The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-06-30

RHuer Is probably the bad debt col
lector par excellence. Certainly he
has no peer in San Francisco. In per-
sistence and indefatigability he equals
the late Major Luning, with perhaps
more ingenuity of resource, but with
out the imperturbable dignity and
suavity in modo which made Major
Luning sui generis.
For years Jake Rauer has been col
Letting bad debts in San Francisco.
When creditors had exhausted all other
resources against their debtors they
assigned their claims to Jake Rauer
and Jake proceeded to make life miser-
able for the "slow pay or the mo pay"
who were his especial quarry No in
genuity of the dead beat" but was
matched by the deeper ingenuity of Jake
Rauer. He would have been rich as
Croesus long ago if he had had a 1.-THE
of the shrewdness in investing his
money that he had in making it. But
the minute he stopped chasing a bad
debtor, he was sure to fall in with some
kind of a goldbrick man and buy. But
every experience of this kind seemed
only to drive him to greater diligence
as collector.
no wonder then, that when it became
rumored that his books and accounts
had been burned up there was rejoicing
among a large class of debtors, because
of whom. just such men as Jake Rauer
were created.
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l noticed rather an amusing thing
about the two visiting yachts. On the
stern of each is displayed the name Of
her home port. The home port of the
Lurine is Los Angeles and of the Ane-
none, Denver Los Angeles is about
Is miles inland from the Pacific and
Denver is not only over a thousand miles
inland but is "a mile above sea. level. 1t
is sometimes like calling fisherman a
mountaineer.
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Captain Scott of the bark Gerard c.
Tobey has come in for more joshing
this week than at any other similar
period in his career Last Tuesday the
bark Mohican arrived from San Fran
cisco after splendid passage of 8 days
and 1G hours. 1t was the smartest
passage made by any of the vessels of
the Castle & Cooke and G.. Brewer &
Company fleet and faster than any
Scott has captured. Hersey the mas
ter of the Mohican was formerly Scott's
mate on the Tobey and, in consequence,
the people all along the water front
have been joking Scott about the SUI
perior qualities of the eX-mate over
the former master. "Oh, that's all
right" replied Scott "but you know /
taught him how to make these fast
passages. He came to me a mate and
I turned him out a captain. I am
proud of my pupil" .r
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The late John Bush was the hero Of
one of the most amusing stories of the
early days of American campaigning
here. Thought long a political leader
of force and intelligence in the affairs
of his own land, Bush was naturally not
very familiar at the start with the
names of leading Americans. Hence
it was that he closed a speech in be-
half of William Jennings Bryan, with a
tribute to that peerless American
William Cullen Bryant"
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Some of the "Yachtsmen" who came
down from San Pedro on the yachts
are no more "yachtsmen" than I am.
They are Just common, every day good
fellows. However they might pass with
all of the white uniforms and gold
braids for the genuine article IL it were
not for the fact that when they begin
to talk they give themselves away. The
other day I was talking to one of them
and he informed me that the "spanker
boom" had been carried away. Another
day the same man informed me when
he heard one bell sound, thatit was one
o'clock. If those fellows want to pass
off as sailors they will have to be a
little more consistent with the talk they
put out OF course I will have to ad-
nit that some of them can sail or they
wouldn't be here yet.
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Well the little La Paloma hung right
on and came in third and l was glad to
see her make such a showing. My
old friend Clarence Macfarlane had
hard time Of it. He went to Frisco and
the joke was on him, for there was
no Frisco when he got there. That
was bad enough but the fun of it
was that when he was so close to home
that he could almost touch us, he
couldn't find the Islands. He thought
while and then he came very near sail
ing again for the coast. Why? Be
cause he Thought that the islands had
sunk. so that there would be another
Joke on him.
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There has been considerable wonder
ment among the people of the town
why the Commodore of the Lurlne
brought so large a party with him on
the trip. I understand that one Of the
party explained it the other day He
stated that he was brought along on
account of his ability to take a turn
at the wheel Another was a medical