The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-02
VISITED HIS OLD HOME UP IN
MAINE.
Was Away Twenty-Five Years and
Proved Almost a Rip Van Wrinkle.
Saw Jails-His Opinion of Them.

William Henry, jailor of Oahu pri-
son, returned by the Peru from a tour
of two months on the mainland and a
visit to his old home at Lewiston
Maine. After getting his sea legs off
he has buckled down to business again.
he said this morning that everything
mad been cared for remarkably well at
the prison in his absence, a thing that
gave him especial pleasure.
Il went to San Francisco" says Mr..
Henry, ITO Salt Lake to Denver. to
Ilkes Peak, to Chicago and to Boston
After taking tour among the historf-
cal and other attractions and trying the
famous subway under Boston Commons
l went to Portland, Maine and from
there to my old home. MY mother
whom l had not seen for twenty-five
years, met me at the station. | recop-
nzed her before l left the car. but she
did not know me. On approaching her
L inquired whom she was looking for
she replied that she was looking for
her son who was coming on that train
from Honolulu. | said: Well | guess
IN go home with you then 1t seemed
TO take her several minutes to realize
that / was really the boy that went
away so long ago
1 spent fifteen days at home. There
was pleasure but also sorrow i'm if
The same old school houses, many of
the same residences. the same brooks
play grounds were there. In our church
found three of the members of the ola
choir that used to sing there twenty
lNe years. | thought this remarka BILE
and made note of it.
Another remarkable experience was
thls: When l left home so long ago my
chum Edward Galley was standing i'm
front of his house. always remembered
the circumstances and the scene. Well
when i approached the Bailey home
this time l found it just as before. and
there was Edward Bailey standing in
front of it just as 1 had left him! |
cannot express my feelings of that
moment. Running up to him | held
out my hand and said Hello. Ed: why
heard years ago that you were dead
He looked at me a moment in some
snow of amazement and replied I am
not Ed Bailey: I'm his SON.. That boy
was the picture of his father but when
ne mad corrected me l remembered
again that a generation had passed
since l left Ed Bailey standing in that
spot
Il wish to say a word here about the
temperance State of Maine | found
that in Lewiston, my home, city of
4O.OOO people, there were 140 private
places at which liquors were being sold.
This impressed me as being a very poor
recommendation for the Maine prohibl-
ttOn laws
From Maine | went to New York to
Washington, to Chicago and back to
san Francisco via the Rio Grande. In
Washington l looked through the prin-
cipal offices. Washington, by the way.
is the prettiest city / have ever seen. IT
is model of taste and cleanliness.
while away ] visited a number of
jails and looked all through them The
one at Salt Lake City was the first.
and then l went through the jails at
Denver In the cities of Massachusetts
and Maine | went through large num-
Der of prisons and county jails / may
say in regard to them that although
there are few minor details in which
they may be ahead of us, the prison
mere is as good as any of them and
many of our systems are really much
better. | brought back considerable
data but really when it is shifted ! do
not see that it opens up any better
schemes than we already have | found
that there is all through the States
strong feeling against the manufac-
tories in prisons, the laboring classes
claiming that it Injuries them. We have
solved that problem here already"