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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-25
BUILDING PLANS FILED.

Plans for new buildings and alterations hav,
filed follows:
New buildings. main office:
Hall Place No 3. for a fve-story brick tenement,
2Jx6l4 + ard A Horstmann, OF No Hall
Place owners; John L Leo. OF No 143 West
125,h-st. architect NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Mott-st No 81 for a six-story brick tenement,
with store, 24xsl 2x24 6xSl. 10; James Pogg, OF
No 296 Grand-st. owner: l. i Heinecke. Of No
CO. Bowery. architect Observation-Disclosures.
No alteration plans filed at the main office.
New buildings. branch office:
Washlngton-ave l02 II n Of l75th-st, for two
four-story brick tenements 2IxSS: Charles II
Schroeder owner; Frank Wennerer. architect.
Tremont-ave, n >, 100 II Of Boston Road for a
ones story frame waiting room. l5x25: William
II Brchall, OF fremont ave and Boston Road,
owner: Charles Clark. Of No 129 fremont
ave, architect OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Alterations:
LOwmede-st, W 8. 500 II OF Oln-ave. to a one
story frame factory: Henry III Vought. Of Bronx
wood Park, owner; Nathan Vought OF
Kingsbridge. architect ........................
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-25

Simmons; J Gorss. TO- James Hennesey lot 3o4.
map or Cnionport . years ................... 2.0t
Sittig Annie s. to Albert Ammidovn.
Manhattan-ave or New-aye. 1911 IT s Of l05th-
ST years ot
Sittig Annie $. 10 Albert Ammdown.
committee. etc. OF Mary A Ammidown.
property, B years S.0(
Skelly, Patrick, to Henry Neustadter,
3sth-s and lst-ave. and other property o0Ot
stern. Abraham, and Isidore Jackson 10 Frederic
Middlebrook. Norfolk st. 80 IT Of Stan
Same to same same property 1 year. .......... 1905
The Church ~ 81. Peter, New-York. TO the
brooklyn savings Bank, corner Church and
Cedar SITS; Thames. corner Church st;
Cedar-st, 8 S. 4S.1 n W OF Church-st; Thames - -.
st. 8. 4sl Il W Of Church-s 3 years:... 5000
True Marie, 10 Frederick jerks, 7Ith-st,
1871 II Of West End ave. demand. .......... 2,ot
Thompson. Albert L. and wife to the Manhattan
Savings Institution, 7lst-st 50s IT OF .
West End ave. , years NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. l6,W
The Chelsea 10 the State Trust Company, No
2l6 TO Dps West 23d-st. and 229 West 22d-st,
Woodward, Collin II, TO the Nursery and Childs'
Hospital corner 14ith-st and Bradhurst- .
ave, d years oo,o'
wassmer Joseph y. and wife to Joseph Wassmer.
4th-st or avenue lot GSs part map village
OF Wakefield, 3 years Observation-Disclosures. "a
Ward, Peter 70 Frances Adams No 267 West
l26h-st. wear ....'...'.''....'.''.... LOO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-25

\, Office Estimates for construction OF recrea-
~ ,,on building on pier at East gath Street contract
800 VIII be received BY Department Of Docks untu ~
A, H. June D. 1897 For particulars ~ City Record.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-25
PARLOR AND LIBRARY TABLES

New eIegantom the best maker Your choice less piee
than they would have by the hundred less than thirty days age
Prices S2.75 to $3.50; values, $4.25 to $23.SO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-25

NOTICE: Estimates for preparing Tor ana
~ building foundations for he Recreation Building g
be hereafter erected the Pier az the foo, e. tas'
street River under Contract NO ool
win be received By the Department! Of Docks fer -
June 9Th IsVJ For particulars city Record Copse
for sale az Nc. CITY Hail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-25

OTIS for Hight manLecturng with steam, power es.
IL ceptionay good light and ventilation 25 West I'D
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-29
Marion VS.. PHILADELPHIA.

