The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-03
TYPEWRITER
OEPORTtO
The Ten Cents a Page
Man Must Leave
Hawaii.

The following letter, received at THU
office yesterday. throws valuable ligh
on police methods in Honolulu.
The writer, Arthur C. Everett, is no
bad character. He is sober, capable
and Industrious. and where work has
been given him he has done that work
well. So conscientious and anxious tc
please has he been that it has been his
habit to rewrite an entire page rather
than that the page should be married
by erasure on account of some small
slip of the typewriter
Honolulu, November 2, 1906.
Editor Advertiser: No matter where
you go it is now considered a crime TO
be poor, and Honolulu is no exception
to that rule, yet here 1 have discov-
cred coupon attached to that general
rule that I did not think possible could
be so attached where the Stars and
Stripes waved Ger State or Territory,
and that is: No matter how hard one
tries to get work, no matter how well
he does his work (when he gets any to
do), if he fails to secure employment
sufficient to exc out a bare existence
be the person ever SO frugal spending
no money for liquor, tobacco or for
what the generality of men in Honolulu
spends more money than they do for
whisky and smokes-that failure in Ho-
nolulu is a heinous crime and such per-
sons are treated as criminals, which
has been my personal experience here
in Honolulu.
| 1 came here soon after passing
| thrc1oh "a rE>riSrn of Anrtl
| 81 hoping that here 1 would find a
better chance to get typewriting to do
(and that in land, too, of perpetual
summer) without having to compete
with such great numbers, as was the
case in Oakland after Frisco was de-
stroyed. /
To get what little typewriting I have
had to do since coming to Honolulu
with but three notable EXCEPTIONS
have had to all but beg for it on my
knees; have even made a spectacle of
myself-if not for gods and men, for
the small fry by carrying a solicita-
ton advertisement on the front of my
hat when out on the streets, but, as it
has proved, to no avail. All for whom
L have done typewrfting have spoken
well of my work; the only fault that
has been found with me was by some
of the local typists who roasted me for,
as they expressed it to me personally,
working too cheap" Yet at the prices
1 typed I could not get enough copy /
with which to pay rent other than by
living on 10 cents day, which I have
done week after week.
Now 1 am deported for no other crime
than failing to get typewriting enough
to do Tin my invalid condition this is
the only work I can do, and have a
good typewriter, the Oliver,) so as to
pay for a most meager existence. 1t
has been put to me straight that 1 had
either to consent to go out and live at
the "Incurable Home or return to Cali
fornia; failing to choose between the
two I was to be treated as a "vag." I
could not consent to go out to the I'm
durable Home" and so I had to take
the other horn of the Acknowledgement
to be deported. and at first it was I'M
derstood that I was to turn over my
typewriter to pay for steerage fare to
Frisco, which would have taken from
me the only way l had of earning any
Certain parties, however, who
do not wish their names made public
have blunted the sting of my unjust
deportation by making it possible for
me to take my typewriter back with
me to the Coast, but 1 must go with
nothing to salve the sore of having to
return to Frisco at the most Indictment
season OF the year.
Honolulu. requiescat in pace!
ARTHUR c. EVERETT, n. NJ,
Typist
The treatment of Everett seems to be
little short of an outrage. Here is a
man who has done his best to obtain
work since coming to Honolulu. That
he has worked and worked well when
ever he has had chance is we'll known.
And yet Everett is to be deported by
the police because he cannot make as !
much money as other persons in his
profession.
Deportations are rare in Honolulu.
Not because of any lack of individuals
who richly deserve deporting, but be-
cause of the apathy of an Indifferent
and incapable police department.
Today the town is overrun with tin
horn gamblers, indecent women, pimps
and general neer-do-wells. One rarely
hears of any of this kidney being de-
ported. They are not even arrested.
1t would be interesting TO know just
why such summary treatmen has been
neted out to this unfortunate type
writer. Also in what way he has man