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The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02
DEALING wIrH CHINATOWN.

The Board of Health acted to good
purpose again yesterday. Another in
fected block is infected no longer. Fire
once more did its beneficent work. The
residents of the building in which the
death of Sunday night took place were
sent to special quarantine. 1t would
have been preferable to do the same
with the occupants of the Immediately
adjoining buildings, as was done on
Sunday; bus in view of the steps taken
last night to put in force still more
radical policy nothing more need be
said on this point.
The policy now decided upon is TO at
once secu.. a high and healthy locality,
probably to the west of The town, there
to establish a series of quarantine
camps, to which as fast as practicable
the inhabitants of Chinatown will be
removed, disinfected and quarantined
until freedom from infection Is assured.
This WI. rapidly thin out the danger
ously congested district and thereby
remove the source of peril arising from
so large a number of persons being
kept confined in a section known to be
infected.
simultaneously with this action will
continue the publication by fire of the
plague-smitten locality. The statement
made by DR.. Wood at the Board meet
ing last night cannot be too strongly
kept in mind: Infection is conveyed
more by locality than by people" The
Chinatown locality" is known to be
infected. Remove the people from
there and a brief quarantine period will
relieve them from danger; but the
locality" will still be infected, lurking
like snake in the jungle to strike the
first unwary man who returns.
No. only is it necessary TO take out
the people but to so thoroughly cleanse
the infected locality that they can af-
terward return in safety. This safety
can be secured in one way and one way
ting the light of the sun into the filth
sodden foundation of Chinatown for a
period of time sufficient to destroy the
plague germs which have already caus-
ed dea,h in five separate blocks of that
section. Expensive this will be; but
the cost to Hawaii in dollars and cents
alone, if the plague is not stamped out
within the next thirty days, will pay
for two Chinatowns and the Hawaiian
national debt thrown in.
There must be no more hating or
hesitation. One supreme effort must
be made in which the Board of Health
and the community must join. In this
way cholera was met and conquered in
1895. Plague can and must be likewise
conquered. But inasmuch as the
plague is more deadly disease and
more difficult to eradicate, more drastic
measures must he adapted to accom-
plish the desired result.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

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The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02
CHINATOWN EXPOSED

If Honolulu is not Il whited sepul-
cher, full of dead mems bones and all
uncleanliness then the report of the
Sanitary Commission printed else
where is at fault in its facts.
That report makes the worst reading
which the literature of the plague has
yet produced and it gives the first vivid
picture of Chinatown which has been
published. Witness this paragraph as
a sample of the whole:
We are not surprised at the indigna-
ton expressed when Il citizen finds he
IS living in community where fresh
meat is exposed for sale in shops with
in a few feet of which are CCSSDODis
reeking with filth and yermin. from
which come clouds of flies; where res
taurants have CeSspools with no other
covering than the kitchen floors. into
which coCkrOaches crowd by the thou
sands after a night of foraglng over
tables and dishes; where poultry is
kept huddled for weeks in small cOOpS
one above Fthe other; whore poi -
manufactured and sold in shops sour
with fermented slime: where kitchens
are built next to foul-smelling privics,
and so arranged that ray of light
never enters them; where sinks are
maintained with long, leaking drains
where cesspools and prlvy vaults are
crowded together or combined and left
unopened year after year to saturaLe
the ground with filth and germs; where
cesspools are often without ventilation
of any kind excepting the crevices of
the floors above or perhaps a rickety
wooden vent ending within two feet OF
a neutrality-suspicious. window, which is
overcrowded at night with occupants,
and where the ground is often without
drainage, so that the seepage from the
surroundings accumulates and becomes
stagnant.
The Commission hastens TO say that
the responsibility cannot rest wholly
with the Board of Health any more
than a board of directors can be held
wholly responsible for the details of
the management of a business enter
prise, The argument under all the cir
cumstances is not impressive but at
the same time we do not find 1t worth
while TO analyze the matter now Re-
sponslbility can be meted out later;
the thing at present is TO discuss and
provide a remedy. This the Sanitary
Commission does in seri $ of strong
and cogent recommendations which We
do not need to urge upon the favor
able consideration of this aroused com
munity.
As u first step toward freeing Homo,
lulu of its plague spots the Council OF
State should be called together; as the
next, tho Council should see thai
money enough is portioned out, and
put in the right hands, To rid Homo,
lulu of the one oyershadowing menace
10 its health and prosperity And nc
time should be wasted.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02


