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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-31
NEW CONTRACTS
For Supplies to Be Sent to LGpGr
Settlement.
MEETING OF BOARD OF HEALTH
Names Of Firms Who
Made Lowest Bids.
MEETING OF BOARD OF HEALTH
President Smith Reads Letter to
DR.. McGrew Embodying IN
structions to Mothers.

At meeting of the Board of Health
held yesterday afternoon, there were
present the following: President
Smith, Drs. Emerson and Alvarez
Messrs. Reynolds, Keliipio and Ian
sing.
Minutes of the previous meeting read
and approved.
Inspector Keliipio's report showed
3d. GA fish received at the Fish Market
during the past week.
The bids for supplies to be sent to the
Leper Settlement were read and the
following awards were made:
Allen & Robinson: Rough N. w,
tongue and groove, N. w, redwood bat
tens, redwood shingles, redwood (sur-
faced), redwoCe fence posts, coal Cd
b in sacks.
Levers & Cooke: Doors, window
sashes and cement.
Theo. H. Davies e Co.: White lead
and turpentine.
H. Hackfeld & Co.: Iron but nails
boiled oil, lime, galvanized iron pipe
rice, flour, salmon, rice Hawaiian).
J. t. Waterhouse. Salt (coarse), bak-
ing powder, brooms steamboat OF
mild, flour and onions.
H. May & Co.: Sugar Taw), matches
dong card), coal Cd. b. in sacks, kero-
sene oil, middlings, potatoes GslanO
pork extra clear), sugar CNo. 1 raw.
NJ. w. McChesney & Sons: Baking
powder RoXaD, bar soap, bran, sal
mon (best red, salt COARSE.
Lewis & Co.: Beans, coffee, tea
China and Ponchong), tomatoes Gn
cans).
Loves Bakery Bread 1.-TWO con-
tracts.
Waialae Ranch: Algaroba wood.
L. Andrade: Bread.
California Feed Company: Oats.
Metropolitan Meat Company: Beef
Gump and round), beefsteak.
Union Feed Company: Hay and bran.
F. F. Porter: Hides and tallow.
President Smith read the following
letter to DR.. John McGrew, President
of the Medical Society of Hawaii, en-
bodying the following directions to
mothers for the care of infants, drafted
by the committee appointed by the So
ciety:
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ON PANAMA CANAL
Active Operations on Great Work
Resumed.
GOOD PROGRESS BEING MADE
Three Thousand Men Dig
ging at the Big Ditch.
Large Vessels May Soon Go Along
Side the Docks 5 Channel
Being Deepened.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-A special to
the Sun from New Orleans says: From
a gentleman just arrived at Mobile
from Guatemala it is learned that work
on the Panama canal is again in prog
ress. When the informant arrived at
Panama from Colon he found 5000
laborers, not including the engineer
force, actively engaged. The work is
being done unostentatiously and with
out any of the spread-eagle display
connected with De Lesseps' regime
A steamer was daily expected at
Panama from the African coast Of
Mozambique with 700 negro laborers,
who are capable of standing the vic
ate, and this steamer is to be followed
by another from the same coast with
more laborers and others later on.
This quality of labor is well adapted
for the locality and great progress is
expected when they arrive.
It could not be learned under whose
auspices this work is being done
The docks on the Colon side are now
in perfect condition and steamers now
load and unload at them. The chan
mel is being deepened and vessels draw
So feet obtain entrance. The building
of docks and a harbor on the Panama
or Pacific side is progressing rapidly
and the way to them is being deepened
as fast as possible. The docks are SO
far advanced that the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, the Southern Pa
cific Mail Steamship Company and the
Chilian Steamship Company will soon
be able to load and unload at them.
This will be great advantage over
the present plan, by which vessels of
deep draft are compelled to anchor
five and half miles in the open sea
from the city of Panama.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-31
CLEVELAND A MILLIONAIRE.

