The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-02-02
EYES AND FAIRS
OF Government

of the governments largest inspection
services.
Big Fund for Food Inspection.
The inspection of foods to detect i'm.
purities is another very large item,
which takes big share of three quar-.
tiers of million dollars annually. This
does not mean that all the money goes
to government men, who wear n
badge under their coats and travel
about poking noses into this and that
corner grocery or place where provi-
sions of any kind are sold. There is a
big corps of wise chemists in Wash.
ington, for whom the government pro-
vides expensive laboratories. With re.
tort and crucible they test wide va
| riety of products year in and year out,
| and perform inspection duty quite as
truly and undoubtedly quite as effec-
| lively for the public welfare as the
gold-bra men of the inspection corps
of the army who travel hitler and
thither to make sure that every en-.
listed man keeps his shoes BACKED, his
rifle polished and is in all respects sol.
dierly. The inspecting chemists of
Uncle Sam S employees are authorized
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test, but to collate and compile and
demonstrate and illustrate. They have
nearly sufficient authority TO examine
every mouthful of food that is eaten
by any man, woman or child of the
| 90.000,000 in the United States, pro-
vided that mouthful has at any time
crossed n State border or is likely to
do so before it is consumed.
| In every State that borders on
| either of the two oceans there are
steamboat inspectors, who are paid tn
see that the hulls and boilers of ships
are safe. The government pays cut
annually almost half million for this
service, which comprises the employ
ment of local inspectors, assistant in
spcctors, clerks, supervising inspec-
tors andlso on up to the Inspector gen
eraI who has Offices in Washington.
Keeping Chinese Coolies Out.
An even half million goes annually
to keep Chinese coolies from coming
into the United States. These inspec.
tors almost form Gordon of "eyes
and ears along the boundaries
north, south, east and west--of the
United States. Not all of the half
million is paid for inspectors, however,
for some of it is used to defray ex-
penses of imprisonment and of depor-
taticn.
There are Indian agents and Indian
| inspectors galore, whose services and
travelling expenses cost the government
few hudred thousand dollars annually.
There are eight Indian inspectors at
| $500 each, who look after the loca.
| ton, construction and maintenance of
| irrigation works in which the Red men
are concerned Others are employed in
keeping fire water away from Poor Lo
on reservations all the way from Okla.
| homa to Alaska
The "eyes and ears" of the Postofiiee
Department cost something like n mil
lion dollars annually and comprise over
$50 inspectors, who appear on occasion
at every postoiiice in the land to re-
port upon the character of the local
| postal service, track down yeggmen
and perform a hundred different kinds
| of services for the maintenance of the
efficient collection, transportation, and
delivery of mail. M
There are inspectators of immigration
and naturalization, who cost almost
| $4,000 year and about twelve
months ago Congress authorized an ex-
| ira division of information in that
| connection which is costing about 500
| 600 or more. The administration of
| the public lands calls for another very
large contingent of government men. y
Protection From Timber Thieves
Quite a half million dollars annually
is spent to prevent depredations on
| public timber, to protect public lands
and to settle claims for swamp lands
This does not include large force en-
gagged in semi-inspeetion work for the
! Forest Service. 1t involves in all the
ramfications very large annual cost
running into the millions.
| During the last two or three years
the inspectors and agents of the Inter
state Commerce Commission have be
come very numerous. They now APP
pear in considerable numbers on tn,
trains through the west, collecting {
great volume of evidence and ascer
tanning whether interstate railroad
laws are obeyed. For the execution
of laws to regulate commerce. Congress
appropriated last year 100000 anC
$350,000 more for special agents ant
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Maui ports, January Sl.-Mr. Prosser
d. II. Kahaulelio, L. p. Low, Rev. II
Z. Judd, c. IL. Hartwell.
Per str. Noeau, from Nawiliwili, Jan
nary 3l.--Mrs. Lee Kun Yick, and q
deck.
Departed.
Per P. NJ. S. S. Mongolia, for Sal
} Francisco, January 30-Ed Crossett
Mrs. Eleanor Hyde, C. j. Goldman, Al
fred Jones and family, Mrs. Catherin
Windels-Holvert, Mr. and Mrs. A. j
MeWain, f. f.. Mallory and wife,
+. Mallory and wife, Miss n. Botkir
H. A. Pratt and family, Marshall Ellio
and wife, S. H. Moses, w. s. Thoma
and wife, DIR, Edward j. Rich and wife
, Father Edwards, r. d. Underwood, +
, Il. Calvin, w. II. Bancroft, L. Koepke
Mr.. and Mrs. f. NJ. Marshall, Miss L
: Marshall, j. Il. Elliott and family, L
: II. Osborne and wife, II. Hedemann, j
: t. Fitzgerald and wife, II. A. Hall an
, wife, w, ParkerLyon and family, W
J. A. Lieber, Mrs. c. b. Cooper, +. Il
, Poss, ], II. Maxey j. C. Goodwin, Ioh
y Lynch and wife, David Sloan and wifi,