The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-18
HINDU STORY
IN CALL FAXED
Chief Engineer Boswell of Eva
Mill Denounces Use of
His Name.

Mr.. Boswell, chief engineer Of Eva
sugar mill, called at the Advertiser
Office after landing from the steamship
Korea yesterday to enter a strong
Reputation, so far as he is concerned,
Of the subjoined article from the san
Francisco Can of December s.
THE whole thing is a fake, so far
as my name is concerned" Mr.. Bos-
well said.
II don't know anything about getting
Hindu labor for Hawaii up there, any
more than you do. Neither was 1 ever
interviewed on the subject in san
Francisco or elsewhere,
at have simply been away for a
months vacation, going to San Fran
cisco by way of Vancouver and Seat
tie.
For another thing I have not mis-
represented myself in any way or 10
anybody, or my position as chief en-
gineer of the Eva mill. suppose they
picked up my name on hotel regis
ter
The Calls news story denounced by
Mr.. Boswell reads as follows:
Realizing at last that they have
proved failures as substitutes for other
varieties of labor in the Northwest, the
swarm of Hindus who tried to settle
in Vancouver, Oregon and California
are preparing to emigrate again to
some more congenial and sympathetic
land. Under the leadership of Fellah
Din. who is the nabob here, the 300
who form the San Francisco colony
will leave soon for Hawaii, and the
island of Oahu, where they hope to
land, probably will at once acquire a
race of problem of it's own. The plan
tation hands there are now almost ex-
clusively japanese, and these will night
To prevent the invaders driving them
from their work.
III. G. Boswell, manager of sugar
plantation which occupies the greater
portion of the plain of Eva, on the
western half of the island, is respon-
sible for the prospective hegira of the
turbaned wanderers, who have stirred
wrath and determined opposition
everywhere on the western continent
He arrived in Vancouver several weeks
ago, and after gathering all the unem-
ployed he could find there came to san
Francisco yesterday and at once COM
municated with Fellah Din, who lives
at 1923 Eddy street, the largest center
of the colony here.
''Bosewll may have to charter
steamer to take his Indian laborers to
their new home. Vancouver is crowded
with Hindus, who are being turned out
of the railroad camps in hundreds. Al
this work they proved utterly incap-
able. The frosty weather in the north
completely paralyzed their energies
.sWork in the construction camps be-
gan at 10 o'clock in the morning ana
often at noon. because the gaunt, quiet
men born and reared in the sultry IN
dian cline refused to rise before the
sun had warmed the atmosphere.
I'm consequence they have been dis
placed. and the hordes facing starva-
ton in British Columbia gladly ac-
cepted Boswel's offer to take them to
his plantation.
I'm san Francisco the Hindus aban-
doned hard labor to become peddlers.
They have been hawkers of rugs and
cheap jewelry in the suburban and
country districts. But in this also they
seem to have failed, and Fellah Din,
when he called upon Boswell at the
St. Francis yesterday afternoon, prom
ised the plantation manager that the
whole colony would go to Hawaii If
the members were wanted. 1t is warm
or there. more like the climate of In
dia. the Hindu chief said, and his
brethren can work better"