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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-01

ample room for school purposes as
we'll as household needs, required q
large building.
The approach 10 the building will
be by a broad macadamized drive
way from an entrance on King street,
opposite to the entrance to the boys
school. As the ground slopes towards
the sea, the triangular segment form
ed by the inner outlines of the build
ing will be utilized as a garden, with
an outer circular wall of stone. Broad
stone steps in the centre of the peri
phery will give access TO the garden
from the driveway. A fountain in
the centre of the path will give the
sense of GOODNESS and restfulness, al
ways associated with the drip of the
waters fall into the pool below. Flow
ers, and vases will lend the charms of
color and fragrance and graceful out
line to the front. From its shady
verandas the eye takes in vista of
wonderful beauty. The building is so
located as to front Diamond Head as
the central object in the outlook. On
its flank, loom up the massive ser
rated ranges of the Konahuanui
ridges, with the Kulaokahua plains
stretched out below, Honolulu, with
its spires uplifted above roof and tires,
suggests the hustle and stir of the
city, not too far from the quiet loca-
ton of the school. On the right. are
seen the sparkling blue waters of the
open sea beyond and above the skele-
tOn-like yards and maStS of the ship
ping in the harbor.
At the end of the terminal line
nearest the street, on the lower floor,
is the gymnasium, 32x47 feet in size,
where the girls will be drilled to
suppleness of limb and muscle,
erectness and gracefulness in walk
and movement. Recitation rooms
line the rear side of the corridor,
which gives access to the center
of the building, and these aver
age 15X24 feet in size. One of these,
set apart for the sewing-room, will be
fitted up with the best appliances for
q well-arrauged millinery and dress
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-01

making establishment. Along the
front side of the corridor will be the
reception room for the parents and
friends of the girls, the reading room,
and the teachers parlOr. Underneath
the central dome are arranged the
main staircases, leading to the upper
floor, and TO the gallery in the assem-
bly, hall. This hall is a projection
from the central front, but in the rear,
and will be 31X50 in size, with large
platform at the rear end.
Continuing on from the central hall
along the corridor on the other side
from the rooms mentioned, we find
recitation rooms, again on the rear,
with the matron's room at the farther
end, near the scene of her labOrs, so
exhausting, and yet so Indispensable.
On the other front are the Principals :
private apartments, and the PrlucI-
pals Office, where the work of admin
istratiOn Will have the best modern
cOnveuiences, scrO!l-tOp desks, type
writers, ready reference file, and so
on.
At the end OF the n1uEui terminal
line OF the building i the dining hall.
Any one who has visited the Kameha-
neha preparatory school for boys Will
know how attractive and homeilke
the ntlUgS ana furnishings Will Dt'
while the view from the windows
Will be more beautiful than any pic
ture from any artists hands, that
adOrn the abOdes Of royalty. Advan-
tage j. taken of the slOping ground 10
utilize the basement room beneath for
the ironing room Of the laundry.
From tits q lift Will take the clothes
TO the second story above, where from
"a wheeled basket they Will be dis
tTiDUted Il the various rooms. \
projection ,uilt Of stone, with cement
floors, and extending over 10 the rear
from tie diuing hail, furnishes safe
and ample accom- u OdatiOn FOR pan
try, ~cuiiery and Kitchen beneath
which are thu StOre-rOOmS. Here
again dumb waiter saves much
Of the labor Iredful 10 care for
the daily feeling IF . large house
hO.d Hot and odd water are fur
uish~i al-o Tor the bathrooms in the
story above. The .npIe size Oi the
kitchen. . by -, furnishes room for
the cooking classes, VINO are here TO
be taught LUt only the cleanliness
that i next 10 gOdIiue--, but the "a
vOriness and ta-tefulness that make
the table the place Of comfort and
cheer that It ought to be in every well
ordered home.
some idea Of the size Oi the build
ing may be had from the figures given
for the double verauda-, each - feet
long; and 70 this length should be
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-01

