The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-12
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Orpheum tonight.

Last three nights OF Lynwood at the
Orpheum
There are four entries for tomor-
rows yacht race.
George A. Martin did not leave on
the Coptic yesterday.
All the schools opened yesterday
with big attendances
There are no new developments in
the tramways situation.
A Cleveland nameplate marks an
honest up-to-date wheel.
Professor John Dewey lectures again
tonight at the High School
The bronze medal shoot of the Po-
lice Department opens today
square bottle and a square drink
C. d. C., the highball whskey
Rough-on-B ugs-the best insect de-
stroyer-at the Hebron Drug Co.'S.
Russet apples $3.50 per box; Alpha
buildings 1Oc each, at Salter's grocery
The Temperance Hotel, Nuuanu
street, has been sold to Mr. w. F. Ar
mold.
A special meeting of Hawaiian Lodge
No. p, F. & A. NJ, will be held this
evening.
The engagement of Miss Alice NJ.
Giles to r.. j. Putnam of Louisiana is
announced.
The program of the fourth celebra-
ton of Regatta Day is published on an
other page.
The Board of Health will take up
the DIR. Howard investigation tomor-
row afternoon.
10 har
Saturday is causing not little talk
and excitement.
The private dinners served at the
Home Bakery Cafe are as popular as
the regular meals.
Mrs. E. X. Wilder was not one of the
Coptic's passengers for the Coast yes
= terday, as reported.
Major Jones, formerly quartermaster
general at Manila, was a through pas
senger on the Coptic.
Miss Lynwood, the great conortion-
list, closes her engagement at the Or
pheum tomorrow night
A guard of mounted patrol has been
placed over the Camp Mckinley store
of the late Mrs. Cowles.
Four opium-smoking Chinese were
caught in the act by Deputy Marshal
Chillingworth last night.
The Honolulu Iron Works Company
will probably rent a portion of the new
Brewer block on Queen street.
Certificates of stock of the First
American Bank of Hawaii, Ltd. are
now read: Or delivery to stockhold-
erS.
Salt water ~ now being used exclu-
SiV in Ctr N Il mo nd
tainly does not dry up SO rapidly as
the fresh.
The soil of the new Beach road is
largely composed of salt, but no one
has ever complained of sore eyes from
travelling over it.
At the offices of VIM G. Irwin & Co.
it is expected that the Mariposa will
arrive from the Colonies day ahead
of schedule time.
Tomorrow night the Maggie Moore
II. r. Roberts Company will present
The Silence of Dean Maitland the
farewell production.
The Honolulu Stock-Yards Co, Ltd.
have the most stylish teams and trOt-
tiers on the Islands. They are quoting
special prices on mules
One thousand seven hundred and
seventy-seven shares of Olaa assessable
stock were sold at yesterday morning S
session of the Honolulu Stock Elk
change.
The subject of DR.. Dewey's lecture
at the High School this evening will
be The Ethics of Social Welfare.'
Special reference will be paid to the in
dustrial problem.
The Hawaiian Tramways Company
Increased it's force of laborers yester-
day by one. There were fourteen men
at work on Union Square yesterday as
against thirteen last week.
Miss Marcia Potter left on the Cop
tic for her home in ST. Joseph, Mich.
after a years sojOurn in Honolulu
Miss Potter will be greatly missed by
the younger social circle, to whom she
has endeared herself.
The statement having been made
that the Bonnie Dundee is better
craft than the Gladys in heavy wealth
err T W. Hebron says he is willing ut
race the Bonnie Dundee to Moloka
and back to settle the question.
Mounted Patrolman Gumpher res
cued native child from the Nuuanl
stream on Sunday night. 1t was near
ly smothered in mud and water wheI
the patrolman reached it. being guided
in the darkness only by it's cries.
All members of the Amateur Orches
ira are asked to be present at the
NJ. c.. A. hall next Thursday evening
at 7:45 o'clock to take part in the re
ception and entertainment to Mr.
Coates, the new assistant secretary
At meeting of directors of the Ho
noIulu Rapid Transit & Land Co., helt
on August 25th, w. r. Castle wa
elected a director, in place of c. S. Des
ky, resigned, and Charles H. Anterior
was elected secretary, in place OF }. A
Gilman, resigned.
Chief Justice and Mrs. Judd wer
among the outbound passengers on tn
laa,. nd