Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-06-08
FRIEND OF ANIMALS.
Miss Helen wilder, of Honolulu, Visits
Portland.


ter of the late s. G.. Wilder, of
Honolulu, largely interested in
the railway and steamship inter
ests of the island kingdom, is a
guest at the Portland, accompanied
by her friend and travelling com
panion, Miss Mary johnson.
Miss Wilder is young woman
of strong personality, born, and
reared in Honolulu, and is for
tunate enough to be able to cruise
about the world at will, enjoying
the varied changes that she meets,
and, as she said yesterday, she
finds Portland so delightful a
place, the climate so much like
that 10 her own loved home, that
she really does not know just
when she will return.
For number of years, Miss
Wilder has engaged in the humane
work at Honolulu and become the
special friend of every dumb
beast in that semi-tropic abode.
She is entirely averse to talkin g
about her own particular work in
this direction, but conversiDg with
an Oregonian representative yes
terday, spoke generally of the re-
suits she had accomplished, say
ing:
at was in 1895, after my re-
turn from San Francisco, that l
realized that something must be
done in the interest of humane
work on the islands. We held a
meeting in Honolulu, 30 people
attending, and for a time there
was great enthusiasm over the
project. Then L was compelled
to go to the United States again.
and when l returned home l
found that the interest in humane
work had greatly tagged. 1 had
been elected president of the So
ciety, and proposed to keep up the
good work as best l could.
L n piled to the government for n
special police badge, which was
granted me, and so armed l was
given the right to 60 into the courts
aud assist in the prosecution of
those who had been arrested for
cruelty to animals. In fact, l
strained point and caused the
arrest Of others, who were charged
with being crazy or drunk, but al
ways with the common purpose in
view to alleviate the distress Of
others on the broad principle of
humanity.
" When 1 left Honolulu last
April, l gave my badge to friend,
who L knew would carry out the
humane work during my absence,
and when L return home 1 will
apply to the government for au-
thority to extend my work to the
other islands of the Hawaiian
group. The hardest work found
was among the white population,
the Chinese and Japanese really
taking better care of their animals
than those who are classed as
Christian people,"
Miss Wilder is by no means a
stranger among Portland people,
having met many from this city
at her home in Honolulu. Among
these are Mrs. Gustave Simon,
Mrs. w. E. Aver, Mrs. Edward
Page and others, who are more
than pleased to renew their &C
quaintance with the young woman
who sought to make their sojourn
in Honolulu pleasant.
Miss Wilder has kind word to
say for many former Portlanders
who have been or are now in Ho-
nolulu, including Ed Dekum,
John Effinger and Joe Travis, the
latter formerly connected with the
Oregonian staff and who recently
has been transferred to Oakland,
Cal, as representative of the San
Francisco Chronicle. There can
be no more patriotic young woman
than Miss Wilder. Her mother,
the daughter of one of the early
missionaries on the islands, DR..
G. p. Judd, was the first white
woman born in Honolulu, and
from mothers lips the daugh-
ter learned to love country whose
flag she now hopes to see floating
over her native home"
"When l left home," said Miss
Wilder, 1--WE had not learned of
the declaration of war, but there
WAS rumor to that effect, and
Mr.. Travis, in his paper, gave
to an editorial that