1t will be remembered that when
the native boat boys, after coming out
victorious over the Marion's men for
second place in the six-oared barge
race of June 23d, were heartily
cheered by the Philadelphia men from
the decks of that man-of-war Natur-
ally the Marion's men did not feel in
a very kindly mood over this, and not
very long afterwards challenged the
Philadelphia's crew to race over the
same coarse for blood. The challenge
was accepted on the spot, and the race
will take place between / and 2 D. m.
on Saturday. The judges will probably
be chosen from the officers of the two
men-of-war. The consent of the Ad-
miral to row the race has been OBJ
tanned, so the event will surely come
Off
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-29
SPECIAL BUSINESS ITEMS.
IF YOU BUY A SINGER,

You will receive careful instruction
from a competent teacher at your
home.
Yon can obtain necessary accessories
direct from the company's Offices.
You will get prompt attention in any
part Of the world, as our offices are ev-
eIywhere and we give careful attention
70 all customers, no matter where the
machine may have been purchased.
You will be dealing with the leading
company in the sewing machine busi-
ness, having an uneQualled experience
and an unrivalled reputation-the
strongest guarantee of excellence.
Sold on easy payments. Repairing
done. B. BERGERSEN, Agent.
161z Bethel Street. Honolulu.
The City Carriage Company possess
only first-class hacks and employ only
careful, steady drivers.
Carriages at all hours.
Telephone 113.
JOHN S. ANDRADE.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-29

