The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-04-20
LEWIS COMMISSIONED At THE SAILORS H0METH FINANCE CONMTTEA
HAS NOT BEEN. MADE WATER
FRONT POLICEMAN.
No Intention Of Making Him Such.
Authorized to Serve Captains and
Consulars' warrants.

Oscar Lewis has not been commits
stoned as water front police officer, nor
was there ever any intention of so
commissioning him.
When Harry Evans resigned week
ago, the marshal decided that for the
present there was no need of a special
officer for the water front for the rea-
son that the quarantine regulations did
away with the necessity of searching
vessels, funigation with sulphur fumes
| being as certain a means of finding
stowaways as the most careful search
by the most experienced men could be.
Quarantine regulations in other ways
reduced the work that usually falls to
the water front policeman.
With the gradual letting up of quar-
antine regulations and the probability
that such regulations will be reduced
to the normal conditions at the end
of this month, Marshal Brown has Sc
lected Harry Flint, who has been for
some time an employe of the Board of
Health, and comes well recommended,
to be the waterfront policeman, to be =
gin his duties May 1. He will be the
| successor of Harry Evans.
But though the need of a regular wa
ter front policeman has not been press
ing of late, there are always a larger
or smaller number of desertions from
vessels in the harbor. If a warrant is
issued for the arrest of these deserters
either by the captain of the vessel from,
which the desertion occurs, or by the
consul of the country whose flag the
vessel flies, the police by law are OBJ
! liged to serve these warrants. In or
der to serve them promptly requires a
certain amount of knowledge of sail
ors where to find them and how to dis
tinguish them from men of other call
ings in a crowd. For the purpose OF
serving these warrants during the time
that there was no regular water front
policeman, Oscar Lewis, because of his
knowledge of sailors was given a spe-
cial commission to serve such war.
rants. But his commission was limited
to that purpose. He had no authority
to arrest for investigation" and as {
matter of fact Marshal Brown says ht
has made no arrests for 'investiga.
tion," nor no arrests except on a cap.
tain's CIR consular warrant.
4 The captains warrants which Levi:
is authorized to serve, are provided fol
in Section 1894 of the Penal Laws o.
Hawaii, which provides that "if any
seaman desert from vessel, the com
! Ernanding officer shall; under the penal
ty of fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars, within forty eight hours there
after, inform the Chief of Police of th
Port of such desertion, to the end tina
he may be restored to his vessel" TIL,
warrant is simply a written notifica
tion of the fact that such and such
sailor has deserted, with a request TO
his apprehension.
The consular warrants spoken of il
connection with captains warrants ar
provided for in Section 1901 of the Pena
Laws, which is as follows: "Upol
written application made to the Chic
of Police of any port, by any foreign
Consul, Vice-Consul, or Commercial
Agent, residing in this Republic, re
questing the arrest of any mutinou
person, or persons, on board of an,
vessel of his nation, being within tn
jurisdiction of this Republic, it shal
; be lawful for such chief, or any othe
officer of police, to proceed on boar
such vessel, and arrest the person o
persons described in such application
, provided such Consul, Vice Consul, o
/ Commercial Agent, shall state in hi
| application, that he will indemnify tn
Chief of Police from all damages
which may result from said proceeding
and from the detention of such per
: son or persons, and that he will pay a.
costs and charges incident thereto"