The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-05
TALKS BY A REV.
Remarks in Public Places
By Chaplain Schwartz.
His Views on Relations OF Honolulu PEG
rie 70 Sick Men Shouts Be
No Criticism.

Rev. Karl Schwartz, chaplain OF the
First New York Regiment, yesterday
made some remarks in public places
or public occasion and public ques-
ton that a newspaper should present
to its readers.
Chaplain Schwartz took part in a
conversation between Capt. Tompkins,
Peterson, Of this city, to say that there
had been no inquiry about the condi-
ton OF the late Granville Wells till
after the death Of the soldier. DR..
Peterson answered at once: Il beg
your pardon, sir, but there has been
constant inquiry for Wells. Chaplain
Schwartz said: Well, We will not dis
pute about it, and left. DR.. Peterson
| is the executive officer Of Mystic lodge,
knights OF PyTthias, and states that In
that relation and as we'll upon presen-
tation % mis- professional card, he was
denied the privilege OF seeing Wells.
Senator ]. A. McCandless. Capt.
Tompkins, Chaplain Schwartz and
two or three other men were in a
group after the funerals of yesterday
afternoon. The matter Of permitting
outsiders to see or communicate WITH
or learn OF the condition OF military
patients was being commented upon on
discussed. Something that Capt. Tomp-
kins said prompted this remark from
the Chaplain: Il must remind you
that you are talking in an unmIiltary
manner" Wells was in the command
LOT Capt. TompkinS and Capt. TOmp-
kins is a personal friend Of the father
of the dead soldier. The Captain, by
the way, said to an Advertiser repre-
sentative that Wells was given the best
of care at the hopSita1. What caused
the rebutle by the Chaplain was like
ly an eXhi bitiOn OF sympathy with the
idea that Wells could not have the
benefit OF what outsiders wished to do
for him.
Senator McCandless related an ex-
perience in which it had become neceS-
sary to call upon the Special Agent Of
the United States to learn something
of a man in the hospital. The Senator
ventured to suggest that it might be
we'll to have a bulletin beard or book
in the hospital office, properly written
up so that callers could learn of the
state of those in whom they were in
tereSted.
Chaplain Schwartz said it would
take half a dozen men to run Dui-
letin and then rather lost his temper
at something Senator McCandleSS said.
The Chaplain said in effect that the
men had no friends here outside of the
that he himself was a Ma
son, but had no friends here, that all
that was necessary to be known of a
man could be learned from the officers
after the man was dead. That one
woman went into the hospital with a
pineapple under her arm and said she
would like TO give it to some of the
patients, but the officers would not al
low it. Another woman, according to
the Chaplain, had gone into the hos
pital and had Wept and had caused a
patient to cry Maj. Davis had stopped
all that. Further it was no use trying
to hurt Or harm Maj. Davis He might
be annoyed somewhat, but he could
not be injured. Senator MIcCandless
had no right to criticise. He was not
an American yet.
Senator McCandless is not a man to
be muzzled by anyone. He retortsd
that most men made friends every
where and that the people Of Honolulu
were eager to help in behalf Of the
sick men Senator McCandlesS says he
is entirely at a loss to understand
what could have brought forth the
reference by Chaplain Schwartz to
Maj Davis.