Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-03-05

"Therell come time some day
when the smuggling OF
GETTING opium will cease, but that
TliE icPE win be when prohibition
has these islands in Its
grasp; when Woolley Is governor;
when the coastwise laws are suspend.
ed; when live news of the day is not
crowded out" Of certain evening
paper and its place on the front page
is filed with double column article
on whether the moon is made Of green
cheese; in fact, when things cease to
exist, then there will be no more dope
hawking.
1t must be admitted that the cum
ming displayed and the methods en-
ployed by the present day smugglers
are very crude when II Is called TO
mind some OF the finesse used In the
, olden days whereby the dope was
landed on these shores. II the meth
DDS employed In the present day are
| puzzllng TO the inspectors ! would
/ tremble for them IL they had to buck
up aSalns, some OF the propositions
of years ago.
As The parties who acted the prin-
cipal role In the two instances ] shall
relate are dead there is no harm in
telling them.
One of tie old.t!me sailing sugar
packets lay at the old Brewer wharf
one warm afternoon. The unloading OF
cargo had finished and preparations
were la2ily under way for the recep.
ton of return load OF sugar.
The captain lolled in an easy chair
under the after awning. The supports
or stanchions that held up this avn
ing were nine in number and com
posed of two-inch iron pipe plugged
at both ends to keep the water out
and free from rust. A noticeable fea-
ture of these selfsane stanchions was
the fact that they were all of different
lengths, and certainly did make an UNI
slightly appearance from the dock.
These same stanchions had been used
for number of years.
On the afternoon in question the
customs inspector came up the gang
way and dropping into seat near the
master, remarked, sort OF offhand.
Say, Captain H, why in thunder
don't you have those stanchlons the
same length? They look like the devil
from the distance, with one poking up
and another way down. 1t actually
gives me the Jimmy jimmles at times"
YES" answered Captain H, 81
have often thought that ] would have
them fixed but never seemedto get at
It. believe I'll have them fixed right
now"
Giving the necessary orders the
stanchions We're soon loaded onto a
dray and Captain H said to the
drayman, Take those stanchions up
and have them all cut off the same
length ana bring them back as soon
as you can"
II was done according to orders, but
every one OF thosel stanchions was
filed to the muzzle with opium and
the drug was worth $50 pound at
that time.
Another sugar packet lay along side
Of the deck at about the same time.
A passenger sat talking TO the inspect
or near the wheel of the vessel. Lean
ing against the rail was a very hand
some bicycle belonging to the passen'
ger. Suddenly the passenger remark
cd that he guessed that he would take
n hike around town and tripped light
ly down the ganggay. After getting
half way up the dock no suddenly turn
ed back TO the vessel and standing
on the dock remarked to the inspector
that he guessed that he had better
take the wheel along in cnse he
got too far from home, at the same
time requesting the inspector to
please hand me the wheel over the
rail"
The oblising inspector did so and
the passenger went whlstling off up
the dock trundllng the wheel,
1t might be OF interest to state that
the wheel was very carefully steered
into a Chinese store, where the tires
were ripped oren and nearly eight J