The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-01-20
BAG OF MAIL I'm KANA|AHAO CHURCH.
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but sit down and await developments.
Inside the church the women and chill
| dren sat and waited for what was COM
| ing. Some of the mothers walked up
and down the aisles trying to quiet in
fants that cried for food. while Board
of Health men ran up and down doing
all they could to help their charges. 1t
was pitiful scene of suffering, as a
! climax to what the victims have suffer-
| ed in the guaranteed district ever
since the beginning of the dread vista
ton of black plague. The Chinese Con-
sui and the Japanese Consul were both
in the building, watching the efforts
that were being made to look after their
countrymen.
CONSUL wO PEI.
Chinese Consul Wo Pei said that he
expected his countrymen to be properly
looked after, after the fire and was
watching to see what was done. He de-
clared that he would make representa-
tions to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
in behalf of the Chinese residents turn
ed out of their homes, unless they were
| properly looked after. 1T was a terri
bic conflagration," said the consul
through an interpreter. anu 1 am far
from satisfied with the way things have
been conducted. AS to the responsible
ity for the fire, cannot say who was to
blame, but surely the people who have
been turned out of their homes ought
to have some recompense. The Chinese
citizens are doing all that they can, as
are also all the citizens of Honolulu,
as far as 1 can see, but we are not sat
isfied with the looks of things Just
now"
The consul was in the church when
he spoke. Around him were two thou
sand hungry Orientals mostly women
and children, who had only a seat each
in pew of the church Soon food be-
gan to arrive from Chinatown. It was
balls of rice about the size of an or
ange, with a plum in the middle. The
women and children in the big build
ueVouren mis- supply as fast as 4. came
Water was carried to them in buckets
by the white men in charge of the work
of looking after them. John Hassinger
had charge of the building and was as
sisted by Captain Samuel Nolen. j. H.
Boyd and Harry Juen. George Carter
was in charge of the gate. These men
had a lively time for several hours
keeping the people in their places and
assigning those who entered the church
to seats Every effort was made to
make things as easy as possible for the
women and children, but in spite of all,
the interior of Kawaiahao church was
a bedlam while the babies were there.
They howled and howled and howled
there was rest for none, and the pre-
vailing excitement prevented most mo-
Tiers from giving them attention.
CONSUL SAITO.
The Japanese consul Mkt Saito was
also present and looking after the inter-
ests of his countrymen. Arrangements
for the feeding of the Japanese were
made early through a committee of cit
liens and Japanese and soon after five
O'Clock the Japs had all had meal
such as it was.
The two consuls each took a census
as soon as the migration from China
town was completed. They found a to-
tai of 1925 people within the limits of
the church grounds. There were 1893
Chinese men and ASS women. 6SS Japan
csc men and 1856 women and children.
NOT LARGE ENOUGH.
1t soon became apparent that the
church was not large enough to accom-
modate nearly all the people who were
in need of homes for the night. The re-
moval of people in the church to the
drill sheds began at about five o'clock
in the afternoon The women and chill
dren were marched out first, as before.
Between lines of citizens armed with
clubs to keep them in from getting
away, they marched to the drill sheds
from the church. The march was a
REPETITION of the tramp from Chinatown
to the church. The same hardships were
experienced and the people arrived at
the barracks in the same confusion
Attorney General Cooper was in
charge of the arrangements for look
ing after the people at the drill sheds.
The matter of feeding them had slready
been provided for before they arrived
there. Some of them had had enough
to eat at the church. Wagon loads of
blankets were brought to the sheds and
the new arrivals oid the best they
could to make themselves comfortable
for the night. There were only board
floors. On these the men, women and
children spread the blankets they could
get and they lay down to sleep as we'll
as they could. The worst hardship was
for the children.
AT THE CHURCH.
At the church it was long before the
confusion was Strengthened out The
Chinese and Japanese were constantly
receiving visits from friends on the out
side, and from time to time individuals
inside wanted to leave to see relatives
who wanted to help them to get food.
Not all the work of the two consuls,
with John Hassinger and his assistants,
could straigthen out the confusion. The
Orientals were in condition OF panic
they did not know what they were to
do for food, slepeing accommodations
or anything else and they beseiged those
in charge with constant series of re.
quests for help of one kind or anothe r
They wanted rice, they wanted blank
cts they wanted beds, they wanted ev-
erything that can be imagined, but
nothing was to be had. Hassinger had a
J crowd Of people around him asking ,oi
this that and the other from the time
that the people in the church found out
that he was in charge of the business
Husbands came to him for sleeping az.
commodatiOns for their families, and he
/ was kept on the jump standing the un.
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