Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-05
LEPROSARIUM'S
GOOD Progress
US. Hospital Completed
And Settlement Is
Peaceful
ANNUAL LEGISLATIVE TRIP;
CONDITIONS SATISFACTORY
Greatest Praise for DR.. Goodhue.
Want House for Movino Pic
ture Machine-Seek
Care

lawao is virtually completed and al
most ready to be turned over to the
Government by the contractor. Only
the finishing touches need to be add
ed before the buildings will be ready
for the beginning of the work of ex-
perimentation which 1t is hoped will
result In the finding of cure for
the most terrible disease in the world
"a cure which may in time do away
with the necessity of maintaining the
Leper Settlement.
This one OF the most interesting
things learned yesterday by the big
party that visited the Settlement In
the name of the Legislature of the
Territory OF Hawaii. 1t was the BIZ
ennial pilgrimage OF the Legislature
or was supposed to be, although
there were only seven members of
the Senate and fourteen OF the House
included In the party. The rest were
made up of physicians, officers OF the
Legislature. members of the Board
of Health. and those having friends
at the Settlement.
Most of the Legislators who made
the trip did so from u sincere desire
to learn what they could that might
enable them to do more for Tho mn
fortunates compelled IN spend their
lives on the little peninsula that is
their world.
Condit;ons Jmnroved
| A great Improvement in conditions
at the Settlement was observed by
those who made the trim two wears
ago and again Yesterday. The two
villages looked brighter and more Mt
tractive. chiefly on account of new
cottages and well-kept yards. the lib
eral application OF paint. and new
government buildings. superintend-
ent Jack McVeigh believes that by
making the little homes of the Set
Element more attractive to look at he
can lessen the discomfort inevitably
consequent upon the inmates being
torn away from their families and
friends. In this he appears to be
right, too, for there was yesterday
noticeable absence OF the ill-feeling
and general unrest of two years ago
that took the form, ut the last leg
islative visitation, of numerous COM
plants, petitions, and unreasonable
requests. Yesterday there were vir-
tually no complaints made, and but
few requests. The lepers expressed
themselves as being well satisfied
with their general treatment-aud
this in spite of the fact that the
members OF the 1907 Legislature
when they went over to the Settle
ment promised the people everything
and then went back to Honolulu and
gave them almost nothing.
Want MOVING. Picture House
There were few things that the
people of Kalawao and Kalaupapa
asked the Senators and Representa-
tives to do for them. Among other
things, they want a moving picture
house. So great was the Impression
made upon them by the moving pic
lures shown by II. X. Bonnie short
time ago that they can talk OF little
else. The pictures gave them. In a
way nothing else could, an idea of
the great outside world which they
can never see. The apparatus is now
at the Settlement, but there Is no
place in which TO install It. When
BONNIE gave his exhibitions the lep-
ers were compelled to sit on the
ground in the open air, and they are
not able to stand the chilly night
air. So they asked the Legislature
to provide some kind of house in
which these exhibitions may be Civ
en-. The Legislators were greatly i'm
pre9aed with this request and it is