The article that appeared in the San
Francisco Call of April 9th, alleging
to emanate from Mr.. Claus Spreckels,
under the title, "Spreckels Talks Of
the Treaty." has created much sur
prise, owing to the fact that what is
alleged to have been stated by Mr..
Spreckels is at such variance with
what has heretofore been accepted as
facts, that it must be surmised that
Mr.. Spreckels has been in some man
ner either misunderstood or misrep-
resented.
The article opens with 'Claus
SpreckelS has every reason to believe
that the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty
will be abrogated. His confidence is
due to the fact that right and reason
were on his side"
That Mr.. Spreckels desires the abro-
cation of the treaty is assured, and it
is not for us in this article to quote
the private reasons which create with
in his breast the desire that this
treaty be abrogated, but that fright
and reason" are on his side is mat
ter that admits of much debate and
criticism. Mr.. Sprecke1s may have
suddenly found reasons why he would
desire treaty which, up to very re-
cent date. has made fortunes for him,
TO be abrogated But this question
should come before the people as a
public measure, and not as a private
issue. and the interests of hundreds,
yes thousands, must be considered in
addition to these private interests.
1t is stated that at the present time
the balance of trade between the Unit
ed States and Hawaii is So, 600, 900 per
snnum, and no effort is made by the
Hawaiian Government to encourage
more trading with the United States.
They have even withdrawn the sub
sidy formerly paid to the Oceanic
Steamship Company, an American line,
which has done more to develop the
Islands than any other transportation
company. Commenting upon this
statement. it has been clearly shown,
by official and well-established data,
that from 1875 to 1896 the American
net profits under the operation of the
treaty amounted to somewhat over
s34 100000. It is quite true that the
Hawaiian Government has withdrawn
the subsidy from the Oceanic Steam
ship Company, but it is surely worthy
of the public at large and of the Unit
ed States Senate to investigate the
true causes that led to this withdraw
al, and that they should become fully
acquainted with the full facts and en-
ter into this matter with sufficient zeal
to discover the cogent reasons for its
withdrawal, and under no circum-
stances can it be shown that this has
any bearing on the present issue, nor
under any circumstance is it essential
today to show who has the controlling
interest in this steamship company.
and what his present attitude is and
his recent attitude has been, towards
the Islands from which this subsidy is
expected.
Surely, we will not ask, that one
who has for some years shown an un-
friendly conduct towards these Islands
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-29
Island Interests Not Inim.
ical to Coast.
BY Present Arrangement Cane SUI
gar Does Not Compete With
California Industry.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 80,
1S97.-A meeting of merchants and
others interested in the retention of
the trade of the Pacific Coast with the
Hawaiian Islands, and a majority of
whom were signers of the petition for
warded to Congress from this city
against the abrogation of the Hawaiian
Reciprocity Treaty, was held on April
80, 1897.
Mr. Louis Saroni was chairman of
the committee by unanimous accord,
and the following reply to an article
that appeared in the San Francisco
Call of April 27, 1897, alleged to ema-
nate from Mr.. Claus Spreckels, was
adopted by the meeting. Mr.. Louis
Saroni, as chairman of the meeting,
was authorized to sign the reply and
requested. to arrange for the publica-
tion of the same in the most public
manner possible.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-04-07
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Butter making has au advantage OF
milk selling in that the skim milk is
valuable on the farm rs food for the
cattle, pigs and poultry.
A grent advance in theory and fact
has been made over the old notion
that good beeves could not be made
before they are four years old, Bet.
ter BLOOD, breeding and management
now make them most profitable at half
that age.
A consensus of opinion among poul-
try keepers is that buckwheat is an
excellent food for fowls Some ascribe
their profit to its use, briefly. OF
course, this means that all the other
conditions of care and food are prop
erly supplied.
Old sheep are more profitable than
young ones as long as they are healthy.
1t is claimed by some that any sheep
failing to regain her flesh properly
after her lamb is sold should not be
kept, as there is danger of her not
living through the next lambing.
No animal upon the farm requires
so long time to overcome the effects
of over feeding as does the sheep, and
when a steady gain is necessary in
fattening special care must be taken
in regard to this point. There is the
same risk in feeding growing lambs.
Some have the mistaken notion that
when poultry are being fitted for
market, stuffing should be commenced
at the start, but this is not the con-
clusion OF experience. The feeding
for fattening should be gradually in
creased. Care and good sense are re-
quisite for the best results.
For several seasons it is moro de-
sirable to have colts come in the fall
than in the spring. 1t is no little item
that they are not so worried by flies
and heat. They seem to stand the
change better when weaned at the
springing of the grass than if taken
from their mothers in the autumn.
In a comparison of corn meal and
corn meal mixed with cotton seed as
food for steers, recently made at the
Oklahoma Experimental Station, it
was found that some of the steers
seemed to dislike the cotton seed
while others ate it readily. The lot
fed corn meal ate more and gained
more than did those fed the mixture.
1t is claimed that the scab in sheep
has been completely wiped out in
Australia by persistent use of hot
baths of sulphur and tobacco, followed
by one of sulphur and quicklime, at q
temperature of 10 degrees. What.
ever the apparent condition of an i'm,
ported sheep, it must go into the bath.
There is no more scab, but it has been
eradicated at great cost.
There are on almost all farms some
bits OF land naturally as good as the
rest that remain unproductive for lack
of capital. 1t may not be more profit
able to bring these into productive
ness than 1t is to put the bulk of the
manure and labor on the best land
but it makes the farm look better
Quite often when these places are toe
stony for cropping trees planted there
will prove the best use such places caI
be made to serve,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-04-07
The Song Of the Lark.

As far back as 1850 lovers of nature
have tried to fix the song of the lark on
paper that is, write it out in notes
that can be reproduced by voice or
musical instrument. The first com.
poser TO transcribe the song of the
lark was the Jesuit father, Athanasius
Kircher, author OF the now very rare
work, "Musurgia Universalis," pub
lished in the middle of the seventeenth
century. But this attempt was not
entirley successful, or else the lark ol
olden times did not sing as well as the
little bird we know.
A German schoolmaster has recent
ly published the song Of the up.to-dat'
lark, and friends OF nature, as we'll al
musical people generally, are equally
pleased with the composition.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-04-07
A New Arctic Idea.

