The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-22
TOWN TALK
BY The Man About Town.

1 dropped into a shelter on a corner
in the rear Of the Opera House the
other evening to get out of the rain.
I was greatly shocked to find that 1t
was a saloon into which I had mad
vertently taken myself. Once on the
inside, however, in order to keep mp
appearance, I felt that it was up to me
to can for something, so I ordered a
lemonade. Judge of my surprise when
I recognized in the barkeeper my old
friend Leon Strauss who was once so
prominent in police court work. Leon
has in his time excited no small ad-
miration as a criminal lawyer and he
was called to the bar when quite
young. He is still young and theatre
cally handsome. And now he has been
called to another bar where, as at that
Of Justice, all men are equal.
SSSS
Captain Smith of the White Star
liner Doric was talking about the
ignorance of the sea and of nautical
terms that is sometimes displayed by
the women passengers. while the liner
was in port Thursday.
This trip" he said, there was a
young lady passenger who had come
all the way from New York and had
evidently been on boat long enough
to know something about it. One day
she came to me and asked me to show
her over the Storage. This I agreed
to do.
CAS- we were making our tour this
Storage people were eating their din
ner, and I could not help remarking
the tremendous appetite of one man.
Great Jupiter said I, look at the
amount of food that man is consum-
ing
L suppose, Captain said the young
lady, that he is what you sailors call
q stowaway.'"
Judge Gear has a safe at his Office.
He wrote the combination on a piece of
paper and after transacting some bust
ness, locked the safe and walked away.
He felt that some important documents
he had just placed in the safe were
perfectly secure. They WERE for when
he went back later to open the safe
he found he had also locked up the
piece of paper on which was written
the combination. He could not re-
member the combination. The result
was that he had to send to the police
to hunt up some expert safe cracker
to open the safe so he could get the
combination.
My friend j. Oswald Lutted, of candy
cake and poi-flour fame is a Hawaii
promotion committee of one. He was
formerly a prominent citizen of Buff
falo and is constantly receiving letters
asking information concerning condi-
lions in Hawaii. l know for a fact
that his advice has brought over
twenty people out here from New
York state and 1 could name them if
I wanted to. Several married out here
and all are doing well, having found
Lutteds advice to be the genuine
goods. P. A. Glasgow of 565 Washing
ton street Buffalo, writes that life in
that town is too strenuous; there is too
much competition" He has $4,000,
he says, and would like to come out
here and buy a small plantation. w.
N. Candee, of $50 Fourth street, Buff
falo, writes that it is too cold in Buff
falo for him and he has $4,000 to put
into a paying business here. L men
ton the names so that thase who have
any $4,000 or $4,000 sugar plantations
to sell can communicate with these
Eastern gentlemen who are weary of
cold and competition"
SSSS
was reading the account of Captain
Josselyn's experience with icebergs,
and equators and things this trip. He
intimated that some Seismic disturb
ance'' had sort of tumbled things loose
in the Antarctic regions and sent some
icebergs adrift. The suggestion that
an earthquake had perhaps, been res
ponsible for breaking the ice in that
region is highly original The spec
tacle of the South Pole quivering and
rocking in the throes of an earthquake
must have been a spectacle worth go
ing the distance to see. l have often
seen bean poles rocking in the wind
so I have only a sort of hazy idea
about how the South Pole would act
but in any event 1 would like to have
felt those Seismic disturbances that
started those icebergs to meet Captain
JOsselyn
3SS9
According to a published report, the
Chinese gamblers have discarded look
out and other means of receiving warn