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The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

The Bishop Estate having gained n
realizing sense of its duty in tho mat
ter of Chinatown novels the way is
open for other estates and private
owners TO follow suit. The Austin es-
tate is Il most conspicuous offender
and in any Mainland city most of its
ramshackle structures would have been
long ago condemned, One of the hest
of its leased buildings is said to be one
on King street, the wooden awning of
which is held up by rusty wires and
the interior OF which smells violently
between plaques, For years the Austin
estate has resisted the idea of I'M
provement and will probably keep on
doing so until it runs afoul OF the re-
form Board of Aldermen which the
public spirit of this coming municipal
ity will one day inaugurate.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02
LOOKING BOrH WAYS.

On the LIST of January, 1900, the in
tering in the character and career of
Napoleon Bonaparte. The young Cor
sican had not yet become Emperor of
the French, but having begun the most
brilliant campaign of his career, that of
Italy, he was taking on the reputation
and dignity of the first soldier OF Eu-
rope and therefore of the world. From
then until the defeat at Waterloo. a
period of fifteen years, Napoleon stood
as the paramount historical figure of
the nineteenth century, the most splen-
did, the most audacious, the most sue
cessful and inspiring of all the soldier
princes since the day of Caesar. Had
he not turned his back upon Robert
Fulton. the American who came to him
with the steamboat in his brain. he
might have died upon the one throne
of Europe, the undisputed master of
the continent and of the seas.
One hundred years ago Old World
civilization was confined to about the
same area in square miles, though not
the same square miles, as that which
had embraced the Roman empire a
territory bounded by London, Gibral
tar, Thebes and the Caucasus. There
was not much enlightenment in the
region of ThebeS or the Caucasus but
civilization had long since gone far
Their north. The area of Christian OBJ
servance had however. begun to
spread over about one-third of the ter
ritory of the United States. a rude and
half-barbaric civilization held sway in
South and Central America and in
Southwestern and Western America.
Africa was in nearly all respects =
dark continent The Algerian pirates
held the north, the DerVishes the des-
ert, the Ethiopian cannibals the vast
interior, and affiliated tribesmen the
South. \ few Beers and British and
here and there a white missionary held
trade tlourished. Asia was very near.
ly sealed book. There We're certain
ventures being made by French and
English on the coasts of India and
some attempt had been made to open
the closed door of China. Japan was
almost rs little known TO the outside
world as in the day of Marco Polo;
Corea and Siberia were no better
known than are the Businesses OF Thi-
bet. Australia had few white settle
ments; the islands of the sea were
mostly untenanted save by the brown
Malaysian natives, whom wind and
chance had brought, canoe-wlse, to
their palm-fringed shores.
The year 1900 in Hawaii saw the
progress of the great plans originating
in the brain of Kamehameha the
Great, TO centralize the government of
the island realm. The ancient system
was being changed by conquest \ cen
fury ago Kamehameha was living on
the largest island of the group aud
building, in the forests back OF Hilo,
the famous fleet of war canoes intend
ed to carry an army for the invasion
of Kauai, Some small decked vessels
We're added to the fleet by the advice
and aid of a white sojourner, The time
was one not only of war and politics,
however, but of agriculture, of wise
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

British patriots are not rushing into
the Army for the money in it. a
private in the Queens service gets -
TO 80 cents a day. Il sergeant 60 to 81
cents day while captain seeks glory'
or the grave for $500 In such a wnr
as is now going on it requires grea
deal of patriotism TO soothe the busi-
ness prudence of Her Majesty's re.
crllits. '...... ..., -....
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

