The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-12-22
AND
CRIMINALS

police are the poorest paid of any
place In any state In the Union. They
give their lives for U.S." said he. and
at such low wages OF forty and hfty
ana sixty dollars month, can We
wonder that there Ia n certain amount
OF corruption In our police department?
There is and has been n certain amount
OF corruption In police departments
both at present and In ancient times.
1 think IL was i'm the Advertiser. and
was very glad TO read u. an article ON
the corruption OF the police department
in ancient Rome. And you will find II
exists right down to the present time
and you can not stop 1t nor stamp IL
out. The only thing you can do is to
ameliorate the conditions as far as you
possibly can"
The records show that four policemen
have died in the discharge OF then
duty since 1895. MIR. Douthitt favored
a pension system, either by legislative
enactment providing a fund or by the
system In vogue In San Francisco,
whereby $i.00 per month is taken out
of the each polceman's wages as
sort of insurance or pension or indem-
nifty fund. II he dies in discharge of
duty, the policeman's widow gets $1,000.
or II he lives beyond a certain time, say
co. he is retired on half pay. The Coun-
ty Attorney made a strong appeal fo>
protection for the men who protect
lives and property-not so much protec-
ton for the men as for their wives and
children, to keep them from being
turned out on the cruel world because
their husbands and fathers died in the
discharge OF duty to the city. The APP
peal brought forth considerable APP
plause.
The cosmopolitan character OF Homo
lulu's population and the consequent
diversity among the nationalitles of the
police officers was touched on. The
utilities of the Gamewell police tele-
graph system which not only facilitat-
ed calling up the wagon or the ambu-
lance, but also compelled the officers to
report every half hour and by a sys-
tenn of automatic stamps on a sort OF
stock ticket. kept tab on the ocffiers.
were also dwelt upon.
Taking up the jails, the speaker said
that the federal government had on
the average of thirty to thirty-flve
prisoners in the Territorial jail, hav-
ing no jail of their own. Uncle Sam
pays the Territory for their board
and room" The "city prison" has ten
cells on each floor for women. The
expense of maintenance from the time
of arrest of prisoner until he is
bound over to the grand jury or con-
victed of a misdemeanor is borne by
the county. After that by the Terri
tory. The food at both the Jail and
prison was declared to be good whole
some food of the kind to which the
several races were accustomed Cases
of thin, emaciated convicts growing
strong and robust on the prison diet
were cited as evidence of what regular
hours and wholesome food In sufficient
quantity will do for a man. There is
said to be no limit on the amount that
a man may eat at either of these pub
lie hostelries 1t costs SIC. per day to
maintain these prisoners &c cents of
which goes for food alone and the
rest for shoes, clothes and road lunas,
etc.
They have medical attendance every
day, DIR. Moore being the physician In
charge. In the nine years that Mr..
Henry had had charge of the local
prison, there had been but four cases
of corporal punishment. There were
religious services in the prison every
Sunday in five different languages
Mr. Douthitt spoke very interesting
ly of the Bertillon system of identi-
fication which consists of measuring
certain distances on the body which
are found not to change but remain
fixed. He. also spoke of the excellent
parole system inaugurated by the last
legislature by which a man, after he
has served the minimum term for
which he could have been sentenced.
ic~ssOrs.CA-sO~s.C>~s.O-~S.t>..s
for two days and three nights we float
ed on an ice cake with the tempera-
ture at "a deg. above zero, when 1t
should have been SO many degrees
below. The ice was in constant mo-
ton, and cracking under the tents,
which necessitated a constant watch
while encamped. Realizing the fact
that the record could not be broken
under such conditions, and with the
pressing necessity for sending food
supplies to the parties at Cape Flora
and Camp Zeigler. together with my
poverty in dogs, / felt it was my duty
to return.
ION returning TO headquarters. 4
arranged that certain of the party
should spend the spring and summer
of 1905 in the field, sledging stores
south to Camp Ziegler. so that they
should be easily accessible IL we had
to spend a third winter In the Arctic.
Early in July / despatched a party of
six men, with dogs, sledges, and boats,
to Cape Dillon. for the purpose of keep
ing a lookout for the relief ship. and
also to procure walrus in view of its
possible non-arrival. instructed them
to advise me at Camp Ziegler when
the ship was sighted.
ION the afternoon of Sunday, July !
80, the Cape Dillon party returned over
the channel ice to Camp Ziegler. and |
brought the good news that the relief
ship had arrived off Cape Dillon. At
the time l had gone a short distance
from camp to a large water-hole in
the Ice with Seaman Myer, where we
were launching a canoe. A dense fog |