The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-01

Sheet Metal Works of San Francisco
the Phoenix and Maricopa railroad,
and was heavy stockholder in the
| Alaska Packers Association, and other
corporations of California.
He would be alive today in all prob
ability. if he had not been in hurry to
get back an umbrella he had left in a
train. He went to San Jose from here
on Wednesday, to attend a meeting of
the directors of the Fig-Prune Cereal
Company. He and his wife had left
the train, and boarded a street car,
when Smith suddenly recalled that his
umbrella was in his seat in the Pull
man he had just left. He was unac-
customed to exercise, but rushed with
full speed to the train. He had just
stepped off the platform of the car,
with the umbrella in his hand, when
he dropped from heart paralysis.
He had enjoyed excellent health, and
neither he nor his family had ever sus-
pected heart trouble.
PORTO RICAN LABoRERs.
The yellow Examiner continues to
make capital against Hawaii of the mis-
fortunes of the Porto Rican laborers
who were brought to Hawaii to work on
the sugar plantations. The Examiner
seems to have correspondent in Homo
lulu as yellow as the journal for which
he writes.
The Examiner publishes a dispatch
from Honolulu under date of January 10,
which conveyed the impression to its
readers that the Porto Ricans had been
brought to Honolulu and then abandoned
to starve. while rich and hard-hearted
planters looked on in derision.
The Honolulu article pictures twenty
four men standing before High Sheriff
Brown and begging piteously for bread
for their dying wives and children.
Put us in JAIL said the Porto Ricans,
according to the Examiners yellow cor
respondent, but for Gods sake give us
something to eat
The Honolulu correspondent says that
"out of sixty souls in the Porto Rican
quarter, it is doubtful if a third had
tasted food for twenty-four hours
AS 1 failed to find in the Advertiser
that the plight of the Porto Ricans was
as desperate pictured by the Exam
liner man, / am led to believe that it is
but another of the lying fakes of the
Examiner, which has neglected no means
to asperse the character of Hawaiians. /
LEPER HOME.
A dispatch from Washington says that |
United States Senator Plat has intro !
duced a bill into Congress providing for !
a national home for lepers, carrying out |
the ideas of the Berlin leper conference. |
The bill provides for the appointment of |
a national commissioner on leprosy, to |
be paid 5000 per year and to reside Ell {
Their in New York or San Francisco. /
mile square, to be located far from Ell |
Their the Pacific or Atlantic coast, and in
a dry climate, is to be set apart for the |
leper home site. to be chosen by the
board of psychologists, consisting of the
commissioner and four experts |
appointed by the boards of health OF
Louisiana, Minnesota and
Florida. An appropriation of $4,000 Is
,.@ tl,aJ xx-lni Nl,
will be occupied only by lepers of the
United States not including the insular
possessions. The leper home is to be I'M
der the charge of the Marine Hospital
Service.
Domingo Romay, a seaman. has recov-
,red S10505 wages for which he sued the
Steamship Company
before the United States District Court.
rhe man was taken i'll on voyage here,
out refused to allow an examination
made into his physical condition when
he steamship officers desired to do So
de was unable to work, and his wages
we're refused him when the vessel arriV-
ID here Judge De Haven held nat Ro-
nay was in fault in not permitting the
and hence could recover no
,osts.
DIR Howard Humphreys of Honolulu,
md his father. DR.. F. II. Humphreys OF
England, were registered at the van
Suys Hotel in Los Angeles on January
9.
Miss Mae Coburn is back in San Fran
,isco. after a visit of some weeks To
honolulu. She left here with the Dutton
Wedding party and returned to be pres
mt at the wedding of Miss Maud Mullins
md DR.. Clark. She is now giving some
arge entertainments for the engaged
,air.
Bruce Cartwright the Honolulu insur-
.nce man. is registered at the Palace
rom the East.
c. NJ Berger of Honolulu was cues.
L a dinner given last night ar the Hotel
.Ietropole. i'm Oakland. by ]. 9. Brown
O a few of his college friends at Whlch
he announcement was made OF MI |
crowns engagement to. Miss Helen Gage
Il Columbus, Ohio.
FREDERICK O'BRIEN.