The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-06-27
ONLY THOUSAND
DOLLARS IS COST


Less than $1,000 will be the cost OF
Cleanup Day, according TO the esti.
mate made yesterday afternoon By the
officials in charge
In addition 10 all the rubbish which
was collected on Saturday 3l4 loads
were moved in the downtown district
yesterday, and in other districts the
amount taken up brought the total for
the day close to the 600 mark.
Ed Towse, who had charge of the
downtown district, finished work at
three,tbirty yesterday afternoon. From
the Fort and School streets dump there
was taken 1876 loads to the 1wilei dump,
and in addition to this $50 loads were
burned without having to be transport
ed at all
Fire played an important part in the
cleanup work, there being FIVE fires 20
ing on the Fort street dumping ground,
which took care of many tons of rub
bish that otherwise would have been
sent to IwiIei.
Besides the rubbish taken from the
temporary dump, forty-nine loads were
taken from Chinatown and sixty loads
from other parts of Towse IS district.
over Thousand Loads.
Actually there were moved in the
downtown district 1l79 loads of stuff
in the two days
All the city and county wagons were
on the job and it is expected that about
all the work will be finished by to
night, although there may be small
portion left over for tomorrow.
High Sheriff Henry and his prisoners
helped out a lot yesterday, for the mer
were put in charge of the fires on the
temporary dumps and in that way goi
rid of lot of rubbish.
The prisoners sorted the large heaps
, of rubbish and burned all that woulC
, take fire, saving much hauling.
: The cleanup committee tried to hirt
wagons to help out those of the city
/ and county, but none were to be hat
4 yesterday at all at the regular prie,
of ten dollars. Saturday the team
: were donated in many cases and thos
: which had to be paid for cost only thu
price of the driver and helper, thre
dollars.
That there will be some interesting
reading in the reports of the distric
directors seems evident from the frag
mentarv verbal reports which have beer
made at headquarters since Saturda,
evening, and some of the prominen
people in the city are likely to hav
| or l.
the district bosses of the cleanup.
Hog Ranch In City.
Out Waikiki way Director Cure,
found several open cesspools in som
of the finest residence property, an,
ON one lot there was a good-sized no,
, ranch.
Director McCarthy's report from hi
district will speak we'll of the Japa
nese. it is understood.
He mas been one of the most con
q sistent fighters against the eneroach
ments of the Japanese on Beretania an
,, other streets in his neighborhood, blu
! he stated yesterday, that as much a
lie hated to admit the fact, it wa
. nevertheless true that the Japanes
Q camps in his district were the cleanes
! places in if.
Bonfres have helped in the cleanu
n on the property of the private citizen
: before the work began on Saturday, TO
,, mnny scores of carloads of rubbis
/. were destroyed before the cleaning me
+ came around on the eventful day.
g At four o Clock yesterday afternoo
/; there was large crowd of laborer
r present at cleanup headquarters an
they all received their pay for the wor
n done Saturday.