The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-25
HOLLOWAY
IN MAUI
Public Works Are
Going Ahead
There.
Puunene Hospital Most
Modern In These
Islands.
Taroena Industry Rsvived-Por.
tuguese Republican Recruits.
Personal Items.

WAILUKU. July 23.-C S. Hollo.
way, Superintendent of Public Works.
arrived on Wednesday TO look after
government work on Maui. Mr.. HoIIo-
way states that the Waikiki Sugar Co.
through its manager contests the right
of way of the lao Valley road, but
that satisfactory arrangements are
pending whereby the opposition of the
company will be withdrawn and that
within month tenders for bids for the
construction of the road will probably
be published.
Mr.. Holloway also states that the
plans for jail and fire department
building in Wailuku have been accept
! ed, and bids will shortly be advertised
for New bids will also be called for
/ in the matter of the construction of
| school buildings at Lahainaluna Mr..
Holloway visited the Polipolt springs
| for the purpose of equally dividing
these waters. He leaves for HonoIu-
III this afternoon.
I TAROENA INDUSTRY REVIVED.
T. w. Hebron of Honolulu, who for
. years has been introducing taroena
flour on the mainland, has made ar
engagements with the Fruit & Taro Co
of Wailuku, whereby he has taken
over the factory here, and will run it
steadily.
W. A. Bailey viii superintend the
work at the factory, and is putting the
machinery in first class order. At
present 5000 pounds of raw taro repre-
sent one boiling. After being boiled.
the taro is crushed and forced through
screen meshes whence it energies in
long, wormy looking strings. Thence
it is transferred to the drying fur
naces, and when perfectly dry is
ground to a fine flour, ready for the
market. 1t takes about four and one
half tons of raw taro to make one ton
of the flour.
The manufacture of taro flour has
been carried on here internationally for
several years past. but it is the inten-
ton of the present management to Gre
ate a steady industry, which Will not
only prove profitable to them, but will
also furnish steady employment to
twelve or fifteen men and boys.
PUUNENE HOSPITAL.
A column is devoted by the Maui
News to a description of the Hawaiian
Commercial & Sugar Co.'S hospital at
Puunene.
The site is in an admirable location
about an elevation of eighty feet and
both public and private wards re-
ceive the benefit of the bracing sea
air, while down on the sea shore is
situated the beach house where con-
valescents and employees of the Ha-
waiian Commercial & Sugar Company
can enjoy as long a rest as desired.
Each nationality has a ward of its
own, while the private wards are fit
ted up after the manner Of ones own
home, thus graduating any feeling, IL
such exists. generally connected with
a public or private hospital
The new operatin room, which
takes in a whole wing. is fitted up
with the most modern apparatus, in
struments and appliances.
Immediately adjoining the operat-
ing room is the dark room where the
largest X-Ray apparatus on the is
lands is installed, also a F'ensen light.
This is the new light which has been
recently introduced into the hospitals
OF Europe and America. Here also is
kept and used the newly discovered
radium of which Puunene has a gen.
erous supply. When exposed in a
dark room this mineral throws out
fourescent flashes of light similar to
that of the freely.
The hospital is also in possession of
a generator of the L. s. Marine pat
tern which is used for disinfection pur-
poses and is of sufficient capacity and |
force to disinfect the largest of the |
large steamers of the American-Ha- |
waiian line
DR.. Dinegar. who is graduate of |
the University of New York, and later |
a physician on the outdoor post of the |
Bellview hospital, is in charge Of Puu- |
meme, and it is to the credit Of DR..
Dinegar, backed by the liberal CO. |
operation of Hon. H. P. Baldwin, who |
is ever watchfui of the needs of his /
that Maui can reasonably .
and with perfect confidence boast Of /
the handsomest and most modern hos
pital of the islands or OF the Pacific !.
Coast for that matter
DR.. Dinegar has an able assistant in
DR.. Maple, the mems nurse. and with
the three additional trained nurses who
are pleasantly located in a detached
cottage. he is able to care for q house
full of patients and cope with the most
serious of maladies.
GENERAL ITEMS.
In the article last week concerning
the Haiku pineapple cannery it was