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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-02-26

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THERE WILL BE \ SPECIAL
meeting Of Hawaiian Lodge No. p, T.
and \. NJ, at It's haII, Masonic Tempe
corner Of Hotel and AIahea streets,
THIS f~a-nrdal> EVENING. Febru,
30. ''.
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WORK IN THIRD DEGREE.
Members OF Pacific Lodge, Oceanic
Lodge, ana an VlsiIlhs oreVnFen' are
BY order of the W NJ
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Secretary.
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Meets every trst and third Friday OF the
ssonth. at 30 p M, IN ODD Fellows ny"
Fort street Visiting brothers cordlaIly IN
L. PETRIE, C. P.
L. L. LA PIERRE. Scribe.
EXCELSIOR LODGE NO. l. I. o. o: F..
Meets evey Tuesday evening, at 1880, IN
Odd Fellows Hail, Fort Street, Visiting
bsshers cordially invited to attend
j. ;. SHARP, n. u.
L. L. LA PIERRE Sec'y.
HARMONY LODGE NO s. I. o. o. T.
Odd Ts,, e,' Hail, Fort Street VISITING
brothers cordially invited to attend
z. W. FOSTER, N. G.
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P1cTrTc REHEKAH Toner NO
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a. 1880 p m, odd Fellows Hall Visiting
Rehskahs are cordially invited to attend
ALICE NICHOLSON Secv.
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OLIVE IaINCH REBEKAH LODGE NO. 2,
l. o. O. F.
5:,o ,, m. in ODD Fellows, Hall Visiting
hsDek.ns are GorGralIy 1nplie9 70 atsehd,
MARGARET FERGUSON, n. u.
JENNIE H. MACAULAY, Sec y.
OCEANIC LODGE NO. s71. F & A. M
4 Meets on the last Monday of each
~ month, st Masonic Temple, at 80 p.
'ised to attend pATnFP w u
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W. H. GoETz. secy.
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LEAH CHAPTER NO. 2, Q. e. s.
mouth, at 1880 p. m, in the Masonic
emp1e Iis' 1e;t sisters e ana 6ro'hers
ADELAIDE M WEBSTER
Secretary.
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4 Meets at the Masonic Temple every
IA second saturday Of each mann =,
Xxx ESQ D. m. VisitinS sisters Se and C1i broth
". are cordially invited to attend,
MARGARET HOWARD, Secy.
OAHU LODGE NO / X ofp
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Forr streets WAITING brother. rordiaIIr in
vitsd to attend
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WILLIAM MCKINLEY LODGE NO. 8,
Meets every second and fourth Saturday
| evening At 1880 o'clock, in Pythian Hall
corner Beretania and Fort streets Visiting
brothers cordially invited to attend:
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| I y gay OF esch month At 1880 P. H. IN
~ San antonio Hall, Vineyard street.
| IN HtsisiHe co!upshlohs are cordlally IN
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| LOUIS \. PERRY. F. s
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The San Francisco call., 1910-03-13

