The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-08-08

The most discussed propositions of
the week "on the street" appear to
have been the Advertisers efforts 10
roast the press fleet committee and the
Iaukea note. In both matters, feel
that the morning paper is entitled to
deep sympathy. 1t seems impossible TO
find anyone who does anything but
laugh at the row over the press COM
mittee's small expenses, even though
editorials a column long and written
in very serious vein, have appeared
about them. The central fleet COM
mittees won't have anything to do with
the row | am told that one member
of the Press committee offered person
ally to give details of what he was
stated to have used and his offer was
refused by those who had charge of the
auditing. AS for the Iaukea note, per-
haps the Advertiser should be admired
for standing by friend under a great
strain It must be a bitter dose TO
have to try and defend that Iwilei Dor
row and those absurd bribery negotia-
tons.
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The Friend is quite enthusiastic in
praise of our county sheriff and gives
him great credit for closing up dens
of vice so that the men of the fleet
went away under the impression that
Honolulu is a clean city" | am
afraid the closing was not SO complete
as the Friend seems to think. ! am
afraid also that in this connection lsoi
has not even yet had all his say. AS
for the city's reputation in the fleet,
it has long been a creditably clean
city. The conditions which Iaukea is
said to have put an end toby the
way were not they a very limited re-
production of the conditions of the Act
to Mitigate, passed by the strongly reli-
gious, or missionary governmental of the
Republic of Hawaii?-those conditions
were never in recent years such as TO
Justify stigmatizing Honolulu as other
than clean city. Who passed the Act
to Mitigate anyway? Who ESTAB-
LISHED Iwilei?
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would like to be in Auckland to
see the fleet arrive and the entertain
ments which will follow and, inciden-
tally, | would like to hear a speech
which Correspondent Clotworthy of the
United Press has promised to make
for the benefit of Franklin Mathews of
the New York Sun. Those who were
at the Commercial Club dinner in Ho-
nolulu in honor of the correspondents
will remember that Mathews, who was
the second visitor to speak, had a
little fun at Clotworthy's expense. Clot-
worthy had already spoken, and in a
vein of good humored sarcasm Mathews
handed few to the younger U. P.
man. Later Clotworthy was heard to
remark that his turn would come IN
Auckland. where he proposed to make
a speech the first chance he got when
Mathews was present.
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About five or six years ago the Sun
day supplements of the newspapers on
the mainland were full of pictures and
stories of the 'pajama girls" but the
Internal revenue Office in the Executive
building has stunt which beats this
A visitor to that Office today will find
it occupied with 'pajama boys" There
by hangs tale.
Walter F. Drake and l.. l.. Harding
of the Office went down to Haleiwa a
few days ago on some work and, get
ting through early, decided to go for
swim. Putting on bathing suits, they
strolled down to the beach and lay
around for while, summing themselves
in the sand. The sun beating straight
down had its effect which counted
later.
Suddenly Harding spied something
out in the water about three hundred
yards. A small native youngster in
formed him that it was lobster trap
and the two proceeded to swim for the
object The trap was anchored by
heavy stone, but after considerable
diving this was lifted to the surface
and placed on top of the trap, which
was then pushed slowly ashore
When opened it turned out that
there were about two dozen fine lob
sters inside. A few of the finest were
taken out for a meal and arrangements
were made with the Chinaman who
owned it, This had taken up another
| hour in the sun.
The Holsters were taken to the hotel
and cooked and a delicious meal re
suited, but Harding began to scratch
as if he was in San Francisco in flea
season. Drake soon followed suit
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