The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-02-17
Town ; TALK
By The Man About Town.

not from any broader military stand
point
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The knockers are getting in their
work on the band boys, and If they
succeed, it is probable that some of
the band boys won't get to go on the
tour of the band to the mainland, their
places being taken by other Hawaiian
musicians who have the good sense to
know a good thing when they see it and
who don't listen to bad advice. Some
of the men in the band get $40 a month,
fiat, for their services. and nothing else.
Some of them get more. The Board of
Supervisors in permitting the band to
go on tour appointed a committee to
see that proper arrangements were
made and proper guarantees were given
to the band boys. Joe Cohen who is
directing the tour, and who will spend
about $4,000 before the band gives a
single pay concert, proposes to pay the
members of the band quite an advance
on their present rate of wages, during
the time they are on tour, and to pay
their expenses.
But some of those officious friends
who are always interfering, have been
among the band boys and have been
saying to them, "Oh, yes; you're going
to have a tour of the states and see a
lot that is interesting and have the
trip of your lives. But Joe Cohen is
going to make a barrel of money out
of this, and you can just as well as not
have some of it. 1t won't be the Ha-
waiian Band if you Hawaiians are not
in it, so you just stand pat. Strike Joe
for $3.50 and expenses, and he'll have to
give it, for he can't get along without
you"
And some of the band boys are ac-
tually taking this advice and are ask
ing for salaries of $3.50 a month and ex-
penses. OF course they won't get it,
for no success that could be dreamed
of would justify any such salaries as
that But they may lose the chance
of the trip altogether.
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was glad to see that the New York
Yacht Club will be represented in the
race from San Francisco to Honolulu,
the yacht Anemone having been enter
ed by her owner c. L. Tut. But 1 was
appalled, yesterday when l heard a GER
tain alleged yachtsman pronounce her
name "Annie-moan." 1t reminded me
Of the man who studied the name of
the yacht Psyche for a long time and
finally said with a snort of disgust:
We'll, 1 amt strong on spellin' my
self, but that is certainly a - of a
way to spell Fish,"
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81 see,' snorted a Canadian friend OF
mine that the Advertiser says Canada
might stand a chance of winning the
American cup if the Canadians could
build yachts Well, wouldn't that jar
you? The man who wrote that must
have the faint st sort of knowledge Of
yachts and of yachting. I'll bet he
wouldn't know a yacht from a steam
dredger if he saw one.
'He ought to look up the record of
the Seawanhaka-Cc rinthian cup in the
small raters and of the contests for
the Canadas cup on the Great Lakes
1t would enlighten him.
after he had thoroughly absorbed
the facts that there present themselves
he would thoroughly appreciate the
fact that Canadians can build yachts
anu y anus lllclI are llOl lllSlGlg racing
machines. Another thing, too, the
Canadians can not only build yachts
but they sail them. Then don't have
to hire a lot of square-heads and a
Scotch captain to do the work for them
while imitation yachtsmen with gold
laced caps sit on the club piazzas and
watch. Why don't you get the editor
to give that chap a roast?"
MY dear but irate Canuck friend"
1 answered 81 don't interfere with the
editors business, but he is too busy,
know, to begin to correct a 1.-THE of the
Advertisers mistakes
"Bah!" said the Canuck
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The difference between Count Boni
de Castellane and a Pake farmer is
that the one made ducks and brakes
out of money and the other makes
money out of ducks and brakes.
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No one esteems our Chinese residents
any more than l do, for the reason
that l understand the many excellent
traits of their character. But when that
anti-foreign outbreak comes in China
what will the position Of our Chinese
be. 1t will certainly be embarrassing.
But our Chinese have learned to be
practical and to be practical means to