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receipt was given By the defendant
steamship company for goods Tor,
wsrdet by it's steamer TO be delivered
at Paia. an inland place on Maui, the
exemptions in the receipt being dan
gers OF fire and navigation or any other
accident or danger of the seas, rivers
or steam navigation. OF whatsoever
kind and nature" The goods were
landed and DESTROYED by fire in the
warehouse before they were forwarded
To Psia Held. that the exemption
from liability for loss by ire, Is limited
t,a loss by fire occurring ar sea, anu
,t.,es not attach TO the land route.
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That popular work, "TH8 roUR-sTs
GuIDz TERcCGH U HAwAuAN IsL-
ASDs,s Is meeting with , steady sale
both ss hcr,s snd abroad. Tourists and
cshsrs visiting these islands should "a
In possession of 3 copy Of L. Il L Per
fecs mine Of information relating % TIE
scenes and attractions 70 be met WITH
here. Copies n wrappers esl ee nSsd 81
the publication Office, 80 Merchant
street, sa,s ss the News Dealers. Price
/ 50 cents.
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OPINION OF THE COURT BY BIcKER-
TON. J.
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The Guide viii De mailed to any part
the islands for "a Cents per Copy.
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Supreme Court Of the Hawaiian
Islands.
MARCH TERM, 1898.
A. ". VAN VALKENBERG vs.. " IL
DER STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
BEFORE BIcKERToS AND FREAR, j..
AND COOPER, CIRCUIT JUDGE

Judd, C. j., being disqualified
he having an interest in the de-
fendant company, Circuit Judge
Cooper sat in the case by request.)
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Or, 10 any foreign country for 20 Cents.
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In the Supreme Court Of the Ha-
waiian Islands.
MARCH TERM 1893.
Nj. 4. GcSsALvEs x Co. vs.. WILDER
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
BEFORE BIcKzRroN AND FREAR, u, AND
COOPER. CIRCUIT JUDGE

Judd, c. J., being disqualified, ne
having an interest in the defendant
company, Circait Judge Cooper sat
In the case by request.l
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ciated. The Skies hills and waters by the
Gold n Horn are in themselves not more
charming than those by lie q olden Gate, bur
centuries have adGed a romantic glamour TO the
scene, as well as magniticence of wealth and
art.
Like San Francisco. ConstantnOple occupies
peninsula, al the point Of which is the juno
Ion of the Golden Horn, the Bosphorus and
the Sea of Marmora The sea washes the
southern border of the city, aud Seragllo
Penl, at the end of the peninsula, marks the
junction of the Bosphorus and the Sea OF Mar
mora. Ga The north rn side of the city
stretches the Golden Horn, an arm of the Bos-
phorus. curying inland distance OF about four
miles. 1t is the main harbor of ConstantinOple
ana is crowded with shipping.
Just across the Bospnorus lies Asia. and he
hills and bluffs ris boldly near the wafer.
Here at the waters edge, and occupying some
of tile hilisides, Is the city of Scutari, from
which magnificent views of Constantinople
may be obtained.
just across the Golden Horn TO the north,
and In The angle formed by this stI cam and the
Bosphorus, lies Pera, the newer portion of
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silhouette of the famous city itself. In char
cter 1t is somewhat like Constantinople, but
it lacks the beauty, variety and richness of
color displayed by the capital on the Golden
Horn. The weather is sultry. the air is dry
and the ever-bowing sands form dull cloud
OF haze over the city. Ii the sirocco is blowing
the sands ard the dust that I'LL the air hide II
like a fog. If The air Is reasonably clear one
looks across the fertile streTch of lowlandS so
full OF lively beauty TO the higher plains, hills
and mountains of The Libyan Desert, the sam,
Yesterday. to-day and seemingly forever. and
to the distant but impressive pyramids that
are less changeable than the hills.
smoky haze hangs over some manufac-
turing suburb. AS the tourist nears the city
those tall, strange minarets so far above the
dOmes of Ghe mo ,ques beside them rise in the
air more thickly than all the church spires of
any Christian city, and az one gazes at the
tallest and most striking of them he realizes
that he will soon hear the muezzins' loud call
to prayers.
