The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-08
TOWN TALK
BY The Man About Town.

a friend of mine told me a good story /
about the steamer Suvericg and her
cargo Of immigrants. 1t appears that
two young men Of Portuguese parents
left Honolulu some months ago to visit
relatives i'm the Azores. When the old
folks heard that Stackable and Fraser
were recruiting men for this country,
they sent word. to the sons to agree to
come to Hawaii to work in the cane
fields and thereby secure a free pas
sage home. The boys took the tip and
now they are in Honolulu with their
folks and without paying a cent for
transportation,
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What surprises me Is that the peo-
pie who are opposed to the rum traffic
have not invoked the aid of the Pure
Food" law at an earlier day. A spirit
ed enforcement of the law will close
up most Of the "joints" in the lower
portion of the city. Some places in
Chinatown sell a big glass Of "whis-
key" for ten cents. The stuff Is the
rankest poison. 1t would be interest
ing to know where the saloons are sup
piled with the bogus whiskey sold over
their bars; and when the authorities
find the guilty ones Treasurer Camp
bell ought to prosecute regardless of
the standing of the individual or firm,
I understand that A. f. Judd is soon
to return to Honolulu with fifteen Fill
pinO families to work on plantations.
Judd has been away seven or eight
months now. What I want to know
is, if it takes seven months to secure
10 families, how long would it take to
Secure a ship load? Mind; I am not
finding fault with Judd; he has met
with mich opposition, and, probably,
has done as well as anyone could do
under the same conditions. 1t would
appear that Filipinos do not want to
come to this country to work when
they can live at home in idleness.
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Iaukea says he will not surrender.
He will stay by the ship-Sheriffship.
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1 see that my friend Walter G. Smith
is worrying about the Jap hackmen
and the Jap horseshoers; but 1 do not
near of any worrying on the part of
the objects of Smiths sympathy. The
Jap hackmen are kept busy at night:
and the zap horseshoers by day and as
Joe Cohen put it: where's the kick &"
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Governor Carter believes that the Re
publican party in Hawaii, or better
still, in Honolulu, ought to be reor-
ganized and control placed in new
hands, and a great many people in
Honolulu agree with him. But the
Central Committe believes otherwise.
and just to be oppC sed to the governor
so am told. A number of the COM
mittee favored the acceptance of AIecl,
Robertson's resignation and were will
ing to elect Fred Macfarlane as chair
man; but when they heard that Carter
favored Macfarlane, there was n roar
and it was decided not to accent the
resignation and so there will be no
change in the central communication
the present, at least.
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Commissioner-Gene of Tmn,fero.
'lon Sargent is not lacking in a sense
ol humor and can take a joke on him
SELF as well as the next man. He was
recounting to an interested group how
baby born at the immigration sta
| ton on the night of the arrival of the
). 5. Suveric was named in honor of
him, Frank P'erce Sargent Costa.
Ihat boy will be heard from some
day. he declared. But" remarked
one of the audience, at has frequently
been observed that persons named after
great men rarely amount to anything. -
Sir exclaimed the commissioner. sit
! ting up suddenly "I'u have you to
know that I was named after President
| Pierce"
Mr.. Sargent deposited sum of mon
, ey in local bank to the credit of his
= namesake and it may be said although
he be commissioner-genera that he
has thus been guilty of assisting" inn
migration and, at that, an immigrant
who was not on the Suverics manifest.
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| I saw Curtis Iaukea and Deputy
! Sheriff Kalakiela standing in the mid
die of the car track in front of the Adj
vertiser office the other day discussing
recount" and absent-mindedIy look
! ing up at the balcony rail. I think they
were waiting for the returns, to see
! who was Sheriff.
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