The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-05-30
A CAMP FOR
QUARANT|
Kuahua Island Will Be
Used by DR..
Golfer.

II An agreement has been reached be-
Il tween the Bishop estate and the Navy
Department by which Kuahua Island
Hospital Service for temporary use as
a quarantine station. This does not
mean that Quarantine Island Is to be
abandoned. but that 1t has become ex-
pedient to secure emergency quarters
4 for use In case of necessity. which is
likely to arise at any moment now
since the new order sending United
States transports by way OF Honolulu
instead OF via Nagasaki.
The title TO Kuahua Island. which Is
II located near Ford's Island in Pearl
| Harbor. is still In question in the
courts. this being part Of the land
owned by the Bishop estate upon which
a jury In Federal Court fxed price
/ OF So. 800. An appeal from that finding
has been taken TO the Circuit Court Of
Appeals. and until IL Is settled there
In an open question as to whether the
| island belongs TO the United States or
| TO the Bishop estate. Judge Estee is
| sued an order by which the Govern
ment could take over the land in dis
pute upon the payment OF the amount
OF the Judgment TO the clerk Of court.
This was done by Paymaster Hall OF
the United States Navy. bat the check
was afterwards withdrawn. though the
tender OF the amount awarded by the
jury was made to the trustees of the
Bishop estate In gold. and by them re-
fused. As n means OF avoiding any
further trouble pending the disposition
o, the appeal. n compromise was agreed
upon by which both the Navy Depart
ment and the trustees OF the Bishop
estate gave 10 Quarantine officer Golfer
the right to the temporary use OF Kua-
hua Island.
The island contains about twenty
six acres OF land. and Is In every way
suited for the purpose To which DIR.
cofer may be called upon TO put II at
any time.
Under orders from Surgeon General
wyman at Washington. he has been
required To prepare an emergency hos |
pitai or camp where troops may be
Guaranteed In case OF necessity. In
several instances In the past when
transports came into this port with
cases OF contagious disease aboard the |
troops were neither allowed to- land or
remain at the docks. but compelled To-
lay out In the harbor under the strict |
est quarantine regulations. Much com
plant was made at Washington by
army officers on that account. and the !
Inability 81 the local authorities to ac-
commcdate soldiers from transports in |
asses OF quarantine. was one Of the rea-
sons why the War Department cut of
the practice OF transports stopping at
Honolulu while on the way TO and from
the Philippines. The necessity now for |
transports stopping here on their way
to San Francisco has caused this new
action on the part OF the Federal
Government. Transports from Manila. |
which come here To coal instead of GO
Ing To Nagasaki. are quite likely To ar
rive with case or contagious disease |
aboard. and unless some protection
could be had here the troops would mott
he allowed to land. and would be COM |
PEELED to suffer the discomforts OF |
cramped quarters on shipboard. with
land in sight. To remedy this DR. Golfer
now Will be prepared to establish a 1
camp at Kuahua Island. where the
men from the transport will be imme- /
diateiy sent in case OF quarantine A
large number of service tents are now
on their way TO Honolulu to be used in
this connection also. and within n very
short time DR.. Golfer will be able to
accommodate several thousand men for
months at time IL need be.
This new arrangement is very neces- |
sary at this time. because of the health /
conditions prevalent in the Orient and
the Philippines. Both plague and chol-
era are epidemic in Manila and already
one or two transports were compelled
10 put back into port after sailing from
Manila for Honolulu. II a case of chol-
era or plague should be discovered on
board a transport while near this port
the ship would be quarantined here.
and the soldiers sent To Kuahua Island
into camp until the danger OF Infection
had passed.