The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-14
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Colon Arrives With Porto Ricans.
| Early yesterday afternoon the Pacific
Mail steamship Colon, Captain George
McKinnon, arrived in this port from
Port Los Angeles with over five hun
bred Porto Ricans to labor on the sug-
ar plantations of these islands.
The Colon sailed from San Francisco
on the I'd instant, and arrived at Los
Angeles on the morning of the 4th al
about 6 O'Clock. At s o'clock she was
alongside the railway wharf in that
port and taking aboard the Porto Ric-
ans At $50 o'clock she was away
again, bound for Honolulu
The Colon is a fine looking vessel
and the accommodations are the best
that could be provided for the immi-
grants.
The vessel started from Los Angeles
with 525 Porto Ricans, three died al
sea through dysentery, and she arrived
in port with 522 OF this number 36l
are adults; 112 are between the ages OF
four and twelve years and forty-nine
under four years old.
1t was about O'Clock yesterday af-
ternoon when the Colon arrived on
port She remained outside for some
time, as there was a<great deal of work
for the quarantine officer to do aboard
When the vessel did come into port
she went alongside the quarantine
wharf, and no one was permitted to
come ashore nor was anyone allowed
to go aboard.
This morning the work of preparing
the large number of immigrants to
leave quarantine will be commenced.
All of their clothing and effects will
be subjected to thorough fumigat ton.
and each one of the number, male and
female young and old, will be bathed
in disinfecting solution. After this
they will be sent to the various plan
tations which1have engaged them.
They are sorry looking lot When
they have had good bath, however,
and have been at work on the planta-
tions for awhile the probabilities are
that their friends in the country from
whence they came would be unable to
recognize them if they had the chance
of seeing them.
Some Of the number are sickly look
ing, and several of the little children
are pitiful sights. They have been sick
with travelling, and are about worn out,
some of them too weak to stand. Dirty
does not pegin to describe the appar-
ance of the Porto Ricans. This, how
ever, will be changed in the wash.
This is the sixth expedition of Porto
Rican laborers to these islands. The
Colon had been specially fitted to re-
ceive the Porto Ricans in San Fran
cisco before she sailed to Los Angeles.
There is room enough on board the YES
sci to accommodate over eight hundred
people.
Everybody aboard the Colon has a
word of praise for the officers of the
vessel and for the vessel herself.
They say that the treatment accord
ed them, Interpreters, passengers and
immigrants. was exceedingly kind. and
that during the voyage every attention
was shown them.
eff the crew of the Colon had been
specially picked and selected said one
of the interpreters, c. E. Pereira 80
the purpose of handling the people.
who need such an unusual amount of
care and nursing as did the Porto Ric-
ans during the trip. the result could
not have been more satisfactory. There
is no doubt that the next expedition to
be brought to, Hawaii by the Color VIII
be even better handled, since every
of the ships company has had
an experience which he did not have
when the present lot of immigrants
went aboard the vessel at Los An
geles.'
This same man says that the ~innrli-
grants are, many of them. fast be-
coming physical wrecks. He thinks,
however, that life in these islands, on
the plantations. will make new people
of them. Lack of proper nourishment
is responsible for the present condition
of large number.
The following are the officers of the
Colon: Captain, George McKinnon;
first officer. H. w. Lewis; chief en-
gineer; u. G. Rowley, purser and in
terpreter, j. o. Jirnenez; surgeon, R.
J. Huston; storekeeper. H. F. How
land; second officer, J. L. Wilson; third
officer, W. A. Christensen; chief stew
ard, J. Mcconnell.
General Shipping News.
me port or P1ctou, Nova Scotia, mas
again been opened to navigation, and on
April is there was no Ice between that
port and the Strait of Canso.
The ]. G. Brill Company of Philadel-
phia is shipping considerable quantities
of car material to the British Thomson
Houston Company, Limited, for the New
Castle Corporation Tramways.
The Northern Navigation Company,
with capital of s1,7500OO, was recently
incorporated in Camden. N. J. The prin-
cipal office of the company is In the New
Jersey Corporation Guarantee and Trust
Company building, Camden, N. j. The
objects of the company are to buy and
sell vessels. etc. The incorporators are:
Leon Sloss, Isaac Liebes, George H. Hig-
bee and William Thomas
Mr.. Emil L. Boas. the american gener-
al manager of the Ha burg American
line. has received anotfl mark of ia