A plan is proposed for reaching the
North Pole by cutting through fields
of ice. The craft is not unlike the
whaleback in appearance, and is made
OF steel, heavily riveted, braced and
strengthened to the last limit, in order
to withstand the buffeting incident TO
such perilous undertaking. At the
bow of the boat is located what, for
lack of better name, is called an ice
destroyer, which is composed of u
combination of toothed wheels not un.
like circular saws. These wheels. by
revolving rapidly, cut the ice into
fragments and open the way through
the most solid fields.
The idea would suggest itself to the
critical reader that this might be very
well, provided the Ice was reasonably
thin and there could be any assurance,
in case of accident, that the vessel
could be gotten out of its rigid en-
vironment. But supposing it was
necessary to back out and the ice had
frozen solid behind it, or if it simply
cuts a passage wide enough to get
through and there we're an obstacle in
tue way of proceeding, how is the ves
sci to turn around and get out? Tho
world is full of the most brilliant in
venticns, which are perfectly right
and satisfactory if all goes well, but
there must invariably be left a wide
margin for accidents and incidents out
of the common. A piece of mechanism
is not complete, perfect or practical
unless it provides to a certain extent
for emergencies.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-04-07

"There was an old lady," says Sir WIlfrd
Lawson, "whom | knew in London couple
of years ago, who was guardian of one OF
the large unions in tho West Of London.
There came man on the licensing dav 10
have his public house license renewed, and
this good lady came and said: Don't renew
the license, your Worships. The old women
from the workhouso where am guardian 20
over there and get drunk, and 1t causes
deal of evil;' and the chairman said: We'll,
what have we to do with that? Do great
many go?' oh, yes, the lady said, "a great
many What does It matter to us, he said,
if hundreds go? The man who comes for
the license must live"
Now we have the whole thing in a nut
shell. Men engaged in the LIQUOR business
say, "We must live" To all such we might
reply, as DR.. johnson did to the beggar who
urged the same plea, awe must live. I'VE
see no necessity at all for that" Ger
tainly the community would lose by the
death of some people, but when did il ever
60 into mourning for the death OF rum
seller? The man who cannot live but by the
ruin Of others had better not live at all. 1t
Is libel on the character of God 10 suppose
that men cannot live under His government
and support their families without continu-
ing to be knowingly and voluntarily aoee5-
sorry TO the ruin OF their fellow-men.
II saloonists must live, better the COM
munity tax itself for their support than tax
Itself TO support, as it now does, both the sa-
loonist and his victims.-National Temper
ance Advocate.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-04-07
Holland Still Growing.

Holland has determined upon
gigantic engineering feat-reclaiming
of 7S7 square miles of land now lying
under the zuyder Zee. Eight hundred
years ago all OF Holland contained 600
square miles of land, OF less thap one
third of the area of the State of Della
ware. Gradually, by means of great
dikes, land has been reclaimed until
the present area is nearly ID, 900 miles.
This is more than twenty times tho
original area. The new work involves
the construction of a dam twenty
seven miles in length. The line will
run from point near Heider, which is
north of Amsterdam, TO the Island OF
Wieringen. Then from the east end
of the island, which is ten miles long,
connecting at a point just south of
Workum. The dixie will measure
thirty-five feet at the base, tapering to
eight feet at the top.
The first task is the driving of two
rows of piles on either side of the pro-
posed dixie, forming passage fifty
feet wide. Against these there will be
packed bags of sand until two parallel
smbankments are raised above the sea
level. The water will then be pumped
out of this area and dry canal formed
from shore to shore. Here on the bed
Of the sea the dixie will be built of solid
masonry. Behind the wall will be
bank of earth, bound with willow twigs
IN series of basket work. For the
drainage OF this great basin colossal
windmills are to be constructed 200
feet in height, with arms seventy-five
Teet long. These will raise the water
into the network of canals which will
cover the reclaimed area. Nor is this
the end of the task. The bottom of
the sea is sand of little fertility. Top
soil and fertilizers will he brought
from every Dutch colony, and in two
or three generations the depression
will be brought to the level of the
canals. Where once the sea flowed
unrestricted there will be green gar
dens and farms, dotted with cottages
and towns, and canals covered with
heavily laden bargee.
Holland will have spent $50, 900, 900
in completing this enterprise, but she
will have added 5000, 600, 600 to her
national wealth, and will have demon
strated afresh the moral greatness of a
people who, in the face of such tre-
mendous national disadvantages, have
the patience to compel earth to yield
her treasures. es.-Literary Digest.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-04-07
PHOSPHATE ANDsupERrHosrHATE OF bnrE.

