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Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-04-12
PART OF WRECKED SHIP.
How Firm of English shipbuilders
Are Utilizing Half of =
Stranded yessel.

Probably the most remarkable
Achievements in the line of wreckinp
and rebuilding to be found in mari
time history is represented by the
reconstructed steamer Milwaukee.
which was turned out in the summer
of 1899 at the yard of G. S. Swan a.
Hunter at Nallsend-on-Tyne. England,
says the Engineering Magazine.
he Milwaukee, a vessel of 4s3 feet
length and 56-foot beam, went ashore
near Aberdeen in September, 1898, n
huge rock penetrating the hold for a
length of 30 feet and to height OF
eight feet above the tank top. When
the salvage operators saw that il
would be impossible To save the entire
vessel II was decided TO blow her in
two with dynamite. This was done
successfully aud $50 feet of the fore
end was left on the rocks, while the
after end was towed To dry dock.
1iie saved portion OF the vessel de.
pended for fiotatun until placed In
dry deck upon a transverse water.
tight bnlkhead at the forward end af
tie boiler space. Ii was towed 10 the
Tyne and moored in the river until Il
new how was built. launched and made
ready for connection with it, So well
MAS this done that person ignorant
of the facts would never know tina, he
Was looking at the original bow, white
even those persons who knew the cir
eumstances of the ease were unable 10
point out the point where the junction
OF the new and old portions was made.
Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-04-12
TWO TALL STORIES.
onc Each from, Doston and PhiiadeI-
phin, 50 Hoth Must
BE True.

a writer in Boston publication says
that not long ago a hawk caught fish
in Long Island sound, but " hle lying
with IL TO the woods 10 devonr il al ieis-
ure the fish ilonndered from the haW X S
hold aud dropped into farmers yard
where a big mastiif was sitting. he
dog caught the fish as it came down
and the hawk snooped after il. but The
dog turned and ran into the house.
placing his trophy, yet alive, at the
feet of his mistress. 1t proved TO be a
large bluefsh. and il was served up
that night TO an appreciative family
The dog ever since has been seen TO sit
in the same place at he same time, evi.
deuily impressed With the belief that
his gond fortune may be repeated.
A stieet car struck Giuseppe Marate
a sailor. N Philadelphia Christmas day,
knocked him down and dislocated his
shoulder. lie Was put into wagon and
hurried OF toward the PENNSYLVANIA
hospital. The wagon jumped over rui
in tie pavement and the jar reset his
shoulder. When he got to the hos.
pital the surgeons found the shoulder
all right. baudaged il and sent him back
10 his vessel.
Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-04-12
Gnryenn. sMnrls.

or gorgeous swords which are not so
much weapons as settings for precious
stones, the most valuable in England
is said to be the one presented by The
Egyptians To Lord Nolseley and ealue5l
at $4,000; but This sum is comparative.
~ title for beieweled sword II The
value OF the sword brought over TO Eu
rope by the shah of Persia on his first
namely e i0000-can be taken as
a standard of What diamoud-hiiied
weapon ought 10 cost. Those who ral
recall fbai wonderful saber, SAYS Cham,
bers' Journal. Will he somewhat sLep
licdl ahoui the existence OF The Ga K
war. the haroda's gorgeous blade, which
j. supposed to be worth more Than 90
swords of equal beauty and value Of
the shah's; but il is popularity supposed
thai HE diamonds. ruhies ard emerai6s
With which Il is ihiekiy inerusted hriue
up its value to about ( 229.ca0. y hieL al
four per cent represents an iurome OF
almasi c9.r0Q year and renders The
possession OF such a sword something
more than a mere Injury.
Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-04-12

Each pigeon used in the carrier
service of the British navy costs the
government ca year.
Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-04-12
nemedy For seinticn.

Here is really old fashioned rene
dy. 1t is a gAndmother's remedy,
aud the grandmother who believes in
II is alive and recommends IT personal
ly. 1t IS for sciatica
Take equal parts of -four and red
pepper and mix with vinegar Make
n paste of il and move 1t froxl place TO
place with the pain. And II that does
not help you then | am mistaken,
concludes the grandmother. New
York Times
Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-04-12

Pushef Guslier Is not very happy in
his choice Of adiectiNes.
Nsl.ef Why So?
rush4 Miss ,innms nShed for a
compim,m hy asking him what he
thought ot isfr slippers
Usher Ana NhHi did he say?
Pusher llf said they were Immense.
Golfers Weekly.
Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-04-12

Some smiths In United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom there are
3o0.0o0 persons named Smith.
Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-04-12

In the annual rowing race between
the Oxford and Cambridge crews at
London Saturday, the latter were easy
yictors,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23
THE HOTEL STABLES.

