The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-07-18
Many Sidewalks
Are Uttered
With Shop Wares
Oriental Little Merchants Permit
ted BY Police To Break Law
Prohibiting Nuisance u

Should pilgrim venture down north
King street on a. thoroughly dark
night, aud be foolish enough 10 walk
along the sidewalk, he probably woula
not return a whole man, unless ne
chaneed to be moving under a partieu.
larly lucky star. T. ~, .5s...g .
In all likelihood he would return on
crutches, or not return at all. His
body might be found in the morning
on the sidewalk, half over q bale Of
hay which had wrought his rnin still
II need not be bale, Of han IL could
as easily be a trunk, 4 hoSk or water.
melons, bag of barley, OF q stack o.
drygoods boxes. al -
Many Things To Pan Over g,s..s
On going down King street--on the
sidewalk--one has splendid variety Of
things to fall over. II one does not
prefer hay, he can wait until he Rets
to a pile Of huge clothes baskets which
stand ont on the pavement in front Of
some progressive Oriental shop. The
very, best things to fall over in the
world are on the sidewalks, in strict
provincial style, naviely Indifferent to
the police and the following section Of
the revised laws Of Hawaii; ..,s,. -.
"Any person may leave any goods,
wares or merchandise, which he shall
be about receiving or delivering, for Q
period of time not exceeding three
hours upon the sidewalk in front Of his
building, such goods, wares or mers
chandise not to cover more than two.
thirds of the width of the sidewalk,
and not to be piled up to greater
height than four feet" -, H..
Law Passed In 1886 'T.l..s H.,
The law was passed in 1898. But the
sheriff has oterruled Il. At least there
u nothing TO indicate he has tried TO
enforce IL. So far as the Oriental meF:
chants along north King street are con.
cerned, there might Just as we'll be no
law, or no sheriff. They have not been
troubled by either. II. q :,
1t is not north King street alone
that has encroached on the Sidewalk,
though perhaps it is the worst offender.
Such entertainments are seen almost
anywhere an Oriental store Is found.
On King near Punchbowl the, offenses
are gross. .r.' -,
From time to time The Advertiser
has received letters calling attention
to these nuisances. This il sample Of
one which was received yesterday: :
"Some time ago J. saw an article in
your paper speaking Of the amount of
boxes and other things blocking ND che
sidewalk in front of All Leong's store
on King street. wish. q reporter
would take a stroll along King between
Alapai and Punchbowl and see the
amount of rubbish in front Of the see,
ond hand stores. One old wooden bed,
stead has been, there over a yeafi
Stoves, boxes, tinpans and dozen 9th
er things are kept there constantly. -
Bedstead Stin There Ea,..
The bedstead was still there yester.
day! A very dusty comfortable place
for germs. A reporter for The Ad.
vertiser, acting on the suggestion Of
the writer, walked past the second.
hand store yesterday. He hopes be
will not have to walk past II again.
1t gives one very unclean, needIof-
a-sulpher'bath feeling. A prudent per
son does not breathe as he passes the
place. Germs in the air, germs on the
bedstead, little germs, big germs, trigk
germs, tame germs and wild germs.
For years the law which gives ne
destrians the right to the free use OF
sidewalks has been ignored by the
police where it interferes with the
Oriental displaying or storing his
wares.
Why This Discrimination
\ At the same time the police are very
scrupulous in seeing that street rehg.
ious meetings do not lend to crowded
sidewalk. Very frequently such meet,
ings have been virtually broken up for
this reason.
Why the discrimination
1t appears to an observer that the
answer is found in the vacuum cham
bers of the policemen 5 heads, and the
indifference of the sheriff to everything
outside of politics and luaus. Sherifl
Rose doesn't care what the policemen
do or dom do SO long N II doesn 4
interfere with his politics, and the
policemen have no more idea what theS
are paid for than cuckoo clock has
why it euckooes.