The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-11-21
Great Clearing Of City Streets
by Large Force Of Men
and Teams.
IMPROVEMENT MADE is FINE
About One-Third Of Debris Now
RemOved-City Takes Its
Turn Today.
fFrom Mondays Advertiser.l

(From Mondays Advertiser.)
Honolulu's annual Floral Parade had
nothing on the procession of banana
laden drays which wendell their way to
the two dumping grounds at the water.
front yesterday. When the teams first
began to arrive they came so much
faster than they could be unloaded that
there was a solid line Of them from
Oceanic wharf nearly to King street,
and from the Intrepid g wharf around
in front Of Alakea wharf and on up
Alakea street.
More than one thousand loads of ban
ana 3 and some other debris were taken
from various parts of the city yester-
day to the dumping ground, 115 teams
and 200 men were busy, two automo-
bile trucks, n traction engine and
rapid transit train being in service dur
ing the day, and last evening j. ]. Bel
ser estimated that about one-third the
debris had been hauled to the water
front.
Today thirty-fve county teams and
the rapid transit train will continue the
work of clearing away, and then at the
meeting of the board of supervisors to-,
morrow evening it win be decided what
further work will be done by the coun-
ty in the campaign, as far as supplying
extra teams is concerned.
i. How It Started.
There were several laughable Incl
dents during the day, one in the early
morning when a Hawaiian driver
rushed his single horse onto Oceanic
wharf with a load of four parts of ba-
mana stalks, and when asked why he
didn't bring full load he explained
that what he had there was the left
over of his first load. He had looked
several times on something with kick
in it and as his team stood on the
wharf the harness fell partly from the
horse and he had hard work trying to
get in on again,
During the first hours Of the morn
ing there was some mixup about labor
4orB to load the teams and considerable
time was lost on this account, and then
in other instances many drivers came
down with a third or half of what
should have been proper load for their
teams SO that not so much was accom-.
plished as might have been.
Taken all in all, however, it was a
good cleanup that Honolulu had yes
terday and those in charge deserve
much credit, but there is much more
to be done although fair beginning
on the mammoth task was made.
Out at Thomas Square early in the
day ten drays had been told to report
and when they arrived there was no one
to load them up. Did the drivers help
themselves to the large amount of rub
bish lying waiting for them3 Not on
your life. They calmly sat down under
the trees at the square and waited for
someone to come along and load their
wagons, thus losing about an hour when
they should have been at work.
District Laid Out
For the work of the many teams and
other transportation yesterday there
was a distinct district laid ont. Wal
kil1i it extended to Punahou street,
Eva to Kamehameha schools, and mau-
ka downtown to School street and 10
Hastings street mauka in Makiki sec-
ton.
Asked last evening what he thought
had been accomplished during the day,
Mr.. Belser, who was in charge Of all
transportation said: Sin the district
which was laid out estimate that one
third of the stuff has been moved, and
that we have brought over one thou
sand loads to the waterfront. We had
lis teams working. Two automobile
j. trucks which were promised failed to
show up and several teams which we
expected did not come to work. On
the whole, / think we accomplished a
good days work. " -'
At the Wharves.
"Admiral'' Gait, who had charge Of
getting the debris out to sea, did not
accomplish all that was expected Of
him by other members OF the commit
tee, only one seow being loaded during
the day and towed out, there being nc
men on hand to load more and the
STUFF was piled up on Oceanic dock