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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-10-24

LCo9iinued from Isl page.1

Brazil recognizes Cuban insuI-
gents as belligerents.
The constitution of the Cuban
revolutionary Government his
been promulgated. 1t states tat
Cuba declared its independence
from Spain and formed dem TO-
cratic republic February %, 1895.
The Constitution provides that
the supreme power shall be vested
in a President, NIcs-Pres deaf
and four Secretaries and defines
their duties.
The Worlds Washington spe-
cial says: The Spanish Govern
ment has acceded to the request
Of Secretary OIney, it is stated
by very high authority, and has
restored diplomatic functions to
Ccnsul-General Williams It Ha-
vaEa.
1t is officially announced IN
Madrid tn It since the beg n ing f
the campaign against the insur-
gents il Cuba the Spanish forces
nave lost one Brigadier-Genera
twenty six superior officers, 159
other officers and 1911 soldiers,
who have either died of disease or
have been killed by the enemy.
uxrfr.,na Sr,rEG
-Four thousand invitations have
been issued for the wedding ofthe
Duke of Marlborough and Miss
Vanderbilt. Not more than 300
invitations to the house will be
issued for the wedding breakfast
to BE- gwen by Mrs W. X. Van
derbilt.
1t is said the best legal talent
in Arkansas holds that there is
no law to prevent the prize fight.
A test case is to be made out of ID
glove contest to decide the ques-
ton. The Mexican consul at
Laredo, Texas, says President
Dia2 would never consent to allow
toe Corbett-Fltzsimmons fight in
Mexico.
The California Supreme Cour:
convened at Los Angeles on the
10Th.
1t is claimed that the Alaskan
boundary commission surveys
tend to confirm the contentious Of
the United States. Mount SAINT
Elias has been located on the
boundary Of tho two countries.
General DGfold says there is no
longer any doubt that all of the
Yukon river basin below the
mouth of F rty. Mile creek is
American territory. which in
cludes the gold fields OF that
stream as far as opened.
No confirmation has been re-
celved at the Corean legation in
Washington Of the death of the
Queen. A dispatch from Seoul
says that, in the confusion follow
ing the attack on the palace, riot
ers entered a bedroom and muir
dered three women one Of whom is
supposed to have been the Queen
of Corea.
The battleship Indiana has
arrived at Boston for her official
trip. In II preliminary run on the
course she has averaged 1881
knots an hour FIR two hours. She
did not record roll of even one
degree, 50 that she has almost
stationary gun platform.
Train robbers in Texas wreck
ed "a train but failed to open
the express safe. No one was
hurt and no booty was secured.
A freshman named Miller at the
State college, Pa, stood off sopho-
mores with a revolver when they
tried to haze him,
The Durrant trial was postpon-
ed until iast Monday on account
of the sickness Of Eugene Deu-
prey, the defendants leading
counsel.
Enthusiastic Irishmen in San
Francisco are forming a military
company to aid the Cuban revo-
lutionists.
In free-for-all pacing race at
Lexington, Kentucky, the PAGER
Robert j. took three straight heats
III 2:O5!, 2:06 and 2:05.
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Local news on inside pages as
usual.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-10-24
Notice.

AN NOW prepared to accept your orders
Tor dNging, all kinds of cotton goods.
woolcns, sih, crcpcs, lawns, etc, AT
cheapest prices
,., MIYAMOTO,
E2-ti W Cor of King and MaunaKea ST.
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obQ Eve3i38 BuIIeti3,

WIN which - Incorporated the
independent"
The herald., 1895-06-23
PEN, CHiSEL AND BRUSH.

Miss M. f. Braddon will write two more
novels to complete a contract, and then re-
tire from literary work.
Aubrey Beardsley, it is said, has written
play in which the characters are to as
sumo, as far as possible, the forms and
features of his drawings
The London Spectator wants William
Watson appointed as poet laureate. 1t also
thinks that he should have his pension
from the literary fund largely increased.
Lesli Wilson, the black and white artist,
whose work adorns the pages Of the best
London weel1lies is one Of Kent's leading
cricketers and has made some remarkable
scores.
M. Jules Verne, though in his seventy
ninth year. works for five or six hours a
day. He is now engaged upon a story for
1897, but no has five manuscripts ready for
the printers
Mr. Bruce-Jay, the sculptor, exhibits a
bust of Chauncey Depew at the Royal
academy in London this year. Owing to
an accident the sculptor could do but lit
tie work this year, but is now said to be
fully recovered.
Nora Perry, the poetess and gifted and
successful writer Of stories for young girls,
has a talismanic moonstone to which she
attributes much Of her success and good
luck, and with which nothing would in
duce her to part.
The herald., 1895-06-23