my back. I exchanged my still fairly
good suit for rags and a little change.
The latter 1 spent in the wine cellar to
which I was first introduced, on Pacific
street, and there I stayed for days.
What did I eat? didn't eat got
plate OF soup occasionally and some
times a saloon keeper would give me
some beans or scraps for sweeping out
his place. Whenever got few cents
fbr any odd job, back to the wine cellar
I went, and bought wine" This stuff
drives you crazy. have been told that
It is nothing but impure alcohol diluted
with water and colored with logwood,
I believe that. My past whisky drunks
were nothing to these had now. When
I could not get a cent, I sang for the
entertainment OF the other buns and
they would stake me to a pint or
sold in these dives costs five cents for
q pint, 10 cents for a quart. AS 1 al
ways had good voice, and as the keep
ers of the cellars saw in me a means of
on the floor, occasionally fed me and
even, at times, when nobody was look
ing, gave me a little wine.
once I spent two months in the same
place. 1t was always filled with the
buns, most of whom were friendly
enough to me to see that / was always
soaked with the wine, when I did not
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the wine until no more is in sight and
then he repeats the operation. If you
walk along Kearny street, especially
at night, and are asked by a miserable
looking vagrant for .'the price of a cup
of coffee and piece of bread" you
may generally make up your mind that
the beggar is q wine bum. The wine
Sacramento, Dupont and adjacent
streets; the same streets were most
of the hypo fiends and dope fiends and
other Chinatown outcasts hang out.
They are foul dens. as foul as those
who support them.
/ never bathed in those days, al
though in my younger days 1 demanded
my daily plunge. 1 never changed my
clothes, unless it was to part with some
article of apparel to get the price of
drink of wine. Then / got worse rags.
Once when 1 could not get wine, even
for my singing, and was crazy for the
stuff, a fellow bum put me on to the
trick of going to the wharves where
empty casks are sent to the wineries.
We crawled under the empties, turned
them over or bored holes In them and
drained them of the dregs.
But my singing usually kept me in
wine and soup, although there wasn't
much soup. When I had wine 1 didn't
want to eat 1 kept filled with wine
all the time. Once, in the beginning,
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slipped into the room. took out the new,
fresh, crisp. flower bedecked headpiece,
and in its place put an old, rusty.
dowdy bonnet that had been kicking
around the attic for years, and then
carefully laid the new creation in an
empty bureau drawer where she never
would think of hunting for it.
Easter morning came, and the first
and then the second chimes rang out.
/ was down stairs and deep in my pa
per- There were some quicker move
ments going on in the room above, it
was all but time to leave-and then
came a frantic yen and the circus COM
menced. l slipped out of the room and
out into the back yard. l could hear
my wife hunting me high and low and
setting the house in an uproar. She
was mad clean through, and the last
bell ringingl When it had gone far
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-13
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The San Francisco call., 1910-03-13
THE SICKROOM BOOSTER

stand you are to plan for new church.
(The one already built was but half
paid for, and 1t was like drawing teeth
to keep up interest and pay little
on'the principal, and 1 guess the priest
was pretty touchy about the state of
affairs.)
!" What is that you said? A new
church! new church, is it, when
we are in fear of losing the one we've
got, because we can't pay for it? A
new church. is it!' He was mad
And then l began to smell mice
and had to grin.
:" Go home, old man, go home, that's
my advice, said the father to me. "It
will be many day before we are
building new church! By all the
saints In the calendar new church,!
Ha! Ha! Ha! Some one has been rig
ging you. so they have. Ha! Ha! Ha!'
And I told him / thought so my
self, and saying good day to the holy
father | wended my way to the depot.
/ studied the timetable. In an hour or
more another train left home for where
/ was, and then there was one back in
the evening. That would suit me fine.
Taking telegraph blank I wrote a
message to my wife. saying I had fallen
on the station platform and brok-
en- my leg. and asking her to come with
the doctor. Then ! walked about the
village and studied architecture, such
as 1t was, and amused myself as best
| could until the train was due.
Il lit fresh cigar and when the
train pulled in | was blowing rings of
smoke into the cool evening air and
strutting up and down the platform as
big as life
They were on the train, the doctor
and my wife. the doctor as mad as a
March hare and my wife in tears.
think she spoiled four or five handker-
chiefs on the way down, and Doctor
Johnson had his hands full keeping
her out of Mysteries. We had great
scene on the platform and all the train
folks enjoyed it. I imagine. 1t was
some moments before my wife recov-
cred, and then. with sobbing voice
asked me about my broken leg.
Did not break ft?' Sure, 1 said
And how is it you are walking about?
Well, it is this way and going into
details as to my fall and fractured
limb, l. told her it was all well now
But how could this all be? She did not
seem to grasp the situation in heI
perturbed state of mind. / replied
that the priest she sent me to, who
wanted a new church built, had per-
formed a miracle and it was he who
had cured me- She then realized the
situation and the mess she had gotten
herself into by sending me there on q
goose chase. But Doctor Johnson was
not so easily placated He sent me in g
bill for $50 next day and l paid it
What else could / dor
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-13

