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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-02-15

3-PIECE OF LAND ut Ho-
nuakaha, on Queen Street, makai
of the Kawaiahao Cemetery, and
adjoining the Warehouse lately
erected by y. Harrison, having a
frontage on Queen Street OF ~
feet, and n depth of 10I feet.
Same being at present held under
lease expiring May Is, 1000, at
an annual rental of $500.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-02-15

1.-PIECE OF LAND situate
in kuwili, Immediately makai of
the Oahu Prison and fronting ON
the road leading to the Slaughter
Houses, being a portion of the
land covered by r. P. 1900, L. G..
A. 81, f. l.. This land has a
frontage of 126 feet on the street.
and an average depth of 1877 ID
feet.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-02-15

2.-PIECE OF LAND at Aqua,
makai of Queen Street, and i'm
mediately in the rear of the Ware
house of w. G.. Peacock & Co,
Ltd, on Queen Street, being a
portion of l.. G.. A. JIG, and hav.
ing an area of 176 3-S Fathoms.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-02-15
On Saturday, February rs, 1899
O'CLOCK NO0N-
At My saesroom 33
O

G-PIECE OF LAND at kza-
koPua, In rear of premises Of Dr.
Aware. being n portion Of l.. G.
- iI.0Ts. Il. T.. el5, being To; No.
!: Of the Estate of the late Ka-
pika Naonc, and having an ara
cf ITsa square Feet.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-02-15

PIECE OF LAND at kaa-
kopua, adjoining piece No. Z Of
these lands, being a portion 81 l.
g. \. 1851, X. l.. sis, and having
an area Of 10 Acre.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-02-15

I-PIECE OF LAND at kaa-
kopua, back Of Emma Street. be-
ing a portion Of l.. g. \. 1911,
Apana rs. X. L. 1893, and having
an area Of o. IL Acre.
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WOULD HARNESS THE OCEAN.
New York Man Invents Machine 70
Get Power from the Tides.

New York Man Invents Machine TO
Get Power from the Tides.
The patent office has issued to Mr..
Reed, a rsSIdent Of New York. patent
for device by which the power Of the
tides may be utilized. 1t Is declared
that by the new invention the question
OF the exhaustion OF the coal supply
becomes a matter of small consldera-
ton. The ocean can be made to afford
power for every conceivable purpose
and to an extent beyond the scope of
human computation. Wherever the
ocean tides are felt to any appreciable
extent there can be built power plant
In operating the Reed tide power
plant no coal or other form OF steam
producing material Is necessary, for
steam Is not required. Electricity can
be manufactured ut ridiculously
small cost In sufficient quantities to
permit its use for all OF the purposes
for which II is desired. and the electric
plant Of to-day Is to become a thing OF
the past. The great city can be made
ss light as if In the full glare Of the
MONDAY sun. and for trifie in COM
parison with the sum now expended for
electric lighting. All these things are
TO come to pass If Reeds confident
hopes are realized.
In his method Of Harvesting the ocean
and forcing its resistless motion to
work for man Reed believes that he
has come as near solving the problem
Of perpetual motion as human ingenu-
ity will ever suggest. The tides are
stationary at their ebb and flow. but
the new invention provides that the
machinery shall continue producing
power while the ocean is practically at
rest.
The main proposition can be illus
trated by taking n basin and erecting
In its center stationary metal post.
Then take block Of wood with n hole
through its center and slip 1t over the
metal post. Fill the basin with water
AS the basin fills the block of wood
rises and when the water Is allowed to
run out through an aperture in the
bottom Of the basin, representing the
eDDlng or the tide, the block Of wood
slides downward on the post. Power
Is produced from the pressure Of the
block as 1t rises and falls.
How this power Is captured and dis
tributed Is illustrated in the illustration
herewith produced. Figure is boat
or scow, as represented by the block
Of wood. No. 2 is creek or pond
damned to hold water that runs into 1t
at high tide and held for use when the
tide has gone out. On the city river
front this may be reservoir excava-
ted near the water and covered over so
that the ground surface may be used.
No. 3 is a reservoir built In front OF
the scow to hold water emptied from
the deck of the scow at high tide. so
that the scow, lightened Of its load of
water after it has risen to the level Of
high tide. may continue rising through
its own buoyancy and continue the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20

