The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-05
KAkAAKO'S GREATEST DAY
A HULA FOR MEMBERS OF THE
GRAND JURY.
Inquisitors Look Into Building
Where Swipes and Dice Make Busi-
ness for the Police.

The Grand Jury created a sensation
In kakaako yesterday afternoon. The
jurors paid visit to the district. Che
object of the visit is said to have been
to investigate the condition of a big
lodging house on Queen street, from
when have come many police court
cases. Inc Jurors went in hacks, and
on arriving at the building they be-
gan to inspect its rooms.
The several hundred inhabitants of
the lodging house were decidedly i'm
pressed with such visit from lot of
prominent citizens, and there was a
great scurrying to and fro to prepare
rooms when the jurors were seen COM
ing. The place is inhabited entirely by
very poor people, who pay only a few
dollars rent month, and it is said
that there is scarcely a bedstead in
the place, 1t Is conducted on a model
pan, with electric lights, going out
at 10 every night, but the drinks that
are making Kakaako famous find their
way into the rooms, and sets of dice
may often be heard rafting on the
floors, with the result that there are
many fights during the wee small
hours, and the police are quite often
called upon. This is said to have been
the occasion of the visit of the grand
inquisitors.
The thickly populated district where
the building stands seldom receives a
visit from the business men of Homo
lulu, and looks like bit of foreign
community. Only Chinese, Japs and
natives are to be seen. Three Primo
beer saloons divide the bottom floors
of the buildings with small soda wa
ter, Chinese merchandise stores and
barber shops. Upstairs are the small
rooms, where, in most cases with only
mats on the floor, the inhabitants live.
When the Grand Jury and it's hacks
appeared the people turned out en-
masse, to see what they could see. The
Primo men generously came to their
doors and beckoned to the good and
true men to enter and taste the new
delight of Kakaako. Upstairs the
women got ready to receive. One Ha-
waiian woman was so pleased at the
attentions showered upon her home by
the party of distinguished Honolulans
that she executed a hula on the spot.
1t is said that some of the Grand Jur-
ors had never seen a hula before.
The Grand Jury will report on what
was seen and make recommendations,
ii it finds that any are needed, as to
the improvement of the district In the
meantime Kakaalso has something to
talk about. ITS a warm place." said
white man who had once had a room
in the building of a block in length,
10 Wulcn the most alIenIlOn was given,
but there's no way to stop people fill
ing up on swipes and making trouble.
AT night l used to lay awake and lis
ten to the rattle of bones and wait
for scraps. The men and women would
fill up and then there would be a row.
The trouDIe seemed to be all round,
and L found the building the most ex-
citing place 1 ever stopped in. There
We're events every night.
s,,,1
furnished it myself. 1t is a good place
to stop, with electric lights, etc, if it
wasn't for the people who make trou-
BILE. The management does its best to
bring about peace, by turning out all
lights at ten in the evening, but the
roomers get candles and lamps, and
keep up the fun. Saturday night and
Sunday are the best times. The long
building is busy hive of pilikia
then"