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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-12

At the meeting of the trustees of
the Chamber of Commerce, which was
held yesterday, President Spalding
read a long and interesting report
from the health committee which re-
Gently made a tour of the insanitary
district with the Board of Health.
The report is published herewith and
it is interesting reading.
President Spalding reported that
the Merchants Association, the Com
mercial Club and tue Honolulu Stock
Exchange had appointed committees
to cooperate in securing a building,
and he also announced that w. F..
Dillingham; and A. Lewis Jr. had been
added to the committee. The report
of the party that made the sanitary
tour of the city is as follows:
To the Trustees of the Chamber Of
Commerce.
On the afternoon of September q,
your committee on public health, in
company with your president secre-
tary of the Territory E. A. Mott
Smith, DR.. j. S. D. Pratt, president of
the Board of Health; Senator A. F..
Judd, DR.. l. M. Sheppard, Sanitary In
spector Charlock and Mr.. Walter G.
Smith of The Star, visited certain in
sanitary districts of the city and now
beg to report as follows:
Old Nest Of Typhoid.
The first stop was made at Waika-
halulu lane. This thoroughfare is
passable for vehicles for about two
hundred feet mauka from School
street and ends abruptly at the Wal
KahaluIu falls in the east branch of
the Nuuanu stream. This place is
the future site of a scenic park on
land donated by Queen Liliuokalani.
At the present time the ground is
occupied by a number of wretched
houses which the Board of Health has
had to order vacated owing to an cpl
demic of typhoid fever which prevail
ed among the former occupants of
the houses all of whom were using a
common cesspool. After every rain
this cesspool, owing to the nature of
the ground, would overflow and drain
into the Nuuanu stream below the
falls. Although emptied twice
month by the Board of Health it was
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-12
JUDGE GRAHAM Of SAN FRANCISCO
DENOyNCES THE EVILS Of DIVORCE

divorces without the presence of
both parties in court The painless
divorce he declared to be not at all
for the good of the country.
Judge Graham condemned divorce
heartily, and declared it leads to
shame and decadence of family ties
and degrades society. To take away
the permanence of the family will
bring about the disintegration of the
nation The idea which is gaining in
certain circles that marriage is serv-
itude and duty a tyranny Judge Ora
ham declared to be a monstrous evil
The remedy for this, he said, lies
in the training of the young and the
examples of the elders. Girls must
be taught housewifely duties and not
to be household burdens. Young men
must be taught to respect the oppo-
site sex and to feel that the marriage
tie is a sacred and permanent thing.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-12
Encouraging Corporations.
SOLDIER SHOT At THE PRESIDIO
SUSPECTED OF 7RAITOROUS INTENT

SAN FRANCISCO, October Am
will be begun at once by
the military authorities as to the mo-
tives of Private Mckenzie of the
Twenty -ninth company who was shot
by a sentry when endeavoring to
cross the guard line in rear of Bat
terry Saffold near the magazine and
powder storehouse at the Preside
early Monday morning. The wound
ed man is being treated at the Pre-
sidio general hospital. Major Thorn
berg, the attending surgeon, said yes
terday he might recover.
The theory that Mckenzie was max
ing his way to the magazine room
disguised in civilian clothes at so
early an hour in the morning for no
other purpose than that of securing
samples of the governments secret
explosive "dunnite" is believed by
many familiar with the case.
1t was learned yesterday that Pri-
vate De Vine of the Sixty-frst com
pany was a companion of Mckenzie
on Sunday night. De Vine says they
had been down town and had return.
ed to the reservation shortly after IL
o'clock. De Vine walked as far as
the SiXty-frst company's quarters III
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-12

large wage fund for the support Of
wage earners, and are engaged in that
kind of work, that is evidence of en-.
terprise; we are to encourage them,
not discourage them"
The president took fling at some
tariff reformers' when he said:
There seems to be little miscon-
ception as to what my duty was in
respect to signing the tariff bills pass
ed at the recent session of congress
on the part of those gentlemen who
would be entirely consistent in sign
ing those bills. | mean the gentlemen
that are not in favor Of republican
protection and are in favor of a DEM
ocratic tariff for revenue or free trade.
1t would be entirely consistent in
them to sign any bill that reduces the
tariff, because they are opposed to the
tariff generally. | am not in that
class; l was elected as a protection
list"
Detection of Republicans.
The president said that he was per-
fectly willing to sign any bill that
complied with the republican plat
form uLon which he was elected, and
he hoped that when the people re-
allied the sincerity of our promises,
Continued on page twelve)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-12