high in the air, with the certainty Of
piunging into any vessel occupying a
plotted position upon chart which Is
in the possession Of officers equipped
with range-finders of delicate precision,
located at considerable distance from
the concealed battery. This chart is
divided into minute squares, and as the
enemy's ships cross the intersections Of
imaginary lines the men handling the
mortars although they cannot see the
vessels, aim, load and discharge with
the certainty born of long practice that
every shot will tell
These new mortars, of which 1000
are provided for in the existing scheme
OF national coast defense, and Of which
800 have already been mounted in posi-
tons commanding the entrances Of the
principal harbors on the Atlantic coast,
fire a 12-inch shell Weighing 1000
pounds. This, following a high trajec-
tory, is intended to fall upon the unar-
mOred decks of vessels and, by explod-
ing, demolish the machinery, destroy
the crew, and perhaps sink the vessel.
These weapons each weigh about thir-
teen tons, are II feet o inches long, and
their 12-inch rifed bore is 10 feet in
length. Their great diameter ut the
breech is feet 2 inches. This great
mass of metal is so nicely balanced that
1t can be loaded, aimed and fired by two
men. The loading Is performed by SIM
pie mechanisms, and with trained gun
company Of six men one accurate shot
can be fired every two minutes.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20


original wildness except In Its pointed
ears and It's size. which was about that
OF four ordinary cats.
An interested visitor. after having
reached finger through the wires OF
the Wildcats cage and stroked the anil
mails forehead. strolled along, and
presently repeated the performance at
the cage OF particularly handsome
Angora, receiving a savage scratch as
he did so.
"Wow! Oww he exclaimed. wrap
ping his handkerchief hastily around
the torn finger. "A tame wildcat isn't
half as dangerous as a wild tame cat!'
An agriculturist from Iowa, who had
brought some live stock to the city,
and had heard of the cat show, dropped
In to see what II was like. He had a
half-formed idea of buying one OF the
handsomest Of the animals, IL he could
be assured that he could transport It to
his home without too much trouble.
With this point In mind he made the
rounds Of the cages, and then, stopping
In front of splendid black cat bearing
the name of peter Jackson" asked
somebody who happened to be stand
ing by:
what do you suppose they'd sell
that cat forY
''The lady who owns that cat" was
the reply, "values him at five hundred
dollars"
Great Scott" gasped the visitor.
''That's all got for whole carload
of fat hogs!
He didn't buy any cats at that show.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20

as the midnight reaches II. When
midnight again occurs in the one hun
dred and eightieth meridian another
date begins its journey around the
earth. - "A - Aa'i MA
When vessels, cross the ope hundred
and eightieth meridian they. either drop
a day or add one, TO the calendar As
the new date begins on TINT lire. a
vessel sailing eastward across the line
goes out OF the area having the new
date and must therefore 20 back day.
Sailing westward the vessel enters the
area having new day and must there
fore add day to the calendar. Thus,
when sailing eastward across the line.
Monday is dropped for Sunday: but
sailing westward over the line Satur-
day at once gives place to Sunday. The
medium of $50 degrees. at which all
new civil days begin, is called the ''in-
ternational date line .'t'''>'
AS matter Of fact the international
date line is an arbitrary line and does
not conform strictly to the one hun
dred and eightieth meridian. Many isl
ands in the Pacific, notably those
which are in close commercial touch
with Australia. use East Greenwich
time, though geographically they lie in
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20
power beyond the highest rise of the

