Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-10
FREE GARBAGE COLLECTION, SLOGAN
' OF IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE
Report of Cleanup Day Presented and Plans Laid for Future
Campaigns in Interest Of Sanitation and Identification
of the City

recommendations made last year, and
many unsanitary spots pointed out,
had not received the Board of Health's
attention up to June 20 of this year.
l sincerely hope that such will not
be the case again tais year."
Here followed brief extracts from
the reports of captains, namely: A.
~ F. Clark, Kaimuki; A. r. Gurrey, Dia.
mond Head; W. NJ. Bush, Kapahulu;
]. A. Gilman, Waikiki W. A. Green
we'll, Upper Manoa; E. Buffandeau,
Lower Manoa; Z. J. Mccarthy, Kai-
muki; William thompson, Prospect
Heights; k. D. Booth, Thomas Square;
D. A. Mcnamara, East Kewalo; A.
w. Seabury, West Kewalo; Ed Towse,
downtown; A. ii. X. Vieira, Punch
bowl; III. II. Walker, East Nuuanu;
F. j. Mclaughlin, Aiewa Heights; M.
F. Peter, Mauka Kalihi: M. D. Abreu,
kunawai; F. T. Warehouse, West
Nuuanu; u. Thompson, Kamehameha
Schools w: II. Nelnerny, west of Ii
liha street; Amos Mawae, Southeast
kalihi; ]. H, Schnack, Northwest Ka.
ihi; C. C. James,. Suptheast Kalihi.
Objects Of Campaign. =,...:..-.>:.
AS a result of this years cleanup
campaign President Won Damn con-
tinued, I'VE should urge and work
for
.rra l. A free garbage system, as have
mentioned above. 49,. ~.
z''2. The extension of the sewer SIS.
tenn to Waikiki, Manoa, Kaimuh and
other suburbs, and the obligatory use
rs ~ hxr al
should be spared to accomplish this
at an early date, even II the city has
to be bonded. 49,. 4.
SO, All residents should be made to
use water from the public mains, or
approved artesian wells. y Il.
"a. LoWlands and swamrs should
be slowly and Systematically draiIei
or filled In. .-- -. = :
IS. The abatement of the dust
nuisance should be studied at once
and trials should be made with dust
allaying sprinkling fluids. The seri.
GUS damage done to our peoples
health by the large clouds of dust con.
tinually blowing about the street, @of
this city, cannot be oyerestimated.
Permanent pavement In doWn-tc FIN
sections, II washed two or three times
a week. would also be of great bene-
fit.''s = = 50, -: .-.sa r q :; =
Cost Of Clean Up Day. = 49,. @
Various other suggestions hare
made along similar lines, particularly
relative to Improvement of the SAM
tary inspection service, and the report
concluded with a financial statement
showing the cost of y cleanup Day
operations to have been $1184.12, or
ar amount slightly Yiess. than last
A balance over of about $3.50 was
voted into a fund for another Cleanup
Day. or any emergency, subject to the
consent of the contrib dtors. . -
Other Business. 49,. =. r.. 20
! e. A. Berndt presented a report,
with enclosure from Territorial FOR
ester Hosmer, on the parking Of Ka-
lakaua avenue, which was. adonse.i
after long debate on the kind of
tree for the middle parK strip. The
committee approved OF Mr.. Hot mer's
recommendation of the true mshogany
but H. T. Mills made a fight for poin-:
ciana OF other flaming tree. -.s". -
Ed Towse presented q resolution to
establish q municipal research library.
with fling appliances, which was sec.
onded by President Gilmore of the
College OF Hawaii and carried unanim-
ously. g. :. -. $50
w, F. Wilson moved resolution in
favor of placing electric wires In the
Punchbowl district, where new sys-
tenn of streets is going to be made, in
underground. conducts, which carried
unanimously.
Another motion adopted was to
have a membership committee, which
will seek to establis h new and revive
dormant improvement clubs.