The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-07-07
DR.. RITSON is
now ON TOAST
orrENDs m1o BY ALLEGED
SLIGHT 10 THE STARS
AND STRIPES.
tspeciai Correspondence to The Ad
vertiser.)

Especial Correspondence 70 Ah' AZ .
vertiser.)
HILo, July 1.-There is always
somethine doing here OF late and
Hilo' appetite has grown 90 stated
WITH excitement that it demands 1--we
meat almost every dsy. Having tested
the various courses of scnool teachers
and editors, il has called for the next
stem on the menu, which happens 70
be doctors and physicians. DR.. =. w.
Ritson is accordingly being basted ana
81 10 be served with q patriotic sauce
and garnished with the stars and
For. with all due solemnity, the
nhysician and surgeon mentioned is be-
inc tried on charge Of high treason,
having. according TO formal complaint,
declined to ride through Waianuenue
street in a hack decorated with the
star spanpled banner. Having ned
from the heat created through this ac-
tion, the defendant is now at the vol
eano sitting on the edge of the hreplt
and cooling off. From there he has
sent messages to town announcing his
everlasting aloha for each one of the
forty.six stars and each individual or
the thirteen stripes, accompanied by
an affidavit that he would rather ride
in a decorated hack in Hilo than the
coronation coach in London. Further
than this, he avows that he has for
gotten all the music he ever knew
exeept the tune of Yankee Doodle.
1t is improbable that whatever the
doctor did or did not do would have
attracted little notice except for the
fact that the Fourth of July commit
tee here requested the hack drivers to
help ont the celebration by decorating
their vehicles and regard any objec-
tions to the carrying out of the re-
quest as disloyalty to Hilo and re-
Election on the committee. Doctor Rit-
son had the poor Judgment to be born
in England and has only corrected this
mistake of his youth as far as the first
papers towards American citizenship.
All of which was duly brought out at
Yesterdays meeting of the celebration
committee, attended by Chairman j. ID.
Easton, E. E. Richards, E. II. Austin,
P. F. Pomeroy, C. II. Wears, G. A.
Cool, P. C. Beamer, John Herring, A. nj.
Cabrinha and Judge Wise.
After giving their individual opin-
ions of a man who would not ride in
hack decorated by request of the
committee and after Mr.. Beamer had
stated that Hilo was no place for such
man. the committe issued subpenas
for the hack driver, the doctor s of
fee boy and others. At first it was
suggested that the matter should be
left for the muckrakers of the HilC
press, but this idea was turned down
HWe are American citizens,' said
Beamer, "'and we should take it up
81 took the matter as an affront tt
the parade committee" said Pomeroy
cit was through our request that the
hacks were decorated 1t is therefor
up to the committee to denounce thu
action in having them taken down.
tfIn Justice to Doctor Ritson thii
matter should be Investigated to ascer
tain whether the flags were takel
down at his ORDERS" opined Austin.
elf Doctor Ritson admits that HI
did it, what can we do about it9'
asked Cabrinha. X
'fHe has filed an application for citi
zenship papers, answered Richards
'iWhen he applies for his next papers
then there are ten good American cit
gems here who can protest against it.
t'Possibly he did not have them tax
en- down because they were America
flags" suggested Wears. "POssibl
ne objected to flags in general. If h
did it because he objected to America
institutions, then we might take som
action"
In the mean time Cabrinha had tele
phoned to the Volcano House. 9Th
says said Cabrinha, reporting Rii
sons reply as it came over the tele
phone, "that this is the first he ha
ever heard of anything of the kline
He likes decorated hacks. He is a
American himself and he likes to rid
under the American flag"
"The report is all over town." sal
Austin. Gin justice to Doctor Ritso
IT should be sifted down. We shout
End out whether his office boy ordere
the flags removed on his own hool
or whether he did. so on Ritson's o.
ders."
After some further general discul
sion, it was decided that the cOmmi
tee under the circumstances had be
ter take no action, and that its men
bers could individually take such steI
rs they thought the case required, an
the meeting adjourned.
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