trOn will have charge of the laun-
dry as well as the kitchen. The
teacher of sewing will have charge
also of half the public rooms on the
lower floor. The other half of these
rooms will be under the supervision
of the teacher of music. The lady en-
gagged for the musical department is
an accomplished violinist and pianist
as well as sOlOist, and her ability as a
chorus leader is attested by the ease
and success with which she has drilled
and directed a chorus of 100 public
school children. The other three as
sistant teachers will have charge re-
spectively of scientific and norma!
instruction, OF language and itera-
ture, Of mathematics and calisthenics.
They will have general supervision
also of the house work in the dOrmi-
tories. Two graduates Of KawaiahaO
Seminary will assist the matrOn in
the kitchen and the principal in the
details Of administration. The course
of study has been carefully arranged
TO train Hawaiian girls to know what
good work is and to do it well.
1t is the expectation Of the trustees
that the building will be ready for
occupancy, finished and furnished,
November 18th. There will be two
school terms each year Of twenty
weeks each. The charge for board
and tuition Will be only SO a term,
payable in advance. Applications
should be sent in at once, as it is pro-
bable that more than sixty girls will
want to enter. The applications
should be sent through the pOstOffice,
and addressed 'Kamehameha School
for Girls
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Acting COnsUIs.

During the absence Of J. F.
Hackfeld, there will be a number
Of changes in the consular force
here. Mr.. Hackfeld is Consul for
Belgium, Acting Consul for Aus
tria-Hungary and Germany, and
Acting Vice Consul for Russia.
While he Is away Herman Focke
viii act az Consul for Belgium, L.
Suhr will assume that position for
Russia and Germany, while w.
Wolters will be Acting Consul for
the Austro- Hungarian Empire. All
have been recognized az such
Acting Coneuls by the Govern
meut.
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added the widths of the two terminal
buildings, each 81 feet. The rear has
neither veranda nor balcony. The
garden in front will have an extreme
depth of over 100 feet. To secure the
building against dangers from fire,
ample staircases have been provided.
\ special reservoir of large capacity,
on the mountain side, will hold sup
ply ready for any emergency, while
system of stand pipes and hose at
tached, within the building, can be
connected also in few minutes with
a pump at the artesian well, where an
engine stands already to be fired up at
moments notice.
In the upper story the teachers
rooms are over the dining hall and
gymnasium. There are separate sleep
ing rooms for the girls, each 10 by II,
on either side of the corridors. In ad-
dition there are hospital wards for
any who may be sick, trunk rooms,
linen closets, and all the needful con-
veniences for the quick dispatch of
work. In fact busy work and not
luxurious ease stands out promi-
nently as the great object of the whole
building. Woman is not regarded as
a drudge or a playtning, but as Co
worker with man in building up hu-
man society after the divine law.
The whole of womanhood is here
cared for on scientific principles, that
is, definite object is kept in mind,
and the needful appliances are sup
piled to be used after the methods APP
proved by long experience as we'll as
trained intelligence. The rooms will
be simply furnished, in style not
beyond what the girls might have in
their own homes. The food also will
be simple, as is the usual Hawaiian
fashion. Miss IGa NJ. Pope, the Prin-
cipal, is a skilled teacher of tried
ability, as proven by her successful
management of Kawaiahao Semi
nary. The six assistant teachers have
all been appointed, though the recent
arrangement of the mails has pre-
ceptances from them all. The ma
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-01
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i large assortment Of Woolen Dress
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White; Scotch, English and American
Ginghams in large quantities.
\ fine line in fancy-fgured wash
Goods.
i complete stock OF Striped and
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~Dressmaking done in all It's
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Mrs Renner.
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An Experience of a Tourist in the
Beautiful Vale.
NEVER DEFILED BT PHOTOGRAPHERS

Man Who Was Lost in the Valley
and Afterwards Signed Himself as
the Hero OF Wailuku-One OF the
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The Opelousas courier., 1894-08-04
GRANTS FoRTY-Two PLANS.

