The Hawaiian star., 1901-10-22
PARTNERSHIP BOXES PAU ANOTHER CAPTAIN RHRD 70 MURDER WIFE MAKE RUN AND ALCOHOL
POsTOFFICE SHUTS DOWN
FRIENDLY SUB LEASES.
Trials and Tribulatlons Of Honolulu
Omcials-Hard TO Lose old Time
Easy Going Methods.

Empathic regulations with regard %
the use of post Office boxes are to be es.
tablished within "a short time. lnstruc-
tions 10 this effect came some time ago
from Washington but Louis KenafA
knowing the one big family style V
carrying along affairs that prevailed
here for sO long, pleaded for more time
The fiat has now gone forth however
and Jones. Brown. Smith, Robinson e
al, VINO have hitherto all been enjoys
ing Whites box, will have to get boXeg
of their own or else have their mat
placed in the general delivery or de-
iivered by carrier to their homes
or offices. In some cases there
have been over half a dozen names
an calling for the mail from one
box and a great many Of them coming
to the delivery window or to Mr.. Ke-
make after hours with a please won
you give me my mail out Of box so and
so. Oh no / haven't got the key, you
| see Mrs. Brown gave me permission and
! her husband is a friend of Mr.. Smith s
and he works in White and Company =
! Office and so on with variations ad
| inhnitum. one family or one firm and
members can use the box but the line
stops there
! Sometimes where two or three share
/ a box and pay in turn, there Is a ques-
| tion as to whose turn it Is and three in
| dignant men face Mr.. Kenake and de-
mand to know why their box is closed
/ each accusing the other in a triangular
duel
! Then there Is the man who comes to
| town with letter of Introduction 10 a
prominent firm and who has letters
awaiting his arrival placed In the firm
/ box. His steamer gets In late and he
| appears at the post Office after hours
with some friendly and good citizen
| often unknown to the post Office official
and asks for mail from Smiths OF
/ some large firms box. BE doesn't gel
1t and expresses his opinion of Homo
lulu regulations.
| The officials are getting rather tired
of this kind Of business and Louis Ke-
make is weary of telling folks that Of
| licially he does not recognize his own
brother where the regulations are con-
| cerned; and a very few weeks will see
the rule rigldly enforced.
The local postofiice is I'm hopes Of see
| ing some of the other Pacific Coast
ports besides San Francisco capture
mail contracts for the next four years
term not from any i'll will towards the
! Golden Gate but because mail from
Seattle and San Diego as well as Frisco
would distribute matters and create
what is termed an irregular mail. Al
! lt is eNefyDOdy knows eXctly when
letter from the East is coming in theii
own estimation and thereby hangs an.
i other bane of Kenake's official career
The mail Is not distributed when the
! door of Eenake's private Office is burs
onen ond er"aPo1 and well known citi
zen enters Look here Louis, there's
letter of mine here somewhere. 1t got
lost somewhere and I've got to have II. >
How do you know 1t was coming OF
this mail"' "Of course I know. He al
ways writes. know he was going t
write. It's been lost somewhere in thu,
office" And next mail comes the Iettel
with an apology for missing the mail OF
not having time.
1T seems like reiterating the matter
said Mr.. Kenake this morning "bu
really people do not give us the credi
we deserve. In view of conditions w,
are giving better service than New
York. Take big city where a man ex
poets a letter from the East II 4
doesn't come tomorrow II will the mex
day and no one knows when a big mai
comes In or hounds the post office Off
cials to death when 1t arrives.
Take for example the Alameda Sa
! turday She brought in eight days mai
between sixty and seventy thousand let
ters. If we had an average of 800 let
ters day coming in we could handI
II easily enough but when the boys Sc
a great pile of sacks piled up all at on
time and know that every man. woman
and child in the city Will growl until tn
mail is out, why II takes the heart on
or the boys before they start in [,
work"