power beyond the highest rise of the
tide.
The reservoir may be dispensed with
and the waste water may be allowed to
run into the ocean or river, but 1t is I'M
portant rs a secondary source Of power.
When 1t has been filed at high tide and
the tide falls, then the water may be
released, as shown at No. 4. and give
power for a wheel. as in the advance
ment Of the old principle Of the water
fall.
No. Is the well hole or caisson. as
represented by the hole in the block of
wood. No. 6 is a steel shaft passing
through the well, as represented by the
metal post in the basin. 1t rests OH and
is cemented and bolted to piling driven
into the solid earth and reaching just
above the water at highest tide.
No. Z Is a steel shalt connected at its
base with the scow, and at its top with
the short end of the main shaft and
providing the means by which the
power acquired by the rise and fall of
the scow is applied to the main shaft
and through which the speed of the rise
and fall of the scow is increased or
multiplied. The shaft is used for null
tiplying speed in preference to gearing,
rs friction is thereby saved.
No. is the main shaft, moved up and
down by the rise and fall of the scow
as it rises and falls with the tide. No.
10 is a cogwheel on shafting and sep
arabic from the fanlike main shaft. 1t
represents the point of power contact
and moves round and round as the
cogged railway, No. g. Is moved up and
down by the rise and fall of the tide.
No. o is cogged, semicircular rail,
attached to and n part Of the main shaft
and affording power by causing the
cogwheel, No. 10. to revolve and turn a
shaft with betting running to ma
chinery to be operated.
Say that the deck of the scow Is deep
enough to hold eight feet OF water.
When the tide is out and the scow has
reached the full depth OF low tide
water Is allowed to run from the creek
or pond on shore to the empty deck.
The weight of the water forces the
scow down below low-water mark. and
the downward movement of the scow
affords continuous power while the
ocean Is ut rest.
AS the tide rises the scow Is lifted up.
and when II reaches the level of high
tide and can rise no further because Of
the weight of the water on its deck the
water is allowed to run of into the res
ervoir. No. 3, and the scOw continues TO
rise through It's own buoyancy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20
SHiPBUILDING AND IRON.
How the Metal First Came to Be Used
in Nautical Construction.

How the Metal First Came to Be Used
in Nautical Construction.
The story of the use of iron as n ma
terial for the construction of ships is
full Of interest. Iron was long ago used
experimentally for building boats; sew
eral references to these crude attempts
will be found In the annual register Of
last century. Grantham quotes from a
publication dated July %, 1887. The
writer says: "a few days ago a boat
built of English iron by j. Wilkison,
ESQ, of Bradley Forge came up our
canal Of this town, loaded with twenty
TIVE tons and fifteen hundredweight Of
its'own metal, etc. 1t is nearly of equal
dimensions with other boats employed
upon the canal, being 20 feet long and
q feet S1a inches wide; the thickness Of
the plates with which 1t Is made is
about five-sixteenths of an inch, and It
Is put together with rivets, like copper
or fire engine boilers; but the stem and
stern posts are wood and the gunwale
lined with the same; the beams are
made OF elm planks.
Eier weight Is about eight tons; she
will carry, in deep water, upward of
thirty-two tons, and draws eight or
nine inches Of water when light" 1t is
extraordinary that such hints as these
should have fallen dead. Was there no
shipbuilder with an eye swift to wit
ness the enormous possibilities latent
In these little canal experiments? A
small iron boat was launched in Au-
gnst, 1915. She was fitted up In Liv-
erpooI as pleasure boat. Hundreds
viewed her as curiosity. She was
sunk maliciously in the Dukes dock,
| as though some Daniel Quilp of n work.
man, fOreseeing iron as mn issue IL this
boat was suffered to go on limiting, had
pat an end to her. Her owner raised
her and sold her for old iron; "but the
/ loss of this boat" he says, turned my
attention to the practicability of max.
Ing an iron boat which could not be
sunk by any ordinary means" Pail
Mall Magazine.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20
TIME IN UNCLE SANS POSSESSIONS.

Greenwich. though, according to our
adopted standard time, IL is regarded
commercially rs only eight hours dis
tant Honolulu. in the Sandwich ISL
ands of the United States, is distant by
sun 10 hours, 81 minutes and 3G sec
onifs from Greenwich. 1t would GER
tainly be more convenient to drop the
minutes and seconds and consider the
Hawaiian group as round 10 hours
distant from Greenwich, or two hours
from San Francisco or five from New
YORK.
So Ear, this question Of time has been
comparatively easy. We have been
following the sun to the westward.
eaking our date and day with us. the
sasnc with which we started from
Greenwich or New York. but after we
move Off from the Sandwich group and
head for our tight little island Of Guam
we encounter difficulty that is decid-
ediy puzzling to the landsman, and
exeD the nautical man has to sit down
and work It out
The difficulty lies In the adding or
dropping from our calendar of an en-
tire day. according rs we may be GO
ing to the east or to the west of that
meridian of longitude called $50 de-
grecs.
Guam lies in the Pacific ocean In
longitude LA degrees 80 minutes 80
seconds east In time this is nine hours,
IL minutes and 81 seconds east OF
Greenwfch. This means that the SIN
rises over that island IA hours. 80 min
utes and 80 seconds before that lumi-
nary shines over the island OF Man
haitian.
The common day. often called the
civil day. lasts from midnight to mid
plght-24 hours. In order that the civil
day may have the same number OF
date the world around the leading ma
tsons have agreed to use the date of the
days as they begin on the one hundred
and eightieth meridian.
Thus with every place Its dates are
scunted from midnight to midnight
snfi each day takes the same date a'
tknt given TO the latest new day OF
ne one hundred and eightieth NERD
isn. We may think of the new date M
ssavcling westward with the midnight
Ehe date 10 gwen to each place as SCOT
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20

]. Bull, Esq., and Uncle Sam Lead II
Swallowing PilIs.

