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No. 13. Honolulu H. I. "Wednesday, May 15, 1895. 5 Cts.
Halt Salmon in Bariielr
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P, O. Her 3Q7.
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CAltMAGE BUILDINO and HEPAIIIINU.
,AU Orders from tho Other .Islands Jn the
' Carriage Building, Trimming and Painting
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BUckemlttilnir in All Its Various Branches
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. BOILERS, COOLERS, BRASS
Va'!'LEAl)" ca:s,tin,gs,
und Machinery of every
ihiido to'.oriler.
Purticulur ullention paid to
Ships.' lilucksmithing.
Job Work oxectitod on tho
shortest notice.
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Corner KluKjuul AlaUca Streets.
jftfiinnMiifiA1 - llffi)iffni"iiAi
By Every Steamer from San. Fran- !'
clicb, with
Salmon, Poultry
E.T0. Eto Etc, Etc.
OAHU PRISON.
'.
Whatt tho ". Reef Looks
Like.
Reminiscences of a Guest;"
Continued.) ,
The sanitary conditions of
tho prisonnre simply disgraceful.
Tho bucket system now
in vogue in Onhu Jail hasboen
discarded even in South American
jails. I am ready to furnish
the prison inspectors with
information that might open
their eyes and shut their
The ou'Hiouses of tho
prison are in a similar .disgust
ing condition, and ( the sheds in
the yard Were often uninhabitable
.on account of the stench.
It is sufficient to say, that if
any private residence in Honolulu
was under similar sanitary
conditions to the prison, the
agent of the Ioard of Health
would bo around and demand
an immediate change.
The liberty granted us was
from two to four hours out of
the twenty-four hours. But
ttho pglititaT.
prisoners were locked up for
five or seven days without
breathing tho fresh air, and
then only granted each day
from fifteen to thirty minutes
exercise and liberty in the
yard. A large number of these
prisoners never had a batU or
oven a wash during tho weeks
that they were incarcerated.
Imagine two or three men locked
into a stuffy hole for jvceks
and bid to stay there, without
fresh air, without a chance of
ablution, and without a change
of clothes.
The buildings of the prison .
arc not fireproof, nor is tho
lock .system safe. It is safe
enough as fur as keeping the
prisoners in, but it is very de-
iecwvo in regard to cuo possibilities
of getting them out;
Tho cottage occupied by myself
arid partners is made, of
wood. It is a two story building
with only one staircnse,and
it' contains twenty cells. ' In
case of fire every man in tho
upper story would be roasted
long beforo tho turnkeys would
arrive on the scene and bo
able to got upstairs and find
the keys to tho' different locks.
Tiro is not supposed to happen,
but somehow or other firo has
a peculiar way of showing in
places-where it is the least
It cannot bo denied
that in the ovenmg sonic of my
neighbors indulged in tho strict-Jy.
forbidden .enjoy men t of
smoking tobacco. In spite of
all vigilance, matches and
cigars found their" way into tho
colls, and matches and cigars
havo beforo been the cauBO of
tiro.
tho
.doors to ,tho colls "was simply
gainful. Tho keys , refused
duty every time, and I have
seen five minutes go by before
ttno turnkey- c'oulci nnu puo
ngnc icey anu maico it nt m mo
lock of my door. Fivo minutes
is a pretty long time if
you aro sick, qp tho house is on
or a vjgilanco coannitteo is
Waiting for you.
In tho night there seoms to
'bo no guards and no turnkeys.
Vtround. In other prisons tho
guards patrol tho corridors
every half hour and, look into
the colls to ascertain, if tho
prisoner. is still there and yet
alivo. In Oahu Jail tho prisoners
are left to fate. If j'diir
cell mate should get insane
and desiro to chow you up, he
can do so and nothing will be
known beforo tho next morning,
-when perhaps tho door
might bo opehtid and tho
gnawed 'bones of the victim
found along with the frantic Survivor.
