The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-05-26

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The koNalo pond and lho hriehbof
ihF country presented an eutrcly dinof
oni ttpcct from the mesquite stand
point, however, aud was pronounced by
Mr. Mott Smith 90 be Dne Of the worst
sections VT the city. fod hy the he
hyalo spring which seems now 20 be
happily drying up, The country round
about har been converted into a awampy
bur, with innumcrahle bog.hule para
discs for the breeding mosquito aud
yet no room for the mosquito hsh.
The pond itself presents a surface
broken only by bulrushos and here the
hsh are keeping down the larvae but
IN the rest of the district there is
sufficient opportunity for the mosquitoes
20 swarm out over the entire city. no
mhttcr how well the rest Of the town
is cleaned up.
This pond and swamp present one Of
the greatest difficulties which the com.
mission and the engineers who will fol
low have to face. II is hardly moro
than foot above sea level and yet
there is twenty-four hundred feet OF
land over which this water must be
drained. Some Of this land appears to
be higher or as high as the pond and
there is practically no grade at all.
II belongs to the G. NJ. Cooke estate
and as the nearby country is also owned
by the large interests it is hoped that
the filling in of this land win be ar
ranged more speedily than if owned by
Chinese or others of the same class.
IL is fairly certain that as soon as the
tours in this district are complete the
board of health will issue orders to the
owners for immediate filling as provided
by the new law under penalty Of the
forfeiture Of the land
In Little Britain.
Sheridan street, to which the com
mission journeyed next, seemed to have
been wound through the marshes for the
particular purpose of giving the com
mission an opportunity to see the
worst as is. d" Salt pans, stagnant
! ponds which are permitted to stagnate
that the water can be scooped out and
used for fertilizer, and other features
equally attractive were all in line. The
rice swamps were met with for the first
time and Chairman Carter called atten-
ton to them, stating afterwards that
the commission had not yet given this
evil any consideration and would first
determine whether they were menace
before it decided to take up plans to
remedy it.
At the foot Of Sheridan street the
commission inspected the city garbage
/ dump which did not tickle the fancy
of the members overmuch, particularly
as the unsightly mound is directly in
the path of the proposed waterfront
] park strip. 1t has now been built five
or six feet above the rest of the coun.
try. 1t was pointed out that in this
place the entire country from the road
back almost to King street was lower
than the beach strip and had only one
little two.foot-wide stream for an outlet
near the dump.
The Drainage Question.
From here the inspection of the
various outlets that branch of from
the Manoa stream and drain Waikiki
were inspected with the purpose OF
familiarizing the commission with the
facilities they would find in clearing
this large stretch of land from its bur
, den of brackish water. The grades, OF
rather the lack of gradeL, which will be
experienced in draining the Waikiki
! swamps were given due attention and
the chain of low lands which stretch
from Kalia along Kalakaua avenue
! back of Ainahau to Kapiolani Parl
were examined.
From there the commission returned
to the foot of Kalakaua avenue neal
} "Sunny South, +" where it inspected the
} blind terminus of water course that
! has its source near Round Top. They
! then crossed the road and from tn,
vantage point offered by a banani
: mound inspected the twenty or thirty
J acres which stretch between this plac,
and the swamps they had just in
spected nearer the beach. This LAM
has been practically converted into
swamp by an artesian well dug at tn
corner of King and Kalakaua.
Hemenway on.
Charles r. Hemenway has so far no
attended any of the trips of the com
mission of which he is a member, an,
as he leaves for the Coast today it i
not likely that he ever will. His unex
pected departure has led him to leav
it with the commission as to whethe
he win resign and permit new ma
to be appointed or whether the vacanc
will be permitted to exist until he ca
return, which will be in about 81
weeks.
The commission will resume its tour
ond will v,naf IilraIu fnllnxr ~
this same stretch Of low land where
branches on towards MOiliili. wit VII
swamps at this end of the city will b
complete.
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