The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-05-30
REFUSE EMPTIED.
INTO HARBOR
CURRENT
Commission Finds Five
Hundred Feet Broken
Off Sewer.
WATERS ARE FILTHY
Ready to Go After the
Slaughter Houses
With AK.
WATERS ARE FILTHY
fFrom SUNDAY q Advertiser.l


4 During five-hour trip yester- X
x day the sanitary commission dis X
+ covered the sewer outfall to be X
X broken off five hundred feet short \
\ in shallow water and the refuse X
+ entering the harbor. y
= Open sewers running down Liliha X
+ street were surveyed, as were 9th X
+ ers, equally filthy, running through X
+ taro patches. On Tai tenements ];
4 were inspected and tentatively X
+ condemned. y
X Slaughterhouse conditions in Ho- X
+ nolulu were found to be such as x
4 would not be permitted in any \
= other city in the country for an +
1; instant. \
O#**#** X y ~ y = SO
The most strenuous day yet spent by
the sanitation committee was put in
yesterday, covering, as far as possible,
the Eva side of the city as far as Fort
Shafter, as well as taking launch ride
beyond the reef for a survey Of the
sewer outfall. The commission is down
to plain, hard work, tackling the worst
spots in the city with a cheerful will
ingness betokening the greatest inter
est, and, not content with "being
shown" has made enough discoveries
of its own to be able to ''shOw things"
10 Honolulu Is citizens, and has ex-
pressed its desire to do so.
The commission, which was accom-.
panied by Governor Frear, President
Mott-Smith Of the board of health and
Senator A. f. Judd, witnessed the sewer
Outfall, broken off FIVE hundred feet
from its end, the sewage of the city
bubbling to the surface like a small
geyser, carrying the vilest filth that
could be gathered in the town, and this,
caught in the current, drifted directly
down the channel into the harbor, divid-
ing between the harbor itself and an
eddy which carried it back up the shall.
low water inside of the reef.
Worse and Worse.
And this was in the afternoon, when
the sewer pumping station on the shore
was not at work. In the morning, when
Supervisor Low visited the scene, the
plant was in operation, and it was then
dOubly worse. He made up his mind
to see that the sanitation commission
went there, and at once made arrange
ments to that effect, taking them out
in his launch few hours later.
What the commission saw was a pipe
extending to within 1000 feet of the
bell buoy and ending in forty feet Of
water, instead of running to the bel
buoy in much deeper water as it should
have done. Two breaks in the pipe
however rendered the last five hundred
feet Of it useless.
The sewage was therefore emptyine
in about eighteen feet of water. I'm
mense schools of fish were swimming
about and 1t might be noted that this i,
the favorite fishing ground for all tn,
Japanese sampans which do not possess
mechanical power. Fish traps could b,
seen set all around the two breaks il
the pipe and they appeared to be al
ready well stocked.
Tenement Camps.
The first stop made on the tou,
through the city was at the notorious
Camp 2, on Vineyard street, leased b,
Carl On Tai partly from Theodor,
Richards. These tenements were erect
cd some time ago with q philanthropi'
idea, but proved to be failure from
that standpoint, and the "camp" i
now one Of the most prominent feature
on the police map.
The ground was mushy from the pre-
viOus night 3 rain and there was
pond under each house. The open wood
en- drain that ran the full length of tn
row Of buildings, passing under each
was stoppered with refuse, the drain
Hgs forming little pools The outsid
sanitary conditions were in just as ba,
shape
The laundry in the same block VA
also inspected and received satisfac
tory verdict, which was considerabl,
the opposite of that bestowed on tn
camp tenements, the very timbers i
which ara rotting away. Doctor Curl
made some measurements to secure th
cubic air space and in q room oeeupie
by four people found the space to com
barely over the 500 cubic feet require
per person.
Pierce Conditions.
Senator Judd next piloted the part
down Parker lane into the heart Of tn
taro patah district back Of Lilih
street, the fearful sanitary condition
Of which he previously called attentio
to in a.lctteF TO tho Governor.
On each side OF LilihA street Is =
open stream running its full length an
.omptying into bitches IN the neighbol
hood Of the o. r. & i. Co. depot an
from there into one Of the mai
streams In these little gullies the ss4
age matter from every tenement o
the street l. daily poured b. the
oriental and ether tenanfa
Conditions IL tie rear we're little be
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