The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-07-26
MOLOKn and ITS
INDIVIDUAL HOMES.
Governments Efforts
to Make Surround
ings Pleasant.
PROGRESS N FRUIT GROWING
FINE YOUNG ORANGE TREES
IN GROUNDS OF BISHOP
HOME.
An Example in Cultivation OF
Various Fruits That Might
be Adopted Elsewhere
in-the Territory

h
friends for those afflicted with the
dread s,ourge OF Ieprosy may seem Sc
vc-e. it is undoubtedly the only means
known TO prevent the spread Of the dis
ease. At Molokai the government of
Hawaii has made every effort TO make
life in the leper settlement as pleasant
as possible for the inmates
Molokai is not a home as such
places for people of incurable COM
plants are generally known. Nor is It
a .shospitar' in the sense that the word
is commonly used. There are no bar
racks or wards for the inmates except
ing at the Bishop home for girls ana
The Baldwin home for boys, ana ii
these institutions there is no crowding
! into large wards or barracks. The
/ wards ars-all small, none OF them con-
tanning over eight beds, and every room
| is kept as clean as human energy can
keep Ii.
The Molokai settlement is conducted
as a series of homes. Those confined
there owing to their disease are given
the free run of the large grounds, con-
! tanning several thousand acres. For
/ each inmate or family cottage with
ample grounds is allotted, and the ex-
/ tent to which the people take advant-
age of these favorable conditions is
shown by the fact that there are over
! -, hundred houses in the settlement
for the 9SS inmates, over two nunared
Of whom are in the Bishop and BALDWIN
homes In other words, there are three
| cottages for every four lepers IN tue
! settlement
Amusements in the way OF brass
| hand are afforded for all, while at the
/ Bishop home there is piano ana or
| gan on which the girls are allowed 10
nlay and little musical parties are hello
| almost every day. The piano was 90
mated by charitable people OF this cit!
| a wear ago, after the need OF one was
pointed out by the press. The Sister
i Superior of the home said last Saturday
i that she would be much pleased to have
some charitable person or society
send over stereoptican lantern anu
slides, so that entertainments for the
girls could be given. She believed
good instrument with a NUMBER OF
Slides would not only afford entertain
ment. but prove very instructive.
Many of the girls work in the gar
den and the roses and young frul'
trees looked healthy and vigorous
while some garden vegetables are pro
duced.
ever at the Baldwin Home Brothel
Outton and his boys have tine gar
den in the rear of the buildings.
this garden they showed me some
the incest garden vegetables l nav
seen in the Islands, while their Avo
cado pears. bananas. pineapples, man
goes. euavas and pomgranates Wer
enough to make one hungry to look al
In the schoolroom the boys are give
instruction in the catechism and IN OF
binary school work They are instruct
ed in doing little jobs about the hom'
ana some of them are learning 10
the cooking, since the new COOK nous
was put in by Mr. Baldwin.
Brother Dutton has a phonograpi
and once a week he gathers his boy
mo the schoolroom and affords them
treat listening to the machine thi
talks. :,
The various private cottages over II
settlement show wonderful lmprov
ment since the adoption of the plan
offering prizes tor the oest-kel
grounds and for the most energy di
: played in tree planting.
In this connection the settlement
Molekai shows what can be done
Hawaii in the matter of fruit raisil
and in diversified farming. AT the
perintendent's residence the first thu
10 attract the writer's attention we
some big, healthy rose bushes and t'
thrifty young orange trees, one on ca
side of the steps Until very recent
the Japanese beetle was unknown
Molokai. and roses were grown in pl
fusion. Lately. however. visitors ma
carried the larvae sbf the beetle to
settlement in their leis, and the res
is already noticeable on the II
bushes.
\ But notwithstanding this there Is
- Princess Clothilde rose tree In front
Superintendent Reynolds house that
the largest tree. for this variety OF 70
have ever seen any place. There
bushes OF Marched Neil and Met