The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-10-22

for their coming, and soon plates of hot |
stew with potatoes. hot tea, milk for
the babies, thick slices of fine bread |
were in readiness for them. They fled |
in hungry lot and arose quite salts
fed. The meal was q satisfactory one |
to all concerned. They ate lot of |
bread and asked for more. These big, |
husky men wanted lot to eat, and |
they got all they wanted. They were
not quite used TO knives, but with forks
and spoons they were quite at home.
Mr.. Brown made a special effort to
see that their material wants were fully |
supplied. He found places for them to |
keep out of the glare of the sun and
saw to it that the children were we'll
cared for. This was kind of official. |
dom the peasants have not been used
to, Then the baggage was brought
ashore, and afterward the immigrant
officials made their inspection and in
terviewed each man and woman, and
inquired how and why they came to
Hawaii, 1t is understood that their
answers were in the main satisfactory,
and that no promises were held out to
them by the representatives of the Ter.
ritory or of corporations.
<ASGubS
Mr.. Atkinson left here shortly after
Mr.. Perelstrous, in August, and has
been absent only about six weeks. After
leaving Japan, they went to Vladivo.
stok, city which was apparently a
vast military camp, with guns bristling
everywhere. Soldiers by tens of thou
sands seemed to be barracked and en-.
camped there. Across the country from
Vladivostok to Hardin the two travel
ed in coaches which were the most
luxurious Mr.. Atkinson has ever seen.
The outside of the cars lacked paint
and proper attention, but the interiors
were elegant At Hardin they stopped
for only day, and they drove out to
Alexieff, and there the inducements of.
fered for settlement in Hawaii were
duly presented to some people. The
next day at the house of one family
nearly five hundred people were present.
They heard of Hawaii, and then an.
nounced that they wanted to come.
Scores more presented themselves, and
then came the selection of the fifty
families.
Well Looked After.
From Hardin the families were car.
ried in cars to Russian town on the
border of the neutral zone. This was
crossed on foot or in wagons, and an.
other train was boarded on the oppo.
site side, which is Japanese. From
there the party was taken by train to
Dalny, where a Japanese steamer was
boarded. The route traversed by he
steamer to Kobe was through beau.
tiful region, where thousands of pretty
islands dotted the seas and among
which the steamer threaded its way.
Then on through the famous straits of
the battle in which Roiestvensky g
fleet was destroyed, and finally through
the beautiful Inland Sea, to Kobe.
There, through the kindly and consid-
crate offices of the American doctor
in charge of the United States Marine
Hospital Service, the peasants were
landed in fumigated barges and kept
in a secluded place, and later taken on
board the Siberia in fumigated YES
sells, because plague was prevalent in
Kobe, as in nearly all Japanese and
Korean ports.
One Death Aboard.
On the way over, one of the Rus
sian men died. He was buried at sea.
Because of the nature of the illness,
the local marine hospital service ply
sicians held the Siberia at quarantine
yesterday morning for couple of
hours, until it was finally decided that
the man died of Inflammation of the
bowels.
Some Coming Later.
Twenty.six members of the original
-, lar4
to desire to keep them under fur
Their medical surveillance. They will
probably reach here on the China next
| week
In the party which arrived yester-
| day there are one hundred and three
men and women and one hundred and
| eight children, and of the latter sixty
seven are under twelve. One man is
said to have walked nearly two hun
| dred miles to be accepted as an i'm
migrant. One family numbers fourteen
members all told.
Socialists Butted In.
Some difficulty was encountered by
| Messrs. Atkinson and Perelstrous with
| socialists and others who endeavored TO
| prevent the people from leaving Dalny.
They used every effort to make them
stay behind. One of these men talked
TO some of the people. A woman was
in the crowd. The socialist told them
they were making mistake in leaving
Russia. He said the women would have
to work in water up to their waists.
He knew that it was like going to AUS.
tralia, for the Hawaiian Islands were
right alongside Australia. The woman
said they wanted to go to Hawaii
where they would get plenty of food
and then suddenly jumped the social
list, knocked him down with bang OF
her open hand, pulled his hair and end
ed up by kicking him. That ended
that particular socialist.
The immigration inspectors kept
local people from talking with the i'm.
migrants on board yesterday morning,
Two Russian Jews who edged in
among them and started to talk were
requested TO stop their conversation
and were finally ordered off the YES