The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-09-08
DON'T BREAK THE
BOTTLE ON Street

If you happen to forget the law that
imposes fine upon any one who throws
bottle or glass into the street, spe
cial officer of the, municipal govern
ment will now forcibly remind you, for
the supervisors have appointed spe-
cial officer, whose duty Is to see that
the streets are kept free from glass,
the cutters clear of distractions and
the sidewalks open to public use.
A. K. Yierra is the officer in ques-
ton and in his first half month 9 work
has found much to contend with, par
ticularly the habit people have of
throwing broken dishes and glassware
remnants into the streets and with the
joy riders who cast empty wine, gin,
whisky, beer and soda water bottles
overheard as they whirl along their
giddy ways.
There is a maximum penalty of 300
for any one convicted of throwing glass
into the streets, and streets mean side
walks, cutters and roadways. Mr..
Vierra finds that sidewalks are favor
tie places on which to dump dangerous
debris of this character, particularly
where the sidewalks have been allowed
to become oyergrown with grass and
weeds.
The county has passed an ordinance
that sidewalks must be kept clean by
| lot holders, and this ordinance is now
being enforced, much to the beautifica-
tion of the city. Sidewalks in the resi-
dence parts of the city are generally
covered with long grass andsmany are
absolutely impossible. Under the or
ders of the new officer these sidewalks
are being made presentable and over
hanging branches of trees and hedges
are being cut away.
Vierra states that he has gone into
the tenement districts and notified the
people of the reading of the law relat-
ing to penalties for throwing paper, tin,
tin cans, stones, glass or anything dan
gerous into the streets. He has his
Imen carefully go through these sections
but hnds the people careless and more
or less defiant. In the tenement dis
tricts the habit of throwing empty bot
ties into streets is so ingrained that
many can. not understand why that is
Z not the best place to chuck a bottle
latter its contents have been drained.
But the. tenement jewellers are not
The only offenders, for even on Fort
street the merchants permit their jani-
tors to dump sweepings and other rub
'bish directly into the gutter. There is
n man employed on Fort street whose
duty is TO use a floor broom on the
pavement to keep it free from dirt for
three reasons. The first is to make the
street. cleanly at all hours of the day.
the second is to prevent street dust
4 from sWirling all over passersby, and
the third is to keep dirt down to min
imhm so that it win not be carried in
by winds and deposited an over the
stocks, And yet, on the other hand,
the storekeepers permit rubbish to be
swept into the street only to be car.
rled back as a fine dust directly Into
the stores and mainly upon the goods
exposed for sale.
The special officer expects to hayf
the merchants agree 70 sweep the side
walks only after they have bean
watered and not TO deposit floor rub
bish into the street 1t al, but into
boxes, 10 be carried away by the gar
bage department.
The residence sections Of the cit,
are 20 be visited frequently and house
holders warned that their aidewalki
lhnat be kept elean. The city, on III
other hand Il expected % keep "a
streets IN order.