The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-10
.VAGS ARE
NUMEROUS
Honolulu sDarkeSt
Places Are
Crowded.
HUMAN WRECKS
CAST ON BEACH
Visit to the City's Tramp Resorts
in Company With a
Police Chief.

is finding its way into Honolulu in in
creasing numbers. No one realizes the
fact better than does Deputy Sheriff
Chiningworth, 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 a representative of the
! Advertiser was permitted to accom-
lIany him in his search for the wand
cling 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 alightins
there led the way through the slush
and mud of an ill-smelling alley, which
was total darkness, to a large tenement
house known as All Leongs 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
dows, 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
sheriff stated, was until recently, one
of the vilest haunts In the city, and it
was a common incident 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
! fer, land dump them into 1t. On Sat
urday night, particularly, it was bad.
! That is when the swipe carnival is at
| its highest, and by coming around here
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
I'll show you a place that takes the
cake"
With this he led the way back through
the narrow dark alley, across the
street, down another alley of the
slushy, odoriferous type, and into a
side gate, where he hailed number OF
indolent, half-clad men who were loaf
/ ing on the rotten porch of tumble
down house, and inquired for Mr.. Nc
Carthy, the proprietor of McCarthy's
boarding house. An unkempt indlvid-
ual with a shock of red hair, came to
the door with a 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's
! inquiries, Mr. Mccarthy said he had a
full house, and that Katie" was good
again. Katie herself presently ap-
peare6 She is a 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
swipes carnival at All Leongs by her
lord and master, and given a horrible
beating, for which Mr.. Mccarthy paid
fine of 800 to the police court. Re
Cancellation is now in order and donies-
tic tranquility reigns.
Anybody in the tent tonight?" in
quired the officer.
II 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-"
1t was explained that Mr. Mccarthy
is frequently the victim of other peo-
pies crimes. The tramps and hard
characters about the waterfront Grt
hold OF the newly landed sailors. get
them drunk on swipes rob them Of their
money. and then 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
think they have been robbed by Nc
Carthy, and there IL pilikia TO- that
gentleman. The tents bout all tern
TO pieces now" added the man "thore
was lot o bad ones In there SATURDAY.
night and they nigh done away with
the tent altogether"
/ 4 visit 10 the tent corroborated the
statement, Three or four old straw
bed ticks, dirty and foul smelling We're
tumbled about the sloppy earth floor ~
what had once been canvas tent, but
which was now frame work II tat
tiers and strips, with one side of the top
entirely torn away According a. MI
'hllllngwoTih, this Il the vile nest for
tie worst element Ia town 4 have
found them slowed away In here" raid
be-. "as many AS thirty al time, ia an
siAt'# ~ lNi'Afa'Hfif NFhilffl hIhhh
bling, furslnE and IA the even more
disgusting STAGE n drunken sickness
they pills IN old sheet Iron. or anything
~ keep The damp from coming 40 from
tho ground ana they crawl ln there o.
sleep y II hard - conceive nos hns
han beings can become - dsH ,aaea
fhey are n an naflonalltles tla IN
|ftH that are hfoufhl ~ here ~ steam
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