The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-13
TOWN TALK
BY THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.

l have been having some amusement
in reading late Advertiser remarks
about the local police and trying TO
bark back to campaign times and re-
call it's comments of those days. 1t
really does make an awful lot of differ
ence whose OK is gored Once or twice
lately The Star has reported cases of
petty thievery or attempted burglary
There was nothing very serious about
them, and they were nothing more
than was to be expected in a city OF
Honolulu's size. But it grieved the
Advertiser that there should be a sug-
gestion of a crime its pet police didn't
know all about, or a criminal they left
uncaught. So it jumped to the de-
Tense and first denied that there were
any thieveries This morning, how
ever, it makes a different kind of ap-
peal in the following words In
nearly every instance of this kind it
is an aid to the authorities to have
first-hand knowledge of whatever law
breaking is going on and the giving
of prompt information is a duty that
everyone owes to the community"
1t was this that reused the old cam
paign memories,-not so very old for
it is less than a year since the Ad-
vertiser was asking the public to re-
port crimes to it. The news of crimes
it complained lis kept from the public
as much as possible" by the police.
THE object, of course, is to keep the
record of unpublished crime from ex-
posme" So the diligent Advertiser
sent bright youths out to gather up
every item of crime they could find and
it magnified petty larcenies into bold
burglaries. But now-"It is an aid to
the authorities" to have the first
knowledge.
see that my venerable friend, White
is to be granted an hotel license for
his Pearl City resort. AS to Whites
resort, 1 am, of course, in ignorance.
But of his personal appearance have
taken some notice.
Did you ever read Mark Twain's
Huckleberry Finn? If you have not,
do so, and if you have, you will re-
call the character of the old barn
storming faker, who called himself
the late Dauphine of France. Well,
White is the living breathing image of
that old sinner-but this resemblance
/ is in no way to be taken as a re-
Election on the venerable White Far
be it from me to say any thing unkind
about the our elderly Pearl City boni-
face But some how, l never see him
without enjoying a laugh. He recalls
that scene in Huckleberry Finn, where
, camp meeting, represents himself as a
reformed sailor, who wants to raise
money to reform the heathens of the
South Seas Island. He weeps and
walls and gets the crowd of religious
folk to take up a rush collection for
him. He gets $41O.07 and then he
ducks. / wonder what sort of a re-
formed weep old White put up with the
liquor license commission to get his
application favorably acted upon.
Whoever drew up that new liquor bill
, certainly handed a gold brick to al
coholic circles. Every day some new
dodge is discovered, to prevent or in
terfere with men exercising or abusing
; the privilege whichever way you re-
gard it, of taking a drink or so. The
discovery about the ineligibility OF
those bell boys is fierce. In fact the
more one contemplates it, the worse
the situation appears.
Just think of it, a gentleman awakes
in the mornings in his hotel. He has
not had an early beauty sleep. Bun
rather that hard, hap pounding slumbeI
that follows good time" He feels
when he wakes that nothing but an
absinthe frappe or something equally
soothing and seductive will brace him
: up; he rings the bell; the bell boys
appears; Bring me an absinthe frappe
and make it cold" the boys disappears
half an hour passes, then an hour; the
brown mouthed is out of patience; he
, calls up the Office Where in - is
that bell boy with my drink? l or
dered it two hours ago." A pause, and
then the doom of the thirsty one is
sounded in these words We'll, 1t is
coming along as soon as it can. You
see your bell boy is only sixteen years
old and he won't be table to bring your
drink up to you for five more years"
And then-but why continue. Those
= who have been there will appreciate