The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-06
SHANGHAED, AND GLAD or IT.
ONLY WAY JACK ROLAND COULD
GET OUT OF HONOLULU.


Let Q Deb&ss Escape-1ase q Gamc
Youth Frsm chicago VINE Neat 'Em out
.Under ordinary circumstances, getting
shanghaied isn't much Of . joke in the
view Of the lubber who wakes up with .
headache in . reeking fo'c'sle and feels OF
the dents made In his ribs by the toes OF
a buckle bo's'n' s-mate's sea boots, but
once knew a fellow who wanted to be
shanghaied the worst way and who had to
do his durndest before he succeeded" said
a man who used to live In Honolulu. 1T
happened down in the Islands. In 80, when
the p G.. as they used to call the Provis-
ional Government, was running things IN
Hawaii.
THE chap who hankered to be shang-
haied was a rapid-fire young hustler from
Chicago named Jack Boland. Jack was
selling prairie lots in Chicago on commits
sion when somebody told him about the
Hawaiian Islands, and he hiked down there
to look EN- over, with kind OF an idea OF
blocking out sugar or coffee ranch II
he liked the looks OF things. Jack was
worth Sl5, 100 when he quit Chicago and
streaked for the Islands. He stuffed a
thousand In his clothes and left the re-
mainder Of his savings in Chicago bank.
when he reached Honolulu he presented
his letters, good ones, to the right kind OF
folks. and Honolulu notified Jack that he
could hang up his hat and make himself
at home. They're mighty hospitable
down there II you get in right. but If you
don't land with the correct kind OF recon-
- ot,,l,,
knack Of making you feel as lonesome as
salt-marsh fiddler crab in pail OF tepid
rain water.
Jack found the social swing In Honolulu.
where there are more pretty American
and English and German and Portuguese
and half Kanaka girls than in any place
Of its size on earth, 80 enlivening that FOR
two or three months he didn't have much
time to dope out any plans for annexing
that sugar or coffee plantation He char
tered bungalow out In Waikiki, one OF
Honolulu's suburbs, got an old Kanaka
woman and couple Of Jap servants to help
him keep house. staked himself to a horse
and oaloosh, and just enjoyed himself.
driving the girls around IN the afternoon
and dropping in at the Honolulu clubs
after dark. Jack had winning ways and
everybody who met him down there
and that about includes the whole popu-
lation OF Oahu, Maui, Lanai, Hawaii and
the other islands-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, 80
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 il they had been the gold in
hand, for Jack had been taken up by the
best people, and go his paper was as good
in Honolulu as that Of old man Dole.
But one afternoon, when Chinabound
steamer had brought the bun oh OF San
Francisco papers In, Jack opened one OF
them and found that the Chicago bank
in which his money was deposited had failed.
This put him ON q kite, Of course. Three
DAYS later another steamer got along.
and it brought back number OF checks
which Jack had given to Honolulu people
on the busted bank. On the back OF each
check was a neatly-inscribed statement to
the effect that the bank had closed It's
doors.
-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 Of them said that 1t
was all right, and that Jack could make
good when he got around to it.
1.-TWO of the holders Of Jacks returned
checks, however, weren't pleasant about
the matter. They were pair OF half
Kanakas, brothers, who ran grocery
store In partnership in Honolulu. Their
returned checks totted up $50. The reason
why they weren't pleasant about the mat
ter was this They had another brother on
the Honolulu police force, and Jack had
soundly thrashed this cop brother about
a week before. He had come upon the
half Kanaka cop in the act OF beating a
crippled Kanaka boy with his locust. This
Infatuated Jack 80 that he hoped out OF
his caloosh, took the club away from the
half-Kanaka cop, tossed 1t away and then
proceeded to punch the nose Of the police
man.
-The housekeeping brothers finally be-
came 80 arrogant and het-up In their Ian
guage that Jack took the pair OF them
by the slack OF their neck-bands and tossed
them out Of his place onto the Royal Avenue
of Palms They picked themselves up and
went away muttering Kanaka monodies
about the way they intended to get hunk
with Mr.. Boand.
Everybody felt genuinely sorry when
they learned that jacks little bundle had
been swept away by the failure Of the Chi
cago bank, and he had plenty of offers Of
assistance Dozens of Honoluluans wanted
to lend him money, but Jack politely turned
down all such offers, in spite Of the fact that
all of the cash that he had on earth figured
up lust about an even hundred. He booked
his passage back to the States on the steamer
Australia and inserted little notice in the
Honolulu papers to the effect that hed
make good the checks that had been n. q d
inst as soon as he could contrive to cop out
the coin.
son the day that Jack was due to sail w
| TO Frisco on the Australia, a big crOwc
of his friends Of both sexes assembled OF
the steamer to give him the right kind OF d
| send-oh, all Of them rugged out In lois
those floral wreaths that all hands dOwT
on the islands wear on festal occasions
Within half an hour Of sailing time the
Honolulu harbormaster, half Kanaka
boarded the Australia, made straight fol
Jack, and told him that he couldn't leave
| Honolulu for San Francisco or for any