The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-08
DR.. VILE
ON MOLOKA|
Interesting Address at
the Pacific
Club.
,rrom mummy AdvertIser.l

Il. Cooper I'm honor ~ DIR. w. c. Wlie
n, nanbury. Conn. one of Hawal
nost ardent friends. after which inc
,,,si,or gave an interesting talk on the
.mpressions he had formed during ms
recent visit with his host 10 the i1epe'
Settlement on MoioKai.
The invited guests, all OF whom weie
present except MIR. Irwin were Wv
,ernor George X. Carter, Judge oa"
ford b Doe. Hon. Alex. YOUNG nv"
w q smith, DIR. George Herbert, d.
7. T. Cofer. q. 5. Nj. Ii. s., Hon. a. .
.ciepborn. Hon. Samuel Parker, Mr.. L.
II pinkham Mr.. Mark Robinson, HON.
w. G. Irwin.
The luncheon was designed to bring
DIR. Vile into closer social contact WIN
leading men OF the ISLANDS. Inc uoe'oi
is an after-dinner speaker OF ap'h'!'
and in his talk yesterday he gave MS
auditors some word-paintings Oh SCENES
a, Nolokai that were most impressive
His description of the portion oil the
island on which the Settlement stanas'
and the possibilities for turning 1t into
an arboreal Garden of Eden by making
more use OF the fertile soil, was OF
particular interest.
Dr wila said he had been amazed
as we'll as instructed by what he hau
seen. first because of the malaoy VI
which no one really knows anything
until he has had personal observation
and second because of the rugged beau-
~ of Molokai DR.. Vile had examined
the condition of the people as thor
oughly as the limited time OF MS stay
permitted. He said he had found
colony on the island which was "sii
cared for, and he did not believe there
was such another place in the worio
where inmates were so well lookeu
after. He found them cherished waros
of the Territory, not outcasts.
But with all this DR.. Vile had FOUND
some things lacking. He had founo
a community living without employ
,nent. The settlement was located on
a beautiful peninsula covered with fer
tile soil, a place which he believed
could be eventually converted INTO
q yernal paradise. He thought that
If the people had something to occupy
themselves with, work for two or three
hours a day, with SareSin the seiec-
ton of n diet, something which would
take their minds off their malady, the
doctors would obtain better results IN
treatment. Some stimulant In the way
of prizes for keeping up their grounds
and some real good labor, which in a
little time would make the place
bloom like rose. would do good.
The doctor spoke in the highest
terms of Superintendent McVeigh, a
man of fine qualities, with way down
in his heart an affection for the people
under his charge which makes him one
in thousand. Mr.. McVeigh had the
strength of character to govern well
and DIR. Vile believed that, because OF
his kindly, though firm relations with
the people in the conduct of the affairs
of the Settlement, the most cordial re-
lations existed between Superintendent
and people. Everything there seemed
to point to humane and beneficent con-
troll.
The feature which had struck the
visitor particularly was the brave doc
tor-Goodhue-who has nearly thous-
and patients to attend to all the time.
What could a man do in scientific work
with such a burden resting on his
shoulders day and night?
There was the opportunity for the
Territory of Hawaii to make reputa-
ton which would resound from one end
of the world to the other, and this
was to find treatment or cure for
1eprosy. The opportunity was excep-
tional. If leprosy We're a disease that
swept off 10000 people at a stroke, all
nations would be up in arms to put 1t
In, anfira world there
not many lepers and the world gener
ally looks upon the disease with hor-
ror, but, not being epidemic in form
and results, the world did not pursue
it with scientific "reminiscences.
The work placed upon this one doc
tor was too much. DR.. Goodhue Is n
good man, interested in his labor and
the people, and IT is his desire to do
scientific work in their behalf 1t was
necessary that the government should
establish an experimental hospital, the
initial cost OF which would not be less
than 100000. Should such an institu-
ton be founded by the government, a
great scientific work would go out OF /
the little peninsula on the rugged Is
land that would echo and Te-echo ,
throughout the world, Under the di- /
rection OF the United States Marine
Hospital Service the Settlement was
the place whore the most original and
dillgent scientific research could b. 1
carried on, a work that would be for a
the benehlPf mankind the world over ,
There were few fhings which came
under his observation which made
deep impression on him, one Has
his glsit TO the home for girls where |
a Catholic Sister had some Of the
young women sing Tor the visitors h
The one Nho played the plano struck \
bin particularly 10 him she did not
appear o. be- afflicted, but hs noticed
thar some ~ ihf naies ald nai sound
IN music sin Whirh 49, was aequalntr }
"a hnd ihfn he sAW the rapse in ID laos
n diFils q almost brought itaIa AL a
bio elrs when hf thought That ihlsI
y oman and ihf others nh1uf her epuld
Under ihs f'ffurnHt hHFa thurl
souls Nlfd Nlih Wus.r
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