Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-10

SvmpaiV naA now freight line from
Honointu to New York This Is by the
| way or the Isthmus OF Tehuantepec In
souhern Mexico the freight being car
ried across that isthmus by railroad. The
CONT ANY fAs some steamers Of l20oo tons
each. and II is now carrying 10000 tons
OF AgAr each year.
Tfsre are l9ooo and ia,0o0 ton vessels
Which ply regularly between San Fran
CISCO and Honolulu. and some OF the big
gest greyhounds Of the Pacific. the Pacific
M n Steamship company and the Toyo
Ky sen Kaisha stop at Honolulu on their
yay to and from Japan. There are also
.. number OF sailing vessels which go
,sirom Hawaii down around South America
I and thence to New York and Europe.
aud there are many tramp steamers
which cali at the islands
Health and the Lepers.
The government has done much to i'm
prove the health OF the islands. They
row have a bureau Of health, which spent
last year more than $1,000. and there Is
a sanitary commission which will reor-
ganize Honolulu as TO its sewerage and
drainage. There are district physicians.
\ nAAfAt bNh1t-hb-Ailuo9 AAoVSNtiNh w
keep track Of the sick. During the past
year they have made 5000 visits and
filled 1900 prescriptions. They received
e.0oo calls and examined 15,ooo school
children.
| A campaign is being made against tu-
berculosis, and the United States Is car
rying on a leprosy investigation which
may result In the finding OF q cure for
this dread disease. They have discovered
the bacillus which produces leprosy and
have inoculated monkeys, rabbits. guinea
pigs. white rats and horses with II. So
far only the monkeys have taken It. and
this is said 10 be the fret time that II
has been developed In any other animal
than man. They are now experimenting
with q horse serum as an antitoxin.
On MsioLaI.
1 In addition TO the leper colony on the
island Of MoIokai the government has
now receiving hospital for iepers at
Honolulu. and on the island itself 1t is
adopting q new policy as to the treatment
Of iepers. In the past II has been cus-
tomary TO regard them as outeasts. They
are now considered as patients and
treated like other human beings. There
are SO lepers in the hospital. OF whom
five-slxths are HawaIians and the most
OF the remainder are Portuguese and Chi
nese.
The leper settlement Is on tongue OF
land comprising several square miles on
the Island of Moiakai. The lepers have
colonly Of their own and this is COM
plete community Of itself. III is much
like the leper colony Of the Philippine Is
lands, in that II has its own magistrate
and police and its social and business
life. II has churches. debating clubs. base
ball grounds and race track. There are
two bands and a moving picture theater.
In the colony are four large institut-
tional homes. One Is for male. another
for females, a third for hopeless cases
and fourth II a nursery for the children
There are also about 20 other buildings
consisting Of machine shops, storerooms
and detached cottages. occupied By lepers
| Among the schools OF Honolulu are some
for non-leprous children whose parents
are iepers.
Sugar and Labor.
Some Of the big questions Of the future
in the Hawaiian ISLANDS have to DO with
the labor question, This is based on the
sugar plantations, which are enormously
rich. but which require cheap labor to
handle them. There are few spots upon
the earth that produce sugar like the
] lowlands and valleys Of this Sandwich