The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-09

are with US again. We try to drive them
out OF town, and we are shipping them
out all the time, on threat of inlprison-
ment. They come here, I suppose. be-
cause they get the idea that living is
easy, but one fellow that we arrested
the other day said it was the d--est
town he ever struck for getting the
price Of meal, and that he had asked
seven people before he found one that
would pay for his breakfast 1 hope the
treatment we are giving them will give
the islands a hard name for the class
with the outside world before long.
They seem to think this is a good place
to come to, and Hawaii has become a
regular dumping ground for these
worthless beings"
From the Mccarthy boarding house
the hackman drove through the wretch
ed district between Queen street and
the waterfront, stopping in front of a
crowded tenement lot. Thence the Of
ficer led the way through a hole in the
fence. across lots where the refuse in
open drains and cesspools filled the air
with arevolting stencil, and into a two
story tenement of two hundred rooms,
which is the building known as .'Ah
Leong's."
Children not yet able to walk crawied
about the floors and the dark porches.
and men and women of all nationalities
teemed about the place like swarning
flies, while a smoke meared lantern
setting on the dirty floor here ana there,
cast the sickly glimmers that furnish
ed the only Nominations for the hun
dreds of degraded beings in .ags ard
dirt, that call the wretched place home.
On the upper porch a narrow rail was
the only protection from a fall of thirty
feet into the slop and mud below.
though the inmates of the place jostled
and elbowed each other roughly about
on the very edge of the boards.
In every room was. a pail of swipes,
which was not being neglected by man
woman Or child. Where the swipes come
from is a thing that the officers would
be very glad to know. There is always
swipes in the building, and every inmate
has his and her share, but they refuse
to tell where they procure it, and, al
though it is an open secret that there is
a woman in the building who manufac-
lures the drink, the most diligent search
and much detective work have failed to
result in the discovery of the offender.
Here and there the meaningless twangs
\
Gated that some We're being dismally
gay; from other rooms came droning
voices and the humping of calaba sf
| gourds, indicating the native form OF
merriment. Inmates were found in va
rious states of swipes intoxication, but
they were unmolested by the officers sc
/ long as they were not entirely helpless
| At this place, Mr.. Chillingworth stat
ed, on hilarious nights, and particularly
| an Ga ar To he a par1
! erous harvest of common DRINKS
among them a motley throng of the
floating element, coming from all part:
of the earth, and kept continually on the
move by the officers. of all ports where
they land. No town, no city, no country
wants them, and they are bundled abou
from one place to another. WORTHLESS:
| "vagsr ready for the committing of any
crime or the doing of any deed that il
suggested to them by person or circum
stance, begging, thieving, robbing ant
| frequently killing, in turn, and eking gu
a wretched existence at the expense o
other people, and disdaining work of an.
and all kinds.
OF this class of undesirable citizens
Mr.. Chillingworth says Honolulu is get
ting more than her share, and not onl.
Honolulu but all the Islands. A numbe
of "vags' confided their troubles to tn
officers and they say with one accor'
4 that the trip to Hilo and return on tn
Kinau is about the worst they eve
came up against.
The Police Department is doing it
, best to watch the waterfront and I
guard against the immigration of tramps
but they are still pouring in at an alarm
ing rate and their names and crimes ar
filing the rosters of the Police Court
High Sheriff Brown and his faithful dep
uties are bundling the unwelcome wan
derers out of the Territory with all pos
sible dispatch, and will endeavor to max
the outpour as nearly equal to the In
pour as they can, but as Mr.. Chilling
worth says, they have "a mighty bi
|; job on tlrsir hands,"
Attracted by the tropical climate
where a pile of lumber is a warm couch
and by the reports that one may pic
his dinner off the trees, the Wear
Willies'' are f1ocking in. with ever
steamer, sometimes at the rate of fiftee
to ship. 1t is to be hoped that the Sc
we're treatment they are receiving Wi
result in Honolulu's being put on tn
black list by the worthless fraternit
before many more moons.