The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-16

mainland of the United States. owing
10 the thorough examination made on
every steamer that touches here be-
tore its arrival at the coast ports.
Cultures of doubtful cases are develop
ed from material taken after the
steamer has left Honolulu. BY the
time it reaches Puget Sound Portland.
or San Francisco, a Cablegram can be
sent announcing the result of the bac-
THEOLOGICAL test. Thus the inconveni-
ence TO shipping and passengers is re-
duced 10 a minimum. The people of
Hawaii, taken as a whole, are familiar
with the quarantine and are not I'M
appreciative OF its advantages In
deed, 1t would be difficult to find
community more ready TO lend intelli-
gent and substantial aid To the work
of preserving their sanitary integrity
In anticipation of the growing need
therefor, Honolulu will be equipped
with very large and complete quar-
antine station before another year has
passed.
During the past four years 1926 yes
sells, carrying 1854 persons, have been
inspected, p persons have been sent
to the quarantine station on account
of quarantinable disease, 1880 have
been held as suspects, and % 43S pieces
of baggage have been disinfected
notable event in the affairs of the
Territory was the visit of Surgeon Gen
eral Walter Wyman, chief of the Unit
ed States Public Health and Marine
Hospital Service, who came for the
purpose of selecting a site for the cree
ton of a hospital station and labora-
tory where the methods of the trans
mission of leprosy, its causes and treat
ment, could be scientifically studied.
In company with Hon. w. P. Hepburn,
Member of Congress from Iowa, DR..
l.. E. Golfer, of the Federal quarantine
service, and certain Territorial officials,
Surgeon General Wyman visited the
leper settlement at Molokai and select
ed a site covering about l mile square
of 1and-one-siXth of the whole reserv-
alton. The natural slope of high land
at the eastern extremity of the settle
ment adapted itself in every way to
hospital service.
Beyond this was a protected site suit
able for landing. Situated in a ravine
between the two was an unfailing
spring of pure water, sufficiently ele-
waited. it is believed, to furnish water
has been surveyed by the Territory
and was turned over by proclamation
to the Federal Government on June
% last
The Honolulu office acts as the de-
pository for all the other offices, in
Guiding Pago-Pago, Samoa, for the de-
post of money order and postal funds,
which in turn it transmits through it's
DESIGNATED dannSitory ha c,,btraa
ury at San Francisco and at Chicago.
The money-order division of the Ho-
nolulu postoffice also acts as the ex-
change office for international money
orders issued in Hawaii and payable
in China, Japan and Australian colo
MES, and makes regular reports there
of to the Postoffice Department
On June &c. 1905, there We're in the
Territory 50 money-order offices, of
which "a were international, where
money orders can be purchased paya-
BILE in any part of the world. The
money order business at the Honolu-
lu postoffice for the last fiscal year ag-
gregated $2679,878.s7.
The transportation of all mails in the
Territory is in charge of an assistant
superintendent of the Railway Mail
Service, located at Honolulu, who SUI
pervises the details connected with this
branch of the service. AS was the case
in preceding years, SO last year the
local steamboat routes covered all
navigable waters in and around the
different islands. Every landing in the
islands is touched by some mail steam
er, and all steamers plying between
Hawaiian ports carry mail.
The star route and mail messenger
service on the islands is SO arranged
as to connect with mail steamers at
any time, whether on a regular sched-
ule or at irregular intervals. At the
first port at which steamer lands on
any island telephone communication
is had with all postoffices on that is
land, advising as to mails carried on
that steamer and at what point they
l9ilI be landed. With this information
the carriers meet the steamer and
take the mails to destination without
delay
Parcels post affords the only chan
mel for the legitimate exchange of
packages of miscellaneous merchan-
disc by mail between different coun-
tries; that the service is appreciated
is evident from the increasing volume
of business in this particular branch of
the service. During the hScat year end
ed June 80, 1905. there were dispatched
from this office $50 parcels, with
total weight of GA pounds. During the
same period there were received 1407
parcels, with total weight of 1905
pounds. Customs duties amounting to
81 664. so We're collected on sos dutiable
importations through the mails from
July 1, 1904, to June 80, 1905, and in
addition TO this number 90 dutiable
parcels were either forwarded or re-
turned to senders.
The advisabiIity of increasing the
number of supreme court justices in
Hawaii from to is one requiring
serious consideration by Congress.
Many important cases, some involving
large amounts, come before the su-
preme court and decision by bench
of ) would be more satisfactory than
one rendered by a bench of 8, espe-
ciaIly in the event of dissenting
opinion by l member Of the court. An
increase in the number Of justices
would also in some degree meet the
argument for allowing appeals to the
Federal Supreme Court in cases in |