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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
ERMA THE ELF.
Miss Putnam's Last Performance
in Honolulu.


in Honolulu.
This Tuesday evening is set apart
for the final appearance of Katie Put
nam and her company of clever come
dians. "Erma, the Elf" a sensational
comedy-drama, written by the author
of the "Old Lime Kiln" will be the play
in which the charming favorite will
assume three characters-that of Erma,
the Elf, the Indian Princess Nanonee
and His Internal Satanic Majesty. A
feature of the performance is the great
sensational fire scene. The villain at
tempts to murder his wife and to con-
ceal his crime, sets fire to the house.
Erma, disguised as the devil, dashes in
through fire and smoke, frightens him
from his hellish purpose and saves the
woman.
The performance will be a memora-
BILE one, inasmuch as Miss Putnam, at
the request of her many friends, will
sing all the successful songs she has
sung during the present engagement,
including Kentucky Babe" Honey,
Does You Love Your Man? ?" Swim the
Golden River Sweet Lucinda" and
''Paola," the beautiful Spanish waltz,
song and dance, with the castinet &C
compartment.
Mr.. O'Hara will also sing 81 Found
1t Here in HOnolulu-and Alone" The
full strength of the company will be
called into requisition. Let a full house
be present and give the little star the
send-off she so richly merits, and make
the night memorable one in Honolulu
theatricals.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17

wife in Keauhou The Cummins ar
rived in Kona at a. m. Sunday and
sent boat ashore with Mr.. Garten-
berg and the mail. A telephone mes
sage from Keauhou was to the effect
that Mrs. Gartenberg was much bet
ter. Her husband then took the Cum
MINIS to keauhou, and the steamer
started again for this port at u noon.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
NEW
CUT
GLASS

IF YOU CARE
about CUT GLASS the as
SOrtment in our windows
today will interest you. 1t
is the product of the Meri~
dan Manufacturing Com
pany, and is without question
the handSOmeSt now on the
market. The designs are ex-
elusive, the cuts the keenest
and brightest and the prices
the lowest.
This make of GLASS; rates
higher among collectors than
any other and is used by the
best people in the United
States. The pieces include
everything used on the table
as we'll as those for orna =
ment. Some of the articles
are small and the price
within the reach of every
one-it's only the big pieces
that command large prices,
and even they are cheap.
If you are fond of CUT
GLASS you never had a
better opportunity to secure
a collection at rediculously
low prices than now.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-17
Steamer Cummins Returns.

The Oahu steamer J. A. Cummins,
Searle master, returned from Kona yes
terday forenoon, after having taken A.
Gartenberg to the bedside Of his sick
The herald., 1897-09-17

terests of this kind the railroads and
trusts have shown conclusively that
they are the masters Of every situation
upon which they choose to unite. An
isthmus canal is one that will encounter
their united opposition. If such a wa
terway is ever to be constructed 1t will
have to be done by private capital or by
the guaranty Of a people who are not
Handicapped by Huntingtons and
Fryes and Algers. Instead of indulg-
ing a growl at the possibility of having
a great work done by great and
friendly people we ought to hail the
prospect Of the friendly interposition of
such people come to save us from our
selves. With the canal once opened to
navigation and the bapeful influence of
our domestic parasites thus fairly set at
naught convention with Great Britain
could soon arrange a joint control, or
should that course fail the Nicaragua
route could still be held and made avail
able
The herald., 1897-09-17
MEXICO'S GLORIOUS FOURTH

Our sister republic celebrated yester-
her national ependence. The people o!
the United States are naturally inter-
ested in Fourth of July celebrations
and they have a sincere pleasure in TAX
ing note of the spirit of patriotism that
every loyal citizen of Mexico was proud
to display yesterday.
One particularly interesting feature
of the anniversary was the program
carried out in this city last night by the
children of Mexico who are proud to call
this state and country their home, while
fondly remembering the fatherland. Ii
was an incident to remember with pride
and pleasure.
The only thing that occurred to mar
the happiness of the day in Mexico yes
terday was an attempt to ASA sinate
President Diaz. 1t was, luckily, without
effect, and the would-be assassin is under
arrest. At this writing the motive of the
man is not clear, and it is probable that
he was a crank or an individual an
archist," so to speak 1t must be a
source Of qualification and pride to the
MeXicans that the wretch was not of
their own race. It, is difficult to conceive
of Mexican attempting to assassinate
President Diaz, who is now in his sixth
term and who is beloved of all the people
CT the republic.
The herald., 1897-09-17
THE OUSTED SUPERVISORS

