The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-05-13
RUSSIAN EXODUS
Still CONTINUES
Immigrants, Old and New, Ready
to Tackle Plantations-Jobs
Awaiting Them.
rFrom Thursday.a Aavertlnerl

IRON Thursday'a AdvertiBer.l
Eighty.two Russians left last evening
for Hilo on the steamer Maui, to be
distributed on olaa and walnkea plantp.
tions as laborers. One hundred and
fifty.four immigrants we're booked yes.
terday, and those in addition to the
eighty.two shipped out yesterday, will
be sent to Makaweii and waialua.
There was preference expressed yes,
terday for waialua, but it was stated
that only ten families could be booked
for that plantation and no single men
would be taken on. Even these ten
families were offered positions through
the good nature of Manager Goodale,
as he did not actually need the laborers.
There was little trouble at the plant
ers' association shed during the day, as
the laborers appeared to have made up
their minds that the jobs offered were
in accordance with the knowledge they
had of the work expected of them.
Among those who partook Of the plant
ers' hospitality in the shed were a
number Of the Iwilei villagers, and sew.
eral of these were shipped out yester-
day, although the majority Of those
booked by the planters association
agents, r. d. Mead and w. II. Babbitt,
were of the newest arrivals from Man
churia.
All of the Russiens but five were
passed by the United States immigra-
tion officials. These rejected ones are
mother and her children. The woman
is not married and has no relatives
among the immigrants, and she is there
fore marked to return to Manchuria.
The immigrants, upon leaving the i'm
migration building, reported to the
planters , officials and as soon as they
had made up their minds to take work
on the plantations they were booked
and given baggage tags Tor their be-
longings. The tags are printed with
the names of the plantations to which
they are assigned, and although a
steamer man may not be able to learn
from an immigrant just where he wants
to go the tag on his bundles tells the
story direct.
A. w. Perelstrous was at the plan
ters shed all day and aided the officials
very materially in arranging for the
distribution of the immigrants who
booked for work.
OubpAClOuS OudIdCIoES.
During the afternoon, a. auto stop
ped in front of the planter, shed and
two men got out. One, Russian, en-
gagged some of the Russians at the gate
in conversation. One of these was a
slatternly dressed woman, of middle
age, although her face is beginning to
look old. She was taken to one side
by the Russian and his friend, who was
:'Phoney" Davis, well known in police
circles and who was recently before the
federal authorities in connection with
the charges of immoral conduct brought
against some of the Russian women by
District Attorney Breckons. Both men
were little the worse for liquor The
actions of the men were watched by
officials, as it was supposed THAT a
proposition to leave the shed was made
to the woman. The Russian interpre-
ter was one of those who arrived here
in the first lot of immigrants, and who
has become Americanized as to the cut
of clothes now adorning his person.
The woman did not go, and she seem
ed to be bewildered when the men had
gone away.