The evening times., 1899-02-15
HONOLULU MILITARY
HOSPITAL HORRORS
Complaints Made Against the
Surgeon in Charge.
knights Of Pythias TO Investigate
the Subject.
DrRth OF Granville wells. u Young
New Yorker, ArOUses Intense
Feeling.

Honolulu, Feb, 15.-Smoldering fitfully
there has been 4 feeling in Honolulu
against the military hospital and the sur
geon in charge, Major Davis, and this 1eei-
ing has burst forth into activity since the
death of Granville l.. Wells, soldier Of
the First New York Regiment of Nolun-
teers. on Wednesday. November so.
Granville Wells was a popular young
fellow in his regiment and q member OF
the knights of Pythias, in which society
his father stands very high. Colonel Wells
wrote 10 one of the two lodges here and
requested that his son be taken under the
protection of the order DR.. Peterson. the
executive officer of Mystic Lodge, knights
of Pythias. states that in that relation
and with the addition of a letter from
Colonel Wells. besides the presentation or
his professional card. he was denied the
privilege of seeing young Wells.
Now it is we'll understood that Il Is
wisely against regulation to permit yisi-
tors at the hospital, but DR.. Peterson
should have been exempt from this law,
as his letter from the young mans father
gave him what should have been an open
sesame to the dying boy, and maybe to
receive a sons last message. 1t is not dis
Duted that young Wells had the best OF
care at the hospital, but the fathers let
ter authorizing his order to look after his
sick boy presented by medlcai man,
should have been respected.
Surely there should be no ordinance
against giving to anxious friends news of
The condition of patients. An enquirer for
.Joe Granville Wells was rudeiy answered.
I'VE do not tell the condition of our pa
tients You must ask the adjutant gen.
eral."
request was politely made for the
Office or telephone number of the adjutant
general The curt message returned was
Il don't know.
An Instance of Discipline.
AS there is no such official in Honolulu,
and as this friend of young Wells learned
few hours later on the street that he had
died the day before this instance of hos
| pital discipline seemed somewhat uncaEe
| for.
In one case Harold NJ. Sewal ex-min-
! lister from the United States, was called
upon to obtain information of man in
! the hospital On another occasion a young
| fellow was sent to the military hospital.
We waited four hours, with temperature
| of 103 On q hard, straight-backed bench
| in the heat of tropical day. he sat out
! side the door, with his head resting on his
| hand, suffering, detected, sick at heart
and sick in body. Finally he was called in
and examined Then, with this high tenn
perature, he was dismissed and tod to &c
| back to his camp. Better take car, y
called knd-hearted steward, who noted
| that the sick soldier staggered as he
| walked slowly away.
| The sun beat down mercilessly upon
| him; he was dizzy and his mouth was
parched; the car was coming; he thought
| of it's slow progress down to Waikiki, q
! full half hours drive; he remembered the
long, hot, dusty walk when the car STOP
ped. And he had Just enough thinking
power left to know that he could not reach
his camp. He went 10 the Queens Hos
pital, and there they took him in
| After a hard tussle one mothers boy
Was saved to gladden. q home in New
York; a home that might have had 6