The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-04
BOARD WILL ACT
ON FIRE MENACE
Ordinance Extending Restricted
Zone will Be introduced
Next Week.
is A DISGRACE
FIimsy Mantraps Being Erected
in Anticipation OF the
Legislation.
CHINATOWN is A DISGRACE
(From Wednesdays Advertiser, :,

At the next meeting of the board
of supervisors an ordinance will prob.
ably be introduced extending the fire
limits in several directions. 1t was the
original intention to include the fire
limits in the new building ordinance,
| but as that document must of necessity
be lengthy it has been thought wise to
present the fire limit question in the
form of a separate ordinance.
As the fire limits now are established,
almost all of Chinatown is outside the
restricted area. Thus the authorities
have practically no control over the
buildings which are going up in a very
populous business district. In anticipa-
tion of the passage of an ordinance
extending the fire limits many japanese
tenements are going up in the ex-
empted district, the most of them being
nothing more than fretraps.
1t is with the view to putting stop
to this class of building that the new
fire limits ordinance will be introduced.
The new building ordinance, which
has been in the making for the past
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only remains for the county attorney
to see that the document is in legal
form This ordinance will be present
ed to the board at an early date.
| The ordinance represents some pretty
strenuous work on the part of Build
ing Inspector Miehlstein, Chief Thurs
ton of the fire department, and others,
and is very comprehensive Should it
l Al .n,,A
radical amendment it is believed that
it will accomplish the desired end and
will place Honolulu in a position where
the property owners of the city may
with propriety ask reduction in insur-
| ance rates.
Firetraps Going Up.
But pending the passage of the ordi-
nance there is nothing TO prevent the
erection of a lot of firetraps, and sew
eral are now under way. An important
measure of the scope of the building
ordinance will require some time for
consideration, and no one seems ready
| to hazard a guess as to when it will
be ready for the signature of the
Mayor, even should it finally pass with
out amendment.
The proposed fire limits ordinance
will be very brief and will simply ex-
tend the lines in that territory which
at the present time is menace to the
business section. 1t is urged that this
action should be taken at once.
Present Fire Limits.
The fire limits at the present time
start at the waterfront and run along
line eighty feet Waikiki of Alakea
street to point eighty feet mauka of
Hotel. thence to a point eighty feet
| Waikiki of Fort, mauka to line eighty
feet mauka of BeTetania, along that
! line to a point eighty feet Eva of Nuu-
anu, thence makai TO line eighty feet
mauka of Hotel, along that line to a
line eighty feet Eva of Smith, along
that line to point eighty feet mauka
of King, thence Eva to the Waikiki
side of River street, thence makai to
point eighty feet makai of King
thence to a point eighty feet Eva of
Maunakea and thence makai to the
waterfront.
The fire lines, as urged by the chief
of the fire department extend from the
waterfront along a line 100 feet Waikiki
of Alakea street to a point 100 feet
mauka of Beretania, along that line
to point 100 feet Eva of River street,
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