The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27
HOW JACK ROLAND
. GOT OUT OF HONOLULU
Allows Himself to Be Shang.
haied- to Escape Two Re-
ientless Creditors.


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wanted to be shanghaied the worst
| way and who had to do his durndest
before he succeeded" said man who
used to live in Honolulu. ct happened
! down in the Islands, in 'S6, when the
| p. G., as they used to call the provi-
sional government. was running things
1 in Hawaii.
'The chap who hankered to be
/ shanghaied was a rapid-hre young
| hustler from Chicago named Jack Boz
| land. Jack was selling prairie lots
| In Chicago on commission when some
| body told him about the Hawaiian is
/ lands, and he hiked down there to look
'em over, with kind of an idea Of
| blocking out a sugar or coffee ranch
| If he liked the looks of things. Jack was
worth $4,000 when he quit Chicago
and streaked for the islands He stuffed
| thousand in his clothes and left the
| remainder of his savings in Chicago
| bank.
When he reached Honolulu he pre-
| sented his letters, good ones, to the
| right kind of folks, and Honolulu noti-
he'd Jack that he could hang up his
hat and make himself at home They're
mighty hospitable down there if you
| get in right, but if you don't land with
| the correct kind of recommendations
| the Honoluluans have the knack of
making you feel as lonesome as salt
marsh fiddler crab in a pail of tepid
| rainwater
Jack found the social swing in Hon
Olulu, where there are more pretty
American and English and German and
Portuguese and half-Kanaka girls than
In any other place of it's size on earth,
so 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 a bungalow out in Waikiki, one
OF Honolulu's suburbs, got an old Ka-
naka woman and couple Of Jap SER
wants to help him keep house, staked
himself to q horse and caloosh. 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 population of
Oahu. Maui, Lanai, Hawaii and the
| other islands-liked him.
Wasn't Piker.
"He wasn't any piker, and at the end
| of a couple og 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 Chi
| cago. The tradesmen and others for
whom Jack scratched checks took them
| as II they had been the gold in hand,
for Jack had been taken up by the best
| people, and so his paper was as good
in Honolulu as that of old man Dole.
/ But one evening, when China
bound steamer had brought the bunch
| Of San Francisco papers in, Jack open
| ed one of them and found that the
| Chicago bank in which his money was
| deposited had failed. This put him on
| kite. Of course. Three days later
another steamer got along, and it
1 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 in
| scribed statement to the effect that the
bank had closed its doors.
The people who got the returned
| checks rode out to waikiki to see Jack
/ about 1t. 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 it was all right, and
| that Jack could make good when he
| got around to it.
1.-TWO of the holders of Jacks re-
turned checks, however, weren't apleas-l
! ant about the matter. They were a
pair of half-Kanakas, brothers. who
ran grocery store in partnership in
| honolulu. Their returned checks
| totted UP $3.50. The reason why they
! weren't pleasant about the matter was
| this: They had another brother on the
| Honolulu police force, and Jack had
soundly thrashed this cop brother
| about week before. He had come
| upon the half-Kanaka cop in the act
| or beating a crippled Kanaka boy with
| his locust. This Infatuated Jack SO
that he hoped out of his caloosh, took
the club away from the half-Kanaka
cop, tossed 1t away and then pro-
| ceeded to punch the nose Of the police
| man.
Jack Licks the Brothers.
"The store-keeping brothers finally
became so arrogant and het-up In their
language 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 monodles about the
way they intended to get hunk with
| Mr.. Boland.
Everybody felt genuinely sorry
| when they learned that Jacks little
bundle had been swel away by the
failure Of the Chicago 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 just about an even
nundred. He booked his passage back
! to the States on the steamer Australia
and inserted little notice in the Hon
| olulu papers to the effect that he'd
make good the checks that had been n.
| cd just as soon as he could contriye to
cop out the COIN
'On the day that Jack was due to
| sail UP to Frisco on the Australia. q
big crowd Of his friends of both sexes
assembled on the steamer TO give him
| the right kind Of a d-off, all of them
rugged out in leis, those floral wreaths
| that all hands down on the islands
| wear on festal occasions. Within half
an hour of sailing time the Honolulu
! harbormaster, half Kanaka, boarded
the Australia, made straight for Jack
| and told him that he couldn't leave
| Honolulu for San Francisco or for any-
| where else. He had a law book along
| with him, with his finger already in the
| place, and he showed the law to Jack.
| 1t was that Hawaiian law which pro-
hibits anybody from leaving the is
| lands, under any circumstances what
| ever, who owes debt of so much as a
| nickel.
Il am not certain about it. but I
think that law was made shortly after
| Ross Raymond, the famous confidence
man, who is now doing a bit in Sing
| Sing, shredded Honolulu fore and aft
! and escaped from the islands owing
| tens of thousands of dollars in debts
| and borrowed money.
Brothers Were Relentless.