strong constitution, my nerves were all
gone. 1t took ages. 1t seemed to me,
for my nerves to get Strengthened out
My condition was worse than it ever
was in the earlier days of whisky
seemed worse than the worst days of
the drinking and its immediate effects.
1t was a long process of doctoring, of
open air exercise, of good surroundings.
In my wine bum days l would often
sit for hours drinking, then would fall
asleep, only toi awake and drink more,
and still more.
You can see the wine buns any day
around Pacific and the other streets of
Kearny and Dupont. Some of them are
so soaked with the poison that they
carry the odor around with them at all
times. Their ra gged, faded clothes reek
with the wine that they have spilled in
the moments of their worst drunken
ness.
That such wrecks are numerous right
here in fair San Francisco seems i'm
possible. Yet any one can find them.
the police reporters of the papers.
and yeggmen are as common in their
ranks as in the ranks of the hop
heads" and "hypo fiends,' but they are
as sodden and miserable a lot as can
be imagined. Few of them have any
regular place to live outside OF the
wine cellars. They sleep wherever
they can find a place where the police
will not find them. Some of them do
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not care whether the police or any one
else see them. They are too much
stupefied by the wine.
1t was little short of a miracle that I
recovered-a miracle performed by
good, faithful friends, but l will say
that the worst of my whisky days were
nothing as compared TO my wine bum
ming days During the periods be-
tween my whisky sprees 1 nearly al
ways felt the craving to get back to
the liquor. / have no such desire to
return to the wine. My experience was
a dread nightmare, too horrible to con-
template.
The whisky bum sometimes has spells
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enough / turned up laughing and re-
stored the lost masterpiece of the milli-
ner. She now had two scores to settle,
the pig and the bonnet.
"A few days went by, when a mes
sage came down from my wife at the
house that Father Finnerty, of parish
10 miles away, wanted me, being
builder, to come down at--once and
meet the parish board, who were to
discuss plans for new church. Look
ing up the timetable / found I could
about make it, and off / went, just
catching my train by a hair
1T was a small town and not far
away was the parish. church and the
priests residence adjoining. Bold and
expectant, ! marched along and rang
the door bell. A maid came to the
door. Yes. the father is in his study,
walk in | found the priest a wide
awake Irishman, with quick tongue a
dancing eye and a touch of the brogue.
Il am So-and-so, and / have come to
meet your parish board. as I under
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-13
By Charles Cristadoro

eN TOU know I have been widower
for years. married an Irish
girl, as fine and big hearted a
woman as ever trod Gods green earth.
She was a match for me and don't you
forget it. 1 always got as good as 1
sent in the way of a joke
In those days I kept fine store
house back Of my kitchen, rat and YER
min proof. well stored with provisions.
for I bought my supplies at the whole
sale prices and often would have in
the winter time whole pig or sheep,
ouartered, no end Of groceries and other
things in the storehouse.
But my wife was one who never
turned a hungry person from the door.
and as result she had a pension bas-
ket sort Of grocery line that cut into
-four tea, butter and other things like
hot knife going through cheese. It
was all right Then she had sewing
societies coming 10 the house. and one
day when the society was in session
] came home early bringing with me
a young, live pig in a sack II was
scrubbed as clean as wax and wore a
green ribbon on its neck. 1 went in
by the kitchen door quickly and. open
ing the sitting room door turned the
little squealing porker loose Wen. he
started things all right. but it raised
an awInI rev. The folks did not like
it. So it was some time before mat
ters were smoothed over and the So
ciety was again at our house. They
liked to come, for there We're always
unlimited tea and stacks of sandwiches
ready at hand for ali to partake of as
often as they pleased. My wife always
saw well to their comfort and most
of the meetings were held under her
auspices. so our house was headquar-
tiers.
Easter Sunday was coming along
and. happening TO be home the day
before, when the much coveted bonnet
came home in a nice white box with
the miliiner's name plastered all over
the outside, ! saw my wife put it away
carefully in a cupboard of her room.
after taking just one furtive, soul sat
isfying peep into the box.
MY wife calling upon a neighbor. 1
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for a time. The wine bum wants to be
soaked with the wine all the time.
When my friends would take me away
from the wine cellars would beg, i'm
plore for just one more pint of it.
cried. with tears running down my
cheeks. for it--for just one more sip.
My sufferings were awful when denied
it. The craving for morphine or opium
in those addicted to those drugs is no
worse than that of the confirmed wine
bum for his diluted alcohol and log
wood. He is indeed a most pitiable
object. There is nearly always hope
for the whisky drunkard: most rarely
any for the wine bum. He is as good
as lose
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-13
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fresh start. 1 was doing well until the
old story was repeated and / awoke one
morning in Oakland with scarcely a
stitch on my back. Again friends
helped me, and again / fell. ! found it
impossible to get liquor anywhere until
vagabond met me on the street and
introduced me to a wine cellar. Then
1 began my career as a wine bum.
had pawned or sold or been robbed of
everything I had except the clothes on
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have a nickel or dime from my odd
jobs. The buns get their money in
many ways. Some steal it. Others
sweep out barrooms or empty rub
bish. Most of them, though, beg it on
and no one will treat him, he goes out
on the street and begs a nickel or a
dime from every passerby, for cup
of coffee When he thinks he has
enough he goes back and stays with
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-13

