The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-11

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 From Abroad.
 TODAY-Someone moved into the hollow statue in front of the Hono- lulu Public Library and lived there some time before he was discovered, writes Irene CorbaIIy Kuhn, Hono- lulu correspondent.
 HONOLULU, April 11.-The Lii brary of Hawaii has been running hotel on it's front porch for some time, altho the interesting fact has only just been discovered by the library officials, the Honolulu po- lice and Honolulu in general.
 On the lanai of the library, ac- ross from the capitol grounds, is plaster of paris statue of the "Winged Victory" In the statue is the "hotel,' until recently inhabited either by a modern Diogenes, the worlds shyest man, a demented mainland victim of the housing shortage, or, perhaps, the "Houdini of the Pacific" himself, Ira Colver Sparkes, who recently made himself famous by crossing the Pacific in specially constructed packing boX fitted up with sleeping quarters, food space, lavatory, ct cetera.
 Sure, it must be Sparks" said the eagle-eyed janitor of the li- brary, after he had inadvertently dis covered that in the hollow interior of the librarys decorative statue were milk bottles, bread crusts, bed ding and other evidences of recent human habitation.
 "That guys ancestors must have been in the crowd that climbed into the wooden horse and got them selves inside the walls of Troy in the old days" he continued. (This is library janitor, by the way, should skeptics doubt that he really said this.)
 The discovery of the 'hoteI' in the state was pprely accidental. The ianitor of the library had business on the second floor of the building, and while there his rowing eyes espied through the hole in the top of the statue suspicious evidence. He climbed into the statue and i fished out the aforementioned milk l bottle, bedding, ct cetera.
 The Detective Department looked { into the one-room "hostelry." The military police also inspected the artistic premises, as the military l dragnet is out for an alleged de- serter.
 The janitor scoffs at all theories J but his own-that the recent guest of the librarys statue was Sparks
 The theory appears sound-Sparks is at large in Honolulu - nobody knows where When he was dis covered in his unique hiding place aboard the Taiyo Maru recently and arrested as a stowaway he was a guest of the City Jail at the ex- pense of the Toyo Risen Kaisha Steamship Line for few days until it was discovered that he couldn't be returned to San Francisco, since he is an American citizen, nor could he be kept in jail here as vag- rant, because of $15 in his porkets and an admitted profession as car penter Sparks, having caused much Understanding in officialdom, was finally released. Nobody took the trouble to keep tabs on him.
 Maybe the janitor is right. At any rate, the hole in the statue has been closed up, and all other statues wooden, stone, gold, or otherwise, ln Honolulu, as well, as Street Clean ing Department rubbish receptacles are being closely guarded.
 Discovery of Honolulu's harbor commonly attributed by historians tc Captain Brown of the British shll Butterworth, was really made by Officer Hayward, of another British vessel, the King George, on Decem, Der 15, 17S6, according to Bruce Cartwright, authority on Hawaiian history, who presented his findings in the matter in paper read recent ly before the Hawaiian Historlca Society. Browns discovery" did moi l 4a1-o 1,laco l1ntil Decemher 21. l794.