The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-11

eminent Will carry the cases to the
Supreme Court of the United States
as very large sums are now involved
that would materially affect the rev.
| enues of the Government.
A SYRIAN LEPER
During the last three weeks the en-
tire mainland has been much interested
in the case of George Rossett, a Syrian
leper, who is very wealthy and who
has travelled from the Far Southwest
seeking a sanitarium and hoping to
reach Palestine. OF late he has been
shifting about in a box car that has
been pulled back and forth on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It look
ed at one time as though he would
come to Washington On every hand
he was Stunned by the populace in
the belief that there was danger of
contamination. He is now in the care
of the Baltimore, Maryland, County
health authorities.
The case is a most pitiable one and
the treatment of Rossett has been
shocking from the humane standpoint.
.ie Importance of the case is largely
in the education the popular mind is
gaining from it regarding leproSy.
Numerous articles are now running in
the many metropolitan newspapers
describing the disease, it's treatment
in Hawaii and elsewhere. Many ply
sicians, including Dr.. Wyman of the
Marine Hospital Service, who is well
known in Hawaii have given inter-
views, stating that the danger Of in
lection is greatly magnified. The fol-
lowing dispatch that appeared in the
Washington Post yesterday shows the
attitude of the public:
BALTIMORE, Md, July 26.-George
Rossett, the Syrian leper, is now in
care of the Baltimore County health
authorities, and Drs. William d. Corse
and John w. Harrison have under
taken to look after him. The leper
remains in the box car, coming out
when he pleases, but two officers, who
are detailed to prevent his escape, take
turns by day and night in guarding
him. There is little danger, however,
of his trying to get away. He is very
weak.
This afternoon Rev. Father A.
Camp a Catholic priest, visited him.
he said he had no fear of contagion;
joining the leper, he prayed with and
for him. Those who came to see Ros-
sett remained at a respectful distance
while the priest communed With the
Ieper The latter insists he can be
healed if permitted to so to his home
in Syria, but the outlook is not en-
THE state board is still negotiating |
10 send him to some colony where he |
can be cared for"
NEW SEEDS FOR THE COAST.
A very interesting collection of seeds |
md plants will soon be passing Ho-
1olulu, some of which may be of use
eventually in the agricultural deveE
,pment of the islands. These seeds and
plants come from Manchuria and are
going to the big gardens at Chico,
California, where the Government has
,een conducting extensive experiments
'or several years. Some 300 lots of
eeds and plants have already been
in that far-off country by
Mr.. Frank N Meyer, special agent
t the Department of Agriculture. OF
hese about fifty will be sent to Chico
o be tried out"
Apparently most of them should
flourish on the Pacific Coast and in
inmates like that on the Coast, but IL
5 always necessary to make the actual
Plants are sometimes as
ussy as persons about changing their
abitat and so a long series of eX-