The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-10

the second day after the shock. She
stated that they had paid only regular
prices for all articles, Anyone raising
| prices, had their goods confscated.
THREW HER STOCKINGS
OUT OF THE WINDOW.
| I met Miss Lose You may remem-
| Der her or her father, who used to be
with the Mutual Telephone Company
| in Honolulu. Their place used to be in
| the middle of the block between Cough
| and Octavia streets on Page 1t is now
| the corner house All the others are
| burned. Even the one next door is
| fiat to the ground. She said that she
| could get more than enough to eat, but
| in the excitement she had thrown all
her stockings out of the window into
| the burning house next to them and was
now running around la kanaka, plus
pair of shoes. She was as happy as
| lark and ioked about standing in line
for rations. Everyone is the same.
AS we went up Haight street a few
minutes afterwards, an old fellow call
ed out:
"Come and have a cup of coffee with
u.s.
We refused and thanked him. A
young fellow beside him was building
q brick stove. All cooking is done in
the streets, by the way. He straighten-
ed up and yelled:
"Hello, De Cewi where the devil
did you drop from?o
/ then recognized him as A. II. Horn,
manager of the Independent Electric
Construction Company, who were form
erly located OF Second street. He isl
a fellow whom you would think might
faint at the sight of hard work. But
he was digging for life at that time,
and seemed to enjoy the novelty. He
insisted that we return and stay with
him if we remained over night, and
the old man whose basement he had
rented said he would supply US with
plenty of blankets. Everybody is get
ting along as best they can, and always
find time to help someone else who may |
be a little more unfortunate than |
themselves.
1 was talking with Rudolph Spreck- |
els. He is very heavy stakeholder in |
our road, and he said there was no
question about San Francisco recover |
ing and that at very early date.
1t is very amusing to see how the |
soldiers use their authority. We had
been in town about twenty minutes and
were hustling down what is left of |
Market street, when a soldier rubbed |
up against us and said:
'fSay, fellows, take a little run up |
that block and help those fellows un-
load that truck.
I asked him if it was absolutely nee
essary as We were in only for the day i
ana wished to learn if our friends were /
safe, then make a get away. tie was
very nice, but said it was necessary;
so we told him that was what we bad !,
driven fifty miles for, and We took the
little run
We helped unload boiled maekerel
for about twenty inmates. II anyone
says "mackerel to me for the next
thirty years, l III choke him. IF it had
been Goldfish l think l would have
taken the bayonet thrust and died
martyr to my likes and dislikes.
We were not alone. A short time
after this, as we were passing along
Fillmore street, there were three fell
lows ahead of us. Two of them wore
silk hats, and as they reached Golden
Gate avenue, soldier put them to
sweeping the street.
1t is the wisest plan to do as you are
told and do it quickly. One daddy
buck who claimed to be a government
photographer, said he was in a hurry
anu COuIuH dil ne do 1iuuCcb ~
a bayonet thrust in his leg TO take hold
and know "what l mean He made
a splendid worker
One poor devil, dressed in an ice
cream suit, patent leather shoes, kid
gloves and carrying a swagger stick,
was put to work for FIVE hours, clear
ing away hot bricks, and [ want to say
right here that most of those brick are
so hot they are smoking. The soldiers
try and get fellows who are all logged
out to kill, and if you get sore you are
liable to get a life job. They are above 1
the police and certainly rub it into the /
latter at every opportunity. ,
When we were leaving we had TO
walk out Valencia street co Twenty-ffth
to the depot. 1t was late, about ten 4
, clock, and policeman was going our c
Tav so walked with Us. We hadn' t j,
gone far when we were halted by
guard who asked the policeman all !
kinds of questions before he would let G
him proceed. Then he turned on as I
and demanded our passes, read them
md advised US that we were taking
LII kinds of chances by being out after Q
lark. He told us to keep in the middle s
If the street and concluded by accom- \
,anying US to the next guard
We left home at five o clock Sunday
morning and arrived back at the same r
,our Monday morning Well, daddy,