While it is to be hoped
that such instances may bo
rare, although I don't .dqubt
that the government would
have been pleased to see us do
tho Kilkenny1 cat aci'fc and eat
each other, there are aHvays
prospects of spine prisoner
seriously ill and needing
immediate attention
I will give an instance.' Ono
night our select circle had got
through listening to Ted
Thomas' beautiful rendition of
his famous song about "strol
ling on the sand" and "listening
- to the band" I am sorry
that I Jiave,4'orgottoh the rest
of that musical masterpiece,
and wo had retired to rest and
hammocks, if theso two ideas
can bo combined. Morpheus
had reigned supremo for some
time, and I was dreaming that
I was dining on goat meat with
W.. 0. Smith, when I was
awakened by a pitiful howl emanating
from a coll in my "row."
It was evidently a man in
agony. All tho saints
both ancient and modern were
called upon. Moses, and' Mr,
J. WiUigan whoever ho may
be were invoked in thb most
excruciating manner, and I
became convinced that ono of
tho guests was expiring from
strangulation his voice was
yet rather powerful
or slow poison. . Everybody
in the row was awake,
but we woro too awe stricken
to do anything wo couldn't go
out-, know . Wo listoned
you
-... ':' . ' .' .. -,-.' . . .
with our hair standing straight
up and nearly touching tho
roof .(no harbors arpund) and
heard with horror c'rjcs'like:
"Holy Mosps I I
Abraham, Isaac and auwo II T.
Willigan ! will
nobody help riiol I. am gone,
ah (crescendo-' l)"1' At
last by common impulse wo all
rushed to our doors and played
a'fliabolic 'tatob.' ' Wo 'pouhUed'
and yolled and drowned tho
screams of v tho ,'dyjng manf
After twenty minutes exercise
a guard on tho top of thg
building ovidontly woke up arid-asked
in tho coolest possiblo
manner, "Do you folks want
jinything ? " Tho question was
perhaps quito nturl, but wp
uiougnc ic was unnecessary.
Our cry had been taken up
by tho twonty men bolow us,
by the forty men across tlio
yard and by about sixty men
n tho main building colls
ng tho yard. Wo oxplain?d
;o tho awakened Cerberus that
a guest was dying and that a
turnkey, doctor or perhaps an
undertaker was needed. Tho
,guai;d agreed to go and look
for one?of tho parties suggested
and we subsided our noisp.
We wore now sufficiently calm
to enquire who our suffering
neighbor -was arid I learned
that it was friend L. We called
out to him, praying him to
compose himself for a few
minutes until help should ar
rive, and With tho tonderest of
voices we asked him where he
"had, it." Tlie human heart
must bo corrupt and hard, but
I cannot hide -that tho announcement
from the sufferer's
cell, now plainly heard all over
the yard, that it was "me toe,
oh Moses, mo big too,-oh 1"
broke the solemnity and a
oral roar greeted the complainant.
It was not meant to be,
cruol,, that roar. It was the
laughter of relief. When you
expect to find a friend dying
and then Je'arn that it is only
an attack of gout in his toe
which makes him howl, you feel
justified in grinning, although
I 'don't doubt tliat' pain Tin that
part of tho aria'tomy is, to say
the least, disagreeable. However,
I am not writing ; essays
on gout, I wanted simply to
.show that it took from 30 to
40 minutes before tho turnkey
arrived! dnd open tho door to
JU. s ceil. A prison ot the size
of Oahu jail should certainly
havo the lover lock which enables
tho turnkey to open tho
doors to a row of colls in one
move. During my stay at tho
hotol jailor Low got now padlock,
and keys, which of course
was some improvement on the
old system.
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And will leave for tho ahove port with Malls
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Juno 21. ... , Juno 2-1
July 1C .'Jnly',20
Aug. 0 Aug, 14
Sept 2 '
Sept. 30 ;.. ,,Oot. 2.
Oct. 21 Oct. 27.
Nov. 15 , Nov. 20
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AKIUVK HONOLULU LSAVK IlANOLUHJ
Mariposn. .... Juno 0 I Arawn Mvy 3o
Arawa ....... .July -1 1 Alnmcdn. . .Jnno 27
Alnmnrln. . . .Allrr 1 I Mnrlnnnn. .'.Tiilv 5fi
Marlposu. . . . ,Aur. 2 I Arawn. . . .-.Auk, .22
Arawa. , Kept. 'JU Alnmodn. . .aept. Hi
Alameda Oct. 24 Mariposa. .Oct. 17
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