The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-23
FELLOW TRAVELLER
SHUNs ARGUMENT
Husband and Companion OF
Sick Passenger Make
Statements.

Mr.. Kassebeer, the widower of Do.
rette Kassebeer who arrived in the
Alameda last Friday and died soor
after of pneumonia. made Statement
to a representative of the Advertiser
! last evening in which he said that hi
| had heard from a fellow steerage pas.
| senger, a lady who came to Honolulu
| to join her son who has been here but
little while, that his wife had been
neglected This lady, he said, herself
cared for his wife and secured milk
for the two-months-old infant, since
the mother could get no milk for the
child, having no money. She had ask
ed a steward for milk and had been
refused.
When I went aboard said Kasse-
beer, Il was broken down by seeing
my wife in such condition. She had
been taken from the steerage and put
in cabin two days before, but she had
been sick a long time. The other
woman says. my wife was sick when
she went aboard in San Francisco and
the baby was sick, too They did not
do anything for her until this other
passenger went for the doctor; after
that I don't know, because my wife
could not tell me; all she could tell
me was she was glad she was home
before she died and she tried to tell me
to send forty dollars to somebody in
San Francisco, but she was TOO sick
and it was about two hours before she
died, and don't know who she bor-
rowed money from. I had sent her
plenty and she must have lost it or
have been robbed in San Francisco
| only know what the other passenger
told me-
Mrs. Kassebeer's fellow passenger
was also seen. ttShe was sick when
she came aboard she said, '.and I
told her to call the doctor, but She
said she did not have any money
Finally, I went to the doctor. I wish
now that I had called him before.
There was one of the stewards who
was nasty about getting milk for the
child until I made him do it, but the
doctor did what he could after / told
him two days before we got in that she
was sick. I looked after the little
baby as far as I could and another
passenger, who went to Hflo, looked
after the other child. '"rhe woman
died of neglect. but I don't think it
was the steamships fault.
But I don't want to have my name
Ny son has a job here
and has been here only a little while
and we don't want to get into any
Surgeon G. w. Clark of the S. S.
yesterday morning just be-
fore the vessel left for San Francisco, |
wrote out the following statement for
publication:
Il was called to attend Mrs. Dora
a steerage passenger on S. !,
5. Alameda, April Is, 1908. Found her !
from pneumonia with high I
and weak pulse.
She was removed from the steer I
age to cabin stateroom where she re-
ceived the best of attention as far as
and diet was concerned and
was not neglected
The steerage was visited daily by
he commander, steward and myself.
Mrs. Kassebeer never complained of
JGiiS ill., III IdCL H0f sickness was TeN |
ported by another steerage passenger
md she received attention immedi-
ately.
'.On the morning of April Is, 19O8
drs. Kassebeer was dressed up and
about, going out to the baggage room
o get some clothing out of her trunks.
''She missed her husband at the dock
Is he came down and did not see her
N the deck of the steamer and went
way without inquiring whether she
vas aboard or not.
Il succeeded in an hour in locating
i'm at the Majestic and he came down
o the ship at once.
He wanted to remove his wife to
he hotel and / told him that was out
f the question and to see a physician
t once. .
In about an hour DR.. Hodgins came !,
own, made an examination and she :
ras removed from the vessel on a
tretcher and put into an ambulance }
nd sent to a sanatorium." {