The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-10
An INDECENT EXAMINATION
DIR. KINYoUN's OBJECTIONABLE
METHODS.
Coptics Passengers have an unpleasant
Experience at Hands of Frisco QUA
rantine Officials-A Protest.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 2-Dr.
kinyoun, Federal Quarantine officer,
came in for a deal Of indignant criti-
cism at the hands of the passengers who
who landed from the steamer Coptic
yesterday. For some time past, pas
sengers on incoming steamers have ac-
cused the quarantine authorities of
needless brutality and outrageous in
delicacy in the performance of their du-
ties, and it has been openly charged by
many that Kinyoun's methods were
having the effect designedly or unin-
tentionally as the case may be, of driv-
ing business away from the port of San
Francisco,
The experience of the Coptic's pas
sengers was not dissimilar from that of
other passengers from foreign ports
who have landed from incoming steam
ers during the past several weeks, and
a number Of them protested vigorously
yesterday against what they declared
to be a high-handed proceeding unpre-
cedented and unheard of before in a
civilized country.
G. n. Oliver, president of the Picking
University, was outspoken in his de-
nunciaticn of the quarantine regula
tons as enforced by Kinyoun, and de-
clared that never again would he per-
init himself to be subjected to the hui
initiating treatment to which he was
forced to submit before leaving the
China steamer yesterday
Although there was no sickness on
| board the Vesse! requiring the detention
of the cabin passengers" he said, when
! seen at the Mail dock during theafter-
noon, the quarantine authorities re-
quired a lot of the cabin passengers to
| go into the smoking-room of the steam
er while she lay off the quarantine sta
ton, strip themselves of all their cloth
| ing in public, and submit themselves to
humiliating and indecent eXamina-
ton. l never heard of such an outrage
Gus proceeding"
| Another cause of complaint among
the passengers is that they were delay
ed aboard the ship nearly an entire day
to satisfy the whim of the quarantine
officer The Coptic dropped anchor at
o'clock last night. The passengers
should have been landed at the very
latest by 10 o'clock this morning. In
stead of that, however, the ship was
taken to the quarantine station, al
though she had a clean bill of health,
the passengers were detained aboard
until noon, the baggage and mail was
| then lowered over the side to a tug by
a slow process that required an hour
and a half, and, with the passengers
aboard, the tug then steamed to the
Mail Dock, where another long and an
| nOylng delay was experienced IN get
| ting the baggage ashore. 1 am told
| that there was absolutely no excuse
for OBTAINING the Coptic at the quaran-
tine station. Had she been allowed to
proceed to her berth at the Mail Dock
within a reasonable length of time the
| passengers would have been saved a
very annoying delay, the loss of their
luncheon, disagreeable ride across the
! bay on the deck of tugboat with no
protection from the biting wind that
| prevailed and a number of them, in
Guiding myself, would not have been
prompted to take an oath that hence
forth they will journey by way of Van
couVer.
Il have made the trip across the Pa
| cific by way of Vancouver and was not
made to suffer the annoyance and hu-
initiation for which / blame the quaran-
tine authorities here. The authorities
| board the steamer at Victoria and
make their inspection on the run up to
| Vancouver. When the ship reaches
Vancouver the passengers are all ready
to go ashore with their baggage. All
reasonable quarantine precautions are
to be commended and cannot be object
ed to by the passengers, but l assert
that the unreasonable methods of the
quarantine authorities here will drive a
vast amount of business away from
I this port If allowed to continue I'M
checked