The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-02
HAWAII At
WASHINGTON
Leprosarium Held Up
By Yellow Fever
Work
(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)

(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. I'll
The legal papers from District Attor-
ney Breckons, respecting the leper san
itarium in Hawaii, have reached this
city. Special Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Charles w. Russell, who has the
matter in charge, said this afternoon
that he had received the papers from
Mr. Breckons in this mornings mail.
''They are here added Mr.. Russell,
"but | can not yet tell you whether or
not the department viii consider he
title completed. / can make no sta .
ment about that till | have time to go
over those papers and see what the
proof of the title to the land is.''
Surgeon General Wyman, of the Pub
lie Health and Marine Hospital Ser
vice, said this afternoon he had re-
eeived no additional papers yet about
the title to the sanitarium site. 81
have been unable to give the plans for
the sanitarium,'' said DR.. Wyman,
any consideration recently. Ny time
has been occupied with the yellow fe.
yer epidemic. I want to further the
study of leprosy in the islands as much
as possible and as soon as I can find
the opportunity shall take the matter
up again.
At the Interior Department there
has been an effort to locate Gov. Car
ter, because of several letters that have
come here addressed to him. This eff
fort was unsuccessful, but the letters
will probably be forwarded to his Of
fee in Honolulu, because of his known
intention, as stated when here, to sail
from San Francisco August %.
Neither the office of the Supervising
Architect of the Treasury, nor DR.. Wy
man has any further information re-
garding the bids for the quarantine
wharf.
IGOROT SUGAR.
A very thorough publication on the
Bontoc Igorot, mountaineer people
of northern Luzon, by Albert Ernest
jerks, profusely illustrated with over
$50 half tone plates, which has just
been distributed here as part of the
work of the chronological survey, gives
an interesting description of the man
ufacture of sugar in that country. Mr..
jerks has this to say on the subject:
In October and Novellber the Bon
toe Igorot make sugar from cane. The
stalks are gathered, cut in lengths of
about 20 inches, tied in bundles a foot
III diameter, and stored away until the
tire for expressing the juice.
:The sugar-cane crusher consists of
two, sometimes of three, vertical, solid,
hardwood cylinders set securely to re-
volve in two horizontal timbers,
which, in turn, are held in place by two
uprights One of the cylinders projects
above the upper horizontal timber and
has fitted over it, as a key, a long
double-end sweep. This main cylinder
conveys its power to the others by
means of wooden cogs which are set
firmly in the wood and play into SOCK
cts dug from the other cylinder. Boys |
commonly furnish the power used to |
crush the cane, and there is much song |
and sport during the hours of labor.
1.-TWO people, usually boys, sitting |
on both sides of the crusher, feed the |
cane back and forth. Three or four |
stalks are put through at a time, and |
they are run through thirty or forty
times, or until they break into pieces
Of pulp not over three or four inches
IN length.
"'The juice runs down slide into a
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