The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-09-26
ENGINEERS HOLD
ANNUAL BANQUET
MIST Enjoyable Evening Spent
and Problems Are Set
Forth vividly.


members Of the Hawaiian Engineering
Association at rs ninth annual banquet,
{" for within ave minutes walk Of the
capitol one can find himself knee.deep
in the slime of taro or rice patch.
o'There are $4,000 acres Of land in
this city, practically an acre for each
inhabtant, and of this total amount
there are more than $4,000 acres under
water which afford a paradise for the
production of mosquitoes.
''This third of the total area is more
than nuisance, for overnight it can
become a deadly menace to the city.
"Yellow fever and malaria are trans
mitted only by mosquitoes, and the lit
tie insects for the carrying of these dis
eases are here by the thousands. In
your offices the mosquito which bites
your ankles on the shady side of your
desk during the day is the one which
carries yellow fever, and the malaria
mosquito breeds in thousands in the
taro and rice patches"
His Stirring Appeal.
1t was stirring appeal for a clean
Honolulu that Doctor Hobby made in
his remarks on sanitary engineering
last evening after stating that he was
member of the comeback club for
having resigned his commission under
the government and decided to cast his
lot with Honolulu, whose prosperity
would be his own.
"We are in touch with coast line
of 5000 miles, every foot of which is a
potential breeding ground for the ma
laria mosquito, and coast line of $500
miles every foot of which is breed
ing place for the yellow fever variety.
90 Every day the means of transpor-
tation is becoming more frequent, and
we can not afford to follow in the foot
steps of Mauritius, which was once the
health spot of the Indian Ocean, where
whole regiments of troops from India
were sent TO recuperate. The malarial
mosquito found a foothold there and in
stead of health resort the island is
now pest hole.
Honolulu could easily follow in the
footsteps of Mauritius This is a virgin
population for the introduction of vel
flow fever or malaria. either of which
would cost tens of thousands of lives
and hundreds of thousands of dollars to
eradicate.
only One Needed.
All it needs is one mosquito to wan
der up from ship in port here to sting
one person ON Fort strickland then the
deluge.
'flt is a serious problem continued
the doctor, "and one which we must
face. We are sleeping on our own fun
eral pyre and waiting only for some one
to come along and apply the flame
which will consume us.
''Last year we had two slight cpl
denies of cholera. What did they do
to Honolulu? Ask the merchants of
Fort street, ask the hotel proprietors,
ask the automobile and hack drivers;
they know. Or go to the steamship
companies; they will back up these
statements I am making.
Hundreds of persons went away
from Honolulu on account of this chol-
era, and they win consider long time
before they return, as well as advise
their friends not to come. / am telling
you things tonight that you will not
find in the folders of the promotion
committee, but am telling you of con-
ditions we must face.
Lines of Defense.
HWe owe it to the future Honolulu
to prevent the introduction of these
two diseases. Our line of defense is
the quarantine station here, and back
of that, the last resort is our city. We
must put it in such shape that the dis
ease can not gain a foothold, and TO do
that we must do away with swamps,
taro and rice patches.
II want you to 60 away from here
tonight to talk with your friends and
devise means to stop the growth of
products in the city whose production
tends to give fOothold to disease.
Remember there will be knocks and
plenty of them, but we must fight
through those, and it is well to remem-
Der that those who do the knocking do
not know anything about making this
a white man s town"
Doctor Hobby is a strong speaker,
and his remarks found a ready response
in the gathering present at the ban
quet last evening, which applauded him
unanimously when he finished.
The Banquet.
II. ". Boyer was master OF cerem0-
MES last evening and when the men,
bers of the association and their guests
marched into the dining.room of the
commercial club at seven-thirty o clock
he welcomed them in the words of
Henry Watterson in greeting a presi-
Dental delegation at Louisville.
The dinner was one of the famous
ones which Steward Hamilton knows 80
well how to serve and nothing could
have been asked better to satisfy the
wants of the inner man.
Kaai s quintet club furnished instru-
mental music for the occasion, and such
entertainers as f. c. Vaughan, Rudolph
Muller and Chester Livingston gave
the necessary Frightening touch TO the
more sober discussions Of the evening.
Among the Speakers.
AlOnzo Gartley was the first speaker
for the evening, and he told of the be-.
ginnings Of the association and what
4 had done during the nine years OF
its existence.
Civil Engineer 0aylar, usN., told