The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-10-07
Another Company of GalicianS for
the Fields.
ARRIVE IN EXCELLENT HEALTH
Something of the Country - AS
Laborers Here-On the Ship.
The Long Voyage.

Three hundred and siXty-five Cali
man bark II. +. Glade from Bremen
! yesterday. The II. +. Glade was about
four and half months in making the
| trip from Bremen, but Notwithstanding
the long voyage all the passengers are
well and hearty, but glad enough to
get on land again. Three deaths oc-
Cured among the immigrants during
the' passage, one woman and two
| children There were three births. so
the number OF passengers has not
| diminished. The immigrants will be
| employed on the big Oahu and other
plantations belonging to the Hackfeld
agency. DIR. Walter Hoffman, a cap
able physician, attended to the people
on board.
Avisit to the II. +. Glade is inter
esting. There you see phases OF Euro
pean peasant life. Various garbs, such
as one sees on the Tyrolean singers,
are on hoard Dancing was going on
last night, men with men, women with
women, circling round and round in a
dizzy sort Of polka step. Two violinS
furnished the music. To keep time was
a secondary consideration. One part
OF the deck was set apart for the na-
tional dance-the CoSsack dance-a
whirl, jig step, then a sort of break
down and general collapse-but they
all seem TO enjoy IL.
Around the main deck was a bench,
on which sat the lookers-on-mostly
women with handkerchiefs for head
gear. The color OF the headdress be-
tokened whether the wearer was mar
ried or single. There was content
ment, a silence and no noise except
the rasping OF the violin bows and the
scrape of the feet OF the dancers on the
deck. Still, they are rather a liStlesS
people. Both men and women are
sturdy, yet OF small build. Babies
there are plentiful, sprawling about the
Geck-for the immigrants have slept
on ahe deck every night they could,
for below, where the hold contains
hunks for them there is a c.oseness
which reminds one OF the troopships.
For the most part the Galicians be
long to- the Roman Church. although
there are some Greek Catholics among
them. They are very supers;itious.
Capt. Haesloop's young son accom-
paniss him on this voyage for his
health. He is a bright young fellow
and will follow the sea. Calm weather
with northeast and southeast trad
was encountered by the II. r. Glade
in the Atlantic as far as Cape Horn In
the South Pacific ocean there was
some very stormy weather with hail
and snow up to- 81 degrees. Then there
came southwesterly winds and heavy
rain squalls with a hurricane for a
change. northerly breeze sprung
when nearing the Islands.
Today the laborers will be distrib-
uted for the plantations on this island
and i'm a few days those remaining will
go TO Lihue, kolOa. Lahaina and other
big plantations OF the group.
The II. +. Glade Will commence dis
charging freight early next week and
will probably load sugar for san Fran
cisco.
Galicia, where these immigrants hail
from, is a province OF Austria. Its sur
face is a terrace through which the
Carpathian mountains gradually sink
into the great East European plain.
The soil is fertile but the climate Is
cold-long winters with deep snow.
There are short, hot summers. Grain,
flax, hemp and hops are grown, but
the grape Will not ripen. There = q
class OF mobiles who have warlike pas
sions, a romantic temper and elegant
manners. There is no middle class.
| The peasants have always been very
poor and have had no educational IA
cilities given them. In the division OF
/ Poland in 1772, Galicia came 20 Aus
\ tria and has made great advances IN
civilization in spite OF the REBEL. ons
which have convulsed 10. The popula-
| tion OF Galicia was 6,57S .36i IN 1890.
There are already = considerable
number OF Galicians on the Islands as
7 labOrers and they are highly endorsed
by their employers as steady, inte IL
gent and industrious and OF tractable
temperament. One Of the purposes OF
. Jos. Narsden, while abroad as a free
lance labor commissioner was TO look
for more OF these people for Hawaiian n
/ plantations. Where they are working
here now they take great interest in
the cultivation OF small patches Cf land
on their own account.