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

Have Not Violated Quarantine Re-
Monopoly.

So much has been said and written
Castle, Marks, Doyle, Macintosh and
Hapai, at present in quarantine at the
residence of James b. Castle, Waikiki,
and the charges against the gentlemen
so numerous and varied that it has
been a difficult thing for the public to
know which is true and which false.
G. A. Brown, a member of the Board
of Health, is the one, according to re-
port, who is responsible for the charges
being made at the meeting of the
Board of Health on Wednesday. Just
what they were is not known, but
street rumor has it that Minister Coop
er is charged with having shaken
hands with President and Mrs. Dole.
That the Minister was passing his time
riding bicycle in the public drive, OPP
posite the Castle residence. That mem
bers of the party go canoeing and land
on other property. That levees are
held on the grounds. and that on one
occasion two ladies shook hands with
two of the quarantined men. In Mr.
Browns zeal to verify the rumors that
had reached him, to the effect that the
place was not properly guarded, he had
gone there on Tuesday night after II
o'clock, and to prove that he had been
there, removed the quarantine flag and
delivered it to the Board of Health
II, : -
was neglecting his duty.
These details were published in an
afternoon paper on Wednesday, before
the meeting of the board, and again
quarantine and under guard, an inter
view with the gentlemen in order that
they might admit or deny any or all
of the charges, could be had only under
difficulties, because it would have to be
at long range, if at all A reporter for
the Advertiser telephoned to the Cas-
tie residence last night and asked per-
mission for a long-range confab. On
receiving it, he armed himself with a
rabbits root and mango stone as
feticheS and disease representatives.,
and drove out in a hack. On nearing
the premises, he told John AndTade,
the driver. to get as near to the hedge
as possible, so that the conversation
could be carried on without disturb
ing the guests at Sans SOuci, but when
the carriage reached a point opposite
the gate. William Carlyle. the guard,
stepped out and told the reporter not
to come any nearer than the middle of
the road Just inside the hedge sat the
iofi
Minister Cooper stepped to the
rope stretched across the entrance. and
in reply to a request for statement,
said:
L understand. from what I have
read in the papers, and from questions
asked by DR.. Wood last night. that c.
A. Brown has charged me with vio
lating quarantine regulations. Among
the charges is one that l have shaken
hands with President Dole since I have
been in quarantine. This is absolutely
false. l have seen President Dole
twice. and then with his wife. He was
where you are standing about 20 feet
Off, and I stood just as l stand now.
| could not very we'll shake hands with
him at that distance.
Il am informed that he charges me
with riding a bicycle on the park
road. The circumstances are these:
have felt myself in need of exercise.
and as there are several wheels here.
began practicing. Being a novice, I
cannot turn as we'll on this short curve
as | could on a kite track, and so as 20
get q greater range. I ride through the
gate to the road and back again around
the circle. On Tuesday afternoon. when
I was on my wheel, at point halfway
between the house and the gate, saw
Brown coming along the road. He
stopped outside the gate, and as 1 rode
around him, l asked how things were
in town. Both Mr. Macintosh and