but they take in $40 O month on tips.
The real, downright seasick man and
woman sre almost willing to give their
asst cent for some little service, and the
stewards, who are constantly thrown in
with this class of unfOrtunates, reap
gOodly harvest.
The chief steward receives $500 year
and also comes in for his share of the
tips. as it is within his power to place
many delicacies in the way of the liberal
tourist. The chief cook is great man
on the ship, almost as great as the cap
tain, and in all makes 5000 year out
of his job. The breakage and wear and
tear on the ship and its furniture is very
heavy, requiring an expenditure in incl
dentals OF about $4,000 each round trip.
There are countless things to be replaced
and IL paratively little thing like the
washing OF the ships linen, means an
expenditure big enough to support man
for year in the lap of luxury.
While the expenses are great, of course.
the income is pronortionately large. A
round trip that costs $50, 900 should bring
at least 100000 into the Golfers of the
company, if not considerably more. But
| when the expenses are down to $50. 900,
| the company is glad to break even.
Here are some odd facts about the ST..
Louis.
There are fully 1000 tons of piping OF
various kinds in the ship. The condens-
clo VIII pump up aI leaSb OU.UUUuOU Sal-
Ions of cooling water day. The furnaces
will consume no less than 1900, 600 cubic
feet of air an hour. The boiler tubes, if
placed in straight line, would stretch
nearly ten niles. and the condenser tubes
moro than twenty-five miles. The total
number of separate pieces OF steel in the
main Structure Of the ship is not less than
40, 0O0 and the total number of cubic feet
of timb used in the construction is more
than 100, 600. The total number of rIvets
IS not far from $50 600. A distinguished
marine engineer of England once esti-
mated that in ship of this size, if all
the steel which composed it We're made
into needles and placed in a line, they
would react more than ten times around
the world. or the distance to the moon,
$40, 100 miles. Another expert has est-
mated that if the ship were propelled by
galley oarsmen, as in ancient tim es, it
would rquire force of III, 900 men con-
tinuously at work to develop the same
power that the engines OF this ship will
nrOduce
The herald., 1895-06-23

health, which really is badly shattered.
When this improvement takes place there
will be no longer any excuse for keeping
him away from the treadmill of Penton-
vile, to which the sentence of the judge
practically condemned him.
Just what kind of picture Oscar Wilde.
the fallen idol of estheticism, will pre-
sent in the treadmill is comparatively
easy to foretell, for the reason that he
will loYk and do exactly as the criminals
who are working there now and who have
worked there for the past many years.
Ali prisoners are the same there as far
as externals go.
Wilde's hair has already been cut short,
his expensive clothing taken away from
him, and he gets neither more nor less
than the common thief imprisoned for
housebreaking. The cutting of his long
hair has made a complete change in his
appearance, although his strongly lined
face can easily be distinguished from a
long line OF the faces of his fellow crimi.
nails.
At Pentonville the prison suit is of
dirty drab canvas, marked with three ar
rows. heavy, rough shoes, and an ugly
Scotch cap. Life in this prison is not
pleasant by any means. Wilde's Sleep
ing acc omm odations will be of the scan
tiest. Cots are unknown to the prison
ers there. A plank bed, composed
simply of board raised six inches above
the floor, without a mattress, is what he
will sleep on. He will be given each
week two clean sheets of heavy coarse
material and two rugs as rough as ordi-
nary horse blankets. The rules abOu t
com m munication with the outside world
are exceedingly severe. He can neither
write nor receive letter from his friends
or family until three months of his SEN
tence have been served, and then he may
The herald., 1895-06-23
The St. Louis American
From Bow to Stern
She's a Beauty
COSTS A HEAP TO RUN HER
Salaries Are SmaII.-=COal Is the
Greatest Item, Costing $4,000
Handsome Fees Made by
Purser and Doctor

