The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-08-01

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mander 81. G. Taylor of the United
States navy, formerly vice-president
and general manager of the company,
! submitted plan, the main feature OF
which is that the company shall mar
ket SS5,000,0OO in bonds. The estimate
of the cost of the canal is fixed at $685.
| 100000. The difference between these
| amounts is to be used to pay the in
| terest while the canal is being built.
An active propaganda is to be estab-
} lished throughout the United States
as preliminary of disposing of the
/ bonds.
The money obtained from the first
subscription is to be used on the work
of the canal. If the amount of the
/ first subscription is satisfactory it is
said that the bonds will be offered at
| %; if unsatisfactory, the amount of
the bonds sold in the second three
months, it is believed, should not be
less than S10,00O0,000 nor more than
so, 100000. The meeting adjourned
after deciding to consider the plan fur
Their.
President Miller said afterward that
funds were needed to prosecute the
work, as between S5,000,000 and S.
100000 had been spent in necessary
preliminary construction. Work on
the canal had not stopped, but in these
stringent financial times careful bust
ness men "cut their coat according to
their clOth.n The company's sscuri-
ties were being constantly bought, he
said. AS to turning the canal over to
the United States government, Presi-
dent Miller said he was quite willing
to do that if the company was allowed
fair compensation for the work done.
A meeting of the directors of the
National Nicaragua Ship Canal Asso-
citation has been called by President
George l.. Converse in Art hall,
Worlds Fair grounds, on August Sd,
to devise a new plan of action and i'm
press the United States, Nicaragua
and Costa Rica with the fact that
something should be done during the
coming session of congress toward
assuming charge of the construction
of the tunnel. Thirteen of fifteen di-
rectors of the company are citizens of
the United States. The unstable con-
dition of affairs of Central America
and Hawaii will also be considered.
Eeprosy In British Columbia.
Two years ago five cases of Ieprosy
broke out in British Columbia and
the victims were sent to Darcy island,
in the Gulf of Georgia, which was
transformed into a pesthouse. The
disease developed and some cases were
found to be in horrible condition and
unable to attend to their own wants.
The sufferers were supplied with i'm
plements, seed, fowls and swine when
placed on the island, and houses were
built and other means provided for
their maintenance. A physician is
sent occasionally with provisions, and
to see that all are doing well.
On his last visit it was found that
some of the worst cases are suffering
terribly. A young woman of Van
couver, Lizzie Hausel, has herOically
offered to devote herself to the care of
the unfortunate Chinese. She is
trained nurse of Ann ArbOr College,
but some years after her marriage
she fell into sinful ways. Through
the efforts of the Salvation Army she
mended her ways, and for the past
two years has lead most exemplary
life, giving very devoted care to small
poX patients here last summer. She
has been entirely unostentatious in
her good deeds, and thus sacrifices the
remainder of her life to these unfortu-
mates with no blazon of trumpets.
Father Damienjs Imitator.
Father Damien has found an imitator
in Paris in the person Of Pere Sauton a
Benedictine OF the Monastry or Liguge,
who has been commissioned by the
French Government to study leprosy.
The monk who is also a medical doctor,
much appreciated for his skill and
science by the Paris faculty. will first
visit leprous districts in Norway, Lap
land, Finland Turkey, Asia Minor,
Greece and Egypt. Returning to France
at the end of a year, Pere Sauton will
communicate the results Of his observa-
tons to NJ. Pasteur, and under the guild
ance of the latter will pursue his re-
in order to find, if possible, a
cure for the scourge, which is now the |
subject Of his investigations. Then in
with his brother, the Able |
Sauton, who is vicar of Nogent-le Rotrou,
the Benedictine will set out for Molokai, |
in the Hawaiian Islands the scene OF |
Father Damien's labors.
In this place Pere Sauton and other |
will try to alternate the |
virus of leprosy, il not to stamp out the |
terrible malady altogether. Pere Sauton
has already been among lepes in pro-
vincial France, and even in Paris he |
says that there are at present nuns dying |
in their converts after having contracted |
the leprosy while attending the sick |
abroad. There were lepers in the St. |
Louis Hospital, and the bacillus OF the |
malady has been discovered in the |
Pyrenees and Brittany. None Of the |
home cases are, however, so virulent as
those in the Hawaiian Islands, which he
intends to treat according to the latest |
of medical science.
American News.
Politics are lively in the east on |
account of the forthcoming session of |
Congress. Crisp will undoubtedly be J
chosen speaker of the house, and it is |,
said that he will not put Bland on the |
WAYS and means or coinage commit /