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The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, in Woikiki, scene of mighty battle between man and the mynah birds.
THE MIGHTY BATTLE AGAINST THE MYNAH BIRDS
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This was kept up for several days and
then the hotel engineer told Mr. Fischbeck
that in his opinion the Royal Hawaiian
mynahs were sending out scouts carrying
messages to mynahs all over the island of
Oahu, telling them to hurry over to Wai
kiki and get in on the fun. The engineer
said that it looked to him as if the mynah
population of the big tree had doubled since
the rope trick was introduced. So the ropes
were taken down.
By this time Mr. Fischbeck was getting
advice from hundreds of well-meaning
people who wanted to help. One man said
that mynahs were afraid of owls, espe
cially white owls, and so a stuffed white
owl was mounted in the tree. Nothing.
Oriental snakes, made of colored paper,
which wriggled in the breeze, were hung
in the tree. The mynahs adopted them
into their nation made them honorary
mynah birds. Then a kind of metallic spin
ner was used, but the birds paid no heed
to it Sheets of glittering tinfoil were sus
pended from the limbs, and the mynahs
used them for swings.
Mr. Fischbeck had to conduct his war
with caution and tact, in such a manner
that humane groups and individual bird
lovers would not be aroused. One aroused
bird lover can be more dangerous than a
pride of lions. Some of them already were
writing to the newspapers, demanding that
these outrages be stopped. So Mr. Fisch
beck had to turn his back on all sugges
tions involving shotguns and flame throw
ers and poisoned seed.
Bob Krauss (a local news columnist), who
had already put himself on record as being
unfriendly toward the mynahs, found him
self sympathizing with the plight of Mr.
Fischbeck and wrote a column in which he
tried to be helpful. He said that he did
not believe the birds were ever going to
leave. He said that their presence was
naturally annoying to guests and that the
trouble lay in the shrillness of their voices.
Mr. Krauss suggested that Mr. Fisch
beck should work out some method of
teaching the mynahs to sing "Aloha Oe,"
and this would be pleasing to the ears of
the tourists, and wonderful publicity for
the hotel. People would talk about it all
over the world, the way they talk about
"that place in Mexico where they got the
swimming pool full of gardenias.' . They
would speak in Zanzibar and Quito and
Katonah of "that hotel in Hawaii with a
million birds that wake you up every
morning singing 'Aloha Oe." " .
I am told that there is no paper tough
enough anywhere in the world to contain
the words uttered by Mr. Fischbeck in
regard to this Krauss proposal.
About this time, a sound engineer came
to the Royal's manager and said he was
certain he could rid the place of the
mynahs. He said that he would set up
electronic equipment which would produce
high-frequency sound waves, and these
sound waves would give every bird in the
tree a raging headache, . and they would
all take the hint and leave. Mr. Fischbeck
thought that at last he was getting some
where, that finally he had come upon a
scientific approach to the problem.
So the man set up his equipment and
turned it on. I know next to nothing about
electronics, but I'm told that high-frequency
sound waves can be very eccentric and
produce strange and eerie effects. In this
case they did. Guests as well as hotel em
ployees reported that weird and ghostly
sounds were zipping around corners in the
hotel, racing up and down the corridors,
going whteeeee and tohoooooo. There was,
at the same time, an epidemic of toothache
among the guests, and some of them re
ported that the fillings in their teeth had
taken to vibrating. The sound engineer
packed up his equipment and departed.
Mr. Fischbeck was now beginning to
take on the aspect of a beaten man.
Newspaper reporters trailed him around
the war against the mynahs had become
big news. To one reporter, the hotel mana-
(Continucd)
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