Much has been written about the great
American steamship st. Louis. which
promises to be the forerunner of a mag
nificent fleet of Yankee-built and Yankee
devised transatlantic liners. Her many
wonders Of workmanship and her great
engines have all been described and
applauded. Naval experts have stuuied
her to discover her worth as war ves-
sci, as she now belongs to the auxiliary
navy of Uncle Sam. and has been so con-
structed that almost instantaneously she
can be converted into swift cruiser,
with speed enough to catch up with or
run away, if the latter be necessary,
from anything that floats.
An interesting feature of the st. Louis,
but one which has not been touched
npon, is the cost Of aintaining her.
She is little city or municipality in
herself, the captain being the mayor and
the officers the board OF aldermen.
The agents of the big ocean liners are
inclined to be shy about talking of the
expenses of their steamers. as the RI
valry between the different lines is so in
tense that none of them care to give out
information which may be business am
munition for another. Mr.. Clement A.
Griscom, ir., son Of the president of the
line controlling the st. Louis, however,
agreed to give some figures on the question
when seen by the writer. He figured for
some time, and then said that the ex-
pense OF a round trip of steamer like
the st. Louis averages between $50, 900
and $50. 000 according to the season.
This is the busiest time in the year for
the big liners, and when the st. Louis
gets back from Southampton her maiden
voyage both ways accIoss the Atlantic
will have cost fully $50 900. The voyage
between the two ports will take trife
more than seven days. making the aver
age daily cost of operating one OF these
huge sea monster something like $15. 900.
In the winter time, when the passenger
traffic Is down to minimum, the ex-
pense, of course, are much less. and that
is when tn cost gets down to $50, 900 for
the round trip. Men who spend $40, 900
month on a steam yacht, as Commo-
dore Elbrdge I. Gerry does. are regarded
as terribly extravagant, but maintaining
O vessel like the st. Louis for a month
would cost something approaching the
sum of $20U. 600.
No single individual on the st. Louis
gets large salary. OF course, the captain
heads the list, getting about $4,000 a year.
Captains on smaller passenger steamers
The herald., 1895-06-23
PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTS.

The skin is rough because by that means
1t is better adapted to receive sensations.
Children are not born with teeth on ac-
count of the inconvenience that would be
oocasioned by these in very early life.
The bones of the arm are long cylinders
because in this shape they have the great
est strength with the least expenditure
of material.
Deaf persons frequently hear remarks in
o moderate voice better than in shout be-
rause too loud sound has tendency to
stun the membranes of the ear.
The skull is the only cavity of the body
not inclosed by a membrane because the
brain being SO important portion Of the
system needs careful protection.
Professional contortionists are more
graceful in their motions than other people
because of the greater fexibility of their
limbs, caused by continual exercise.
The stomach has ohurning motion
which during the process of digestion Is
continuous in order that the food may be
properly mixed with the gastric juice.
Venous blood is blue or almost black be-
cause it contains many impurities collected
from the system end has not itself been
purified by contact with the air in the
lungs.
People sniff the air to locate an odor be-
cause by distending the nostrils larger
quantity Of air Is drawn in, the nerves are
better exposed and the odor more clearly
perceived.
The palms Of the hands and soles of the
feet are composed of cushions Of fat in Or
der that sudden jolts and violent blows
may be successfully resisted and no injury
done to the muscles and bones underneath.
New teeth sometimes appear in the jaws
of persons Of advanced age from the fact
that there are occasionally in the jaw more
teeth than there is room for them to devel-
op, and when tho old drop out tho new
therefore appear.-St. Louis Globe Demo-
craft
The herald., 1895-06-23

writeTand receive one letter month, and
be visited for twenty minutes by three
friends.
The treadmill is the great bugaboo of
the English convict. 1t is almost barabric
in its severity and savors somewhat of
the torture inflicted upon unfortunates 500
years ago.
1t is shaped somewhat like the wheel
OF stern wheel steamer or of paddle
wheel of ferryboat, except that the
treadmilI is considerably wider than
these. For the acc )mmodation of the
many involuntary workers at height
which a man or ordinary physique can
easily reach is long bar OF wood. When
all is ready the prisoner jumps upon one
of the steps of the wheel and grasps the
bar with his hands. The steps are called
floats in the far land of Pentonville.
The weight of the men turns the wheel
and as they sink down on one foot they
comes around. 1t is much like climbing
particularly nasty flight of steep stairs
with no ending at the top.
What is more. there is no lodging or
Sinking the work. When the float comes
round, Oscar Wilde, like all his brothe!
get an ugy knock on the shins by the
ever-turning wheel which will peel the
bark off from the knee to the instep. II
is not pleasant work by any means. 1t
is the kind that completely takes the
heart out of the most hardened criminal.
At the end OF a long day of ceaselessly
stepping from float to float there is moth
ing to show for the work. Each man is
nothing more than a very insignificant
section of huge mass of machinery.
The work of the convicts in America is
heaven in comparison with it. But in
PentonvIlle all that the workers OF the
trehdmtll have to look forward to is the
The herald., 1895-06-23
The Daily Routine of the
Prisoners and What
Oscar Will Do
THE TREADMILL HIS FATE
He Is Picking Oakum Now, but When
His Health Improves fIe Will Go
to PentonviIe and Walk
the Floats

