The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-05-24

eu route to Hawaii and who were exc
uuOtnd to take the places off the Jap
aucsp lIborors. Ho worked out hits
passage money and then shifted for
himself he Eavltcd to- the quays
and found that it required but little
more clothing. uo more to eat and mo-
greater trouble To- obtain it than n
Porto Rico. THE last few months of
his experience is best told boy Ramon.
90 work along the quays I run err
unds. . do anything that bring the
mon. ! dive. ! swim Eanaka boys
swim and dive. but $50 does "a Porto
Ricau boy Fight? Yos-at the first.
Kau3ya boys throw YOU down and beat
with their fist OH they throw stones and
clubs, but at the flash of "a knife, bah,
they are gone. After the first few
times ] not have to fight. They let me
alone.
OF work and work and I save the
mon, $780, I hide it. not spend much
to eat. and clothes sailormen give me
or people / work FOR / want TO come
here; a woman she find out ] have 500;
she say give the money TO her, she pay
my way to the United states and keep
the money for me. l live with her and
when 1 want the mon she give il to
me; if / want only little at time she
give me that. l could work for her
and go to school. / give her the mon
and she pay $3.50 for my way over and
keep the rest Of the mon We come
here and l go to work-yes. She give
me the sack and say go long the water
front and pick up the coal and the po-
tato from the quays and drops from
the wagon. / go and / pick up the
coal and the potato and make mon
always four bits each day. ! find night
school, the boys tell me, and ! go my
self. Sometimes / make not four bits,
only two bits and then the woman she
club me. Sometimes / say / fool you
some day, / play a joke on you and
run away But this country cold,
takes more clothes than Porto Rico or
Hawaii and fruit will not keep the cold
out Of your stomach. So / not know
where to go and take my sack again.
one day Joseph Lanteri here, he with
me when | make only two bits and the
woman she club me and say if ! not
make one dollar the next day she club
me worse: then Joseph Lanteri he say
after we leave the house You come
home with me. no more club. You
take the sack and pick up the potato
and the coal just the same. No mat
ter you make one dollar or make moth
ing, no more club; you live at my house
and be my half-brother.' SO 1 go. l
play my joke. / run away from the
woman. Now l live with Joseph; we
take the sack / pick up the coal and
the potato; if 1 not find any, just the
same, no club and l eat and go to night
school. l write my own name, RAJ
mon but not Lanteri yet. My half
brother Joseph, he can write all his
name So" and Ramon makes a num-
Der Of airy hourishes.
There are other small bodies to clothe
and mouths to feed in the little home
Of the Lanteris, but there was room for
the little darlt-skinned waif that drift
ed i'm one NIGHT with Joseph. There
was no report to the charities" but
the family crowded little closer and
room was made. Joseph and Ramon
are inseparable. In the constant trays
among the boys along the water front
other lads have learned that I'm dealing
with Joseph they must always reckon
with Ramon who, like a small esquire,
Is always ready to do battle for his lit
tie knight and at the flash Of knife
BAH"
His full story came out when the
boys put I'm a claim for the $40 reward
for finding the parts ofVilardo's body.
Ramon said:
Il see the sack I'm the waiter and |
said to Joseph See the sack, we catch
it, maybe something good We catch
the sack and -Santissima
Madre" A man also put in claim
for the reward, but when he heard the
story Of the boys he withdrew his claim
and the boys received what to them
was a little fortune.
II am an American" sid Joseph Lam
teri Il call Ramon my half-brother,
but he Is a Porto Rican."
I'm 'Merican, too; is not Porto Rico