The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-22

in their pockets, and can drive around
in carriages at your expense. Much
applause.)
/ Now, fellow citizens, you know what
you need. Stick together and get men
from your midst to run your affairs.
You don't need fellows from offices;
you can get men from among your
selves who know your needs 1 have
had men who are working for me COM
plain of fellows who have worked to-
gether with Japs on discharging ships
We can't blame them. But now let
US stick together. Then let the ones
who wants to be Hawaiians, haoles
and Portuguese be so, and let the ones
who want to be Japs, be Japs. Cap
plause.) Somebody has remarked to
me that this might be a political dodge.
Cut that out. This is for your bread
and your famiIy's food, which your
work gives you. Politics never gave
you fish and poi, but your work did
Before closing I will make a few re-
marks upon how we should organize.
L suggest that we tonight elect officers,
say for until December 80. They could
draw out the plans and then we could
elect permanent officers. Then, by that
time you would know more about these
things. Don't be in a hurry to sign
this clubs papers, but think it over,
and then if you think it is best to sign,
sign it and don't let us wait until it is
too late. (Applause.) L thank you for
your kind attention
Mr.. Mossman's speech was followed
by speeches from Kaeo, Olepau, the
foreman for the Oceanic Steamship
Company; Nika, foreman at Brewers
wharf; Robert Ahuna and Jacinto.
They all spoke on the same subject as
Mossman, Jacinto explaining the prop
osition in Portuguese to his country
men.
The officers, to serve until December
so, were then elected by reclamation,
on Mr.. Mossman's suggestion. AT the
end of that period permanent officers
viii be elected by vote.
Mr.. Kaeo, president; William Ole
pau, vice president; Mr.. Nika, treasur-
er; Fred Kauahi, secretary.
The meeting closed about S:45.
Another Active Rat Campalguer.
Captain Allen, of the ship Benjamin !
F. Packard, which has been discharg |
ing at Naval wharf No. 1, says that /
he has q cat on board his ship which /
could give all the quarantine services ,
fumigating apparatus cards and spades |
and beat it at the game.
This pussy halls from San Francisco,
and has followed the way of the sea
for several years on board the Pack
ard She keeps the vessel entirely !
clear of rats and also at times devotes /
her attention to whatever wharf the /
vessel happens to lie up to, clearing it
of every trace of the rodent family. On /
board the ship she didn't have any !
chance to catch rats during the last |
long voyage from Norfolk around the /
Horn to this city, as she had already /
cleaned these animals out /
of the vessel She found a substitute, /
however, when the ship came into trop- !
ical waters, and found that flying fish |
could afford some pretty good sport. |
Accordingly she used to perch on the !
bowsprit of the vessel, and here she |
managed to catch quite a number Of
the finny tribe with much adroitness |
one night she came to grief, howev-
er. During the first evening watch
the first mate heard the cat wailing,
bat paid no attention to it. When the
second watch began the second mate,
who had this watch, heard the mewing
of the cat and started to search for
her The sound seemed to come from
the after part of the vessel, and he
went aft. but could not see the cat.
Finally he leaned over the stern, and
now he distinctly heard the sound
from down below. He then lowered a
lantern. and by it's light he say the
cat perched on the rudderhorn.
Pussy had evidently been engaged in
her favorite pastime on the bowsprit
and had probably become excited and
had fallen overheard. AS the sea was
very smooth and the ship was just
drifting along, she had succeeded in
gaining the rudderpost. AS it was, this
seat was a very precarious one, as
the rudderpost would every now and
then dip under the water and give
pussy a ducking. AS soon as the pill
kia was discovered, however. a sailor
with a basket into which he put the
cat, who now walks the deck of the
Packard, a terror for any rat who ven
lures near her domains.
Irene at Tacoma.
The trim, new, four-masted schooner
Irene, of San Francisco, Captain S. Z.
Mitchell, arrived at Old Town yesterday
morning in tow of the tug Dolphin, nine
teen days out from Honolulu. The Irene
encountered good weather. with strong
winds, most of the voyage. except just
outside the straits, where the weather
was bad. This is her first time at Ia
coma.
Although he has not been here for the
past three years. Captain Mitchell is
/ native son." as st were, having been