LONDON. June 11.-For the time be-
ing, at least. Oscar Wilde has escaped the
agony and ignominy of working the
treadmill of old Pentonville prison.
The influence of powerful friends, the
expenditure of considerable money. or
combination OF both, have saved him
from the punishment Ineted out to him
when he was sentenced to two years at
hard labor. Physicians have declared
that Wilde has a weak heart. This de-
c'aration is what has put off the dreade d
day when he must jump on the wheel
and do his share of the work.
Just now Wilde is performing the COM
paratively easy task of picking oakum
in the Norwood Scrubbs prison. Pick
ing oakum is a species of heaven to the
work of the treadmill. 1t is believed
that the regular and systematic life OF
tue prison will soon restore Wilde's
The herald., 1895-06-23
POLITICAL PLEASANTRIES,

The presidential boom is getting to be
something that few men escape-Wash-
ington Star.
The Syracuse Poyt looks for the end Of
the world within ~ year. Here is the way
it put it, "No one living will see Demo-
cratic president eiacted in 1896. ALBANY
Argus.
Tho latest pictwre of the president and
his cabinet reveals the fact that Dan La
mont is the only cabinet minister whose
trousers are properly creased. Chicago
Record.
Tho Paris Figaro has settled the ques-
ton of a successor to President Cleveland
by giving the office thus early to Embas-
sador J. b. Eustis. This naturally relieves
us Of a great deal OF worry and work. -
Chicago Post
The herald., 1895-06-23

receive only $4,000 year, which in these
times of great salaries is not any too
large. The chief officer of ship like the
St. Louis only gets about $500. which is
somewhat smaller when it is remem-
bered that the bulk of the heavy work
falls on his shoulders. The second Off
GERS pay ranges from 5000 to $1,000. ac-
cording to the size of the ship. while the
third and fourth officers only get from
5000 to 5000. All of these men have to
perform duties of responsible kind, and
as there are no bonuses attached to their
work it can be seen that they are not
overpaid. These items also show that
while vast sums of money are expended
on running ships of the size OF the ST..
Louis, none of it is thrown away.
The crew of the st. Louis numbers 40
men. Two hundred of these are in the
engineers department and all of the
The herald., 1895-06-23
short breathing spells permitted by tho

short breathing spells permitted by the
prison regulations.
Oscar Wilde was sentenced to do hard
labor, and this means that his time at
treadmill will be four hours a day. the
most severe work provided for by the
prison rules. Two hours Of this Is done
before dinner and two hours after. Some
idea OF the awful physical strain of the
work can be gained from these facts. The
men work twenty minutes and then have
five minutes rest. In those twenty MIN
utes they have made the equivalent OF an
ascent OF 5000 feet. or tribe more than
q mile anu an eighth In four days
work they have done the same labor that
man would do i'll climbing eleven
miles Of stairs. Going up four or five
flights of stairs makes an ordinary man
wish for an elevator.
The disheai tening feature OF the tread
mill is that the criminal is always Just
where he started from, hour after hour
and day after day. No talking is allowed
in the wheel, and the silence is unbro-
ken, except Tor the creaking OF the pom
derous machinery as it whirls around.
The food of Pentonvlle prison is not
what Wilde has been accustomed to by
any means. On week days the prisoners
get dish of 'skilly' for breakfast
Skilly ls not very palatable, being a
species OF tasteless mush, but it is said to
be healthy. Dinner consists OF a tin
grease, and a chunk Of bread as heavy
as the traditional lead. Supper is very
light affair. consisting Of bread and milk
the.milk being extremely thin and OF a
light blue shade, indicating an intim ate
acquaintance with water.
I The rules against any of the prisoners
getting food other than that of the regular
fare ale very severe. More money than
Oscar Wilde has at the present would be
required to bribe the warders to smuggle
finer foodSto MIN. Besides all the war
ders watch one another, and no one of
them could enjoy fat income from Wilde
tor any length of time without being dis
covered. Then the feeling against Wilde
is so strong among the prisoners even
that his two years will be made as un-
comfortable as they possibly can be. The
felons Of Wormwood have already shown
iepugnance for him. and in many little
ways have added their mite to the terrors
of the prison.
The herald., 1895-06-23

