The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-05
HOT AIR
IN H|LO
H.B. Gehr Seeks A.
B. Loebenstein's
Scalp.
HlLO STATESMAN
YIELDS A CLUB
A Wartike Correspondence Be-
tween Two Men in the Rival
fiilo Newspapers.

bune of July 18th whether expressing his
own views or those of another, who is not
willing to speak for himself and whose
plant tool Mr.. Loebenstein appears to be,
has the refreshing merit of being an open
expression of enmity which has hitherto
found vent only through cowardly meth
DDS and anonymous channels.
Mr.. Loebenstein makes no attempt to
reply to the statements published in the
Herald of the oath of July as emanating
from me, but inasmuch as he has seen fit
to interfere in a matter which in no way
concerned him, I now deem it my privil-
eye to correct an erroneous impression
that might be gained by his letter by
one unacquainted with his record, even
though the language of his letter, and
especially the footnote to the same,
should be a sufficient indication of the
spirit that prompted it.
Mr.. Loebenstein has never, to my
knowledge, claimed any personal indebt-
edness from me, and he does so now only
inferentially and in ambiguous language.
a fault which l shall endeavor to avoid.
Mr.. Loebenstein prepared a tracing
from a government map and a supposed
legal description of certain lands ac-
quired by the Kohala and .Hilo Railway
Co. at Waiakea. As the result of his eff
forts was Incorrect, it will be necessary
to have the work done over again by a
competent man, and this, fact is easily
demonstrable. After conSulta ton with
men of his profession and others, l am
of the opinion that no reputable surveyor
on the Islands would ask more than fifty
600 dollars for this service, even We're it
correctly performed For the work done
by Mr.. Loebenstein he rendered to the
Kohala and liilo Railway Co. a bill for
the sum of one thousand 0O00) dollars
and when objection was made by me to
the attempted eXtortion, Mr. Loebeustein
informed me that if the bill We're not paid
he would soak the -. and H. R'y Co.
hard when he got into the Legislature"
The force of this matchmaking PROPOSE
ton dissipated last November, after
the ballots We're counted.
l now regret that ! did not take Mr..
Loebenstein seriously and at his word
when, at his request and by appointment
called upon him one Sunday morning
in Honolulu, at the time the -. and II.
R'y franchise was under consideration by
the government at which time and place
he told rue that he Loebenstein) was d
- - rascal. and to look out for him,
as he would get the best of me if he
could"
Let the. person mentioned in Mr. Loe-
benstein's letter. "of whose hospitality he
CD was the recipient. ETC." himself come
forward in an attempt to be a man and
speak for himself, and then the state
ment will merit attention ana receive a
full and prompt reply
Whether or not, through any fault of
mine, | have forfeited the support,
financial and moral, of local interests"
is a question upon which Mr. Loeben-
stein, speaking either for himself or as
the facile underling Of another is not
competent to pass judgment. / leave
decision upon that question to be rem
dered by those with whom in the past
have had and now have business deal
ings.
The above may serve to convince Mr.
Loebenstein that insofar as he at least
is concerned, the scene on the court
house lawn, by bin so graphically pic
tured, should have represented me as
facing my opponent as this has been ray
position during my three years residence
on the Islands, and it will be in the fu-
ture, whoever my opponent may be.
HERBERT B. GEHR
Hilo, T. H, July %, 1901.
MR.. LOEBENsTEIN REPLIES.
Editor Tribune: Again has my whilom
friend, the president of the Kohala-Hilo
R. R Co, seen fit to kick over the traces
and once more is a long-suffering public
condemned to act as spectator in the
drama entitled How Not to Pay Ones
Bills" with change in the cast, the
curtain rising this time depicting Gehr,
him the president of the Kohala and Hilo
r. r. Co.. pouring out the walls of his
deadly wrath on poor Loebenstein-WaX
field having been done up.
So that the -sanguinary spectacle of a
battle or Tontrance between the presi-
dent of the Cholera and l. o. L. r. r.
Co and his wicked detractors, predicted
by the wicked Loebenstein, was not
merely Pigment of the Imagination but
promises to resolve itself into a positive
fact the tragedy of honors. the curtain
falling on the final scene, representing
Pay-no-Bills Gehr in an attitude of vic
tory over his PROSTATE enemies-among
them the hated Waxfield and the wicked
Loebenstein, brandishing aloft before
their glazing eyes the prospectus of the
new Maulua plantation and a large batch
of unpaid bills.
mind a lurking suspicion that the wicked
Loebenstein did not say his prayers each
morning by of the clock and that the
| innocent and .guileless Gehr. with his
large batch of unpaid bills, was no match
to him called Loebenstein, who now by
his own words does he stand con-
demned thus saith the guileleSs Gehr,
with his large batch of unpaid bills and
the public always believes the guileleSs
Gehr,
But. Mr. Gehr, you have shirked the is
sue Hard words break no bones. The
public is not interested in your chronic
| ling of private feuds, ii cares little for
your opinion of either this or that fndi-
| vidua1, il does not ask and it cares less
| whether or not you have identified
yourself with plantation development
schemes with seeking to forceI your R.
r. location to tap the Maulua Settlement
Association lots of which you were the
deus ex machina, or other feather Drained