PHOSPHATE AND NDsUPERrHosPHATE OF bINfE.
The true phosphate OF lime as found
in bones is mixed, while the bones are
fresh, with some animal matter whose
decomposition makes the phosphate
more soluble than it would otherwise
be. But drying by exposure to air
and by the heat from cooking re-
moves the gelatine and leaves the
phosphate only very slightly soluble.
Yet wherever the bone is in contact
with decomposing vegetable matter,
the carbonic acid gas thus furnished,
makes n little of the bone soluble, so
that plant roots can take something
from it. Most of the bone used for
making fertilizer has been before used
for other purposes, and is dried or
possibly burned. This charred bone
is ground very fine, and is largely
used in sugar refneries to remove i'm
purities. But tho burning puts the
bone into still more insoluble condi-
tion. Therefore, it is treated with
sulphuric acid, which unites with most
of the lime, forming sulphate of lime
or common land plaster, but at the
same time leaving the phosphoric acid
free for the use of pants. There is no
reason, as you will see, for the CON-
mon practice of farmers to make
superphosphate go farther by mixing
it with land plaster. The large bulk
of superpbosphate is that, and adding
more only makes the fertilizer revert
more quickly to insoluble conditions.
There is always this liability to loss in
using superphosphate, especially if
used in dry seasons and on land that
contains little vegetable matter. On
mucky soils the generation of carbonic
acid gas keeps the superphosphate i'll
condition to be used as plant food. 3
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-04-07

It is reported OF Arlemus Ward that he
once offered his flask Of whisky to the driver
of the stage on which he was riding through
mountainous section. The stage driver
refused the flask in most decided tones. Said
he:
~ don't drink; won't drink. / don't like
to see anybody else drink. 1 am OF the
opinion Of those mounta'ns-keep your top
cool! They've got snow, and I've got brains;
that's all the difference"
There is n great deaf of wisdom In his re-
mark-"Keep your top COOL" Without a
sound brain man is not of mach use in the
world. Alcohol, whether in beer, cider,
wine, brandy or whisky, is foe Of the brain;
and when 1t gets there inaames II and rem
ders il unfit for use. Be like the honest stage
driver and resolve to keep your top cool"
Youths Temperance Banner.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-04-07
A sERyIoEAp1E ROUND s11o.

/ built and still run the first silo
built in this section, writes w. l.. Fish,
of Johnville, Canada, 1t is a square
one, but the round silo is far ahead.
The next silo had occasion to build
was a round one. 1t was eighteen
feet diameter inside and twenty feet
high. 1t was built on hard ground
underlaid with loose, slaty ledge. /
first leveled the ground in q circle of
about twenty feet, then cemented q
circle of about two feet wide around
the outside so that the circle for the
silo would strike about the center of
the cement. Slaves were two inches
thick and six inches wide, common
spruce well sawn and exact in width
ut each end, and well dried. Hoops
three-quarter inches round iron, each
in four pieces, with nut and about
five inches of thread on each end of
each piece, making about forty inches
of thread to each hoop, and were con.
nected by cast iron couplings made
for the purpose, which can be got at
any foundry for about three cents per
pound.
l used seven hoops, placing the
lower one about ten inches from the
bottom and one about the same dis.
( tance from the top, while the other
/ five were equal distance from each
other. Now for the setting up OF the
! silo. First set up one staye and
trued it up plumb each way, and
braced it up thoroughly. Next set up
four to FIVE more about equal distance
around the circle and braced them
well. then drove strong wire nal
in the outside Of each about ten
inches from the ground and another
nail six OF seven feet from the ground
These nails ! left out of the wool
about one aud fourth inches to lay
the hoops on. Each piece of the hool
was run in through a common tir,
bender to make it the right circle, an,
then Iput them together foas to maxi
two hoops - set up our stavcs in.
then laid each hoop on the nails pre-
pared for them aud commenced to sc
up. Euch staYe, as il was put il
place, received two two and one hal
inch wire nails toed in 20 as to hold
c.ose 10 the one before it; one nea
the bottom and one about seven fee
up aud so on until the slaves wero a
il. Then Isrrewed up the nuts on eac