The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-18
M0TT-SMITH DROPS A POST,
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One of the latest STUNTS indirectly
connected with the mosquit' campaign
was the purchasing Of an Z. NJ. +.
auto for the sanitary inspector at Hilo.
For the Territory, the auto was big
iuicv plum. 1t paid $500 for it and
the shippers wharf committee Of Hil0
paid $500 more. The auto belongs 10
the Territory.
Hawaii planters and other people
have been paying a goodly sum each
month for the destruction Of rats and
other pests and the purchasing of the
auto gives the sanitary inspector a
chance to get over more ground. Con
sequentlv, Hilo's $500 IS well il
vested.
The shippers wharf committee of
Honolulu yesterday conferred with the
acting governor concerning the war
against the mosquito pest to be in
stituted here. Mott-Smith stated that
here is a chance to do better work
than heretofore, as more funds are
available and a more systemized plan
Of work can be carried out. The sani-
tary inspectors have been able to do
little more than pour oil in an occa-
sional breeding hole or stagnant pond.
Burning Midnight Oil.
Yesterday Auditor Fisher cast
dubious if somewhat humorous eye on
bills contracted by official automobiles,
etc, in burning the midnight oil. TAX
ing into consideration the fact that
office hours are pau by statute at four
thirty it does not seem quite right,
somehow, to get bills for light that
light the erring feet of officialdom
when according to the laws, officialdom
is supposed to be at the moving pic
ture shows or somewhere.
However the acting governor kokuas
it and the Territory will foot the bill
accordingly. "Seeing as what it s board
of health - says Auditor Fisher,
etc, etc.
1t is the board of health and the
board is willing to 'fess up and plead
guilty. This is what the board of
health does occasionally, the same being
that which consumes the oil.
A short time ago Mott-Smith received
a hurry call saying that Chinese boy
was dying of diphtheria up near the
Country Club. He rushed around and
called up Doctor Pratt and the two set
out together in the machine-with the
lights lit, of course. Upon arrival at
the house, the boy was dead.
The two set to work TO disinfect the
place at once and the dead boy was
wrapped in bichlOrided cloth by the
present acting governor himself Then
Mott-Smith went back to the city as
fast as his machine could take him and
hunted up guards and placed them
about the house and then he went and
got a coffin. This was all done when
other decent. law abiding people were
in bed and none knew in the morning
that one of their number had been do
ing speed tests around town to keep
the spectre of disease out of the com,
munity.
That is why Auditor Fisher gets light
bills for lights burnt after hours.
Capitol Notes.
DIR. V. S. Clark, special agent in
charge of the census for Hawaii and
A. F. Thayer, his assistant are at pres
ent making an automobile cruise around
the island and are expected to complete
the tour today. This trip, which start
ed Monday, is the first actual work to
be done towards laying plans for the
gathering of statistics on the island.
Marston Campbell, superintendent OF
public works, made trip out to Kai
muki yesterday to look over the ground
where the proposed reservoir is to be
constructed. Now that new bids have
been advertised for to build one OF
100000 gallons, the reservoir does not
look quite $50 ethereal as it did wher
the old bids were refused.