The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-11-27
NEEDS OF
THE L.EPERS
Miserable Steamer Ser
vice Complained Of,
CHANGE is RECOMMENDED
Board Will Take No Future Prof S
In the Goods Sold at the
Settlement,

1t is probable that the Wilder Steam
ship Company will lose the job of
transporting passengers, goods and
cattle to the Leper Settlement. SUI
perintendent Reynolds Of the Settle
ment brought up the matter yesterday
before the Board of Health of the poor
service of the Wilder Company, and
resolution was passed authorizing Mr..
Reynolds and George W. Smith to re-
quest an offer of service from the Ha-
waiian Navigation Company.
SUPERINTENDENT Reynolds said that he
wished earnestly the board to take up
the transportation matter, as 1t mad
been in the past and was now source
of great trouble and loss to the Settle
ment management. He said that in the
past two or three years he had made
number of complaints concerning the
poor service of the Wilder Company,
and that now ii had become absolutely
necessary to take action. Freight, he
said. was often delayed for weeks to
the great inconvenience of the colony.
Mr. Reynolds said that the cattle
coming to the Settlement underwent
bad treatment. Generally 80 head were
landed each time. They were taken
on board from the Parker ranch at
Kawaiahae by swimming to the vessel,
and were seldom given any water on
the trip to the Settlement. They ar
rived there exhausted, and We're al
ways landed in great hurry. If two
or three swan away while the land
ing was being made they were let go
and picked up later when often they
are dying or dead. In every shipment
they lost two or three or more.
Mr.. Reynolds read the following let
ter from his assistant at the settle
ment:
"Kalaupapa, November 49, 1900
The steamship Kaiuani arrived here
on the 10th instant with cattle from
the Parker ranch and commenced dis
charging at IL a. m. At 6 p. m "a
head We're ashore. OF these, four We're
drowned while landing. They still
kept landing until o'clock after dark,
when it was impossible to keep account
Of how many they We're sending ashore.
1t was too rough to send word out to
the steamer to stop landing cattle from
the steamer after dark. Sunday morn
ing, after taking count of the stock
landed, there We're 81 head in the pen
and dead along the beach. The cat
tie drivers searched Puahi and on the
kula Sunday, Monday and Tuesday,
but no more could be found"
Mr. Reynolds stated that on the last
trip. as mentioned in the letter when
80 head came off the Kaiulani, that
the vessel was overcrowded. The Kaiu-
lani could not be loaded with 80 cattle.
Mr.. Reynolds said that he wanted the
Board of Health to have a steamship
of it's own, but as that seemed i'm
possible, they must get other service.
He had seen the company owning the
gasoline schooner Eclipse, and they
were willing to do all the work for $500
a month, landing cattle twice as often,
and only As at time. This would be
a great saving to the Settlement, as
80 were too many to handle. The Will
der Company was being paid about
1915 a month Two hundred dollars
was paid for the freight and passen-
ger service, and 81 a head for cattle
There was no formal contract, as it
had long run out. The Board was free
to deal with any other transportation
company. The Wilder Company had
told him to do better if he could when
he complained.
DR.. Emerson said that if the Board had
a president and all the members were
present, he would be in favor of making
the contract at once. After much discus
sion IL was agreed to have Mr.. Reynolds
and Mr. Smith receive an offer from the
Hawaiian Navigation Company, which
owns the Eclipse, which will be acted on
at the next meeting.
Mr.. Reynolds brought up the matter of
liquor being brought into the settlement,
as also firearms. He said there was an
unwritten law against both, but as there
was no formal, printed law, both were
being imported. People he said, obtained
permits from the Board of Health to send
boxes and packages to their friends in the
settlement and in these packages and
boxes they hid away liquor and firearms.
The lepers he said, claimed that the
Board had no right to exclude these
things, and he believed that If a formal
law was made that it would be of good
effect He did not believe in kecping out
ava, as II was not particularly intoXicat-
ing. That is, it did not incite them to
violence. and the lepers believed IT
disease hos n
permit It.
The Attorney General was instructed to
draw up regulation for the exclusion of
firearms and liquor.
Mr.. Reynolds called the attention Of the
Board 10 the selling of goods In the set
Element by others than those in the Board
of Health stores, lie said that he knew
of one man who was doing a small bust
ness In dry goods and getting the stock
under the Boards contract for frelghting
without expense TO himself for that item
The attention OF the Territorial Treas
urer Will be called TO the matter, as the
traders at the settlement have no license
TO sell goods. II was suggested that tbs
competition with the regularly authorized
settlement stores was on account OF the
prices charged by these stores and Super
intendent Reynolds was authorized 10
scale down the prices OF all goods so that
the profits would merely cover the cost
and Expenses, II developed In the discus |
sion that the stores had made a profit IN
Two years of ts7'A, a liked raie 81 10 per l
cent profit having been established The I
stores employ two atarekocpers ana two I
clerks, ono ft0rekoeper receiving il0 ana |
one eco q month ANA the clerks 80 q month |
each
Tho fact that some Of tho buildings az /
the settlement We're getting beyond re- I
pair, was mentioned ana Superintendent I
Reynolds brought up no nerl ~ a home /
IA kalaupapa on a different plsn from the /
one moro ana IA kalaWao. 10 fall that
there Wern many people, some lNlnF Win 1
their wives ana some single. who ihulHh I
helpless on account ~ their nhImiilfa /
dld MOI Nant t0 50 10 ether ~ mo raiRh7 /
lishfd homes f0f mHn and Wis 10 meant I
separation 40 snli HaHe NJ lhe hpHH /
ihplAhi The homo mas Fun Nn 600 fifll 3 |
plan ~ Reynolds Nas Instructed ~ pni /