The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-04-06
THE MAIN CRY IS
FOR A LEPROSY CURE
MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE VISIT THE SETTLE
MENT AND LISTEN TO PETITIONS OF INMATES
A SCORE KEPT AS LEPERS WHO ARE SAID
NOT TO BE SUCH-BUT FEW WANT TO LEAVE.


dltons ana enqmrng unortunates. The
visitors found generally and the epers III
more satisfied month"; there were the
usual petitions and the endless expressions hope
more medical treatment tor some discovery Will
terrible disease This hope based
the settlement Tor II remaining made voluntary thought
that only about ten would leave There probably
twenty or more persons confined settlement
the disease according information but they are
not anxious take the give them ber
and have refused Lite settlement all
has become Injured to the horrors of the place
The band the yesterday for
first time since 1901 and but for the heavy wouo
have been of unusual entertainment the pers The
did away with the of keeping visitors coral wer,
they cannot come with their eprous relatives To herd
the visitors in unprotected coral amid such yese
day was impossible and the guests allowed to 90 to
we'll and sick
The legislators left the Knau about n o'clock on Sat
day night taking with them OF the largest parties that
visited the settlement Dr. Cooper president of the Board Of
Health Prince Kuho and W. O. were among the visitors
The trip the channel smooth one and at DAYLIGHT the
steamer was off kalaupapa The high cliffs almost hidden
by heavy Clouds and there drzzng changed to
heavy doWnpOu the first boaoad visitors rowed from the
steamer to the landing taking Senator McCandess chairman of
the Senate committee health matters representatives the
and Others Superintendent McNegh and Sheriff Rex
Hitchcock of Molokai received the visitors landing and
there was large crowd of epe in the shelter she'd where
led bv Brother Servants greeted he arrival
with music The lepers silent hrong They stood and
watched while the visitors passed through passageway kept by
the police
long time before the were landed and before
al were ashore Senators kaauokalan Brown McCandless,
Representatives Paee Vida Ayett kanho \eaawaa Kuma
girls
Mother Marianne showed the visitors about the place Many
OF the girls interested while legislators walked
about The visitors gathered the school where
the leper girls at the piano and played several selections
chorus Of girls sang for the visitors The ndescrbaby
affecting and though the visitors men, many of them
hiding using handkercefs the natives es-
Peca W as the stricken children OF their crowded
into the gloomy little schooroom, pitu throng of Scared
discoorcd and swollen faces and crippled bodies.
Little asked for this home though there was the usual
cry 0r treatment Mother Marianne like most Of those
have been the settlement long showed little hope of She
has settled down her faithful routine OF ameloratng which
science cannot cure and Of doing all She educate the chill
drn and brighten their lives There talk OF the Goo treat
ment but the Mother did think OF value except
ing medicine The girls satisfied with their homes
After the visit the Bishop Home the committee were sup
piled with horses and started the ride Kalawao and the
Baldwin Home The rain had increased and rising
wind added to the discomfort OF the journey Some of the party
turned back after riding short distance Most kept on
however though many entirely unprotected The din had
the effect OF keeping the band Kaaupapa the bows d. the
Bishop Home missed the chance to hear it.
AT the home the committee found DR.. Camp ahead of them.
He making examinations as one of the medical experts The
other expert who Dr. Alvarez Both physicians are
SAID to entertain the view that there noneprous per-
sons kept at the settlement
Here again the question OF medical treatment raised
Brother Duon who has spent seventeen years OF his life minis
erg to the ePers had faith in the Goo medicine thar
Mother Marianne but of the epes it. Brother
Duon thought the medicine stayed the progress of disease
acting cleanser and such effects probably
widespread faith it among the epers The
stopped since April there being no more OF the medicines and
the lepers want it resumed.
Prince kuhio spoke the epers while OF the members
of the House and of the examined
ents and expressed their views whether the boys had ep
not KanihO and others found youths whom they
not epers but the discoveries did interest
Brother Button.
The complaints in the afternoon, after the ride back
Kaaupapa meeting had been called for 80 in Bereana hall
The still descended and gale times seemed shake tie
building but the epes turned and crowded the hail.
standing in the dOOwavs. The visitors the stage and
front of it, and they faced Of such humanity it is given
TO few people look The audience this time of
and women instead boys and girls There comev young
of old
wtebearded whose faces clear and who might
healthy but for scientific and there others
better left undescribed.
The gathering did like very serious inquiry into
needs of epers and many of the forunaes of
afternoons entertainment welcome variation of the routine of
their lives than anything else Many evidently
oyed the meeting and when Senator McCandess fired umor