There is large-sized municipal OBJ
cisco which resulted in the removal of
the board of supervisors of the city, and
the appointment by the mayor and gov
ernor OF new board
When Mr.. Fitch began suit to compel
the removal of the board on the ground
that they were guilty Of malfeasance in
office in failing to fix the water rates
not later than last February, a great
many people regarded the movement as
a huge joke. The decision in that suit
and the prompt action of Judge Wallace
in removing the board was breath
taking episode. To be sure, the law of
1891. which governs the case, is clear,
but the fact that law exists has not
always meant that it is enforced. Re-
moval from office was the penalty at
tached in case the board failed to fix the
rates.
Yesterdays Herald contained the
names of the new board appointed by
claimed the right of appointment, but
that matter was amicably arranged.
Four of the new board were members
of the old one. They had sincerely en-
deavored to obey the mandate of the
law. but the majority was against them
Under the law the whole board, having
failed to act, had of necessity to be re-
moved; and the reappointment of the
four members was but an act of justice.
1t is seldom that questions Of this
kind are SO clearly defined that the
manner of procedure and the path of
duty are perfectly plain. as was the case
in San Francisco Here the law de-
c,ared that the board of supervisors
must fix the water rates before the 1st
of February, 1897; failing in which they
should be removed from office. There
were no ifs, butts or ands about it. The
supervisors failed to obey the law, and
they have suffered the penalty. 1t may
be asserted that the obstructing majority
had good reasons for acting as they did.
If they are of that opinion, they have
the courts to fall back or. 1t is not
likely that ultimate justice will be done.
1t is hopefu! sign when any sort of
a legislative body is brought to book for
sins of omission or commission In time
representa- tatives Of the people may learn
that they are accountable for their
deeds and the effect must be salutary
1t is an old saying that any man can be
honest when he is we'll watched. And
a great many indifferent men will toe
the mark when they know they are SUBJ
ject to punishment for misdeeds. The
idea of responsibility in a direct and
forceful way is altogether wholesome.
The herald., 1897-09-17
YELLOW FEVER INCREASES

II may be that the expressed opinions
to the effect that the outbreak of yell
low fever in the South afforded no
ground for general alarm were somewhat
premature. The latest dispatches would
indicate that such is the case. The dis
ease has obtained a foothold in Louisi-
ana, Mississippi and Alabama, and the
health officials in the infected districts
are having their hands full. The fever
is so scattered now that 1t is impossible
to predict the extent of its ravages, and
it has not been prevalent long enough TO
indicate the success of the doctors ar.d'
other health officials in dealing with ii.
AS everybody knows, the first good
frosts are sufficient to lay the yellow
fever low. 1t is hardly probable that
these will come in the extreme southern
part of the United States before the mid
die of october, so that the disease has
four weeks in which to get in its deadly
work.
However, the quarantine precautions
all over the South outside the infected
cities have been taken quickly, and they
are very stringent. If there is any
merit in this form of combating the
scourge (and there is undoubtedly it
ought to prevent general spread. 1t is
taken for granted that an investigation
will be had at the proper time for the
purpose of ascertainirg just how the
disease appeared in different sections in
three states. 1t hardly seems possible
that all the cases could have origina ted
at Ocean Springs. II should be remem-
bered that the scourge has by no means
assumed the proportions of a general
epidemic.
The herald., 1897-09-17
ENGLAND AT PANAMA