company with Mckenzie and left him
at about 1870 o'clock
Mckenzie himself has not yet been
questioned.
The fact that Mckenzie attempted
to pass a sentry after darkness when
he was commanded to halt will be
question the wounded man will have
to answer" declared Major Thorn
berg yesterday.
In times of war it is punishable by
death, and in times of peace any
thing but death. Most likely he will
be tried by a general court martial
as soon as he RECEIVERS"
1t is said that this has not been the
only case where a soldier at the Pre-
sidio endeavored to secure samples of
explosive D." 1t is recalled that
some time ago a private in the Tenth
company, coast artillery, was found
in his quarters with some of the ex-
plosive in a paper bag. When asked
what he had it for he explained that
he was endeavoring to find from what
it was made.
This man was discharged from the
service after an investigation, but it
is said that before he left he told his
comrades he had managed to solve
the secret.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-12
INSANITARY PLACES DISCOVERED
BY CHAMBER Of COMMERCE PARTY

found impossible to keep the prop
erty in a sanitary condition or to pre-
vent seepage into the stream, the
waters of which are used for drink
ing and domestic purposes by large
population living below School street.
1t is impossible to effect sewage con-
nections with this property owing to
the lay of the land and the distance
from line of sewer.
It is the recommendation of the
Board of Health that Waikahalulu
lane be widened, Strengthened and eX-
tended through to Bates street, thus
opening up good property all of which
can be properly drained and connect
ed with the sewer system which will
be extended along the line of the pro
posed street.
Taropatch Bog.
From this point the party went to
Frog lane, a narrow passage leading
mauka from School street to what
was formerly known as the Detention
Camp No. in use during the first
plague epidemic.
Here the, conditions found were
most insanitary. A large tenement
abuts on several taropatches, the
tenement being occupied by a large
number of families, of all national
tiles, using in common open privies
adjacent to the taropatch. A common
washing place is also used which
drains into the ground used for grow
ing taro. In the center of the taro-
patch, in the water, stands a wretch
ed shack occupied by those cultivat-
ing the taro Close by is an ordinary
open privy which, after each rainfall,
overflows into the taropatch, the
waters from which fall by gravity
into small stream leading TO the
harbor. The water from this stream
is also used for domestic purposes
and will he referred to later.
1t is the intention of the Board OF
Health to recommend that Frog lane
be made street, leading from School
to Bates or Judd street, that the taro-
land be drained and that the. sewer
system be extended through the ter
ritory thus opened up. This Will be-
(Cotinued on page ten)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-12
TAFT DECLARES HIMSELF A
FOLLOWER Of ROOSEVELT

DENVER, Colo, Oct. 3.-When
President Taft was taken for two
hours automobile ride tonight and
hurled along at a speed varying from
80 to As miles an hour, it was but an
incident of one of the most strenuous
days he has spent since leaving Bev-
erly, more than two weeks ago
Taft made two important speeches
during the day, the first to the public
lands convention, and the second to
the members of the republican or
ganization, including the state CEN
trail committee and various county
committees. The president talked po-
litics to the republican committeeman
and outlined the position of the re
publican party as he interpreted it,
I'VE are in favor of progress and
construction" he said 1--WE are in
favor Of prosperity and of doing moth
ing that will interfere with the bust
ness growth of this country, provided
business growth ba along lines that
are legitimate and within the stat
utes.
Encouraging Corporations.
There is not any desire on our part
to hit corporations just because they
are corporations. And if they are
contributing to the growth of the
country; if they are furnishing a
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17
Constant Reader Tells What
He Missed m Last
Weeks Papers.

