The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-11-24
NEEDS OF
THE LEp[RS.
Miserable Steamer Ser
vice Complained Of.
| CHANGE Is RECOMMENDED
Board Will Take No Future Pfotts
! In the Goods Sold at the
Settlement.

ship Company VIII lose the Joo !
transparting passengers. goods a"o G
cattle to- the Leper Settlement. Su-
'nerintendent Reynolds of the Settle
nent brought up the matter yesterday
before the Board Of Health CT the poor =
service of the Wilder Company, ana a s
resolution was passed authorizing Mr.
REYNOLDS and George w. Smith to re-
Quest an offer of service from the Ha-
waiian Navigation Company.
superintendent r ynolds said that he 6
wished earnestly the board to take up
the transportation matter. as IL hau
been in the past and was now a source
Iof great trouble and loss to the settle-
lment management. He said that IN the
past two or three years he had made
number of complaints concerning the
moor service of the Wilder Company.
and that now IL had become abso.ut y
necessary to take action. Freight ne
said. was often delayed for weeks TO
the great Inconvenience of the colony. |
Mr.. Reynolds said that the cattle
lcon,ine 10 the Settlement underwent /
had treatment Generally 90 head were
LANDED each time. They were taken
on board from the Parker ranch at
Kawaiahae by swimming to the vessel
and We're seldom given any water on
A the trim To the Settlement. They ar
~ rived there exhausted. and were al
;" ways landed in great hurry. III two
or or three swan away while the lanu-
,y ing was being made they were lst 90
- and picked up later when often they
are diving or dead. In every shipment
they lost two or three or more
ad MIR. Reynolds read the following let
pr. ter from his assistant at the se'tie-
,or ment:
"KaIaupapa, November 49, 1900.
he THE steamship Kaiulani arrived here
mt on the 10th instant with cattle IRON
zen the Parker ranch and commenced o1s-
charging at IL a. m. At g. IN. o
&C. head were ashore. OF these, four Were
IL drowned while landing. They stu
aid kept landing until o'clock after dark
ma when il was impossible to keep accou /
1t of how many they were sending as lor
its n was too rough 10 send word out L
On the steamer t. stop LANDING catlle iroh
the steamer after dark. Sunday morn
ing, after taking count of the stoc
landed. there were 81 head in the p
and dead along the beach. The cat
iost tie drivers searched Puahi ana on tn
ahu kula Sunday, Monday and. Tuesda.
will. but TO more could be found
and MIR. Reynolds stated that on the la:
ttrip as mentioned in the letter,<whe
-or, 80 mead came on the kaiulani, tn
the the vessel was oyercrowded Inc hai'
,ant Iani couid not be loaded with 80 catti
of Mr.. Reynolds said that he wanted u
, of Board OF Health to nave "a steamsh
a. of its own but as tnat seemed III
A possible, they must get otIer serHiI
.boI- lie had seen the company owning I
thu gasoline schooner Eclipse, aLu u
sihla were willing TO do all the work 1or -
,irtv a month, landing cattle twice as oLtt
and only A. at a time. Ihis Would
a great saving to the Settle ment,
- 80 were too many to handle. Inc w
ger Company was being PAID apt
$50 a GnoLtn. TWO hundred dO.Ii
'lNG was paid tor the freight and pass
ger service, ana 81 mead iOr Cat
fsnere was no formal contract, as
had long run out. The Board was 1
to deal with any other rdhsDortai
Aomuany The Wnder Company
told him to do better IL ne cou-u "
he complained. ~,
DR.. Emerson said that If the Board
a president and al the members
present he would be in favor of nal
the contract at once. After much cls
son ii was agreed TO have Mr.. Reyn
II and Mr. Smith receive an oner from
Hawaiian Navigation Company, "
owns the Eclipse, which will be acte'
at the next meet ng.
Mr. Reyntlds u. ought Up the matte
- liouor being brought into the settien
as also firearms. he said there wa
lunwritten law against both, but as
49, was no formal, printed law, botn
III being imported. People. he said, oDt'
Ol ?. nermlts from the Board of Health TO
boxes and packages to their friends Il
settlement and in these packages
boxes they hid away liquor and hres
~ Pl- The lepers, he said, claimed that
,RGAN Board had TO right to exclude .,
begin ,hInss, . an 80 tbat il would be of
effect. He did not believe in keep n
AVA as II was not particularly INTO
T-l,a SC a n0
violence. and as the lepers believ
us. helped the-r d.sease' 1t Se''''eO "
-ector. Tbe Attorney General was instruc
draw up a regulation Tor the eNcius
firearms and liquor.
. AF'i Mr. Reynolds called She attentlon
Roard q the selling of goods In u
tlement by others than those in tne
ftl of Health stores. He said that ne
of one man who was doing smaI
moss In dry goods ard getting the
Il. under the Boards contract Tor q
v-ftho,lt expense to himself ffr ina
THO attention Of the Territorial
urer will be called to the matter,
tr,ders at the settlement have no
"a TO sell goous. IT was Suggested T.
H oorrpetition with the regularly aut
settlement stores was on account
49, nrices cha red by these stores. and
oGis. Mo- ntendeni RSynrles , ices %fs Df an goods
the proffts would merely cover q
'i and eyDeuGes. Ut deVeiopeu n the
= r, sion that the stores had made :
'e ~" two years or s9.7eS. fixed rate OF
cent profit having been estahlishe
mpahE VI stores employ two storekeepers a.
-. cIerIrs. orc st0Tekeeper receiving
lpany VI orc s-5 a month and the clerks SO ;
each.
,hs fact that some OF the hu.l'
. M The settlement were getting bey'
!, III rair WIS mentioned and Suoeril
iRevro'ds brought rp the need OF
at Fnlaupapa on q 6erent plan
one there and at Kalawao. He s
there were many people. some l.v
<Od their wives and sor1e simple. who
ihelulass. on account Of their In
did not want to 20 10 either OF q
I'shed homes. Tor nan ard wife
saparat en-. He said some OF u
ctSO thought the home was run en- too
tplan NJ. Reynolds was instruct
west mar his ideas In writing for present
The Board.