Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-01-22
BOARD DISCUSSES
CEMETERY QUESTION
Urgent And Immediate
Need For Additional
Burying Places

DulylllS TldCtS
Cemeteries and the immediate and
pressing need for more of them, was
the principal subject treated of by
President Pinkham yesterday in his
report to the Board Of Health. In ad-
dition to Pinkham's report, leng-
thy and exhaustive report on the sub
Ject by Chief Sanitary Officer Ven-
liuisen was read, dealing with the
need for more cemeteries and his in
yestigations looking toward the find
ing of locations suitable and avail
able for them.
Pinkham stated that the time had
now come when something must be
done in the matter and at once. The
present burying places are all full,
he said, and there is room for only
few more bodies.
No action was taken In the mat
ter, DR.. Wayson stating that he
thought there should be full and
complete discussion of the subject be,
fore anything was done. He moved,
therefore, that special meeting OF
the Board be held to deal with the
matter. This motion carried. Way
son moved that in the meantime, bur
ials of INDECENT dead and japanese be
allowed to continue at Lochview GEM
otery, Pearl City, where Venhuizen
had reported that there Is still room
available. This motion also carried.
Pinkham's Statement
| Pinkham's preliminary statement
concerning the cemetery matter was
as follows:
Tuesday, January 81. 1908.
To the Members of the Board OF
Health:
take the liberty of again bringing
before you the subject of cemeteries
with the hope some tangible results
may promptly follow.
| Unquestionably Honolulu needs a
large cemetery that can properly &C.
commodate all nationalties and all re
ligions. A cemetery that can be laid
out and kept in condition, by provi,
sions for perpetual care. correspond.
ing to standards prevailing on the
mainland. Another essential is that
such a cemetery may be reached at
ordinary street car fares.
Some eight months ago thinking
real estate had declined to point
where private holdings of land might
be had for a cemetery site at cost
within public reason began personal
Investigations and directed Chief San
itary Officer Tracy and his successor
Mr.. Venhuizen, to inspect certain sites
and seek for others.
4 The government has neither In IIO
nolulu nor vicinity an adequate area
of land suitable for cemetery.
Several sites have been mentioned
that are unavailable even II public ap
prevail could be secured. Punchbow
Is now Federal Reservation and the
th,ry-eight and one.half acres on the
lower slopes OF Tantalus, In the real
OF the Lunalilo Home cannot be alien
ated from that Home.
There is a need for immediate re
lief In providing room for the burla
of the INDECENT, and prison dead; anC
also for certain classes of japanese
all heretofore accommodated in tn,
Makiki Cemetery.
Directly In the rear of Makiki Gem
etery and bounded by an extension o
Wilder Avenue, mauka street line, I,
the gulch below PunChbOwl and fol
lowing the contour of the gulch unit
II nearly joins the mauka line of tn
cemetery is a knoll containing pos
sibly two acres OF government Ian,
suitable for burial purposes. The lam
Is useful for no other purpose. TIL
Board can properly recommend thi
land be added to the Makiki Cemeter
and thus relieve the situation until
= larger cemetery can be established.
Here | may as well state the Boar
has never In any instance failed In It
duty toward the helpless poor, decen
burials with the aid of the High Shei
in, the County and benevolent socie
ties having been provided.
There being two cemeteries on IA
mehameha Fourth Road and the yicir
| ity and accessible from the street ca
line | made and directed special In
vestigation to be made In that Local
ity. While considerable land nigh