The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-04-23

! 10 be a heated discussion. As soon as |
got inside the enclosure | attempted
! 10 turn, and fell off the wheel Mr..
Brown had no further conversation
with me, and did not therefore, as the
Star says. severely rebuke me-
! Mr.. Brown states. also. that we have
/ been receiving guests here andS max
/ ing the quarantine a burlesque This
| statement is as false as the others. The
| only persons who have stepped inside
! the grounds since We have been in
quarantine were DR.. Rodgers, who
came on business connected with the
Board of Education, and G. B. Rey-
nOlds, who came to have me sign a
Board of Health bond. The quarantine
| regulations have been adhered to as
strictly as they require. We have new
er left the grounds, except as / have
explained to you"
Regarding the conversation between
Messrs. Doyle, Macintosh and Brown,
the former said
Macintosh and l saw Brown in the
road and I said: Hello, Cabby, what's
new?' He replied by telling me that if
we did not obey quarantine rules he
would put us all over on quarantine
island. | was a little surprised at his
gall and his assumed power, and asked
him where he ached most, remarking
incidentally that | was not aware that
he was the whole Board of Health.
He said: No, I'm not: but l control
seven votes in that body, and that is
enough to put you in quarantine I
had my doubts about his influence and
told him to go climb a tree. but he
wouldn't do it. That is all there is 10
the story regarding his abuse of Min
lister Cooper. He had no conversation
with the Minister that [ could hear,
and l was present all the time
The subject of the stealing of the
quarantine flag was next brought up,
and Collector General Castle told what
he knew of it:
Il retired early Tuesday night, but
could not sleep. About 1870 | awoke
and made light. A few minutes aft
erward Mr. Carlye. the guard, came
back to the veranda to ascertain the
cause. He remained only a few min
utes, then returned to his post. Before
he started for the veranda | saw the
flag hanging where it is now. Carlyle's
duties take him all over the grounds,
as. there is only one Waterman on
guard at a time. Shortly after this,
finding sleep impossible, | walked TO
the gate and noticed that a yellow
eib3b that had been hanging to this
rflns had been removed Mr.. Carlyle
reported to me, then, that on his re-
turn to the gate mounted patrolman
had asked him who the man was that
had just left the gate. Carlyle said he
told him he had not seen any one, and
asked him to go and look among the
trees and see if he could find him.
Il can say for myself that the rules
of quarantine have been sacredly kept
There was no necessity to send guards
out here to keep us within limits be-
cause we were anxious to have the
quarantine enforced. When we asked
Minister Cooper to assign the limits OF
quarantine he declined to do it, and
told us they would have to be fixed by
the executive officer of the Board of
Health.
Until today, from the time we came
in quarantine / have never left the
grounds. This afternoon ! went out in
a rowboat and pulled about for half an
hour or more and landed on the beach
in front of my house. Mr.. Brown
thought he saw violations of the quar-
antine regulations, and to prove it,
assumed the role of spy, and set out
to watch u.s. Finding himself without
proof, he waited until the guard came
away from the gate, in making his
rounds. in order that he might remove
the flag. 1t was not an honorable &C
ton or a brave act. If he wanted 20
wait until high tide, he could probably
get away with every yellow flag at
quarantine station, and not half try.
From all we have heard, Brown has
been airing himself without any
grounds whatever. He has made
charges against us to the Board of
Health, and he should be made to prove
them. If he cannot substantiate them.
it is the duty of the Board of Health
TO demand his resignation from that
body / know nothing about Brown
having a lot of spies, except what I
have heard here. The guard can tell
you what he knows of it.
Mr.. Carlyle volunteered the follow
ing:
'About $50 Tuesday night Officer
Gus Cordes came along the road and
asked me if I had seen Cabby Brown
around. I said: No He told me he
was out with lot of specials, hiding
in the bushes and watching this place.
That Brown had heard that the boys
were in the habit of visiting Sans
Souci, and he was going to catch them
and put them over in quarantine sta
ton. l understand that Mr.. Brown
carried a dark-lantern with him. and
that he had been to Sans Souci. Since
I have been here none of these men
have gone out of the gate, except as
Minister Cooper stated to you. The
flag was there when the light appeared
in Mr.. Castles room, and when I went
back to learn the cause. | did not no
tice whether it was there when | came
back. but | missed the yellow rag that
had hung on this rope. | believe my
relief noticed at 2:30 that the flag was
gone. Ny duties as guard takes me all
over the grounds during the night
Two of us stand watch alternately.
When I am at the back of the house it
would be an easy matter for any one
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