are directly under the authority of the
chief. The stewards department Is the
next largest, numb bering 10 in ell. The
sailors, including the deck officers, num-
Der about forty.
The engineers department is the most
expensive on the ship owing to the i'm
mense coal bills. The st. Louis burns
tons the round trip This means an ex-
penditure of S15,0 900 alone. The salaries
OF the men, the engineering supplies, in
Guiding the thousand and one things
needed for the vast machinery of great
ship, calls for $o50O moro every round
trip.
The chief engineer draws $4,000 a year
and his immediate assistants receive
$3.50, $1,000 ana $1,000 respectively. The
stokers or fremen average about $50 a
month, and the furnaces of the st. Louis
require $50 of them, working in different
shifts.
The Epurser, who is most important
person en- board does not get much in
the way OF salary, as the company in fix
ing his pay figured on the large bonuses
he receives for changing money and per-
forming the little services which the
wealthy traveller does not hesitate, ito pay
tor literally. His salary is only $1,000
year, but he makes another $4,000 i'll fees
and sometimes considerably more.
Inc snip > surgeon oniy receives @oou
year for the same reason. He is brought
in contact with numerous real and fan
cied invalds Of the wealthy class, and
although no one IS compelled to fee him,
few fail to do so, and a big, popular ship
like the st. Louis j., worth in the neigh
borhood OF $4,000 to $4,000 year.
The stewards department is one Of the
costliest on the ship, as it provides the
provisions for all the passengers and crew.
The provisions for round trip cost IN
the neiEhborhood OF $1,000, and the sal-
aries OF the stewards men amount to
$4,000 more. The stewards are the least
paid of any ON the ship, for the reason
that in the fees of the passengers they
collect a very respectable amount annu-
ally. All the pay they get is $40 month,
The herald., 1895-06-23

She robes herself in fashions new
That modern modes have given;
But will she III those sleeves squeeze
through
The pearly gates of heaven?
-ROstOn Carrier
The herald., 1895-06-23

OF great political importance, and whsn
the Vigilant beat Dunfaven's Valkyr1e SC
handsomely, the whole country drew lite
breath and just gloated. And my lord
kicked his little kick, made his little
characteristic demand for the earth,
patched his sails and traied off home.
And yet, IN spite Of the consuming in
terest Of former year, there promises to
be infinitely more excitement and en.hu.
siasm this years over the race between the
new boat Watson is building and the De-
fender. The reason for this Is readily
seen, the two nations having gradually
drawn toward the same style OF building
and the difference this year will be so
much less than before that the chances
Tor victory are correspondngly uncer-
tain. The American centerboard has
beaten the English cutter with becoming
regularity, but the demoralizing English
atmosphere of New York seems to have
drifted intolthe nostrils of the builders.
Still the hull Of the boat shows fine
racing lines. and with the all l-American
crew under Captain flank" Half. and
Captain James H. Berry as first mate,
will perform miracles Of handling againsl
the poorer British machine sailors.
Captain Haff is already fitting up the
trial boat CoIonia. and aboad ber he will
drill ana discipline his men. The crew
is considered one OF the best ever gath
cred, and the officers regulations as men
OF EXTENDED experience IN Salllng tracing
yachts are very well known. Skipper
Norman W. Terry was OF great assiatance
to Captain Haff in the Volunteer Thistle
contest. 1t is reported that the Ailsa
and Britannia may come to the United
States with the myterious Watson boat
to hold a series OF trial races in Ameri-
can waters. to decide which of the three
shall enter the international race, but
this is unlikely. Ailsa has made q good
showing in her Mediterranean races with
the Britannia, but she is essentially y
lightweight boat, suited for short inside
courses. If entered in deep-sea race,
such as our courses for the cup demand,
she woulo have to be materially altered,
her large sail area in proportion TO her
hull measurements uniting her for such
weather as she would meet Off the light
ship in September.
For the Defender little can be said at
present beyond giving a few of he's
measuren in regard to draught and
sail area. At present the eastern press is
keeping periodically mum on the SUBJ
ject, leaving it entirely in the lands OF
efficient men who have the matter in
charge.