Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-02-24
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Z DR.. WHITE AT HONOLULU. )
a LETTER FROM PULLMANS EX-MAYOR !
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,,e,t for the benefit of his health, reached
,;s destination OH the 2nd inst, having
heen on the ocean, aboard the sailing
ressel, S. N Castle, eighteen days be-
tween San Francisco and Honolulu. Let
ters received this week by Mrs. White
state that the doctor enjoyed his ocean
trip Notwithstanding a severe storm that
,deiayed them several days, and blew the
vessel good many miles out of her
.course. He had good appetite during
tbe voyage, and was able to get full
hsne6t of it as he was not troubled with
sea sickness.
Under date of February 4th the doc
tor wrote his wife as follows, Mrs. White
having kindly permitted the publication
of the letter as DIR. Whites many friends
here have been anxious to hear from
him:
~ will write you a few lines this morn
ing, although can not send it till about
the 10th, possibly not then, but i'll the
meantime am going to write, and you
will get the different installments all at
one time.
81 never was SO disappointed as I was
steamer was due to leave here that night,
and we all wrote letters while at sea in
order to have them ready to mail as soon
as we landed Before we anchored at
the wharf we got boat boy to take them
to the Office; however, we found
we we're too late as they have passed
law requiring that all mails close "a
hours before the sailing of steamers SO
that the mails can be disinfected before
leaving, SO we did not get them off. If it
leaves on the 10th, you will not get it be-
fore the 25th, and that will make it more
than a month without you hearing from
me and i'll the meantime l know just
about how you will be worried for fear
the vessel i'll which l sailed went down i'll
storm, or that am sick or that l am
quarantined on account of the plague,
but fortunately, none of those things
have happened, and l ain on land and
all right. l cough about the same and
expectorate some, but l don't think
feel quite SO much Tapping and rattling
in my lung as when left. l eat we'll
and sleep we'll, and am in pretty good
shape, think. We had agood voyage,
and reasonably quick one. The last
trip before this that the ship made they
were out IS days, but this time we laid
too Off Diamond Head about II O'Clock at
night OF the 18th day out. We had to
remain there till morning At daybreak
we got under way and sailed to the
mouth of the harbor, where we lay too
again for an hour waiting for pilot and
tug. They came about nine O'Clock
together with the port physician,
VINO examined us. There is an awful lot
Oh red tape" business here since the
plague scare. The doctor examined us
and told us that we were at liberty to go
ashore as soon as we landed, but we were
doomed to disappointment because they
would not permit the vessel to land. They
pulled us within about 20 feet of the wharf
ana anchored the ship telling the captain
not 10 put out gang plank or allow any
one on board the ship from the shore or
anyone from the ship to land till further
orders Then they went away and left
u.s. Every hour or two one of them
"ouid come downland shout to us, "Don't
pe ashore or allow anyone aboard. "
:" a'he meantime we got boy with a
'0dI 10 take our letters to the office and
o'ing our mail. I was fortunate enough
=" get SIX letters and bundle of papers.
''i'el that did not care so much. l was
very glad to get the letters even if they
we're little old. The latest one was
"''''eh on the 18th. Well, we finally
e0' on the ship about four O'Clock, and
'Ni journey was at an end. | was really
'hdl 1t was over, because l ell
!O,eu II SO much. When we landed they
~ 'he snip up to the dock and landed
:, 'a' i've stock there was aboard. Then
s s1e vessel was towed out into the harbor
o." ana they wouldn't allow the captain
any OF the crew to come ashore. 1t
w three or four weeks before she
- - uischarge her cargo There had
NNH no new cases of rnlan,e for einl,t