The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-08
KUMERIC
LEAVING
NEARLY TWELVE HUNDRED
START THIS AFTERNOON TO TRY
TO ENTER UNITED STATES.

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Over one thousand Japanese leave
Honolulu this afternoon for the main
land United States, via Canada
Their tickets read to Vancouver, Ca
NADIA, but it is the intention of the ma
jority of them, if not all, to finally
find themselves under the Stars and
Stripes.
Aboard the British steamship Ku-
meric, Captain Baird, are nearly twelve
hundred Japs, each with at least s25
to qualify him to land at Vancouver as
man of means. They had long wait
to get aboard but, after days of hanging
around the Japanese hotels and the Of
flee of the agent of the charterers, they
are aboard ship, each with change of
clothes, a few dollars, Japanese-Eng-
lish pocket-dictionary and three-by-
five map of the United States
Some of these people are very recent
arrivals and many of them have not
been here long enough to get on to the
ropes in regard to immigration mai
ters. A large number came here with
the direct intention of going hence to
the United States and it took consider
able hammering to get it into their
heads that they were not permitted to
go to the United States proper. But
the hotelkeepers and their runners and
some others interested explained TO
them that there would be little diff
Guilty in getting into the United States
once they were on Canadian soil One
almost intelligent Jap inquired if there
was a wall between Canada and the
United States. He seemed greatly re-
lieved to learn that not only was there
no Great Wall of China in America but
that pickets were so far apart on the
border that they couldn't see each
other.
"The Japanese are all good walkers, -
remarked a Federal official, discussing
the matter with representative OF
The Star, "and they will have no diff
: Guilty in getting over the line as condi-
tions are just at present; why men will
be going into the business of conduct
ing parties over the border. I would
not hesitate to say that nearly every
Japanese who leaves here for Canada
does so with the intention of going to
the United States"
The speaker was in a position,
, through contact, to know something
whereof he spoke.
.. Saturday afternoon the streets in the
,,fct,I.awI,oa % hn OH
l of Charles Chillingworth, engineering
, the exodus to Canada, were crowded
with Japanese waiting to book by the
Kumeric which was lying outside the
harbor waiting for them, with steam
up.
They lined Merchant, Bethel and
Kaahumanu streets and packed the lot
in front of the police station. They
slept outdoors all Saturday night sc
as not to lose their positions in the
ticket line. There were some womer
and children among them, though 81
. per cent were men. AS a rule each
man was armed with small bag and {
bundle; some had two bags and a few
had tea-pots. One mans belongings
consisted of the clothes he wore, ar
extra shirt, a gold watch and $780, He
said that when he landed here two
months ago he had $500. He haC
blown the difference for the watch anC
his poll tax and the fare for himself
and friend to the Canadian coast.
Chillingworth and his assistants
4 worked night and day and by this
|. morning l,15S Japanese were aboarC
-, the Kumeric and Charlie was taking
the names of about so more.
Since the "A Portuguese stowawayl
: will not have to be taken away there II
that much more cubic space for Japs.
q After calling at the Office of Chill
f lingworth to register for the trip ant
deposit each $25 to land with at Van
e couver the Japs went down Kaahu
d manu- street and got their tickets from
[ the steamship agents.
s At the agency of the steamship, Thee
II. Davis & CO., il was stated that book
:, ings would also be taken for the Frencl
steamship Amiral Duperre. The Du
perre came here from Japan with abou
= !, 24O Japanese immigrants. She has &C
! commodations for about 300 but whe
ther or not she takes away that man,
for Vancouver, via San Francisco, de
+ pends on their having the $25 each L
e show upon arrival at Vancouver, tina
they will not be refused on the groun,
; that they are paupers.
t Charlie ChillingwOrth expects to sc
e away for San Francisco in the p. M.
|, S. Siberia at o'clock this Afternoon
By that time he~hopes the s. s. Ku
meric will have started on her voyage
The Siberia will reach San Francisc
several days before the Kumeric get
g to Vancouver and Charlie will hay
e time to make preliminary inquiries 10
couple of American bottoms, to tran