The ancient Nile with its crowding craft is a
little 10 the west, the tawny desert bills
beyond, and this picturesque array of ancient
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hills on either side. crowded with suburban
villages and residences. are not unlike those
abou Hell Gate, although much bolder. The
Black Sea is a larger sound. The Golden Horn
is for mile or two like our Hudson, only 1t
divides the city into two parts-Stamboul. the
Turkish city where the Seragio and the chief
mosques are, on one side and Pera and the
European quarter, where the hotels and the
modern Improvements, including the Sultan's
new palace, are, on the other. The hills Of
ConsIantinople are so steep that the streets
are, many Cf them, great flights OF broad
stairs"
So these surrounding hills are made splendid
by gard MS, groves and palaces, and the old
city from the low hills, on which It's crOwding
structures stand, fixes the gaze with it, gleam-
ing domes and all slender mlnarets which in
dicate the most famous mosques and stately
palaces. There is rare charm, too, about the
soft cOlors of the sky. bills, air and waters that
pain the glorious scene;
The picture Is beautiful, but yet the deepest
intei est may easily arise from the historical
associations OF the city and the shores and
waters near ii. Along the Bosphorus. through
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don's wealth, can be seen winding It's way as a
si!very sire m for thirty miles of its course. In
that thirty miles ii passes at least as many as
thirty towns as big as Pittsbuig, Pa. Mem
phis, Tenn, or Augusta, Me-, or Wilmington,
DEL, or Sacramento, Cal. London's nominal
population is 100000. Its floating popula-
tion cannot be estimated.
This view of London from Highgate Arch
way is really the greatest city view in the world.
Ii is greater than The prospect OF Paris from
Mount Valeren or Montmartre; greater far
than Antwerp from The cathedral tower; greater
infinitely than New York from he Liberty
statue; greater even than Rene from The Pm
clan Hill.
London? What is 1t? A congested mass of
streets. You can get on car and ride twelve
miles straight ahead without being outside the
sight of bricks and mortar for single instant,
and it is all London.
Seen from the Highgate Arehway standpoint,
1t is pillar of cloud by day and pillar OF fire
by night.
U BY day you note In the far east the ships that
are spreading their canvas IN "The Pool" pre-
liminarly TO an attempt TO put to sea at Wool.
wich or Gravesend. Mayhsp they will have to
go thirty miles further down. On The western
side you can trace the Richmond heights,
where the Londoner takes his holiday-and
within ten miles of which as many immortal
poets drew their inspirations. What are their
names? Thomson, Denman, Pope, Rogers,
Gray, Shelley, "and sich.'
Right in the foreground of this picture is
noble old ST. Paul's. the monument Of Sir
Christonher Wren. The spIe OF ST. Paurs
counts for nothing In altitude, but altitude is
counted by surroundings There are no lofty
hills or mountains around London. Hence st.
Paul's towers nightly. At its base is the
thames, with mole steamboats, TO the square
inch than New York. Baltimore, ST. Louis,
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to the stranger, but 1t has not beauty. Instead
it has the longest vista that opens back from
any city of to-day toward the beginnings of
history.
On the way from Alexandria by rail one sees
sluggish, muddy waters on one hand, marshes
here and there, rich, cultivated fields and Or
chards. doDkeys, felaheen, Arab huts and
other features of Egypt and Its life. Begin
ming, say twenty miles from the city, the agri-
cultural scene becomes superb and the land
scape Is more ana more crowded with life. The
glittering river is dotted with queer craft and
a richly cultivated country extends as far on
either side as the annual inundations re tch.
As the city Is neared, groves ana gardens be-
come more numerous, and the crowding
bauan lemon. orange, citron. date and almond
trees constantly eclipse momentariiy the view
beyond.
Far away on either hand stretches d low
range OF mountains that lies beyond yellow,
heated, desert sands. The pyramids flash into
view. They are hidden and again in sight.
They are miles 10 the southwest in the purple
distance beyond the level fields, the gardens
and the palms, and are outlined against light
blue sky Forty centuries or more are piled up
there, and the ancient monuments hold the
gaze longer than anything nature has reared
about them.
SOuthward two tall. airy minarets come into
view. They rise from the mosque of Mehemet
ALI which stands on the end OF range of
low hills, where The ancient citadel frowns
This soon comes into distant view. and then
other mlnarets and domes. Soon the view con-
tains more distinctly the cily's walls, the many
tow rs, uomes and mlnaretS that rise 20 vary
ing heights, and the tops of crOwding white
buildings There are high garden walls here
and there. suburban villas, squalid poverty,
aud tile picturesque novelty of Oriental life
pervades it all.
