The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-02-26


criticised Superintendent Rev
- nulds of tic lepor settlement ot
MoIokni for his negligence In al
lowing contact between lnpers an,
clean persons A Migrant case was cit
Cd on tho evidence of Ambrose X
Hutchinson of Molokai where some sail
ors were allowed to mix with the Ka
'laupapa cOloulsts. Reynolds, as usual
tried to crawl out of blame for the act
Of the seamen and denied Hutchison's
statements. The latter now sends the
sworn statement of William Maioho
the coffee shop waiter who had served
the sailors, and also the Information
that Autocrat Reynolds had vented his
spite on Maioho and is running mat
ters with a high hand in the leper
colony.
kalaupapa, Mookai, Feb 49,
Editor INSTRUMENTATION me space
to make a few more remarks as a final
TO the lepcr coffee shop incident The
incident is closed SO far as the Board
Of Health is concerned, Mr.. Reynolds
having fatty denied knowing anything
about it, and that body was satisfied
with his explanation Nevertheless
the fact remains that the sailors were
in the shop, coffee, bread and cakes fur
nishcd them and charged to the Board
of Health account.
AS 1t Is now a question of veracity
with us, | herewith send you the sworn
statement of William Maioho, the coffee
shop waiter and accountant who serv-
ed the sailors with coffee, etc, and who
will bear me out in what l said in my
first communications the public can
It'd,
of us lied. Since the incident
has been dismissed without any rea-
son given by his employer and it is sur
missed that the coffee shop owner fears
the displeasure of the boss if he keeps
the man who is persona non grata to
the powers that be in the employ and
might lose the privilege of continuing
his coffee shop business, which is only
carried on at the pleasure of the su-
perintendent SO not to offend and dis
please the all-powerful agent of the
Board of Health and the boss of the
settlement who is absolute monarch
of all he surveys within this realm, the
fellow was given his ticket of leave.
Now, why should coffee shops be a
privileged affair, not a licensed con-
''i II, illi NlIdt IL " prevent lHt
present owners of the coffee shops, of
which there are three in the settle
nent, from taking out licenses?
AMBROSE X. HUTCHINSON.
The following is a literal translation
Of the sworn testimony of the waiter
who claims to have waited upon the |
sailors:
81, William Maioho, leper residing
.",I, NIAI a
n the coffee shop owned by w. II.
3runs, now standing at Kalaupapa, in
he capacity of waiter and clerk for
ecording the daily receipts and other
luties relating to the coffee shop bust
less. 1 hereby testify to what I saw
md heard personally on the morning
# January II, 1901:
give sailors 1.-TWO Japs and three
latives) entered the shop in which l
m employed, their clothes wet, and
With them also entered Kale Kahale-
ILL luna in the employ of the Board
f Health, who ordered me to furnish
he sailors with coffee and charge to
he Board of Health, as is usual when
apers arrive from Honolulu. COM
lied with the order, seated the sailors
round the table then went and got
We bowls of coffee and placed one be-
ore each of them; gave them bread,
axe and pie These things which
these persons l recorded in
he memorandum book of the coffee
hop. charging the Board of Health for
We bowls of coffee at 10 cents each
owl. Those people ate and drank what
ere given them. When they were
trough drinking coffee they entered
a Kitchen mr. q or