The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-05
TORE SPLIN7S
OFF BARY5 ARM
Inhuman Father Took Child Out
of Hospital and Undid All the
Doctors Work.

: On Thursday last a little Hawaiian
thov. whose father : IN the public ser
: wee, was brought to the sick thil-
'dren : Hospital with his arm broken,
the result Of an accident. The little
chap was given immediate attention,
! the arm was dressed and put into
! spInts and the little sufferer pat to bed
! in one Of The clean hospital cots, where
i a nurse could watch over him during
the first fevered hours Of his acc dent.
| This was just one Of the things in
the routine Of the hospital, the humane
! society worker who had taken the baby
there, leaving him in good hands. sup
! posing that her share Of the one act
( of kindness was over. Thus far the
case was an ordinary one. But it had
/ later its extraordinary developments.
! Returning from his work on Thurs
{ day evening. the father Of the child
| learned that his boy was in the hos
! pital. He Immediately went after him,
! took the little one out Of the cot, ear
! ried him home and deliberately tore off
the spIints from the broken arm.
| The next day this fact was reported
to the Humane Society officer. who in
vestig ated. The father refused to give
any reason for his apparently insane
action except tina, he did not want his
/ child in any hospital or with his arm
| ial IN i.ly 20 lad
| to move him.
! In the meanwhile the child 5 in iured
arm twisted and became swollen, the
muscles forcing the ends of the broken
/ bones past each other The child suf-
fered intensely, but the father remain
ed obstinate.
Finally it was decided to notify the
man s employer that unless something
/ be done a warrant charging the father
with cruelty would be sworn out. Yes
! terday the employer notified the HUI
name Society that the man had ''con-
sented' to allow furthel medical atten-
ton to be given his baby.
This is fair sample of what the
Humane Society has to do in this city.
It is not the hardship of finding cases
of cruelty to prevent as it is finding
the ways TO prevent tneh ana the
money to work with.
Sometimes it is brutality on the part
of parents that has to be contended
against. but as a general thing it is
the ignorance and the suspicion on the
part of the fathers and the mothers
that make the difficulties.
With cruelty to animals, ignorance
again comes into the forefront as the
greatest thing to be met and over
come The orientals, for the most part,
simply do not know how to treat their
animals kindly 50 as TO get the best
work from them. They purchase horses
which are worn ont before they buy
them and they work these poor beasts
to he limit in order to get their money
back before their investment drops
dead on their hands
Yesterday. for instance. Humane Of
ficer Rose Dawson was called upon to
arrest the Chinese driver of hack
horse which had been forced TO the
limit of its endurance and which the
driver was pounding to make it 60 on
when it could go no further With
four passengers he had driven the beast
at fun speed from PaIaMa to about
midway up. the Manoa hill, hard run
on a day as sultry as yesterday was for
even an animal in the best of condition.
The animal was drenched with sweat
and swaying almost to the dropping
point.
Charley All Foo. hack $50, was the
ignorant driver, who viii have to be
taught a lesson in kindness to dumb
brutes before the police magistrate this
morning.
Frequently the Humane Society finds
its work terribly handicapped by cruel
tv toward animals on the part of those
high in authority. Not so very long
ago it was found necessary to warn a
territorial official that arrest would fol
] low any further attempt to work a GER
tain lame horse The warning. appar
emily. had it. effect. for the horse was
seen no more ON the street by daylight.
i has been learned recently, however,
, that he animal is still worked in har
ness, but not until after dark
/ Anothe territorial official had to be
warned against leaving his horse tied
! out in the sun while he spent hour
| after hour along the saloon route. This
! official has it in his power to nullify
some Of the Humane Society work and
, he officers felt timid about speaking
to him. had necessity not compelled
| them
|