Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-03-02
Shipping
No SIEERAGE TRAVEL FROM
HONOLULU TO ISLAND PORTS
Quarantine Imposed On Inter Island Vessels Affects Passen
gers OnIy-Mai and Freight Save Pershabe Fruits or
Vegetables Will Be Carried-Serra Is Meeting With Ram
Squalls.

No steerage passengers will be
carried from Honolulu to o'her isl
ands by vessels in the Inter-lslanJ
service pending the enforcement OF
the quarantine by tie Advisory Com
mittee of the Board of Health
AS a result of a lengthy conference
held today between President and
General Manager J. A. Kennedy and
officials connected with the United
States Quarantine and Territorial
Board of Health. the matter of trans
porting steerage passengers received
much consideration, with the result
that this class of travel will be dis
continued for the time being.
Six steamers in the Inter-lsland
fleet will be permitted to carry cabin
passengers, they being the Mauna
Kea, Mauna Loa, Mikahala, w. G.
Hall, Claudine and Kinau. The other
vessels whic hhave been engaged IN
the handling of freight with an occa-
sional calls for passenger accommoda-
ton will hereafter confine their ef-
forts solely to the movement of cargo.
"By the step that we have just TAX
en-. | believe that we have removed
dangerous element in the proper
enforcement of a quarantine so stat
cd Dr. Carl Ramus, Chief of the local
quarantine this morning.
A large number of important points
have been taken up in thorough
manner in a circular letter of instruc-
ton that will be sent out this after
neon from the head office Of the In
ter-Island Steam Navigation Company
to vessel masters and other Officers
connected with the fleet of steamers
operated by this company.
A number of the smaller ports of
call have been temporarily talimin
ated from Inter-Island schedules as
far as passengers are concerned. For
instance the Kauai steamers, Hall
and Kinau will conffne their passen-
ger business to Nawiliwili and Wal
mea. The ports of Eleele, Makaweli,
Koloa, Ahukini and others being left
for the reception of freight
or mail. At Kauai as well as tho
other islands there will be stationed
two medical officer connected with
the Federal quarantine service whose
duty will be the examination of pas
sengers embarking or leaving the YES
sci.
DR.. Burt, Federal government
officer will have charge OIL
the inspections to be made at La
hama and Kahului. The Inter-Island
steamer Mikahala VIII cut out tho
Molokai ports as far as passengers
are concerned.
1t is expected that freight and mails
will be handled as usual. On tho
Island of Hawaii, Laupahoehoe is tho
only port that has been cut from eY-
listing schedules DR.. Sexton will look
after examinations at Hilo as form
crly.
Further instructions are to the eff
feet that crews of Inter-Island ves-
sells must not be allowed ashore att
island ports. Certain officers such as
captains and pursers ana freight
clerks will be granted permission to
go on the wharf and in instances to
visit the town itself on business con-
nected with the company.
A special set of instructions and
regulations will be issued for the
guidance of officers on each steamer
In the Inter-Island service.
DR.. Ramus has sent wireless mes
sages to six medical officers stationed
On the other islands advising them
Of the provisions of the quarantine
now in existence.
Steamship officers are specially ad.
vised to hold steamer for instructions
should death occur on board. In
no case is the body to be taken
ashore but must be brought back to
Honolulu and an immediate return Is
required.