IL there Is any sound reason why the
Board of Health should treat the Hotel
Stables with more leniency than 1t has
treated other infected and infectious
buildings we should be glad to convey
1T TO our readers. But We are advised
of none. There Is evidence that two
cases OF plague originated at the sta
bles, and the fact that the victims
were there while suffering from the
disease is conceded. For much less
reason than this the Board has con-
demned and burned many structures.
A house that Mrs. Franz entered short
iy before she was taken i'll was given
over TO the torch. Places where sus-
pected merchandise was stored met a
similar fate. Upon the sound reason
that an infected locality Is more dan
gerous to the public health than in
fected individuals, the destruction of
property has been very sweeping and
of corresponding advantage in the
fight against the plague.
1t was supposed when the Board OF
Health began its work with the official
firebrand that 1t would not stop short
OF thorough job. The first pause 1t
made was at the Pantheon Stables,
owned by the same gentlemen who are
conducting the Hotel Stables. Though
it was known that the plague had got
a foothold there, 1t was days before
the Board consented to burn the prop
erty. That body held out, despite the
sharpest criticism, until the occurrence
OF new cases, one OF them that Of a
white man, compelled it to heed the
duty It's own wisdom had, as respects
the treatment of other plague-centers,
clearly and boldly enunciated. The
stables were burned, but as sop to
the owners, and despite a contrary
precedent In one other case, the re-
moyal of the portable articles at the
Pantheon was permitted.
These articles. including wagons,
harness, whips, laprobes, sponges,
tools, ct cetera-we are not certain
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23
1h1IR lKatiIIoIAor.
The Eighth Plague Case Develops
IN Maui.

MAUI, rob. ls.--For some reason
the steamer Claudlne did not sail foi
Honolulu on Saturday, az was an.
nounced by telephone, but comes from
Hama today and sails away this after.
noon. The FIRST death by plague siagt
Sunday, the 18th. took place yesterday
the 18th, thus breaking the bright rec
ord OF a week or more.
On Thursday, the Sth, Chinese. suf-
ferlng with fever, was taken from the
detention camp and placed in the pest
hospital. Later pneumonia symp-
toms were developed, and he died on
Sunday, the 18th. At the postmortem
examination the cause OF his death was
declared to be plague, making the
eighth victim TO the disease. The body
was burned Immediately.
This morning, by order of the
Health Committee, a cottage, known
as the Charlie Broad house" was
burned at Kahului, inasmuch as II was
believed to be infected.
BY order OF DIR. Garvin, no church
or congregation of any kind was held
during Sunday, the 18th.
Camp Four, Spreckelsville, has had a
scare. A japanese was taken sick,
and, IL was rumored, with plague, but
after examination this morning the
doctors declare the fever not to be bu-
bonic. However, 1t seems difficult to
detect the presence OF plague except by
postmortem examination.
Hearing of this case at Camp Four,
Captain of Police Kalama sent ten Jap
anese runaways to the Kahului deten-
ton camp. They were six men, three
women and a child. Kalama found
them yesterday, hiding in Halehaku
gulch, well provided with rice, sugar
etc. They said they had fled from
Camp Four, Spreckelsyllle, SO Captain
Kalama Immediately sent them to Ka-
hului They We're either fleeing from
work or running from what they be-
lieyed was plague.
1t is rumored that the Japs are de-
serting Camp Four, fleeing in different
directions.
If the theory advanced that the
plague was brought TO Maui through
Chinese New Year goods is true, then
1t Is quite possible for the plague to
break out In Camp Four, for those
same goods were carried TO Camp Four
and Camp Five, Spreckelsville, to Ma
kawao, and, In fact, scattered all over
the Island. There were some thirty or
forty cases of goods in all, and they
were divided up and sent to Chinese
camps and stores all over Wailuku and
Makawao districts. SO the theory
that plague was introduced by Chinese
goods Is opened to argument. 1t was
Just seven days after the landing of a
lot of Japanese laborers that the dis
ease showed itself. Among the num-
Der were forty free men (without con-
tracts, who remained in Kahulni, In
Chinatown and all over the village, for
several days. How the plague came to
Maui Is still an open question.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23
WESTINGHOUSE BIRTHDAY.