1T seems 10 m, remarked Busy Man
TO Constant Reader last evening, that
smell politics iu the atmosphere. Hasn't
tHe national pot begun TO sizzle merriN''
It's hardly sizzling but it has been pat
ON TO boil replied Constant Reader. Here
is some evidence of that fact.
The Republican National Committee met
iu Washington and decided that the Repuo-
lcau National Convention should De held
iu chicago. beginning June IS Harry 5.
Sew Will Jc chairman Of. the committee on
arrangements. which Will select thc tenn
pora> officers of the convention. The
Presidential primary plan. advocated by
some malcouteuts was defeated by vote
Of T. to e. Ex-Governor Hin was elected
chairman.
President Taft VIII Doe renominated on
tile first ballot and will Doe elected. This is
tho way most OF the members Of the Re
publican National Committee sum up their
forecast of the political happenings of the
,cminr wear. They regard the prediction
of The Tribune that la Toilette will not
receive one hundred votes in the national
convention as conscrNa ativ,. some of them
insist he will not receive half that number.
They take Colonel Roosevelt ~ his word
and say he will not uc candidate for the
nomination. and viii not even permit thc
usc oC his name They arc convinced that
Tho split between tho radical and the CON
sorystivc factions iu the Democratic part
Will provo fatal 10 tho aspirations Of what
ever candidate may be chosen At the Demo-
cratic National Convention. not only do
the members OF the national committee
favor the denomination of Mr.. TAFT. but so
do the most influential men in Congress
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17

through country districts to ascertain the
conditions existing at the various produc-
ing and shipping points and to study espe-
Cially the transportation methods on the
various milk carrying railroads
In 1904 an inspector visited a large
creamery in Orange County. y Y, which
conducted a wholesale business in New
York. lie found the manager skimming
The cream from each can of milk and pre-
pairing the shipment of number OF cans
cf skinned milk They were consigned to
this city iu the cooling room where the
milk was handled the inspector found a kes
Of coloring matter warranted TO give to
weak. blue ana thin looking milk the rich,
creamy color Of Jersey milk. IN the same
room was also found large quantity of a
solution Of formaldehyde i'm water. This,
II was learned 10y affidavit from the former
manager. was used regularly. and the small
glass stopper that was found was used TO
gauge the quantity that was squirted into
each can before u was shipped.
The adulteratel milk was followed to
tho city and destroyed. As a result OF a
report made OH the abuses found the per-
mits OF this company were revoked and
the company was compelled TO discontinue
business i'm New York city.
IT was as q consequence Of this special
case" continued Commissioner Lcderle.
that various inspections were made, and
II was decided 10 take up Systematically
ana completely the entire control Of the
milk supply Since the beginning I'm 1874.
the corps Of country milk inspectors has
gradually increased from two TO thirty
three"
In 1906 Mayor Mcclellan appointed a milk
commission. composed OF the following
prominent physicians: J.. Emmett Holt
Abraham jacob. Joseph D. Bryant r.
Mitchell Prudden and Rowland O. Freeman.
Among the recommendations made was
pasteurization of all except certain specific
grades of milk Nathan Straus, as far
back as 1892. had established stands for the
sale of "sterilized milk"
"Dairymen came to know five or six
years ago" said the Health Commissioner
that by subjecting milk to temperature
OF from 80 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit for
twenty or thirty seconds a large pro-
portion of the Tactic acid bacteria We're
killed. and as a result the milk remained
sweet and marketable for a considerable
length of time.
At first milk was subjected to this treat
ment and sold as raw without the knowl-
edge Of the consumer. Later, however,
some Of the dealers began the practice Of
selling this milk as pasteurized. Exposure
tc this degree Of heat for such a short time
does not. however. constitute proper and
efficient pasteurzation. on April %. ieoS,
the Board of Health therefore passed reso-
luuons requiring that when milk had been
treated by heat it should he SO labelled. and
that the label should indicate the degree OF
heat and the lensth OF time The milk had
been subjected thereto.
subsequently. on December 3. 1872 and
November %. 1910. these resolutions I'm re-
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17

go Great" in thc department ol commerce
aud Labor Il business court. or controlling
commission with power 10 llcens- corpora
lions doing interstate Of International buai.
mess!
"lu his annual report Secretary srim-,n
says that war with q prst ,las. power
would lnd Tho army practically uurrcparcd
lie attributed this largely to thc fact that
The army is scattered ont over the couu-
uy iu 600 many posts and Go Il larl, of r,-
serves Tile army on the peace footins
habitualIy maintained. with miniature COM
paulcs and troops he charactcrze- as u-
effective for ANY sciiou- var .er,.c.
Th, Governor. sprcial. conveying e.
rarF of Western 'N"uti'" aud thcir Icr-
rceonlauycs ou tour of lhe East reached
-NeH lQgA cil., where thy p5Lll va la
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17

