The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-01-09
QUARANTINE IS
ALMOST ENDED
Five Hundred Portuguese Leave
This Week-Last Riot
a Week Ago.
tFrom Monaay,s AdvertI.er.l

(From Mondays Advortiser.)
Five hundred Portuguese, eonstitu.
ting almost tho entire Portuguese
camp, are expected to leave Mauliola
Island next Thursday, If not sooner,
when their quarantine will DO officially
declared 10 bo completed. Whea tho
last Of them file into tho immigration
lauthorities' barge aud cross 20 the
mainland, the quarantine officials viii
get the FIRST glimpse of daylight which
they have seen in the situation since
the s. 3. Willesden immigrants were
/ htst barred out of the city by presence
of the yellow flag.
When that Ave hundred goes there
VII be- but two hundred persons left.
sixty or seventy of the former measles
cases are abo1t to be released also and
: the measles camp is fast breaking up.
Twelve patients in the smallpox iSola-
ton hesPltal have been declared recov
cred, and they and their effects thor
ioughly treated to prevent possible
tcarrier of infection. They may be held
Tin the precincts of the isolation hospi-
tai a nttle longer than those in the
Portuguese camp, but they will soon be
out.
Quarantine Island presented a queer
sight yesterday morning for six nation
alities with all the separate degrees of
pictuTesqueness of their clans and
elimes were assembled thereon, afford
ling. mingled work and amusement to
the doctors in their examinations.
There were Chinese fresh from the CORY
scenes of the revolution; kimonoed
Japanese, blOused Russians, corduroy
ed Spaniards and Portuguese and tur-
baned Hindus, all clamoring FOR ailmis-
sion to the land of the free and the
home OF sugar.
A Riotous Incident.
The quarantine officials hope that
with decreasing numbers will also de-
icrease tho unhappy incidents that have
occasionally troubled the usually quiet
life at the island. So far there have
been but two riots, the last of which
was reported yesterday as having oc-
Cured a week previously, lasting half
hour, and leaving the camps again to
lpurSue the even tenor of their quaran-
itined and consequently limited way.
The trouble started in the tents,
eighty or ninety of which were inhabit-
cd by Portuguese. They registered
numerous and sundry kicks against
these tents and asserted that they were
disseminated against; said they did
I not want tents, they did want electric
Nights and mentioned other sudden
found necessities not available under
the congested conditions.
l. Doctor James in command" of the
island, smoothed them down and prom
lsed to bring them over to the corfala
as soon as their then present occupants
wore sent to the mainland. That time
came o week ago yesterday and he
sent his men over to make the change.
! Pretty soon one OF them came back and
said that the Portuguese refused to
move, AZ they had made up their EniAdb
that they wanted TO shay In the tents
after ell.
4 Quers tie 4roaA5As,,,
The doctor then went over 10 the
camp himselfa,and heard their grew
snces. Then he picked ont the ring
leader (by the coat collaF) and hOayed
him out Of tho radius Of diseentent in
the direction Of the cbrrSls. The ring;
! leader % friends stopped down and pick,
j I'D up some sticks and stones, and James
gave orders for his men to sail in and
use their fists, which they did heartily.
The Portuguese reiterated and while
they held conference Doctor james
turkey-trotted his captive over to the
big camp, dug up some rusty irons and
clamped them on the man. The NAL.
contents then announced that they
8 would go over to the big corrals if the
ringleader was released.
Doctor James refused, told them they
were going first and that he would
make up his mind about that gentleman
later, 30 they went. The director then
shut the ringleader, irons and all, in
the eTematory because there was no
other place to put him, and he spent
an hour there in company with future
possibilities before he was Released.