And now it is said that the Bank of
England is either bargaining to acquire.
or that it has already acquired, the
franchises of the French capitalists for
the construction of the Panama canal
The truth Of the report is not yet con-
ceded but the strong probability that
such negotiation may be in process of
settlement seems to have created feel
cles in Washington. II Is not easy to
understand, however why a project
that French citizens could be permitted,
to carry into effect without mourning
the hostility of the citizens of the United
States should become cause of un-
easiness the moment that the scheme
should pass over into the hands of a
British corporation. II the ditch is
eventually to be constructed by any Eu-
ropean people it can make but slight
difference to us what people shall do
the work. for British capital would soon
own and control it In any such event
France was rich and powerful when
her brains and energy perfected the Suez
canal, but British gold and English di-
plomacy complaisantly took charge of
the great enterprise almost from the hour
Of it's completion. And we shoulG have
had like program If the Frenchmen
had succeeded at Panama.
The -iS+ hp1iop canal
cry month becoming more and
more an overshadowing CONNER
cial and economic necessity not only
for the people of the United States, but
our part we have pursued policy of
vacillation toward the isthmian canal
enterprise for more than a decade and
are no nearer a solution of the question
than We were ten years ago. Indeed it
| has seemed through all the mutations of
the Nicaragua scheme that the trans
continental freight and passenger
transportation companies-in other
words, all the railroad interests-from
San Francisco to the Atlantic, were in
a perpetual league against the aims and
purposes of the canal project. The
same selfish and unpatriotic interest that
has so persistently fought against the
Improvement of harbors and other ia
cilities for coast navigation on the Fa-
cfic is still in the arena to combat any
scheme that will give promise of canal
competition from ocean to ocear. I'm
fortunately, too, under the present ad-
mik kistration this interest is paramount,
so bat for four years to come nothing
willVbe done in the way Of extending the
goverpnl ii support or guarantee to any
canal scheme.
There will, of course, be some
noisy defamation in an apparent
~ friendly spirit, but this, whether gen.
uine or assumed, will not be permitted q
to bear fruit against the protest of rail-
road Warwicks. In the conflict Of in
The herald., 1897-09-17
COST OF THE STRIKE

Nearly eighteen thousand of the strik-
ing miners have returned to work in ac-
cordance with the action taken at the
convention, and it is expected that the
remainder $4,000 in number, will follow
their example before the week is out
The Associated Press estimates that
the strike, which lasted siXty-five work.
ing days, cost the miners over 81. 900 900
In wages. There were about 1000 min
ers out, so that ii is the same as if $780,
900 miners lost one days work. The
total amount of wages lost was 81, 900 900.
so that the wage paid per day was as
100000 divided by 100000 or a little
less than so cents Gay, provided they
already shown, the miners did not get
work every day before the strike 1t
was shown that their average earnings
in many instances were less than $40
cited by Samuel Gompers, they We're
less than SO per week
At Hazleton the situation is more
serious. And here The Herald wishes to
make ackuo owiedgment to the Redlands
Facts, which points out that Hazleton
is in the anthracite district, where the
operators are not protected by a tariff
duty. The dispatches say the strike
there grew out of petty disagreement
and spread until it affected 10000 men.
Whatever the original disagreement
was, the growth Of the strike can be
traced directly to the tragedy at Lati-
mer. If the men do not appear to know
The herald., 1897-09-17
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER II. 1907.
COMMON SENSE WINS

A synopsis of Acknowledgement Nc
Dor matter transmitted by telegraph,
Indicates that it was thorough-going
and very much to the point-so much
so, in fact, that it dissolved Secretary
Alger's manufactured doubts as the sun
dissipates a mist. Somebody has de-
fined law as the science Of common
sense, and good legal opinion is there
fore a plain matter-of-fact common
Attorney-General McKenna rendered.
In effect it was: Here is an act Of con-
gress, Mr.. Alger; 1t was duly approved
by the president; it is law. 1t is man.
datory upon you as upon every other
citizen OF the United States, but it i'm
poses special obligations upon you as an
executive officer There is no real am
biguity about the plans formulated by
the board Of engineers; they plainly in
dicate the construction of a break
water to form llarbor of commerce and
of refuge. Your plain duty, Mr.. Alger,
Is, therefore, to advertise for bids to do
this work and proceed to execute the
will of the nation"
That is the kind of talk, clothed in a
little more formal language, that
brought Mr.. Alger TO taw 1t is too di-
rect and forceful to be evaded or gain
said. The people OF the Pacific coast
owe debt of gratitude to the attorney
general for this word so fifty spoken that
seems to have brought solution of the
problem
The herald., 1897-09-17

