The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-22
BREAKING
QUARANTINE
Have Officers Of
the fitzpatrick
Landed?
QUEER ACTIONS
OF SHIPS BOAT
Passengers are Seen at Dusk to
Row From Transport
to Waikiki.

Every evening since the fitzpatrick
has been in quarantine for smallpox
outside, just about dusk of each day.
boat has left the side of the trans
port laden with officers and their wives
and, rowed by soldiers, has gone TO
Waikiki.
The boat goes near the Castle resi-
dence and then makes it's way toward
shore.
| On one day it was about half past
| five o'clock in the evening that the boat
was seen to leave the side. On some
days it was a little later. 1t is still
light at the time of the departure but
when the boat gets about opposite the
Castle residence it is dusk, just be-
ginning to be dark 1t is not known
or told-ashore when the boat re
turns.
| Said a we'll known waterfronter to an
Advertiser reporter yesterday, L have
been wondering what a boat was doing
between the fitzpatrick and Waikiki
every evening during the last week or
more since the transport has been in
Quarantine Last night one of the XII
patrick's boats was lowered from the
vessels side aad, manned by soldiers,
was taken ii the direction of Waikiki,
as far as the Castle residence. l saw
III that far. After that it became too
dark for me to see whether the boat
was put ashore. I was outside OF the
lharbor at the time, and saw numoer
of officers and ladies go from the trans
port to the boat. I did not see the boat
come back.
II think that something ought to be
dome about this for if the officers and
their wives are really coming ashore
against the quarantine regulations, as
they certainly seem to be doing, they
fought to be stopped, otherwise we are
likely to have an epidemic of small
pox in Honolulu, and all on account OF
the selfshness of a few people who
ought to set an example of obedience
and discipline to the thousand soldiers
on the ship.
81 would also like to say something
about the manner in which the SICK
men who are sent to the quarantine ISL
and from the Fitzpatrick suffering with
the measles, are treated.
.They are lowered into a boat and
left to lie there in the hot sun, the
boat meanwhile pounding arouno
} against the side of the transport, unit
the quarantine launch goes out to tow
, it to the landing at quarantine island
, Unsheltered from the sun, not even pro
} vided with mattress or anything com
, Portable on which to lie while being
} yanked along through the water, it is
, wonder that any of the men recove
. from their sickness. Sometimes TIT
!. sick men have to lie alongside tn
: transport, in the small boat, half al
: hour or more, waiting for the launch
have seen this with my own eyes AM
know what l am talking about.
D THE whole matter has been badl.
. managed When the transport frs
. came here and smallpox was foun
. aboard, after the cases had been remov
0 ed to the island, the troops should ais
0 have been placed on the quarantin
. island, the ships crew remainin
= aboard while the vessel was thorough
:, ly fumigated. Then the transpor
q taken on water and coal, all she want
a ed, in a couple of days and gotten ava
. about her business"
Three more soldiers, suffering wit
: measles, were taken from the trans
port yesterday and landed at the quar-
antine island.
On Saturday one man, troubled wit
. a fistula, was taken from the shil
. There are at present thirty-fve patient
. at the hospital on Quarantine 1slano
Q Three are smallpox patients and az
q doing well. The rest are measles pa
a tients with the one exception named