Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20

helping the needy; but he they not
quite right in their tactics
Luckily Riders decision to return to the mainland
the means of bringing to him what he had longed
for since his arrival in Honolulu. night two
before he and Mrs Rider sail for San Francisco
Rider conducting farewell street meeting ]. B.
Anterior, wealthy and public-spirited citizen hap
pened along and stopped to hear what the carriage
trimmer had to say The longer he listened the
interested he became He had heard Rider before; but
his opinion of the soapbox preacher had not been
usually high until this occasion When the meeting
adjourned Anterior took Rider by the hand and sad
aRider, Honolulu needs you, and want you to stay.
Nobody has ever accomplished anything in Kakaaho,
and know the undertaking IS dangerous one; but
believe you succeed Say you'll stay, and III make
it possible for you to give all your time to the work
two Rider made personal inspection of the
of his future activities. He visited every home in the
district and found that thiryseven nationaties
represented IN kakaakO He had walked through the
district several times before; but had it
really was. When he did get glimpse of it, he
Mortified. That such a reekng Sum- with the poverty,
filth, disease drunkenness immortality, hatredS,
and family cruelty that he found should be allowed to
exist within few blocks of the homes of Honoulu's
wealthy upper class was more than shocking
What he set him to wondering, and before his
wonderngs he quite certain the right man
had not tackled the job. And with that conclusion
resolution to prove himself to be the right man,
to die trying.
The people Of Kakaako, he learned had always had
profound distust of professional uplfters, and he
found that he made exception to the rule.
Most of the people who lived there had lost all hope OF
betterng their conditions They despised the
fortunate classes, and wanted to be let alone There
plenty OF proof OF their temper the fact that all
other social workers had been driven of the district
by threats of death great bodily harm When it be-
came known that Rider intended going into kakaako
of his acquaintance warned him that he tried
carry his plans he would in all probability be shot,
stabbed, stoned to death
Rider began by visiting the sick and carrying food to
hungry and children. He had very little money
to spend them; but he managed way another,
to relieve good deal Of suffering. Every days work
was wound up with little street meeting, and fire.
quently when Mrs. Rider would sing and play little
portable reed ort the ruans OF the district would
put out the torchght and kick the organ Threats
were sent Rider almost daily and he knew that
of the rowdes capable OF committing murder; but
he kept right on if he had not single enemy in the
whole Territory of Hawaii He knew that any sign Of
fear would the toughs to suspect him OF being
coward and that, of course, would have meant his
finish.
The Riders did not reside in Kakaako at that time.
and on the way home Mr.. Rider always took to the
middle of the street. because there danger OF Mrs.
Rider being hit by bullet aimed at him.
Mrs. Rider was guarded in the streets by giant FIJI
Islander whose devotion to the white and his wife
amounted almost to idoatry.
The people of the district the most cosmopolitan
collection of human beings that inhabited spot OF
ground the size of Kakaako which is about square
mile in area. Some of them the human @slag Of
the big cities of Europe and America; almost