The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-05
LEGISLATIVE TRIP To
THE LEPER SETTLEMENT
MADE By 100 PEOPLE
Interesting and Pathetic Scenes in Abode Of
Territorys Stricken Wards patients
Less FESTIVE.

himself on A. L. G. Atkinson by try
ing to have him also declared ineli-
gible for the trip. President w. o.
Smith tried to reason with the dump
cart statesman, but gave that up as
bad job.
Once aboard the steamer, which left
Honolulu SO promptly ON time that
some permitted members of the party
were left behind, everything proved
to be satisfactory, the steamer and
landing arrangements being looked
after by President Kennedy of the
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 seasiekness among the party.
Honolulu proper was left behind at
10. o'clock, but the Mauna Kea rode
within sight of the city lights until
after l o'clock yesterday morning,
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 clock in the morn
ing the first boatload pulled away from
the ship for the Kalaupapa landing,
but already the shore line on each side
of the little landing was lined with
those eager to greet whatever friends
may have been able to come over to
see them and ready to bid aloha to all
the visitors. The Settlement band
pounded out a welcome and flags and
banners gave a holiday air to the
sFvisitors' compound - and the build
ings visible from the steamer.
The party breakfasted aboard, land
ing about O'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 a
| majority of the visitors was the Fed
eral reservation at Kalawao, where,
stretching along the cliff-front for
eight hundred feet, are the just com
| pleted buildings of the Federal Lepro.
sarium. ten in all. The finishing
touches alone remain to be put on
these buildings-wards, dispensaries,
kitchens, laundries, laboratories and
/ offices-where it is hoped will be work
ed out the problem that has baffled
science through the centuries-a cure
! for leprosy.
Within a few weeks the contractor
will turn the buildings over to the in
vestigators, for whose use much stores
of medical supplies, laboratory appara-
tus and pictures. are now being un-
packed. In the leprosarium, twenty
lepers will be treated Systematically
and scientifically, on lines to carry out
and supplement the work being done
elsewhere in the world by the leading
pathologists 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
ter results might be expected; nowhere
where less attention to expense and
more attention to results will be
shown
DIR. Goodhue, of the Settlement. and
VIM. Mulch, who has had charge of the
construction work, accompanied the
visitors over the Federal reservation,
pointing out the most interesting fea-
lures or the buildings.
Meeting at Kalawao. 4
A public meeting had been called at
Kalawao at nine O'Clock, and at that
hour, when Senator Coelho began to
make the first of a score Of speeches,
some fifty or sixty of the men of Ka-
lawao had gathered before the meeting
room lanai on the Baldwin Home square
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