Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-02-28

TEL. MAIN 1aO. =. ". Bun 100. /,
ing a clean collar on Sunday In Ho-
nolulu. nevertheless drove the travel
ers to a clothing store on Hotel street
and. behold, the proprietor thereof hap
pened to be in the neighborhood; a..
the hackman approached the propii
tor with due caution and due explains
ton of the urgency Of the occasion.
asking, nay, parying that he produce
collars and necktles for his fares. But
the conscientious haberdasher refus-
ed most fatty and declared that IL he
so much as opened his store on the
holy day of stupid silence he would be
"pinched" by Halter or the vigilant po-
on the back pages Of the Hawaiian
code. Laughing at the absurdity of the
situation, the gentlemen went out to
waikiki to enjoy the delightful wealth
err. returning to the Young Hotel for
lunch. Upon arriving again at the ho-
tel they learned that certain ladies
known by them were going up to the
Coast on the Mongolia and that they
would lunch at the Young. Anxious to
meet these ladies'. the gentlemen sud-
denly remembered that they had none
but badly soiled collars. Once more.
therefore. they hunted up the 200 hack
man. their friend of the morning. and
told him that for love or gold, or both,
he must secure for them clean collars.
This time the hackman carried his
fares to the home residence Of the
proprietor OF the Hotel street clothing
house and pleaded most prettily, all his
trouble, etc, would be well paid for.
ia go to town, open his store and
hand out few collars and a couple of
neckties, but In vain, until the pious
haberdasher suggested that II he had
the permission OF High Sheriff Henry
he would satisfy the demands OF the
collarless travellers. Taking him at his
word, the hackman at once conveyed
the two travellers to police headQuar-
tiers and searched for High Sheriff
Henry. This gentleman was not around
and Deputy High Sheriff Rawlins was
appealed to. The case was plainly stat
ca. Two gentlemen wanted clean col
lars. They had the money and yet
could not purchase them. because In
Honolulu nova days Il Is considered
better to wear dirty linen on the
Lords day than to purchase the same
from an honest man who has his liv-
ing to make and family to support
on Sundays as we'll as on week days.
The emotions Of the genial Rawlins
were necessarily aroused, he is but hui
man and appreciates the Joy of clean
collar himself, occasionally. II the
gentlemen desired but clean collar
or SO to appear respectable In the pres
ence OF ladies, why, he thought, there
would be no harm in allowing the ha-
berdasher to enter his store for one lit
tie minute and hand over the goods.
overjoyed at the prospect Of being able
to present themselves to the ladies
without wearing their coat-collars
turned up, the gentlemen warmly
thanked Mr.. Rawlins and went on
their way rejoicing. The collars were
purchased, together with a few neck
ties and six and oue-half good Ameri-
can dollars passed over the counter
to the glory Of free American institu.
tons and the cause OF cleanliness.
Said one Of the travellers: This will
be rich story to tell on the mainland.
! wonder II we can get folks back on
the Coast to believe that in an Ameri-
can city Of $4,000 people we could not
buy a clean collar on Sunday without
permit from police headquarters.
We'll give the story to the newspapers.
at any rate, and let the world have the
benefit OF the facts, startling and In
credible as they will appear. Homo
lulu is lovely city, I'm free to admit,
and is doubtless full Of attractions, ex-
oept on Sunday, tho one day we hap
pened to be able to visit 1t. May the
Lord bless Hawaii and may the Leg
islature wipe out all such (here, for
the sake OF politeness, 1t is necessary
to omit an adjective) foolish rot as
a tight Sunday"