The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-30

u opportunity to take charge OF
| things on the waterfront. They
are known as Red" and George"
They shipped the crew on the big Amer
| lean ship Henry Willard and feel offend
ed that the members of said crew got
drunk the day they went aboard. These
new crimps are very sensitive men and
/ feel hurt to think that their character
and general reputation should be re-
Elected upon by the drunkenness of one
of the first crews they have ever ship
| ped in Honolulu.
| Red" and George" have evidently
| not travelled much outside of Oakland.
California; when they found 1t advis-
1 able to leave the States for the beneft
| of their health they, as have many
others, came here in the steerage of a
steamship with the idea that Honolulu
was a jay town, and that they could do
about as they pleased. 1t may be OF
! Interest to note, in passing. that the
police have their eyes on the new
icrimps, and that if they fail to toe the
mark they are likely to find themselves
| in hot water.
| There is certain class of men on
1.-THE waterfront who have method or
| intimidating sailors which while it Is
| the biggest kind of a bluff" often
works with the lower class of seamen,
especially when they have been drug
ged with vile whisky, and still vller
waterfront gin. This class of crimps
| for there are several kinds of crimps
even in town the size of Honolulu, as
sure their susceptible victims that they
| have a "pulr' with the police and that
unless the men will ship when and how
the crimps want them to, they are like
| ly to be jailed for vagrancy. Nothing
could be more false. Far from having
any influence with the police the crimps
are closely watched, and the hand or
the law is as likely to fall upon the
man who is guilty of foul play on the
waterfront as anywhere else.
Yesterday Red and George" whose
| full names are known went to the cap
| tain of a certain vessel in this port and
| told him that they would not "allow"
anything to be said by the press
against their methods or against the
men they shipped. They strenously OBJ
jected to the publication of the fact
that the members of the crew of the
Henry Willard were drunk when that
vessel left the harbor on Saturday. and
further stated that the representatives
| of the Honolulu newspapers on the
waterfront would be dealt with in
such manner that they would cease
to exploit the doings of the shipping
masters. OF course the marine report
ers of the various newspapers were
scared out of their wits and begged to
| be taken off the waterfront and as
lsigned to the reporting of afternoon
teas and church socials up town.
/ In the meantime two new crimpS
have been discovered, and very pecu-
1 liar state of affairs on the waterfront
has been brought to light
! Briefly, the condition of affairs is as
follows:
! Some time ago certain famous ship
ping masters from the coast came to
Honolulu, and, after j while, practically
| took charge of the waterfront, and in
| stituted a reign of terror. Their career
was cut short, however, by the public
ity given in the Advertiser, and they
went to the coast to enjoy a holiday.
Recently they returned to Honolulu,
and announced that they would have
nothing more to do with the shipping
business. 1t has developed, however,
that there are two other men in the
ring, or in the business, for it is still
uncertain whether there is ring, who
are doing all the heavy part of the
shipping business, while the original
masters of the waterfront are also in
the business again, although their part
in affairs Is not an active one.
There is not enough in the business
of shipping sailors in Honolulu for the
number of men who are at present en-
gagged in the occupation. That u.s. there
is not enough, supposing that there is
any competition. If ali are pulling to-
gether Ito can be made to pay.
No objection is made by the authori-
ties to legitimate shipping of sailors,
but, when a couple of men start in to
Icreate reign Of terror on the water
front, as once existed here, the ones
who are green enough to take Homo
lulu for jay town are apt to be dis
appointed.
RED" and George will not be dis
lturbed as long as they keep within the
limits of the law, but as soon as they
are found to be doing crooked work the
authorities will land on them like a
ton of bricks
Captain Quick's Story.
Captain Quick of the American shin
Henry Willard objects To tha sfatao,an,