The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-18
STRANDED.
HERE.
Eight Men Tell a
Story of Hard
Luck.
DECEIVED BY
PLANTERS AGENT
They Sleep On Lumber Pile
and Go Without Food for
"a Hours.

On the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES steam
ship Warrimoo came about seventy i'm
to labor on the sugar planta-
lions in these Islands The Warrimoo
arrived here early Saturday afternoon
from Vancouver and Victoria.
There were fifty Portuguese in the
party, eight Americans, eleven Greeks
and two Germans.
About forty of the number were sent
down the line on the afternoon train to
the Waialua plantation and the bal
afice, most of them, were taken in
charge by Alexander & Baldwin.
Some of the immigrants, however, re-
fused to be sent to the Waialua planta-
ton or any other plantation, claiming
that they had been brought here under
false representations and that they
were not meeting with the treatment
they had been led to expect
There were eight men who refused to
go TO work and these men were the
Americans.
! They left the steamer and went up
town, wandering around at "a loss what
to do and with only thirty cents among
the eight of them.
| On being seen by an Advertiser re-
porter the men claimed that they had
been engaged to work on Hawaiian
sugar plantation, and they did not ap-
pear positive as to the name. They had
been recruited in Boston, the whole lot
of them-Portuguese, Greeks, Germans
land Americans-by Frank Alves OF NJ
Warren street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Alves, it seems, canvassed around
Boston and got together the lot of I'M
migrants which arrived on the Warrl-
moo. The American Nmen who have
Icomplaint to make say that this Alves
Ipromised them from $22 to S25 pei
month on the plantations here, together
with a house for every eight men. The
house was to be furnished. They woult
of course have to provide their owl
flood. but that would not cost them
lsaid the agent more than from $3.50 Il
81 per week.
The transportation of these immi
grants was paid for by the agent
They came overland by the Canada
Pacific railroad Agent Alves cam
with them as far as Vancouver.
When the Warrimoo arrived here o
Saturday, according to the eight Amer
icans. the party was met by the agen
This agent in answer to the question
lof the Americans. said that the wage
which they would receive would be fro1
s15 TO SIS per month and that no nous
would be thrown in.
JTpon hearing this the Americans re
: fused to go to the plantations. Othei
:. of the immigrants, upon being 1ntornle
nv the Americans of the wages the
we're likely to receive. complained OF
suffered themselves to be sent TO II
Waialua plantation, nevertheless.
e The Americans went up town al
: took a look around. Late in the ever
II ing they returned to the wharf to III
that the steamer had sailed tor u
: Colonies The agent was there, nov
:, ever. and the Americans asked MIN
Ii make an offer of so per month, in VIII
= ing. This the agent refused to do sa
ing: You have trusted US so tar' nc
trust us the rest of the way
IL But the eight Americans refused
10 trust The agent left them ana as
r of the American immigrants express
r II "He left us all broke and we ne
down a lumber pile last night
have had nothing to eat all day
Kindly disposed citizens escorted the
9 m restaurant and watched the
stow away enough TO make up LOT
time they had been around witho
n anything 10 stay lilei 49,
rangements were also made for the
communication of the men at night and
was seen that they should not surfer
any way.
they will try to get work in the
and have expressed themselves as w
ing to put their hands to anything
ge long as there is enough ir it to k'
is body and soul together.
The names of the eight Americans
an Thomas Dale, Richard Lynch, Jc
Cookery, John Leonard, Walter kenn
Joseph Doody, Daniel Carey ana Jan
Dalton.