Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-06-13
KIND WORDS To
TtRRiTORY'S FRIENDS
President Pinkham Gives
Banquet to Wyman
and Hepburn.

J.. Il. Pinkham, president of the
Board of Health, gave an elaborate ban.
quet last evening at the Alexander
Young Hotel In honor of Surgeon Gen
eral Wyman and Congressman Hep.
burn. rhe function was attended ny
representative men of the city and
government who responded to MIR.
Pinkham's invitation to meet the gen.
tlemen who had been national leaders
in inaugurating the important work OF
leprosy investigation.
The banquet table In the form OF n
double T was very attractively decor
ated and above the banqueters the
! flags Of the Nation and the Territory
were appropriately grouped. Mr..
| Pinkham occupied the head of the ia.
J BILE with Surgeon General Wyman at
his right, w. o. Smith at his left,
Il. d. Tenney and Alexander Young.
Opposite Mr.. Pinkham was DR.. Charles
Il. Cooper with Congressman Hepburn
on his right, w. G. Irwin at his left
with A. S. Cleghorn and Roy Chamber.
lain. The other guests present were
George w. Smith, c. s. Holloway,
Samuel Parker, DR.. J. r. Judd, DIT.
| Il. IL. SOltl LOlIlu hhuit"S, JuStiNo
A. A. Wilder, II. Focke. VI. =. Robin
son, Il. r. Stackable, Eric Knudsen,
II. L. Cooper, Delegate Kalanianaole,
w. Pfotenhauer, Wallace X. Earring,
ton, c. NJ. Cooke, G. NJ. Rolph, DIR. W.
n. Mays, DIR. J. s. McGrew. ID +. Dill.
bingham.
The sentiment Of the evening was
one of qualification on the part OF
the guests of honor in finding Hawaii
such progressive and thoroughly
American community. The residents
of Hawaii returned expressions of gra.
titude for the work that had been
done by General Wyman and Congress.
man Hepburn. -
After wine and cigars had been
brought on Mr.. Plnkham started the
ball rolling by short Introductory
speech. He said:
THE object of our gathering is that
courtesy and good will we feel toward
the distinguished gentlemen present
visiting us for the first time, and &c
take note of marked event
80 far as We can search backward
into the dim records of the past, ever
six thousand years, we find the i'm
penetrable darkness of a peculiar dis
case hanging over numbers of the hu
man race, imposing on its victims mo-
only physical suffering but the agoniz
ing wrenching of all social ties aut
ties of blood and affection.
Literature. even down to Ben Hur
has seized the tragic in this disease
and in words painted both the physica
, and heart suffering until we feel thu
: strain of intense sympathy and dis
tress as we read. Jewish records ant
the Bible have disclosed for ages tn
/, hopeless tragedy Of leprosy.
!. mo painter has presumed to dare Il
record II with his brush.
!. Three thousand four hundred an,
'ninety-five years ago this disease wa
I described and law Of segregation pro
Y mulgated.
4 "Leprosy has had It's cycles in which
1 its affliction of the human race wa
greater than at present.
q 1--WE are still in darkness. No long
err does mankind look for miracles, blu
I the appeal is to the patient, persist
a ent. searching investigation of medica
:. science.
4 understand this is the first time Il
history that a government has take
n upon itself the effort, and appropriate
i large sum of money to investigat
n exclusively single disease. seekin
T. ts cause, prevention and possible cure
}. Naaman, the leper king, when bid
g den by Elisha, the Prophet, to wash i
4 Jordan seven times and be clean wa
!. angcred and refused because he ha
J. expected u spectacular cleansing, bu
[ later repented, washed seven times A