The purchase in New York of an
other house by President Cleveland,
making three in all, recalls the recent
speculation as to the size Of his fortune.
Men who handle money and possess the
facilities for estimating wealth long
ago agreed that the President is worth
81, 600, 0O0 and he has even been rated
AT $4,000 900.
The bulk of his fortune, all Of which
has been acquired through wise invest
ments during the last II years, is be-
lieved to be in securities in railway
and other enterprises.
His real estate holdings are said to
be valued at least at 100000. This
does not include his interest in a great
tract of unimprOved Long Island land
which was recently purchased by syn
dictate headed by William G. Whitney.
The President is also credited with
holding a big block of Metropolitan
Traction Company securities.
Mr. Cleveland's private fortune when
he became Governor IA years ago was
estimated at $4,000
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Praise for the Insurgent IN the italian
Chamber.

Praise for the Insurgent In the italian
Chamber.
ROME, Dec. 11.-Sig Imbriani. the
Socialist leader in the Chamber Of
Deputies, today, referring to the death
of Antonio Maceo, said that he felt in
duty bound to do homage to Maceo,
who died fighting for the liberty f
his country. The sentiments expressed
by the speaker were warmly cheered
by the Leftists. Sig. Imbriani added
that to rebel was the duty of the OPP
pressed, and it was glory to him who
laid down his life for his country's lib
erW.
There has been some comment here
over the fact that Sig. Imbriani was
not called to order and that no notice
was taken of the cheers from the pub
lie galleries over his eulogy of Antonio
Maceo. 1t is understood that the Pres
ident offered no remonstrance, fearing
that the result of his interference
might be an angry discussion.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-31

French Military Minister Talks OF
the Army.

French Military Minister Talks Of
the Army.
PARIS, Dec. 16.-The Chamber of
Deputies today passed the naval bud
get.
Admiral Besnard, the Minister Of
Marine, replying to Admiral Vallon.
representing one of the districts Of
Finisterre, promised to introduce
schemes for the defense of Cherbourg
and Brest.
During the discussion of the army
budget, NJ. Jaures, Socialist Deputy
from the Tarn, moved that the term
of military service be reduced to one
year. Gen. Billot, the Minister for
War, opposed the motion. He said he
could not forget that the frontiers of
France were open; that one year Of
service would reduce the strength OF
the army, and in the present time the
army must be ready to take the field
at any moment. The motion was re-
iected by a vote of 462 to so.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-31
WORKING FOR BIMErALLrsM.
Efforts I'm Behalf of an International


Efforts I'm Behalf of an International
Agreement.
WASHINGTON. d. c., Dec. 1.-THE
Senate Republican Caucus Committee
to report legislation in furtherance OF
an international bimetallic conference
had full meeting today" said SEN
ator Wolcott, Chairman of the COM
mittee, and the question was dis
cussed at some length The subject.
was chiefly considered with a view to
securing the widest possible latitude
to a commission and so framing legis-
lation as that the incoming President
would be at liberty TO act Immediately
upon his Inauguration without wait
ing for further legislative action.
There were thousands of Republic
ans in the West who were in accord
with so much of the Chicago platform
as stood for the free coinage of silver,
but who were unable to accept the
other planks of the platform. There
were also in the Middle States hun
dreds of thousands of Republicans,
earnest bimetallists, who voted the Re
publican ticket because they believed
the financial plank in the st. Louis
platform to be a sacred pledge commit
ting the party to an earnest effort to
secure bimetallism.
so far as | can observe the senti-
ment is practically unanimous among
the Republican Senators in favor of an
earnest and steadfast effort toward an
international agreement. | do not an
ticipate any serious trouble in the way
of securing such legislation as has been
outlined and which will prepare the
way for this effort So far as I can
learn there is no opposition on the
part of either the Democrats or Popu-
lists to some such legislation as has
been outlined, for l think it may be
truthfully said that 90 per cent of the
people of this country are bimetallists.
and even those who believe that this
country can alone maintain the double
standard have no sort of objection to
| the same result being accomplished by
international agreement, if that shall
be possible"
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the eye until all the matter has been
removed
If the eyelids swell much, apply cold
cloths, iced if possible, to the eye,
changing them for fresh ones as soon
as they become warmed. Continue one
or two hours, then let the eye rest for
an hour or so. and repeat the process
until the swelling subsidies.
President Smith thanked the report
ers for the help given the public and
the Board of Health by the reports in
the papers during the last year.
At Ais p. m. the Board adjourned
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-31
DIRECTIONS TO MOTHERS FOR
THE CARE OF SORE EYES IN
THE NEW BORN.
| Recommended by the Medical Society
of Hawaii)