The city is nearly level, and beyond these
strange suburban scenes. repete with rich
ness, beauty and sQualor, there is the striking
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Grand avenue To the south OF the river is
seen the Institute of France, the greatest of all
temples OF leaning in France Beyond this
looms mp the Church ste. Gen We've, far above
TIE College OF France and the other grand edl-
ic in the vicinity,
From the Isle st. Louis, almost as far as the
eye reaches, is presented an outline of the we'll
paved and well-kept and beautiful quays, which
afford magnificent promenades for those who
love TO walk the waters edge and gaze at those
who have their beings IN boats.
All along the magnificent line of the boule-
wards. running nearly three miles. the eye is
bewlldered with the number and beauty Of the
public buildings. Twice within sixty years
Paris has been 10 the hands OF foreign ene-
mics, yet she has been marvel0usly spared.
Old BlucheI's threat TO blow up the Pont du
Jena IN 1915 was stopped by Wrlington's plac-
ing single English sentry with the remark,
"Mein lieber Fursr' would cheerfully blow up
hundred bridges, but would not dare to injure
British soldier. But for that Paris might not
have been as pretty as she Is now. German
bombs did less damage in 1871 than the Com
munal atrocities tnat follow d. Four revOIu-
tiOns have left beautiful Paris comparatively
unchanged. Where Their have been ashes she
has risen from them like phenix, fair and
fairer still.
This marked feature OF beauty rising suDe-
rior to vandalism aud desolation puts Paris
strikingly in contrast with Rome. The Eternal
City, the City of the Seven Hills and ths
Caesars, is ruin piled on ruin. II is as if all
Paris had been destroyed but one section, VII
lette or Belleyille, and the modern city were
limited to that.
Amid the grim forts which froWn in wids
circle around the modern Paris the market gar
dener and the florist are busy. The suburban
cottages and homes of he gay city are no less
seductive than the boulevards themselves. In
this ideal capital life can be made enjoyable
from morn TO dewy eve on the wages of sand
shoveler, and holiday ouling is Obtainabl,' for
two-bits by system of street. and suburban
railroad TRANSPORTATION which comes as near
perfection as anything IN this world. More can
be seen of Paris and It's suburbs in three days
than Of New York iii month or of London in
a year.
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New Orleans, Washington Pittsburg, Wheel
ing Cincinnati and d0zrn other cities CON-
bned. 1t takes lot of steamboats, to keep
five millions OF people going.
To the south str tches vista of chalk hills
crowned by the Crystal Palace. a relic OF the
first International exposition of the werld, The
exposition OF 1851. 1t was intended as the
arbineer OF peace and good will tow rd men,
and the two principal promoters were the
Queen OF England and the Emperor of france.
Three years later these two putentates Joined
forces in the Crimea on the issue since aban-
doned, and which, after a bloody war OF two
years. gave birth to results which have long
since been repudiated.
London! Who shall describe it. No man can
claim fair acquaintance with the city under
four years nOvitiate. 1t is dozen big cities
residential, maDufacrurng. governmental, sea
faring. pleasure going, ancient, modern, pros
pective-dumped down on he banks of broad,
muddy river. Extreme wealth and utt pov
erty live side by side. Toihil street, West
minister, is only If block away from the
houses Of Parliament. In the former there are
hundreds Of people who taste meat but once d
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ing at The foot of Broadway will wink at you
from the h. az of Battery place. The Produce
Exchange, one of the most imposing uiies of
brick in the world, viii draw your attention TO
its clock tower. The S audard OIL Company's
marble building. at 62 Broadway IS one of the
solid features OF the foreground
A little to the east and right you could not
overlook the massive foundations of the
Brooklyn bridge. The sky-soaring pinnacleS
of the World and Tribune buildings ia Print
ins-house Square are NOR, famous than some
nefghborng Office buildings, but the truth is
that they are only little CHER than the Potter
building and Temple Court and the buildings
shut out your view of the newspaper offices.
The steeples of ST. Paus and Trinity stand
out in brown stone on the left, and the Equit-
able building seems TO be alongside OF the
Western Union building, although the former
is al Cedar street and The latter at Dey street.