The proceedings of the Board of
Health OF Hongkong acquire a local
interest as showing how the British
authorities 90 about such work as is
being done in Honolulu, We notice
that the question of discriminating rats
is prominent in the Boards delibera-
tons and that the sanitarians have de-
cided that the only sure bait for rat
traps is raw meat. The hint ought not
to be lost on housewives who have
vainly tried to catch rats with poisoned
cheese and bread,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

We must compliment the trustees OF
the Bishop Estate on taking up the
question of building model tenements
in place of their pestiferous shacks on
Beretania, Smith and Nuuanu streets
When something comes of the scheme
our congratulations both to the Bishop;
Estate and to the city Of Honolulu viii
not be withheld
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02
our NM ~ QUARANTINE

Honolulu quarantine is % tur.uu.
thing Chinatown is supposed 20 b..
CLOSED. yo, inspectors. official yis.arf
and troops enter and leave 80 severn.
times day and carry whatever adj
heres TO them to their respective
homes. Then 20 make matters worse
several hundreds OF house servants
who are wanted IN family kitchens and
bedrooms and yet may take contagion
there have been permitted 20 pass the
quarantine" The only people who
are held within the lines are those
who. by constant night-and-day resi-
dence in Chinatown. are more immune
TO the diseases Of the locality than
those whose business keeps them, for
the greater part OF the time, in the
residence portions of the city.
What is meant by quarantine on the
Mainland is a very much more string
ent thing. 4 Federal quarantine is a
Chinese wall outside of which no one,
save possibly certain doctors, are al
lowed to pass. Yellow fever quaran
tines in the Gulf States are hedged in
by shot guns. No matter what the
domestic necessity may be no one is
allowed to get by the lowered muzzles.
Were it otherwise, yellow fever quar-
antine would be farce and the dis
ease would run riot for months at
time instead, az now for brief weeks
in widely separated years
Really, is such fast and loose quar-
antine as we are having worth the
while? 1t certainly does not assure
the confinement of the plague because
it allows people to pass whose blood |
may have already received the germs
of the disease. Fumigation cannot !
reach the bacilli which have found en-
trance TO the human body however .
easily it may destroy those which |
cling to the clothing or the person. !
Still, to be fair, we can admit that, to
lHt utSIft NulNLi II obOIlS bH'
ling OF the races all over the city it ,
circumscribes the activity of malign
physical influences. So far so good
but that sort of a thing is an act of
mere precaution or differentiation but
II is not quarantine.
We notice another odd thing about
onr health administration. 1t is that
when a case of plague is removed from
q house the living inmates are kept
there until ii is found out whether or
not they are also coming down.
They are thus given further chance to
not only catch the plague individually .
but to communicate it to each other or
to their next door neighbors. This :
may be the best system in easy-gong |
Honolulu but in Altruria and we dom !
know but in Lilliput the Health |
Board would take all the inmates to
an out-of-town quarantine, put them !
where they would not run the risks
of contact imposed by a small dwell
ling and then give the infected house
over to three day fumigation or TO
the flames.
As to the manner in which fumigat-
ed and unfumigated freight are piled
together on the wharves and imparti-
ally handled by stevedores who after
ward come up town, that is too long |
story. But it fits in very nicely with
the opera bouffe proceedings which !
are going on in this quarantine bust
ness elsewhere.
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The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

The fumigating plant g. fortunate ia
having SO careful a man a. Or. Pratt I'm
cDarge of it. He has carried out tin,
work in hand with i'm diligence ana
fidelity and when the episode of the
plague is over, he, for one. will have
nothing to apologize for.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

When castor beans can be sold IN
this city for s35 per ton and worked ~
at home for something more, the ques-
ton of what small farmers may do in
the hill country needs no further
study. The castor bean grows sponta
neously in this soil and yields remark
ably prolific crops.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

