Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-02-14
rur rIRsr ARRIVALS.

Tuesday morning was an animated one.
Nearly thousand alien souls were
within the palings strangers in a
strange land. Yet a happier lot OF i'm
migrants never landed on foreign soil.
The 500 males, though all under
sized, measuring by Saxon standards,
were for the most part well-knit, sinewy
and wiry-looking men, to whom manual
labor was evidently familiar. The
women had nearly all pleasant, faces and
some OF them were pretty Rounded
arms, slender wrists, taper fingers and
pearly teeth Except with those whose
teeth were coal black were character
istics of nearly all the girls The child.
rem were brightlooking and already at
home only now and again an nfantile
voice rising above the incessant hum of
cheerful conversation.
Clerk Atwater and Agent Hayselden
sat in the front Office, entering by num-
ber the names of every immigrant and
witnessing the acknowledging of con
tracts, In rear room, three japanese
clerks were busy writing on the English
contract acknowledgements, the names
OF the different immigrants, who, each
having his own stamp, in turn, took his
contract and numbered ticket and
passed on into the front room. This
work began at 9 A. NJ, and, though car
ried on like clock work, consumed
nearly the whole day.
The contract acknowledgements were
for adults only, the number of children
to each head of family being entered
however Among the children some
fifty are able TO do work as house ser
wants
The dress of the immigrants was for
the most part strictly Japanese-though
a few wore European garb, greatly to
the sacrifice of their picturesqueness.
The distinctive Japanese garment
may perhaps best be described as
loose dressing gown, belted instead of
corded at the waist, with flowing sleeves
and a rolling collar thrown so far back
as to expose the lower portion of the
throat and the upper portion of the
bosom according to the most APP
proved "full dress" notions The
women affect a style of coifure com
promise between the high chignon and
the low waterfall The men, for the
most part, wore their hair in Cromwell
lian style, many being as "round-
headed" as though just escaped from
the shears of a jail warden. Indeed,
the BARRIERS of the various illnesses"
were busily at work during the morning.
The shoes, or rather sandals, worn by
most were of three kinds, one made OF
rattan mating only, another of mat
ting with wooden soles or wood only,
set on high cross-pieces of wood, that
increased the apparent height of the
wearers from one TO three inches. A
third sort was made of rice straw, hand
braided A few wore European shoes,
most OF them neatly blackened.
Nearly all had several chests, boxes
or bamboo hampers of personal effects
Their bedding consisted OF quilted cot,
ton, though few had thin wooden or
shoddy blankets.
They cooked their rice, black beans
and soup in bronze camp kettles, oblate
spheroids in shape, with wooden covers
which were made TO fit over holes dug
in the ground broad aanges a, their
equators keeping them from falling
through the holes. The camp kettles
are very like the "Dutch ovens" SC
much in vogue among the western
mining camps, though IN lightness o.
construction and elegance of design
they are as superior to the American
kettle as japanese utensils generally are
to the similar utensils OF mos, Other
nations.
| Consul Irwin was at the depot earl,
in the morning and assisted to set the
registration work in motion.
Ministers Gulick and Gibson were
present during the morning. Ponu
/ guese Commissioner Cana,ano, Cham
berlain Judd, Doctor MoGrew, Mr.
: James Campbell, Mr.. I. W. Damor
) and others were also present Tn.
cleanliness, neatness, good health ane
; good humor Of the immigrants wa
marked by all present
, When the Toxic left Nagoura, a por
, short distance below Yokohama |
little japanese boy, apparently only tw,