Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-06

there was no employee Of the garbage
department on hand to sweep up the
litter left. He had also seen gar
bage wagon driver dump a box of
rubbish into his wagon and when a
piece of paper blew of and fell into
the street, the man had not picked It
up. This made II incumbent upon
the County Fathers to save the health
of the community by creating new
job, even at the price of saddling the
people with additional expense.
Hustace had been expecting this
plan to be sprung, but II did not come
of when he thought It would, and
when 1t was sprung last night he
was completely taken by surprise. lie
had no one present to support him
except Dwight, and his only weapon
of offense was his tongue, his ability
to talk longer and louder than his
opponents. He had no hope of con-
yincing them, for they were not open
to conviction. They were out after
spOils, and fought stubbOrnly to keep
themselves from being baked. But
they were no match for llustaCe, who
perslstently avoided putting the
question, and each time that II was
demanded, started new line of ar
gument. lie finally completely tired
the Harvey outfit out, and the meet
ing adjourned with nothing done.
Il is hardly probable that the job
will go through now, for It is under
stood that Cox, after the meeting,
was led to see how his dissemination
to NEEDLE with the work of any Of
the committees OF which he Is not a
member was making him a tool used
by the salary-grabbers to shovel the
peoples money out Of the County
Treasury.
The matter of separating the road
and garbage departments was not
brought up until all the other bust
ness of the evening had been dispos-
cd of and the Chairman had stated
that they were ready to adjourn un-
less some Supervisor had something
to bring before the Board. Fern at
this showed forward the following
resolution:
Whereas, the Road Supervisor OF
the District OF Honolulu, County OF
Oahu, has more roads 10 attend to al
this time tlnin at any time hereto
fore; and,
Whereas, the city must be KEPT
clear of all rubbish and other things
dangerous to life; and,
Whereas, 1t is the opinion of thu
public that the health of the cit,
should be.improvcd;
BE 1t hereby Resolved, That thu
management Of the garbage depart
ment of the city of Honolulu is here
by separated from the management
of the road department.
"And 1t is further Resolved, Tha
the chairman of the garbage depart
ment is hereby authorized to appoin
a superintendent of the garbage de
partment and make a report of hi
aoings at the next regular meeting o
the Board"
Hustace vigorously opposed thu
adoption of the resolution. Il thinl
you are going ahead little too
fast, gentlemen, he said. we hav,
a garbage department now that d
satisfactory and see no reason TO
any changes. You are going to in
crease the expenses of the County |
you make this change. You will hav,
to have new stock, new stables, new
wagons.
81 think the Road Supervisor ha
plenty of work to tend to on tn
roads" said Fern, and he ought [,
put all his time on the roads. | don
see how we are going to increase tn
expenses of the garbage department
We can change the department over
Just put another man in charge, an
use the same stables.
"You cant have two captains of
ship" returned Hustace. You woul
have trouble right away If you dt
that"
Harvey sullily moved the previou
question, demanding vote on wha
was, of course, his own resolution al
though offered by Fern.
Fern referred to the law forbid
ding one person from holding tw
positions.
Dwight asked to have the matte
deferred.
Hustace fished in his desk an
brought out an opinion written b
former Deputy County Attorney o
, son, in which he held that Col. Johr
, son could legally be both Road ST
pervisor and remain in charge of III
garbage department, as legally thel
is no superintendent of the garbal
department. There is no law an
no reason why the duties of superb
tending road work and garbage d.
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