The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-09-22
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
AID THE MONEY GIVERS

mere, just come Win me on. my ROUNDS
and see for yourselves. No one 10 In
danger of starvation. We see that
these people have roof. food and
clothing, but they are very poor and
they feel It.
And there are so many children. We
constantly have applications from
mothers to place their children In
homes. But the Kona Orphanage is full.
and the salvation Army Rescue Home.
not Intended to do this work, is now
caring for fifteen little ones, with no
more room to spare and too few to as
sist. 1t is not easy to place these
children In good private homes. While
the Hawaiian people freely adopt chill
dren of their own race. how many
Portuguese children do you know who
have been adopted into good homes?
Yet 1t is the Portuguese who ask most
frequently for admission to the Kona
Orphanage and the Salvation Army
Home. One of the great needs of Ho-
nolulu is home for these little ones
where they can be comfortable and re-
ceive the training that will At them for
useful life. They are far from re-
ceiving that now. An industry that
could employ, women, and children
above fourteen years of age, would be
a boon to this city. and make an in
dustral colony instead of a pauper
colony.
But we have nearly escaped one evil
| which Is a source of much trouble else
where-the tramp. Only "a single men
have applied at the office this year,
against 9S. lis, 113 and 7S for previous
years. Among these men Were many
of the tramp kind, but the charities
gave them so little encouragement and
the Police Department disciplined them
| so well, that they were glad to leave
the country and we We're spared an
army of tramps.
| II one works his passage to this port
and finds no employment to his liking,
he Is advised to work his passage back
again. If a soldier is too weary 10
reach his transport in time to sail with
his company. he is advised to apply to
| Camp Mckinley. II Jack decides to
leave his ship here, there are the Sea-
mans Institute and the Sailors Home
| to get him another. But If for any
| reason a laborer leaves a plantation
and comes here-and they do come
from all the plantations-why here
they are. and destitute. until they are
persuaded that to return to plantation
| life is their wisest course. These peo-
pie in a way belong to us, and must
make their living In this country. And
many Of them are sick, needing hos
pital treatment 1 do not refer to the
japanese and Chinese laborers, but to
the white people of all nationalities. the
Portuguese, the Porto Ricans. and now
the Koreans. Twenty-Five Koreans
have applied to the Queens Hospital
for treatment, though they are planta-
ton laborers, and the plantations are
supposed to care for their own sick
| There are fewer Porto Ricans In the
city and they are less troublesome than
| they We're. Many have left the coun-
| try. San Francisco reports six hundred
on Telegraph Hill. They are a poor
anaemic lot. The physicians find the
same difficulty in treating them there
that we had here. remember well the
visits that DR. Alvarez used to make
to the sick Porto Ricans, with me for
guide. when they would absolutely re-
fuse to take the medicine prescribed.
The first grippe of pain made them think
they We're poisoned; and one dose of
medicine was usually enough to fright
en- a whole neighborhood. Now San
Francisco has them. Needless to say,
she does not thank us for this emf
grafton
The donations this year have been
large, beginning with the Thanksgiving
offerings from the schools. At Christ
mas time it looked rather dark for
the poor. when the b. p. o. r. and
the American Relief Fund made fine
donations, and we had a most satisfac-
tory Christmas. Dinners. clothing, bed
ding and shoes, new and of good quail
~, were furnished.
The trustees of the German church
helped with a large sum after their
most successful fair and Japanese
prince. travelling to the States. gave one
thousand dollars to the charities of the
city. These, with the usual donations.
have enabled the Associated Charities
to assist the affiliating societies to care
for the poor.
Fifty people have made donations OF
clothing but the supply has not nearly
equaled the demand this year, and we
have been obliged to buy quantities of
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