The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-18
IWILEI IS
WAKING Up
Scenes of Old Enacted i'm the
Notorious Suburb Last
Night.

| On the road to Iwilei,
Where the transport soldiers stray.
There's something doing all the time,
BY night as well as day.
Iwilei. Honolulu's malodorous sub
urb, came into her own again last
night and the scene presented was a
] reminder of the old days of the stock
ade.
| Just how the opening came about no
/ one seems to know.
| Chief of Detectives Taylor went
through the district yesterday after
noon and told the denizens that if they
showed light in their windows they
would be arrested.
hundred windows and in the cpen
doors the painted occupants of the
shacks took a brazen stand.
At $50 p. m. Assistant Chief of De-
tectives LeaI drove round the unmen-
tionable district in a buggy and on his
leaving the lights burned just as
brightly as they had before.
Mounted officers Wright and Kulia
were on the spot but their presence
seemed to in no way alarm the wo-
men.
We've had orders to let 'em alone"
said Patrolman Kulia to a newspaper
man.
We've orders to arrest the girls who
solicit in the street." said Patrolman
Wright, but have been told not to
interfere if the women stayed in their
houses-not to see anything
The Iwilei district, as whole, was
gayer last night than it has been for
months past, but it was a wary and
subdued gaiety at that
Along the winding road, beset with
more stenehes than is any street in
any native city of China, a nunber Of
little japanese sodawater stores lit their
lamps and threw open their doors. ex-
pectation written large on the face of
the proprietors, as they Ioafed in front
changed the time of day with passers
by. !
The barkeepers at the Iwilei and
Headlight saloons had donned clean
white aprons in anticipation of bust
ness and a couple of dozen of owl
hacks kept moving UP and down the
main thoroughfare on the lookout for
belated loads.
Round the more notorious portions
of the district numbers of Japanese
macquereaux congregated.
Nearly at the end of the Iwilei road
where dark alleys lead to rows Of
houses where an immoral traffic is car
ried on, the visitor found japanese wo-
wen plying their trade.
So it was to the right of the main
road where rows of shacks are pop
ulated by Japanese and Porto Ricans.
Here hacks waited in a cluster and
here hack after hack drove up and
deposited their loads at the threshold
of infamy.
There was spirit of uncertainty
abroad. however. The presence of a
white man in civilian clothes caused
something akin to a stampede with
an attendant extinguishment of lights.
If the same civilian Jared that way
fifteen minutes later, however, he
found the lights burning and the same
pitiful figures standing in the door
way.
A few score sailors visited the place
and a sprinkling of Cinnamon and low
whites, but there was no crowd, as
Iwilei knows a crowd.
More better tomorrow night re-
marked one of the women; pau pill
kia now. bimeby too much man come,
bimeby every men know
The japanese opened up first. A lit
tie later the French women, apprised
of the fact that something was doing,
visited their neighbors and sought for
information as to the why and where
fore of the brightly burning lights and
the tenanted doorways.
They must have received satisfac-
tory answer for they Immediately went
and did likewise.
And over the scene the wise old
moon peeped out occasionally from be-
hind a cloud and winked, especially
when officers Wright and Kulia tel
ephoned to the police station from the
police boxes that they were on duty
and that all was well