The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-22
Claims Damages
From Business
Backers.
WANTS SALARY
AND PASSAGE
Question Of Alteration of Original
Contract Enters Into
Question.

YF YOU ask Ernest Hogan. the min
strel man, about Madame Pele, he
- viii tell you that it's "hoodoo wo-
man that's a-waitin for him." here in
Honolulu. and from the fact that he
had to enter suit against a steamship
company to get away once before, and
now proposes to enter a suit against
his hackers to be able to make the trip.
you may understand why he believes
there Is a charm working against him.
And 1t is also safe to say that IL the
members Of his company should find
On the street little bag with string
attached, containing a rusty nail, few
hairs from a black cats tail and the
palm OF a possum's foot. they would
hold seance and dance about the en-
blen before they destroyed it, for that
would mean that they had 'scotched
de hoodoo."
It Is expected that there viii be en-
tered today suit against the members
of the hui which brought Hogan here
this time, for a sum In excess of $500.
the excess being the appraisement of
the damages that the members of the
company have suffered in their failure
to get away from here In the ship SAT-
ing yesterday. which carried but nine
OF the twenty-eight members of the
aggregation Business awaits them on
the coast, but the steamship company
was obdurate and money was tight, so
the entertainers are still here and they
don't know when they will get away,
but the courts will be appealed to and
there will be fun at the theater mean
time, Just as there was last year.
The story OF the connection OF the
hui with Hogan's affairs and the ne
cessity for the suit recalls the attempt
to secure the minstrel company, which
was undertaken early last summer, by
Manager Cohen. at that time there
was formed a hui of eight shares. the !.
takers being E. C. Macfarlane, c, J. :
Falk, Harry Armitage, Col. Cornweli, ,
Prince David. NJ. Phillips and ]. c. Co :
hen. the latter having two shares. The
plan was to advance $3.50 each. ID en-
able Cohen to land here a company
with Hogan at the head, to play on u
basis of fifty per cent of receipts each
for the hui and the company, but Co.
hen was not to make a contract on less
advantageous terms
There followed the arrival at the
coast of the manager many conferences
and journeys and the fact was develop
ed that the Hogan company could not
be brought across the continent and
here with the money. and at the terms.
Then it was that Cohen wrote these
facts to c. J. FaIk, who turned the
matter over to Coiburn, as Prince Da-
vid's representative, and from that
gentleman a letter reached Cohen,
which he says authorized him to en-
gage the people at the best terms and
to bring them here. This meant that
there had to be raised more money and
this was done in San Francisco, by
drafts, on which were the names OF
Col. Cornwell and Ellis. the representa-.
tive OF the Kapiolani estate The peo- ;
pie were engaged on salary and ex-
penses and their fares both ways guar
anteed.
When the Hogan company reached :
here the members of the hui were as
sessed $3.50 more to meet this draft and S
Cohen says every one except Macfar- c
lane met the call. the stock of Falk in I
the meantime having been changed to I
the name OF William Lucas. There was {
question here which has not been set
tied to the satisfaction of any one, in y
that the members OF the hui were be- q
Iieying that this second sum was only a
n loan to come out of the first receipts,
while there has been no repayment Il
made, though there was large sum Q
made during the first week, more than l
5000 in fact.
After that first week, however, there
has not been enough money to pay ex- :,
penses. all of which meant that CO. n
hen had to make the payments except S,
the rent OF the theater for the last two Il
weeks There have been meetings OF fl
the hui. but 1t has not been possible to /
reach an agreement on the part of all
the members to advance the money to y