Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-11-22
ON The Street

Cleanup operations now rampant
throughout Honolulu has resulted in
vast quantities of rubbish, discarded
household goods and decaying veget-
able matter being piled many feet high
and covering an extended area along
the waterfront, In the vicinity of low
er Fort street.
The dunn carts brought number
If sealed tins of fruit, which have been
cast aside by prudent householder
rs spoiled. In the general mix-up and
confusion of passing teams, some of
the cans have become crushed and
the fermented fruit and juice exposed.
"A brood of chicken which for
months have thrived along the front,
got exceedingly drunk yesterday after
having fed on the discarded contents
Of some of the cans declared cus-
toms inspector this morning.
Every biddy In the flock soon be-
gan to act in a manner which would
indicate that another plebiscite was
imminent and that the sinews of a
campaign were again under distribu-
ton with a lavish hand. The matter
has been reported to Wooley and the
incident may figure, In the next prohi-
bition TRADE made against Hawaii
mel"
The trim British built freighter
Belle OF Ireland now at the port Is
resplendant in q freshly painted fun
mel. The job was completed today
but not until several time-honored and
cncrusted salts, numbered with the
ships crew had tried their hand at
the decorative scheme. II fell to the
genius of one rolling tar to put on
the finishing touches. He belongs for
ward, and after watching the efforts
of shlpmate Who had Joined the col
lier at Newcastle, in spreading coat
ing of black paint on the funnel, the
veteran Of many ships and seas let
out roar which caused Skipper Da-
wilson to imagine that he was again
the recipient of a call from his agents.
"Avast there! you swab. Come
|
how to do n job of painting"
| you know how to paint?" My eye.
lad. painted ships tunnels before
your father knew the flavor of rain
water.
Let me tell you, that knew how
to handle paint brush before the
creator opened the Straits Of Magel-
| Ian to commerce and at a time when
Merry England was so new and fresh
| that the lava would stick to your shoes
and have to be knocked OF with a
chipping hammer"
In Little Stories from the Harbor
Front good one appears In the
Chronicle:
In the days when a great feet of
white winged sailing vessels stretched
out in steady procession between
tho Golden Gate and the Hawaiian
Islands, the bark Roderick Dhu car
ried the broom as the oversee Mer-
curry. II was very seldom that any of
her rivals outstripped her. but such
1
lated by Bill Dillon, former chrome
meter king and prominent water
frontier. The victor in this instance
was the bark Amy Turner, which, like
the Roderick Dhu and many other
windjammers whose performances
were once the talk of the shipping
world, Is now an ugly looking barge.
Captain Peter Johnson, deep sea
pilot of the Mystic Shrine" and skip
per of the Matson liner Wilhelmina
was In command of the Roderick Dhu
when the Amy Turner winged him
one better. Both vessels left here the
same day early In December. Being a
rold storage carrier the ROderick Dhu
was laden with all sorts Of good things
| that were expected to grace the
Christmas tables of the good town
folk of HilO.
On a promOntory commanding the
sea from Hilo "Bill" Dillon was maxi
ing his morning horseback inspection
Of the cane fields when he suddenly
espied a sail on the distant horizon.
ut was clear AS a bell" declares
Pill. land | could see at least seventy
five miles. My brother was sort OF
Johnny Hyslop for Hilo. He worked
on the same plantation with me ana
they furnished him with a telescope
so that he could pick up a sail or a