The Daily Bulletin

THE QUEEN'S HOSPITAL.
It is one of the characteristics of
enlightened civilization that provi-
sion is made for the mitigation of
suffering. Among savage and bar-
barous peoples, the sick and suffer-
ing are allowed to die with as little
trouble as possible to the survivors.
or to bear their ills as best they
can. But a civilization established
on the basis of the religion of the
Great Healer who went about con-
tinually doing good, can not look
with indifferent eyes on the various
forms of pain and distress which
beset human life without making
some effort to afford relief. Our
late lamented Queen, whose decease
we all mourn to-day, was
A NOBLE INSTANCE
of that charity which is kind. With
a strong affection for the Hawaiian.
acknowledged by all ethnologists to
be the noblest of the Polynesian
races, her practical mind was ready
to grasp an excellent scheme, by
which in sickness they might al-
ways have a place of resort, and
where they might be sure of all the
care and treatment that the science
and skill of more advanced civiliza-
tions had been able to discover.
Nor was the stranger or the foreigner
forgotten in the founding of the in-
stitution that bears her name. Pro-
vision has been made for their
wants, the only difference between
them and the Hawaiian race being
in the terms of admission. In the
management and arrangement of the
institution, due respect is had to
THE SOCIAL TASTES
of the varied nationalities of the
patients. In a community like this,
composed of portions of every race
of mankind under the sun, it would
be a very disagreeable phase of hos-
pital life if the sick were brought
together indiscriminately, although
the treatment might be the best in
the world. As will be seen below,
there is no heterogeneous comming-
ing of races in the Queen Emma hos-
pital. For a quarter of a century
this has been one of the institutions
of Honolulu. It is supported partly
by legislative appropriations, partly
by fees, and partly by a tax levied on
passengers per steamers and ships
from foreign ports. At its biennial
session, the legislature places the
sum of $15,000, that is, at the rate
of $7,500 per annum, to the credit
of the institution. Of the two dollars
per head levied on foreign. passen-
gers coming here, a part goes to the
Benevolent Societies, and a part to
the Hospital. Hawaiians are
ADMITTED FREE,
also are foreigners who have acquir-
ed citizenship by taking the oath of
allegiance. The fees payable by
foreigners vary from 50 cents to
$2.50 per day. The Benevolent
Societies have the privilege of
sending patients to Hospital at half-
price. Under the head of Societies
—Benevolent and Social," there
are in Honolulu, according to
McKinney's Directory, no less than
fourteen separate organizations—the
Board of Hawaiian Evangelical
Association; the British Club; the
German Club; the Sailors' Home
Society; the Mechanics' Benefit
Union; the Woman's Board of Mis-
sions, with its branches, the Mis-
sionary Gleaners and the Helping
Hand Society; the Strangers' Friend
Society; the American Relief Fund;
the German Benevolent Society; the
British Benevolent Society; the
Ladies' Benevolent Society of Fort
Street Church; the San Antonio
Benevolent Society; the Mission
Children's Society; and the Deut-
scher Verein.
The
MANAGEMENT
OF THE HOSPITAL
is under the directions of a
Board, the President of which is
His Majesty the King, the other
officers being a Vice-President, Se-
cretary, Treasurer, Auditor, two
visiting physicians, and an execu-
tive committee of five citizens. The
visiting physicians are Doctors R.
McKibbin, and S. Trousseau, who
make their rounds at stated times
every day, and are at call on other
occasions if needed. The Purveyor
and Apothecary, Mr. John F. Ec-
kardt, with his assistant, dispenses
medicines and superintends the offi-
cers of the establishment generally.
External patients are treated free at
the dispensary.
This privilege is,
however, limited to Hawaiians. The
hospital is a capacious building, one
hundred feet long by fifty feet wide,
of two stories high, with pitched
roof, the ceiling in each story being
about 14 feet high. On the north
end is a wing ninety feet long by
twenty-three feet wide. The main
building, designated the old hospi-
tal, is of coral; the wing, or New
Hospital, is brick, covered with
cement. The outside walls are
prettily finished in imitation stone.
Taken altogether, the building pre-
sents
A FINE APPEARANCE.
