The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-03-10
Town TALK
BIZ The Man About Town.


Haga, Judge Gears client in the
Olympia matter, Was seen walking
down Fort street last Wednesday noon
with two bags of money i'm his hands
well, l never thought Gear would
make a mistake like that" said Frank
Thompson. "The idea of that man
having money left. Professional stan
dards here seem to be very low"
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| have a friend who has literary as
pirations That is he desires to write
fiction stories and sell them to maya
zines. 1t might by way of depression,
be stated that he has considerable rrac-
tice in writing fiction for he is em-
ployed on a rival newspaper. Last
year Golfers announced a 5000 prize
for the best short story offered in com
petition. My literary friend announced
that he had a story that was a wonder
and as he wanted to pay some back
butcher bills and sCttle up few
9th + scores and buy home he thought
he would send in his wonderful story.
Not caring to indulge in any wierd
rankings of the mind | will not at
tempt to outline the plot beyond the
statement that the hero of the sorry
did not know wheher he or she or it
was a man or woman or the missing
| link Needless to say the story was
returned William Dean Howell or
Rudyard Kiplng or some other big
bug got jealous and knocked the story
so it was rejected. Then the author
sent the story to another magazine and
the thing was returned, then he sr't it
| to a third magazine, with a similar
result This week / saw him elated
| beyond measure. "They can't keep
us young authors down." he exclaim-
ed with an air of defiance. 1.-THE trust
of authors has tried to throttle my
! literary genius for months but 1 have
shaken off the yoke What do mean?
Why do you remember that story I
entered in that $4,000 competition, well
have just gotten q check for that
story. They gave me SO for it,"
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The cable seems to send some queer
things The other day l noticed that
Japan is to send some Japanese war
ships to China" 1t would have been
remarkable if Japan were sending any
other kind. l wonder if the Associated
Press made the statement. or was it
made in a local newspaper office?
G G G G
In this connection l am reminded OF
an error which I suppose will never die
i'm the memory of those who noticed it
| The cable as it comes here is abbre-
waited. For example the name of John
j. Smith, comes as "jjsmith." 1t was
this custom that led a local papsr one
day to announce that Mrs. Jalogar
had been elected President of the Rec
Cross Society" Mrs. J. A. Logan i:
still the President.
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u see" said William Savidge the
notary public and marriage license
clerk, that Allan Harbert has Offered
his Kalihi valley residence for the
honeymoon for the first one of the
Oregon Girls who is married down her,
/ will go him one better than that.
will grant a free marriage license t.
the first one who wants to get married
i'm Hawaii"
@ G @ @
Judge Highton has started new
sort of guessing contest. Those whC
heard his eloquent Washington's birth
day address will remember his refer
ences to some citizen of Hawaii wht
might be classed i'm history as a Wash
ngton of his island country The
guessing contest is who is the Wash
ngton?" l have been asked many
times whom the judge referred to anC
it is believed that there are severa
distinguished citizens willing to ac'
cept the title and some who more thar
half suspect in modest way, tina
they are 1t. Seriously speaking, hav,
toned, but don't know whom Hightor
had in mind. He refuses to say.
friend asked him for me the other day
WHO is Washington? he repeated
Il have been asked that before, but
refused to answer. / have made Onl!
one reply and that is that there is ;
lady in Honolulu who, if she heard o
read my speach, will know whom
meant"
This is not much of an answer, s,
we shall have to keep on guessing.
think some paper should start a vOt
ing contest to settle it strictly accord
ing to merits, as such contests Away
settle things.
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Roller skating has caught on. Their
is no limit to age, weight or condition
; to regulate its degree of popularity
The young and old alike participate
But do you know never go there an
watch the whirling crowds of skater
but 1 am in constant apprehension les
a serious calamity occur Invariabl
every beginner sticks his or her ton
que out while trying to navigate. 1 d
not know the particular reason but
suppose it is the same emotion tina