The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-09
Armenians Flee in Large Num-
bers From Constantinople.
BISMARCK on FREE SILVER.
Monks Burned TO Death on Philippine Islands.
Plague In Bombay-MilIions Subscribed for
Cuba Loan-Dr. Brown Again-Pope's Dele
gate on the Way TO the United States.

MARSEILLES, Sept. 29.-There ex-
lists a condition of affairs in this city
at present which seems to be disgrace
to Europe and to the Armenian asso-
Citations generally throughout the en-
tire world. Subsisting upon Govern
ment, municipal or private charity here
are 500 unfortunate Armenians-men,
women and children, young and old,
healthy and sick-who have succeeded
in escaping from the bloody massacres
at Constantinople and who were one
and all buoyed up by the hope of be-
ing able eventually to reach the land
of freedom, the United States. Three
weeks have already elapsed and moth
ing definite appears to have been done
for their relief, much less toward find
ing them homes, by any Of the many
associations for the relief of the suf-
fering Armenians which have been or
ganized in England and America. The
unfortunates, however seem to be the
very class to which the hand of charity
should first be extended. They are
homeless, nearly all penniless, many
are enduring the pangs Of hunger, and
yet nobody seems willing to step in
and guide this band of refugees to
+some place where they can begin life
anew under more promising circum-
stances.
Large amounts of money have been
raiCpd N tho mast for tho ArunouioOc
in Armenia, but the situation of the
latter is not a whit worse than the
half starved people here, if as bad.
The Armenians in Armenia certainly
had their co-religionists and fellow
countrymen to fall back upon The
poor people here seem to have no
friends in the wide world, yet they are
as honest and Industrious a class as
you can find on the shores of the Med
iterranean.
Some South American spectators, it
is true, taking advantage of this de-
plOrable situation, have prevailed upon
300 others of the Armenian refugees to
allow themselves to be transported to
the Argentine Republic, there in all
probability to meet the fate of thou
sands of the Hebrews of Russia, who,
thanks to the philanthropy of the late
Baron Hirsch, emigrated to South Am
erica, only to find themselves, figur-
atively speaking, tossed from the fry
ing pan into the fire. 1t is true that the
climate of the Argentine Republic is
said to be more healthy than that of
the regions that the poor Hebrews
tried to settle in, but the end is likely
to be the same in the case of the Ar
menian refugees, who are not a class
Of people likely to thrive in roughly
founded colonies.
Only about eighteen of the 800 Ar
menians who reached here have as yet
been able to start for the United States.
These few emigrants are of the better
class of the Armenians. They are fair
ly well supplied with funds and will
probably start for New York via South
ampton. But what is to become of the
remaining unfortunate Christians fee
ing from the blood stained Turks, who
are living on charity here with their
eyes turned longingly toward the Unit
ed States? 1t would seem that these
the United States, and they may be
forbidden to land there even If they
succeed in obtaining transportation to
the shores of North America.