The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-07

are paid from $50 to 500. All the high
priced men on the sugar plantations
have their houses and firewood furnish
ed. There is good demand for mechan-
les In Honolulu. but even there the
Japanese and Chinese compete. At to
clerks and bookkeepers they are east
~ gotten. and the wages are not much
| higher than In the United States"
l. Men With Money.
| How about men with money? Are
there many opportunities for good in
vestments?'
Yes, but the conditions are not far
different from those of other parts
of the United States. 1t takes large
| capital to operate n sugar plantation
and the best of the sugar lands are
| taken up and in cultivation. There
are some opportunities in coffee grow
Ing and in raising pineapples and other
fruits for shipment to the United
States The available lands are com
paratively few. The islands all told
have an area about one-fourth as large
as the State of Wost Virginia and a very
large proportion is mountainous and
uncultivable. Such OF the soil as can
be used is, in many places, exceeding
ly rich: but, as I have said. tho best
lands are already owned and have been
so for many years."
Are there not some government
lands?"
yes, there are altogether about o.
100000 acres, but much of it is sterile
or inaccessible or covered with lava.
There are perhaps 100000 acres that
have some value, and half of that
amount is good land. The government
is anxious that it's lands should be
taken up by snail planters. but at 100
acres to the man. they could accom-
modate comparative few people,"
UrcIc SANS Lepers.
what are you doing with your leper
colony, governor"
I'VE have our lepers on the island
of Molokai, situated north of Lanai Is
land. on the other side of the Pailolo
channel. Molokai is n narrow strip of
land about seven miles wide and thir-
ty-nine miles long. 1t is of volcanic
origin, the eastern part of it rising
more than half mile above the sea
The leper settlement is on a low pen
inSula, on the south side of the island
1t has some fertile lands connected
with it, including a few thousand acres
upon which sugar might be grown.
The lepers are supported and cared for
by the people of the islands. We
think that they should be in charge Of
the United States government and di-
rectly under the marine hospital SER
vice. Our leper colony should be made
an experimental station for the study
of leprosy and its cure. There is a
government leper colony on an island
of the coast of Porto Rico and other
lepers are supported by the govern
ment in the Philippine Islands. The
disease is terrible one and Congress
could not do better than make an APP
preparation for fcper hospital on
Molokai. and for a laboratory here at
WASHINGTON where the disease might
be studied. 1t is, you know "a bacte-r
rial disease and cure might possibly
be discovered. 1t would not need a
large appropriation. I should think
$4,000 n year might be sufficient to
carry on the Investigations; they might
result In vast good not only to Ha-
wall but to the whole world. You
have lepers in almost every city of the
United States and there Is a leper col
ony not far from New Orleans. We
do not absolutely know that leprosy is
hereditary. Indeed. the doctors now
say that consumption is not hereditary,
and very likely leprosy Is the same" a
Are there many children born on
the island of Molokai?'
NO" said Governor Carter. THE
number of grown-ups is decreasing
Altogether there are $50 there now"
Consumption and Native Hawniians.
do you have consumption in the Ha-
waiian Islands?"
ITO some extent. but chiefly among
the native Hawaiians. who are deereas-
ing very rapidly. In 1886 there were
more than 100000 natives on the Is
lands; sixty years later there were less
than 10000, and today we have only
about 10000, The Hawaiian Islands
generally are very healthful. Our tenn
perature is about as equable as that
of any part of the world. We call our
country the Paradise of the Pacific"
and every one who visits us says the
islands are rightly named" III
''Is your tourist travel increasfng2.'
Very rapidly. The Pacific ocean IT,
becoming one of the pleasure resorts
of the nations, and with the big steam
ers which have been recently added to
the Pacific fleets the travel will be
greater than ever. There are good ho-
tells in all parts of the Far East, and
Honolulu has one of the finest hotels
of the Pacific. 1t cost $1S00,00o. 1t
a modern six-story fire-proof structure.
with great roof garden of one-thIrd
of an acre. capable of seating $500 peo-
pie. We have other good hotels in
Honolulu and at Waikiki, our seaside
resort close by. and also in other parts
of the island. There are now good ia
cilities of travel from island to is
land. and there is no place where one
can see so much grand scenery under
such pleasant conditions"
rs Honolulu growing?"