The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-03-20

In htr letter described the .' Romance OF
E.lIr,uc Hospital" Let us take trip up the
East River tt-,Lty, and sec wlat We may hnd to
interest W. uIou EncNwcil'- island, the territory
o,rupis,I by the q. Commissioners 1f Charities and
Corrrctiou.'' with many Institutions devoted To
hoth of these rurros.s-
When y,u cutru-t youT lie 10 an American
steamboat company, buy ticket irOm New York
O. Boston. YOU seat yourself upun the prone
uaIs dccS 1T .Lc steamer FllatiHg Psalte, and
calmly await the prospect Of collision. explosion,
fire. anil fouu.lcrin4 at SEA You are hurIci
serene through gauntlet OF horrible chances
You o,gupy yourself ut first with plans Of escape
IN ease OF the o,p-urrruec, which you confidently
expect ct one OF more Of these casualtics- You
choose Your Hic-prc>crvcr. IL any there be in
sight % choO>c among; You rclssurc yourself
wjth th, reflection that YOU SWIM we'll, and can
resist the action Of suVcrhcatcd steam n long ~
the majority OF men, You reflect that yOu lave
akcn out large amount Of liic-iuSurancc. and
Tvs, roIicirs against accIdcnts; and - consolcd,
va BEGIN % book ur1aud q 80 the bay-
You see a channel Of water scanned with the
scars of = hunircI kecls. anil iriugcd either
SHE with the tangled rigging Of ships; confused
smoke Of factories and chemical works rises from
tie foul suburbs of GrccuPOiut, piles % brick
buidiugS hidc5us and syualii, the tenement
houses or the city. rise the lclt hand, and OF
Tositc q them you -cc the great antcnu.e Of the
lifting shears in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Be-
hin.l them lies a batch Of Gideon Wellcs' good
ior-nothns frisates. shoddy affairs; you see half
dozen Errry-boats crawling across the river, like
Ezy animals that have barely wit enough TO keep
from beiu. run over in the highway; and then
los
IJnz and ffty ruds broad,-wuIIed with solid
sea-vaI. trinity kept and swarIei, built up with
row Of a dozen hospitals, alunshousc<, prisons,
AMI ot5cial residences They are all constructed
0T q gray stone. the color Of n eonyicts' suit.
Your fellow passengers aruuse AMI instruct
each other by critici-ing the buildings the
steamer passes them in quick succession
THAT Is the smallpox hospital, isn't it, asks
Gunnybl-s. pointing % the first OF southernmost
building upon the Island.
..Ycs and the second, the large building, i
the Charity Hospital. the third l. the Penitcn-
tary. built a. you see in the classic rectangular
style Of architecture the object Of this i 20 get
patients on .the square again answers Solon,
with frivoIity.
.s " hat j. The pretty buildin= beyond it, in
quire- Gunnyblgs, a. the miIe-Iong vista Of the
That i the warlcn-s house IL was origin
aly the headquarters Of the ten Jolly governors
WHO used % manage. or rather rnisnauage, the
ailirs Of the I-Iand- They used 10 have saIubri-
ou- spree- there, before they were superseded by
the pre,cnt Commissioners. The medical staff Of
the Charity Hospital dimes now in that elegant
banquet room"
.What i the object Of that high stone wall
e. III. - IL. = I
b5a-e?'-
''That T. n dividing line. On the south Of It, /
wee; on the north, virtue PenitentiaFy eouvict-
AMI the IeTer- of the hospitals on the one hand !
On the other. a!m-hou-e- f,r the paor but yirtu-
oas. That wall. . C'uuny bag. divide between
the sheep anil the goat-. The high morality Of
the ala-hou-e Eu-t D., De -ullied By the license /
of FenJteutilry society
.sWhat are tIo-e little structures upon the I
seavard enI- of the wall, that much resemble .
sentry-boxe-gr'
..They contain sentinels, armed with rifcs, /
who have orders to -hopt anybo.Iy who attempts .
O. escape"
Bat are c1uyict- in the habit Of trying D.
swim away frJm the i-iand?-'
There were NJ Ie-- than ssreHfS-HBts attempts .
At 'el1renient.' in the warden'- pbrs,-., lazt .
hetween the i-L,ud AMI the city, and sometimes
the iugitiycs get safely away, though the majority
Of them are retakeu. Sometimes they actually \
d,dss the bullets once raw a convict break .
away, in broad daylight. from the gang with .
which be- waz employed H. plunged into the .
river ant swan like -yvorI-f-h. Shot after \
shot was fired after him; but he diyed like n .
loon at jbe fa-h. AMI the balls riescieied harm
ashore 40 tie fpt of Fity-Durth street, -lfc .
distance 10 advance of the bpaJ that fyIlDwcd IN
pursuit. H. wa piekIoeket-"
'' IL strikes me that b. ri-ked hi- life cheap
mu-ei GuunytaS-.
II think be did,-especially ~ be- va a 're-
v9l7er, and aInIlst certain o. b. sent up 10 the .
Island many tine- again. There are people in .
tAe Work ll1u-e AMI P.uitentiary who have been .
Committed a hundred time Or more
But we will not EllpE the ga--ip of the .
''yaser- farther t.-dly. Enter with the .
pretty building or gray stone that ocrupic. the .
"~est end ~ E1c<vell'- f-llnd r. j. the I
smnl-Pox IisTial,-tfe hume 1f that di-e.r-e .
Which j. I'riar- le-- IDruiar than any other .
Complaint except hydrDphDLn Even the pa-sen-
i'- 90 The sound baat- lpok unc1siy upon IL AZ
'''y rns-, and breathe lightly a. they find them
selves near the sphere pf infection.
iet our public institutions B. MT TrpyIir any
dwelling place more comfortable than tlii- for a
1'i''s'l 9ihcer. AMI appointment tp thls ho-pitL
'' not Away regarded a. undesirable. DcIenI
'p'n IT, however, tIat the phy-ician gets vaorin-
-.l before entering upon biz two months term
~" service IN ths h1srital.
'"'rr with mo the uueIean rIaer. \ bong cpr-