One
Hundred years ago the people of Hawai`i had graver thoughts on their
minds than Y2K and its associated celebrations and potential
consternations.
The "Black Death," or Bubonic Plague, had struck Honolulu. Its
presence clouded the opening months of 1900 and was on every thinking
person's mind with good reason as the disease had decimated a third
of the world's population during the fourteenth century.
In Honolulu, the plague was controlled, but over the course of four
months it claimed 61 lives and led to the almost complete destruction
of Chinatown. 
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