The Advertisers suggestions that
fire should take the place of rose water
rs a dsinfectant We're carried out yes
terday in one part of Chinatown and
We hope to see it speedily followed up
in other parts. This is fighting The
plague to some purpose and no ohe will
begrudge the Board OF Health any
reputation it may win by Il,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

Things are moving in the right way
now and 50 long az that is the case no
one will criticise the movers. The PEG
pie of this city confronted the frs
outbreak of the plague with confidencs
in the Board of Health and it is now
evident that this body intends to de-
serve the same consideration at the
end. More power to it,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

Severe building laws pr venting D..
erection % shack5 anywhere in China
town would be helpful legislation. ii.
they cannot be passed before Honolulu
gets TO be a municipality hey ough tu
be among he h.s. measure covered ny
the city ordinances.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

one of the results of the passage of
the Cullom bill would be the Organiza-
ton here of a postal carrier service and
of branch post offices. Such conven-
fences have long been needed and Uu-
Gle Sam will have to provide taen here
under t"e law giving them to cities of
over ten thousand inhabitants.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

Tho Advsrs iaa H.F1 1tsf f
over araiu ihai t'huh BEN BE- ,
irmnsi rhinea arr nov rlne iu $50.
direction obviously the fs ef ESQ.,,
proceed. tho better 70 $50 be o..
concerned
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

The Sanitary inyosugat1rs sny obi.
Chinatown nth. The eva Is Target
due 80 the negligence. Indifference 90
greed Of the properiy-ovnars them
selves No doubt Then why uo
enforce the Law against them?
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

1t is not often that Fire Depart
ment is called out to see that build
ings are properly burned, but the phe-
nomenon occurred in Honolulu yester-
day. And it was a good thing it did.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02
SCrofuIa
Swollen Glands, sorofuln Sores, Hip
Disease, Bolls, Pimpies, Erup.
tons Ten tho story Dreadful
consequonoos OF Impure blood.

Certainly scroiula, " anything, may be
called the advertisement Of foul blood.
IL Is the scourgo % the world e. offensive,
painful, facilitating, stubborn. Outward
applications do not cure. Emollicnts
may palliaie, they cannot abolish the evil.
There IL one sure way out, end that l. 20
Sliminato the faint from the blood. For
this purpose Hoods sarsaparilIa is abso-
lutcly without an equal.
81 have taken Hoods sarsaparilla for
scroiulous bumor and impure blood and
am now almost entirely cured OF the orup-
lions with which have been afflicted for
the past year. My face, chest and back
were badly broken out" FRED b. ORD
WAY, Woodstock. Vt.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-02

. stsstsstssstssss
. fH. DH.n uf $500. mti =
. Ins fhai ItlHa uuuI ru.IOY 1 &
. HWIfr Dol quarantine 1a rapid 4
. D. a practicable che residents >
> uf Goo chinatown district aud tJ =
fHFH Hny aui every step With .
: .Hf iIwf necessary to STAMP .
, uHt iho plague including The De- .
, uH0ti0u nf huldIurs and other .
, property Resolutions in sup q
, port uf thH Board of Health. =
) Adopted of Public Meeting .
; Participated Doc by the prosi. >
dent and Cabinet =
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-03-01
THE BEST OF ALL.

OF the many pretty calendars for
1900, the Little Sweethearts' Art CAL
endar is the best for the home. It's six
sections Of bright, pretty children's
faces Whichever and gladden. any house
hold. There are six beautiful groups,
in water-color designs, by Frances
Brundage,th famous painter of child
rem; each group in IL colors and size
10x12M inches, on fine Whatman pa
per; bound together at top with silk
ribbon, making the prettiest and most.
artistic collection of water-color repro
lduction ever issued. Each ofSthe six
sheets contains two months dates, be-
ing a8complete calendar of the year
1900. This calendar is sent free to all
subscribers to Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly for 1900, the giant of the inc
dollar magazines, together with the
November and December numbers,
1899, or the January and February
issues, 1900. This magazine one year
with the calendar--and the Bismarck
Weekly Tribune--allS for ST rs. Send
to the Tribune, Bismarck, N. ID.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-03-01
A SAD INCIDENT

