The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-01-01
ADDING TO THE
EXPENSE BILL

The announced appointment by May
or-eiect Fern of superintendent of n
garbage department and the Iivorcinp
of that department from that of roads
which will follow the appointment.
is the carrying out of plan advocated
by him year ago as member of the
Board of Supervisors, plan which is
said to have been inspired by Charley
Aehi. AT that time, but for the pres
sure of opinion against it, the separa-
tlon of the departments wouId have
Deen made, the two Democrats ON the
Board having the moral support of
supervisors Archer and Cox. The add
ed expense the separation would have
been was so clearly pointed out, how
ever, that the matter never came to n
vote. Now, with Fern in the saddle.
the change appears likely to be made
and the extra expense incurred.
AT the present time the superintend-
ent of garbage, who is also the road
supervisor, receives $50 month salary
y
A superintendent who has to depend
on that one job for a living must
receive certainly more than $50 a
month, while in several other importan+
particulars the expense of maintaining
separate department would be greater
than under the present system. In 1902
when the garbage department was I'M
der the Superintendent of PubIic
WORKS, the expense on the public was
Soooo month, but this was cut down
through the extension of the sewer svs.
TEN and otherwise to $225O per month
IN the first months of 1905, with the
es'apilshment of county government.
while, with the coming in of the pres
ent Board of Supervisors in 1907 tbs
monthly expense had been cut to $l975.
Inc amalgamation of the road ana
Carnage departments was made in 1904
out separate stables were maintaineJ
until the present government stables
were built.
Durlng the past few months the ex-
pense of the department has been still
further decreased, to $l399 last mcntb
put the income has fallen off consid-
erapiy, for some reason, being $3.50 less
IN November than in January. In that
month the net cost of the GARBAGE dc.
partment had been reduced to 1929:
last month it was 5000, while if n
separate department is created again
the cost to the taxpayers will approxi-
mate $1,000 month at least.
Gut OF thirty head of stock, the prop
erty of the garbage department. onIv
eighteen are used in the service. the
remaining twelve being used bv the
road department in regular road work:
ana only two excavator wagons being
necessary, the rest are turned into street
sprinklers
Should the division be made it will
not only increase expenses by employ.
ing foreman, watchman, stablemeu
ana Others necessary for the runrino
OF separate stables, but it will neces-
sitate the turning over to. the garbage
department together with other prom.
erty for which it has long since ceased
TO nave use, some twelve head of stock.
now used for road work, and eight ex-
cavators which are being used as street
sprinklers, and which in case of divi-
sion could not be maintained by the
road department, and the superintend.
ent OF the garbage department be ex-
pected to account for, while man
with some thousands of dollars in stock
TO be responsible for deserves more than
500 month, especially with all his
clerks getting higher pay than that.