The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-02-02


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sri inat fffnifi 70 discuss - hAa
'tfff firht a. NJ. 90 ne Afternoon ~
ihe sailing oi the rieffa feinfiets toi
some ~ The san lfaneisrn papers thme
aboard seeAina o. in,gfsirN mei ltt in|
them, as 90 pihrfs, ! bad nothing 10
sly except NJ a private ciiifen.
Coming down on the ship w the
course ~ casual conversation the mat
ter ~ the strategic Importance ~ The
Hawaiian Islands came VI nnd the
opinion wss passed that a large BODY
of troops would he useful In ease Of
emergency " stationed here. ] made
some chance remark on the subject and
that is all. As for making what the
Advertiser calls making startling al.
Missions OF saying that the people of
Honolulu need not he surprised to see
$4,000 or 10000 troops here-well,
there Is only one way to characterize
that sort of thing.
THE further suggestion that i am
here to pick out suitable camp site
for this imaginary army is another
choicely foolish idea. am not an
army man AT all, but had the rank OF
major of volunteers.
90 at is, of course, apparent that If
had anything to do with such a mission
AS has been suggested | would be do
ing the best in the way of defeating
my own ends by saying anything about
it, continued Major Vincent, so /
do not suppose that any sane person
Who read the article in the paper be-
lieved it at all. 1t puts me in an alb
somtely wrong light, though, and
shall be glad to have it corrected
Major Vincent is here purely on a
, matter of pleasure and private bust
ness, he says, and will he here for sew
! eral weeks. He refused to discuss his
business here this morning beyond
denying that he was the fore-runner of
| an invading army of 10000 men, as
suggested by the morning paper.
"Despite the denials of Major Vim
cent as to the authenticity of his inter
view, there are many of his fellow pas.
| s"neers by the S. S. Sierra in this city
| who state that he openly proclaimed
| himself to be secret service agent
and even stated directly that it was his
| mission to acquire land here for the
accommodation of large body of
troops.
"'Of course / don't know what he
told or did not tell the Advertiser, re-
marked one of the passengers today,
but he certainly claimed to be in the
secret service, not to me alone, but to
| many others. i talked to him about
| different army reservations of land
here and to my surprise he did not
know anything about the places al
ready reserved. ] thought this decid-
edly strange. j don't know anything
about the man beyond what he told me
himself, but his curious garrulousness
while at the same time claiming to be
a secret service man, made most of the
smoking room crowd suspicious. The
chief engineer, who was a Scotchman,
.ieered at us Americans for having a
secret service in which the men told
'hIir ousIness;
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/ ovorv nossonuor IL c;orro ,,hov
| tbo .b;n awnno into no. dooL hos boon
cabled to tho mainland If tbe Ma ;or
| is a secret service man. naturaliv he
/ will hear from that. And If he told
| the truth to his fellow passengers-and
to the Advertiser reporter-he proba.
| bly, has a keen appreciation of what
the nature of his message will be. On
the contrary, II he is hiding a deeper
i and a different purpose, why, perhaps
ne may get raise OF salary.
| NiSo. .hi'eu States District Attor-
ney prechons mas hao ms attention
iee W .ne iiia.ter' man may
pros;dor,t ae ~ ~. ne
r,ants 80 ), sa;I NJ p-sI.' no
dow uso lon1 os ha doas no. otta,,, =.
to work any game by II R,,t as a
rule, that Kind Of nsrsons arc
watched. -
| And the rule of the Federal officials
| in this regard is an entirely safe rule.
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