In police parIance n wine bum is an
alcoholic degenerate who has sunk into
the lowest depths of habitual inebriety,
spends every nickel he can beg, steal or
borrow upon n vile intoxicating bev-
ernge masquerading under the name of
wine. and subsists upon this, and the
souphOuses and the scraps from the
free lunches of low class barrOOms. His
nome is the so called wine cellar.
The following description of the life
and environment of the wine bum Is
the personal narrative of a man OF edu-
cation and a member of family the
name of which is prominent i'm Ameri-
can history. He sank TO the cutters,
bur performed the rare feat of redeem
ing HIMSELF and is now a clean cut,
well aroOmed, prosperous businessman
of san Francisco, TO whom the mere
suggestion of alcohol is abhOrrent.
~ you know wl.at wine bum is?
Do you know that in San Fran
( cisco there are men sunk so far
in the depths of alcoholism that
the ordinary whisky sodden drunkard
is respectable in comparison?
1 know whereof speak, for 1 have
been a wine bum myself. have lived
for weeks. day and night. in the vilest
wine cellars, with none but other wine
buns like myself for companions, al
though / was raised in the gentlest
atmosphere and provided with a coll
lege education.
II you are bound to become a drunk
ard, drink whisky, or brandy; but never
touch the vile liquid dispensed in GER
tain dives in San Francisco under the
name Of wine Cocaine, morphine and
opium are preferable.
But let me begin a little farther
back.
I became addicted to the excessive
use Of alcohol when 1 was about 25
years of age. held one excellent posi-
tion after another and always made
good as long as I left liquor alone. The
moment I went on a spree 1 lost my
position, became desperate and sank
lower and lower. Twice I took liquor
cures the first Of which kept me
straight for little over year, the
second for a less time. Finally, after
employer after employer gave me up, I
Crank harder and harder. 1 drifted
from one city TO another. hoping by
n,y ability to make a fresh start some
where in a strange place where nobody
knew rle. I always made money until
went at the rum again. Friends and
family all gave me up.
I reached San Francisco and made a
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-13

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The Marshall republican., 1910-08-12
ARROW ROCK

o. j. Watts and wife of near
Napton were town visitors Tues
day. hsl ,4l .
Miss Edna Park is the guest of
relatives in Blackwater this week.
Miss Belle Wilmarth of near
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in town Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Henry Mozart and daugh-
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Diggs who will visit them a while
Mrs. Linwood Davis and son Geo.
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day at the home of Watson Diggs.
Mrs. E. F. Alexander of near
Blackwater is the guest this week
of Mrs. Minerva Bingham and 9TH
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The Marshall republican., 1910-08-12
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