The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-21

! 1ty, 10 give meat to the hungry, water
to the thirsty, to clothe the naked, tt
visit the sick and imprisoned, ths
widowed and fatherless.
| MANAGERS REPORT.
The report of Mrs. E. F. Berger
manager of the Associated Charities
was read by her as follows:
I am glad to report a decrease in
the number of applications for assist
ance in the past year, both in new cases
J and in recurrents, the totals reading
PAL this year and 300 last year This
falling off is largely due to the fact
that the laborers are not So exacting
| as to the kind of employment they
have, and are willing to work for
a smaller wage than they formerly re-
ceived. Some are still unemployed, and
until there is more work in the local
/ field for common laborers, times will
continue to be hard for this class Many
have left the country. One man, more
plucky than another, will go to Cali
/ fornia, secure work for himself, and
4 send for family and friends. Ere
| quently. however. the weaker ones are
/ left behind, and here they must be
cared for.
| In the family cases the requests We're
nearly all from women-widows with
children. wives whose husbands are dis
abled or deserted wives. There have
been % of these applications this year,
representing more than a hundred peo-
pie. Many of these families need to
have all their wants supplied-rent,
! food and clothing-when the children
are young and need the mothers con-
slant care. The mother is the
proper person to care for the FAM
lily. So unless her earning ca
pacity be above the ordinary, why send
her out to work and get some incom-
petent person to care for her family?
But where the mothers can be spared
a part of the day and are competent
and able to work, we find them places,
making them semi-independent and in
ereasing their self respect.
If you think we have no poverty
here, just come with me on my rounds
and see for yourselves. No one is in
danger of starvation. We see that
these people have a roof, food and
clothing, but they are very poor and
they feel it.
And there are so many children. We
constantly have applications from
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. Tt 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 it 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 a home for these little ones
where they can be comfortable and re-
ceive the training that will fit them for
a useful life. They are far from re-
ceiving that now. An industry that
could employ women, and children
above fourt - years of age, would be
a hc~-l to this city, and make an in
dustrial colony instead of a pauper
colony.
But we have nearly escaped one evil
which is a source of much trouble else
vhere-the tramp. Only "a single men
nave applied at the Office this year,
against 9S lis, 113 and 70 for previous
years. Among these men We're many ,
u the tramp Dut Tie CHdTILleS
rave them so little encouragement, and
he Police Department disciplined them {
% well. that they were glad to leave
he country and we were spared an z
rmy of tramps.
If one works his passage to this port &
nd finds no employment to his liking, L
e is advised to work his passage back a
gain. If a soldier is too weary to d
each his transport in time to sail with i
is company. he is advised to apply to
amp Mckinley. If Jack decides to q
ave his ship here. there are the Sea- t
lan's Institute and the Sailors Home a
D get him another. But if for any t
eason laborer leaves a plantation II
nd comes here--and they do come t
rom all the plantations-why here r
1ey are. and destitute, until they are q
ersuaded that to return to plantation +
fe is their wisest course. These peo- n
lie in a way belong to u.s. and must q
lake their living in this country. And u
ANY of them are sick, needing hos
ital treatment. I do not refer to the II
apanese and Chinese laborers, but to "
lie white people of all nationalities the =
the Porto Ricans, and now .
he Koreans. Twenty-Five Koreans =
ave applied to the Queens Hospital =
IT treatment, though they are planta- -
on laborers and the plantations are -
opposed to care for their own sick. =,
There are fewer Porto Ricans in the -
ty and they are less troublesome than a,
ley were Many have left the coun- =;
" San Francisco reports six hundred o,
Telegraph Hill. They are a poor =,
1aemfc lot. The physicians find the u,
me difficulty in treating them there m
at we had here. I remember well the a.
sits that DR.. Alvarez used to make n,
the sick Porto Ricans, with me for a,
Tide when they would absolutely re- til
Sc to take the medicine prescribed.
he first gripe of pain made them think m
ey We're poisoned: and one dose of 70
edieine was usually enough to fright tn
a whole neighborhood. Now San so
.aneiseo has them. Needless to say, he
q does not thank us for this emil ar
a ton. tn
The donations this year have been tn
rye beginning with the Thanksgiving vi