Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-11-17
Dr.. GOODHUE'S
TRIBUTE TO
DR.. WAUGh0p

know that II is not customary in
Hawaii 10 pay any attention to the re-
moval by death or otherwise OF resi-
dent.
We are too much wrapped up in the
furtherance Of our own enterprises, and
the use we get out of a mans life. TO
care much about him after he Is dead.
, Besides, It Is peculiarly our trait to
think that no man would come among
us for his health. for rest. for any
, thing but the money he needs or the
, fact that be couldn't make as good a
living elsewhere; and so We fasten up
on him the stigma of local contempt
| | think in no country is this truer of a
man: Not without honor save in his
own country and among his own peo-
pie"
Did he do great things before he
came? Where is the money to show
for it? Why did he come here to dwell
among plantations?
In some sort of judgment which
amusingly reflects upon our own his
tory and abilities, we accept the popu.
lar verdict that We are on and of plan
tations because we cant very well help
ourselves. Then, it is the quality OF
real worth to be modest, and in many
instances We accept a mans own evil
dent estimate of himself, that is, II he
doesn't sound his own horn, We believe
him to be mediocre. But, you say, his
work will soon speak for itself. Among
his more intimate friends and in his
own profession II may, but here 1t Is
not usual for medical work done
among all except a very few, to chance
mans reputation. His work is real.
| ly judged only by his peers. The ma
jority of those treated in this country
remember chiefly the misunderstand'
ings, the bills, and other operations OF
an unpleasant nature. We have only
to remember the work OF medical men
here-officiaIs of the Board of Health,
II you wish-to see how little their real
service for the public is even recog'
niZed. In ordinary practice, II man
gets better he was going to get better
anyway; and. II he dies, he probably
would have got better IL he had called
in an ADLER doctor.
When we pass over the merely intel
lectual and come to tempermental and
moral qualities, who thinks OF them
here? Though, indeed, their negatives
are loudly upraided. The very very
few are truly caring.
So a man Of DR.. Waughops qualities
while no doubt appreciated by many
in his own district, was not known
! here as he should have been. He was
: an able man. Born in Illinois in 1889,
| he went into service when the War
opened, and fought for his country.
Outside OF Hawaii this is considered
something After the war he entered
the University Of Michigan, then few
years later graduated from the Long
Island Hospital College. A medical
magazine published in Washington
says:
After six years of practice in White
Cloud, Kansas, he moved to Olympia
in 1871, where he practlced for nine
years.
in 1880 he was appointed superin'
tendent of what is now the Western
Washington Hospital for the Insane, al
Seilacoom. At this time the asylum
consisted OF a few wooden buildings
which had been deserted by officers OF
the United States Army stationed there
years ago. These buildings were re
arranged, whitewashed and warmed
for the reception and care Of patients
who at that time were about twenty
five or thirty in number, For six years
he continued in this manner. In 1885,
an appropriation was made by the Leg
islature for the erection Of bricI
} building, it being completed and dedl
Gated in 1887. This has been added Il