the cushions or the iron, but being away
from the ground finally cool down
enough to condense some moisture. Inc
leather is the best radiator of the whole;
1t is farthest from the ground and so gess
and keeps more moisture than any OF
the rest. All these features may be
modified by the temperature of the air
as we'll as by the amount Of moisture it
contains, but the general principle will
be found to hold throughout. If body
is a good conductor of heat and con-
nected with the ground 1t may get neat
from the earth as fast as 1t can radlate
it away and will therefore stay dry all
night. This is why stones in the ground
are dry, but set UP on fence or stump
may be wet. The cobweb is good radl-
ator but is not good conductor OF heat,
and is not connected with the ground
and hence catches all the water 1t can
hold. while the grass from which II
hangs gets heat so fast from the ground
that it may remain dry in some condl-
tions of the air. The same is the reason
why the wood in the ground is dry but
in the bridge, away from the ground,
catches dew
From this it is easy to understand why
so good a radiator as iron when laid on
roof where it can receive
no heat from the ground should
conSanse large amount Of wa
ter. 1t needs only clear sky above
with a dry air to allow rapid radiation.
And this air need not nece sslarily be very
dry near the ground if it is dry enough
above, This is why we sometimes see
of fn
has come in. The fog bank is thin COM
pared with the dry air above 1t which al
lows some continuance of the radiation
that has set in. But if the fog bank Is
thick the radiation will often be checked
so that the deposit of moisture Will mot
begin or will stop if 1t has begun. This
is, why it is common to see such roofs
Try all night on cloudy or foggy night.
On other foggy nights they may drip,
but the greatest drip will be when 1t Is
either clear all night or when the fog Is
very thin and very near the earth.
1t is now easy to understand why the
lime hedge was uninjured under the
trees which cut off the radiation into the
sky. But If the part Of the hedge that
was injured had been in close contact
with the ground 1t might have received
lust enough heat from it, ano just Iasl
enough to keep it from freezing. ms
is why many short things near the
ground may be uninjured with rrost
while something a little less delicate put
farther from the ground nay be uh-
injured. The freezing in thi3 case is NOT
from too low temperature@f the ar
but from a lowering of the temperature
of the leaves by radiation, whlcn eHect,
coming upon that of a temperature OF
the air almost low enough to 90 mlschef,
may make a severe frost where there
would be none with the slightest protec-
tion. This is the way lath houses and
smudge fires work. 1t is not the heat
thrown out by the fires that saves the
The herald., 1897-09-17
crop, but the checking Of radiation by
the blanket of smoke.

crop, but the checking Of radiation by
the blanket of smoke.
By setting a first rate radiator, such
as sheet iron, on bad conductor OF
heat, such as shed or a pile of straw,
under very cher sky, with an air very
dry, ice may be formed when the tenn
perature of the air is many degrees above
the freezing point. On the Bolson Dc
Mapimi, the great desert of Durango, in
Mexico, I have seen ice form half an inch
thick. while under freight car it did
not freeze at ALL On the deserts OF
California l have seen water freeze in
a basin after sunrise when set on the
wagon when it would not freeze under
the wagon. Probably mosquito netting
would suffice to stop it. Though have
never tested it with thermometer,
am certain that in this way have seen
ice form on the Colorado desert when
the temperature was above forty, or
eight degrees above the freezing point.
1t is done by the loss of heat into the
clear sky.
This explains what In California 20
many eastern people refuse to believe
until they see it, that pot toes and other
delicate vegetables can remain unin-
jured at an apparent temperature that IN
other countries would be certain to kill
them. The mistake is in supposdng that
the ice in the sheet of water exposed to
the sky indicates freezing tempera-
ture in the air. The freeze may be en-
tirely from radiation. The radiation
from the potatoes may mot have been
rapid enough to overcome the heat sup
piled to them from the ground and hence
they were umnjured. And often this
loss of heat is most rapid between dawn
and sunrise, and is then, by increase Of
radiation, perhaps by the sun striking
the upper air and expanding it. In such
case the period of greatest cold is so
short that plants which have some heat
in consequence of their vitality will en-
dure it, being able to resist for a few
minutes temperature that would kill
them in an hour. Hence the frost ques-
tom in no part of California can be de-
termired by the freezing Of water ex-
posed to the sky; while the deposit OF
water on the roof, especially good
radia ting roof cut off from the ground,
has little to dp with the amount Of
moisture in the air.
T. s. VAN DYKE.
The herald., 1897-09-17
DADDY KIPLING

Whats that so white that walks the
1oor?' ss4H folks-on-parade.
Its Daddy Rudyard Kipling,;;" the Lon
don doctor said;
Hes the father of another boy-he wants
to get to bed,
in'!'
whats that what's that that squalls so
loud?" said folks-on-p parade.
Its little Kip with collie, the London doc
tor said;
"And the older Kip is painting all the fur
niture in red,
And he's swearin at the baby In the MORN
in'!''
Atlanta Constitution.
The herald., 1897-09-17

