, ,euanont -, norrIa,;op m and
-, A.. nusinos oantarN An tho Cor.
r,or o,,,os 49, oainsting ,ho,r svstem.
IN tho demand for ouick transit.
II is unnecessary in Germany tc
argro that broad well kent tborouph
! go oro oboar ~ ory cost and ina
nanno,, oontrootad r-noyed noIs,
a,raots ono so srigbtfrlIy aynansive tba
mo country hut n very rich one can af
ford IN have them.
The catolog Of cities which durin.
tho mast twoptv and thirty wears bay,
) adjusted their streets to the needs of