Recommended by the Medical Society
of Hawaii.)
More care and attention should be
given by mothers and others who have
the care of the babe to the cleansing
of the baby's eyes at the time of birth,
as the majority of the blind are so from
childhood as a result of sore eyes con-
tracted when from 2 days to 2 weeks
of age.
The sore eyes of infants are caused
by the eyes becoming poisoned with
the discharge at the time OF birth and
careless cleaning after birth.
When a baby's eyes get the least
sore, consult a physician at once, or
if you are not within reach of one at
the time, cleanse the eyes with cold
water. being careful, if only one eye is
affected, not to allow anything that
has been near the sore eye to come
in contact with the we'll one, as the
disease is very contagious.
If you are where you cannot have a
doctor see the baby's eyes every day
or so, then you must wash the eyes
out yourself thoroughly with cold
strong tea or salt and We or zone small
teaspoOnful OF salt to g pint of cold
water) every two to four hours, o.
often enough to keep all the matter
washed away. These washings must
be kept up as long as there is the slight
est discharge.
Method of Washing: Place the baby
on your lap with his head between
your knees. gently open the eyelIds
with the fOTeffnger and thumb Of the
left hand, and with the other apply
the wash by saturating a small, soft
cloth or piece of cotton with the sCiu-
ton and letting it run from this into
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-31
OTHER LEADERS OF ABILITY.

4
Death of Maceo Would Not Seriously
Affect the Cuban Revolution.
The Cuban Representatives in this
country still refuse to credit the report
Of Gen. Maceo's death, and even if Ma
Geo were dead, they say, there are 9TH
err leaders in the insurgent army able
and ready to take. his place, says the
Washington Star. Mr.. Palma, the head
of the Cuban Junta, says that the
news, even if it were confirmed, would
not seriously affect the progress of the
struggle or cause any change in The
plans. The Philadelphia Press this
morning contained the following sign
ed communication from Mr.. Gonzalo de
Quesada, the Charge d'Affaires of the
Cuban Republic in this city:
1.-The Cuban Legation at Washing
ton have received no official communi-
cation in regard to the death of Gen
Antonio Maceo, except a dispatch re-
ceived by Thomas Estrada Palma from
most reliable source, reading as fol-
lows:
'Maceo passed the tTocha on the 18th ;
news of his death absolutely false.
authorize you to deny it.
I'm a few days direct communica-
tons from Havana will be received. AS
soon as it is officially announced by
the Cuban Government to it's repre-
sentatives that Gen. Maceo is dead, and
that Lieutenant General of the Army
has been appointed, the Cuban Lega-
ton Will then announce it. Until then
it cannot admit the truth of the report.
IF the Cubans should be so unfortu-
nate as to lose this gallant chief, in
stead of diminishing their ardor, their
efforts would only be redoubled. Gen.
Gomez, after the death of Marti ard
BOrrerO at the beginning of the revO-
luton, declared that the leaders might
perhaps fall, but that others would
take their places, and that the revo-
luton would continue until Cuba OBJ
tanned it's independence. This was at
the beginning of the war when the
veterans were almist Indispensable
Had Maceo or Gomez been killed then
the revolution might have suffered a
severe check.
Maj. Gen. Calixto Garcia, under
whom Maceo fought in the last war,
and who now commands the Military
Department of the East, and who, in
case of the confirmation of Maceo's
death, will undoubtedly succeed him as
Lieutenant General, has just captured
the important town of Guaimaro, after
reducing it's IA forts. He also de-
stroyed the defenses of Cascorro and
San Miguel, besides capturing import
ant conveys.
Not only is Gen. Garcia fully able to
succeed Gen. Maceo, but, Maj. Gen.
Rus Rivera, a veteran of the last war,
who, with Gen. Maceo, was a pupil of
Gen. Gomez, has lately arrived in the
Province of Pinar del Rio.
LAS far as the effect in the island
is concerned if the death Of Marti in
the first days of the revolution did not
cause the patriots to Waver, the death
today of any leader would not blind
them to the strength of their position,
the power of which is admitted by
both the President of the United
States in his message and the report of
the Secretary of State.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-31

