Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-11

us hope that the 1916 grand Jury does
as efficient work as the one which
has lust retired from office The re
i port presented yesterday is beyond
criticism. H.. III. IT,.
CHARLES l.. HOPKINS: | went
over to windward Oahu yesterday and
was unfortunate enough to get caught.
i in a bowling rainstorm: Speaking OF
rain in Honolulu. che should go over
to the other side or the island TO see
| a real storm. .....:.:.: ~.
PAT SILVA: Water has surely been
high out al nv place on Gulick avenue
near Kalihi stream. A. great many
foot bridges. including my own and
J the .neighbors' have gone GOWN with
; the torrent. Kalihi is nearly full OF
uproCted taro. ..-" ... .... -.
WILLIAM LARSEN: We super
! yisors won't into the secret session
| Sunday so that we could call each
other names without getting into the
newspapers, but the meeting was
! very. very pleasant one. In fact, II
NAV be said that it was entirely in
accord with the quietness of the Sab
hath. :,,~.,.:~.~.. -. ." -.
r. w AYLETT: II have given my
garbage men instructions to go on
hauling the garbage, dumping it at the
stables if they are unable to get the
trucks through the mirP on Sheridan
street. After a while if the sun comes
out again we can rehaul it TO the
dumping ground RI. =.
HARRY f. MURRAY: We esti-
mate, with head Of AZ feet of water !
in No reservoir. about 2l2,000,000
gallons. We have been losing daily
during the big rain approximately 90
600 900 gallons of water from HIlle,
brand glen that could be conserved If |
we had the proposed conduit system III |
working order. ILL., I'll
JOHN c. ANDERSON All of the
boys who escaped from the reform |
school at Waialee. with the exception
of one, have returned to the school. /
The one now in Honolulu is said to
have been ringleader in the So
called mutiny at the school and no |
decision has yet been made as to what
shall be done with him. u .-.:
ARTHUR G. SMITH: Attorney
general |. Nj. Stainback showed me
clipping from his hometown paper the
other day telling of the killing of four
men in a gun fight. The paper de-
voted only about two inches of space
to the story, all of which shows how
much attention is attracted by shoot.
ing scrape in Tennessee. =...~. I
DETECTIVE mick" CARTER:
notice a soldier ran amuck Saturday
and after hitting one man on the head
and throwing anothe down, attacked
an officer with a kiffe, yet there Is
no "howp' about thiS-SIt seems that
it is all right for an officer doing his
duty to be attacked with deadly
weapon, but it is a crime for an OH:
Ger trying to arrest a soldier to use
his club when the man fights back.
w. R. FARRINGTON: If the
grand jury report is not an arraign-
ment of petty partisan iob-hunting pol
itics / never read o4e: The Republi-
cans started the system which the
people repudiated and put in Demo
Gratis. Then the Democrats made the
foolish mistake of trying to duplicate
the Republican system and they in
turn were fired. 1t is plain hand !
writing on the wall that the people of
this city demand results and are
against a system giving its chief at
tention to jobs for incompetents.
conduct. There should
be an officer under the direction OF {
the conductress whose duty should be
10 make a tour of the places where
the nurses are employed, and report
any shortcomings which may come un.
der observation Such conditions i
believe exist abroad, and when found
necessary the undesirables are weeded
cut Not only should tour of the
hospitals be made at stated times but
also tour of the houses where pri- I
rate n4rsing is in progress. -. =. ~. |
1t has occurred that good nursing ]
has been offset by unprofessional con.
jGct, the latter being the outcome in
come cases of long and arduous vigil
IN nthe sick room-a nerve racking ex-
,erie1.ce which will floor the best OF
hem - L.. H..
MALCOLM BROWN. t
Honolulu, January s, 1916. 49,.
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