Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-04-07
ThWing's Agitation
Opens IWiIei Wider

The Board of Health, at special
meeting held yesterday afternoon,
washed its hands of the entire lwilei
matter and voted to have nothing fur
Their to do with the control of con-
ditions in that unsavory part of Ho-
noluu. BY this action the Board not
only ceases its own supervision. hut
makes IL more difficult for the police
Iwilei
The action of the Board is n vic
tory for Thwing Richards, ct al, in
so far as they have won out over
pinkham. But the effect of the vic
tory Is merely to throw Iwilei wider
open than 1t was before. to leave con-
ditions there as they were before, ex-
cept that the denizens of the district
may do as they please without any re-
gard to the sanitary restrictions
heretofore imposed
The attack on Pinkham yesterday
was led by DR.. Wayson, who appar.
emily made 1t a personal matter. AS
he stated after the meeting, Pink
ham has lied to me and am going
to get the --- - -"
Thwing and Richards were present
and both of them addressed the
Board, charging Pinkham with du-
plicity and making vigorous attacks
upon him. They were listened to re-
specially, but no particular atten-
ton was paid to what they said, the
members of the Board apparently
thinking, and one or two of them
saying after the meeting adjourned,
that Thwing and Richards were but
ting into things that were none of
their business. The action taken by
the Board was seemingly rather due
to desire to whitewash themselves
and make the community feel that
they had nothing to do with the dis
gushing mess that had been stirred
up. Fred. Smith strongly champion
ed Pinkham, saying the President had
done exactly right and should rather
be commended than condemned. At
torney General Hemenway was also
a supporter of Pinkham, but in rather
a passive way. He voted against
Wayson's resolution. but did not have
a great deal to say, except upon the
law of the matter.
Wayson, in his attack, took the
ground that Pinkham had exceeded
the authority vested in him by law,
that he had no right to recognize
prostitution or commit the Board to
any such recognition. Mark Robin
sons views conceded with Wayson s.
kalauokalani said nothing during the
meeting, but voted in favor of the
resolution to withdraw the Board OF
Health control of Iwilei. DR.. Bald
win posed as the exponent of moral
ity, at the same time claiming that
the control of the situation is worse
than useless.
When the meeting was called 10
order, Pinkham stated that he had
not been favored by those who were
responsible for the members being
called together with any intimation
of what the subject for discussion
was, though he supposed II had some
thing to do with Iwilei. Before taxi
ing 1t up, however, he would like 10
read a memorandum, and the Pres
ident read the statement which APP
peared In the B u | e I 1 II yesterday.
Wayson then stated that he was
chiefly responsible for the meeting
being called. He read written
statement, in which he said that
the Board had been placed in a very
peculiar position by being kept in
the dark as to what its President
was doing in lwilei. At the previous
meeting the Board had voted to en-
dorse Pinkham's letter to Theodore
Richards and the Civic Federation.
this action being based on Pinkham's
assurances that the Board had no
man especially detailed for work in
Iwilei.
Since that meeting, however, he
had learned that this was not true.
that the Board did have a special
man for Iwilei, working under the
instructions of the Presidentjof the
Board. Wayson at this point inter
rupted his reading to make few
vigorous side remarks 10 Pinkham,
blaming him for deceWing the Board.
In consequence Sof what he had
learned. he wished to dlsavow his ac-
ton at the previous meeting and to
introduc96a resolution ordering Pink
ham to ~ se his control of prostitu-
ton In INilel. II believe" he said,
that we ilre acting, as we have been
committed to that act by our Pres
ident, in 4 manner not required by
law"