The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-11

was JHe UuL-Ol-uOOIS hitcn0n, a dozen
great caldrons boiling away with rice.
Serving tables-boards nailed on
stakes driven in the ground-are
placed on each side of the fires, and
busy helpers shoveled rice and fish
into the bowls brought to them in
baskets from the wash-up tables There
was great rush and plenty of surface
water and smell, but no confusion and
much good nature. The spirits of the
people have not as yet been broken,
especially when at the tables. The
only sign of lack of accommodations
was at the entrance of the feeding
ground, where guards had to be sta
toned to keep back the pressing hun
dreds in the lane outside, hungry and
aggressive, allowing only enough in
at time to keep the tables filed.
At noon, after the midday rice, some
hundred of the strikers were sent away
from this camp to one at Kakaako. It
is understood that there has been much
crowding in the various sleeping quar-
ters provided, and that the move of
the surplus japanese was in response
to strong hints from the Board of
Health officers. Last night some three
n"A"hoo otAAAOio slcpI III the ASdHI
theater.
All Quiet Down Country.
Reports from the country last night
were to the effect that everything was
quiet. At the Honolulu plantation a
few of the strikers were back at work,
about thirty taking up their hoes and
getting back into line with the strike
breakers. Some fifty more are in the
camp and will probably turn out this
morning.
meeting had been called at Eva,
which Maxine was to have addressed
last night. Owing to his unfortunate
engagement with the High Sheriff, he
had to break the date and the meeting
failed to materialize
Grill Supplied the Meals.
While the strikers in town are eat
ing rice and fish from rough board
tables, Maxine ct al. sat down to a
dinner served by the Grill and sent over
to the reef in hack Maxine gets the
bill, but it is question as to who will
ultimately pay it.
His Morning Blither.
Maxine handed out the usual line of
bubble-talk yesterday morning, slam
ming the English and japanese news
papers and calling japanese Consul
General Uyeno a butter-in. He stated
that the japanese 1aborers on every
plantation on the Island of Hawaii were
ready to strike at moment s notice,
he, of course, being the one to tell the
time. He said that unless the planters
OF this island move towards giving the
Iaborers some consideration by Monday
afternoon, four thousand Japanese, the
number employed ON Hawaii, will walk
out.
Maxine hailed himself as the great
/ leader, the systematizer, the one who
now holds the whole situation in the
| palm of his hand. He said that it was
all like pressing an electric button.
Everything depends on his say-so, ae-
cording to the self-styled and self-ap-
| pointed custodian of the fate of the
japanese laborers.
| He disclosed the momentous news
| that he has met and conversed with
two newspapermen from the Coast, who
had been sent down here to report the
strike. He said that it is no use for
the local press to continue misrepre-
senting things for the mainlanders are
| determined to tell the truth Who they
are or what papers they represent Ma
| kino did not state.
Quiet Along the Line.
| All reports that came up from Wal
| pahu and Aiea yesterday were to the
effect that things were progressing very
well. The strikers had about all left
the former plantation Thursday night
walking to town during the night. The
women, most of them, followed theil
husbands ON the train yesterday morn
ing, and there was Immediately a grea+
scramble for sleeping quarters. 1t il
understood that these people have bu
little money, and Pooh Bah Maxine
though in durance vile, will be expect
ed to come through.
All day yesterday japanese men ant
women, most of them with blanket
. sacks strapped over their backs, wer
, to be seen parading up and down tn
, streets. Several hundred of them pass
ed up King street about one o 'clocl
yesterday in this fashion, headed 70
Kakaako, where they expect to stay
At the depot, when the afternoon trail
$ departed. there was not the usua
cIoWu OF ndngefS-On, the japanese no
putting in an appearance.
Poppy-Talk About warships.
l Some of the strikers, acting unde
= Maxine s orders, stated yesterda
morning that a cablegram was expecte
from the japanese government order
u ing Admiral Ijjchi s squadron, the Soy
q and AsO. to remain here when it n
turns from the Northwest until tn
strike is settled. The Japanes
. squadron is due to arrive here on tn
i 23rd of this month, but the soggy a
mosphere dispensed by Makino's lie,
S tenants will probably not bring fort