The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-04-06


physicians and others, to the number
Of one hundred. visited "the shelf ON
the cliff, 4" the Lcper Settlement of Mo-
lokai, inspected the various institu
tions, listened TO the few complaints
and the many requests of the lepers,
made speeches, gave words of comfort,
cheer and encouragement and fulfilled
the duty which biennially falls to the
lot of those in any way responsible
for the wellbeing of the segregated
lepers.
II was noticeable to those who made
this same trip two years ago that
better feeling exists among the people
Of Kalaupapa and Kalawao now than
existed then. Two years ago Wallach
was live issue, and his false prom
ises had excited many in the Settle
ment TO a state bordering on frenzy;
now, the people there are saner, recog-
nizing that Uncle Sam is not building
the great leprosarium without expect
ing to bring about some permanent
good, recognizing that in every way
the local and Federal authorities are
doing what is humanity possible to
find the cure for the disease that holds
them from the reach of the rest of the
world
There was nothing to urge upon the
legislators this year on the part of the
lepers but the simple needs of every
day-a pound or two more paiai week
Iy, more liberal meat allowance with
orders to the cutters to dispense less
bone, a few cents more month credit
at the store. A cure. Of course. That
was the one great thing hoped for and
prayed for, but there came no great
human cry for the impossible as rose
two years ago-no cry to allow any
faker to do what he promised Wal
ZACH 3 SUCCESSORS have evidently had
small success.
Faulty Arrangements.
The arrangements for the trip were
poor-guite as poor as could have been
expected with Coelho of Maui as boss
of them. There were rows when the
tickets were given out at the Capitol;
more rows at the gate of the Mauna
Kea wharf and still others on board
the ship Coelho, mad with little
brief authority, wanted to bar DR.. C.
+ b. Cooper from going, after the Pres
i ident of the Senate had invited him
to accompany the party and see the
result of the work he had done in
Washington to interest the Federal
4 Government in the building of a Fed
eral experiment hospital Coelho want
4 ed to put from the boat some newspa.
4 per reporters, and sought to revenge
4 himself on A. l.. C. Atkinson by try
I ing to have him also declared ineli-
gible for the trip. President w. o.
4 Smith tried to reason with the dump
E cart statesman, but gave that up as a
4 bad job.
Once aboard the steamer, which left
3 Honolulu so promptly on time that
some permitted members of the party
were left behind, everything proved
to he satisfactory, the steamer and
landing arrangements being looked
8 after by President Kennedy of the
s Inter Island and by Captain Freeman
and Purser White of the good ship
Mauna Kea. The weather also proved
TO be most agreeable, there being few
cases of seasickness among the party.
Honolulu proper was left behind at
10 o'clock, but the Mauna Kea rode
within sight of the city lights until
dropping anchor when just outside the
harbor and lying in the calm until it
was necessary to leave to reach the
Settlement by daylight.
Shortly after 6 o clock in the morn
ing the first boatload pulled away from
he ship for the Kalaupapa landing,
= hut already the shore line on each side
4 of the little landing was lined with
those eager to greet whatever friends
S may have been able to come over to
see them and ready to bid aloha to all
s the visitors. The Settlement band
IL IL 90 Il
banners gave a holiday air to the
"visitors compound" and the build
ings visible from the steamer.
The party breakfasted aboard, land
ing about clock. A short stay
only was made at this time at Kalau-
papa. horses and carriages being taken
for Kalawao.
Leprosarium Completed.
The spot of greatest interest to
ma iority of the visitors was the Fed
erai reservation at Kaawao, where,
stretching along the cliff front for
eight hundred feet are the just com
Melted buildings of the Federal LeprO-
sarium. ten in all. The finishing
touches alone remain to be put on
these buildiggs--wards, dispensaries,
kitchens, laundries, laboratories and
= IDnlces--WHtIt IL 10 hopcu wal w "p''f
ed out the problem that has baffled
science through the centuries--a cure
for leprosy.
Within few weeks the contractor
will turn the buildings over to the in
yestigators, for whose use much stores
If medical supplies, laboratory appara-
8 tus and pictures are now being I'M
E packed. In the leprosarium, twenty
epers will be treated systematically
md scientifically, on lines to carry out
md supplement the work being done
elsewhere in the world by the leading
Psychologists of many nations. No
where in the world, however, will the
study of leprosy be carried out in as
advantageous "A situation as here; no
where under circumstances where bet
err results might be expected; nowhere
where less attention to expense and
more attention to results will be
hown.
DIR. Goodhue. of the Settlement, and