The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-30
MAKE AN EXIT
The Fumigating Station
Very Busy.
How the Chinese and japanese Sey-
ants are CIeansed - New
Clothes Sent In.

Al the tunigacing station in the
Kaumakapili church enclosure, a busy
corps of inspectors and assistants are
constantly at work fumigating people
and mail, and tagging old clothes. All
the inspectors in the quarantined dis
trict report at the station ID Dr. Pratt.
and everything passing II CT out of the
lines is subjected to Inspection. Since
yesterday morning nearly 200 servants,
cooks, stewards, nurses and yard boys
have been fumigated and passed out
of the quarantine district wu1h instruc-
tiOns to go at once 10 their respective
places of work.
Manager Lucas OF the Hawaiian Ho-
tel was one Of the first 70 apply to the
Board Of Health for permission tc
bring his help out. IS his culinary and
household business was at a standstill
and no meals could Is served the
guests until he got them cut. A batch
of twenty were found and escorted to
the fumigating station, and bundles OF
brand new clothes were seat through
the lines for them TO don
After being lined up il the receiving
room, each man was given q tag bear
ing his name and address. They We're
then marched into the infected room
where they stripped themselves and
tied their clothes into bundles attach
ing the tag to them. Next cold show
e. bath was INDUCED IN creating much
merriment among the Ctiestials, who
considered the matter very much in
the light OF a huge joke.
Then the stationery washstands were
brought into requisition and a liberal
use of CASTLE soap was enforced upon
them, the wash basins containing a
solution OF disinfectant. After thor
ough rundown the entire naked group
was marched into what is called the
''non-infected" room, where the
new clothing awaited them. Lldicrous
fits of clothes resulted, small, under
sized Cinnamon invariably getting the
longest clothes and vice versa. There
was not enough time, however, at the
disposal Of the inspectors 70 await for
exact and fashionable fitting, and the
motley professions were marched two
by two up Beretania street to Nuuanu
where anxious and breakfastless
householders awaited their coming.
The fumigated employees made re-
marks to other patches of waiting
Celestials to the effect that they had
been steamed, smoked, f1pcigated, al
most choked with disinfectants and
subjected to hot and cold baths.so that
most of those awaiting turned and fed
into the remote regions Of Chinatown.
In this manner the Arlington Hotel
employees We're scared away, and it
was not until / o'clock yesterday that
Mrs. Kruse was able to run her SER
wants through the fIpmigating process.
Minister MOtt-Smith's little Chinese
servant, scarcely four feet high,
through some mistake was furnished a
pair of trousers cut for @ man of six
feet Nevertheless, the little fellow
seriously and industriously rolled up
about Two or three feet in each leg IN
til the bottoms were free from trailing
the ground, and Tapped the waist-band
around his exceedingly small waist I'M
til the trousers were safely held up in
position Quite a number of the Chin
csc and Japs were somewhat in Won
dering mood as to who was to pay
for their new apparel and felt rather
inclined to feel aggrieved at the pos
sibility of having to go down into
their own pockets therefor.