The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-10-18
BOARD or HEALTH MEETING IS
ATTENDED BY THE
GOVERNOR.
Judge kaIua's Paiai Tender Accepted
Hawaiian Navigation Company
Gets contraes-various Business
Matters Handled.

partment OF Public Works have at last
succeeded in burying the hatchet
| which has been welded between them
for some time past in the matter of
the Oahu Insane Asylum and the gov
ernment rock-crusher.
At a meeting of the Board OF Health
| yesterday afternoon, Superintendent
OF Public Works j. H. Boyd, after a
lengthy discussion of ideas on the
part of the members of the Board and
several government officials, includ-
ing the Governor, gave the Board his
assurance that. after the rock-crusher
has finished with the amount of blast
ed rock all ready to be crushed. the
operations of the crusher will cease
and there will be no more blasting
or crushing in the quarry close to the
Asylum
"Of course it is understood" said
Boyd, that when the Asylum is NOV
ed away from its present site, the
crusher may resume its work" This
brought forth a general laugh of good
feeling and somewhat cleared an at
mosphere which. only moment or so
before. had threatened to become
rather volcanic
Governor Dole, Treasurer Wright,
Superintendent of Public Works Boyd
and Assistant Superintendent of Pub
lie Works Marston Campbell were
present at the meeting. The follow
ing members and officers of the Board
were in their places: DR.. Sloggett,
president; E. A. Mott Smith, DR..
Moore, DIR. Cooper, Executive Officer
Draft 1nd fn<n ,1f a-,
er Settlement Reynolds. The powers
were gathered together chiefly for
the discussion and settlement of the
rock-crusher nuisance near the In
sane Asylum. of which complaint has
been made for long time past
The reading OF the minutes of the
previous meeting was waived and DR..
Sloggstt proceeded to the main bust
ness with the following remarks:
"Gentlemen:-The Superintendent
of Public Works having notified me
that Governor Dole and himself were
desirous of meeting the Board to dis
cuss the matter of the rock-crusher,
in accordance with your instructions
informed Superintendent Boyd that
this Board would be pleased to meet
Governor Dole and himself at our reg
ular weekly session, to be held here
this afternoon So will now ask the
Governor. as senior official of the gov
ernment, to give us his views. as the
Board has already plainly stated its
views and has made the request to
the Superintendent of Public Works
that the rock-crusher and blasting
operations carried on mauka of the
Asylum. should cease at once to avoid |
further mental injury and distress to |
the inmates under treatment there"
The Governor. being thus called up
on to express his opinion in the mat |
ter. said:
Il was in hopes that some arrange
ment might be carried out /
in this matter whereby all /
difficulties could be adjusted in a
manner satisfactory TO all concerned.
It would be most expensive to secure /
a new locality for the Insane Asylum /
and the government just now is very /
short OF funds.
my impression Is that the preju-
dice against the rock-crusher on the
part of the patients of the Insane
Asylum is not as serious as might be
imagined. The chief prejudice is
against the blasting operations and
not the rock-crushsr. I visited the In
'ane Asylum one day last week The
was running at the time
noticed a considerable number OF
he Asylum inmates in the grounds at
he time. and failed to find any pa
tents who noticed the noise OF the
particularly. or who
seemed to be at all affected by that
loise-
These views OF the matter were
strengthened bv the reports that
'eceiyed from Or. Walters and DR..
Herbert. also the manager OF the
Asylum These gentlemen were un-
lble to say that there was any injury
o the patients as the result OF the
loise OF the rockerusher
There NAV be theoretical injury.
10 what learned from
hese gentlemen. but there seems TO
,e no practical harm done.
~0f course the blasting Is another
natter. Whsa the blasting takes
lace too close 10 the Asylum. il be-
-cmes serious Occasional stones are
Iropped in the grounds. endsngerfng
he lives Of the inmates OF the snsfi-
ution- This Is something which
hoald not BE- tolerated But the work
4 the quarry is getting farther away