The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-09
.VAGS ARE
NUMEROUS
Honolulu darkest
Places Are
Crowded.
HUMAN WRECKS
CAST ON BEACH
Visit to the City's Tramp Resorts
in Company With
Police Chief.

The ragtag and bobtail of humanity
is finding it's way into Honolulu in in
creasing numbers. No one realizes the
fact better than does Deputy Sheriff |
Chillingworth, whose duty it is TO
roundup that same ragtag and bobtail |
which constitutes the floating ele- |
ment of the city's population, and to
see that it is kept floating.
Last night was the occasion of one
of Mr.. Chillingworth's round-ups, and
| by his courtesy representative of the
Advertiser was permitted to accom-
pany him in his search for the wand
e.ipg ones. Knowing where to go to
find them, the officer had no difficulty
in gathering his harvest.
Mr.. Chillingworth ordered the hack
man to drive to the corner of Queen
and Punchbowl streets, and alighting
there led the way through the slush
and mud of an ill-smelling alley, which
was total darkness, to large tenement
house known as All Leong's M. l.
Here apparently all was well, as quiet
reigned, and by. the struggling beams
of light that came from dirty coal-oil
lamps through the curtainless win
ldows, the inmates were seen to be en-
Gagged in such peaceful pursuits as the
smoking of pipes and the twirling OF
thumbs. This, however, the deputy
lsheriff stated, was until recently, one
of the vilest haunts in the city, and it
Twas common incident a few weeks ago
to find drunken and half-naked men
Lying about in the mud and slush of the
yard. I'VE used to back up the patrol
Wagon here in this alley" said the Of
lfier, "and dump them into it. On Sat
urday night, particularly, it was bad.
THAT is when the swipe carnival is at
Its highest, and by coming around mere
about twelve o'clock we could find them
as. thick as flies, all completely par
alyzed and lying around in the mud
dead drunk. We have got this place
pretty well Strengthened out now. but
PT1o show you place that takes the
lcake."
With this he led the way back through
the narrow dark alley, across the
street, down another alley of the
lslushy, odoriferous type, and into a
Iside gate where he hailed a number of
lindolent half-clad men who were loaf
down house, and inquired for Mr.. Nc
Carthy, the proprietor of McCarthy's
boarding house. An unkempt individ-
ual with shock of red hair. came to-
the door with bunch of keys in his
hand, a towel over his bare shoulders
nd pair of nondescript trousers hang
ing about his hips.
| In response to Mr.. Chillingworth' $
Inquiries, Mr.. Mccarthy said he had a
full house. and that Katie" was good
again. Katie herself presently ap-
ipeared. She is well-known character
of Kakaako being addicted to the ex-
cessive use of swipes and numerous
thumpings at the hands of her husband.
Recently she was brought home from a
swipes carnival at All Leong's by her
lord and master, and given a horrible
: beating, for which Mr.. Mccarthy paid
a fine of 800 to the police court. Re
, conciliation is now in order and domes-
tic tranquility reigns.
Anybody in the tent tonight?'' in
tquired the officer.
'T don't know" answered the ro-
prietor. ''ain't none there unless they
been put there; might of been some
more robbed an chucked in there SOS
they could lay the blame onto me-
It was explained that Mr.. Mccarthy
: is frequently the victim of other peo-
, lple's crimes. The tramps and hard
! characters about the waterfront set
: hold Of the newly landed sailors, get
them drunk or swipes. rob them of their
money, and tNen take them to the Nc
Carthy house and stow them in the
tent on the premises; when the sailors
awake from their swipe sleep they
TIL,
Carthy, and there Is pflikia for that
gentleman. The tents bout all torn
to pieces now added the man. "there
was lot o bad ones in there Saturday
3 night, and they nigh done away with
Z the tent altoeether."
a visit to the tent corroborated the
statement. Three or four old straw
bed ticks, dirty and foul smelling were
tumbled about the sloppy earth floor of
what had once been a canvas tent; but
z which was now frame work of tat
tiers and strips, with one side of the top
entirely torn away. According to Mr..
Chillingworth, this is the vile nest for
the worst element in town. 81 have
found them slowed away in here said
he, ..as many as thirty at a time, In all
stages of intoxication, fighting, SQUAD
bling, cursing and in the even more
r disgusting stage Of drunken sickness:
5 they pile in old sheet iron or anything
5 TO keep the damp from coming I'D from
the ground, and they crawl in there to
sleep. 1t Is hard to conceive now iu-
man beings can become so degraded.
They are of all nationalities-the riff
raft that are brought in here by steam
ers and sailing vessels from the outside
world; they come as stow-aways. or
any way they can get here, and unless
we can get them out again they keep
us busy. They are the lowest type of
} criminal. and they keep coming in all
: the time. We watch the waterfront rs
E closely as we can, and we have men
: watching the parks all night to catch
the vagabonds that try to sleep on the
benches, but there is no possible way