It is pleasantly situated in a quiet
retreat located at 72 Punchbowl
street, near the foot of Punchbowl
mountain. It is surrounded and
partly overshadowed by an exuber-

ance of tropical vegetation. There
is everything in the surroundings to
to suggest comfort, and, viewed
froin the street, the place might be
taken for the residence of some mil-

lionaire who had determined
to
realize
A POETIC IDEAL
of happiness in the midst of a sea of
umbrageous luxuriance. The hospi-
tal grounds extend over several
acres. Finely kept drives and walks
lead to the building from the street.
These approaches are studded right
and left with majestic royal palms
and date palms planted at regular
distances. Trees and shrubs meet
the eye in gorgeous luxuriance, at
every point. To the stranger, espe-
cially, who is not accustomed to
tropical vegetation, the
LORDLY PALMS,
the grand wide-spreading algarobas,
and the massive leaves of the ba-
nana, will probably be most conspi-
cuous among the trees. Taken alto-
gether, besides every variety of
palms, the hospital grounds have the
finest collection of trees and shrubs
to be found anywhere in these
islands. Coming to the house, the
visitor sees what seems to be a wall
of flowers and shrubbery. The
verandah is partly filled up in front
with trellis work through the inter-
stices of which the vines of the
Bignonia Venusta, Bouganvillia, Al-
amanda Fenora and other climbers
have interwoven themselves into a
great arbor decked with the rich and
beautiful flowers peculiar to these
plants.
A
FINE VIEW OF
THE GROUNDS
and outbuildings is obtained from
the upper verandah. The white
fences enclosing the area are first
pointed out by the obliging Pur-
veyor who is on hand to show the
attache of the Bulletin through the
place. Taking a view, first of the
outbuildings, the wash house is
noticed in an open space in the dis-
tance. In another direction, but
nearer, stands a long, neat building
in which the employees are domi-
ciled. At a distance of 50 feet a small
building, with trellis walls, covers the
site of the gasoline generator em-
bedded at a safe depth in the
ground. Behind the cook house
runs a narrow building, 120 feet
long, containing the carpenter and
paint shop, the dead house and the
clothes-ironing room. Beyond this
is a small detached building appro-
priated to what are called "bad
cases." Patients, with disorders of
an offensive character, are treated
there. Entering the building, the
visitor will observe a wide hall run-
ning through the centre, with a cor-
ridor, midway, leading to the front
entrance. Starting at the north end
of the hall, the first room entered
on the right is
THE DISPENSARY,
a fine large apartment with the oper-
ating room opening off it. Across the
hall opposite the dispensary, are the
store rooms where drugs and medi-
cines, in quantity, are kept. Next
to this is the dining room for foreign
patients. Next to the dispensary is
a ward of. eight beds, which is
seldom used, owing to deficiency in
ventilation. Adjoining this, are
three closets for storing bed-cloth-
ing, etc. Next on this side is a
small waiting room. This brings us
to the corridor, on the other side of
which is a large ward of 12 beds
used for Chinese. Crossing the hall
and going back, the first is a ward
of 11 beds for native male patients.
Then come two wards with a door
between, one of 8 and the other 11
beds for native males, Over the
door, between these rooms, hangs a
framed cabinet photograph of Queen
Emma.
A memorial service was
held Sunday before last in the first
named of these wards in honor of
the deceased. Going back through
the hall, passing out at the south
door, and crossing a narrow alley,
another building is reached. This
contains a dining room for native
males, when able to answer the
dinner bell's
JOYFUL SOUND,
and also the bath houses for natives.
Next to this dining room is the cook
house where two large ranges man-

ned by as many able-looking cooks,
prepare the nutritious element for
the whole establishment.
Returning
to the middle of the main hall, stair-
ways lead to the upper flat, at the
south end of which, on the west side,
is a ward of 10 beds for native women.
Adjoining this is the native women's
dining room, and next to this
is another ward for 11 beds. Oppo-
site this, on the east side of the hall,
are a couple of rooms occupied by
the Purveyor. Next to the Pur-
veyor's apartments is a large ward
of 12 beds for native women. And
adjoining this is a small room of 4
beds for white women. These wards
communicate, by two corridors, with
the upper verandah, referred al-
ready. In the wing, on this flat are
two more wards of 8 beds each.
Passing out of the wing by an ele-
vated
gangway, another building is
entered. This building has veran-
dahs on both sides. It is mostly
taken up with rooms for private pa-
tients. From the west verandah are
seen a
number of out-buildings
which contain the closets and bath-
rooms for foreigners. all embowered
in rich overhanging clusters of foli-
age. In the lower flat of this build-
ing is a ward of 12 beds for for-
eigners.