With the end of her journey almost
in sight Mrs. Anna S. Matcka, an aged
woman, succumbed to disease that had
been contracted in Montreal four days
ago, and died in the union depot at st.
Paul while sheSWas waiting for a train
to take her to Hankinson,5 N. d. Her
daughter, Whosaccompanied ner on the
trip, wept bitterly at her mothers fate
and it was some time before she could.
be induced to tell her story to an in
t%erpreter.
The daughters grief was more bitter
because she considered herself par
TALLY responsible for the death. They
were coming all the way from Ger
many to Hankinson to meet Charles
5Cliegerlann, an old acquaintance of the
family and a mar who is said to have
been in love with the daughter. She
had often expressed the desire to come
to this country, and her mother, un-
willing that she should travel alone,
volunteered to come along. After
spending several Gays in Montreal the
mother and daughter started for that
city. Mrs. Matcka was not well when
she left the Canadian metropolis and
her condition was not improved by the
long railway journey.
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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-03-01
GLORIOUS NEWS.

Comes from Or. d. B. Cargile, OF
Washita. /. z. He writes: ssFour hot
ties Of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs.
Brewer Of scrofula, which has caused
her great suffering for years. Terrible
sores would break out on her head
and face and the best doctors could
give no help; but her cure is complete
and her health is excellent. This
shows what thousands have proved
that Electric Bitters is the best blood
purifier known. It's the supreme rem
edy for eczema, letter. salt rheum, ul-
GERS, boils and running sores. It slim
ulates liver, kidneys and bowels, ex-
pels poisons, helps digestion, builds up
the strength. Only 30 cents. Sold by
p. 9. Remington, druggist Guaran-
teed.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-03-01
THERE'S the ordinary hat and the
|Lanpher hat, The difference is marked.
Always ask for the Lanpher.s
NORTH DAKOTA WOMAN IN
ALASKA.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Basard OF Grand.
Forks have received Nero inter.
esting letters from their daughter,
Mrs. C.S Farnsworth Of Fort Gibbon,
Alaska. Capt. G.. s.. Farnsworth, OF,
the Seventh United States infantry,
during. his lieutenancy, was military.
Instructor at the university of North
Dakota. Shortly before the Spanish
war broke out he rejoined his regiment
and with it he saw service in Cuba
withsLaWton and Shafter. EARLY in:
1893 he was sent to Alaska to take,
charge of the construction of asfort on
the bank of the Yukon near the Can
adam boundary to be known as Fort
Gibbon. Mrs. Farnsworth accompan-
led him, and her letters give very in
teresting accounts of the home life of
an educated and refined lady in the
midst of a wilderness. Captain Farms
worth and his me were busy during
the summer and fall months erecting
a saw mill and getting out logs and
other material for the fort which is
to Dc built this year.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-03-01
AN INSANE PATIENT.

Sheriff Jones of Wahpeton had an
exciting experience Sunday with a
male patient he took to the asylum
that he will long remember. The pa
stient, Carl Norvelt, I'll years, had at
tempted suicide the previous night by
9slashing his throat with a razor and
in this condition gave the sheriff and
A. o. Root of Mooreton, the patients
sbrother-in-law, with him, not the least
trouble until they reached the asylum
bridge oyer the river. Then he sud-
denly leaped from the carriage drag
ging Root with him. Over the bridge
the patient went, Root doing his best
to stopshim. He dropped to the ice
and started down river. Passing an
air hole he went back to 1t and
crouched down In the water holding TO
the under side OF the ice with his arms.
Fortunately the water was not deep
but he got d good hold and the sheriff
and Lewis Peters, who drove the rig.
had q horrible time getting the man