The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-18
|SUE BOARD
OF HEAL I'll
Japanese Want Wages
For Services.
DRILL SHED CAMP AGAIN
Or. Wood, H. {. Cooper, Chester
Doyle and Others Asked to
Pay $2488.

The Board of Health, as constituted
during the plague in January last. has
been made the defendant In q suit
brought by seventy-nine Japanese VINO
were detained in quarantine at the Drill
I Shed during that month. These claim
ed wages for sums ranging from 50 TO
SIS for work which they allege in their
complaint to the First Circuit Court
was done at the instance of the defend
ants. Ida, one of the seventy-nine
brings the suit in his own name. asking
for $40 as his part of the amount sued
for. The total aggregation of the
claims is 81, 4SS
COOPER F. M. Hatch, George w. Smith.
n. Is. emerson, Chester K. Doyle.
Frank r. Day and F. j. Lowrey are
MADE parties to the suit, as having
been connected with the personnel of
the Board of Health. Chester Doyle
was the superintendent of the Drill
shed detention camp from January %
When the great fire in Chinatown drove
the tenants from their homes, and they
We're taken by the Health Board to the
Driil Shed where In the course of a few
days well-built stockade was erected
The persons detained in this camp were
all japanese, with the exception IF q
lew Chinese who occupied the old har-
racks.
chester Doyle states that the Japan |
ese were better cared for, better housed I
III the main, and fed with more syste |
ha.lc methods than the inmates of any
olher camp until the great camp at I
Aalini was gotten under way But as t
~ freedom and for privileges the Jap /
these OF Doyle's camp won the prize I
Ahusements We're plentiful for them
wrestling ring made under the glare
u eiectrlc lights, covered with bark
Vas allowed them for exercise and
Clothing came into the
amp from charitably inclined peonIa
~ the wagon load, and for all this
'reat amount of care, the males p,era
ola Off by squads to do routine work
Iround the camp and TINS save ~ D
Soard of Health additional expense for 5
Oh CT" hers ana laborers and prevent :
ne expenses piling up higher than was
bsolutely necessary
o,ioer TINS arrangement model cook
neu was established with culinary ar
eieS whlcn the most fastidious would s
- ShSiI hllcnenS, E,VerVf hir1o
as run ship-shape Some cooked !
lhefs waited on the tables, more clean F
out the Drill Shed and the camn 3
rounds, While the Board of Health Z
ald them in food. clothing and every =
ing possible for their comfort upd,er y
lie circumstances. In fact thew had D
'erything except the freedom of tba =
reefs. 'iie IG
ne plaintiff alleges no cause Of ac- IG
'ii OF does not attach a specific CONG
the arrangement, or allude to apy II
eciilc arrangement by which the HI
dintl1s were to receive wages for
orking In the camp. The plaintiff III
Ia states in his complaint that che ~
III accounts mentioned herein win 90
exception of the PLAINTIFFS account ri
re- Tor valuable consideration duly Lo
signed to this plaintiff and notice Of Ms
"a assignment given to defendants >, Ms
me OF the defendants named have al sIe
10y placed their cases in the hands Nc
attorneys and interesting develon- os
hts are anticipated. Pc