The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-03-04
The Red Book.

The bottom had fallen out of the
real estate boom and the fiimsy but
highly decorative entrance arch built in
front of the Bonanza Subdivision was
tottering in the ocean breeze. On the
sites of the proposed courthouse, the
intended railway station, the project
ed opera house and the all-but-com-
menced hotel lay large pools OF salt
water, and even the population OF 30
nanza, flock of bedraggled sea-gulls,
was growing smaller each day.
In the city Office of the Bonanza
Land Improvement Company, two high
heaps of multi-colored pamphlets with
an impressive view of the aforemen-
toned arch on the front cover, sur
rounded by rollicking flock of dollar
marks, were gathering dust. On the
uppermost booklet reposed two highly
polished patent leather shoes. Con-
tinuing westward were two substan-
tial legs in heliotrope socks. Far
Their west were more legs, rotund
waist line, and along the median line
of a heliotrope vest and a ditto shirt,
a necktie of the same hue terminal
ed near the deep dimple in one of the
two chins of Henry Hick Hudson, the
father of Bonanza, the new Paradise
of the Pacific"
Bonanza Hudson" stared blankly
at the gilt letters on the windows OF
the big building opposite. Now and
then he cast worried glance at his
peroxidized stenographer-who had
not removed the tin cover of her ma
chine, although it was almost noon.
In her left hand she held a dog-eared
paper novel and now and then she
took a sudden bite from an orange,
peel and ALL
Mr.. Hudson's gaze slowly wandered
toward a map of the big subdivision
which took up almost the whole east
wall of the room. He smiled in
'Hisgusted manner when his eyes met
the crimson square indicating the site
for the proposed Bonanza Union
Depot, the green blotch of the pro
posed park, the blue serpentine bands
of the urveyed-but-not-commenced
canals. There were also romantic
gondolas in water colors and birdseye
views of palms with little set pieces
like the trees in Noah's Ark.
"Say, Miss Layne, what do we owe
for that sketch-map?" he asked with
a sigh. The girl imbibed a quantity
of orange juice, wiped her shapely lips
with a sheet of Bonanza stationery
and was about to reply when a rap
fell on the door.
eff it's somebody with a bill, tell
him I am busy in a directors meet
ing" said Hudson.
"Of course" replied Miss Layne.
"Wait a minute" Hudson further re-
minded her eve pay all bills on
the fifteenth of each month. See?
Him, this is tho fifteenth replied
the girl. "We'd better pay on each
tenth. -
Without waiting for word Of ap-
proyal, she snatched the cover of the
TYPEWRITER and ran into the outer Of
fee.
"That girl is wiser than she looks,
chuckled Hudson, land business col
lege, at that"
Miss Layne returned to the room
with a smile and handed her employer
a card. The next instant she was
making a noise like a hail-storm on
her typewriter. She stopped for a
moment to scatter a number of bonds
stock certificates, dummy deeds to lots
in Bonanza and other important look
ing documents all over the table at
her right. She did this so dextrously
that, in not single instance coulu
the stamp Specimen" be seen on
the apparent securities as they lay
scattered conspicuously on the table,
Never mind the flash TINS time,
said Hudson, with broad smlle,
"This fellow is no dead one LOOK
at his card" l..
He tossed the pasteboard over 70
the stenographer who read;
Will U. G. Jones
Los Angeles, Cal.
Ideas
Furnished
"Will You See JonesF iou Oel'
will see any man VINO is alive enough
to use that kind Of a calling caro-
roared Hudson. "Show him In"
A large, fieshy man, whose enor'
NOUS but demure face and chlldllKe
blue eyes proved somewhat different
from what Hudson had expected en-
tered the room. After commenting
upon the weather in general and west
ern weather in particular, he settieo
Elowly down in the wide, comlortapie
chair close to Hudson's right elbow
Hudson pushed a box of cigars
with highly decorative bands, toward
the visitor and removed one foot from
the advertising matter long enough &c
let him strike match on the sole OF
his SHOE
THAT card takes my fancy MT
Jones'" said Hudson sis that your
own original idea?"
Tonao with an anOlO