The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-05

and they will be requested TO hustle for
themselves. The food is fresh daily
and the utensils for preparing il are
As clean a. possible. The superintend-
ents are kept busy rounding up food
from different points OF Maui and find
The task OF providing for close on 400
people by no means a ligL one.
District Quarantine.
WAILUKU. Maui, Feb. IS. 1900
Hama people have a line Of guards
along every road in their district. No
one Is allowed 70 move about or pass
along the thoroughfares without first
giving a strict account OF their move
ments and Identifying themselves to
the satisfaction of the guards.
Hama and Lahaina people are max
ing their quarantine regulations more
and more strict against the rest of
Maui; and they are right in so doing.
Notes of the Plague.
The old shooting range OF Kahului is
being used as a mOrgue.
The appraisers of the goods and
buildings Of burned Chinatown valued
the whole at about $4,000.
The heavy rain of the 10th so food
ed the old trace track detention camp
that next day Messrs. Garvin and At
kinson Immediately ordered the lum-
Der and constructed new camp 20 the
windward OF the site of the Kahului
shooting range. near the road.
II is reported that the old race track
detention camp will not be entirely
destroyed by fire. but only the part
occupied by the Chinaman who died on
the 18th ultimO. The rest of the
premises IS 10 be thoroughly disinfect-
ed and returned to the Maui Racing
Association.
On Friday. the 23d. four houses were
burned in Kahului in the vicinity OF
the burned district. They were the
quarters OF fifty or sixty Kahului rail-
road employees. mostly Japanese. These
people had been placed in the new de-
tentiOn camp the night previous. the
23d. The people in the detention camp
now number nearly 300.
Steamer Communication.
Alexander & Baldwin have the
steamers Centennial and Cleveland I'm
der contract. This looks like the real
ization of the plan that they have been
considering for year past-that of
having steam communication between
Kahului and San Francisco twice
month.
All honor is due TO the sO-called
Alexander * Baldwin stores of Maui
for maintaining ordinary prices of sta
pie articles during the plague epidem-
ic. The stores in question are the Ka-
hului store, the Paia plantation store,
the Haiku Sugar Co.'S store at Hama
kuapoko, the Spreckelsyille store, and
the Kihei plantation store. The prices
prevailing last week at one OF the
stores and presumably at all the 9TH
ers were as follows: Flour (No. ID.
an rice, 81; Louisiana rice, So; kero-
sene oil, s275 a case; barley, S1.25;
bran, 80 cents; etc.
District Inspection.
During Saturday and Sunday. the
oath and 25th. the whole of Makawao
district was inspected and given a
clean bill of health. Not a suspicious
case was discovered, and IL this state
of affairs continues the schools OF the |
district will reopen, after a discontin-
uanee OF three weeks, on Monday, the |
Goth.
The inspection of the KuIa region
was made Saturday, the oath, under |
the direction of Louis Won Tempsky of |
the Health Committee. During the /
same day an inspection was made I'M
der charge of c. II. Dickey, from Ko-
komo TO Halehaku. On Sunday. the
18th, another house-to-house visit was
made from Halehaku through Huela.
kailua to Keanae by a company of cit
liens under the lead of ID. c. Lindsay of |
the. Health Committee and c. II. Dick
ey.
All the plantations are and have
been strictly enforcing their quaran-
tine regulations, and daily house-to-
house inspections. On Spreckelsyflle
plantation each house of every camp is
inspected twice day, so that the con-
cealing Of any case of sickness or
death is almost impossible.
Various News Items.
Weather-Pleasant, with trade
winds.
Weather-COol and delightful: no
rain for more than a week.
The Centennial arrived in Kahului
his morning. having left Hama at
a. m. She brought fourteen bags OF
mail for Wailuku and Makawao.
IL IS Hay Wodehouse. who is assist
ng a. l.. c. Atkinson at the detention
amp, not Ray or Henry" as sever
u newspapers have It.
On the 9th seventeen Makawao la
lies met at the house of Mrs. d. c.
Paia, and held a sewing
pee for the benefit Of the inmates OF
he Kahului detention camp.
\ fine piece of scenery was Halea-
lala's summit yesterday morning. the
9th. light mantle of snow covered
he three highest peaks and spread