The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-08-02
Of FLIES
TROUBLES |WILEI
Workers Complain of the Pest
Caused by Dump Of Hawaiian
Preserving Company.
LFrom Thursdnv,s AdvertIser.l

tFrom Thursdays Advertiser1
The plague of flies which are at.
traeted by the dumped refuse of the
Hawaiian Preserving Company at Iwi-
lei is rapidly assuming serious propor-
tions, Complaints are being made not
only from the several companies which
make their headquarters in the Iwilei
district but also from Quarantine Island
whittier the hosts of flies are driven
by the strong trade winds coutsing
through the Nuuanu gap.
The workers in the Iwilei factories
md their places Of labor almost unten
able on account of the pestiferous
swarm, and the passer along any of the
roads which intercept this hnsalubrious
district become the prey of millions of
disease breeding winged insects. The
manager of the Hawaiian Preserving
| Company much regrets the unfortunate
state of affairs which prevails in his
bailiwick and promises immediate re
| dress in the shape of modern in
GENERATOR which shall dispose of the re.
fuse of his plant without annoyance.
The president of the board of health
states that he has exercised due vigil.
ance in the matter and that the fact
that he has been hitherto unable to
ahate the nuisance has been due to bad
luck rather than bad management. The
committee on sanitation and health of
the board of supervisors, through Chair.
man Kruger, makes no bones about Law.
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of health, and states that the board
per Sc, has absolutely no kuleana in the
matter.
Meanwhile the plague of flies contin-
ues and the groans of the sore afflicted
Iwilei workers rises to the high
| heavens.
Flies Everywhere.
A representative of The Advertiser
visited the dump of the Hawaiian Pre-
serving Company yesterday afternoon.
The trail to the dump was made clear
by the presence of bevies of flies which
lowered over the saccharine leakage
from the refuse-laden wagons which
had passed that way. These flies
alight on the visitor by the hundred
whether he travel on foot or in a hack.
The first impression that a stranger
gets of lwilei is that it is a factory
center of no mean Importance. In this
district are to be found among other
plants those of the Honolulu Gas
Works, Hawaiian Pineapple Company,
American Can Company, Hawaiian Pre-
serving Company, Honolulu Soap
Works, Associated Oil Company, Union
Oil Company Standard Company, Wal
amaze Lime Company, and the Hawaiian
Fertilizer Company.
The employees of these works, who
number into the thousand, are com.
posed in large measure of women and
children. None of these factories is
screened from the fly pest, though
their Offices, with the exception of the
Hawaiian Fertilizer Company, Homo
lulu Gas Company, and the Waianae
Lime Company, in which the higher
priced employees of these concerns
work, have been screened, thanks to
vigorous protest on the part of the
workers. The employees of these fac
tories are pestered all day long by
noisesome flies and many of the cases
of sickness occurring among them have
undoubtedly been caused through the
agency of the winged disease breeders
from the near by dump.
Reach Quarantine Island.
Recently the flies have been blown
over in thousands to Quarantine Island
by the Nuuanu winds and the officials
on the island have been in touch with
the offending concern with an idea of
finding out whether or not it was pos.
sible to have the nuisance abated.
| The ground where the Hawaiian Pre-
serving Company dumps its refuse is
owned by the Dowsett Estate. The
other pineapple companies dispose of
their refuse through the medium of an
incinerator and it is the Hawaiian Pre-
serving Company alone that offends.
! The government formally dumped its
rubbish on the Dowsett land, but for
some time past an incinerator has been
used and the permission given to sun
dry concerns TO dump on the land
which was loaned to them was with
drawn. At present the Hawaiian Pre-.
serving Company is the only concern
which is dumping on the Dowsett prop
erty.
Appeal to Board.
The board of health has been ap.
pealed to number of times by the
Iwilei business men with view to
having the nuisance put an end TO and
the president of the board DR.. Pratt,
has visited the scene or the iniquity
in person and promised redress to the
compliments.
One of the chief and most persistent
kickers against the existing order of
things has been the Hawaiian Fer
tilizer Company, through its manager,
Norman Watkins.
The dump yesterday afternoon rocked
with an undesirable stencil which
sickened the stomach and diZZied the
head. Some native workmen were su.
perintending the burning of lot of the
refuse on which a meager quantity of
crude oil had been poured, but the re.
suit was ineffective and unsatisfactory
in the extreme. The oil burned off the
surface of the refuse but failed to kill
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