The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-02-10
TOWN TALK
By Tho Man About Town.

Il. was hardly the thing for you to
stick up for that anti-spraying law"
remarked a scott to County Attorney
/ Douthitt.
Il don't see how you make that out"
said the County Attorney, bristling,
ITS a county ordinance and as a mat
ter of fact I think personally that it
should be strictly enforced. 1 cannot
conceive of a more filthy thing than
having to wear clothes sprayed from
a Chnaman's mouth There are all
sorts of possibilities of disease in it,"
ooh that's all right, the disease part
Of it," returned the scoffer, but where
does the church come in?"
"The church," echoed Douthitt What
has the church to do with it?'
well, here we are trying to convert
the heather and we get them into
church, said the unregenerate one
land what is the first think they hear,
Ell? Let us spray isn't it? No wonder
the Chinks think that tn y are getting
a raw deal. They believe that the
haoles want to spray and at the same
time prevent the wash5e man from
doing so. That's the way 1 size it
up"
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Say said a hack driver fri nd "you
hear a lot of talk about the hack
drivers not acting square to the visitors
to this city and driving people away by
charging eXorbitant rates. Well that
is not true of most of the hack drivers
and instead of the Promotion Commit
tee knocking us drivers, the committee
ought by all means, to be friendly with
the drivers. In the first place it is the
hack drivers who can give the visitor a
correct impression of this city. Tourists
who stop here from the steamers are
anxious to see the places of interest
/, and in most cases the strangers seek a
hack driver for information. 1t is to
our interest not to overcharge them
and also to help them to like this place
so that they will return. There are
of course men driving who frequently
are not regular hack drivers, who i'm
pose upon strangers, but you will find
that the regular men do nothing OF
the kind. We want to help the tourist
trade here as much as anybody else,
for the more tourists who come her,
the better will be times for the hack
drivers"
g G G G
[ wonder if DR.. Jordan will come
ashore when he passes through here on
his way to Japan as fish commissioner,
without some assurance that Hi Henry
is out of the way. In the interests of
Promotion work 1 think sonnet thing
should be done to satisfy the learned
doctor that he is in no danger. Henry
should be sent on a trip, so that the
distinguished scientist can spend his
time ashore in comfort. Speaking OF
Jordan reminds me that it is about time
that a new Stanford theory cropped up
They will crop up for years to come
and no one will ever be able to decide
among them. The few days after the
tragedy, during which perhaps al
facts might have been unearthed have
passed away forever.
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Talking about Hawaii as a way
station for ships bound through the
; Panama canal for the orient" said w
, R. Castle to me Did you ever look
over the direct route between, say
, Panama and Yokohama"
l admitted that 1 had not.
well where do you think the line
would rum" he asked.
With merely a hazy memory of the
map l answered that straight line
drawn from Panama to Yokohama
would go somewhere south of Hawaii
and hence ships going through would
have to come out of their way in COM
ing here.
That's what 1 thought you'd say"
said w. r. but get a globe, put a
piece of string on it between the two
places and see where the great circle
takes you. 1t will be instructive"
The search for wisdom is an all alb
corbing one and so l fastened over to
Wall, Nichol & Co.'S store and Dor
, rowed a globe for a few minutes. A
bit of string was applied between Pa
mama and Yokohama, as Mr.. Castle
had suggested and the result was as
founding.
> 1t went all through the Central Anne
rican republics cut through Mexico,
clipped a corner off Southern Califor-
MIA and then went away north 1t
passed many degrees north of these
islands before reaching far Japan
1 suppose that it is because one gets
used to seeing the map on the Mercatol
projection which Of course eXaggerates
the extreme ATTITUDES. After all the
study of the globes" which used to be
an absolute essential in polite educa-
tion in the days of our grandparents
would not be such a bad thing now
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