Coast delegation is sold for il. This
enables me to predict with such con-
hdence the passage of the bill If we get
time. Speaker Reed once told me he
favored the bill, as it affected the en-
tire Mississippi Valley The Pacific
Coast is now going ahead If this is still
his opinion"
The Californians are all joining in
the work of securing time for the canal
bill and the majority feel that the pros
pect for it is more than fair.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-31

THE SINGER received 81 first awards
for sewing machines and embroidery
work at the Worlds Fair, Chicago, Ill.
being the largest number of awards OBJ
tanned by any exhibitor, and more than
double the number given TO all other
sewing machines. For sale, lease and
rent. Repairing done. B. BERGER
SEN, 113 Bethel street.
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Sans SOUCi
Seaside Resort.

The pleasantest, quietest, shadiest
and most perfectly appointed seaside
resort on the Islands. Elegantly fur
nished detached cottages or rooms are
obtained on easy terms. The table Is
superior to that of any of the city
hotels, and all the modern convent
ences are provided.
Picnics and bathing parties can OBJ
tain extra accommodations by tele-
phoning in advance.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-31
SPECIAL BUSINESS ITEMS.

All kinds of SECOND HAND FURNI-
TURE sold cheap for cash at the x L,
corner Nuuanu and King streets.
If you want to sell out your furniture
in it's entirety, or for bargains, call at
the 1 x L, corner Nuuanu and King
streets
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-31

G. r. Harrison, Practical Piano and
Organ Maker and Tuner, can furnish
best factory references. Orders left at
the Hawaiian News Co. will receive
prompt attention. All work guaranteed
to be the same as done in factory.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-31

In eight years 3516 fires have Oc-
Cured in the United States which were
attributed to lightning, and the damage
to property thereby caused is estimated
at about S13 100000
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-08-07

cotton where they now receive but two If
such was the result of free coinage our foreign
creditors would receive, not dollar worth fifty
cents of the present dollar, but dollar worth
one hundred and fifty cents Yet we told
that the prospect of this would cause foreign
investors to unload their securities on our mar
ket in panic
The election of president pledged to bring
about the restoration of silver to its place as
money might result in stock exchange specu-
lative panic but the country at large would not
be injured thereby. If the foreign holders of
American securities blind to their own inter-
ests, chose to sell on our markets, and to our
investors, the securities they now hold without
regard to price, they would be the losers, not
our investors enabled to pick up valuable Sc
curities at panic prices. The country would
not be in jured by what would be, in effect a
voluntary peelng down of our foreign indebt-
edness on the part of British and German hold
ers of our securities. The opening of our
mints to free coinage would not impair the
value of such securities. On the contrary it
would result in making them more valuable.
The value of all securities, whether railroad
bonds or stocks, farm mortgages the evidences
of indebtedness issued by other corporations
and individuals, is dependent upon the ability
of the debtor to earn and pay the interest.
And bimetalism would bring renewed pros
perity and hence add to the value of securities
i'll general. The greater the profits of industry,
the greater the net earnings of railroads, the
more secure, and hence the more valuable do
securities of all kinds become. If our foreign
creditors, seized by unreasoning panic on the
election of free coinage PRESIDENT should sac
rifce :heir holding of American securities, they
would be sufferers from their own panic. st.
Louis Evening Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-08-07
NO. r..

tional ability not even his worst political foes
deny. He is man of scholarly attainments.
He graduated from the state university. He is
an industrious reader, and his information on
political topics is exceptional. al.-Atlanta Consti-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-08-07

A financial system under which more than
one-haf of the enormous wealth of the country
derived from bounty of nature and the labor of
all is owned by little more than 80 900 people
while 900, 900 American citizens, able and
willing to toll, are homeless tramps starving for
bread, requires adjustment. social system
which offers tender, virtuous and dependent
women the alternative between prostitution and
suicide as escape from beggary is organized
crime for which some day unrelenting justice
will demand atonement and explanation.-J
J. ingalls,, Cong. Record, Jan. ID, 1891.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-08-07
PLUMB FOR SILVER.

