The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-22
BROWN SBR|LUANT BADGE
AN ILL NATURED JOKE MAY LEAD
TO TROUBLE.
The Executive Session of the Board Df
Health Has "a Leak-Proposal to Put

path for the man or men who sent
him an officers badge made ont Of
pure glittering tin and an insulting
letter.
Mr.. Brown believes it to be the work
of the Government officials now in
quarantine on the Castle premises III
Waikiki. They did not approve of his
presence on the scene at midnight
Tuesday nor the action he took in ie-
gard to the matter before the Board of
Health at yesterday afternoons meet
ing. These are Mr.. Browns arguments
in support of his belief and he intends
to ascertain just who are concerned in
the scheme and who left the grounds
to deliver the tin badge.
! He has one clue to start on. James
G. Spencer, the secretary of the Pa
citic Club, says that someone drove up
to his carriage last evening while he
was out Waikiki way and tossed
package into the carriage. Mr.. Speuc-
er says that it was addressed to him
and upon opening the parcel he found
that it was to be delivered to MIR.
Brown. In the evening he took it
down to the Pacific club and left it
there for it's owner.
The story leading up TO the presen-
tation of the tin badge to Mr.. Brown
was fully exploded at a secret session
of the Board of Health yesterday af-
ternoon. While those in authority IN
the health department deem it best
that the public be excluded from Il
matter which is of the greatest inter
est to the community at large, leak
was discovered this morning which
will enable the readers of The Star to
have some conception of what trans
pired at yesterdays secret session.
Mr.. Brown requested the Board, so
the story goes to order the removal OF
Minister of Foreign Affairs Cooper,
Collector General Castle and the other
Government employees now in quarai-
tine at the Castle place in Waikiki, TO
the quarantine station. His reason for
proposing this motion was that thc
officials, from Minister Cooper down,
were making a burlesque of the qulr-
antine at present and he believed Il
the duty of the Board, as custodian ii
the public health, to enforce string.
ent quarantine on these people until
the expiration of the quarantine per-
iod. Mr.. Brown argued that it could
be done in no other way except by cDr
fining them on the island under ;he
same regulations and restrictions Is
are in vogue with the japanese.
Mr.. Brown informed the Board that
he had taken it upon himself. as :
member of the Health department, tc
investigate into the true condition OF
things at the Castle residence, and IN
proof of his presence on the premises
he laid on the table for the Bo ,rL
members to gaze at, the yellow ila-
which the quarantined officials saG
had been stolen.
There was considerable said hl Mr.
Brown, as well as one or two Other
members, about the way things nav,
been allowed to go on. Just all tina
was said cannot be repeated, but her,
is the gist of it, as told by reliabl,
informant:
Mr. Brown said he had been tolt
that people were making it habit t.
| visit the Castle place, paying little %
| TO hn i,,a la,
, tions He went to the Castle place ol
= Tuesday evening at IL o'clock and re
manned until after midnight. Their
was no guard on duty, so the rumo
goes, and regulations were not beini
lived up to by the officials. Mr.. Brown
= it is believed, encountered the official
J, and fair-szed row-only words bein
r used-ensued. After securing the fla
Mr.. Brown returned to the city.
: Previous to this, it is stated, tina
Mr.. Brown, while riding on his whee
. in Waikiki, encountered Ministe
Cooper riding on a bicycle. 1t is sal
t that Brown severely rebuked the Mil
; lister for his indiscreet action. Until
ing in his efforts to learn other thing
Mr.. Brown saw them out canoe riding
II was told that the members of bicycl
q party last week were in conversatio
and even shook hands with the qua
, antined officials, and many other intel
views We're held with parties VIII
might carry smallpox into the cit,
were there any germs to carry ava.
o Just whether the Board will TAX
up an examination of affairs at tn
Castle place cannot be ascertaine,
One thing is certain, though, the o
70 ficials have not been transferred to Il
quarantine station.
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