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Commercial Advertiser.
WALTER G. SV.ITH
EDITOR
WKDNKSDAY
JANTARY
The leport that the surplus will be
kept Intact, sanitary ned or no sani
tary n ed. so as to make a record for
Homebody, need.- to- be put. to an early
test by a humane and progressive
Council of State.
Filters for the Nuiianu reservoirs
would probably have kept down the
figures of I ember mortality to where
they belong. The amount of disease j
fairly traceable to the valley surface
water is something appalling.
Interest in the Transvaal war
now find n chance to gt In edgewise.
With six daya' later news dun on the
Mariposa thre ought i;o oe some tlr-
rin bulletins at hand from our rrntln-
odal ne!ghlor3 to divert the mind from;
local excitemenu.
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.cretary Kfxt doe .well to attack
the Army system which promotes by
nenlorlfy instead of mrit. If he bringi
it down he will do more to increase the
military safeguards of the nation than
could be done by adding no.OOrt mov
me.n to the permanent force.
Automobile are improving all the; as the Nicaragua Canal bill- affon!3
time. A new electrical vehicle, manu-j ground enough to featt the influence of
factum! in New Jersey, ran 100 miles concentrated wealth in Congress. We
the other day without recharging. ' must work unceasingly, free from all
The "cenuiry-'-'was donein pretty falr'over-eonfldence, or the Cullom -bill my
speed, the tWns Uelftg even -honrs. Tor-f afford stiir another - example cf iu
ty-four and one-half minutes. ponded animation. ' '"
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ir Hon. Arthur Sewall returns to San
I-Yanclsco instead of going to the Far
Eat he will be able to do the Islands
a service by telling of the plague as he !
knows It. Very likely by this time the
yellow Mainland pre?s has killed off
half our population. A few precise and
sober words from a man of Mr. Sewall'
standing would put a stop to all mis
representation. Two cases which re?emble plague
occurred yesterday and wvre at once
removed to quarantine. The vigilance
of (the inspectors Is now on a wire edge i
and it is riot likely that even the Chin-
ese will .succeed In hiding their sick, i
When loners, long concealed, are. beinj
brought to light there can be little
doubt is to 'the thoroughness of the
Military work.
It often happena on tne King street
c,3T8 that drunken United States sol
diers make them untenable to women
by profanity and Ovaer foul language.
In an American city the conductor
would put such men off or call a police
man for th purpose, here tho con
ductor acts as if lie enjoyed it he swear
ing and is sometimes ho preoccupied
with it that he forgets to stop the car
when Indignant women want to get off
and walk.
The plan to remove the people of the
infected district to detention camps is
being carried out In a way to renew
ronfldence in the sanitary authorities.
Meanwhile Chinatown whore It Is not
urned down will have to be made over
completely. In the long run, if. the
Ikwra of Health and tho Council of
State do their full du'ty we may have
no public occasion :to regret that the
plague cane and went. Something was
badly needed to break up official ap
thy. . The- pnnr.pt way in which Charles li.
Wilson volunteered with hia kms of
contract laborers to assist the Hoard of
Health commends him to the wholt
community. He at once cleaned up the
Kerosene warehouse district and did it
with the thoroughness which might
have been expected of a man of his ex
ecutive part. Mr. Wilson has now
been put in charge of the detention sta
tion at Kallhl and is the right man in
the right place.
We await with scr.e anxiety the dl
position of the S.m FrancUco health
authcrl Jfl towards the landing of 1s'
and freight. There li probably noth
ing the ma'tter wlih the freight, though (
fumigation will doubtless be applied.
If the precautions .op then well and
good, but the care cf the Nippon Mam
some months ago rhowa that the San
Francisco official doctors who do not
always differentiate plague from pneu
monia go Into an absurd panic when
ever the bulon Ic malady U mentioned
in connection with Pacific o.ean com
merce. !
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An interesting discussion appears!
