The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-03-25
MOLOKAI WANTS
FOUND To Be
FEW
(From Monday Advertiser.)

With few exceptions, every one of |
the seven hundred or more men, women |
and children who 20 to make up the |
population of the Molokai Settlement |
lined the foliage-fringed shore at
Kalaupapa yesterday morning as the
steamer Claudine, carrying the legisla-
tive party, dropped anchor just off the
treacherous rocks which guard the en-.
trance to the landing. From that time
| until the vessel began its homeward
| journey yesterday afternoon, everyone
| between Kalaupapa and Kalawao did
his or her utmost TO make the biennia!
visit of the members of the health
committees of the legislature one which
will be long remembered for its hospl-
tally.
There were forty three persons in the
party which disembarked. Many of
these were lawmakers making their BIZ
ennial trip to the island to learn the
needs of the people and arrange TO pro.
| vide amply for their comfort, health
and happiness for the next two years.
There also were several physicians and
scientists of note, newspaper represen-
tatives and a few others.
i The CLEANS from the powerful lights
surmounting the tall, ghost-like spiro
which marks the northernmost point of
the small peninsula had scarcely melted
before the RAYS of the rising sun and
the peals of the church bells announc-
ing the dawn of Easter morning were
ringing yet, when the party landed. For
the first time in weeks the sea was
smooth and placid, the sky clear and of
such blue that its reflection seemed
to melt through the golden rays of sun
shine and pour a benediction upon the
peaceful people of the settlement, who
had hut n short time before come from
! church, where prayer and song had been
: rendered in praise for Christ risen.
A Happy Greeting,
1t was a happy greeting given the
visitors. The long line of clearly
CARRIED girls and boys and men and
, women, with leis and flags, waved well
come, while a male quartet, accom-
, panied by the sweet music of ulSuleles
! and guitars, sang plaintive Hawaiian
songs as the pilgrims disembarked at
the wharf.
Superintendent "Jackp d. McVeigh
who has been at the settlement for the
, past dozen years, at once took the visi-
l tors in charge. He had not overlooked
, detail. Spirited and gentle saddle
2 horses, carriages and wagons were in
readiness to take the guests on their
pilgrimage once the first greetings OF
friends and relatives were over. The
Journey to Kalawao, n distance of about
three miles, was made.
: Brother Dutton Greeted.
/ The first stop was at the Baldwin
= Home. endowed by the late H. p. Bald
win, father of Senator Baldwin. The
9 ninety-six residents of this well-kepi
5 section are in charge of Brother JOSEPH
i Dutton, assisted by Brothers Liboriu;
q Hengst, Wensenslaus, Servian Valtes
Aloisausleisen and Wenceslaus. Thu
t last named is the latest to join thes'
Q faithful workers. He came to Moloka
from Bavaria. Brother Dutton is thu
oldest and is keeping well his pledg'
to the late Father Damien, whose we'll
1 kept grave in the shadow of the churcl
: he built and within few feet Of TIL
q large stone where for years he Offered
il up the sacrament of mass, remains un
Q disturbed in its original position.
t Brother Dutton's story, or all Of j
which he has told, has been publishes
IS many times during the twenty-sevei
o years he has made this far-away corne
IT of the world his home.
a Tolstoi Of Molokai.
Q "Not for million dollars or all tn
= !, money men could count would / leav
my home here now" he said yesterday
J his face bright with the light Of earnes
= zeal, his snow-whte hair and flowing
beard, spotlessly clean and faded blu
=. denim blouse and trousers and brow
!. canvass shoes, giving him the appear
!. ance OF one who had emerged, Mont
= Cristo-like, from tomb which hai
i held him for years. But this does no
= properly describe this self.sacrihcin
= and devout man. The "Tolstoi Of Nc
= lokai" would be better title, for h
!. Is heart and soul wrapped up In th
Z welfare and comfort Of those VIII
= trust him with faith that only come
from love. He h living their life tax
p ing away not "a single fraction Of thei
comfort that be might add 10 his owl
= nursing them when need requires ,toael
ing them aud eonnsellnR them, wit
the result that tho Baldwin Home
one ~ the IDEAL places Of the sottll
ment.
n Twenty seven YeBFf ago, after Yalinn
d sfTilre in wnr FOR bis country an
4 in other wHes which Insured him h0no
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