The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-29
Police ROOM.
FULL Of
BOYS
One Hundred vioIatorS of the Out
After-Dark Law Were
Arrested.
GIRLS ESCAPED THE RAID
Anxious Parents FIocked to Police
Station to Pick Out Their
Young Hopefuls.
GIRLS ESCAPED THE RAID

Kids, big kids and little ones, white,
brown, yellow and black, some with
grins of pride and others with tears
washing burrows down their cheeks,
some ragged and some showing that
they had been carefully smoothed out
by mothers hand, were gathered in
by the police last night to the number
of approximately hundred. The num-
Der is only approximate because it was
impossible to count them as they swirl
ed around in the detectives assembly
room at headquarters. They were all
boys and they had all been grabbed by
the officers for being on the street
after seven o'clock unaccompanied by
some one old enough to look after
them. All were under fifteen years old
and one was three on Washington IS
birthday.
The law of the Territory, passed in
solemn session of the legislature, or
dams that boys and girls under ff-
teen years of age must be home when
the clock strikes seven. The boys did
HUI huUW bulS, VI IL tuSy uio bhSy hoN
forgotten. At any rate the police Off
GERS picked them up on the streets last
night by the patrol wagon full. Some
of them were hanging around the en-
frances of the moving picture shows;
Others were skylarking generally
throughout Chinatown, but the major
ity had listened to the siren song of
the merry-go- round hurdy-gurdy and
were ringed about the circling horses
all ready for bagging. All were terri
fed when the clutch of the law fell up
on them, but the majority recovered
their nerve when turned loose in the
detective room. At nine O'Clock last
night, Just before the string of anxious
parents began to arrive for boys and
explanations, the haole members of the
contingent were grouped about big
table, planning a protest against their
arrest without due process of law. The
orientals were squatted patiently
around the walls, waiting for what
fate had in store for them, while Ha-
waiians and half-whites divided their
time between listening to the discourse
at the table and wrestling under the
noses of the guarding peace officers.
In the corners few of the younger
ones wept and wanted their mothers.
'What do you think about this''
an Advertiser reporter inquired of the
chairman of the indignation meeting
feThis is sure rotteni" came the
quick response, while another of the
council seized copy of The Adver-
tisel from the table and thrust it I'M
der the reporters nose.
Advertiser, misteri Lots of newsi
The sally was greeted with applause
and the Korean policeman sternly IS
sued a warning that if there were not
less noise the whole bunch would be
held for examination before Judge
Whitney. That took the edge off the
joke.
Among the crowd were several little
pake bootblacks, who had their kit
boxes over their shoulders. One boy
had eane-bottomed chair for custom
ers' use, which he used himself during
the incarceration.
essay, why amt there any girls
pulled, I'd like to knowW demanded
one youth, whose ideas of chivalry had
been beaten out by his ideas of the
equality of the sexes. Chief OF De
tectives MeDuffie was asked the same
question later, for, as matter of fact
not one representative of the fair sex
came within the range of vision of the
officers on the roundup.
ssThe girls were smarter than the
boys,D explained the chief. AS soon al
the first arrest was made they scattered
for home"
About o o'clock anxious parents be
gan to arrive at the police sisation tt
Teport missing boys. There was some
indignation at first when it was ex
planned that hundred answering thai
description were upstairs awaiting
owners, but the indignation was soothed
away when the sections of the law were
rcnd. Then came the picking out Of
the ripht bows. One would suppose thai
any father and any mother could know
his or her chick In a million; but the,
can't. This was demonstrated last
night, when parents wandered through
4he army Of small boys, peering Mt th'
various faces and having 10 make the
round two or three times In order Il
get the right one. One little japanese
mother stood In the center OF the room
and elueked ont japanese name, f0l
all The world like o mother hen iTylnl
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One man searched aad searched
erall out the name OF your hoy ths
chief suggested. - Not me-" said lhi
fpiher, keeping up hls proHl. "If
80 - would hide somewhere ".
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