The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-07-30
INDIGNANT
JAP ANESE
Say Okabe and
His Wife We're
InsuIted.
(From Saturdays daily

As an outcome OF the medical cNami-
nation of the persons OF Mir. and Mrs.
/ Okabe. first-class passengers aboard
the steamer America Mara, which ar
rived at this port on Thursday from
the Orient, the Japanese Legation at
/ Washington may be called upon to
ask for an official investigation. MIR,
Okabe is the new Vice Consul for ia
pan in the Hawaiian Islands, relieving
MIR. Tanaka, who has been assigned to
similar position in New York city.
The manner In which Mr.. and Mrs.
okabe were subjected to an eXamina-
lion of their persons on account OF the
discovery of suspicious case of
plague aboard the America Maru has
been the cause of several meetings of
the influential Japanese of this city,
and may lead to unpleasant results.
When the America Maru came into
the harbor the yellow flag was at ner
masthead. DR.. Cofer, Federal quaran-
tine officer, had discovered a Chinese
on board who was a suspicious case
and the vessel was placed in quaran-
tine pending the results of a microscop
zeal test. While the steamship lay at
anchor in the harbor the steerage pas
sengers were examined critically and
passed. The cabin passengers, among
whom were a number of high-class
Japanese men and women. We're called
TO the saloon, where the names of the
passengers were read aloud and check
ed off by the surgeons. No physical
examination was made of the white
passengers.
Mr.. Okabe, his wife, Mr. Imai Miss
Nobichi and Mr.. X. Kamahara, the
latter three of whom have proceeded
to the Coast on the America Maru
leaving signed statements behind. have
evidence which they claim Is conclusive
that the surgeons Disseminated against
the japanese cabin passengers because
of their being Asiatics.
At a meeting of prominent Japanese
held Thursday evening the following
story was given by the parties named
above:
Four days prior to the arrival at
Honolulu of the America Maru there
was suspicious case of plague dis
covered amongst the Storage passen-
gers. 1t was Chinese who came
aboard at Hongkong, where the ma
joI'ty of the cabin passengers also en-
barked. There was a suspicious swell |
ing of the glands, so the ships surgeon
said. The matter was reported to the
Federal quarantine officer upon arriv-
al here. Not waiting until the sur
geons found out for a fact that the
man really had the plague, DR.. Golfer
proceeded to examine all the passen-
gers. He first looked after the steer
age passengers and was very strict. |
There were several European passen-
gers in the steerage, whom the sur
geon did not examine so carefully.
Then came the turn of the cabin pas
They were called into the |
saloon, where one of the ships officers
read off the names. After they were
all read, DR.. Golfer called the Japanese
cabin passengers to one side and be-
gan an examination of them. The men |
had to remove their coats while the |
doctors looked for swollen glands. Then
came the turn of the ladies'. Besides
Mrs. Okabe there was Miss Imai, a |
society young lady, a recent graduate
from school in Toxic, who Is on her ,
way to Chicago to attend a university.
Miss Nobchi is on route TO Monterey,
where her sister resides. The evidence
as given before the meeting was that
there was absolutely no reason for DIR.
oofer examining the ladies. They were
sentative went through the inquiry just
as he had done in the Storage. He Is
alleged to have ordered the ladies' to
strip To all of this they submitted.
They first asked why he should ex-
anime them when they were cabin
Or. Golfer or his repre-
sentative is said to have replied that
ne was very sorry to have to go to ex-
fatr In ~ nf or 70 |
passenger. They took this statement
literally, thinking that all the rest OF
the ladies would be examined. After
hey were examined the ladies found
hat they were to be the only ones
subjected TO this treatment. As to
he other white ladies' frst-class pas
'engers, Or. Cofer is alleged to have
passed them by.
1t IL on this point almost entirely
hat the japanese officials here viii
ry IN make n case against the quar-
ntlne officials. and viii make their re-
iort 10 Washington on this ground
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