'eThe road to glory Is not a path of fow-
ers,n says q French proverb. Affairs seemed
as hopeless as well could be at Vicksburg,
just before Grants successful move down the
river on the Louisiana shore to New Car
thage. The newspapers of the time are full
of bitter denuncietions Of Grant and his
Vicksburg failures, The C~onfederates were
boastful and full Of confidence up to the end
Of April, 1853. But Grant never Y up.
His mental suferings at this time must have
been very great, seeing as he did every plau
fail at Vicksburg, and hearing and reading
the abuse heaped upon him by paper war
riors both at home and in his own camp.
But whatever torture he endured none
were informed of it. He simply did the best
he knew and hung on. His logged deter
minatfon impaired itself to a p~orfion.of his
soldiers, at least. A Union private soldier
/. was captured by the C~onfederates during the
Deer Creek expedition, the last one before the
successful move down the river.
A Confederate officer questioned the can
tive Union soldier as follows:
What the devil Ia Grant doing heres
What does he expect todog'
TIC take Vickshurg, = replied the soldier.
"Well, hasn't the old fool tried this ditch.
ing a~ndsfanking business five times alreadyT'
YVES replied the private, "bnt be has got
~thirtyseyen more plans In his pocket
The Opelousas courier., 1894-08-04
THE DEAD AT VICkSBURG.

A newspaper correspondent Of the time
writes Of the dead who had fallen in one Of
the most desperate of the Union assaults on
Vicksburg:
"They lay in all positions, some with
musket grasped as though still eontending;
others with the cartridge in the fingers just
ready to put the deadly charge where it
might meet the foe. All ferocity had gone.
ga remarkably sweet and youthful face
was that of a rebel boy. Scarce 1S, and as fair
as a maiden, with quite small hands, he had
long hair Of the pale golden hue that auburn
changes to when much in the sun, and curl
ing at the ends He had on a shirt of coarse
white cotton, and brown trousers, well worn,
while upon his feet were women's shoes of
about the size known as 'fours.' Too deli
cate was his frame for war, perhaps some
mothers idol His left side was torn by a
she'll, bis left shoulder shattered.
Two men who had caught at a fig tree to
assist them up a steep embankment lay dead
at its foot; the branch at which they caught
was still in their grasp.
''In one trench lay two grasping the same
weapon, friend and foe. On the faces of
both was the calm that follows sleep. In
some places the dead were piled literally like
sacks of aTain.n
The Opelousas courier., 1894-08-04
"Wi1iSTLlNG DICK.n

The relionnd Renaissance hunter at Vicks-
burg is always taken to a hill a little in the
rear of the city. This hill is pointed out to
him as one of the most interesting Of the
historic spots around the city.
Here" says the guide, twas planted
'Whistling Dick the largest Confederate
gun of the hill batteries"
thad a history of its own. When the United
States government blew up the navy yard at
Norfolk, April 81, 1861, there were left unin-
jured l 200 first class cannon. These were i'm
madiately taken possession of by the Confed-
crates and shipped to various points on their
lines. Many of them went to the gull, to
the Mississippi ana Red rivers.
One Of the largest was mounted In a hill
battery at Vicksburg. It was trained SO accu-
rately as to do great damage to the investing
Union army. 1t was the heaviest mounted
gun there, and as its huge balls went whiz-
zing through the air, it became the terror of
Grants force. They gave it the name of
"Whistling Dick" For weeks Admiral Por-
ter's feet tried to dislodge 1t in vain. ~
The Opelousas courier., 1894-08-04
would be suffered to go with them to trans.

would be suffered to go with them to trans
port baggage and cooking utensils.
Pemberton accepted, with the proviso that
his men be allowed to march out in battle
array, with colors flying, and stack their
arms In front Of the Confederate lines, at 10
o'clock, July4. Grant saw no objection to
this bit Of military display, and agreed to it,
with the stipulation that after stacking arms
the Confederates must return inside their
lines and remain as prisoners Of war till
properly paroled.
This final letter Of Grants wss sent to
Pemberton after midnight. In it were the
following words:
"Should no notification be received Of
your acceptance Of my terms by 9 o'clock a.
m. I shall regard them as having been re-
jected, and shall act accordingly"
The terms were promptly accepted by
Pemberton. Troops surrendered, $1,000.
On the spot where the historic oak stood is
DOW. a monument. 1t is a pyramid, sur
mounted by a globe, the whole over twenty
feet high. An eagle, bearing on its wings
the Goddess of Liberty, covers side of the
pyramid. Upon another is inscribed: 'To
the memory Of the surrender Of Vicksburg
by Lieut.. Gen. j.. G. Pemberton to Maj. Gen.
q. s. Grant, y. s.. A., on July 4, 1868"
The Opelousas courier., 1894-08-04

