Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-01
AAKlRA FIREMEN
BOUNCED ABOARD
BYLOCALPOLICE
Captain laukea Thinks Ships
0fficers Might Have Kept
Better Discipline

Iswn in the bowels of the Makura,
under the flashing sea. a band Of grimy
fremen, with sore heads and ach-
ing fists. who comprise what is known
as the BLACK gang" are heaving in
the coal that sends the steamer fly
ing south. They are very angry at
the Honolulu police department.
Up on the bridge, peacefully PAGES
Capt Phillips. thankful. as the last
Hawaiian peak is .ehgulfed by the
waves, that the boys are down below,
thankful that he is 50 far on his way
and that Captain Fred II. Iaukea of
the police responded so promptly and
efficiently 10 call for action Thanks
giving Day.
And putting his short straight pipe
at the police station this morning
cap" occasionally INDUCES in mer-
~ chuekIe that shakes his rotund
sides and mumbles something that
sounds like 1T was 2 darn good
scrap
When the Makura was ready to up
anchor ~yesterday the firemen, about
% of the firemen, weren't. Instead
they were enjoying hugely the time
honored custom of tipping bumpers
of an amber tinge in a local saloon.
And the more they saw each other
through the bottom of their mugs the
less they cared about the coed ship
Makura and roar Of her warning whis-
tie down the street The chief en-
gineer was desperate; he called Tau
kea and asked him to please put the
boys on board The captain rounded
up 10 Of his biggest, serappiest Off
GERS. En- masse they charged the bar
room, corraled the crew and escorted
the delinquents to the boat There
they put them on board.
According 70 Iaukea this would have
been the end of a very orderly per-
Torrance If the officers on the ship
had then done their duty. But in
stead of keeping their firemen on
board after the police had put them
there, the Makura heads apparently
didn't like the cut OF those firemen's
ibis who were well along in their cups
and let them go back to the dock. Then
Iaukea rose up in his majestic wrath
and yelled:
Cd you want Us to put them back?''
Sure, shoot lem over" was the an
swer.
The order to rush 'em" was given
and about % husky coal-slingers who
had already found nothing particular
ly Iikeable, so far as they were con-
cerned. about the Honolulu policemen,
sent up a veritabIe war whoop and un,
limbered for the onslaught. A scrim'
mage ensued; clubs were used freely;
cries of combat were freer But the
men went aboard with no fatalities.
Iaukea has mother objection to make
concerning the Makura officers actions
| In the affair. When the firemen were
on beard the second time and the ship
was slipping away from the pier the
man-handled cnes in the beat rushed
to portfolios and iired farewell vol
ley of epithets, pineapples and bottles
| into the policemen ranks. One bottle
nearly struck d United States sol
/ der IN guard at the pier, and he pull
ed his automatic pistol and fred al
the singer. Iaukea says the porthcles
should have. been ordered closed.
This morning Sheriff Rose said be
did rot propose to take the matter
of the riot up with the steamship
agents here, although he expressed
wish that more orderly crews were
| landed. q
'sFhe bunch on the Makura is thf
toughest that ever lands" said Harbol
Policeman A. Z. Carter This makes
the third time we have had such
/ disturbance from them"