The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-09-30
Town > TALK
By The Man About Town.

/ l would like to get an explanation
of the position of the County treasurer
on the blanket warrant proposition. Not
that 1 have any warrants, blanket or
otherwise but the proposition has be-
gun to affect me like pigs i'm clover or
the famous fifteen puzzle. l cannot find
out where the treasurer lis att l uu-
derstood at first, all right, that he was
opposed to blanket warrants and refus-
ed to pay them But he suddenly de-
veloped a peculiar admiration for the
Andrew Adams blanket warrant and
though the County attorney, who had
advised him to pay other blanket war
rants. said that it should not be paid
/ he announced his intention to pay it.
This gave Attorney Mechanism, who
merely happens to be of the same poll
tics as the treasurer, a chance to bring
suit to enjon Treasurer Trent from
paying it, Then the Board of Super
visors passed a resolution recalling it.
Trent's private counsel advised him not
! to pay it. But Trent was determined.
Nothing short of an explicit prevention
was going to stop him paying this
blanket warrant. OF course it cannot
be that he is anxious to be told by the
court not to. SO l admit that I don't
understand the case at ALL Here is a
client i'm open court announced to be
intending to act contrary to the advice
of the counsel who sits beside him. in
the very matter before the court and
still the case goes on. 1t can't be poll
tics, of course. But what is it? I
give it up. There is only one thing I
/ wish to do, and that is to commend the
public spirit of Attorney McClanahan.
AS a public spirited taxpayer he has
given days of time to stopping the pay
ment of this warrant for Sal. And he
determined to stop it in his own way.
| When as a result Of his suit the Board
of Supervisors passed resolution stop
ping it, did he rest satisfied? Not at
all He knocked out the resolution and
proceeded to stop payment in his own
way 1t is beautiful civic patriotism.
but hard to Understandable as hard
as it is to understand what sort of
blanket warrants Trent will pay and
why he pays them.
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Charlie Bellina," remarked Eugene
Sullivan lis one of the latest of these
automobile cranks. Everybody who
| knows Charlie knows that Charlie
knows all about horses but he has got
the chug-chug craze and is Industrious
ly building up a reputation as an ex-
pert choffer"
"A WHAT" l asked.
"Choffer" repeated Sullivan "Choffer
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indeed. I'm told that this week
thursday, l think it was-one of his
men came to him and said you know
Mister Bellina that black horse? Eth?
Well l theenk he's very seecll'
8" 'All right, says Bellina I guess 1
can fix him all right and he went
back to the house. The boys thought
of course that he was going to get
some medicine but instead of that he
came back to look at the horse with
kit Of automobile tools instead. That
shows what the chug-chug habit will
do"
The office of supervisor is not the
snap many people imagine The mem
bers of the board have much to do in
looking after county affairs; but look
ing after county affairs. according to
a member, is the easiest portion of the
understanding off job chasers is the
hardest. Every supervisor is besieged
| with men looking for positions and it
! is difficult to make them understand
that jobs are scarce and that there are
not enough to satisfy all. Hawaiians
are the chief applicants; a number of
them, after being unsuccessful with
| supervisors, have called on Secretary
| Atkinson; "Jack" is a good fellow and
it is hard for him to refuse a request.
| When the Hawaiians apply to him, he
says why of course; l can fix that for
you" Then he sits down and writes
a note to Supervisor Jack Lucas; the
note usually reads this way THE bear
er is a friend of mine; give him a good
job" This laconic request is encased
in a large official envelope and the APP
plicant goes on his way to find Super
visor Jack. One day, recently, Lucas
was handed several of the large official
envelopes and he became very tired of
Secretary Jacks way of passing the
buck" so he called up Atkinson on the
telephone saying: IF you have any
more of those id envelopes; just keep
them"
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I was glad to see that our gallant
rifle team returned safely from the
Seagirt competition with a couple OF
medals and a trunkful of excuses.
From what 1 can learn it was not al
ways harmonious with the bunch foI
the reason that Col. Jones and some
of the others thought that the crowd
should remain in camp and not &C
about the surrounding neighborhood tC
see the sights. In fact the Colone
issued orders that the men would have
to be in camp at an early hour instead
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