The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-04
PORTUGUESE
DISTRIBUTED
Suveric immigrants Go
to the Cane
Fields.


| work i'll distributing the Portuguese,
immigrants arriving Saturday from tn,
Azores on the British s. s. Suverit
among various plantations.
We are great deal better satisfied
with the result Of the distribution thar
] thought we would be at first" said
Royal D. Mead, secretary of the Ha-
waiian Sugar Planters Association
yesterday. We admitted the Honolulu
Portuguese to the planters shed to see
the new arrivals and a great many de-
parted for Punchbowl and stayed over
night 1t is very much to the credit
Of the Honolulu Portuguese that these
people turned up so we'll today and took
employment. This morning we actually
had great many more people than
we could handle, but we distributed
most of them very nicely
In the first place, we had our steam
ers ready on Sunday. They were char
tered to go to the other islands with
immigrants, but We did not get them
off until today.
We had a special train today, which
Went over the O. r. & L. line as far as
Kahuku, leaving Honolulu at o. m.
They We're distributed at the various
plantations on Oahu as follows:
''Ewa-39 men
''Waipahu-40 men.
''Waialua-39 men.
'tKahuku-35 men,
'"'Tba ma iOriT of these men have ia mi
lies, but We have not tailed them up
dition, we had separate cars for the
baggage. One difficulty we had was to
keep all the people from wishing to go
to plantations on this island.
After finishing up with the Oahu
Island distribution we began getting
them off to the other islands. The
people selected their own plantations,
there being no effort on our part to
persuade them to go to any particular
place. They talked it over with their
friends here and then made their de-
cision. The distribution for the other
islands resulted as follows;
Maui
Hawaiian Commercial-1S families
consisting of 10 men, 19 women, 81 chill
dren, and % single men.
"Wai.uku-5 families. consisting of 5
men, 5 women, children. and single
men.
"Paia-7 families, consisting of men,
women, 6 children and single men.
Hawaii:
''Waiakea-5 families, consisting of )
men, women, 10 children, and IA sim
gle men.
''Hakalau-6 families, consisting of s
men, women, 19 children, and single |
nen.
"Olaa-11 families. consisting of II |
nen. u women, 20 children, and 10 !
single men.
"Paauhau-21 families, consisting of |
A men, 26 women, q children, and 4 |
Jingle men.
'kauai:s
sLihuf-7 families. consisting of :
nen, women IA children, and single
nen.
''Makee-10 families. consisting of 10
nen, women, IS children. and single
nen.
In addition, there were few men
or McBryde. There We're also a few
yho showed up just too late to be
ent away today but they will be TAX
n care of
ION Sunday the immigrants had
helter in the Planters Association
he'd and talked with their country
len residing here. No restrictions
ere placed upon them there, and
ven at the Bishop wharf, where they
oarded the island steamers, they
ere free to do as they wished.
'All day Sunday about 25 men We're
uartered on the steamer Helene,
-hich. after all, did not~go until yes
erday. They were contented on
oard and did not come ashore. They
ere well treated aboard and preferred
stay there to coming ashore, which
peaks we'll for the Inter-Island SER
ce }
We found on Saturday night they
ere short of blankets at the irmi-
rant station. We sent a big supply
own then and yesterday we sent
ong another batch. They took the
ankets away with them. p
The Suveric people refused to
lndle the baggage on Sunday. WEI
oked after it with out own men and
ey worked until 2 a. m, and it was
altered all over the wharf. If it
ID not been for Captain Rely. Hack {
Id & Company's dock superintendent,
don't know what we would have
NE about it. He collected it and
-ndled it in an experienced manner o
he did the people themselves. HeI
as very valuable man to US. The ;
terpreters we had did fine work. Civ
2 themselves over to the work in
nd cheerfully and intelligently. These
ere Messrs. =. D. Castro, NJ. A. Sill t
, Marques, Fernandez, Pacheco. N
Olivera. A McDuffy, our head
ard. was another valuable man and
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