To the Editor of the State journal:
l am told that Congressman Richard Blue
stated in speech delivered in this city thai
father, just before his death, had said he was
convinced that his position on the silver ques-
tion was 'e wrong one On being questioned,
he gave William ]. Buchan, of Kansas City,
Kas, as bis authority.
fu1 IN our Congressional Records that on
the 10th day of December, ten days before my
fathers death, lie introduced bill IS. 468)
providing, among other things, for the retire
1nent of national bank notes and free coinage
of silver. Yours very truly,
A. H. PLUMB.
Emporia, Kas., Aug. 1896.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-08-07
EX.G VERNON ST JOHN ENTHUSIASTIC.

CLEVELAND, o., Aug. ii don't believe
Governor Mckinley will carry single state
west of the Allegheny mountains and south Of
the Ohio river.'
Such was the statement made last evening
by John P. St. John, at time governor Of
the state of Kansas and for years leader of the
Prohibition party.
Ex-Governor St. John is enthusiastic over
the silver question, and says it is one that has
aroused the people as no principle has in years.
'Sixty days ago. said Mr.. St. John, enc
Kinley was the most prominent and popular
man in the nation, and would have swept the
country like whirlwind but a wonderful
change has taken place. The people have be-
come tired of that bugaboo, the tariff, and have
relegated it, to be succeeded by an issue as vital
as the constitution of the government itself.
They have followed the false god of protection
until business of the country has been paralyzed
and now see the remedy in free silver. 1t is
net the man they have turned against, but his
platform. Had Mckinley been placed even on
the old platform of 1892, | think he would
have swept the country. On that platform
think he would have carried my own state of
Kansas by $4,000 plurality but believe now
that Bryan will carry it by 10000"
ELI F. RITTER, of indianapolis, a leading
Prohibitionist (narrow gauge), will stump the
state of Indiana for the Mckinley ticket. His
reason for so doing is that he is for ''the pres
ent gold standard, and he wants to work for
ticket which has some show Of winning 1t
may be, too, that he has it in for Joshua Lev
ering, the Prohibition candidate, for bidding
for the bourbon god-bug Democratic vote.
HERE is "scare head' in prominent Re-
publican daily paper: "On the rack. ST. Louis
corporations question their employ politics. If
for gold, they are marked Co. K. Some may
be let out. Intinations that discharge goes
with silver views. Majority of employees appear
to be for silver" How do you like it, reader?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-08-07
Emporia, Kas. Aug. 1896.

IT is surprising how nicely the New York
Voice and the Champion of Freedom and Right
(liquor organ) are working together these days.
They are regular little mutual admiration So
ciety. They are vieing with each other in
their abuse of St. John and Mr.. Cougar. They
are aided by the Texas Baptist Standard, which
is published by the Rev. DR.. Cranfll. We ap-
pend beautiful, chaste, refined, sweet-scenteG
extract from that high-toned sheet:
'Mrs Helen M. Cougar, one of the boilers
from the Prohibition party has the following
in recent issue of the New York Voice: 4
left the Prohibition party when it spit in my
face for the crime of being born a woman
We know of but one indication that Helen is
woman, and that is that she wears dress. In
these days of bloomers and divided skirts, the
question of dress proves nothing, so there is no
evidence that Helen is anything but man,
and loud man at that"
1t is hardly necessary for us to add that the
above refined and elevating little excerpt was
republished by the liquor organ.
We are informed that Mt Carmichael and
Wardrip, couple of mustang politicians of An
derson county, have formed a coalition, and to-
gether will campaign that county in the interest
of the "Dollar good in Yurip," Carmichael todo
the talking and Wardrip to do the singing and
praying. In these two political blisters the good
people of AHlerson county will find the true
meaning of that good old Republican chestnut,
parity. Carmichael is renegade from the
Democratic party Those fellows, for causes
best known to themselves, kicked him over
the gang-plank twelve years ago. Wardrip is
about third-rate country school-house exhort-
er, but proposes to lay down the staff of the
Good Shepherd and let the flock rastle it out
with the Devil while he saves the country for
honest money and Bill Mckinley. In payment
for his share of the work, Milton will ask the
voters of that county to elect him to the legs-
lature, as that jack-legged rettifogger has an
idea that he has legislative ability that will
make him prominent if he is given chance to
develop. But what Deacon Wardrip expects to
get out of the drag we are not able to say, but
we presume he will be content with the crumbs
that are shaken from the tablecoth. Blue
Mound Searchlight.