The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-06-22

We in Honolulu, are much too apt
to worry y ourselves unnecessarily.
Here we are bothering about the Jap
anese problem and the irresistible in
dustrial encroachment of the Japanese
and all that. Yet we have, right in
our midst, a man who is slowly solving
this problem for us. He is doing it by
that distinctively American method OF
consolidation. Who is it? Alexander
Young. And, how is he doing it? He
started in by building the Young motel,
then he bought the Moana, now he
has bought the Hawaiian. These con
stitute about the only hotels left in
Honolulu except the 26 Japanese
hotels. I have no doubt if left to his
own restless energy that our Mr.. Young
will turn out to be a modernized Alex
ander the Great who will some day sit
down and weep because there are no
more hotels to buy. Our Alexander is
a wonder, he is.
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l see that E. r. Stackable, the Col
lector of Cutoms has returned from
nearly years absence from the Ter
ritory in the interest of the territorial
immigration BOARD. 1t is too bad that
he did not learn some worldly wisdom
and rub off some of the sharp corners
of provincialism during his absence.
About the first public utterance he
10 xtyho he
clare that he never was interviewed
by newspaper reporters on the main
land, that they made up the inter
views, and that he did not like news
papers and newspaper reporters.
venture to say that the newspaper re-
porters who have ever had occasion to
know him can reciprocate with
similar regard. But if Collector Stack
able thinks he can come back here and
have people believe any such story
about reporters interviewing" him
when he gave nc interview, he is much
mistaken. That is not the method
of mainland newspapermen nor main
land journals. But to disgress.
1t is too frequently the custom Of
some people from remotely situated
places when anything appears in the
mainland press about them, to declare
that the interview was faxed" Moth
ing stamps a man to be of petty caliber
so much as to attempt to initiate him
self at the expense Of newspaper re-
porters. They bray of the provincial IS
ever loud in the land. This is the
reason l mentioned the sharp corners
at the first of my remarks.
1 do wish that some of the Local
steamship agencies and the post Office
officials would advertise the mail boats
right The official" post Office mail
schedule states that certain boat Is
due here from San Francisco on the
seventh day. AS a matter of fact, sucn
a statement is entirely misrepresen-
tation. The vessel in question arrives
here on the sixth day and if Che fails to
do so she is late.
similar condition prevails with
vessels from the Orient. They are
scheduled to arrive on the tenth day
AS a matter of fact they arrive on the
ninth day and have been doing so for
years. The result is the public gets
the idea that when the boats arrive
here the ninth day, they are a day
ahead of time when they are nothing
of the, sort. They are simply run on
hn Ht11n hn oh &C
made and that the coal allowance pro-
vides for
e. r. Stackable, the Port Collector,
who returned on the Sierra yesterday
is usually a mysterious individual
and, as far as | know, is not popular
official among newspapermen. But
when a man who has been absent from
Hawaii for year or more and then
returns to Honolulu, his heart is usual
ly bit mellow. Yesterday, Stackable
had a chance to make good" with the
newspapermen by giving an interview
about his work in connection with
the immigration business. But all the
reporters could get is the old chest
nut Il am glad to get back" Wouldn't
that rasp you?
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see that Thursdays Advertiser call
ed Captain Seabury's ghost to take
charge of the S. S. Korea. Seabury is
navigating elsewhere.
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There is a certain office in town
wherein the soap was constantly disap-
pearings For a long time the man
ager could not understand what became
Of the dainty saponaceous globule
which had constantly to 1be replaced
on the wash basin. Finally one Of the
clerks suggested that If unscented
instead of scented soap were purchased
It might not be so tempting. I'm
scented soap was tried and lived out
its career of usefulness until it be-
came a wafer and vanished in sllthy
suds. Careful investigation develop