The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-11-21
Army Of Teams and Men Start
Work Hauling Refuse to
SCoWs.
BANANAS ARE NOW ALL DOWN
FalIaway Has Found the Yellow
Fever Mosquito in Several
Places.
tFrOm sunday,s Advertiser.l


With the last of the bananas in Ho-
nolulu outside of commercial pianta-
tions cut down last night, and hun
dreds of tons of dead plants, tin cans
and other debris piled up along Homo
lulu's streets, the whole town turns
to this morning and for the next ten
hours will strain every one of its trans
portation muscles in an effort to clear
it all up and get it out to sea.
1t marks the first full step taken in
the campaign against the mosquito 1t
represents also the spirit in which the
community is backing up the men
which it appointed to represent it in
the campaign.
One of the big draying companies of
the city, after donating the services of
two-thirds of its great equipment, yes
terday heard that there was still big
shortage and sent an offer to the COM
mittee to supply twenty more double
team lrays, the last of it's facilities,
and the necessary horses, providing
that the committee pay the drivers for
the day. The offer was thankfully ac-
cepted.
VIII Be Busy Today.
In all, over two hundred and fifty
wagons win be in the streets all day
today carting away the refuse and ba-
7anas. The Oceanic wharf, the present
dumping ground at the foot of Fort
street, and the Esplanade sea wall will
be used as dumping points for the drays
and their loads will be thrown right
over into the waiting scows. The tug
Intrepid will do the towing.
Doctor Blue yesterday presented to
the committee at its noon session, a
complete typewriter plan for the di-
Tection of the army of men and teams
that go on the job at seven or eight
O'Clock this morning. The plan cover
ed many pages and was the result of
much hard thought and forethought, and
4 the fact that it could be prepared,
and be pronounced by teaming experts
to be almost perfect, speaks well for
Doctor Blue IS grasp of the situation.
As great a credit goes to J. j. Belser,
who gathered all the data necessary to
& draw up the plan and who also furnish
ed much sound advice as to how the
material should be handled.
Calopus Is Here.
A report was rendered the committee
covering his week Is work. BE reported
breeding out an adult Stegomyia calo-
pus mosquito from larvae gathered in
q rain barrel in upper Palama. He
also stated that he has large number
of larvae from the same source and
had no doubt but that they would
breed out in the same way.
During the meeting Fullaway hap
IN rio M nf a
Jars and seeing a gaudy looking mos
quito fitting about inside, having but
shortly before emerged from the pupa
stage, he took it out and found it to
be plainly marked specimen of the
game species. This specimen came
originally from a Chinese shack Oh
Beretania avenue.
In his report to the committee Full
away reported as having found the
"Stegomyia fasciata,'' Doctor Blue
requesting that it be changed to Stego-
myia calopus, the name to which the
public had been educated. Fullaway
commended that fasciata was the name
most recently adopted by science, and
used by Theobald, the admitted author
ity on mosquitoes, but the medical
officer called his attention that the name
had been dropped long ago by z0olog-
lists and that practically no such mos
quito existed.
City Garbage System.
Charlie Costa with the teams of the
road department has done much work
in the past two days in hauling banana
stalks and other refuse from the streets
TO the wharves for shipping to sea,
and the wagons, men and animals of
the department, provided by action of
the supervisors at their Wednesday
evening meeting, have helped the con
gestion considerably.
Together with ]. ]. Besler, Costa was
at work in the mayor . office all yes
Eerday morning getting the new teams
for Sunday appOTtioned for the work,
md directing those on the job at that |
line.
No long hauling was done by the |
sity teams yesterday, they eontentlng
themselves with bringing the debris |
put where IL could be handled more !
asily, and majority Of the teams be-
ng IN Manoa where banana stalks we're |
H0ught 10 the end Of the ear line,
FheTe there Was small mountain Of
be stun by noon.
BelseT reported az eleven o clock yes.
erday morning that ho bad up 10 that
lme seventy double dFays, thiFly.ssVen
jingle ones, ave delivery wagons, four
lniomohile trufka, oas tTaelloH engine,
&c rapid trenaii train and 800 men 10
p On che sob enrly fhis nsrning. ana |
Hefs q moFe we're eoming IL az che