The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-21

joyed himself, driving the girls around
! in the afternoon and dropping in At
the Honolulu clubs after dark Jack
had winning ways and everybody who
includes the whole population of Oahu,
Maui, Lanai, Hawaii and the other ISL
ands-liked him.
He wasn't any piker, and at the end
of couple of months the thousand
that he'd taken to the islands had
evaporated, SO he began to draw checks
on his $4,000 bank roll in Chicago.
The tradesmen and others for whom
Jack scratched checks took them as If
they had been the gold in hand, for
Jack had been taken up by the best
lpeople, and so his paper was as good
in Honolulu as that of old man Dole.
But one afternoon, when China
bound steamer had brought the bunch
of San Francisco papers in, Jack
Chicago bank in which his money was
deposited had failed. This put him on
a kite, of course. Three days later an
other steamer got along, and it brought
back a number of checks which Jack
had given to Honolulu people on the
busted bank. On the back of each
check was neatly-inscribed statement
to the effect that the bank had closed
it's doors.
1.-The people who got the returned
checks rode out to Waikiki to see Jack
about it, The returned checks figured
up about $500. Jack told them how the
thing had happened, and when he
showed them the newspaper accounts
of the failure of his Chicago bank most
that Jack could make good when he
got around to it.
1.-TWO of the holders of Jacks re-
turned checks, however, weren't pleas
ant about the matter. They were a
pair of half-kanakas, brothers, who ran
a grocery store in partnership in Ho-
up s13O. The reason why they weren't
pleasant about the matter was this:
: They had another brother on the Ho-
nolulu police force, and Jack mad
soundly thrashed this cop brother
about a week before. He had come up
( on the half-kanaka cop in the act OF
beating a crippled kanaka boy with his
q locust. This Infatuated Jack so that he
hoped out of his caloosh, took the
8 club away from the half-kanaka COD
y tossed it away and then proceeded tt
8 punch the nose of the policeman.
1.-THE store-keeping brothers finally
y became so arrogant and het-up in theil
g language that Jack took the pair O
81 them by the slack of their neck-band.
a and tossed them out of his place ont'
the Royal Avenue of Palms The!
q picked themselves up and went away
q muttering kanaka monodies about thu
n way they intended to get hunk will
IA Mr.. Boland.
Everybody felt genuinely sorr,
"a when they learned that Jacks littl
s bundle had been swept away by tn
"a failure of the Chicago bank, and h
b had plenty of offers of assistance
81 Dozens of Honolulans wanted to len
him money, but Jack politely turne
down all such offers, in spite of the fac
81 that all of the cash that he had o.
81 earth figured UP just about an eve
III hundred. He booked his passage bacI
D. to the States on the steamer Australia
n and inserted a little notice in the Ho
n nolulu papers to the effect that he
a make good the checks that had bee
n n cd just as soon as he could con
81 trive to cop out the coin.
81 ION the day that Jack was due I
u sail up to Frisco on the Australia, bi
81 crowd of his friends of both sexes as
# sembled on the steamer to give him tn
ID right kind of a send-off, all OF ther
81 rugged out in leis, those floral wreath
81 that all hands down on the island
@ wear on festal occa sions. Within hal
E an hour of sailing time the Honolul
81 harbormaster, a half-kanaka, boarde
b the Australia, made straight for Jacf
IS and told him that he couldn't leave Ho
81 nolulu for San Francisco or for anv
III where else He had a law book alon
with him, with his finger already in th
b place, and he showed the law to JACK
"a 1t was that Hawaiian law which pro
e hibits anybody from leaving the isl
a ands, under any circumstances what
q ever, who owes a debt of so much as
d nickel.
E I'm not certain about it. but thin
IS that law was made shortly after RoS
n Raymond, the famous confidence mar
81 who is now doing a bit in Sing Sins
n shredded Honolulu fore and aft and es
= capped from the islands owing tens c
y thousands of dollars in debts and Dor
81 rowed money.
well, Jack Boland told the harbor