The big postoffice Is almost entirely shut out
from view by the downtown Office structures.
The "freak" tower buildings at so Broadway
and Union Square look like two nails stuck into
the picture.
The tine outlines of the city hall reveal its
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ity of population. Even the Jersey Highlands,
to The south or left of the picture, loom up and
are shaded with roofs against he sky.
Every one knows these buildings are only the
luxurious residences OF rich New Workers. bur
they are as fife in outline and prominence of
lite as the modering feudal halls that cap
some promontories of the Rhine.
Everywhere, everywhere. are people, habita-
tious, houses Of all de>criplons ana the evil
dences OF Il dense, compressed population.
Here is a city worth looking at" any one
will say
Manhattan Island has simply been covered
with inhabitants, and then, because the rivers
surrounded 1t and peopl do not like ferry
boats, the only wav to provide for the steady
increase of tue population was for the city to
eXrand onward. OF course there are plenty of
people In such an immense community who are
willing 10 cross the waters daily and take
train or streetcar rde besides, and lherefOrr
Brook lyn, Jersey city, HOboken and the New
jersey outposis. as well as the vast WestcEes-
ter county beyond rhc Harlem River have
been built up and flooded with human beings
Bur the bul, of thr mass has stayed on the
island, ana they are proud of the fact, in
deed.
knckerbockers will boast that they can tell
New Yorker. thoroughbred if they met him
on South Sea island, with no clothes on to
speak OF. There would be something about
the cut of his jib that woula bespeak the
pecularltes of dear old New York.
One OF the most beautiful bellies New York
ever produced, Miss Kitty Hall of Fifth avenue
came home net loug ago after tlve-year course
of education abroad, and said At a receptions
Foreigners are all well enough If you make
them keen their place, but give me America
and New York ev ~ time. Home, this city,
New York is good enough for me-"
As New York has grown upward she is taller
and more port Dtous against the sky. The
view beheld by commodore" Vanderbilt years
ago when lie sailed The FIRST ferry boat between
Staten Island and the city would not give an
idea of The wonderful aud bewidering agGrrua-
'tion of heterogeneous structures that m. cts the
eye to-day. There Is no pi etense or effect of
homogeneous architectural beauty The
grandeur OF il all comes from The immepsity OF
accommodations for HE u>e of human beings.
One. look VIII tell the beholder that The city is
hopelessly overcrowded.
The Bowling Green. the Battery Park, the
od-tIme pride OF the Knickerb bockers, is
spoiled. A neat-looking white-stone barge
Office sits al the very foot of the city. but the
park is ruined by The inIeracing elevated roads
that end on the right Of the barge Office In
fact, If you will look sharp. you will see extend.
ing fl ON Harlem TO the Battery a great iron
monster, spreading out over the city its an
IennB, reaching through cross streets to the
North and East rivers. its body running up and
down Ninth, Eighth sixth, TGird and Second
avenues. 1t is The glea fraudulent apology for
IA Ia transit on Manhattan Isisnd-ihe ele-
waited railroad system, that squats upon and
disfgules The whole place.
cyrus W. Fields great brick and stone build.
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PARIS,

San Francisco In silhouette has not been
well studied. How do It's bare, raw outlines
compare with those of other e. eat cities OF the
world ? Let Us see.
When large city is viewed from a dis
tance it becomes mass of forms and colors
in which details are lost. or rather the heights
and depressions. the flowing or the resting
waters, the towers and buildings which are
darkly outlined TO the eye, and the tnts and
shades Of sky, city and surroundings become
themselves he important details of the picture
The silhouette the city draws against the
sky is a striking element Of this picture, and
the picture is always studied by an observant
stranger who gains Impressions that are viva
and enduring.
For the purpose of the comparison defined
San Francisco is here measured with six of the
worlds most famous cites-New York, Lon
don, Paris. Uonstantinople, Cairo aud Mos
cow.
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BY THE GOLDEN HORN.

For the most enjoyable and favorable first
impression Of CoHstantinople go by sea and
approach tn famous carital OF the Ottoman
empre through he DardanelleS and the Sea of
Marmora. Long before the steamer turns into
the q olden Horu The ancient city will display
to the eager eye Its slender minareIs and palace
dotted hills.
