The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-08-02
TWO LAUNDR|Es
ARE AUTHORIZED

Board of Health regulations, to take
the place of the government establish
ment at Iwilei. This is in addition
to one already licensed.
Public ownership of washhouses hav-
ing been condemned by the Legislature
the Board of Health wanta6 10 ha,e
the succeeding private laundries
punched. As President Pinkham said
In his message to the Board yester-
day, "the Board of Health believed
it was in the interest of public hygiene
and sanitation that the laundry bust
ness be kept concentrated so the in
speetors of the Board could supervise
the operations.
Accordingly the Board sought those
with capital to undertake the erection
of suitable building well located for
this purpose. The number of rooms re-
quired would be about forty.
1t was stipulated that the building
should have the floors, walls and divi-
sion walls to the height of about six
feet made of reinforced concrete smooth
finish, all corners to be rounded, the
grade such the building could be flush
ed out, the roof to overhang so as to
allow an arrangement of perfect ven
tilation. Hot water was to be furnish
ed from a central heating plant. There
should be no cooking, sleeping, or
human habitation within the building
After much negotiation and seeking,
a suitable site retired from observa-
tion was found. 7. Amin agreed to
build laundry strictly in the manner
stipulated. He wanted to give each
laundryman going into his proposed
building some little interest, but when
he had got about twelve pledges he
ran against the building scheme of an
other man.
This was Theodore Richards, who
planned to build washhouses at Camp
No. 2, Vineyard street, and had sign
ed up twenty-five laundrymen as ten
ants.
This so divided up the washhouse
business, he told the Board, that the
object of the Board was somewhat i'm
periled..
In the meantime one license had been
granted, being for laundry in the
taroena factory of DR.. Vile on Liliha
street, which had never been occu-
pied. The building had been equipped
under the Boards stipulations, and the
president expected that a suitable fence
would be erected on Liiiha street to
conceal the drying yard.
D. l.. Wilmington appeared at the
meeting as attorney for Mr.. Richards,
whose building plans were exhibited
there, but when asked to make state
ment said he had only come in to an
swer questions.
Mr.. Pinkham amplified his written
message with remarks to show the
desirability of having all the laundries
in one locality.
"We have applications for more than
Twenty-Five" Mr.. Wilmington said,
"but with these plans can not accom-
modate more than twenty-five. A few
contracts are as yet unsigned in con-
sequence of awaiting action by the
Board of Health. Our difficulty is an
excess of applications.
edo you think you could extend your
plans to accommodate alll' Mr.. Pink
ham asked.
cit would be expensive Mr.. With
ington answered, ''but 1 think it could
be done. There are twenty-five who
want to go together. Perhaps the 9th
ers could be accommodated elsewhere.
In further conversation Mr.. With
ington showed that the difficulty would
be to get all the Chinese to come to-
gether. Some were union men and some
not. He was afraid that Mr.. Richards
general plan was going to be inter
fered with by the Chinese themselves.
It would be easier if Amin took half
and Richards half. He was afraid
about the law if the Board should
license his clients place alone and
took the whole forty-he was
a little afraid of what the others
might do. Mr.. Richards would like to |
have all, but the Board could not show
In response to Mr. Pinkham IS state
ment about Anin's proposal to give |
each of his tenants an interest, and |
his running up against Richards
scheme when he had got about twelve,
Mr.. Wilmington said if Amin got twen-
ty it would be all right. Mr.. Rich
ards would have a contract not only |
with each individual, but with the hui,
for full observance of the regulations. |
Mr.. Pinkham, in the discussion, had |
told how hard place laundry was
to watch, as the Board had found |