The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-03-15

! suing year resulted as follows: b. Won
Damn, president; Daniel Logan, vice.
/ president; George Guild, secretary; w.
r. Wilson, treasurer; Julius Tnger,
auditor; directors, J. ID. McInerny,
Mrs. r. j. I.owrey.
Letters from Improvement clubs an
nouncing choice Of delegates to the
central committee were read. The Ka-
J lihi club sent Henry G. Meyers, vice
I Otto Gertz, resigned. Nuuanu club, 8.
/ A. Walker, George Sherman, J. ID. Nc
! Inerny. Kilohana Art League, Mrs. F.
y. Lowrey, Mrs. C. NJ. Cooke, Mrs.
! George Sherman. Manoa club, A.
Lewis, Jr., Professor Gilmore, B. Won
| Damn, A. M. Merrill
4 Emil Berndt retired as president
| after having launched the committee
/ on a successful career. The dues per
7 delegate were reduced from 81 to fifty
/ cents. On motion of A. Lewis, Jr.,
presidents of all clubs affiliated with
the central committee were recognized
as cx-oflicio members.
Report.
President Berndt's report bristled
with things accomplished during the
past year and suggestions for sommun-
/ tv GOOD. He calls attention to the fact
I that the past year was active from the
club s standpoint, following period of
| indifference. He believes that the club
! has accomplished many things that will
I be credit. and that it has been fac
4 tor in working out the destiny of Ho-
I nolulu as the f'world's sanitarium. T"
/ He believes it win be mistake to per-
NIT the organization to become DOR
mant, when it has such a vast field
of activity before it with. problems Pc
/ culiarly Honolulu's own. He asserts
| that the committee has been the means
| of raising the standard of sanitation in
| the community. He asks the club mem
| hers to "pull together for the good of
Hawaii and do our duty as loyal citi-
zens.'
"Let me refer to the most success
full event during the past year, the
cleanup as it is familiarly known
saws Mr.. Berndt in his report. "It s.
wholesome effect is far reaching and
no one can tell definitely where its in
fluence on conditions and peoples will
end. This project was the turning
point in our then negligent standard
of sanitation; it has borne wonderful
'rnit ard the great work undertaken by
the citizens sanitation committee II
the outcome of the activities of clean
up day.
Finance Problems.
Gas result of the study of the eff
fects of cleanup the central improve
ment committee Immediately went or
record to work for free garbage col
lection system and to have the same ex
tended to every suburban residenct
section, such as Kalihi, Nuuanu, Manoa
Kaimuki. Every effort to accomplish
7 this has been strained but SO far thu
I solution of financing such system il
4 not at hand. The Governor and thu
4 secretary of the Territory have laboret
4 with us to devise the means, but thu
:, board of supervisors, to whom we have
to look directly for the carrying out o.
the plan, have not seen their way cieai
to grant our request. / believe-tha
| where there is will there can be fount
, 4 way, and therefore our city father
could guarantee the service if the.
really SO desired. Gentlemen, it is m.
: firm belief that in, this cosmopolitan
! town we shall never be absolutely FIRE
: from danger of epidemics until we hav
!. | free garbage. BY adding trifie to GU
. taxes, we have figured out one-tenth o
one per cent, we can have a servic
! that will cover every district and whic
: would insure the removal Of this bii
!. danger factor. .,r..
~ Doom Of Mosquito. Il
aour cosmopolitan populationis com
= posed of many classes, with the poor Il
the majority and it is up to our gov
eminent to see the proper health meas
ures framed and enforced. We shout
, 90 the full limit in giving the peopl
i the means to keep their premises elea
Just as it is our duty to give them pur
and clean water as cheaply as posslbl
to keep their persons clean. l woul
urge upon the incoming officers not t
leave a stone unturned to give us FIRE
garbage. Have you, gentlemen, eve
j. Thought that free garbage would mea
= the positive doom of the mosquitoi N
1 one will question that as long as W
have swamp lands and tin cans abou
us, we will have this busy little ep
demic promoter with us. The absenc
of the great swarms of mosquitoes q
the present time is due to the diliger
e work of the board of health in destroy
n ing cans and filing in of unhealth
n spots. Their decision to follow TIL
c method and the necessity for it, wa
8 brought home to them by the cleanup
j. Is it not good logic and does it not d.
It volve upon us to demand for Honolul
i. a free garbage system if it viii do ava
v with disease breeding refuse that
q making itself dangerous under house
or in other places on the premise
Should our demand not be intensified
we know that by means of the prom
/, removal of tin cans we hold in chez
;. the multiplication of the mosquito,
:. fact, their destruction almost entirely
a ''This organization has widesprea
e influence which when wisely used ca
; guard against public wastefulness, fl
ancial and otherwise. Its members re
- resent approximately 1000 men, an
70 such a power directed for good mu
a bring result.
~ Billboard Law.
At "During the last session of the legi
n. lature, we assisted in having la