The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-12-16
Town ; TALK
By The Man About Town.

By The Man
| see that my fri ma Frank Harvey,
has gone to Hilo for the first time since
the seventies. | wonder if he will no.
tice much change in the place since
that time.
The passenger list of Kauai steam
er this week, tells of the arrival of Mr.
Hee Duck. Mrs She Duck did not ac-
company her husband, as her name
does not appear among the list of ar
rivals
George Lycurgus of the Volcano
House, is said to be preparing a Won
derful Christmas entertainment for
the visitors to this resort this month.
He will give those who desire It, lunch
in the crater of Kilauea, so that they
kcan go away to their mainland homes
and say that they took Christmas din
ner i'm the crater of a volcano. I can
not say whether George will guarantee
to cook the meal over the steam cracks
agreeable, George will be there with
| the goods. Christmas eve will prob
ably be- passed by the crowd going
down into the crater and waiting for
| Christmas to be horalded to them,
amid the fire and glow that comes from
the home of Pele. 1 think the pro-
position of having Christmas dinner in
the crater is an excellent idea and one
that would advertise the islands to
wide extent 1t ought to be done
whether it is Lycurgus' program or
not
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Promotion Man Wood is a hustler
He wants to arrange to have daily
cable reports of the temperature Of
the ocean, sent to the mainland. If
he were only to have the proof of the
ololehao cabled too, it would bring a
large crowd of old topers into our midst
looking for the fiery tsuff
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1 see that they have been playing the
Fatal Card at the Orpheum this week
l did not see the play or learn the plot
! but l suppose the fatal card is where
a man draws one card to two pair
and fills, while the other fellow has
| tours.
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! l do not think the news that five
thousand acres of Olaa lands arr 10
be leased to japanese who are to come
| here from their native land will do
| the islands any good in Washington. 1t
is a daring defiance to the Administra-
| ton, in view of many utterances, pri-
vate and public in which President
Roosevelt has declared his objections
to our preponderance of Asia tic popula-
ton. OF course the big sugar men
know more than l do about their bust
| ness and how to run it. but a small,
and l believe wise bird whispers in my
ear that there is danger ahead in the
course of encouraging more Asiatics to
come to these islands.
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The sudden outburst of local kicks
when men who are not American citi-
zens led and controlled the discuss on
as to what should be done to help to
! secure the legislation we want from
! Congress was quite a surprise. 1t re-
minds me of a story Of a White House
! interview in which it was shown that
| the President has a realizing sense Of
such conditions here, and does not at
| all approve of it. As the story goes
a delegation from Honolulu once called
| upon the President to ask his aid i'm a
| certain measure, one of which of course
was the cheap labor proposition which
! Hawaii has uselessly urg for so
many years. "Gentlemen," the Presi-
! dent is reported to have said when he
| had heard the case pr scented chow
many of you are American citizens p"
! Americans were a minority of two in
| that delegation and there was a silence
| that could be felt.
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! Speaking of gambling sentences. I am
Ionce imposed by Judge Gle +, uTol some
! clients of Lyle A. DicEey. at time
when the latter had just left the dis
! trict bench. Dickey had made three
months his estimate Of what gamblers
| should serve, and imposed many SEN
| fences of three months on gamblers. A
| large crowd Of Chinese whom he re-
| presented had the misfortune to be
| found guilty in Judge Gears court
! When counsel for defendant began to
speak for his clients, Judge Gear saw
an opening of the sort he dearly loved
He inquired of Dickey if it had been
! his custom as magistrate to impose
three months sentences in cases like
the one at bar. Dickey was compelled