The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-05


and happy to be the home of such
man. His name is Charles ]. Creigh-
ton. He is thrifty, Independent and
public-spirited; possessed of a keen
sense of right and justice, and is al
ways to be found in the forefront of
those who love and live for their fell
lows.
Forever a month the black death had
with ever increasing frequency claimed
its victims from widening circle.
The first notice of a new case of the
disease was frequently the discovery
of a dead or dying victim, deserted by
those who for days had absorbed the
infection, who, as they scattered, es-
tablished fresh centers of pestilence.
The Board of Health called for volun-
teers to make a house-to-house inspec-
ton twice day. This course, and this
course alone, had crushed out cholera
under like conditions The response
CdLle QulChiy AiOLLl al udClOudliIlSS
and occupations. Nearly every mem
Der of the bar volunteered; many of
them closed their offices and devoted
their entire time to this gratuitous
public service.
This was Creighton's opportunity.
Some poor devil, under stress of cir
cumstances, might seek a law office.
Should he do so in vain? Not if he
owned five dollars and could be in
duced to part with it. Creighton pub
lic-spiritedly decided to waste no time
on the plague, but to reserve himself
for the professional service of dis
tressed humanity. In pursuance of
this high-born resolve, Creighton filed
away his corkscrew with the other
family archives. turned the face of the
bitters bottle to the wall, and hied
him to the musty haunts of his I'M
frequented Office and awaited an anx-
ious and litigious humanity between
drinks.
Meanwhile four hundred and more
mean-spirited citizen volunteers,
cowed into submission by a despotic
Board of Health, basely patrolled the
city, morning and night, shamelessly
spying out insanitary conditions, re-
porting cases of plague in the early
stages, and otherwise interfering with
the God-given privilege of living in
nastiness, dying in peace and trans
hitting plague to their fellow-men. AS
Creighton YEARLY awaited the arrival
of the sufferers who came not, his
heart throbbed. his liver filled with
bile and he choked with indignation
that such vicious tyranny should be
so abjectly submitted to. He swore &
sonorous curse that any inspector who
should attempt to invade the swee
, privacy of the Creighton domicile, Of
gaze upon the sacred persons of thu
Creighton family, should feel the no
heat of the Creighton wrath. Of Their,
is any man in this town who is an ex
pert on the value of family privacy, i
is Creighton.)g This demonstrated hi
courage. Later, when an inspector die
t inspect, privacy, sweetness, sacrednes
: and all, neither shooting-irons no
t clubs appeared, but Creighton callet
: the inspector names in a newspaper
!, This showed his discretion.
Last Friday deserving merit met it
4 reward. A Board of Health regulation
: requires the securing of a permit t
I move ones residence or abode fror
L one sanitary district to another, tn
sole object being to secure continuit
of inspection and to prevent the hidin
: of plague cases. A Chinaman, wit
the true Creightonese spirit of libert
in his veins, changed his residenc
without a permit, was arrested, az
pealed to Creighton, and, being proper
ly heeled, did not appeal in vain. o
the trial it developed that the inspec
: or, Mr.. Grant, manager of the AutomC
bile Company, had been so indecent
: faithful in his inspection duties tina
not content with inspecting twice
day, he had actually so far fallen fro
!, the Creighton standard of public spi
It as to go around a third time, aft