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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-29
RELIEF DETAINED
Pending Inves tigation of
Her Safety.
Decks Are Too High and Coal Room
on Her Last Voyage.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19.-The
hospital ship Relief did not sail yes
terday for Manila, and there is a pos
sibility that she may never be allowed
to leave this port on an ocean voyage
until her high decks are cut down and
her coal bunkers enlarged. At any
rate she will not sail in the service
of the Government until her seawor-
fitness has been passed upon by a
board of survey which General Shafter
has been ordered to appoint.
There seems to have been some con-
fict between the medical department
and the quartermaster's department at
Washington in the matter of the send
ing back of the Relief Surgeon Gen
eral Sternberg ordered her departure
with her regular staff and about 125
others of the medical department and
hospital corps, who were to be taken
over merely as passengers. September
Is had been set some weeks ago as the
day on which the Relief should set out.
About ten days ago Inspectors OF Hulls
and Boilers Bolles and Bulger. con-
demned the vessel as a carrier Of pas
sengers across the Pacific. General
Sternberg would have disregarded the
ruling of these local inspectors.
Colonel Long, the depot quartermas-
ter here, from whom the master of the
vessel takes his orders, was not salts
fed to let the Relief proceed until he
had had an investigation of her cOndi-
ton made for himself The result of
Colonel Longs investigation showed
:, s<-l, Il Oalyr
and broad exposure of cabin and super
structure the Relief might easily be
lost in a typhoon, and that her small
coal-carrying capacity made it impos-
sible for her to steam in safety for any
great distance at sea, especially should
she encounter heavy weather. II more
room were to be given to the coal, then
there would not be enough for supplies.
The fact was brought out that on the
recent voyage of the Relief from Ma
Mia to San Francisco, via Japan and
Honolulu, her bunkerS were almost
emptied of coal when she reached HO-
nOlulu, though she had experienced the
best of weather. Had she lost time
through storms she nov would be I'M
doubtedly at the bot )i1l of the Pacific
with the hundreds Of soldiers who
came over on her.
1t did not satisfy Colonel Long and
his superior quariermaster, General
Ludington, in Washington. to be told
that if the vessel coaled at Guam as
we'll as at Honolulu she could make
the passage in safety. He refused to
order her departure, whereupon Cen
eral Sternberg appealed to the Secre-
tary of War, who yesterday ordered a
careful consideration of the failings of
the Relief by an expert board Of Off
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TENDERS FOR BEEF CATTLE.

Tenders will be received at the Office
of the Board of Health UP to II o'clock
noon, Wednesday, October 4, 1899, for
supplying the Leper Settlement, Molo-
kai, with Beef Cattle, for the period
OF six months ending March 81, 1900,
under following conditions, namely:
1. The contractor 20 supply Fat
Beef Cattle to weigh nCt less than $50
lbs. when dressed.
2. Cattle to be delivered in lots spe-
Gifted by the Superintendent of the
Leper Settlement, averaging from 20 to
80 heads per month, more or less.
g. Cattle dying within twenty-four
hours after delivery from injury or
other causes sustained previous to de-
livery to be the contractors loss
4. Cattle injured when delivered and
killed for that reason to be paid for
a: twenty-five per cent less than the
contract price.
sThe tender must be for the price per
pound dressed.
Hides, tallow and offal to be the
property of the Board.
The Board does not bind itself to ac-
cept the lowest or any bid.
BY order of the Board Of Health.
CHAS. WILCOX.
Secretary.
Honolulu Sent 2S. 1899
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THREATENED BY A FAMINE.

