The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-06-06
Tenement Owners, With
Others, All Attack
Ordinance.
NO BACKERS THERE
Supervisors Hear Lot Of
Arguments Against
Restrictions.
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The building ordinance, which for
many weary months has languished in
the secret hiding places of the city
attorneys Office and has recently been
rudely dragged from its seclusion and
placed in the incubator, was brought
out into the glare of the electric light
and placed on the table for vivisection
by the lawyers at meeting of the
board of supervisors last night.
An advertisement was put in the
papers asking all contractors and Others
interested in the movement to be pres
ent, but, at noon yesterday only two
copies of the ordinance had been called
for. Later fifty copies were sent around
by special messenger. Jack Lucas
however, was the only one who haC
anything to say ON the matter.
The rest of the argument rested II
the hands of J. Alfred Magoon, w. o
Smith and l.. J. Warren of Smith, War
rem and Hemenway, and Thomas Petrit
of Castle & Cooke. These with Jack
Lucas formed the battery of public
opinion that was directed against the
bill and their chief bone of contention
was that the whole of the county was
TO be included in the measure.
Just Argument.
1t was proposed to get through witt
the business last night, but on account
of the long and often repeated argu
ments that were used it was impossible
to more than scratch the surface. Al
a result the sanitation and health com
mittee are to meet again Monday night
when the various resolutions will bt
submitted in writing and dealt with
1t is very improbable, however, tina
many of them will have any chance o!
being incorporated as the board feel
that the ordinance as it stands cover
nearly everything that it was mean
TO do.
Jack Lucas, who was busy glancin
through the ordinance, managed to ge
a hearing after some time and toll
the board that they did not know wha
they were about.
az have just glanced through thi
ordinance" he said, "and you gentle
men do not know what you are doing
In the first place you can never enforc
this act. 1t would take more inspector
than you can ever get. There is to
much red tape about it. What is tn
use of putting So much damn rot int
a thing. 1t is no good and never Wi
be-
There were many minutes of thi
kind of talk and then Lucas subsided.
"Agin'' the Government.
Magoon apparently was "agin" tn
government. According to him ther
was nothing any good. In nearly ever
case where he referred to a paragrap
it was as "nonsense. 1t was simpl
awful, he pointed out, to inflict sue
terrible things on the poor people livin
out in the country. If they wanted t
build house they would have TO com
all the way into Honolulu to obtain
permit. The oppression of the poo
classes was a matter which could no
be tolerated.
When it came to n matter of tene
ments he was at his best. This was al
matter of trying to cover everything
at once and would never work out
What they wanted to do was to pas
a separate act dealing with then
They were interfering with the fre
rights of the citizens who, if they want
ed to build a ramshackle old place
should be allowed 10 do so.
For the City Only.
w. o. Smith harped on the point O
having the ordinance take in the cit
limits only. lie spoke many times, an
at last kept apologizing for being o
his feet so much. The only time
did not get chance was when he a
tempted to interrupt the attorney frol
KOna. Milverton told him that h
would be very much obliged if he woul
allow him to finish what he had to sa,
and Smith subsided.
Milverton gave a lucid explanatio
of the ordinance as far as the limit
went II was one of the eIementar