The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-06
TROUBLES OF
A LANDLORD
Purser j. Piver's
Ungrateful
Germans.
TURNED OUT BY
HIS BOARDERS
Unlucky Landlord Arrested for
Collecting His Chatteis Will
Sue for Damages.

manager OF the Healam mlnStrelS, deter
mined when he quilted a seagoing life to
put to good advantage the knowledge he
had gained while purser, of the market
values of provisions and where and how
in his certifcated capacity of an AL uni
versal provider, John started boarding
house in Honolulu. Mr. Pain of tram
car celebrity, rented him house on Lu-
nallo street partly furnished; the resi-
dence was further adorned by the Chi
nese and Japanese curios accumulated
by Purser Piver in his voyagings, and
the walls adorned with his sketches.
The table set was excellent and the fame
of the clearinghouse soon spread A
ers of this town as being the owner of
peculiar memory, and who is high in the
employ of prominent business house in
Honolulu, heard of the unusual delights
of Piver's menage, and, being like all his
fellow-countrymen, fond of the good
things of this life, applied for and OBJ
tanned a room and place at the table.
Thus came the snake into Johns Eden.
Soon the American occupants of the
boarding house gave way to the wander
ers from the Fatherland. Sauer kraut
and sausage appeared oftener upon the
festive board and German took the place
of honor in the dining-room conversation.
Everything still went smoothly, however.
Piver grasped the opportunity to perfect
his Dutch dialect and his efforts to make
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please his guests. He allowed them to
lures upon the bedroom walls and turn
the back yard into shooting-range Tor
their 22-caliber rifles. A little game Of
poker was oftentimes INDUCED in by the
Germans and midnight heard cries or
"Hoch!' and 'Prosit!' mingling with the
clink of stems, while the air reeked with
the atmosphere of imported German c.
gars, the kind that come wrapped in
much tinfon and cost eight for ten
cents.
Piver felt hurt when his sketches on
the walls were supplanted by photos Of
the Emperor in every conceivable style
of mustachios, but he said nothing.
Meanwhile the price of provisions went
up and the price of board did not. I'M
ported 'wursts" of all descriptions, bot
ties of Kummel and Munchener beer de-
plSlSu Tic pIoutS vi lie uhuCi tdhih6, anu
John seriously discussed the possibility
of giving up the boarding-h house
The idea of leaving the comfortable
quarters that had now become SO thor
oughly Germanized appalled, the board
erS
What! To tear down the collections Of
cigarette pictures and naughty foreign
postal cards that they had tackled up
with so much labor? To give up the
oh. ut,
siderable furniture that had been left in
Honolulu by his family when living here,
and also owned the napery, the glasses
and the forks and spoons. What he did
not own was receipt for the past two
months rent, a fact that had been made
patent to the Germans by the appearance
of well-known collector, of sporting
proclivities, who made periodical appear
ances for the rent thathad paid for the
luxuries of the equally sporty Germans
The clerk who dabbled in stocks being
recognized as a man of parts, assisted by
a fellow-countryman of diminutive stat
ure and still more diminutive mustache,
who has only lately come to the country
and does not yet boast of much English,
aided and abetted by the rest, then
Matched a crafty scheme. The collector
was seen and joan Piver persuaded into
signing a mortgage on his furniture
signed, delivered to the conspirators, and
over the early morning pretzels John was
given notice to quit his own boarding
house.
The Germans now possessed the field
and expected to divide the expenses of
the housekeeping and thus save the enor-
nous profits so long absorbed by theiI
American landlord.
John in picturesque sea parlance sew
1tIr sod ~; ,;y,fo re l,;- lntn
boarders and refused to quit Mr. Pain
was seen, but there again the willy for
eigners had been ahead of him. They had
offered the autocrat of the cars a month
in advance which had been accepted. The
mule magnate, however, temporized with
John and said that things had been mis-
represented to him. Piver then served a
ten days notice On his young gentlemen
procedure which received the merry
hal ha!
The burly purser stands much higher
and broader than any two of his board
ers rolled together but the martial ex-
perience of the Germans made them feel
themselves collectively a match for any
American.
Restraining a desire to forcibly eject
the whole of the conspirators, John
sought legal advice. Meanwhile the mer4
ry war went on until one night, fired by
bodily picked up and carried off the
premises. true to his lawyers instruc-
tons making no resistance. Armed by
legal opinion that he was still actually in
possession, not having been served with
the necessary notice, Piver, assisted by
the only other American in the house
took measures to remove his property.
Meantime the house was patrolled night
and day by the new owners
In fear of Johns vengeance, they went
to their daily work in a body and at
tempted to get the ousted landlord bound
over to keep the peace.
On Saturday afternoon, two Germans
being guard, a van accompanied by
Piver and his faithful countryman, drove
up to the house and despite the efforts
of the sentinels departed with most OF
Piver's possessions particular care hav-
ing been taken to secure the sheets, nap
kins and cutlery. One desperate guard
eseaped through the back door and