The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-27
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The LEI WOMEN AND SIDEWALK
OBSTRUCTION.
Footways and Streets Must be Kept
Free to Public Trafic-Thirty-Five
Chinese Hucksters Reprimanded.

CnlHeSe I1uCkSlGiS INGpillldllu0hs
Thirty-fve Chinese hucksters arrest |
ed Sunday and Monday for obstructing !
the sidewalks by using them as places |
to sell their wares, were before the |
District Court this morning. Attorney |
General Cooper was present in the
court when the cases were called T..
NJ. Brooks appeared for the defend
ants. He entered a plea of guilty for
all of them. "The Marshal he said,
mas told me that the man from whom
these defendants secured their supplies
was notified to warn them that they
must not use the sidewalks as a market
place. This notification, the Marshal
says, was given before any arrests were
made. But in talking with these de-
PENDANTS they say they were not told
Of the warning and did not know that
they were violating any rule. They are
all men who have suffered losses by the
plague and the Chinatown fire. They
are all, or nearly all very poor men
VINO are trying to make q living in an
honest way. That they are poor and
have lost practically their all, is shown
by the clothes they wear. They are
dressed in the cheapest cotton cloth
and cheap shoes, and that these clothes
are the clothes of necessity and not of
choice, is shown by the fact that most
of them are cut in the style of Ameri-
can working clothes and not in the
Chinese style.
."At the same time neither their ig-
norance nor their poverty gives them
any right or license to violate public
regulations. They are only reasons ap-
| pealing to your honor in mitigation.
They plead guilty; they know the law
now; they have promised not to COM
NIT the offense again, I submit that
as slight a penalty as possible will sat
isfy the demands of the proper admin
! istration of the law"
! Deputy Marshal Chillingworth said
that the prosecution had no desire for
heavy penalties.
(Which do you think would be best"
asked Judge Wilcox, "a reprimand or
suspension of sentence?"
II think a reprimand would answer
the purpose in this case, the best" re-
piled Attorney General Cooper.
| They were repriTnanded accordingly
the matter being fully explained to
them in Chinese
These arrests" said Attorney Gen
eral Cooper, las we'll as the arrests for
riding and trundling bicycles on the
! sidewalk are all in pursuance of a con-
slstent policy of keeping the sidewalks
unobstructed and clear for the public
The arrests in connection with the Sal
VaJlOn army meetings. lnOuBl nave
no knowledge of the facts of these are
in pursuance of the same policy. The
streets and sidewalks ought to be kept
free for public use"
What about the lei women?" was
asked
The Attorney General laughed.
"The lei women" he said, "have al
most acquired a title to occupancy by
prescription, not in law but in sentl-
ment AS long as they do not interfere
with the public use of sidewalks any
more than they do now, I do not know
that there is any call to interfere with
them. However there is no promise to
them on the subject"
The names of three men, Emil Ney,
talbot Weir and c. A. Mosgrove ar
rested last night for obstructing the
street in connection with the Salvation
Army meeting on Hotel near Fort
were stricken from the District Court
calendar this morning by direction of
Marshal Brown. "The Salvation Army"
said the Marshal, holds street meetings
in the evening about in front of Davey'S s
photograph gallery. The street is mar
row there and is much used. The or
ders to the police are to keep the side
walks clear and unobstructed especial
ly the upper sidewalk for that is the
one most used and most crowded, and
to keep a third of the street open and
clear for carriages and other vehicles.
These orders are to apply especially on
Saturday nights when the streets are
most crowded. I have several times
asked the Salvation Army people to
hold their meetings a little further
along toward Union Square where the
| street is wider and more open and
there is more room. But naturally they
want to have their meeting where the
most people and the biggest crowds are,
The three men arrested were not guilty
Of a serious offense and so their cases
were stricken from the calendar"
Major Wood of the Salvation Army
says that the Salvationists always
make it point to keep in the street
and not on the sidewalk. and several
feet from the sidewalk. People on the
sidewalk stop to listen, and see what is
; going on. But he thinks the police OFF,
GERS did not show judgment in their
!, way of keeping the sidewalk clear. F5
, says, moreover that the people who as
rule obstruct the sidewalk at that
point, are not the people who stop t.
listen or take part in their meetings
hut are the people who formerly made
a resort of the Pantheon saloon, but
who since the burning of the Pantheon
, have gone across the street and swelled
the similar crowd there who obstruct
the sidewalk and with profane and OBJ
scene language make Il unpleasant foi
people who have to pass along there
He says Captain Mathis counted the
l people who were around their meeting
{ last night at the time the police made
= the arrests and that there were just
c thirty of them and nine of the Saliva
= tiOnistS.