The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-26

On Monday morning next, April 80,
providing no cases of plague appear in
Honolulu before that time, the quar-
antine on this city and port is to be
raised absolutely and unqualifiedly.
1t will be a day of rejoicing for the
long-cooped-up inhabitants OF Honolu-
lu. People are already busily plan
ming excursions into the country,
journeys to the other Islands, and voy-
ages to the Mainland. Hundreds who
feared to take the prophylactic will be
happy in the knowledge OF the raising
of the quarantine, rendering them free
to go and come as they wish without
the fuss and worry and confusion of
serum injections, fumigation of cloth
ing, disinfectant baths, red tape and
special passes.
Ii is expected that all travelling ia
cilities will be rushed to the utmost
during the few days following the lift
ing of the ban. Some LOO Chinese
and Japanese laborers will crowd
around the railroad station and pack
trains as fast as they can be provided,
according to rough estimates made OF
the Orientals in town anxiously await
ing a chance to get out into the coun-
try. II is reported that an extra mule
team is being contracted for to pull a
special extra tramcar along the road
OF the present rapid transit system to
meet the requirements of the exodus.
Even those who have no immediate
cause for leaving the city on the doing
away with quarantine restrictions, will
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road line and view the other side Of the
Island, and Hilo will doubtless be
swooped upon by a crowd of tourists
DESTROYS of stretching their legs in the
suburbs of Honolulu.
For four and q half months, almost,
has the yellow flag waved over this
community. April will see it's finish,
and when May Day dawns Honolulu
will be herself again, free of the
odium of being known as a plague-in-
fected port and rid Of the complicated
machinery of a strict quarantine.
Business has been gradually bright
eDing since the last case of the plague
on March 31st, and the beginning OF
next month will usher in a revivifica-
ton in all departments.
The prophylactic will be stored
away upon a shelf, quarantine inspect
ors and guards will draw their last sal
aries and seek other jobs, the medicos
will forget what a plague bacillus looks
like and go to studying less exciting
things than buboes, the Board of
Health will heave a composite sigh OF
relief and turn its attention to keeping
Honolulu in a sanitary condition, the
bills will cease as suddenly as they
commenced, and tourists from other
parts of the wide world will once more
flock to these insular shores and lay in
supplies of photographs of the burnt
districts, the pest hospital, detention
camps and the plague germ.
The raising of the quarantine was
the most important matter of business
before the Board of Health yesterday
afternoon. President Wood introduced
the subject the first hing. after which
G. w. Smith moved that the quaran-
tine be raised on the morning OF
April Both" DR.. Emerson seconded the
motion. Smiths motion was without
any qualifications whatever. This was
objected to and he modified his motion
so as to read as appears at the head of
this article. DR.. Emerson accepted the
amendment and the motion was unani-
mously carried.