LONDON, Sept. 16.-The Daily Mail
Bombay: 1t is doubtful if a famine
can be avoided in the Gutjerat, the
Kathiawar and the southwest section
OF Sindh. Speaking generally, the
famine will be restricted to a small
portion of the country, but a serious
scarcity is probable in large areas OF
Western India.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-29

BY the President OF the United States
of America.
EXECUTIVE ORDER.
The President of the United States
hereby directs that all proceedings ia
ken or pending for the sale or DISPOSE
ton of the public lands in the Hawaii
an Islands shall be discontinued; and
that if any sales or agreements for sale
of said public lands have been made
since the adoption of the Resolution of
Annexation, the purchasers shall be
notified that the same are null and
void and any consideration paid to the
local authorities on account thereof
shall be refunded
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1
| have caused the seal of the
lSEALl United States to be hereunto
affixed
Washington, Sept. II, 1899.
WILLIAM MKINLEY,
BY the President:
AVLEY A. ADEE,
Acting Secretary of State
$3.50
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SUCCESSOR TO PAUNCEFOTE.

LONDON, Sept. 16.-Commenting
upon the difficulty experienced in find
ing successor as ambassador to
Washington to Lord Paunceforte, a
weekly paper says it is more than like
ly that Sir Thomas Henry Henderson,
K c. G., Permanent Under Secretary
will receive the appointment to Wash
ington as a reward for his long service
in the Permanent Under-secretary-
ship.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-29

RULE "a OF THE REGULATIONS
for hack and passenger vehicles, pub
lished under the provisions of Section
102 of Act ga of the Session Laws of
1896, is hereby revoked.
J. a. KING,
Minister of the Interior
Interior Office, Sept. q, 1899. 5349- st
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Stage Line.
HENRY BRYANT, Prop.

The stage for Kaneohe, Heeia, Wal
zane, and Kuc1oa, will leave Postof1ce,
Bethel street side at q. m. on Mon
lay. wednesday and Friday, calling
;or passengers and packages at Love
10y & Co.'s, No. 10. Nuuanu street.
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A Model Plant is not complete with
out Electric Power, thus dispensing
with small engines.
Why not generate your power from
one CENTRAL station? One gener-
ator can furnish power to your Pump,
Centrifugals, Elevators, Flows. Rail-
ways and HOSTS; also, furnish light
and power for a radius of from 15 to
80 miles
Electric Power being used, saves the
labor of hauling coal in your field, also
water, and does away with high-priced
engineers, and only have one engine to
look after in your mill.
Where water power is available it
costs nothing to generate Electric
Power.
THE HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COM
PANY is now ready to furnish Electric
Plants and Generators of all descrip-
tions at short notice, and also has on
hand large stock of Wire, Chande-
Tiers and Electrical Goods.
All orders will be given prompt at
tention, and estimates furnished for
Lighting and Power Plants; also, at
tention is given to House and Marine
| Wiring.
THEO. HOFFMAN, Manager.
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IRRIGATION NOTICE.
Holders of water privileges, or those
paying water rates, are hereby notified
that the hours for irrigation purposes
are from to o'clock a. m. and fror.
to o'clock p. m.
ANDREW BROWN,
Supt. Honolulu Water Works.
Appropev by:
J. A. KING,
Minister of Interior.
Honolulu. June IA, 1899. 5255
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TRANSPORTS REACH MANILA.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-General
Otis has informed the war Department
of the arrival at Manila of the trans
port Ohio, with the men from the
wrecked transport Morgan City. She
left two sick men at NagaSaki. The
City of Sydney also reached Manila
today. There were no deaths during
the voyage, but one man deserted at
Nagasaki.
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Honolulu, Sept. 2S. 1899.
5350-2111-3t
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SEALED TENDERS

Will be received at the Office of the
Minister of the Interior till II o'clock
noon of Monday, October 9th, for the
construction of road from Hanawai
TO Keanae, Maui.
Specifications and profile at Office OIL
Supt. Public Works, also at office of H.
Howell, Hama.
The Minister does not bind himself
to accept the lowest or any bid.
Sept 29th. 1899.
JAS. A. KING
Minister of the Interior.
$3.50
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BY AUTHORITY.
FOREIGN OFFICE NOTICE.

Under instructions of the Depart
ment of State. Washington, D. c.. da-
ted September Is. 1899, the following
Executive Order is published for the
E. \. MOTT SMITH.
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Department of Foreign Affairs,
September 2S, 1899
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NO AID FROM GERMANY.

