The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-12-19

"iOhS has udu luS JtlHSllby W ISuldlH
in the Territory, the other seeking
protection under the white and I'M
furnished wing of William Randolph
Hearst. Who can feel certain that
George has not put Teddy wise to a
few tricks? 1t sure looks that way to
me. BY the way, hear Beverley Kidd
is in Washington.
xxxx
Some kindly suggestions, made with
the unblushing , innocuous modesty
which comes from leading the simple
life, fell from the bosom of my friend
Charlie Frazier the other day when it
was suggested that the Attorney Gen
erals department was ready to frame
some law which would regulate the
billboard nuisance, In the first place
he states that nothing of this sort is
needed. He is certainly in a position
to know, for he owns all the structures
which beatty the landscape at Wal
kih, on the corner of King street near
Thomas Square and in many other
places. Yes, he surely is an authority.
He makes another suggestion which
is also interesting. He states that the
owner of one of the biggest billboard
advertising concerns in the country
Will be here and is eminently fitted to
assist the Attorney General in framing
law which will be satisfactory. But
Charlie fails to state to whom this
law would be satisfactory. Somehow
he left that out.
1t reminds me of the following ca
Diagrams which were not received
from the Coast:
! WASHINGTON, d. president
Roosevelt has called for a conference
at which Rockefeller will submit a new
law on rebates which he has framed
with the assistance Of Hartman and
Hill"
SAN FRANCISCO Spree
kels and Prosecutor Heney have agreed
that the new bill furnishing the crime
OF bribery shall be modelled on the
ideas submitted by Abe Ruef"
! xXXx
After lull in the record, yet with
few green Japanese arrived, there is
another epidemic of getting off cars in
motion with consequent results more
or less serious, among the sons and
daughters of Nippon. A Los Angeles
dispatch of November 20 says:
How to alight from street cars will
be taught in thirty schools by Will
son Blue, a Huntington motorman, who
Will probably be officially designated as
instructor of car alighting." He aims
TO begin with the third grade, and give
lectures weekly with models of cars
and dummy figures to illustrate his
points. Each week the girls from
one school are to be taken to a subur
ban town by trolley and there shown
how to get on and off moving cars, and
also to wait until cars stop. The Of
hcials of the street railway lines are
backing Blue and they hope to avert
many accidents and damage suits
brought on by women getting off back
ward"
1t would not be bad idea for Japa
nese leaders here to start school of
the kind above mentioned for their
people. These need it more than orh-
ers, for, no matter haw watchful con-
ductors NAV be, every now and then a
Japanese man or woman makes the
Jump off moving car before they can
be prevented. If the feat is ATTEMPTED
the right way it can be done at high
speed of the car without much danger
AS English reading people have warn
ing in the placards neither men nor
women of that ilk take an unknown
FISK in getting on or off cars in motion.
Sometimes but rarely a white or ma.
tive woman takes the chance of putting
foot on ground before the car comes
to dead stop. If it is done the right
way 1t is simple and safe Facing the
read end when getting off is not the
right way Why this is often done is
explainable. Those who do not know
the railIoader's trick of ito hold oA
to the car while facing the front and
then let oneself down with a back
ward orop-seize the standard next the
seat with the hand on that side and
this requires them to turn around be-
fore dropping. If the car is moving
then, or starts before the hold is let
go, the passenger is liable to be
thrown off his feet. BY taking hold.
instead, of the standard with the hand
opposite the side of the car where the
passenger has been sitting he keeps
facing hontward, so that when he
touches the ground his feet are in
position to advance in the cars direc-