Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-24
CLUB And STAR WEARERS
Complaints Of Various Kinds Against
The Police Force.
lnjudlCiOuS Enforcement Of Rule 10 Prevent Street
Obstruction Ignorance Of Streets
"A Nasty Den.

'iSt io'Sc uiO ooCyiuk iDbti uCtIOus
to keep street corners clear OF lott
erers, at least one comes fully
authenticated to the BULLETIN
which proves how a regulation
good in itself may be made ty
ranny and even outrage to res
pectabls members of the COM
muuiiy.
On Sunday last Hawaiian
lady and two of her children were
waiting on corner for friend
who was appro aching, when they
were rudely driven of by police
mau brandishipg club. The
lady's husband belongs to one of
the Oldest families of Honolulu,
was himself educated 10 England,
and is one OF the best known aud
esteemed young professional men
10 the city.
The reporter to whom the FORE
going episode was related was
spoken to afterward by one of the
oldest residents, the lead of
family, who complained strongly
of the unrestricted reign of hood
lumism outside of the immediate
business center.
"You cannot get policeman
when there is disturbance in
yonr home neighborhool," said
the complainer, without going
to, or ringing up, the station.
There are no policemen kept out
on regular beats beyond the bust
ness quarter. What is the use Of
keeping mob of policemen down
at the station ?"
The speaker went on to tell,
what all old residents will oufirm,
about the splendid activity and
efficiency of the police uud.r Mar
shall j. l.. Kaulukou twelve years
ago.
The reporter had not got fifty
yards away from this gen,leman's
door, when h, was accosied by a
leading physician with an account
OF a horrible den right in the
heart of town. This wa, created
by vile persons occupying of
mig hts the old Howland premises,
at Uuion street and Garden lane
The place has lately been bour hit
by the Knights of Pytbias, who
have left the gates unlocked and
the house uuguarded.
Sounds Of orgies in the
place disturbed the ueighborhood.
but the liability of fire being start
ed by the jewellers was the great.
est terror. At length this medi
cal man was informed of the
nuisance aud appe led to the po-
lice authorities for its abatement.
Judge of his surprise when ked
from the station over the wire
where the streets named by him
were situated
Curiously, the same ignorance
OF streets by name was exhibited
to him by hackman, who drove
some OF his friends for thirty min
utss about the block before finding
designated house.
The physician conducted the re.
porter to the den 10 question. A
condition OF the premises was
found which would require the
pen of Dickens to describe
Even the yard, kept by the former
occupants az one OF the prettiest
gardens 10 Honolulu, WAS scene
of squalid desola,ion. Strawberry
beaten down, flower borders only
marked with wlthered stalks, filthy
pieces of clothing, together with
refuse as of camp, made up the
scene
Within the house things looked
still worse. A heap of lately fresh
bread, comprising about ven
loaves, was lying iu the middle of
the fret room entered. As many
more loaves more or less broker
and marked with dirty hands were
scattered through all the roo IN
except the kitchen. This last was
the cleHnest apartment in the
house, having no signs of occu
psncy by the dissolute, nocturnal
squa ters.
Two filthy rugs, which it was
suggested were probably stolen,
were spread at one end Of III inner
room. Everywhere the mating
covering the floors was smeared
with nondescript dirt, excepting
where Uttered with offal not indie.
scribable but uncomfortable. An
empty soda water case and cigar