MED all knowledge Of it? Why he backed
and filled and shuff1ed about 1t and at one
time allowed the impression to go
abroad that the document had miscar-
ried altogether? Secretary Alger's posi-
tion in the premises has been puerile to
the last degree; it suggests boy holding
his hand behind him to ward off spank
inQ
The herald., 1897-09-17
Mental Strain

"Our doctor has forbidden. my wife
reading any newspaper published out
side of Chicago
why is that?"
"She is not strong enough to stand the
bargain counter announcements from
other towns.-Chicago Record.
The herald., 1897-09-17

what they struck for, as the dispatches
intimate. an effort should be made to
ascertain the reason. 1t is not likely
that they struck altogether without
cause. If the men are unorganized set
tlement Will be all the more difficult.
The herald., 1897-09-17
Utilizing Our Powers

We are born with faculties and pow
ers capable of anything-such, at least,
as would carry us farther than can be
easily imagined; but 1t is only the ex-
ercise of those powers which gives US
ability and skill in anything. and leads
US towards perfection.-Locke.
The herald., 1897-09-17

Yesterdays published interpretations
include a mining company, organized {
San Francisco with capital of $50. .OO0,- =
900. OF this amount, just $50 has been
subscribed. The dear public is expected
to take the remaining 49,999,950. Klon-
dixie has a great deal to answer for.
The herald., 1897-09-17

A local money lender for once has some
10 per cent month interest. 1t is in the
shape of $50 cash bail deposited with the
police court clerk.
The herald., 1897-09-17

A dispatch from Chicago, speaking of
the drouth in Southern Illinois, says that
"the cattle on thousand hills are dy
ing for want of water" 1t would be hard
work to find a thousand hills in South
ped there in late years by Missouri cy-
o1n
The herald., 1897-09-17

II the price of oil could only manage
to hitch itself onto the price of wheat,
it might get omewhere.-Evening Ex-
press.
Our twilight contemporary might ask
the Standard Oil company to produce a
famine
The herald., 1897-09-17

The Republican newspapers that want
to see an honest mar like Seth Low
elected mayor of Greater New York are
asserting that Boss Platt has the politi-
cal fate of the city in the hollow of his
hand. That settles it. Mr. Platt would
doubtless rather see Tammany man
in the mayoralty chair than to help a
reform movement.
The herald., 1897-09-17

boulevard project are still up and at it,
and they do not propose to be cast in
the shade by the other enterprise en-
dorsed by the boulevard committee. 1t
is all right that we have two boulevards
between Los Angeles and Pasadena, SO
that people may drive out one way and
come back the other. The boulevard COM
mittee was liberal-minded enough when
it adopted the adobe road to give its
sanction and moral support to the
Arroyo Seco route. Now it is only fair
TO give the Arroyo Seco people "a fair
chance for their white alley" More
power to their elbows!
The herald., 1897-09-17

Santa Clara county is reaping golden
harvest from the fruit crop, which is
double that of last year. The San Jose
Mercury ought to set apart day on
law
The herald., 1897-09-17
A Subtle Influence

Contact with the good never fails to
part good, and We carry away with US
some Of the blessing, as travellers gar
ments retain the odor Of the flowers
through which they have passed.
Smiles.
The herald., 1897-09-17

The funeral-baked meats Of the CEN
sus of 1890 will coldly furnish forth the
tables Of the census of 1900. The new
of the coming nose
counting has already been selected, be-
fore the publication of the, last is any
where near completion. He is S. N
Dexter North, a newspaper man.
The herald., 1897-09-17

Richard Croker has concluded not to
run for mayor of Greater New York
Mr.. Croker is very shrewd politician
The herald., 1897-09-17

The way to keep the streets clean is
to clean them. This brilliant idea seems
not to have occurred to those having the
work directly in charge.
The herald., 1897-09-17

Chicago, besides being the largest hog
market in the world, is just now attain
ing prominence through it's large and in
creasing number of blind pigs"
The herald., 1897-09-17

The new building of the Chicago pub
nice it would be if Los Angeles could
be substituted for Chicago in the fore
going sentence.