Sitting on his cot in one
corner of this apartment, a middle-
aged blind man is pointed out as
THE
HOSPITAL POET.
The latest production of his genius
is a memorial ode to the memory of
the deceased royal patroness of the
institution.
Here is the ode:-
EMMA HAS GONE.
Her life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in her that nature might stand
up
And say to all the world,
"This was a woman."—Shakespeare.
Like a thunderbolt hurled through the
unknown space
Came the shock of the good Queen's
death,
And a grief welled up from the Nation's
heart
Into wailings not born of breath.
That the pride of Hawaii nei's daughters
and sons,
One for whom they would gladly have
died,
Should be suddenly taken from out of
their midst,
Moistened eyes that had long been dried.
Vain was the hope which a fond People
nursed
That the last of her line might be spared;
The Angel of Death on his dread mis-
sion came.
And the land of its high Chiefs was
bared.
Her death wrought a pain in the Haw-
allan's heart .
That no human power can allay:
The link between him and the
proud
Past was ripped
When Queen Emma was summoned
away.
Her heart was a fountain of love for her
race.
And her hand was extended to all—
Wail on, bereaved mourners, raise re-
quiem chant,
God's chosen lies under yon pall.
Our loss Is a sad one, yet God's claim
was just,
For He only had called back His own;
He sought for an Angel, and chose ti
nelect
The royal dear friend we have known,
An Freedom loud shrieked when her
champion fell,
So Charity shrieked and doth mourn—
By the pure-hearted sister who strove in
her cause
No more shall her banner be borne.
Others have gone who were loved, and
were mourned
By thousands who knew of their worth:
But thou wert a something apart from
them all,
And thine equals are few upon earth.
What a praiseworthy monument thou
didst create,
When thy Hospital rose into view,
And tho' stricken ones cared for and
succor'd therein
Bless thee daily as on among few, .
Those alone who have suffered Afflic-
tion's hard stroke:
In a strange land, with strangers around.
Can grant thee full justice and thanks
for "home
Where helping hand, ready, is found.
Within the extremes of our green island
group,
From its loftiest peak to the sea.
There breathes not a being whose soul
doth not weep,
Thou noble dear Emma, for thee,
The aged, the orphan, the sick and the
poor,
May well shed their tears o'er thy tomb.
Thou who did'st suffer, to sufferers
brought cheer,
Ever during woe gave advice.
Thy noble life's service will reap high
reward,
And a far brighter crown shall be thine,
For the angels have whispered thy Great
Master's words—
"Well done, faithful servant of mine."
Though thy form so beloved Is removed
from our sight,
And thy soul has been wafted above,
Thy name and thy mem'ry forever shall
live,
Emblazoned in letters of love.
By the side of thy loved ones whose
spirits have flown,
Thy soul shalt be laid to thy rest,
And may the bright angels of Heaven
keep watch,
Whilst thou sleepest the sleep of the
blest.
John Brash,
Queen Emma's Hospital, May 4, 1885.
A personal interview with the
blind poet elicits the fact that he
was born in the land of the heather
in Glasgow—where he probably in-
haled some draughts of the air that
gave Robert Burns his inspiration.
His reminiscences of the early days
of Honolulu are decidedly interest-
ing, and may furnish matter, some
day, for a historical sketch. This
much, however, at present, Mr.
Brash is the only surviving member
of the old Thespasian Troupe of ama-
teur performers of Honolulu, organ-
ized in 1847. The theatre was an
old thatched house on the corner of
Hotel and Alakea streets. There
was
A TOUCH OF SADNESS
in the patient's voice as he recalled
the beauty of the grounds about the
hospital, but said he had not seen
the place for several years.
With the exception of the ward
mentioned, all the rooms present
A
VERY PLEASING FRESHNESS,
the
combined results of good
light
and
ventilation.
With
respect to cleanliness, every room is
evidently under careful supervision.
There are, at present, 56 patients
under treatment. The hospital,
however, has room, altogether, for
132 beds. Water is supplied from
a reservoir in the mountain. A lot
of fire grenades is on hand,
IN CASE OF FIRE,
besides two fire-plugs at the en-
trances to the grounds.
Long may the Queen Emma Hos-
pital stand and be a noble monu-
ment to the memory of its excellent
founder.