The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-04-21
Tied in Red Tame.

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In short, Mr.. Stackable was so abso.
lutely bound by red tape that he did
not dare to move, or bulge, for fear
that he would be "fired."
"Onicially" Mr.. Stackable could not
even say that Captain Feeder Of the
Siberia was recently fined for some vio-
lation of Uncle Sam s navigation laws.
Individually" The AdveI Siser had
no clam upon Mr.. Stackable, as it was
as an official from whom this paper
asked information regarding a matter
which has considerable public interest.
First of all the 0rteric was char
tered by agents of the Territory of Ha-
waii to bring immigrants here from
Europe, their passage being paid hy the
Territory of Hawaii, from funds which
are contributed by taxpayers. The
fund is dealt with as public fund, and
the question of bringing immigrants to
Hawaii is one of the public matters in
which the people of the Territory are
vitality interested.
Combination of Charges.
There have been charges made
against the ships people that they did
not look after the health of the immi-
grants properly and that the accommo-
dations aboard were not properly in
stalled, thereby causing the ships OIL
GERS and owners to run foul of certain
regulations of the United States. 1t is
the combination of these charges, etc.,
which have made the whole matter one
in which the entire public is largely In
terested, because they are bearing the
cost of bringing the immigrants here,
the expense of quarantining them dur.
ing their sickness mere ana a few other
incidentals. ON
While the collector was busy assert
ing that he knew of nothing concern
ing fines being imposed upon the Or.
teric, the attorney for the ship was
closeted with him and upon the table
lay deck plans of the steamer. At that
time Captain Hndley was wearing an
anxious look as he went over the items
of fines with representative Of tina
agents here, the items of fines, sent ehy
the collector
Mr.. Stackable stated, when asked if
the published statement was true, that
he had seen it, but such report had
not come from him. When asked gdi-
rectly if fines had been imposed he
asked question of the reporter. He
impressed upon The Advertiser then,
and later over the telephone, that Off
cially he could divulge nothing whatso.
ever of this matter or any other mat
ter.
viii Know Now.
However, this will inform Mr.. Stack.
able that he has fined the vessel and
that Captain Findley is wondering inst
how the fines will be met Captain
Findley does not know when his vessel
will sail. Collector Stackable said he
knew nothing about when the Orteric
would sail, as no application had been
made by the captain for clearance pa
pers. Captain Findley will remain here
until the matter is attended to and will
then take his vessel to Canada to dis
charge a cargo of 5000 tons of cement
from Europe.
''This may be the last time may
have anything to do with the vessel, .
said Captain Findley sadly. "The pa.
pers have said considerable about my
ship being filthy. You cannot expect
people such as we carried to live mucn
better than pigs when they do not re-,
spond to better ways of living. We
kept the vessel clean up to the time we
entered the harbor. Incident to arriv-
ing off port we had no opportunity to
do the usual morning cleanup. as we
came in and the vessel IS decks showed
signs of dirt. That had to remain there,
and suppose that is the basis of the
statement that my ship was insanitaly
This has all hurt me personally very
much, and now we have to pay fines
Yes, the collector has imposed the fines
upon my ship"