BERLIN, Sept. 1S.-The Associated
Press learns authoritatively that the
German Government has emphatically
informed President Kruger to war.
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HURRICANE SWEEPS NEWFOUND-
A

ST. JOHNS On. b., Sept. ia
violent hurricane swept this section OF
Newfoundland last night. Four fish
ing boats were driven Off the st.
Johns coast and three men and a wo-
has been much damage and probably
loss of life at more distant points.
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BERLIN, Sept. ia message from
Kiaochau announces the arrival there
yesterday of Prince Henry of Prus-
STA and the German squadron in Chr
neSe waters.
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BY the President OF the United States
of America
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10

ence and Industry is greatly TO the
advantage of both is beyond question.
II puts the best trained and highest
inventive power at the service Of man.
ufacturers, and it also furnishes the
Scientist not only with new openings
for a livelihood, but with wide oppor-
tunities for research. In Germany,
some of the great establishments pro-
vide finer technical names and appli-
ances to chemists than any university
laboratory.
It is of interest to know Just how
many of the German chemical manu-
facturers control their research la
boratories. One of the largest. stu
ated in Baden, and having branch
works in three other cities, maintains
a staff of over eighty chemists, who
devote their working hours 10 research
alone.
This army of scientists is housed in
a large building deliberately fitted up
with the most modern appliances, but,
strange to say, as carefully guarded
as the late Professor" Keeley's work
shop. Admission is strictly forbidden,
and there is no intercourse between the
different rooms.
Each chemist reports for work at an
early hour in the morning, and, on en-
tering his particular room-ceu it
might be termed-finds written instruc-
tons from the chief chemist These
instructions provide for the days
work, and in addition the chemist will
find the material he is supposed to in
vestigate or experiment with. He does
not know what his fellow laborers on
either side are doing, nor Eyhat plan of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
Not the sincerest Flattery.
Eouth's Companion.l