]. Bull, Esq, and Uncle Sam Lead In
Swallowing PfiIs.
1t has been lately discovered that
Uncle Sam has an unrec0rded feather
In his cap. He not only consumes moro
whisky. beer, ETC., than any nation In
the world. but, as direct cause or con-
sequence, he annually swallows more
pills. England Is a close second, but
then the second man, like Vice Presi-
dent, has always sunk into the bottom
of oblivion. There is no need to put
OF rejoicing. We lead mankind In pat
ent medicines.
The introduction of machinery has in
pill-making, as In all other trades,
greatly simplified and increased the
business. Where formerly chemists
and apprentices were engaged there are
now machines to mix, coat, box and
count the goods. The output In Great
Britain, In consequence Of the extreme
ease In which both the medicine and
the money may be made, has yearly In
creased until 1t Is now estimated that
$50 hundred weight, or about $1,000, 900
pills, are consumed each week. In the
United States the figures run over 5O,-.
100000. This means that five humans
out of six take pill every seven days.
The uses to which this mass of medi-
cine is put are Of course manifold. The
majority are for so-cal1ed incurable dis
eases, while, Of course, great portion
are panaceas. The advertising from
the business is enormous, 500 600 per
week In England and $4,000 in Amer
les being a modest estimate. The prof
its are said to be monstrous, as the in
gradients in the most cases cost little or
nothing. America is great, although
unconscious, believer in faith cure.
Her generally extraordinary health has
been by some attributed to the fact
that the majority of her people, before
calling a physician, will dose them
selves with these ready-made pills.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20
MACHINE FOR HARNEssING THE OCEAN.

admitted to the practice of law in Gin
cinnati, Ohio. in 1899, and gained at
once the privilege of the State Supreme
and United States Supreme Courts. He
moved to Logansport in 1889. when the
city was larger than Chicago. The
stone house he bought and is now using
for residence had been built in 1896
by Gen. Upton, the hero of Tippecanoe.
The judge was in charge of the Circuit
Court for years. In 1874 he was elected
judge of the State Supreme Court. In
1910 he was a member of the State Con-
stitutional convention.
His unusual education was entirely
self-acquired. His great library is the
result of desire to get all the good and
interesting books. and by adding con-
stantly through the many years of his
life it grew to its present proportions,
which make 1t the largest private IL
brary in the State and one of the
largest private collections in the coun-
try. Among his volumes are many
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20

You know Gordon. our Boston cor
respondent, don't you, Fowler?' "Yes.
Lost his baby recently. didn't hep
"Yes. You see we felt that we wanted
to do something to express our sym
patty and finally decided to wire him
couple of dozen roses. Gordon thank
ed us In n very graceful little note-he
is very good ut such things-and wound
up by saying that we had touched him
deeply" mo doubt OF II. Gordon
is a fellow who would appreciate n
thing like that" "Yes. but 1t was a few
days later. when we discovered that
the Boston florist had sent Gordon the
bill for ten dollars, that the Significance
and deep pathos of his remark appealed
to us."-Llfe.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20
RIGHT TIME OF DAY.
sooT SO READILY DETERMINED
AS ONE MAY IMAGINE.
when It's Noon In New York City It's
Am Forts OF Times, the Same Day
sad the Next, In Other parts Of
Uncle Samdom.

