The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-06-16
A WATERFRONT GRIEVANCE.
rThc onicial and Commercial Record.I

| That public officer Is a public ser
want" is a fallacy which has found n
Judgment in the brain of DR.. Holt, o
the Honolulu quarantine service.
Yesterday morning the Irmgard anC
the Annie Johnson. loaded with sugar
were both ready to sail for San Fran
cisco.
At Q sharp the captains and crews
/ the passengers and friends to see then
off, the wharf officials and the tut
Fearless, with steam UP, were al
ready, that being the appoined hour
DIR Holt. the quarantine officer, hat
been notified on Saturday of the in.
tended departure, Quarantine rules re.
curing a medical examination of pas.
sengers and crew just before depar-
ture. and the giving of clean bill OF
health to the ship. The doctor alone
was lacking to complete the play, for
a quarantine examination without the
doctor is a good deal worse than Ham,
let with Hamlet left out. In fact the
doctor is the whole thing, the rest of
the people simply constituting the
stage furniture. DR.. Hamlet Holt APP
preciates the dignity of his position,
which is good thing, but he is rather
rubbing it in" when his leisurey
movements keep a hundred people or
more waiting for two hours as they did
yesterday morning. Inquiry of the as
sembled water frontiers as to the
wherefore of the delay and as to
whether it was usual, elected a variety
of facts and theories. "Usual!' said
one captain, "why, when the Rithet
come in she laid here from a Thursday
to a Monday, a telephonin and a send
in messages every day before the doc
tor would come! What's the matter
with him? Why he thinks he's the
hull United States, that's what's the
matter with him. Cofer, he's all right,
but he don't tend to this end of the
business, and I don't 'spose he knows
what this other chaps a dom"
Another volunteered the suggestion.
why you wouldn't expect a high Of
ficer like him to git out and have
breakfast at this beastly early hour,
would we, jest to git two ships start
ed?" 1t was then ten o'clock. The
unanimous testimony of those present
was that delays of an hour to several
l. urs awaiting the pleasure of the
quarantine doctor were the regular
thing, causing intense irritation among
all the shipping people.
Along toward eleven o'clock Ham
let Holt appeared upon the scene of
action, after captain Smith of the Irm-
gard had made special trip of dis
covery to find and rescue him. AL
he, 10Th l,o T,,,,, l.,
Doctors line of approach, and was to
sail first, and the doctor had been so
notified, he sailed majestcally past her
with chin high in air and unseeing
eyes and completed the inspection of
the Annie Johnson and the filling out
Of her papers before he went near the
Irmgard, in spite of the fact that the
captain of the latter came to him be-
fore he began examining the Johnson
and told him that he was ready for sea
and awaiting inspection.
I'll examine you when get through
1ere," was the curt reply that he re-
'eived. He's disciplining me for hav-
ng gone after him and telling him we
we're all waiting for him, I suppose"
said the captain of the Irmgard, as he
',,pa pa'eu w anu uoWh .he
" " ma M;iiie 'ie ieisure's eAainiiia'ioii
. Ine 'i.son p,oceeueo.
'aptain, with this good breeze blow
ng, and everything ready to start. to |,
De held up by this whipper snapper of |
doctor! Why the loss of few hours !
'"o s'''' way MANI .'e u'iieieiice
u "Ne,"i uaSs Il. ''e ieiislh Oh 'ie
up anu III THESE oaSs Vi CHEAP lreishe
iiu nisn wages every iiour COUNTS ana
lay MAKE 'he ui'ieref'ce between pro-
II anu loss Oh the voyage
II there was any reason lor IT,
'''u aio,nei' II any 'i'ins were peihs
o"e' wen nave iothihs TO say, Out
men t"e ueiaS Is caused py doctor
i'pls tahiis ms own time ABOUT IT.
utrage, and that something ought to