The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-08

PRESIDENT Pinkham of the Board OF
Health suggested that an unremittinS
rat campaign be carried on by each
householder.
P c. Jones was of the opinion that
putting the Pail road into shape to be
lone of our finest drives was the
proper thing for the club to work at.
CLEARING OUT sHRUBBERY.
w. o. Smith wrote a strong letter in
support of his suggestion that much
could be done in the way of civic beau
tifying if the residents would clear
away a portion of the shrubbery in
their yards. He said, in part:
For further improving the appear
ance of the city nothing occurs to me
of greater Importance at the present
time than work on the line of improv-
ing the appearance of premises along
the streets and highways. In many
parts of the town and in many places
the growth of trees plants and shrubs
is such as to detract very much from
the appearance of those places.
Too many grounds and premises are
so overgroWn as to be mere jungles;
trees, plants, shrubs and vines have
been planted in such profusion and the
growth has been so rank that, aside
from a certain kind of beauty of d
jungle, the premises are unattractive.
This croWding is probably due to sew
eral causes; first, when the trees or
shrubs were planted they were small
and did not seem too close together,
and as they grew each had its own at
tachment, had caused effort, and there
is almost always a Discrimination to
cut down or remove trees under such
circumstances. Next, there is an err
'roneous belief, which many people
share, that the more plants and shade
one can have the cooler the house will
be. OF course, we all know that out
in the open it is cooler in the shade OF
tree when the sun is shining, but
we do not live under the trees, but
in the house, and very few trees
actually shade the house, but the thick
growth of trees, shrubs and vines sur
rounding the house shuts off the wind
and prevents the circulation of air
Were it not for the trade winds
which blow such large part of tho
year, life here would be very differ
ent and the effects of heat would be
much greater"
SYSTEMATIC ROAD REPAIRS.
S. M. Ballou wrote as follows:
I'm response to your request for sug-
gestions in regard to further work of
the Central Improvement Committee,
would like to call your attention to the
lack of systematic repairs on the roads
of Honolulu
Like everything else, a road is most
easily repaired when the defect is first
apparent. On the mainland, as far as
my observation goes, it is customary
as soon as an inequality appears in the
road surface, to fill the hole with No.
3 rock, wet it and lamp it down by
hand. This restores the surface of the
road and prevents further enlargement
of the hole.
In Honolulu apparently nothing of
this kind is attempted, but the road is
left to go to pieces until it requires an
entire new surface. There may be
some good reason for this, with which
I am not familiar, but I should think
that the matter would merit the at
tention of the Central Improvement
Committee"
OTHER SUGGESTIONS.
Among the other suggestions were
those of Captain Kidwell, who wanted
the vacant lots made respectable; J.
o. Lutted, who asked that the Beach |
road be made one of the finest drives; |
Marston Campbell and A. L. Griffiths,
who united on the question of mitigat-
ing the telegraph and telephone pole
nuisance, and two from Park Expert
Robinson, the development of the old
ffshmarket site as a water entrance |
and the removal of the stables now
cutting off the view of Kawaiahao |
church
BILLBOARD NUISANCE.
r. S. Hosmer touched on a live mat
ter in the following suggestion:
Referring to your request of some /
weeks ago for recommendations in re- |
gard to city improvement matters, I
beg to make the additional suggestion /
that as there appears to be at present +
no local law under which bill boards
can be banished from our streets, the
Central Committee appeal to the own
ers of the property on which bill boards
have already been, or are likely to be,
urging them in the interest of
civic improvement, to refuse to allow
bill boards to be erected on their land
and to terminate as soon as practic-
able existing licenses for the erection
Of bill boards"
Regarding, this matter, Mr.. Spalding
said that there had been mistaken
idea abroad respecting the attitude of
the committee and it's officers on this
question, certain high Off
Gals of the government seeming to
think that there had been an agree
nent of some sort between Mr.. Frazier
and the officers of the organization.
Il wish to state here publicly" said
Mr. Spalding, that no such an agree
nent has ever been made. Mr.. Myers :
has run up against the impression
given out by Mr.. Frazier that if GER .
tain obnoxious billboards were taken
down all objection on our part would
cease and that to push our campaign
spainst the other boards would be in