In the situation and surroundings Constau-
tiuoDle is one of the most picturesque OF the
famous cities of the world; yet to the stranger
from the Western world The charm it presents
lies much. or more. in the novelty of its life
and architecture. the clustering centuries that
speak of its age ard in the history and fable
with which the city and surroundings are asso-
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BY THE TAWNY THAMES.

What Is London? II is a metrOpols OF me-
tropolesl 1t is a duOd elmo of follos. To see
London as IL is you must adopt distant stand
point.
Nature and Danish poet, Andersen, sug-
eest sHch standpoint, not more than three
blocks from tbe house in which Coleridse found
friendly shelter for the best years of his lie.
Highgate Archway towers high above the
Tower of London. which Is in the heart of the
city. 1t overlooks the cross on the dome of ST..
Pau's Cathedral. From HIgngate Archway,
as solitary a spot as a recluse could wish, all
London can be seen.
Aud all that mighty heart is lying stll.
BY day from Highgate Archway he Thames,
which Is famous as Tam-ss from the days Of
the Romans, and is the present source Of Lon
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week, unless they steal it; in the houses of
Parliament there are men with big salaries who
never did days work in their lives. In WEite
hall, right opposite. a privileged clerk goes TO
work at II A. NJ. spends an hour on his butt on
hole bouquet and his nails, looks carelessIy at
some official forms and goes to lunch He
takes an hour for that aud leaves at P. M,
out OF which he counts an hour for his retiring
toilet. Within couple OF blocks of this are
young women who lie day alter day under
coverlid because their clothes are in pawn.
Right along the wa'ei front OF London, from
Vauxnal TO Woolwlch nd Southwark to
Black wall, burn the fires which eep London
alive. Ii is probably The most cruel city III the
world; greater than anci Rome; but as re-
m
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white marble beauties, because the expanse Of
City Hall ark provides clearing in front,
but that viii soon b. filed up, for they are CO.
ing TO tear down the old beauty and NIL the
whole park up with monuments to Tammany
jpbbery.
In the background of the picture, strange TO
say, the white Fifth-avenu- Hot can be dis
tinctly discerned without a glass. You could
pick out spires and domes of churches all over
the city, but none are prominent except the
Catholic cathedral at Fifty-firs street and the
Temple Emanuel at FJity-thitd street. The
Century building at Seventeenth sire shines
out. for Union Square is i'll front of it. The
Grand Central depoI at Forty-second street
and PARK avenue is q cleaning pot. and in the
distance the piano factories. manufactures and
Westchester slopes mark the vanishing point
brd>eye view OF New York from tie deck of
steamer coming up the bay is ever beautiful
and always new.
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which Jason and his argonauts sailed in search
OF The golden fleece, are many ancient castles
and temples. Across that water, Darius the
Great built his bridges OF boats, and there
Nenophon liz his Retreat Of The Ten Thou sand
There are spots near by that were battle
grounds In The days of Haroun al Raschid
and the Prince of Bagdad and hither came
Godfrey of BouIlon and his crusaders That
wonderful mosque of 81. Sophia tnat towers In
mmensity from Seraglio Point was begun by
Justinlan as a Christian temple 1860 years ago,
and other great mosques carry one back
through centuries.
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BY THE PYRAMIDS.

How alert is the traveller from the western
world as he rushes over modern railroad up
the Nile, and at almost the same time Catches
his first view of Cairo and OF The time-defyng
pyramids that rise into view across the Llbyan
DESERT
Here Is city that will be studied inien tly
from Without and every feature of the scene
will be viewed with keen aud wondering IN
terest. II is very interesting; 1t Is picturesque
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MANHATTAN'S FRONT.

Passing up New York Bay the eyes have a
great feast. Globe-trotters who stand on the
deck OF trans-Allantic greyhonnds are amazed
at the beauty and variety of the scene
Asyou approach thr city coming uD the bay
the impression TO every one is that of imm MS
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and modern, Oriental and European architec-
ture is little ahead. But the city nowhere
uplifts itself on commanding heIghts, and 10
view 1t well one must enter it ana climb one of
It's great towers.
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SEVEN CITIES AGAINST THE SKY


SAN FRANCISCO,
NEW YORK,
LONDON,
CONSTANTINOPLE.
MOSCOW.
CAIRO,