The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-11

Kakaako and Kewalo are certainly
the prize unsanitary sore spots of Homo
lulu. If the strength of city's sani-
tation lies in aboushing pest breeding
holes in it's purlieus, then the city
fathers have task before them which
should not be slighted.
The ten ment section of the town,
that inhab. ted i2sinIy by Hawaiians of
the poorer classes, The voters whose
numbers give the politicians more un-
easy moments than taose of any other
section of the city, is certainly in a
deplorable condition.
This condition can easily be reme-
died, all that is required being an out
lay of money by the County Super
visers Money, judiciously expended,
can make our Kakaako and Kewalo in
credit to the city and make for a
better health record than at present
obtains.
A visit to these two sections indi-
Gates to a layman that what is/mainly
needed there is filling-in. The sections
are too low and are barely above
food-tide of the ocean. To penetrate
) the soil there a couple of feet is to
lencounter water. In fact, Kakaako and
KewaIo are the drain sumps of the
upper parts of the town.
People will live there. Poor people
have not much choice in the matter,
for rents there are cheap, and their
wages are generally small, pitifully so.
Even those who are in the employ of
the territory or the county work hardly
a half a month, and on their small
earnings they have to pay rent, supply
food and clothes to their families and
fight against illhealth. which all too
surely comes from these fostering,
stagnant pools, lined with rank
growths.
This portion of the town is County
Supervisor Lucas hobby. He wants
something done for the section and
soon, and he is after the county to let
him have funds to make the improve
rnents. Lucas has a plan for the up
building of Kakaako and Kewalo which,
If carried out. may do much to reduce
the insanitary conditions existing there
An Advertiser reporter went over the |
whole district on Saturday. Queen |
street from Punchbowl street to a little |
beyond the Magoon tenement is now in |
3 fairly good condition, the crown of
the newly-built road being sufficiently |
high to shed rain water to the cutters. |
But the flow generally makes its way |
anakai to the lower levels and collects |
in stagnant pools and narrow streets
which, in wet weather, fairly reek with |
filth and stencil, and are impossible !
to foot passengers except they remove
their shoes and stockings.
IT is below Queen street that Lucas
is endeavorins to center the attention
of the County Supervisors. That area
is thickly populated. The cottages are
small. the front yards are but a few
feet in extent and in wet weather the
are generally under water. All
houses there are raised up three or
four feet above the ground to insure the
lower floors being out of reach of the
foods.
South street below Queen has not
been raised to its proper level. The
sewer manhoIes are at least a foot
above the street level. In the section
known popularity as the "Sand Lot" (
hundreds of people live. some in tene-
ments. others in small cottages and !
still more in shacks. Through the {
sand Lot is an alleged extension of
street which ultimately
runs past the mauka side of the Naval I
Station and ends at Fort street. But I
between Punchbowl and South streets, E
street encounters mo-
-ass 1t is a sinking, filthy pool, and c
facing it on both sides are numerous
dwellings, with children in abundance /
PLAYING on its banks. When the sun I
strikes into this pool after a rain, as I
It did on Saturday, the air fairly
'eeks with foul odors. All manner OF 9
filth finds its way into the pool, and (