Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-07

other day they began filling that The
salt water has got under my LOT nov
and all my trees and flowers and gar
den plants are dying.
Three years ago they came down
here during the campaign against the
mosquitoes and cut down all my ba-
nanas. | didn't kick much then after
they explained that they had to cut
them down or we would have yellow
fever. Now they are being killed
again. Why? Because some fellow
next to me has a Low lot and won't
fiH 1t. My cement floor is all cracked
from the water and ina few days my
yard will be no good
And to look at Antone's yard now
you will readily believe what he says.
That's one of almost countless stor-
les told yesterday afternoon of SINH
lar cases. The Star Bulletin collected
three or four typical examples and
here they are:
kulia kau1ane's Case.
Kulia kauhane is an old Hawaiian
woman on Kawaiahao street. She
says; I had the house raised three
years ago, of my own accord, because
wanted nice yard and to bring II
UP level with the street. II cost ME
sos and they told nc it was all right
| thought SO until the water began
coming up. Now the yard is full OF
mud"
Yes, it certainly is full of mud, and
Julia wonders why
Manuel Martin Thinks Law Strange.
Manuel Martin, on KaWaiahao
street near the corner of Kamani,
thinks the Law. is strange thing. He
has had his little place six years and
by hard work and loving care he de-
yeloped a yeritable garden spot, with
a pretty hedge, trees, flowers and gar
den truck growing nicely In 1911 he
spent $500 filing his property up to
grade. He bought rich dirt 1t $1.25 a
lead, leo loads of itand then paid a
man 81 day to spread il over his
lot. Early this year he got a notice
that his land was below the new
grade as proposed and that he would
have to fill 1t up.
Il didn't have much time, but got
It filled up again before they began
pumping water IN here, he said
through an interpreter. "but you see
this land around met was low and
they filled it up and now the mud and
water are running my place. :
Others, Too.
NJ M. Almeida, clerk in an up
town store, lives at 5f3 Kamanf street.
He was not at home yesterday, but
neighbors told why his place is look
ing badly. Two yeaAs ago he brought
it up to the grade then fixed and four
months ago he filled it up again, in
accordance with the new territorial
order. The lot next to him is being
filled with the material pumped from
the sea, and las a result his own yard
IS spoiled.
Victorine Machado six months ago
built three new cottages on Ward and
Kawaiahao streets. getting the grade
at that time. But, of course, that
grade is now too low anu so he is
threatened with the same thing as has
come to the others Luckily for him,
he has no trees to be killed.
Losing Her Pretty Garden.
Mrs. Alice Metcalf has perhaps Jas
pretty place as there is in the whole
district, at Kamani and Kawaiahao
streets. Her large lot is above grade
and by years of kindly care she has
grown many beautiful trees and plants.
In order to protect her property from
damage, the Lord-Y Young Company
dug a ditch on the Kawaiahao street
side to carry away the salt water. But
on the other side, toward the city, are
low-lying lands and in filling those
the salt water has partially Inundated
her property. She was in tears yes
terday at the discovery that a great
alligator pear tree in the yard is dying
and she is trying to. resign herself to
the thought of losing all of her pretty
trees and shrubbery.
And these are only few of the
many cases.
I'VE have tried to do our best, but
the people who wouldn't fill their
lands with good dft are making us
suffer and the government is damag.
ing us because Of them" they say.
What About It?
What is to be done about it?
The residents are not agreed on
this. Some want the work stopped,
hut that doesn't look practicable, for
the district is largely inundated with
the coral mud now and the job should
be finished. One suggestion is that
the contractors cease pumping in the
salt water. since that is doing the
damage, but that doesn't look practica-
bic either.
When the city CT Honolulu was
Iarcused to the dancer Of yellow fever
three years ago and went after the
mesquite, banana trees were cut down
right and left. 1t was a sanitary meas.
ure, absolutely demanded by the au
thorities. But the people who lost ba,
nanas were reccmpensed from gov
eminent funds. Fcrty thousand dol
lars was for people with Just claims
| The people in KewaIo whose prop
erty is being damaged through no fault
of their own. or because of their din
understanding they failed to do JUS