The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-26
DOCTOR ON
kauai ..|.| ISLE.
Washington Medi-
co Tells Of the
Life.
GLIMPSES OF
HAWAII mel
Dr.. Ernest King, Just Returned to
Washington, Tells of His
Observations Here.

The expanse of the Pacific Ocean be-
tween the different Hawaiian Islands
could be spanned with little bridges,
according to the popular view, but 1
want to tell you not only that those
islands are long distances apart, but
the toughest ship ever sailed in. The
English Channel, famous in maritime
annals, isn't to be compared with the
channels between those islands. Pas
sengers frequently cross the broad Pa
cifc without discontinue, but when
they board the steamer from Honolulu
for some of Uncle Sans adjacent pos
sessions they get seasick in good earn
est The currents that have uninter-
rupted sweep in that big ocean swirl
and clash, tossing a ship up and down
constantly on interinsuldr voyages,
which consume not an hour or two,
but an entire night, or, in some cases,
Ia night and a day"
With this as something of a preface,
DR.. Ernest King, long favorably known
here in Washington, talked last even
ing of his four years absence from
Washington. AS physician to three
large sugar plantations, comprising
1000 souls on the Island of Kauai, he
enjoyed for three and a half years the
unique experience of living in the heart
of that far-off country, where the at
mosphere and surroundings are dis
tinctly different from what the average
A -, I'LL IL
accompanied by Mrs. King, and both
are now at the St. Louis, prior to a
trip to Vienna, where DR.. King will
take a postgraduate course in medi-
cine. He expects to resume practice
in Washington after a few months.
PORCELAIN BATH TUBS IN kauai
There are some very comfortable
houses on those remote sugar planta-
| TONS the doctor resumed. THE man
ayers house is often quite a palace,
with all the modern conveniences. Por-
celain bath tubs might seem a trifle
incongruous in such surroundings, but
they were provided in the eight-room
house that was placed at my disposal.
In our garden we had vegetables grow
the year round, the unique spectacle of
leaves budding and also of leaves fall
ing to the ground and decaying being
an almost continuous spectacle, for the
Island of Kauai as well as it neighbors,
knows no seasons. We had good beef
steaks for our breakfasts, although the
circumference of the best porterhouse
would be hardly more than could be
tencompassed by a mans hand. That
is because the cattle of the island are
small Pork was not easy to obtain,
except through negotiations with the
i local Cinnamon. They control the rails
/ ing of swine and the distribution Of
the edible flesh.
wonderfully active little fellows are
the Japs, who have, since annexation,
almost entirely suprlanted the Chinese
as laborers on the sugar plantations, "
said the doctor, as he opened the lid of
a big box Of excellent Manila cigars,
which he brought back with him from
/ the islands. t'These cost only S14 a
thousand In Manila before the Ha-
waiian duty was paid" he added, par
lenthetically.
cat stent work, or huki pau, as the
Hawaiians call it, the Japs work much
j more diligently thar by the day. Give
them certain number of rows of cane
to hill up for their days work and
they will hustle vigorously, and con-
clude it by / or o'clock in the after
noon, where otherwise they might not
accomplish it before dark. They work
under an overseer, or luna
MORE INDEPENDENT THAN JOHN
CHINAMAN.
LAS laborers they are far more indie
pendent than the Chinese. They have
something like unions, and if one mar
lis brutally treated all his companions
resent it stoutly. They learned tC
tstrike, like labor unions in America
hardly before the news of annexation
had reached the islands. I have seer
Cinnamon seized by the queue, kicked
lbeaten, and otherwise roughly treated
and their only resentment would be {
fierce scowl The onlookers of theil
Not SO with the Japs.
1.-THE latter live on the plantations IL
long, wooden shanties divided int
rooms, fitted with hunks, so that eacf
room accommodates about sixteen men
That was the old arrangement, but o
late better quarters are being built, ant
the married men have little shanties o
their own. Many of the men are mar
lieu, LIE. hlIS
but 1t is queer kind of marriage
When one gets money enough he send
i word over to Japan: Bring me wo
man. When she comes she costs tn
Jap laborer about $50. There is n
marriage ceremony. If the Jap doesn'
like her after while he may sell he
for as much as he can get, perhaps $40
Iperhaps $50.
zone fellow had a pitiabIe experienc
in this line" he explained. His wifi
was convalescent with typhoid fever
That is stage when I always had diff
ficulty with them. They possess grea
sympathy with each other and the hun
ger that eonvalescent typhoid patient
have leads friends to believe the physi
Ician is starving them. I always had t
watch for sweet crackers and tins Q
peaches. But her friends smuggIed som
hard boiled eggs to this poor woman
! and it wasn't long before her erstwhil
husband was bemoaning the loss of Sc