zion denounoins the ueay before .hc h"Ii-
day rccess
"'IAe 'Novor Nfemya. OF 81. Petersburg
declared that the daya of The ltus SO Amen
can commercial treaty evidently were nuin.
brrrd. because no country could grant
mvre extensive rights to foreigners than
to its own subjects Tile paper declared
that the logical Development of the ubrog'-
lion Of the treaty would be- tie exclusion
from America OF hundreds OF thousands OF
Russian Jews. and the desire for such cN-
cusion' adds the paper. is the real motive
Of the Jews in the United states. who are
driving American politicians with % ptil"rs
whip
The House pa cd tuc sherwood dollar
a.day pension bin which adds millions io
ths gsuslon ro!-l. After A2QIlX ter hour.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17

gard TO pastcurized milk were further am
plified. so that to-day no milk can be sofa
in greater New York as pasteurized Whlch
has not been subjected to the maximum ol
15S degrees Fahrenheit for three minutes
ar to tho minimum Of 140 degrees Fahren-
heit for twenty minutes. The rules too
now require that all containers i'm which
pasteurized milk is delivered to the con-
surner shall be plainly labelled 'pasteur-
izod and shall bear the date and hour
when pasteurization was completed, the de
gree of heat. length Of time exposed 70 the
heat and the dealer. 1t is also PROVIDED
that no milk which contains an excessive
number Of bacteria shall be pasteuilzed
and that applications for permits TO pas
teurize milk or cream will not he received
until all forms of apparatus used shall have
been tested and the processes approved 10y
the Board Of Health
According 10 Commissioner Lederle there
is no doubt that one Of the chief problems
now confronting the public health authori-
ties is the provision Of a pure milk supply.
Careful investigation. he says, has estab-
Ushed the fact that excessive infant NOR
talitv is very intimately connected with the
milk consumed 10y infants. Moreover, there
are the intestinal diseases. typhoid fever
and tuberculosis that are caused by drink
ing infected milk.
The fact that SO many deaths occur an
nually from this readily prcventablc cause,
declared the Health Commissioner. should
rest heavily ON the collective conscience Of
tie community. Such condition is anoma-
lous and out Of place in the present era Of
scientific progress. advanced medical
knowledge and general enlightenment as
to the cause Of disease.
Tho responsibility for the continuance
of this danger to the lives OF babies and.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17

of fifteen municipal milk depOts. under ire
MANAGEMENT of the Department OF Heaith'
And that was the modest way in when
the Commissioner spoke of the cty's share
I'm the work of which he was the founder.
Yes. ne was sure there had been big rt-
suits The figures spoke for themselves
And To any one who has followed th-
progress Of the first city campaign the ia-
res speak whole worlds
II want TO save a thousand babies was
the wish OF Commissioner Ledeiie when ne
launched his fifteen experimental stations
I'm the spring of the present year The lat
est figures show that already more than
two thousand infant lives have been saved.
Dr. :. Josephine Baker head Of the child
hygiene bureau of the department, was
placed at the head of the work oy the
Commissioner And what she saw among
the poor Of the crowded sections of th'
city would tear "a heart ol iron. There
were mothers who fcI their babies cab
Iaee soup instead OF modified milk others
Iot their Youngsters eat pickles when they
were at am age when only the lishtcst
foods should have been fed to jhcm stH
others kept their babies wrapped in hot
clothes Oh the Varmest days. and with
almost chldlikc ignorance. many did no,
| know enough 10 bathe their infants prop
,rly.
/ What the Board OF Estimate and the
/ Board of Aldermen thought of tho saving
of two thousand baby lives was shown u
the amount of money appropriated recent
. lv for lhe work next year. Instead Of tii-
/ teen stations there will be fifty. instead
/ of $4,000 there will be nearly 10000 avail
able t. carry ON the work. II has bee1
proved SO conclusivelv that the high NOR
tality among infants IS needless that to.
/ city fathers have turned from thcil
/ thoughts Of politics and let sentiment carr,
. them of their feet. even when they were
T so economical as 10 chop off nearly every
other appropriation requested by the De
partment Of Health
Under the head Of the Association of
Infant Milk Stations the conservation OF
infant lives was carried ON this year.
| Heretofore the New York MILK Committee.
the New York Diet Kitchen the Nathan
Straus Pasteurized MIX Laboratory,
! Nurses Settlement. AIorninsside Milk Dis
pensary Babies Diaries and the Brooklyn
Childrens Aid Society were working scpa-
rately and often working in each others
territory. AT last they were brought to-
gether through the efforts of Commissioner
Lederle iu an organized attempt to dis
pense pasteurized milk and provide nurses
and medical attertion for the poor chill
dren OF tie city. There We're ninety sta
/ tions M all, siXty-siN OF them I'm Manhat-
| tam one IN Tire Bronx and twony-three i'm
! Brooklyn About twelve thousand babies
were looked after during the summer.
Nathan Straus has said: "No plague by
which the city was ever rayaeed can show
so many victims as the contasion carried
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17

