Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-27
AT KEROSENE WAREHOUSE CAMP
How the Work In Charge OF A. l.. G. Atkinson
and j. l.. McCombe is Carried On--
Daily Life That Is a Busy One--
People Contente d--Nurses
and caret akerS.

When IT, Is stated that a number of
Hawaiians, Japanese or Chinese have
been sent to the Kerosene Warehouse
Detention Camp people of Honolulu
have but vague impression Of what
Is meant. The general superstition is
that the camp is rough place where
people are thrown in to get along as
best they cen with the assistance OF
the men sent there by the Board OF
Iealth to do duty. In this, however,
hey are mistaken, for the warehouse
amp Is really a we'll organized COM
nunity with a man at the head who
knows how to manage affairs and as
sistants who are most valuable. In
Guided among the latter are heads Of
different departments who report daily
the conuItion of those parts Of the
camp over which they preside.
When the camp was first started the
grounds of the kerosene warehouse
were in sad state indeed. Water was
standing in bitches about the place and
rubbish was piled UP all around. A
large force OF men was set to work and
now the camp is able to hold its own
with all the others that have literally
sprung up since the second outbreak
of the plague. The only man remain
ing on the place who was with the first
workers Is J. L. McCombe who has
proven himself the right man in the
right place at all times. He is on duty
all day long and when emergencies
arise in the night he Is always one of
the first to get to work,
4 Bulletin reporter called at the
camp yesterday afternoon and was
shown about by A. L. c. Atkinson who
is in full charge, and ]. l.. McCombe,
his first assistant.
The main entrance is from the road
that runs fram Queen street TO the sea
past the warehouse grounds. To the
left OF this is the Office building from
which all the orders are issued and in
which all the supplies are stored. The
first room is the dispensary where DR..
Bowman, the camp physician, and Mrs.
Davidson, the head nurse, hold forth.
The next room Is the Office where all
the books Of the camp are to be found.
The next is the storeroom where the
supplies, and the contributions sent in
from the outside, are kept. Beyond
this is the dining room for the super
intendent and his assistants while the
last room is the culinary department.
where three or four Cinnamon, who
are kept in separate quarters, do the
work for the people just mentioned.
On the veranda of this building is a
large table on which the supplies for
the people held in detention are plac-
ed before being carried away.
Running along the extreme mauka
and the makai side of the grounds are
two long buildings divided into sec
lions by tall fences and guarded dur
ing the day and night by men placed
there by Marshal Brown. The sec
tons are termed corrals and IL is into
these that the Chinese and Japanese
are placed upon arrival at the camp.
BY this method il is not necessary to
prolong the quarantine of the whole
number should case Of the plague
break out in any one OF the corrals, K
The mauka building is used for the
Japanese while the Chinese alone are
placed in the makai one. On the ma
kai side of this latter are two other
buildings of the same nature but very
much shorter In the mauka one OF
these are Chinese while Hawaiians are
held in detention in the makai one.
Each of the corrals OF these buildings
is kept very clean by the occupants
themselves and each has closet. Just
here 1t might be said that, since Mr..
Atkinson took hold Of affairs at the
camp, he had the dry closet system in
stituted and this is proving most sue
cessful.
The majority of the Hawaiians in
detention are in the warehouse proper
and the building on the makai side of
this that was first used as q store
room. Both these places are surround