The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-04-19
THE PORTUGUESE
OF THESE ISLANDS

(Mail Special to the Adyoriiscr)
WASHINGTON, y. c., April 5.-Im
migration Commissioner Sargent has r..
ceivod from Raymond C. Brown, the
inspector IN charge Of immigration at
Honolulu, an extended statement on
the condition of the Portuguese immi.
grants in the islands. II was sent here
under date of March IA and was in
response TO request from the Com.
missioner of February 6 to report on
any dissatisfaction among those new
eomcrs to the Territory In concud.
ing his report Mr. Brown makes this
comment:
"Any dissatisfaction that may have
arisen has cmanated from n few single
men, who, possibly were avcrso to
work in their own country and had
no intention Of working in Hawaii. "
Mr.. Brown adds that he intends hay
ing soon list of the Portuguese from
the various plantations employing them,
which will show more specifically Just |
what these immigrants are doing. He |
says that practically all of the Suveric
immigrants are engaged in farming.
He found one of them employed as
carpenter at the Eva plantation and |
another as a stone mason at Kahuku.
Mr.. Brown states that he conferred |
with the Portuguese Consul General, |
with the Territorial Board of Immi- |
grafton, the Sugar Planters Associa-
tion, and with the nurse who accom-
panied the Suveric passengers to Ho
nolulu. He found these immigrants
were well-satisfied Their children were |
going to school and their family life |
was proceeding along the lines of con
tentment and happiness. While on a
visit to the island of Hawaii in Janu-
ary to attend to some Chinese mat
tiers Mr.. Brown describes wildly how
he took drive from Mahukona to
Hilo and through the Portuguese set |
Element. He describes what he saw
of the twenty families at the Paauhau |
plantation. All the men were in the |
fields and the women, with red ban
danas over their heads, were engaged |
in their household duties The children |
were going to school side by side with |
Japs, white, and native children. Mr..
Brown says he passed through the set
Element of twelve Portuguese families
on Olaa plantation IN a train. He
learned that n complaint had been
made because the Portuguese were put
down in Porto Rican camp. This
complaint grew chiefly out of the at
tentions a Porto Rican paid one of
the Portuguese girls. She did not wei
come his attentions and there was
row. The plantation manager had the
camp moved.
Mr.. Brown learned, he says from
the Portuguese Consul General, Mr.. |
Canavarro and from the manager of
the Eva plantation, that several single |
men among the Portuguese had gone
to California but no families had NOV
ed to the States. One man admitted
that he went over to Hawaii only
because he thought the trip would bene.
fit his health. President Tenney, of
the Territorial Board of Health, in
formed Mr. Brown, he says, that many
of these immigrants had availed them.
selves of the offer to secure real estate,
especially those with the Hawaiian
Commercial Sugar Company on the is
land of Maui, while others preferred
to have the increase in wages in lieu
thereof.
THE POSTOFFICE SITE.
The prompt action of the Treasury
Department in selecting the Henry