The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-30
Paper Of The Big MatNp,lil Has
a Honolulu Letter.
MAJOR DAVIS Is SG0aED
Conduct OF the t4osp,taI-Tho Case
OF Cranvlus 81. vysus-"s.CsS
on Your -at."
tNew YOrS Tines


and surgeon in charge. Major DAVIS.
aud this feeling has burst forth into
activity since the death of Granville I.
Wells. a soldier Of the First New Yors
Regiment OF Volunteers. On wciacS-
day. November 81.
Granville Wells vas a popular youak
fellow in this regiment and n member
OF the Knights OF PyJhias. in which
society his father stands very high.
Colonel Wells wrote go che of the tao
Hodges here and requested that hts
son be taken under the protection OF
the order. Dr. Petersen. the executive
officer OF Mystic lodge. Knights Of Ply
thias. states that tn that relation and
with the addition OF a letter from
Colonel Wells. besides the presentation
OF his professional card. he vas dcasct /
the privilege OF seeing young Wells.
Now d - well understood that 81 IL |
wisely agalns, regulations to permit
visitors At the hospital. but Dr. Peter
son should have been exempt from this
law. rs hts letter from the young 1-an's
father gave him what should have bcSn
an open sesame to- the dy-saE boy. and
maybe TO receive a sons last message.
II is not disputed that young Wells
had the bes, OF care at che hospital.
but The fathers letter authorizing hts
order 20 look after hts sick boy. pre-
scented by medical man. should have
been respected.
Surely there should be no ordinance
against giving TO anxious friends news
OF the condition Of patients. An inquir-
er for Joe Granville Wells was r1doiy
answered: We do not tell the eondi-
ton OF our patients. You must ask
the adiurant general
A reques; was politely made for the
|; office or telephone number OF the Ad-
lju;ant General. The curt message re-
turned was. II don't know"
As there ia no such official in Homo
lulu. and as this friend OF young Wells
J. learned a few hours later on the street
I that ne had died the day before. this
instance OF hospital discipline seemed
somewhat uncSlled for.
In one case Harold NJ. Scwall. cx-
Minister from the Uaitcd States. was
called upon to obtain Information of a
man in the hospital. on another oc-
c1sson young fellow was sent Co ths
military hospital. We waited four
= hours. with n temperature OF iO5. OF
= hard. STRAIGHTFORWARD bench. in the
{ heat OF a tropical day. he sat outside
the door. with his head resting on hi
hand. suffering. detected. sieS at hear
and sick in body. Finally he vas call
ed in and examined. Then. with thi
high temperature. he was dismisSe'
10 and told to go back to his camp. Bet
)b ter take n car called n kind-hcarte
steward. who noted that the sick so
der staggered ~ he walked s'owi
away.
The sun beat down mereileSsly upo
- him: he was dizzy and his mouth va
parched: the car was coming: h
thought of its slow progress down {
= Waikiki. n full half hours drive: b
Remembered the long. hot. dusty val
when the car stopped. And he had iu,
enough thinking power left TO kao
that he could no; reach his camp. II
went to- the Queens Hospital. a.
there they took him sn.
After a hard tussic one no: cher
- boy vas saved to- gladden. a home
New York: a home that might ha,
had n rebe,lious Thanksgiving Ds
and a Christmas that vas al Eloo
tee and darkness.
The next day his captain. who hl
sent him to the Milit1ry Hospital. tel
phoned for Information a. 60 che b1l
condition
lie t. getting On WE'LL vas che :
- ply. oh. yes. he is pretty sick. b
We Will pull him through
The boy was lying IN a raging fcv
on bod IN the QurCn's Hospital
TIA; nOmcat.
The boys have a horror % the "
tary Hospital. They do net like MAJ
= Davis. who has a rough. cuTt WY vi
y them. and the tales sold IN camp
the convalsscsa: pa;seats have not Z
Outraged them. The hospstal has -
overcrowdst: men sick unto de-
have lain next Co men on tAs ro1d
recovery. Men have p8eset away
crowded wards. with hut a ssrn~1
hide their death struggles from
N bows whose spirits. q; bes'. have y
. depressed enough to rctart thesT -
recovery.
Inefficient night nurses. poor 20
H and the horrors Of ho1sesscSneSs n