The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-30
''RANH|DE Benz Is,
GETTING RESULTS
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There wa, Be No PROTECTING
While EbBn Low Is on the
Job, Not n He Knows Il
FREE STALL PLAN j 49, q
IS TAKING SHAPE
Hoarding ID Being Practised BY
Pond MulIet Men; viuiIante Says
He Has Secured Evidence

He has Secured Evidence
|. Since EbeR Low unofficial represent
alive Of the food administration and
pettss sigilantet worker, suggested the
possibility Of communicating the fsh-
ing ssamPAuS and hogan the auctioning
ef-fsh sold by the fishermen to the stall
men last Friday morning, he has demon
strated that there Ii. a plentiful sup
ply Of fsh for the Honolulu market,
and that action can get results at the
fshmarket, as easily as wherever d.
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|. ,ytHawaiis "eoWboy mariner'' did
not stop with ;his 8tst success Of last
Friday, but yesterday morning super
.Sised and apetiohed the. fish sold to
the 6sher@eA, With the announced de-
terminatiOR,t to do 50, Us long rs is neces-
sary to keep the market supplied and
the price, of Ash reasonable, ~
10 Mr.. Lows program now includes a
plan to make the fishermen and the stall
men sell their supply Of ulua several
cents, lower than the figure last set
BY the food administration. He says he
SeheVes that an account Of the plenti-
fnl supply the fishermen, can be made to
agree to n lower price lass al.
A matter NithSwhich he has concern
ed himself for the last few daysis to
eerhit the repetition of q condition he
discovered al the market Friday az
ternoou, spfhent q, stall man was found
IN the Eva masket with, NO fish ON his
9tandl The stall man told Low. when
daestioned;, that he had no 6sh for
sale 'beeRnse the only supply in the mar
hst was In the hhndss Of the Hawaiian
Fishsries and that this company would
Tinll him more. ~ d ,fgya ?, W. E
cowboy Ropes Tfshsrmen +,
+Thiss sort ofsltbuil'' had much the
same' effect on Low as did n obstreper-
ons nicer in his youngerl cowboy days
Ha made Q direct hne for the manager
Of the HaWaiian Fisheries and demand.
I'd 10 know Why, the-stall man was not
.scl9 easnRpiy Of aah, Il.
The manager OF the fishing company,
which II tsoatfolled by Frank Cooke,
said that he had not refused to sell fish
to the pnsupplied stall man, end that
the stan ssnap was tied 1up with the
Pacific Nshipg Company md would not,
therefore, buy from the Hawaiian Fish
efieaN 4, ~ W. ~ - h.EH M
4 Figuratiyely. Low - roped = both the
6sheries' mahnger and the stall man,
and hcrded Frank Cooke along, for
good measure 10 a'Rorner Of a market
where, both were well eorTalled away
from inteffefenee while be began TO
brand them with the self evident fact
thar sppnlebcdy. was prevarieating.
x Spiirrsa BY, lLow's words. both the
men squifmed unehsily. but stuck TO the
stories they had first told the vigilante
representative Of the public. AT the
conelusioh Of the mqltisition, Low or
5efed the Hawaiian Fisheries men to
sell the stall man, and the order was
promptly complied with for he threat.
ened 20 get both their hcenses cancell-
led il they did not do 40. - d.
flAside from establishing the fact that
fishing se0mpany competition still linz
,iedea the plentiful supplying and sell.
sng Of fah to the Hawaiian public,
Low spreeeded in making fish appear
ma stall which had been the Same as
vaeant forca good portion. Of the day.
Ne, also, tbePnnghly impressed the stall
and fishing men with the idea that be
heiieveeSih results rather than too
much palHver.'' "''A 10.
finas- EviAsnee Of Hsarding
%NAS q tesaltsof his two weeks quiet
ttvestiRatis Of the available Rsh snp-
oily and the methods followed In sell
ing, Low IL convinced now more than
ver that hBmraiRg ID being stealthily
|eNrried .on@ by some, of the pond mnl-
lRt mem He tells how he was an eye
witpess Of an occtfrencc at o fish pond,
Inssr Aiea. witch n Jury in the federal
laeuft mi9ht, considcf sufficient for n
Ssdfyietio1 Hndef Mo food eohservation
sct, This act provides a go 900 fine
and iahyfisoameHt ~ .punirhmeat for
s,ich G0ehaea when established.
n In Tits sase,, as told by Low, he saw
4 fstd Bkkei1nan using . net pearl0ne
lot che pond gates %. catch sriall fsh,
ksthles than Anllstss 0ecasio nally, how
lsyet, "a muilet would Sbs csueht. which
Ithet pond aea Was cory eareful TO throw
/ back into tlses poBf n Loss qnesti0ned
She fsh2tman MS TO why he did not keep
he nalet and send them to the mar
Set.ss, tatg are iest lsglFsl aEaS
AZ NAtAe NhCy uNC lOo hiuuAi, was tHo
anSwer ~ 4. = - ~ "
l.HAs aAnattsf of fast,,''eI.ow says,
~ tbe'Uullet thrown back. iRfo, theipond
Iat Aiea were really two or three inches
Il0hger&fhan nose Of those Witch are
lkeing sold1at the Hopoluiu hshmarket y
9s says2thA becalise the lar.er mul.
let would way in the middle OF the
pond, sonlySthe smaller ones coming 10
the gate, where he saw some caught,
be Is sure, there are plenty Of big
mullet "a the pond. ~
street Mar<et PIN MaterialiSi~g
l@'Low IA still convinced that his pro-
posed public marketing of fish at the
market from tables nlhred on the side.
| walks or In the street Ia feasible, and
Il ,endeayoting 10 secure support for his
plan. which he knows is working sue
cessfpliy N Washington, ID. G., Seattle,
and other places. ..s8W
' : Low . plan, for Honolulu. Is 10 bar
Kekaplike etBest, * next the mnrket,
10 all enimal and meteor vehicle use,
and 10 place tables in the streets where
the AshernfSn would be given the fire.
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