The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-06-11
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.
(From our special correspondent

(From our special correspondent.l
Murat Halstead has gone on a yisi
to Germany to join his family.
Frank w. Farmer, of Chicago, ha:
been appointed Public Printer.
The parcels post system has beer
extended to the Leeward Islands.
Arthur L. Thomas of Salt Lake
City has been appointed Governor
Of Utah.
Consul Hanna, at Buenos Ayres
reports to the State Department that
great excitement followed the Presi,
dents decree forbidding gambling
on a gold basis. The police, armed
with Remingtons, hold the Bolsa
and the streets are packed with peo-
pie. The Government remains firm,
and the gamblers threaten ven,
geance.
The Navy Department decided to
grant the extension requested by
the contractors for the building of
the new cruiser San Francisco. The
delay arose from the final adoption
of the plans as modified. These en-
braced a somewhat radical change
in the engines of the ship from
those originally contained in the
specification. The department has
been notified that if no accident
occurs the San Francisco will be
launched in August next and finally
completed in twelve months from
that date.
The plans and specifications of the
three steel cruisers authorized by
the last Congress have all been com
pleted at the Navy Department, and
advertisements for proposals for
their construction will be issued in a
few days. These vessels are offici-
ally known as cruisers 9, 10 and IL.
The limit of cost is fixed at 100000
each. The plans are the work of
the Construction Bureau of the Navy
Department, and if all expectations
are realized these vessels will be the
best of their class afoat. They are
to be 200 tons larger than the York
town and her class.
The evening Critic says: Visitors
were scarce at the White House, but
the Postmaster-G General had as a
guest Claus Spreckels, whom he
wanted to present to the President.
When the two gentlemen reached
the White House the President was
holding a public reception in the
east room, and both hurried thither
to catch him before he went to
luncheon. The Sugar King is not
much taller than the President, and
is about the same build, although
his face is more rudy and his chin
whiskers white. Mr.. Spreckels was
not after an Office, but desired the
Administration to send the right
kind of man to Hawaii.
The Californians will have big
guns and effective steel works in
their own country, if the plans of
some leading New York and Pacific
Slope capitalists are carried out.
These plans are now assuming a
definite shape. 1t would be impos.
sible to carry hundred ton gun
across the continent, because of the
pressure upon the bridges, and this
fact set men to thinking. The Union
Iron Works has successfully demon
the ability of the Coast to
construct the largest ships in the
world, as the recent award of the
coast defense vessel to them proves
What is now contemplated is the
establishment of large gun foundry,
where the forgings for the heaviest
ordnance can be made. Senator
G. P Huntington, Senator
Jones of Nevada, Irving NJ Scott
and other capitalists have had the
matter under advisement for several
One of the gentlemen has
been giving the subject close atten-
ton, and has made several journeys
to the Midvale, Bethlehem and South |
Boston works for the purpose of OBJ
their methods. The naval |
gun foundry in Washington has also |
been of great benefit to him, and the
facilities used, while in themselves
frst-class, he considers in some re-
spects susceptible of improvement.