not yet. They saw daylight underneath the
mass. A great mass of snow white smoke
filed the space. Higher still rose the lost
fort, like a phantom in air. The blue coats
heard a noise, but not much; nothing like a
great explosion.
Then Fort Hil began to fall to pieces, still
fragments Of it seemed all at once to flow
a vast fountain. Men, horses, bits Of earth
and walls, guns, caissons and timbers, fell
asunder to earth from the descending streams
of that awful fountain.
Gen. H~ickenlooper had not miscalculated.
Sixty Confederates were blown up and
killed by the explosion of Fort Hill. A negro
in the fort was thrown up in the air with the
rest. He was blown far out beyond the hill,
and actually dropped alive and without a
scratch within the Union lines, a present sent
to the Yankees by the grim 1umor Of gun
powder. The soldiers declared he must have
alghted upon his head when he came down,
and SO escaped unhurt. The black mar thus
strangely preserved became Gen. Logan's
body servant, and served him through his
after campaigns.
The instant Fort Hill rose in the air a line
of flame twelve miles long burst from the
guns of Grants a1ny. The destruction of
the fort was the signal for a general assault
The assault was a tremendous one, but un-
successful, except as far as the possession Of
the crest of the hill and the great ruin where
Fort Hill had been
'Hickenlooper was happy that night, and
well might he be" writes Gen. Strong "For
thirty days and nights he had worked in the
trenches. With tireless energy and sleepless
vigilance he had labored. In sunshine and
pelting rain, morning and evening, at all
times he could be found at his post, and never
knew when he slept"
Gen. Hickenlooper, the hero Of Fort Hill,
is living in Cincinnati now, a quiet man,
with a handsome gray head, a keen dark eye
and a manner full Of nervous energy. In
bis civil capacity he is president Of the Gin
cinnati Gaslight company. Many a time
sold boys'' from various parts Of the Union
dropin at his Office to talk over war times.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-08-04

L06 OdEGGlIeS dG ' lCksUuIB,
and that the last named was soon released,
while the other two remained long in captiv-
ity-a fact which raised unpleasant suspi-
cions at the time. As the two have published
a very readable popular book giving their
experience, we give here the account of Alr.
Colburn as written to The World:
It was near 10 o'clock of a beautiful moon
light night when we cast loose at Milliken's
Bend, and our little tug snorted down the
river, accompanied by the transport A. d.
Hine. We quietly chatted awhile and fin
ished a solitary bottle of dry catawba which
some good friends had sent on board for our
comfort We had as a squad fifteen sharp
shooters from the Forty-seventh Ohio, under
Capt. Ward, Surgeon Davidson, the tugs
crew of eight, four persons on their way to
join their regiments, and our party of three
all volunteers. I should here mention as il
Illustrating the temper Of that army, that
when fourteen volunteers were called for
the whole regiment stepped forward. Com
pany A was selected, and still there was a
sauabble to go. Fourteen were then marked
off; a fifteenth begged permission of the col
onel and one actually paid a premium Of So
to his comrade for the privilege of going on
this hazardous service. The barges were.
covered with tiers of hay in order to protect
the tug between them; but the hay was
deemed almost unnecessary, and SO put on
quite loosely, and the ends of the boat were
quite exposed.
At midnight we came in sight of Vicks-
burg, and soon after the Confederate pickets
on the Louisiana shore began to open fire on
us. Soon a rocket shot up from the upper
batteries. There was no need Of such a warn
ing, for the boats might be seen almost as
clearly as by sunlight, and the loud puff of
our exhaust pipe gave ample warning when
we were three miles distant.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-08-04
MCPHERSON.