Of wranelinE and debate. tho measure was
adopted 10y vote Of 900 to O..
Pursuing President Tan's rocommcnda-
ton that an executive bureau be created 10
supervise corporations chartered under "a
federal Incorporation act. Attorney General
Wickcrsham i'm his annual report, suggests
that the Bureau Of Corporations be raised
10 that dignity, even in the absence of the
proposed federal incorporation statute.
George W. Perkins, fnancier and di-
rector of the United States Steel Corpora
ton told the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee that the practical way to give
the country's big business relief from eX-
isting uncertainty and depression would be
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17
LEES WHACK AT PRESIDENT.

Republicans Of Indiana are loud in their
dissent from the statement given out by
State Chairman Lee at Washington. ia
which he declared that President Talt
could not carry that state. Republicans
charge that Lee. disappointed at not re-
cciling an appointment from the admins
tratlon. and backed Dy few men who were
defeated In 1910. s. opposed 10 Mr.. Tan
and aired his spite at Washington
Republicans or New York STATE were
astounded 20 read what purported 10 br al
interview with William Barnes. Jr.. chair
man VI the Republican State Committee. rs
which lie was represented as criticising GER
,alu acts OF President TAFT. az saying that
Theodore Roosevelt was scheming 10 be-
come a dictator. and as declaring that The
trend of the times was so much toward a
rure democracy that nc was about ready
to ioin in a. movement 10 start th'td
part,. Mr.. Garncs issued q denial
-Is fhofc any news aside from that t"u
have given me. cmanating from Washing
tQgi laa.slIsas E.4l.s Aan. .r7------.--,ssr---
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17
News of the Past Week Is Here
Recapitulated for the Busy Man

BY a vote OF 500 to the House in Wash
ington adopted the Sulzer resolution de-
manding the termination Of the treaty Of
1892 between the United states and Russia
because OF the latter country's refusal 10
honor the passports OF American citizens
Of Jewish faith The Senate, discoyering
that it would be. necessary to serve notice
on the Russian government before January
/ in order 10 terminate the treaty Of 1872
before 1914 took steps 10 pass the resolu-
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17

Nmta tho rest ol tho news tina, would
interest mr" asked Busy Man
\ vigorous hNcatgaton ana nros,cu.
u"u of all connected with thc alle..d J,.,,.,
mite conspiracy is the emphatic i,,i,,p,ti,,
from the Department of Justice directed IN
District Attorney Miller at lndianapolis
Revelations involving humorous r.rsons i'm
various sections OF tb. cou,tr, In ,p.
wW'D th' number is said to ro,cl, i,,,,, tr .
h'n'l''' N'l h" made to Tine rodpuI
F'"nd jury boo connection with tho alics d
existence OF % nationwide dynamite con
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17

clude all tho American meat packers
against whom prosecutions have been in
stituted in the United states from tender
ing for contracts for tho supply of meat to
the British army pending the settlement Of
the suits
"MeXico's finances make a distinctly IA.
vorable showing. according 20 the budget
estimates submitted to Congress by Err
nesto Madero, Finance Minister. The esti-
mated expenditures for l912-13 I'm round
figures are 100000 pesos. and the esu-
mated revenues exceed this by 1900 pesos.
Last years budget showed estimated eX-