The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-23
BACHELOR BOYS
HAPPY ASHORE
HARPALIoN PASSENGERS NOW
COMING AsHoRE-sPLENDm
LOOKING PARTY.
(From saturday,s Advertiser.l


Prisoners for more than fifty days
in the cramped quarters of the inn
migrant ship, 162 unmarried men,
among whom there was no sickness,
were landed yesterday afternoon by
order of the federal authorities and
housed in the territorial immigration
station. The gentle souls who assemble
about the wire fence of the old fish
market to talk tearfully of 'the poor,
wistful looking people so far from
home' will receive shock this morn
ing, for blther, iauntier force of
handsome bachelors certainly never
PASSED through the hands of the inn
migration authorities. With moustaches
curled and caps at a debonair angle
they showed an inclination to shout
''buenas tardes at every man, woman
and child between Alakea wharf and
the immigration station.
Laden down with boxes, trunks of all
shapes and sizes, bags and blankets,
they fairly skipped across Allen street
and fled past the officials with nod
and smile for every one The round
plush caps, like Highlanders' bonnets,
the short coats of an absurd cut, and
the shapeless shoes, these merry adj
venturers wear with rare grace, and
their entry into Hawaii was more like
the advent of picknickers than the
coming of forlorn, downtrodden vii
layers ten thousand miles from home.
Gay Lads Indeed.
Ten minutes after they had installed
themselves, the immigration station
took on the aspect of bachelor IS club.
They squatted in circles on the grass
playing cards, they lounged in the
shade and blew smoke rings, some sang,
Others gathered in groups and INDUCED
in all degrees of Spanish and Portu-
guese humor. 1t would seem that the
emissaries of the territorial board had
recruited the beaux and cavaliers of a
hundred villages-gay lads who will be
as much at home in Hawaii or in any
other corner of the earth as they were
on their native soil OF course any
man who had confined his activities to
the limited space of an overcrowded
steamer for nearly two months would
be inclined to frisk about little when
he found himself ON terra frma, but
| lItSt sOiultIS VI lOiluhC, hlbHOub piOp Vi
responsibilities and nothing in the
world but the baggage they carry on
their backs, are irrepressible under any
circumstances.
Bond Is Filed.
The permission to give bond for
$4,000 and thereby release the immi-
| grants from confinement on the ship,
was received from London this morning
by T. H. Davies g. Co., and the immi-
grafton authorities at once set to work
to get the first installment ashore.
/ The single men were easily disposed
of, for there had been no illness among
them and throughout the voyage they
had been quartered apart from the
families. The matter of examining
them and passing them was quickly ac-
complished and they are now in terri
torial quarantine in the immigration
station. The larger task of passing the
men, women and children still on board
the Harpalion will be taken up today
and they will be landed as rapidly as
/ possible. The sick who were placed in
the hospital on quarantine island Thurs.
day are still in federal quarantine and
will be under federal jurisdiction until
the exact nature of some of the cases
is known. Others, who are afflicted
with mild diseases not quarantinable
under the federal regulations, will
shortly be turned over to the territorial
board of health.
One of the nine babies born en- route
died Thursday night of malnutrition
Other than this no new cases of sich
ness have been discovered.