The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-04-13
THE ''INPR0VEMENTS"
At LAHAINA
DEACON TESLA DESCRIBES WHAT
CAPITAL on A RECENT VISIT.


EDITOR STAR: Going on a recent
grating" tour of Legislative inves-
tigation to Lanai, by courtesy of those
interested, the writer accidentally"
slipped off at Lahaina, the once royal"
capital of these islands, and spent
whole day in seeing the old place. And
during my stay of day there 1 took
notice of what the government was
doing, particularly in the line of sani-
tation.
DR. Pratt chief health officer Of the
Territorial Board of Health, was there
evidently in the interest of his depart
ment. While there 1 learned that his
sight of the Boards undertaking, which
has been going on for about year,
that of filling in and closing up the old
canal or pond, a waterway which has
mortal the determination of mosquitoes,
and the improvement of its sanitary
condition.
The work, generally, is commendable,
but the attempt of closing the old canal
is a farce In my opinion, the at
tempt of closing the old canal is a farce.
In my opinion, the expenditure is a
waste Of good public money and quite
unnecessary. The canal is being used
as a dumping place for refuse, such as
dried leaves and branches, rocks, dirt
tin cans, bottles, ETC., creating such a
stencil therefrom akin to the Waikiki
swamps, which President Pinkham has
induced the Legislature to adopt a con-
current resolution for it's reclamation,
another money making scheme. 1
deem this work to be a menace to the
public health of the place.
In connection with the mosquito
crusade, nothing is being done that
amounts to anything of consequence.
I was informed that the plantation
causes the washing of the laborers'
might pals" at a place below the mill
and near the stream, on the Catholic
church road, the sluice therefrom be-
ing carried away through a trough
and emptied into the sea near the
former -Treadway residences thus
communicating the sea. 1t is said that
the stencil arising therefrom goes up
to high heaven" but the authorities
are mum as clans. Why? may 4 ask,
On the other extreme, on the Launu-
poke side of the old town is still an
other plantation nuisance that needs
to be abated, which is the dumping
place of those very same 'laborers'
night pals" used for the purpose of
fertilizing the cane-fields. Tin cans
are also dumped at this place and in
them water collects. My informant
says that both these points are fit
breeding places for mosquitoes, and still
the authorities are blind to it all. Yet
omsquitoes are nothing new to Lahaina
as it was always noted for such pests
was further informed that during
the recent rain storm, water came
down the hillsides in torrents and
emptied into the pond in question, il
being the natural outlet. The water
was choked up by the small opening OF
the stone culvert leading into the pond
the result being the inundation of the
whole neighborhood whereabouts to q
depth of from one to four feet, Great
ing a stencil that was something
fierce" and still is.
The building of the culvert was by
a former Road Board and the fooC
showed it's weakness. Nothing had beer
previously done to divert the watei
course IN case of floods.
Senator Hayselden now wants a per
manent monument erected to mark thu
spot where the first constitution wa
promulgated. The idea is good, bu
it is also a farce. But / would sugges
that before spending any money TO
such "A luxury the "house" should frs
be put IN order. See that the planta
ton rs made to toe the mark and no
force compliance on the poor people o
the place; but / suppose they hay
10 grin and bear H.
Lahalna is sim In the same old plae
whore II was formerly and we have ye
30 sec a. wiped on the face OF IN
globe. People lived there Of old as The
do new even with tho old pond q
sight, and nothing serious has hap