The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-25
REYNOLDS
ACTS.
Permitted Visitors
To Mix With
Lepers.
SWORN STATEMENT
MADE BY WAITER
Superintendent of MoIokai Col
ony in the Role Of a
Gar.

~ nolds of the ieper settlement on
Molokai for his negligence in al
lowing contact between lepers and
clean persons. fragrant case was cit
ed on the evidence of Ambrose e.
Hutchinson of Molokai, where some sail
ors were allowed to mix with the Ka-
laupapa colonists. Reynolds, as usual,
tried to crawl out of blame for the act
of the seamen and denied Hutchison's
statements. The latter now sends the
sworn statement of William Maioho,
the coffee shop waiter who had served
the sailors, and also the information
that Autocrat Reynolds had vented his
spite on Maioho and is running mat
tiers with a high hand in the leper
colony.
Kalaupapa Molokai, Feb. l9.
Editor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. me space
to make a few more remarks as a final
| to the leper coffee shop incident. The
incident is closed so far as the Board
! of Health is concerned, Mr.. Reynolds
having fatty denied knowing anything
about it, and that body was satisfied
with his explanation. Nevertheless
the fact remains that the sailors were
| in the shop, coffee, bread and cakes fur
nished them and charged to the Board
of Health account.
| AS it is now a question of veracity
with u.s. 1 herewith send you the sworn
statement of William Maioho, the coffee
shop waiter and accountant, who serv-
| ed the sailors with coffee, etc, and who
| will bear me out in what | said in my
first communications public can
Judge for themselves which one
! of us lied. Since the incident
/ happened the aforesaid waiter
| has been dismissed without any rea-
son given by his employer and it is sur
missed that the coffee shop owner fears
the displeasure of the boss If he keeps
the man who is persona non grata 10
the powers that be in the employ and
might lose the privilege of continuing
his coffee shop business, which is only
carried on at the pleasure of the SUI
perintendent. So not to offend and dlS-
please the all-powerful agent of the
Board of Health and the boss OF the
settlement, who is absolute monarch
of all he surveys within this realm. the
fellow was given his ticket of leave
Now. why should coffee shops be
privileged affair not a licensed con-
, cern and what is there to prevent the
present owners of the coffee shops, of
ment. from taking out licenses?
AMBROSE K. HUTCHINSON.
The following is literal translation
of the sworn testimony of the waiter
who claims to have waited upon the
sailors:
II. William Maioho, a leper residing
at Kalaupapa, Molokai, am employed
in the coffee shop owned by w. ii
Bruins. now standing at Kalaupapa. in
the capacity of waiter and clerk for
recording the daily receipts and other
y duties relating to the coffee. shop bust
ness. 1 hereby testify to what l saw
and heard personally on the morning
of January II, 1901
Five sailors two Japs and three
natiyes) entered the shop in which !
am employed, their clothes wet, ana
with them also entered Kale kahale-
thili. a luna in the employ of the Board
of Health who ordered me to furnish
. the sailors with coffee and charge tic
the Board of Health, as is usual when
lepers arrive from Honolulu. / COM
piled with the order, seated the sailors
around the table, then went and Sol
live bowls of coffee and placed one be-
: fore each of them; gave them bread
7 cake and pie. These things which
furnished these persons / recorded II
the memorandum book of the coffee
I shop. charging the Board of Health tol
t five bowls of coffee at 10 cents eacf
: bowl Those people ate and drank VIVA
: were given them When they Were
' through drinking coffee they entered
e the kitchen and sat around the stow
r to warm themselves and dry thel
damp clothes.
!; while the sailors We're there warm
: ling and drying themselves kale Kama
: Ilehili re-entered the shop and asked tn
sailors to repair to the store and TT.
q on some suits. Kale Kahalehi1 thel
: went out followed by the sailors.
Z little while later the sailors returne
to the coffee shop with new dry clothes
q and there they remained at ease, chat
g ting with the lepers for an hour.
l. '.In witness of the truth of the abov
n statement, l hereby sign my name Wit
lie my hand. VIM. MAlOHo.
Subscribed and sworn to before m
n this 10Th day of February. A. d. lso
"G. s. THOS. K. NATHANIEL, !.
Notary Public, Second Judicial Gil
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