The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-11-03
PATRIOTIC" CITIZENS
TRY HOLO-UP STRIKE

The board of health yesterday in
creased its force of men to between
one hundred and twenty and one hum
bred and Afty on the job in lower Ka.
lihi.
The feature OF the work yesterday
vas strike by the Portuguese and
Hawaiian laborers who were drawing
two dollars day, but who were re-.
qnested to do one days 3 work for it.
They struck, apparently depending on
the law which eompels government
officials to employ citizen labor ex-
clusively on government work. They
are now out of job. There are still
one hundred and fifty men at work.
The work about Kalihi camp and the
neighboring districts continues along
the same lines as previously and will
be completed on schedule time Aho-
poke, the Hawaiian guard on the
Hongkonk Maru, who broke quaTan-
tine himself while infected with yellow
fever, is reported to be beyond all
danger himself.
Comprehensive Plans.
Subcommittee of the citizen com
mittee in charge of the determination
of mosquitoes and the fight against any
possible yellow fever epidemic, report
ed to their main body yesterday after
noon and received further orders.
The reports clarified the work ahead
and made possible more definite plans
regarding it. The campaign, which
will gain its final impetus Monday
morning with the enlistment of forty
or fifty non-commissioned officers as
district lunas, will continue for three
months, covering approximately ten
thousand acres of land, one square foot
at a time, and will employ between
four hundred and five hundred men for
nine hours day, six days in the week.
There will be no road work methods
introduced, The citizens committee
will arrange for 425,0O0 hours OF total
work and viii get it.
Doctor Pratt Reports.
Doctor Pratt, president of the board
of health, was the first to report. He
mentioned recommendations made to
him that each of the nine sanitary
districts of the city be placed in charge
of a lieutenant of the committee. They
should have the control and guidance
of the mOsquito-squad leaders in that
district and would in turn report to
the central committee, thus preventing
the machine from becoming cumber-
some.
Doctor Pratt stated that he had
worked out the estimates of probable
costs, which he had turned over 10
Secretary Mott-smith with the request
that they be revised. There will be a
conference this morning 10 complete
them and they will be submitted 20 the
citizens committee this afternoon. It
IL the last information which the latter
body now awaits.
He announced that the bulletins Pc
qnested by the committee had been
prepared and would be printed today
IN the form OF posters and Ia the
English, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese
and Hawaiian langaages, lie also 10.
ported that be had finished his part ~
he Instructions 20 inspectors which ara
10 BE- printed and that Doctor OnTTie,
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