One of the most striking characters
tics of the late Rosa Bonheur was Eer
good common sense, and an illustra-
tive anecdote is now being told of the
great French painter.
AT the outset of her career Made
moiselle Bonheur cropped her hair and
adopted the garb of a working man, in
order that she might visit menageries
and geological gardens for the purpose
of close study of the animals she de-
sired to paint.
In woman's dress she could not have
gained Ambulance to such places she
had, therefore, a good reason for dis
carding it, But when eccentricity, and
not necessity, prompted other girls TO
follow her example, she had something
pointed to say.
When presiding over a school of de-
sign in Paris the pupils being girls,
the artist was Disguised with the class
because, initiative of their teacher, the
young women had cut their hair short
E Good graciousr' she exclaimed, when
she saw them. How you all look! This
is not class of boys. You sillv crea-
lures, let your hair alone, and do your
best to retain all the advantages of
your sex
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work any one of the eighty-odd other
chemists is pursuing.
He receives as a salary a sum rang
ing from $500 to $1,000, and it is safe TO
conjecture that his labors will repay
his employers ten-fold. He has no pc
cuniary interest in his discoveries, re-
ceives no reward if he is successful,
vet. such is the peculiar workings OF
the German mind, he strives with as
much enthusiasm as if there was
bag of gold dangling at the end OF his
days labor.
An American visitor to one of the
great German chemical factories said
that the laboratory, of which he OBJ
tanned one fleeing glimpse, reminded
him of an immense rabbit warren, in
which each occupant was a worker
and deliver of the most pronounced de-
gree.
Mention has already been made of the
loss by the United States of over $22,-
coo. 900 in 1897 and 1898 on one class of
articles alone among the many export
ed to this country by Germany. 1t has
also been stated that the discovery of
that article by German chemists reads
as a fairy tale This is the story:
Twenty years ago the red dyes used
by the world were made from a veg
etable plant called madden root, or
Rubia tinctorum. In the trade it is
known as alizarin, deriving that name
from the Arabic words al and izai,
literally "the root" which shows its
Importance. AS all the red dyes used
in those days were made from the
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invention in the arts and industries.
We know all this. yet we do not pur-
sue the same or an equally advan
tageous course.
There is not manufacturer of chem
icals in the United States but viii con-
fess that his rivals in Germany are
quickly and surely getting control Of
he worlds market, and there is not
an American manufacturer who IS not
.ully cognizant Of the fact that this
growing supremacy comes solely from
the joining of science and business.
Professor OSWALD, distinguished
German chemist, stated in 1896 regard
ing the chemical factories in Germany:
Each large work has the greater
part OF its scientific staff-and there
are often more than 100 Phi. DIS in a
single manufactory-occu not in
the management of the manufacture,
bat in making inventions. The re-
search laboratory in such a work is
only different from one in university
by its being more splendidly and sump-
tuously fitted than the latter. I have
heard from the business managers OF
such works that they have not infre-
quently men who have worked for
years without practical success; hut if
they know them to possess ability, they
keep them Notwithstanding, and in
most cases with ultimate success suffi-
cient to pay the expenses of the former
fruitless years"
Is il a wonder that, by such meth
DDS, Germany has come TO control the
fine chemical markets of the world?
By her superiority in this respect alone
she is able silently and without any
legislation, to lay tax upon almost
every industry in every country?
AS further proof of the wise i'm
portance Germany places upon the
union Of science and commerce. one Of
the chemical works not long ago Of
fered university professor a very
large salary simply to come into the
laboratory and make experiments re-
garding the practical use of certain sci
entific methods which the professor
had been developing
That this close relation between sci
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ed. and proof-ample and convincing
proof-will be given in this paper. We
90 not encourage the study of analyti-
cal chemistry in our colleges, nor the
close union Of science and business IN
our factories.
In Germany there are thirty seven
chemical dye factories that employ
large stats of expert chemists solely
for invention and discovery. Not for
manufacturing, mind you, nor for the
making of products. but solely for eX-
perlmenting and the careful delVlng
into natures secrets
In the whole length and breadth OF
the United States there is not one
chemical factory where chemists are
employed for research. There are
works and laboratories a plenty, but
simply for the purpose of manufactur-
ing known products.
There seems to be no satisfactory eX-
PLANTATION for this extraordinary state
ii affairs, no given reason why we of
America are content TO rest idly and
permit other countries TO make the
discoveries and reap the benefits.
We know that in the German univer-
sites the root idea of higher education
freedom Of teaching and freedom of
iearning-necessaril carries research
and specialization to their highest
splendid opportunity for technical ca
reers to the students, and we are also
fully aware that Germany's system in
moulding her schools has led to a mar
velous organization of the power, OF
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SUNBEAM CONSOLIDATED MINING
Company.-Location and principal place
Of business Salt Lake City, Utah. Notice
is hereby given that at meeting of the
directors of this company, held on the
eth day of September, 1899. an assessment
of 10 cents per share (being assessment
No. "a, was levied on the capital stock of
the corporation payable. one-half on or
before Thursday, the 9Th day of October,
1883. and one-half on or before Thursday
the Ind day of November 1899. to E. L.
Carpenter, secretary of said company, at
the office of said company No. 419 Dooly
block. Salt Lake City, Utah, and that any
stock upon which said assessment shall
remain unpaid on Friday the 3rd day of
November. 1899. will be delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction. and
unless payment is made before will be
Der. 1899, at Il o'clock noon of said day
at the. office. Of said company. No. 40
Dooly block, Salt Lake City. Utah, to pay
such delinquent. assessment. together with
cost of advertising and expense of sale
E. l.. CARPENTER, Secretary.
Room 419 Dolly Block, Salt Lake City
Utah. Office hours. to p. m.
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IGNORANCE IN CHEMISTRY.