TIE tiene OF day-in other words,
what O'clock II isis q simple matter,
ven understood and easily compre-
headed by everybody In a city or In ap-
proximately the same locality. But
when people are separated. some being
@ the east or the west of others. the
sjmplicity OF the answer to the ques-
tion, What time is 1t? Is by no means
20 apparent.
Indeed. confusion has so often arisen
IN consequence of the difference be-
tween clocks. say. at New York and
Chicago. that II has been found decid-
edly advantageous to divide the United
States into time districts. each district
differing from the adjoining one by just
enc hour Of time. Thus In the United
States today there are Eastern time
corresponding to the seyenty-ffth mer-
tiian of longitude west from Green
wich), Central time corresponding to
the ninetieth meridian west from
Greenwich). Mountain time correspond
ing TO the one hundred and fifth merid-
IAN west from Greenwich). and West
ern time corresponding to the one hun
dred and twentieth meridian west from
Greenwich).
Owing to this simple arrangement II
therefore follows that when it is high
noon in Eastern time at New York, for
instance It Is IL o'clock in Central time
ut Chicago. 10 o'clock in Mountain time
at Denver. and 0 o'clock in Western
time ut San Francisco. This division
Of time. though not automatically cor
rect. is sufficiently so for all practical
purposes. Since the adoption of Stand
ard time. as these times into which the
mainland of the United States is divid-
ed are called. the dominion of the coun-
try has been extended. 1t now COM
Drises islands in the Atlantic ocean and
Hands in the Pacific ocean. Havana,
most people have the idea. lies to the
eastward and southwark of New York.
Instead. it Is situated nearly south of
Key West, about midway between
Eastern and Central times. Undoubt-
edly Eastern time will be the time to
which Cuban clocks win eventually be
set.
San Juan is situated in longitude GG
degrees Z minutes % seconds west.
This reduced from arc to time by divld-
ing by 10 gives four hours "a minutes
and 20 seconds. Here again, perhaps,
Eastern time will be adopted when
trade between these West India ISL
ands and the ports along the Atlantic
seaboard has increased to the great
volume which is sure to come with
peace and prosperity.
Now for the great West San Fran
cisco lies eight hours, nine minutes and
80 seconds distant in time from
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20

JUDGE BlDDLE. In gs, statuary,
specimens of ornlthology and zoology.
and with curiosities of every kind. He
has wonderful collections Of all, but his
books are the greatest in number and
Importance. He has 5000 volumes on
his shelves, while perhaps 1000 have
been lost or retained by those who have
borrowed them, and 1000 works on law
were sold some time ago.
He has barely corner for his couch,
table and chair, all the other space of
his goodsized house being given to his
collections. He lives alone among them
and no outsider is given opportunity to
iDtrude, only rs the judge permits it.
Judge Biddle is past So years Of age
and was born in Logan, Ohio. He was
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20

The newest bracelet Is exceedingly
oriental In design. 1t Is heavy gold
ring. which slips .on and of the hand
and Is STUDIED with three gems, a jade
stone, amethyst and coral. Another
novelty In the bracelet line is also q
heavy gold hoop, from which Is sus-
pended no less than half dozen ban
giles In animal designs. Pigs, goats,
dogs and horses appear to be the favor
ties. These animal bangles are also
much used as watch charms.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20

The Cars proposal 20 check the m
crease Of aslnaments II NOT without 4
flavor Of irony, proceeding ~ i did from
a monarch who. not only has ~ Tar the
largest army in the world. hut who was
also busy increasins his navy when he
made his famous proposal. .,S
European nations spend . terrible pro-
portion of'their encrg5eA Anik their re-
sources in preparations FOR WaF, Though
it may be an exaggeration Say that Eu-
rope is one vast camp, there are something
like four millions OF its male Inhabitants
constantly under arms az soldiers or sail
ors even in times of pesee,, md when it is
borne in mind that all these have TO be
maintained, in non-productiye work and
supplied with the most costly appliances,
some idea may be formed OF the gigantic
waste. The following tables. compiled by
st. Paurs, will enable one TO compare the
ornaments Of the leading hatipns:
Dkts 4! Army Army
Populations. in peace. In war
Russia ....... Ia. 166. J6ll 880.O0O 3,502 600
United States. 81, 81, $50 25.0O0 140.G27
Germany $50. 52.:70.915 5S5.440 1000. 600
Austria
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20
He Knew bv Isxper&ence.

"You should try and be a little more
gentle, Reginald" said the mother of
an obstreperous 6-year-old. ''The Bible
tells us that the meek shall inherit the
earth, you know"
"And what good would the earth do
me, even IL did inherit 1T" snorted
the injured spirit wrathfully. you'd
either make me put 1t in the bank, or
send 1t to the heather, or dfvvy 1t up
with sister Sue, or lay 1t away and only
use II on SUNDAYS, "--Puck.