The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-22
HOGAN BRINGS SUIT
WANTS SALARIES DUE AND
TICKETS HOME.
Original Hui Made Defendants-Three
Pay and -Four Refuse-Amount
Claimed $780,

For the second time Ernest Hogan
will institute a suit at law i'm Honolulu
on behalf of himself and company. This
time the money is not demanded as a
balm to a slight put upon the colored
race by a steamship company but is
claimed as salary earned and transport
tation home as agreed upon in con-
tracts signed by Hogan with j, c..
Cohen as manager of a local hui formed
some time ago for the purpose of
bringing Hogan to Honolulu.
There were eight shares in this COM
binatiOn subscribed to i'm equal shares
of $3.50 subject to draft. These were p.
c. Macfarlane, G. J. Falk Harry Ar
mitage, w II. Cornwell, David Kawa-
nanakoa, NJ. Phillips and j. G. Cohen
the latter having two shares.
The Falk share was later auCtioned
off being bought by Willie Lucas for
$780, Frank Vida going cahoots in the
speculation. At the time it was sup
posed to be a good thing going cheaply
but the investment is liable to prove
costly. Difficulties i'm securing the
company exhausted the original $1,000
and some more money was sent up by
-. F.. Colburn of the Kapiolani Estate.
A draft from the latter not arriving
i'm time the money for the fares was
secured at the eleventh hour by Man
ager Cohen on w. H. COrnwelIs sigma
ture, the colonel at that time being Sc
riously i'll at his hotel
Mr.. Cornwel was reimbursed on his
arrival by what ]. C. Cohen terms a
call on the other members who with
the exception of Macfarlane responded
with $3.50 apiece. Cohen relies on this
payment to prove a partnership agree
ment but the members of the hui who
now refuse to put up the deficiency re-
presented by the money for which Ho-
gan brings suit, state that it was
merely a sportsmanlike action on their
part not to see COrnwell stuck for the
whole thing"
The Hogan Company thus started in
heavily mortgaged as far as the man
agement was concerned. The Hogan
! ties meanwhile had contracted to re-
ceive certain salaries and their trans
portation.
After the first week, which ran to
81, 200, the receipts fell off largely but
were beginning to grow again, the last
few nights before the Worlds Enter
tanners took the house. The share of
the hui was totally inadequate to pay
expenses and it was another case of
dig" Hogan and the others are be-
hind in salaries which, with the cost
of transportation home, will total
something over $4,000. This is the
amount sued for There are no dam
ages claimed beyond salaries and
transportation due. Another meeting
of the hui brought out pro rata share
from Prince David, Phillips and Cohen
but the others refuse the responsibility
and place the onus on the Kapiolant
Estate, whose agent ]. f. Colburn they
claim took the matter into the Estates
hands when he authorized Cohen to go
ahead and make arrangements after
the original capital of $4,000 was ex-
hausted.
With the money last put up by the
+ three men, nine Of the company return
Ion the Ventura Hogan and the rest
Twill remain and put on some new plays
with which to pay salaries and eX-
penses while the case is pending.
Hogan himself is not worrying, stat
ing that he came here under contract
j and that someone is responsible for
what is coming to him. II worked hard
TO that coin" says Hogan, land l hate
I to see nah money go hathaway