Hsewhere in thU paper as to the rigati
of the yenr 13C0 to call itself the b-!
ginning of The '.wentleth century. Rt. !
Rev. Alfred Willis, the Anglican Hishop
of Honolulu contends tha: the da; of
the new century will be January IstJ
1301, and in this the erudite editor of,
the Indies Home Journal agrees wilh
him. On the other h ind we find Re.-. 1
Sercno RUhop, I). R, master of mathe
matics 4 wll as theology, contending
lth th Pope that the century began
wi:h the year 1D00. We will not pre
tend to JeC! ! a rjucs-tion whre Doctor-,
disagree but will report the con-!
tenta of th year with entire faithful-'
lies whether they appear in a preface
or a postscript.
OUIi I.NTEKKSTS IN CO.NUUESS.
General Ha rt w II is apt to take ft lu
gubrious view of things but that dor.
nut warrant the public in thinking tha:
he has found nc:hing tangible in th"
opposition to the political re-creatio'i
of i.iwaii a.s a t rrltory of th1 Fnke-d
States.
He recounize.s an I we .should rvog
nize the fact that the sugar tri.t is u
very powerful and active enemy. I:
fought Annexation and might have
beaten it but for the Sp.inih war. Ju-t
lK-fore that war occurred Spree!;'!?.
Oxnard and the re.-;t of theai began to
inspire articles in the. San Francisco'
Call and other Journals of like initia-
tive against the reciprocity tr- aty. I:
took the aroused tense of patriotic ur
gency to -beat them ln: even then. wi;h
: ine.se inlands annexe il. they wt-ra not
dismayed. They saw a chance ti put
Hawaii on a colonial basis where it
woull ..e left to hhift 1'or itself econo-
micauy ana iney are nw working to-
'ar(I that IU- If they succeed in
making us colonial they will resume
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liieir attacK on tue
free atlmission c:f
our sugars and do it with the powerful
leverage of the American bct-isugar
producers.
Tnis is the danger General Hartwell
foresees. He may overrate it; it is per
haps natural in him to emphasize
perils. Nevertheless the people here
ix tist not make the mistake of under
rating the opposition to the Cullom
bill. The fate of so popular a measure
SALT WATEIi FLUSHING.
Now that sanitation is the chief top.c
of local concern It may be well to re
cur to Chief Hunt' Idea of flushing .the
i sewers with bait water and see if the
I means for that purpose cannot be pro
i vided by the itime the sewers are ready
fcr public use.
Se.wers are a danger to health when
! flushing is Imperfectly done- and tho
only way perfection can be had in this
city, whero the fresh water reservoirs
are so often low, i3 by employing oe?an
brine. A sewer system peraiitted tc
become clogged, or only half flushed,
emits a deadly gas which finds its way
i to everybody's 'bathroom. The result
is diphtheria and kindred il :. But the
history of the abatement of sewer gas
diseases in a certain part of San Fran
cisco which was once sondy visiied by
ihem, shows beyond a doubt how much
may be done in the remedial way by
thorough flushing especially with saU
water.
This San Francisco example is an In
teresting one. It3 hygienic and sani
tary features .were unplanned but wen
none the less effective on ithat account.
John I. Spreckels and other capitalists
put some money jnto the great Lurllne
baths at the corner of Hush and Iarkir.
.streets iu the midt of the district
I where complaints about sewer gas had
been most frequent. These baths nre
supplied with fresh ocean waiter pump
ed from the neighborhood of thr ChfT
House, six miles away. Mr. Spreckel?
and his partners did not think of sewer
gas at all when they built the Lurline;
they were merely after the silver quar
ters of the great unwashed. Dut it
turned out that the nightly emptying
of the oig tank into the eewers so ef
fectually cleaned and saked them that
complaints of sewer gas in that district
came to an end, diphtheria and mala
rial fever nearly disappeared and the
health rate along the line of the Lur
llne's oatfljw is now as high as it Is on
Pacific Heights, Presidio Heights and
Nob Hill.
