The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-04

the cruiser, and used to tow around the
tug.
This statement to the effect that
the Iroquois ran into a mud bank is
absolutely unfounded. What actually
happened was that while towing the
st. Louis the tow line carried away
and in getting it on board again it got
foul of the propeller. The Iroquois was
promptly anchored and a line run to the
channel wharf by the St. Louis steam
launch, which was close at hand at the
time and did not have 30 be gotten out
from the cruiser as stated by the Bull.
letin. The Iroquois was worked along
side the channel wharf with her own
resources and the propeller cleared. She
then returned to the Naval dock.
''Shortly before noon today re-
porter from the Bulletin appeared at
the Naval Station. Heretofore he has
usually come to my Office for news. He
carefully avoided my office today and
in leaving sneaked out the backway. /
observed him and called him back.
then asked him if he had written the
article which appeared in the Bulletin
on Monday to the effect that the Iro.
quois had run aground. He stated that
he had written the article but that he
had got the facts from other sources.
l asked for the source of his informa-
ton and he declined to give it.
81 then asked if he considered the
source of his information reliable and
he stated that he did I then informed
him that the statement to the effect
that the Iroquois had run aground or
on the reef or mud flats was absolutely
without foundation, and | asked him
what he based the statement on that
the Iroquois was in the mud.
Gin supercilious way, he told me,
that he saw her out there but that he
was not a diver and did not go down
to see whether she was in the mud or
not. I then told him again that the
Iroquois had not been aground at any
time that day and that the statement
that she was in the mud was untrue,
that it was very hard for a paper to
say that a former statement which had
been published was not true, but that
he was willing to take any statement
that I wished to give.
ct told him then that inasmuch as
he was responsible for the original
statement to the effect that the Iro-
quois had run aground, which state
ment was not true, considered it his
duty to do the honorable thing and
make the correction. This he de-
clined to do.
81 then told him that any person
who would make a statement which he
afterwards found to be untrue, and did
not retract it, was guilty of lying, and
the only way I could characterize such
a person was that he was a liar.
''He did not attempt to resent this
when | repeated it. What happened
afterwards, Mr.. Moore can tell you
probably as well as T.
'sMr. harrington came down later in
the day to call on Captain Rees. Later
I was called in to be present at the
interview. The editorial statement in
today's Bulletin that / have not been
misrepresented does not agree with
facts printed in the Bulletin the 29th
or similar article two years ago. Mr..
harrington admitted today that he had
reprimanded the reporter who had
written a scurrilous article about me
two years ago for the spirit shown in
the article, but he has never made
reparation, nor has he today, after the
true facts We're given him.
From the fact that both parties to the
assault are well known, the affair is at
tracing great deal of attention
throughout the city.