The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-06-05

SAN FRANCISCO. May 2g-Unitod
states Judge DE Haven has onioiued
the health authorities from compelling
Shintfe or others 20 be inoculated with
the hauklne prophylactic as Condi-
ton Of being allowed 10 leave the city.
The san Francisco Chronicle this
morning has the following
As the situation stands today the
citys hubonic Board Of Health, aided
and abettcd by the State Board. which
seems equally as INSCRIPTIONS. Is max
ing frantic effort To quarantine
Chinatown and this i'm the face of an
injunction issued yesterday by Judge
Morrow restraining William son and his
gang and chief of Police sullivan and
quarantine officer kinyoun from fur
Their Interference with the liberties of
the City's Chinese residents. Instead of
abiding by the Courts mandate the
dispairing plague takers are doing
everything they can To CirCumvent il,
and, with the aid of the State Board,
/ have forced some of San Franchises
/ est-known merchants into apparent
acquiescence In their plans. Fearing
! the penalty of open disobedience of the
! injunction the Board met last night
and passed the whole matter up to the
! Board of Supervisors, and that body at
| IL o'clock this morning will be asked
! to authorize the health gang to place
! its bubonic embargo on the Asiatic
! colony where there is not and never
has been case of plague.
AS soon as it became known yester-
day that Judge Morrow had issued the
injunction meeting of the State
Board was called and from 10 o'clock
in the morning until i'm the afternoon
1t sat in executive session. William
son and kinyOun were present by inVi-
tation, and an open meeting for the
afternoon was programmed" Word
| to 4
railroad officials, and at o'clock, at
tracted by an appeal for advice, a
large number of citizens gathered at
the Grand Hotel. Crowley acted as
president of the meeting, and with him
were Drs. Ruggles, Bazet and Hender-
SON. Instead of asking advice, Crow
ley opened the meeting with a direct
threat to quarantine the whole State
against San Francisco, and the mer-
chants were placed on the defensive
from the start. After a heated argu-
ment, participated in by j. c. Stubs
George w. McNear, Wakefield Baker
and other representative men, the State
Board decided to call upon the local
Board to declare Chinatown closed
The merchant delegation was compell-
ed to agree. The weapon used to beat
them into submission was a cunningly
contrived resolution calling upon all of
the counties of the State to quarantine
against san II FRANCISCO ASlatlCS. rms
measure, If adopted, would have re-
suited in a9general quarantine against
the State. The resolution was actually
adopted by the Board in executive SEES
sion, but merely to lend color to its
bluffs.
DR.. George F. Shrady an eminent ex-
pert sent by the New York Herald tC
investigate the matter reports as fol.
lows:
AS far as 1 can learn from a CONVEX.
sation held this morning with the pre-
sident of the Health Board there is al
present no case of bubonic plague in
San Francisco.
l have asked to see even one case anC
no one in authority is able to produc,
one There has not been reported
either officially or otherwise, suspect.
ed case since May 15 These are the
facts as far as l have been able to OBJ.
tan them up to the present time
From such a point of view there is
every reason for congratulations moi
only on account of the great interest
at stake from the commercial side OF
the question but very much more from
that which pertains to the otherwise
possible wholesale sacrifice of preciou.
lives.
Several prominent citizens with
whom 1 conversed were almost unani.
nous in the opinion that the scare here
was without particle of foundation
that it was precipitated through some
or the sensational papers, hurriedly
unadVisedly and without due inVestiga.
ton on their part.
There is no doubt that there is a
strong public sentiment against the
present methods of procedure on the
part OF the health authorities.