Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-03-12

| city has stirred up the people OF Ha-
wall, over the liquor question, to
such an extent that Congress has
been obliged to make an appropria-
ton of $4,000 to defray the ex-
penses of a general election, which
will take place next July. 1t will
then be settled whether or not Ha-
wall shall have local option or pro-
hibition under Federal control.
The Civic Federation should now
investigate the why and the where
fore OF number of young Hawai-
ian girls being employed as touts in
several of the Japanese stores in the
neighborhood of Aala Park. My at
tention was drawn to these girls by
a resident OF this city who had no.
ticed their presence during the re-
cent visit of the Pacific fleet.
A number of these girls are still
doing business, and from what my
friend has told me and from person.
al observations, / can only say that
they are touts and are employed for
the sole purpose of immortality. 1
have watched them accost men OF
different nationalities on several &C.
casions.
This letter is not written by
Paul Pry." In all probability Il
would never have been written had
not my attention been drawn to the
glaring way in which these young
girls have accosted men since the
Pacific feet left. japanese are
very clannish people, and 1t seems
strange that they should prefer to
employ girls of a different nation
atty. when they themselves Will
hardly purchase single thing from
stores that are run by foreigners.
The market here should certainly
be inspected. Perhaps II is, for all
| know. but the meats and fish
which are so lavishly displayed on
the counters of the stalls have no
protection whatever, with the result
that millions of flies settle on these
necessary articles OF diet and must
be source of germ distribution
which may some day prove serious
to the public health.
In Los Angeles, as you well know,
the city fathers passed an ordinance
that all fruits displayed in open
boxes must be covered AID protected
from outside contamination. 1t is a
common sight TO see boxes of fruit
covered with mull-mull, go fine that
flies and other germ-spreaders can
not possibly have access to the con-
tents. Some such ordinance should
most assuredly be passed here, and
the health department should see to
1t that the meat and fish as display
ed In the city market should not be-
come the lavatory for millions OF
flies. ISL
Another very important feature in
connection with this market Is the
dust problem, Many OF the stalls
face King street, one OF the main
thoroughfares of the city. Street
cars and conveyapces of all kinds
pass to and fro every few minutes
and raise clouds of dust This is
blown into the market and settles
upon the exposed meats ard fish.
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