The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-28
TOWN TALK
By THE NAN ABOUT TOWN.

and as a result had to spend term
in Jail Volcano was a man who had
convictions and believed in them to
the extent of invincible certainty in
his own mind. His command Of caus-
tic, clear, humorous English made his
writings command attention wherever
he was.
Volcano was resourceful, very re-
sourceful, as one publisher still in Ho-
nolulu discovered in an unexpected
way during the days of the Sunday
Volcano. It's editor was usually be-
hind in payments, as BELTS a publica-
ton of the sort, and the customary
contests were on between the editor
and proprietor and the printing estab-
lishment Matters reached stage one
Saturday afternoon whereat the print
er informed Mr.. Volcano that unless
the cash was forthcoming, the edition
would not be delivered. Appeals and
promises were of no avail. The man
ager of the printing house printed the
papers, carefully hid them away in his
office and went home. During the
evening he had a call from Volcano
Marshall with more appeals and pro-
| misses. They fell on deaf ears. Not
paper shall be delivered to you till
| you pungle up" was the last decision.
The next morning the manager of
the printing concern was surprised to
see newsboys selling the Sunday Vol
cano, just as early as usual. Sure
enough the papers were the ones he
had printed, hidden away in his Office
| and locked up. Investigation showed
that Volcano had risen nobly to the
emergency. Some time during the
night he had secured a ladder, climbed
up to window of the printing office
and entered. With positive genius he
had discovered where the papers were
hidden, and the rest was easy.
The sequel is as good as the story.
Monday morning early saw Volcano en-
| tering the printing office, with as broad
smile as even he could wear. well
haow do you doc this morning. ne
cheerily said. 1T was a g-great pa
per yesterday, wasn't it?"
1t was quite impossible to get mad
! with him. He produced some coin,
/ Dragged a bit about the paper, left some
copy for the next issue and went
happily forth, with never a word eX-
cept those his twinkling eyes spoke,
about the strange manner of issuing the
last number.
Which printing Office was it? There
were two up stairs in those days, the
Paradise and the. Advertiser, and it
wasn't the Advertiser.
Volcano Marshall did not stick at
trifies-even such little things as con-
| tempt of court-or, to use his own
paralellism, IF he did l am a water
buffalo" While doing the courts for
| the Advertiser he showed up in the
| clerks Office late one Saturday after
noon, when a somewhat sensational
summons had been filed after the after
noon press hours. 1t was before the
present rule of placing all papers in
the vault at closing time came into
force and the clerks had all left. To
sit down and boil a story out of the
bulky pleading right there and then,
when the Saturday afternoon lure of
Camarinos' garden was in full bloom,
did not suit Volcanoes temperament. 1T
was very touching" as Camarino.
would have said. A damn good
sto-o-ry," was what Marshall said
"gre-a-a-t paper tomorrow" And re-
peating the remarks in his inimitaDle
/. drawl, he slows the original court
document in the capacious pocket OF
his buster and walks away.
"Tll bring it back Monday and these
goats won't be any the WISER wa;
his conclusion of the incident.
At the time Judge Humphreys, owner
of the rival morning paper, sat on the
Circuit bench and the court reporters
of the time will have some idea o.
| what he would have done to anybod!
found out in temporary larceny o.
court papers. Marshall knew too bu
: that made no difference-it was {
damn good story
Xxx
There certainly was meeting o
THE CONNECTION COMMITTEE las
night, primarily called on account 0
the exchange of the Mahuka site TO
the Irwin site for the Federal building
All talked at once so it was impossible
to get any stenographic report of wha
was said. Claudius Il. Pluribus Nc
Bride and Josephine Augusta Combs
Brush, both eXspurt stenografters, wer
hired for the meeting, but so fast an
furious was the exchange of ideas tina
no sane report could be gathered fror
their notes, even after they had bee
mixed together and strained. 1t didn
sound like a peace gathering. Tha
much is certain.
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