Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-10-12

FOR CLEAN CITY
Seeing Honolulu" Tour Re.
suits In Pledge Of Help to
Health Board.

As result of the Seeing Homo
lulu" tour made by members of the
Chamber of Commerce under the
guidance Of the Board of Health. the
Chamber yesterday pledged hearty CO.
operation with the board in its pro-
posed campaign to rid Honolulu for
ever of the present insanitary spots.
The pledge was given in the form
of the adoption OF a strong report on
the situation made by George w.
Smith, chairman of the chambers
health committee. Mr. Smiths re-
port, after describing the insanitary
conditions seen by himself and other
members of the chamber on their spe-
cial trip, states
THE plans proposed by the board
of health are excellent and, IL carried
out, will practically eliminate disease
breeding foci, drain land that will be-
come of high value and remove from
cur midst a condition that ought not
to obtain in any civilized community.
In conclusion your committee
strongly urge that the hearty support
of the chamber of commerce be given
TO the board of health, not only for
the immediate work In hand, but also
In the proposed legislation looking to
the opening of streets and drainage
of lands, to be laid before the legls-
lature. either In special session or at
the regular session in 1913"
The report was adopted, and Presl-
dent Spalding, for the entire cham
her, congratulated Mr.. Smith on the
excellence and thoroughncss of the re-
port and declared that its recommen-
datiOns should be carried out.
The meeting yesterday was busy
one, with a number of details of rou-
tine in the way of correspondence.
The work of Mr.. Smith and the
chamber against Il modification of the
quarantine regulations was reviewed
briefly. President Spalding reported
that Robert Dollar. the steamship man
had called upon him Tuesday while
the Siberia was in port on its way
out to China, and that they had talk
ed over the matter of local entertain
ment for the Chinese business mems
= party, to extend an invitation to which
& Mr.. Dollar is going out to the Orient
representing the Associated Cham
4 bers of Commerce of the Pacific coast
= The matter Is turned over to the en-
% tertainment committee. The part!
u will not be here until next March.
n Another matter the entertainment
committee Is empowered to get bus!
! on, is the approaching visit of tn,
Seattle chamber of commerce. whicl
a Is supposed to come here on the Ho
n nolulan In few weeks. II was in
Il formally decided that the entertain
ment, while not elaborate, will b
n hospitable.
al The Oahu Central improvement
committee sent In communicable
n asking the cooperation of the cham
q Der In its plans for a free garbag
n collection system. This was rcferrc
~ to the health committee which wi
report to the chamber.
- A communication was received froi
4 a theatre company rebuilding the oil
!, Tivoli In San Francisco and askin
). the chamber II Hawaii will pay tn
"a cost of having a local scene painte
A. on the drop curtain. The commun
- cation was ordered filed, amid tn
10 smiles of the members.
A.. Other routine matters were take
ei up and disposed of rapidly. Chairma
T.. f. Paxton, OF the committee q
L. harbors, shipping and transportatlo
p. reported that the matter of gettin
IN free tolls through the Panama cam
,e for coastwise shipping Is progressin
N favorably. a...
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