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

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when your home is spoiled. you aren't
pleased about it. are you?
How would you feel, Mr.. Resident
OF Punahou. If through some means
that you have nothing to do with, the
city were to ruin all your fine trees /!
How would you feel, Mr.. Resident
Of Manoa. If you had a beautiful lawa
and the man next to you were to fiI
il over with sand?
How would you feel, Mr.. Resident
6f Nuuanu, or College Hills, or Kai-
muki, If you had carefully brought
your property UP to grade few years
ago and then we're ordered to do II
all over again did it once more and
then found that in spite of your pains
all your garden and fruit-trees were
killed?
You would feel mighty friendly to-
ward the man or the government that
was responsible for that, wouldn't
you? Particularly when all the time
YOU had been following orders and
doing the best you knew how!
Homes Being Spoiled.
Well, that is just what is happening
through KewaIo. Dozens and dozens
Of homes down there are being
spoiled because on the next lot or
the next one to that, the low ground
is being filled in, and the salt water,
cutting deep under the top soil and
Penetrating the coral base, is coming
up and running most Of the vegetation.
Right now it should be said that it
isn't these Kewalo people who are.
applying for an Injunction to stop the
rd-Young Engineering Company
from doing the work. There is an
ether group Of cemplainants. The
Kewalo people with whom the Star-
Bulletin representative talked yester-
day aren't applying for an Injunction
they are merely growing bitter and
desperate and saying among them
selves that it isn't a square deal.
About the kewaIo Folks.
This part OF the city OF Honolulu
isn't very well known to the man
with an auto and q handsome home
up in the residence districts But
il, too. is a residence district Plenty
OF good kiHd-hearted, homealoving
folks live here, their children grow
i'm and go to school and they pay
their taxes and live quietly and de-
Gently and are Just as good American
citizens as you or i. This part of the
city is not far from "Magoonville,
sId the Kakaako section that figures
in funny newspaper stories and poli-
ties. But it's different from the ten
ements Of Magoonville. 1t lies be-
tween Ward, Cooke, Victoria and
Queen streets. It's section of many
little homes. each a plot of perhaps
50x100 or 100x100 feet. The fathers
and mothers are proud of their homes
and their pretty gardens and grow
jng fruit and shade-trees That IS,
they. were proud Of them. Now most
OF the trees are dying and the yards
are either filled up with mud or else
soggy with salt water underneath.
or course, Mr. Resident of Manoa
or Kaimuki or Punahou, ynp say;
well. all this is necessary in filing
in these low-lands and making the
district sanitary! It's Civic Improve
ment!"
Antoine De MeiIo's Story.
But calling it Civic improvement
doesn't help, for instance, AntoIte De
Mello. His home is on Kawaiahao
street, near Kamani He has a plot
OF ground 100 by SO feet. Listen to
Antoine DeMeilo's story:
II bought this place two years ago,
and began fixing it up. We had a
grade given us from the street in
n -
and day to fix up the garden, plant
ing trees and flowers, and / didn't
have much lime day times so used
TO work until late at night. My lot
is now as. high as it needs to be, but