The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-06-27
.CLEANES1 CITY
IN WORLD
TODAY
Honolulu Scrubbed from
One End 10 Other
Shines
WORK IS THOROUGH
Thousands Of Loads Of
Rubbish Removed
/ Surprises.
WORK IS THOROUGH
(FrOm sunday's AdvertIaer.l

Late yesterday afternoon President
Mott-smith received an iron box, sent
down by special messenger from dis
trict IA, and inside were the bones and
skull of human being.
According to the verbal report made
when the box was delivered, it was
found, with its contents, in rubbish
heap in Senator Judd's district and was
sent to the president of the board of
health for disposition.
From a hasty examination the bones
appeared to be those of Hawaiian,
which had been well hidden in the iron
box.
ssI am more than satisfied with the
work done in Cleanup Day, for it has
shown the people of the city what an
immense amount of dirt and filth there
was here, and which the board has to
battle against all the time.
"The work has also shown the people
something of what the board is up
against in trying to keep the city in
sanitary condition. President Mott
Smith, territorial board of health.
GIVE have had a great day, and al
though we could not finish it all, yet
we are satisfied with what has been
accomplished. 1t was more than days
work, and we shall see to it that the
whole campaign is. wound up on Mon
day, with the help of transportation
from the city and county.
Everyone has done well, and to each
individual is due part of the credit for
the success of the day.''-Chairman
Emil Berndt of Cleanup Day. com
mittee.
Honolulu Cleaner.
Last night at dark Honolulu was in
the best sanitary condition that it has
ever been, probably, and by the time
the cleanup is finished, with the haul
ing of rubbish from temporary dumps
to the regular ones on Monday, the city
can congratulate itself and the men who
have stood behind the cleanup idea and
pushed it through to success.
1t was a revelation to scores, the
conditions they found when going
through the districts which had been
assigned them.
Men who have read of filthy condi-
tions in Honolulu in the daily press,
and who thought it was exaggeration,
acknowledged last evening that they
did not think it possible such condi-
lions as they found could exist
Impressed by Filth.
One of the men who was SO impressed
with the conditions was George Guild,
who had charge of the work in Manoa.
"I saw things in upper Mapoa this
afternoon that / did not deem possible.
No wonder we had cholera. Two places
were so filthy that we went into them
and nearly wrecked the inside cleaning
out and spreading disinfectants. One
of these was Chinese store and the
other the home of Japanese.
"In the section where the recent
cholera originated the filth all goes into
the water which reaches the taro
patches and then goes down to the sea
at Waikiki.
HIn one place we found some ORR
entails sleeping within ten feet of q
great manure pile, and in another 9
Hawaiian woman had been bedriddeI
for eight months, and the place wa:
indeseribable."
transportation Inadequate.
1t was all question of transporta
ton yesterday, and had there beer
enough available teams the work might
have been finished last night.
At a rough estimate three thousand
loads of rubbish were moved during thu
day, and even then some had not beer
touched, but remains where the house
holders put it, this being true in thu
Kakaako district of General Seabury
and the downtown district presided owe
by Ed ToWse.
In each of these the fault was lacl
of transportation lin the first named
because it was not available and in tn,
second because Towse did not think h
J had such large job on his hands an'
had not made requisitiOn for enougl
teams.
In practically every district at leas
two-thirds, and sometimes all, Tn
t debris had been put ON the streets b.
I. the householders at an early hour Il
> the morning and was ready to be carte'
away
Had Been Waiting.
Manyof the orientals and Hawaiiani
4 as well as a portion OF the white resi
I dents of the city, seem 10 have beei
!. waiting for this free moving day Z
? got rid Of a collection Of refuse While
has been aeeumulating in their premise
for years.
iNeFN lMAtihhulc AFtAtle Was ~
eluded In the loads taken away duFiB
q the day = stoves, mattresses, beds, 81
z ware and kitchen utensils, mating b.
q lag Included, a. we'll as deeaylng veg,
. tailon and other rubbish which eoul
Z b burned.
ia nearly every district she men an
( teams were % hand 81 seven o'elef
q h ihe mofnlag end the work fou
) menffd with 3 will.
. some ~ ihe alfefi0fa Of districts nel
y iaHn iound that ihey would noi has
ea9ugh transportation, ana ~ eoa