The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-11

waiting Tor absolute inspection. They
are able thus to know that nothino
- contraband' or forbidden-baggag
passengers or freight-is on board. for
everything that has gone aboard has
been stamped 80. X -
Some OF the regulations which the
local Office, of which Dr.. l.. E. Golfer.
Passed Assistant Surgeon, L. S. 2. H.
q NJ. H. 5, and Chief Quarantine Off
Ger, is the head, have been SO well
thought of by the Washington govern
ment, they have been made general de-
partment regulations by the Secretary
of the Treasury, with the approval of
/ the President. The doctor has been in
charge most of the period since the ser
vice was established here after annexa-
ton, and 1t is said by people who have
the ear of the department that he is
considered one of the most able con-
sentative and efficient, and at the same
time one Of the most accommodating,
officials in that important branch of the
government
While the wharf plan was a large i'm
provement on locking passengers in
their rooms on board after leaving the
dock, the public health office here has
devised another improvement. Hither-
to, friends of passengers have been com
PEELED to stand in the broiling sun or
pouring rain, sometimes without the
slightest shelter, outside the docks, with
no place to sit down even, simply to
save the steamship companies expense.
Now, thanks to the fertile brain of the
local Federal public health force, part
of the wharf Cat the Oceanic dock at
least) has been fenced off Just as is
done day in and day out in the big rail-
way stations in the States, as well as
at all the big steamship docks in cities
of any prominence and with conse-
quent rush of business. The bars in
this case permit visitors to see who is
coming off the ship without in any way
interfering with the passengers who are
anxious to pass the customs inspectors
IF there are any and attend to their
baggage, and be free to see their
friends without having a great gang of
people in the mass of whom they have
no interest and who have no interest in
them elbOwing against them and max
ing it slow work to attend to the imme-
date necessities of the travellers. Tho
people on Friday appreciated the plan.
The sun outside was hot, but inside it
was comparatively cool. The fence,
mind you, is erected by the Territorial
government, the steamship company not
being able to afford the expense or per-
haps not caring enough for Honolulu
peoples comfort to have thought of the
plan and suggested it. 1t is said, how
ever, that now that it is in force they
will put in benches so that the people
can be comfortable as well as protected
from sun, dirt and rain. It is also said
that the steamship company will have
that part of the wharf swept SO that
| ladies entering the visitors section will
not have to send all their skirts to the
laundry the next day. Conditions
heretofore have been unnecessarily and
sometimes indescribably filthy on the
passenger wharves, no protection being
afforded friends of passengers from
dirty drays or grimv 1ll-smelling steve
dores ana filthy Asiatic steerage passen-
gers. There are many who hope that
the Pacific Mail people will follow the
! suit of the Oceanic and erect on their
wharf some accommodations of SINH
lar nature, so that it will be no longer
considered crime almost by the Off
! cious guards of the steamship company
/ for resident of Honolulu to go to the
/ steamer to see his friends come in or
90 away. The band will hereafter play
in the visitors enclosure on the Oceanic
wharf on the departure of steamers for
the Coast and also on the Pacific Mail
wharf if that company fix up decent
! place for it to play under.