he was the founding member of my family in hawai'i and a prominent businessman. reading his autobiography that i learned about an earlier pandemic that hit honolulu chinatown. in december 1899, the bubonic plague arrived in hawai'i. the first plague victim was in chinatown. the next day, the government imposed an exclusive quarantine on chinatown, locking down the neighborhood. (distant marching) lum: "we are guarded day and night "by those who have complained that we cling together too much, "like grains of sticky rice. "now they will not let us out, fearing our lice and our fleas. "it is true that gray rats scramble beneath our floorboards "and peer down at us from our rafters. "our cockroaches are the largest in the four seas, "enough for a man to make a meal of, or so they say. "but this giddy disease has also claimed others elsewhere. "it is just that they wish to believe "that we like to wallow in our own pus, "and believing it is so, they will never allow us outside to live or to work like they do." i think there were very hard feelings that were generated