Twenty-Five million dollars lost in
two years because Of a laXity in the
teaching OF analytical chemistry. That
is the enormous price paid on enc class
Of articles alone by the United States,
simply because our colleges ignore a
higher scientific course, and our manu-
faeturers refuse TO recognize that
which is a common practice in a rival
countryside employment of highly
trained chemists for analytical re-
searches.
We paid Germany so, 400, 600 in 1897
and 1898 for dye stuffs with which to
dye our articles of dress. German
chemists discovered the process by
which these dyes can be made from
something almost as cheap and Dlenu-
full in this country as ashes. German
manufacturers made those dye stuffs
from coal tart
The description of their progress in
this line reads like fairy story, but
ii is true enough. 1t is a lesson that
should go to the heart of every Ameri-
can manufacturer, every American
business man, and every true Ameri-
can citizen.
The fact that Germany could have
taken from US gold exceeding $1l. 000 600
yearly for one simple class of articles,
and that in face of the fact that we
have here everything by which the ar
ticles. can be made, is more than incred-
ible-it is humiliating. And it calls
for "a thorough investigation, and a
revolution in some portion of our in
ternal economy
That which we lack is easily explain
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A

ready for market. That was in 1881,
yet such was the untiring patience and
the thorough caution of the German
chemists that this product was not con-
sidered really fit for selling until last
year.
When it appeared it created revo-
luton in a market which had been
filled for hundreds of years by an East
Indian article. 1t was the case of the
madden root alizarin over again.
Like the latter, coal tar was the base.
One Of the German chemists-one of
the 81 coo rabbits in the hutches-had
discovered a substance which bore a
striking resemblance to the indigo of
East Indian commerce!
The natural indigo is described as "a
substance obtained in the form of a
blue powder from leguminous plants of
the genus Indigofera, and used as a
blue dye" These plants grow in the
East and West Indies, and in some
parts of America, and they form an
important article of commerce.
1t is probably well to say here that
the growers of the indigo plant had
waxed rich and insolent in the trade.
and that they reckoned on an uninter-
rupted period of prosperity. They did
not take into consideration the patient.
delving chemists in the rabbit warrens
of the German empire.
When the members of the great
chemical firm in Ludwigshafen
thought it convenient they patented
the artificial indigo and calmly placed
it on the market in competition with
the pure article. Immediately there
was q to-do among the dealers in the
pure indigo. The latter knew the his
tory of the alizarin product, but they
consoled themselves with the knowl-
edge that the American tariff schedule,
admits pure indigo free and places "a
80 per cent DUTY on coal tar derivatives
1t was 2 futile consolation.
When the new indigo was placed be-
fore the government chemists in
Washington it was carefully tested. and
the astonishing decision given that the
artificial product must be admitted free
of duty. as mo living chemist could
distinguish between the pure and the
artifcial''i
Behold the RESULT To-Day artificial
indigo made from coal tar after a
process discovered by a German chem
list. is selling at a less price than the
pure article can be produced, yet max
ing profit for the German chemical
firm which can only be based on the
same firms profits on alizarin.
The patent will run seventeen years.
millions of pounds will be sold in the
United States alone, and, calculated
on fair estimate, 5O00O,OO must ac-
crue TO this German firm, and incident
ally to the German empire This,
mind you, is simply one article. There
are many others, and they are all,
every one of them, the result of the
German system of combining SCIENCE
with practical commerce.
The lesson is obvious. Will we profit
by it?
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Assessment Notice.

THE NEW KLONDIKE" MINING
company, corporation. organized under
principal place of business, Salt Lake
CITY. state of Utah, Notice is hereby
given that at a meeting of the directors,
held on the 18th day of August, 1899. an
levied on the capital stock of the corpor
alton. payable on or before the 18th day
of september, 1889, to the secretary and
treasurer, room 80 Mccormick block, Salt
Lake City. Utah. Any stock upon which
this assessment may remain unpaid on
the said 18th day of septemberr, 1899. will
be delinquent and advertised for sale at
made it will be sold on. the 18th day of
September, 1899, to pay the delinquent as
sessment together with the cost of adj
vertising and expenses of sale.
F., A. DRUEHL, Secretary.
Room 80 Mccormick Block.