Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-16
FREAR AND LINDSAY
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arrived on the transport to study wild
life in the South Seas. After inspect
ing the bears and bulls on the Homo
lulu Stock Exchange and having a
look at H. Gooding Fields troupe of
trained performing statistics, they
feel we'll satisfied with the first lap
of their Journey. they will be
dropped at Laysan tomorrow o.spend
two months hunting down the fero-
cious Laysan rabbit and trying to
catch the wild canary which preys on
the waterfowl there. +
The Goony-Trap.
Willett's construction of the goony-
trap was watched with great. inter-
est by all ON board. 1t is a round
box about like a short dill pickle bar
rel. Around the bottom of this cir
cular box he has cut holes just large
enough for the goony to enter. All
the holes are exactly the. same size
and exactly alike, In fact, as Mr.
Willett informed your correspondent,
this is the idea of the trap. The best
bait for goonies. according to Mr.. VIII
lett is Swiss cheese with large holes
in it, and the party provided itself
with large quantity of. this cheese
in Honolulu with the expert advice OF
Heinie Heydenreich, of the Young
Hotel rathskeller, who is a noted ar-
thority on the holes in Swiss cheese.
The cheese is put inside the trap
where it can be seen from every one
of the holes, and the trap set in a
spot that goonies are known to fire.
quent. This can be told, Willett says,
by the peculiar manner in which the
nearby heritage has been nibbled.
The goony is an exceedingly sus-
picious creature, but Me has. an in
ordinate appetite for Swiss cheese.
He will enter one of the little holes
and grab the cheese. Then he will
instinctively look around for q way
to get out, as all wild animals do
when trapped by their natural enemy.
man. Here is where the idea of hav-
ing all the holes exactly alike comes
in. The trapped goony will be I'M
able to tell which hole he came in at,
and will remain in the trap, pacing
round and round trying to find, his
wa yout. Even should he pause OPP
posite the hole at which he effected
entrance, he will be perplexed to
know whether it really is the right
hole or not, and there he will remain,
a prey to the most miserable doubts
and fears, until the scientists come to
shoot him with a Winchester grizzly
gun.
Mr.. Willett will have his trap COM
pleted sometime this afternoon, and
then he is going to set it up on the
taffrail in the hopes of catching an
albatroSs. However, he says that the
albatrOss. IS too wary for this kind
Of a snare He can only be caught
by pointing a cross-bow at him and
repeating one of p Maurice Mac
Mahon's poems,' la Ancient Mariner.
Although Governor Frear is away
from office. cares. he consented to re-
ceive your correspondent at the usual
reporters hour of noon today. He
announced that he is at work upon a
compensation act for people who get
seasick aboard a government vessel,
and also that he is preparing pro
POSED draft of the Rapid Transit
franchise whereby the company can
extend its Fort Shafter line to Lay
san.
f:3o O'Clock p. m. The ships loS
Is just being made up and Lindsay Is
trying to get volunteers for a crew
to man it as a life raft and head for
Honolulu.