The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-03-25
STORM PARAGRAPHS.

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chief of staff for Marshal Brown.
Stearns Buck, at the Electric Station
reports all the reservoir running over.
The attendance in the public schools
Yesterday afternoon was very light.
Williams and Davey made a lot of
views and the kodak army was well re-
presented.
The tourists missed something al
most as interesting and exciting as
view Of the Volcano.
Police squads were on special guard
and emergency duty in the flooded dis
tricts all of last night.
The quick flash of lightning and the
sharp roll Of thunder at noon presaged
to many heavy storm.
The st. Louis Brothers placed every
thing in their establishment at the SER
vice OF the rescue corps.
A baker employed by H. Horn. had
the most successful ducking of the day
near the Beretania street bridge.
VIM. G. Irwin, Artist Vos, ]. A. Hop
per, Colonel Fisher and E. D. Tenney
comprised one group of spectators.
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Andrew Brown remarked that he
supposed people would now kick" at
the pretty and rich coloring of the
water.
! Therunning of heavy lines across the
stream between the bridges to break
up heavy drifts was voted good
| scheme.
The Senate and the Third House
adjourned, but the regular House kept
at it till the business of the day was
finished.
Admission fee would readily have
been paid at one time for positions
on the upper verandas Of the two story
buildings.
The bicycle patrolmen left their
mounts at the police station, but the
horse company found mounts useful
everywhere.
The food streams into the harbor
were numerous and heavy. Several
seafaring men said that much dredging
would be necessary very soon.
Marshal Brown wishes to publicly
thank Hustace & Co., for furnishing
drays gratis and to w. H. Hoogs for
valuable assistance rendered
1t was a fortunate thing that the
break in the wall of the stream oc-
Cured when it did, relieving Kaumaka-
pill of vast amount of water.
A Chinese priest in the Joss House
kept up a service all during the flood.
He declared that he would not leave
the building until his relief came
The cabmen will have new dating
period in the recounting of experiences.
1t will now be "since the flood in
stead of "since the first F'raWley sea-
son.
The natives showed a lot of skill
and had any amount of fun lassoing
drift wood, live chickens, etc. 1t was
not at all uncommon to make a catch
of a set of steps or a chicken house.
Theheavy barge which struck against
the Beretania street bridge and threat
ened the structure is the property Of
Chinaman who had been using it
above in some building operations.
Mr.. Rowell was proud of the fact
| that the bridges resisted all onslaughts.
The only damage was to the structure
spanning the stream at Beretania.
This was caused by the impact Of the
barge.
The police kept the bridges clear,
allowing the use of them only by peo-
pie who had business in crossing. To
the reporters, Chas. Chillingsworth re-
marked that they were we!c5me to take
their chances.
| There was a sink hole at the foot
of Hotel street in which several horses
were mired. In each instance the ami
mails had to be unhitched. The Misses
Parker were in one of the rigs which
has this mishap.
While the crowds were enormous,
hundreds of people came an hour after
the flood had commenced to recede.
The storm effect reports were so start
ling that at first they were not general
ly accredited about town.
The first reports were that an even
dozen people had lost their lives. Then
it was two and finally but the one.
Even late last night number Of in
telMgence Chinese insisted that two
Chinese children had persisted.
A member of the Legislature said
last evening that he proposed to pro-
pound some questions regarding the
''engineering' of the change in the
course of the stream. The largest body
of water was in the old river bed, near
Kaumakapili.
| Suggestions Of Venice were decided
ly not poetical. There was both a
difference and distinction. Some Of the
natives who walked away from their
doors in the morning and had to be
rowed to them at in the afternoon
could never be convinced that there
was such a place as Venice.
Sam Marks and Frank Saunders,
who are trying to arrange for the
IOpening of Wilson's circus here on
April are pretty well discouraged by
the storm and the seige of wet wealth
er, but are determined to make go
of their contract if possible. Their
lot near the fish market was under
water yesterday and large amount OF
r-orly oIroodv done WAS washed aWdy.