Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-09-14
Furniture and Piano Movers,
City Transfer Co. Phone 1881
q. LOVE
Shipping

In n letter from Honolulu cor 4,
respondent, the Maui News last Sat
urday published the following article,
giving alleged details OF the "deal' by
which Capt. A. N. Trip, harbormas-
ter, has been dismissed and w. X.
Foster named In his place:
"The Roosevelt era of youth con-
tinues. Captain Trip, who has been !
on the waterfront here for seventeen
or eighteen years, is out of job, due
to the action Of the Harbor Commits
sion. Billy Foster. for time sec
ond mate on an Inter-Island steamer,
and since then with Davies Il Co..
and the Honolulu Construction com
pany. takes the place. Foster, Is not
to say young man, nor yet is he
old. I would call him a ,betwixt and
between and whether It was entirely
on the score of age that he takes
Trips place or for other reasons II
am not prepared to say. Trip. In
his mode of speech Is after the pat
tern of a Dickens sailorman. Not a,
cutie, of course, but blum old son
of Neptune who has battled with
whales In the far of Arctic.
HE was jailor in the old prison
on "the reef" twenty odd years ago.
when things were not so up to date
az now so that when a dissatisfied
prisoner walked out that was about
all there was to II. | remember when
four men. who had been mixed In an
AFFAIR oh Hawaii which resulted In the
death of japanese. were sentenced
to long terms In the prison and when
a couple OF the longest termers walk
| cd out there was no effort made to
find them. was walking through
the grounds at the Judiciary build
ing one morning and overheard Trip
In the most matter of fact way tell
the chief justice. Judd, that "anoth-
er one of them fellers from Hama
kua had left the jail" Then when
the overthrow came In '93 II was dis
covered by one or two Of the radi-
cal overthrowers that Trip had been
on too friendly terms with one mon
archy to keep him In jail so he was
let out and afterwards given a posi-
ton ON the customs force. Opium
had ben selling at normal figure
for months but Trips honesty sent
the price kiteing and 1t went up to
seventy dollars a tin and 10. but there
was a watchfnl eye kept on the boxes
that came ashore. Trip was consld-
cred up to that time the most honest
man In the service for he would grant
no concessions to anyone, even his
relatives. He watched the freight so
closely that he annoyed the men who
brought dope to the Celestials here In
the islands and as there was no
show for the smuggler to make an
honest dollar, Trip went out. Then
he went on the front as assistant to
Captain Fuller and he has been shift
ing vessels from one berth to anoth.
err ever since and there was seldom
II ever, an accident. Foster was with
Davies. as | have said and managed
Billy Hoogs started In opposition to
Hustace. A deal was made In which
Davies helped Hogs by turning over
freight to the new firm with the un-
derstanding that Foster would be taxi
en- over as a chattel. The arrange
ment worked satisfactorily until
business got SO good that Foster was
rather In the way but there was some
thing more than gentleman's agree
ment and he remained. James Wake
field was the man who engineered the
deal that put Foster with the Arm
likely he did the same good turn by
helping him out of that job into some.
thing that will pay better. don't be-
lieve Wakefield had anything against
Trip. McStocker, another of the high
and mighty, may have had because
Queen when Trip was let out of hit
job In the jail and he occupied ar
. important place In the custom house
when he was let out there. It IL 9
coincidence that he should be in two
different places when an old timel
a job. Trip needs no charitable
sympathy. He has lands and houses
He has always been economical ant
was void In composition of many o
the characteristics of the sailor TO
he could have dollar In his poke
at any time and pass soloon with
out spending. 1t Is said OF him tina
he wears today suit Of clothes tina
A was made for him when he was ward
en- OF the jail; that the cloth did no
cost him anything and the maxim,