The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-18

my own grounds, and that If there
was any necessity for a cZarda / would
build one myself. That man went TO
Mr.. Stephany, who sold him part OF
my space for $1,000.
ST. PATRICK's DAY MEMORIES.
"When l demonstrated, Stephany
told me TO go to law, but had already
experienced American lawsuits, and
had enough of them, so / had to stand
by and could not prevent the erection
of a cZarda right next to my place of
business. At that time / still owed
$1,000 on the original price of my
place, and this L promptly refused to
pay. But these men were smarter than
I, and they evidently considered that
Papa Seidl would come to terms after
being handled in truly American
style.
"On March 18th Irish day was cele-
brated. They had grand procession
in honor OF st. Patrick, the patron
saint of the Green Isle, and the at
tendance was so very great that /
hoped my receipts would be large.
What do you suppose happened? The
officers placed dozen exhibition hire.
lings in front of my place. They were
trusted with keeping order inside the
Exposition fences. Not single Gus
toner was permitted to enter my
place. / would have willingly paid
that $1,000 to save that day; but / could
not find Mr.. Stephany or any one else
to whom to pay the money. At half
past in the afternoon, when the mid
day business was all over and after /
paid $500, the police were taken from
my place, but of course my receipts
for that day had been considerably di-
minished. Three days later they made
me pay the other $500.
"Under such circumstances had no
desire to await the end of the Exposi-
ton, and L was extremely anxious to
return to my dear Vienna, but the
gentlemen of the exhibition would
not let me go. They said they must
have Papa Seidl in the Prater and a
Vienna Prater without Papa Seidl
would not amount to anything Sol
had to remain.
"At last, during the troubles of the
strike, of which the readers of this
paper were informed at the time, and
OF which several pictures were print
ed, came the close of the exhibition
without song or band 1t was really
ended before it closed, and even at
its height had only sham life. Who
was more Joyous and happy than we
when we knew that the hour of relief
approached.
The exhibition was not we'll patron
lied. The average attendanc was from
800 to 400 people day. The people of
The cause of opposition is easily
guessed. 1t is no wonder that some
of the exhibitors became SO angry
that they took their revolvers into
their hands.
AUSTRIA FOREVER.
"One of these poor fellows desired
to see one of the officers of the Fair,
but he knew that he was well guarded
and that his private secretary would
not permit any man with grievance
to approach him. Not finding the one
he sought he shot three bullets through
the secretary, infiicting severe
wounds"
Papa Seidl refers, of course, to the
shooting by Jake Rudolph in the office
of the Chronicle. BY some mysteri-
Gus mental process Seidl gained the
impression that the assault of Rudolph
was the result of the losses of the men
engaged in business at the fair, and
that Rudolph himself was one of the
unfortunate concessionaires.
awe had done miserable business in
San Francisco" continues the state
ment of Papa Seidl, "but even if we
had learned that all the money we had
lost would be returned to us we would
not have remained there any longer
Here in Austria people are complain
ing because of the heavy taxes. /
myself must confess that payment of
taxes has always been very burden
some to me, but now, since / have
visited America, the land of no taxes,
L am perfectly willing to pay taxes to
my dear Austria, because here one
gets at least justice, protection for his
life, health and property and one is
assured that he will find judges who
cannot be bribed, and a proper police
administration. All Of these things
in America are totally lacking"