The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-01-12
GRAND JURY CONCLUDES WORK.
TENEMENTS CRIME BREEDERS
Cathcart Is the Finest, Unblemkhed Thing
That Ever Happened. --POlce
Increase Recommended

mean force Of seventy.twO men In
Honolulu instead of the forty which
are now supposed TO cover the city.
lit is unnecessary TO enlarge on the
vital need Of the suggested increase of
the police force. The duty of protect.
ing the life and property Of this city is
delegated to six foot policemen from
to p. IN. and the same number from
p. m. p. m. From this hour to
a. M six foot and eight mounted police
are on duty and from a. m. to z a. m.
only six foot police The bicycle police
are held as reserves and two Of them
are on duty from a. m. to p. M,
two from r. m. to IL p. M, and two
from II p. m. to n. m. During sixteen
hours of the day the forces available
for duty is six officers in their respec.
tive districts and two bicycle officers in
reserve. For the eight hours between
Z p. m. and a. m. fourteen officers are
on duty on their respective beats and
these few men are supposed to
extend police protection from Kaimulxi
to Moanalua, but to pretend to police
the city of Honolulu with this force
would be joke if the issues at stalk e
were of less consequence to the commu-
shortage of men, the department is also
seriously handicapped by the made
quacy of the police telephone alarm or
call system. We find that no call boxes
are established past Punahou on the
east side of the city or beyond Kane.
hameha Nv road on the west side, and
as they did not go further mauka than
Wyllie street, they thus leave the large
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tricts of Manoa Valley, Kaimuki, upper
Nuuanu, outer Kalihi and Moanalua alb
solutely unprovided for.
owe would urge that the police call
box system be extended to the above
named districts with as little delay as
possible
Insane Asylum.
"While not of course ideal, condi.
tions at the asylum are in our opinion
fully as good as, if not better than
those of the best regulated institutions
of the kind ON the mainland or else,
where, and the only serious defect ap.
parent to the observation is the over,
crowded condition of the place; the
present number of patients confined
there is 200 males and sixty-two fe
males, one hundred in excess of the
number intended to be accommodated, ,
reports the jury.
Reform Schools.
AT the boys reform school crowded
conditions were found, one cause of thi.
being a large number of small children
who had done nothing to be sent there
but who were not wanted by their par
ents, apparently, and had been sent
there for care. There are ITO boys a.
the school, seventy per cent being Ha
waiians, and there are accommodation
for but seventy.
There are not enough beds and tn,
boys have to sleep on pallets on the
floor, the bed linen is dirty due to pooi
washing facilities, meals are served il
the dining-room on bare boards anC
the boys have to eat from cups anC
saucers which were once agate war,
but are now chiefly rusty iron.
AT the girls reform school conditions
are much better, the report stating
the prevailing conditions are sucl
that it suggests a happy home NOR,
than anything else."
Public Schools.
AS to public schools, the jury dis
cusses them at length giving the mum
Der as thirty-six, pupils in October
SsSs, and teachers monthly payroll $1S
$500.
After telling what they know abou
schools the report of the jurymen an
nounces that there are no recommends
tions, as the school commissioners ar
able to run this department without an,
help.
Would Substitute Motors,
Speaking Of the FIRE department O
the city, the jury holds that it Shout,
be brought up to date by the substitu
ton of mUt0f-power for horses in al
branches. 1t calls attention to the poo
protection afforded outside districts
and recommends the installation of a
least 100 fire alarm boxes in addition
to those now in use, also an increase o.
three men in the personnel.
Crime from Tenements.
{, The report scores the tenements o,
the city as breeding places for crime
stating that high percentage of tn,
crimes brought before the body for in
vestigation have originated in Honolulu
tenements, 1t says:
We would call especial attention t,
the fact that a very high percentag,
of criminal cases brought before thi
grand jury during the past year wer,
for offenses committee in tenement
houses in the city of Honolulu. Hav
ing this in mind, we would urge thai
the building regulations, covering tene
ments, be so revised that all building,
In use, or TO be used as tenement dwell
lngs, be 20 constructed, or 80 recon
strueted, that the common deceneies Of
life can DO observed by the tenants
and particularly 80 that young children
and minors be, TO some extent, guarded
against immoral and vicious surround
ings.N
oatheart Is Diligent.
In consequence Of repeated insinua
lions, emanaiing from local news
paper rejecting on the ability aud good
] faith a. fNa al al