The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-09-18
HiIo Keeps on the Move, Both
Above and Below.
CONTRACT FOR NEW CHURCH.
Social Club Gives Pleasant Evenings Amuse-
ment Schools Opened With Full Attendance
Plea TO Stop Fast Riding-Dr. Wetmore
Leaves for a vacation-Personal Notes.

HILO (HawaiD, Sept. 14.-Precisely
at 5 o'clock yesterday Sunday morn
ing the slumberers throughout the ISL
and of Hawaii were suddenly aroused
by most severe grading, caused by
such quaking of the earth as has not
been experienced here for many years
some say not since the terrific shocks
of '6S The oscillation seemed almost
north and south and the shock was
greater toward Hamakua than in the
direction of Kilauea. In Kona the
shake was steady and severe, but no
damage resulted. There was no per-
ceptible disturbance in the crater, and
at the Volcano House the shock was
less severe than at Hilo. On the prem
ises of H. G. Austin and on Jail and
Front streets earth cracks are gaping
open an inch or more Probably the
greatest damage resulted in the Hilo
drug store on Front street. Dozens of
bottles of patent medicines were pre-
cipitated to the floor and emptied of
their contents Other losses make the
damage from $3.50 to 5000 there. At
the Laupahoehoe water works there
was considerable damage caused by
land slides, and the water supply was
cut off. Necessary repairs were affected
during the day. The roads throughout
North Hilo are partly blocked, owing
to numerous land slides, and on many
bluffs great rocks stand ready to fall
off. For two or three days past the
weather has indicated the coming of
earthquakes, and until yesterday after
noon no rain had fallen for several
days.
Saturday was an ideal day FIR a
beach picnic, and large number of
Hiloites, together with their guests, Mr.
and Mrs. George Carter, Mrs. Davis,
Mrs. King of Honolulu, Mrs. Julian
Monsarrat of Kapapala Ranch, and
others, enjoyed an outing on Cocoanut
Island and at Kainehe.
The Hilo Social Club was entertain
ed in most unique and charming man
ner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. D.
Baldwin ON Thursday evening, the Sd
inst. The young men were inveigled
into a mending and sewing contest and
were kept buisily at it under the vigi-
liant inspection of the ladies present I'M
til it was decided that none of them
could trim ladies' hats, and that all
would be better off if they had some
one to do their mending and sewing.
Guessing the representative figures as
they sat, squatted or lay around with
only eyes and tips of noses exposed,
engaged the young folks for some time.
Mr.. Rowland and DR.. Elliot won first
prizes for having guessed the greatest
number correctly.
Miss Helen Severance gave a picnic
on Cocoanut Island on Saturday last,
complimentary to Miss Guild Only
few friends were invited
All the schools reopened on Monday
morning with full attendance. The
select school under Mrs. McStay num-
bers about thirty pupils. The German
kindergarten under Miss Dyer opens
tomorrow in the new building on
Church street
Now that the schools have begun, and
in consequence the children are up
and down Waianuenue street several
times day, the police should exercise
more surveillance over the furious rid
ers on that thoroughfare. There are
boys who ride to and from school at
the hours when most of the children
are on the way, who make it practice
to spur their horses just after passing
the Court House, and everything must
fly before them. There is altogether too
much fast riding around town. Not
two weeks ago little girl sent on an
errand was badly hurt by fiery"
steed that could not be stopped before
prancing on the little girls foot. The
young man kindly carried the little
sufferer home and offered the doctors
services for the child
Mr.. Helbush, the "Hilo Express"
man, was seriously injured a few DAYS
ago by kick from an unframed horse
which he was driving. His right leg
was fractured in two places and he was
otherwise hurt, so that it will be some
time before he will be able to serve his
patrons.
While Superintendent Grant of the
electric light works was superintend-
ing the erection of pole on Front
street one of his laborers weakened
and the pole fell to earth, striking a
donkey on the head and killing it in
stantly.
The Riverside blacksmith shop is
undergoing complete change in ap-
pearance, the old building disappearing
and new one rs feet deep with a 40
foot frontage taking its place. This is
to accommodate the wagon making de-
partment as well as the blacksmithing.
Mr.. Vaunatta has renovated and re-
built the old Dunn residence on King
street for occupancy of his family
shortly.
The base ball game of the week was
played Saturday afternoon, and result
ed in the Hilos defeating the Holomuas
the game standing % to 9.
A meeting of the trustees of the First
Foreign Church was held last week to
consider bids presented for the erection
OF the new church. The bids were as
follows: G. W. Lincoln, 81, 975; H. s.