Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-25
lHONOLULANS INVADE" MEXICO WITH
AUTO, FIND THE HULA EVEN THERE

OF approaching cars.
The pedestrians are all Mexicans
and chauffeurs betray their contempt
fer them by .rakms them run for
their lives wheI. caught between sta
tions. Horse-drawn vehicles must use
the river bed. SO here we have
bridge about mile long that is built
especially TO cgIer to automobile traf-
fic A few yards beyond the south
ern end OF the bridge We reach the
city OF Tia Juana, which had all the
appearance Of a mining camp des.
cribed by Bret Hart. Out of about
three dozen houses there are seven or
eight Chinese restaurants or rather
should say, restaurants run by Chi
nese-a delicate distinction. At all OF
these places food is the least consid-
eraticn unless opium be designated
jority Of patrons of these Joints are
women. .~ ....- -. ..> H.
Bull Fights Staged -.
Bull fights are staged here on oc-
oasional Sundays and the glowing de-
sciption of the JOYS of Tia Juan con-
vinccs enc that their press agent is
the original guy that put the bull in
'bullfight.'" !. ~. II.
young American who priGed him
self on his knowledge of Spanish was
expressing his thanks to the lady of
the curio store for charging him
double for postal cards and postage
stamps. He said, with a slight in
terrogative finish (as much as to say
DO not speak excellent Spanish"?l
i-"Mucba grassis Sonora" She gave
him a puzzled look before replying in
perfect English, "Oh yes But there
is great deal more in Chihuahua.
Ard Here Is the Hula .". IA
We next visited the celebrated Ca
sine. which is a first class gambling
den. Imagine cur surprise to hear the
dulcet voice of barker at the
entrance spelling off something like
, the following: Walk right i'm ladies
and gentlemen and see the wonderful
Hu-ler dancers from Hon-er-ioo-
ler This wonderful array of talent
has been secured at enormous ex-
pense from How-are-yer where they
played before the king and queen OF
Hon-erloo-ler Walk right in"
We deposited our nimble dimes with
the doorkeeper. and here let me re-
mark that, contrary to expectation of
Mexican finances, the currency is re-
markedly stable, inaSmuch as United
| States coins only are accepted.
Immediately we entered a hCt bed of
greasy humanity eagerly placing their
hard earned money on some game Of
chance, whether roulette, faro, craps
or flapjaek, only to find that the word
chance" applied to their chance of
! losing. But Hope springs eternal in
the human breast" and the games
went merrily on. Suddenly ffam a far
corner of this squalor reeking room
came to us the strain of the ukulele.
/ The wonderful array of How-are-yer
, talent" consisted of two American
women dressed in grass skirts ard
smiles, one Mexican, with cigarette
and one alleged Hawaiian. We shud-
dered to think what would happen il
either of the women sneezed, their
clothing seemed tol hang by so slight
support And the music-save the
mark!
Another Specimen
nc lduJ III CHdESc UeSS6u. US W
stay and see the Seattle-Chorus girl
Hawaiian dance what she was pleased
to call The Flying Wing Hula"
which she promised was very grace
full. 1t was as graceful as a hippo
potomus with paper mache wings try
ing to fly. To say that it pleased the
Casino crowd will give you an idea of
how impossible it was. All we wanted
after that was air and we quickly
escaped from the alleged Hawaiian
music and the Mexican cigar smoke
Speaking of the latter, if our good
friend Alexander Hume Ford will pro-
vide his guests at his next DURAN
party with these choice Mexican
cigars. the perfume of the DURAN will
have no terrors for anyone
I believe that the cigar manufac-
turers send out men to cut the hair
off all the corpses carelessly strewn
around by Villa, Carranza ct al Then
they mix this with all the old shoe
leather they can find chopped up in