We therefore take much stock in
Chief Hunt's suggestion for Honolulu
If a pumping station could be fixed
somewhere on the waterfront and salt
water lif ed to a place where it could
enter the sewer system on high ground,
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we saould have at slight cost an excel-
lent sanitary adjunct which migU in
time be extended bo as to supply
wiirrewi hal for fir.o hydrants.
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HiKK 1!TH I.N CHl.WTOW.N.
It is well to make Chinatown cle.n
and the thing can be don?. Thtt place
can aL-o be kepi clean, fin: how ar.
the people living there to le cleansed
from their bolily filth and male :.
conform in future to sanitary usages?
They have no baths of the'.." own; they
cannot or will not go to the harbor tc.
swim nor to Waik;ki; what are they to
do?
Thirty years :ig tni- problem pre
sented itself in tin- congtstcd tfn men
districts of New York city. The dir.
anl odor of these, places were no. con
fined to the little ronr.s and dark -!-Ia:s
where the squalid poor tried t
live but wer nuii h in evidence on the
personnel, r.oards of Health clean" 1
the tenements but the people them
selves went dirty and the rate of t'ae'i
mortality was high. The problem tans.
presented as most perplexing. I lie
tenements had no baths; in fact theyj
could not have enough to meet the!
need. A few owners put baths in but
the hxtures and even the oat'a tubs
were stolen or sold by the half-starve.l
tenants. Of course it was out of the
question to ask these peopL? to pay for
baths in barber shops or on ".lie water
front and so it came a!out that the
proletariat of w York literally smelt
to heaven. Then some one thought of
'Jree public swimming tanks along 'the
North and Kast rivers and these bene-1
factions were promptly established by
Ihe city goverivnent. All the ohiTdri-n
who could taiaeh an hour from work
wont to these baths and i.r.anv adults
followed suit fthor on taeir own mo
tion or on that of the sanitary police.
In a year the mortality in the tenement
districts of -'the Fast side decreased
33 1-3 per cent and filth disease's made
a bettor showing even than that..
The local application Is that there
ought to be a laige, central free bath,
supplied constantly with fresh ocem
water, established in the heart of Chi
natown say on River -street where the
exhaust water could 1k returned at
once to the harbor. We are sure that
the natives and Japanese would make
constant use of it and the Chinese
could be compelled to. The youth of
all resident Taces .would take to it
naturally. The bath ought to be in t he-
form of a tank, perhap.s one hundred
feet long and fifty wide, concrete ov
sides and bottom so that the thing
could be scrubbed when emptied, and
of a depth ranging from three feet at
one end to nine at the other. To make
It popular chute3, diving boa.ds, tra
pezes and suspended rings t.houM be
provided. There ought also to L-e
shower baths. The cost of earn ing on
such a place would be that of running
the gasolene pumping plant for an
hour or more each night, for scrubbing,
lights and attendance. Whether towels
?hou!d be provided free Is a matter of
detail.
We cct.umend this proposal In all se
riousness to the Council of State, as 3
measure of public sanitation which ha?
found approval in places which are in
much less need of It than Honolulu.
We also commend it to 'the community,
pressure -from which will perhaps be
needed to induce the Council to ta';e
action. This community has built mis
sions and charities among the Asiatics
but it has overlooked the faot that next
to godliness is cleanliness. One cf the
best beginnings for a savage when you
want to Christianize him is to make
him take n bath it is part of the cur
riculum of ithe Indian school at Car
lisle. In the case of our resident cool-
ie, noevor, u nas become a ixeasure
of safety to the rest of the community,
.'ow fellow citizens, what do you
think about it? If your views are
faworabie you can do no helper than to
Impress them upon the Government
and the Council of S ate. Fortunately
the surplus is big enough to provid;
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