Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-25

cession OF sounds that resembled heavy yoIIeys
OF musketry the wire parted. fell to within .
few feet Of the street car and after remaining
suspended for awhile finally reached the level
OF the roadway. 1t was truly Q '1ive'
wire 1t was white hot and the heat
expanded it to diameter Of several inches: it
squirmed in snake-like gyrations from curb to
curb, sizzled in the cutters ard Kissed in little
pools between the tracks. People ran wildly
to places Of safety and miraculously enough
every one succeeded in avoiding the writhing
coils OF what seemed to be demoniac metal. To
insure public safety the police reserves we're
called out and this Gordon forbade the entrance
Of men and women who might have trespassed
upon the rights Of the trolley company to their
own destruction.
In the news columns Of The STAB will be
found description-addi.ional to that already
printed-of the underground system which is
being operated within the city by the Rock
Creek Railway Company. That it works we'll is
evident to any observer; that its cost is not ex-
cessive is apparent, that it is comparatively
harmless is beyond question. Why should it
not succeed. unless the trolley men kill it?
Semi-relationship with the United States may
or may not be responsible for some Of the con-
ditions now prevailing in Hawaii, but no one
can deny that there is a close family resem-
blance between things as they are in Honolulu
and in Washington. Here the coionels occupy
all the seats in the hotel corridors and perch on
the trunks in the baggage department and
stand around in dark corners while endeavor-
ing to console one another for bitter disap-
pointnents caused by lack of presidential ap-
probation. Men who took their coats off last
fall so as to give their lungs free play whisper
sobbingly of ingratitude and several other
things that they honestly believe are under
it IN Hawaii? The Honolulu Commercial Ad-
uertiser of the 9th instant SAYS in
its news columns that for some DAYS
there has been "discontent among the
ranks OF the governments supporters, simply
on account of several of the appointments that
have been made. The people who have been
are not going around in . noisy, dis
contented manner, but their displeasure is evil
dent, none the less. There are quite q number
Of good men walking about the streets who
were on hand during the darkest hours previous
to the overthrow of the monarchy; men who
carried a rifle in their hands and stood ready to
back up the committee of thirteen with their
lives. Up to now little has been done for these
people, although a number of changes have
been made in public Offices. The men who feel
sore are still good friends Of the government,
and all stand ready to back it up again if it
should be found necessary. but they object to
having Offices filed with people who are not
friends and even now are not sympathizers with
the new order Of things" Commenting on the
foregoing facts the editor remarks, in an off,
hand sort Of way, that it is not too late to hope
for better things. and further suggests that if
the city marshal and the head of the fire de-
partment cannot find any one to fill the Offices
but 'adherents of the lost cause there are
others who can. Is it possible that the bloody
shirt is to be Of the political institutions Of
Hawaii?