The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-12
Six Ships Swell
the HarbOr's
Fleet.
Porto Ricans on Colon.
The Carlisle CITY
In Port.

SMALL FLEET of vessels arrived
~ yesterday so that, notwithstand-
ing the holiday things were not
over dun on the waterfront.
The Pacific Mail steamship Colon, Cap
tain McKinnon arrived from Port Los
Angeles with nearly 800 Porto Ricans;
the tramp steamship Carlisle City, Cap
tain Patterson. arrived from the Orient;
tain Loreutzen, made port from Tacoma
after a voyage of twentyfour days; the
American bark Diamond Head, Captain
Peterson. arrived from San Francisco,
and the American barks Olympic and
Alden Besse, Captains Gibbs and Kies-
sci, also arrived from San Francisco.
The Colon With Immigrants.
1t was early yesterday morning when
| the Colon made port. She came into the
harbor and locked at the channel wharf,
being placed in quarantine unit! all of
her passengers have been given a thor
ough bath and the vessel has been dis
| infected
The Colon sailed from Port Los An
geles at 10 o'clock in the evening of the
! LIST with 767 Porto Rican men, women
| and children aboard. A comparatively
| pleasant trip was experienced as far as
weather was concerned. Six of the peo-
pie died on the voyage and were buried
at sea- The original number included SIC
adults, 12S boys and girls between and
| IL years of age, and SO children under
years of age.
This is the seventh expedition of i'm
migrants to these Islands from Porto
Rico. David NJ Trail is chief in charge
of the laborers. Other cabin passengers
on the Colon are. A. E. Minvielle and
wife, Fred Harrington, wife and child
and j. Lake and wife. Harrington and
Lake are interpreters.
Trail was attached to the Eleventh
United States Infantry, under General
Swan, during the war with Spain. he
served as hospital steward for nearly
three years. After he was discharged ne
taught school at Aibonito, Porto Rico,
until engaged for the present expedition
During September. 1899. when so much
havoc was wrought by the terrible hur-
ricane in Porto Rico, Trail accomplish
| ed a great deal in the way of alleviatine
suffering. His experience as hospital
man during that time. Trail has been
spoken of very highly on account of his
| good work among the Porto Ricans and
| he was chosen as chief of this expedition
solely on account of his fine manage
ment of and popularity with the Porto
Ricans.
This expedition left Guanica on the
| 21st of May on the steamship Califor-
Man. One death occurred on the Cali
fornian. four deaths occurred on the
train while the laborers were being
brought overland. and, as has already
been stated, six of the people died on the
Colon on the voyage from Port Los An
geles.
The present lot of immigrants is a
better-appearing one than the last
brought by the Colon. The people are
not as starved-loo<ing, although they
are nothing very attractive to look upon.
The disinfecting bath to which they will
be subjected today will no doubt do them
a great deal of good. During the trip
from the Coast DR.. r. ]. Huston the
surgeon of the Colon was greatly assist
ed in his work by Mr.. Trail. The immi-
grants needed constant attention. With
such a large number there was sickness
of some kind all the time. DR.. Huston
deserves great credit as does also Mr..
Trail. for the manner in which the la
horers and their families were cared for
on the trip at sea.
The accommodations on the Colon are
the best which could be provided All
| hunks and bedding were brand new
when the steamship started in the pres
ent business Every day are the quar-
tiers cleaned and disinfected and the
strictest sanitary rules are observed at
all times
| This morning at o'clock the immi-
grants will be bathed. 1t will take some
time to handle all of them. Meanwhile
their clothes will be sent to the quaran-
tine island and fumigated. 1t is prob
able that none of the people will be sent
F, to any of the plantations until tomor-
row.