The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-18
FEDERATlONISTS IN
DECISIVE ACTION

Senator A. r. Judd oroncd Up ut tho
meeting OF the civic fcdclaiion Ia the
public service rooms yesterday after.
noon ain exceedingly interesting ques.
ton aud one which Honolulu viii have
TO face during the neat few years. no
said, namely the opening up Of roads in
the congcstod districts of the city for
sanitary purposes, and thus doing away
with the wet lands which are source
of disease aud a general menace TO tho
city's health.
When the meeting was first called to
order by President Arthur Smith few
members had put in an appearance, but
before the meeting had progressed tho
room was filed with interested listen
ers to Senator Judd s address. Incl
deutaly, President Smith remarked
that one reason why the meeting was n
small one was because when he had
gone to a number Of lhslness men in
the city and asked them to be present
they answered:
What s the use7 Nothing is ac-
complished and nothing done, except to
pass resolutions. -
Important Problem.
Continuing, President Smith accentu-
ated the Importance of the question be-
fore the meeting, that of sanitation for
the city through road improvements;
then he introduced Senator Judd.
The Senator opened by stating that
he was not an expert sanitarian, but
just plain American citizen elected
by the people as n senator.
81 have made myself something of a
nuisance began the Senator, "but I
have also made study of the sub
merged tenth in the congested districts
and have secured good idea regarding
the solution of this sanitation problem.
1t is not my idea, but Doctor Pratt's,
president of the board of health Doc
tor Pratt is not appreciated mere as
much as on the mainland, where it is
realized that he has made two import
ant sanitation discoveries in Honolulu;
one for king mosquitoes by putting
carbide in the water where they breed,
and the other of smearing streak of
oil around block before going after
the rats"
Not Fair to All.
Then Senator Judd took up the cues
tion of roads. He told of the proposed
opening of Kuakini street from Nun
anu to Fort street, and how the land
Tor the opening had been bought ut a
good price from the owners. who at the
same time benefited by the added front
age of their property. This he contend
! er was not fair to the other citizens.
He spoke of the growth of Honolulu
and predicted that there would be n
! population of 100000 within fifteen
years, and that Honolulu would have
to progress along practical sanitary
lines.
i recognize the apathy of our citi-
zens," said Senator Judd. ''We are
asleep, but it is time to wake up.''
Then the speaker went on to tell of
the wet lands within a mile of the post
office and how they were menace to
every man in the room. He told of a
spring near Liliha street which irri-
gated forty acres of taro lands and
was constant menace to health, yet
this water right was n valuable one and
under the present laws could not be
taken away from the benefciaries.
The senator held that the best way
to meet this problem was to open
streets through the district and pro-
vide land for cottages, so that its value
would so increase that it would be more
valuable for residence purposes than
for taro patches. This land was now
taxed at $400 an acre, while it should
be worth at least $1,000 an acre.
"This isn't fair to the rest of the
town., he added.
The tuberculosis Menace.
He quoted statistics to show that
seventyfve per cent of tuberculosis
cases had their origin within three
quarters of mile of the postoffice,
right in this congested district, which
should be opened up with streets. He
advocated fighting the source of tuber-
culosis by attacking the tenements,
where the people lose their self-respect,
and throw more land on the market for
cottages. These tenements, he said,
had largely grown up where the streets
were not opened. Now there were a
series Of crooked lanes, which followed
old time taro patch dykes.
The main thing, the speaker added,
was drainage, and to solve this prob
lem was TO open streets and lay sew
ers, but not in the old.fashioned way,
where the streets formed dams. The
new streets should be modern and
curbed. Nothing, he said, could be done
in this matter without public opinion
back of the plan for better city.
There were two ways of going at it.
The first was from a health stand
power should be given the supervisors
to act in this matter and then the bust
ness men of the town would be forced
to come forward and take political
action.
"We have outgrown absolutely the
practise of taking money from the gen
eral fund for roads, it is time for as
sessments," he asserted.
Discussion and Action.
point backed by the police power, the
other was from the point of view of
public improvements.
, The present statutes, he stated, were
absolute failures. He believed more
A lively discussion followed during