Eyes" said Gen. Hickenlooper, II was, for
a fact, through the Vicksburg campaign.
81 was chief engineer of McPherson's corps
there and saw much of Mcpherson and
Grant both during the siege. I have seen
many army officers, sbut never one like
Mcpherson. There ngter was anybody Ike
him. Young, handsome and full Of enthu-
6iasn,, he was the idol of his soldiers. They
would have died for him any moment.
"You never saw anything like 1t at his
headquarters. He seemed a brother or a
simple, good comrade to his officers. He was
one of ourselves.
IT cannot describe to 0 the feeling we
had for him. 1t was something more than
the strongest friendship between mar and
man. Well, III tell you, it was like this
II, instead of being a man, handsome, bril-
liant and sweet tempered as he was, McPher-
son had been all this and been a woman be-
sides, a bright, magnetic woman, drawing
all hearts to her, you can fancy how men
would have loved him. Just like that was
my love for Gen. McPherson.n
The general paused a moment and dropped
his head. Memory was busy weaving in his
brain the images of twenty-five years ago.
Looking up presently he spoke again, in other
tones:
One thing happened that l shall always
be sorry for. 1t is the only thing in the years
| knew Gen. Mcpherson that I have to re-
greet. 1 had been out all day hard at work in
the line of my duties. I came in late to head
quarters, and felt as though I was too tired
to move.
II thought l would go to bed early. did
SO, drawing my blankets up around me. But
I had no more than touched the ground and
got quiet when Gen. Mcpherson called me:
"'Oh, Hick!'
"Now, | heard him, and I'm ashamed to
remember it, but for the only time in my life
| didn't nswer. | lay quite still. There
were others about the quarters who had been
doing nothing that day. Let the general call
one of them, I thought to myself.
"Perceiving l did not answer Gen. Strong
spoke up for me and said: Kick has been out
all day and is just in. suppose he's asleep
"'Oh, yes,' said Gen. Mcpherson, I sup
pose he is. He must be tired, poor fellow! I
didn't think Of that
E. 'Then the general called some other officer
and sent him on the erra1d. And | lay still,
and Mcpherson never knew but I was asleep.
But I was ashamed of it next day and l have
been SO ever since. might have answered
him, might nave gone out into the night
again, tired as I was.
"McPherson was killed not long after that,
and I shall always carry with me the regret
full recollection that once my general called
me and I did not answer"
The Opelousas courier., 1894-08-04

The first boats that passed V~icksburg in
he spring of 1862 were a hotilla Of mortar
boats. The advantage of the short, heavy,
bell shaped gun is that it can be turne ed and
fred at any angle of elevation, almost per-
pendicularly, indeed.
Mortars are used15oth on land and sea. AS
far back as the history of modern military
weapons, the mortar has been employed
Originally it threw stones instead of balls.
1t is recorded that Joan of Arc herself aimed
the mortar guns in her war against the Eng
lish. The first thoroughly effective use of
this weapon in recent times was during the
Crimean war. On the water, to guard
against the heavy recoil of the mortar, the
boat containing it is built usually with broad
bottom.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-08-04
TONER.

Union sh~arpshooters in tho rear of Vicks-
burg played no small part in the drama of
the siege. One of these, a private soldier,
was noted throughout the whole Seventeenth
army corps.
He was an unerring shot, and wore a cap
made of raccoon fur. From this he was
called 'sCoonskin'' the corps through, and
wherever he was woe to the Confederate head
that appeared above q parapet.
"Coonskn' went out once in the night
time, crept up toward the Confederate de
lenses and built himself a burrow in the
ground, with q peep hole in it. There he
would frequently take provisions with him,
bury himself in this burrow and stay several
days at a time all alone, watching for and
shooting Confederates.
At length he built 'Coonskin's Tower"
The Jackson and Vicksburg railway had
been torn up for miles in the rear of Vicks-
burg, and railway iron and cross ties lay all
about,