1t Is now few months more
than a hundred years since Wash
ington died and considerably less
time than that since Ameri-
cans chose to celebrate his natal
day. The curious fact exists that the
first proposal to celebrate was stoutly
resisted by the Jeffersonian Democrats
because, as they said. such practices
sayored of monarchy. Hamiltonlan
Federalists gave the day its first vogue
and between 1910 and 1860 It was a
very popular holiday in many parts of
the country. especially In the South.
Owing to the fact that Washington
had been a stakeholder the observance
showed signs of lapsing In New En-
gland and in the Western Reserve of
Ohio during the Abolition movement.
Throughout the Civil War the Confed-
crates made the most of the day, but
after that bloody interregnum the whole
country took 1t up and now the 22nd
of February Is date of national scope
In the patriotic calendar.
Within the lifetime of people who
are still with lis the day was only OBJ
served in strip OF territory between
Maine and Florida. The Washington
ian tradition had no wider field. Now
its hold upon patriotic attention is
more than continental; it extends as
far as Alaska on the north and Samoa
on the south and as far west as the
Philippines. BY courtesy the observ-
ance of the day is as wide as the civiliz-
ed world. Wherever American dlplo-
matte and naval functionaries are on
duty in foreign lands and waters the
governmental to whom they are accred-
tied will pay, their respects either per-
sonally or by hoisting and salutIng the
American flag. And In no place will
these ceremonies be more scrupulously
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23

shout hsy sba stkla--sefs iAtsh e
ihs lie,sl sihhlet Nhsiha iatf 80
"A lhfefiioh eiit fbsW b HH t
aoi sat. bot is avs event ihe Intimate
sna interchangeable hnslneet felail1t
between enc Pantheon ahd inH Hotel
STABLES Wa Hth as % make q ihs
most natural ,hlnr IN ihe ~pfia thai
the plague In one shonid be- transmit
ted 20 the other why the hoard
should haye added 70 the facilities OF
the interchange by letting the contents
III the condemned stable be taken 10
the one not yet condemned We DO not
know. The fact shows lcnienoy Tor
which We DO not try 20 account and
which now manlfests itself again and
In a way beyond all reason and beyond
ali precedent save the Pantheon prece-
dent, in an order to merely quarantine
the infected spot,
What good will the quarantine do.
considered as a remedy? True, the
public will not be permitted 10 hire
liverles at the Hotel Stables nor to
enter there but the quarantine Will not
keep infected rats from scattering all
over the nelghborhoOd and into the
Hawaiian Hotel and the Executive
building. 1t will not suppress the ba-
GILL that probably exist in the pollu-
ted ground underneath. 1t will not re-
move the plague spot--nOr VIII fumi-
cation, in such rambling structure.
The longer the quarantine lasts the
longer the danger from the stables
will survive What possible justiiica-
ton Is there, from the sanitary point
of view, of letting it survive? we
should not have to ask that question
If the owners OF the stables were Ash
atics.
II the Board of Health is waiting to
see whether the public will back 1t In
out uniform policy it need
wait no longer. The public, 80 far as
the Advertisers Industrious reporters
can find out, and so far as 1t has made
its opinions known, admits no reason
why the Board should treat one plague
center as past cure and another as cur
able. There should be no Partially in
such things; wherever the plague
lodges, the flames should seek 1t out.
That is a policy which the people OF
accepted from the Board In
good faith, and which they desire to
lee advanced and maintained, ire
pective OF the owners or stockholders
Who may suffer by It,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23
FROM sPREcKELsVILLE.
United Work Against Tho Plague
A Singular Accident.

SPRECKELSVILLE, Feb. 1.-THE
people at large have earnestly second
ed the efforts OF the health officials In
every way, and the presence of a
common enemy has closed the ranks
and caused old feuds and differences to
be laid aside, at any rate, for awhile.
A Japanese laborer named MorIkawa
Imataw met with his death at Spreck-
elsvllle mill on the 10Th In a somewhat
remarkable manner. He was grubbing
up an algeroba tree and when 1t COM
menced to fall he did not seem to have
sufficient presence of mind to get out
OF the way. II descended quite slowly,
but he seemed to be paralyzed, and
simply stood still till 1t crushed him
to the earth. He was extricated at
once by the gang who were assisting
him to fell the tree, and carried to
the hospital. but he expired almost i'm
medlately. Verdict, accidental
death"
The Kahului Railroad enterprise,
lately purchased and taken over by
the Hawaiian Commercial, will In the
near future DO largely extended, and
will be laid all over the Spreckelsville
plantation. and to connect with Kihei
and Maalaea bay. About thirty miles
OF track have been purchased at the
Carnegie rail mills and this and 9TH
er material Is now being shipped
around the Horn, destined for this
place.
1t will take most OF two years be-
fore the new mill and other large I'M
dertakings are fully complete, but
work is being rushed on all OF them,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23
PlLrH Ins nESAcr.

Dr. Woods statement that plagu'
may ilnger with ne for a year appear
ing In sporadic cases. Ia based upor
the presence Of filth In the soil W.
are face to face with the distressing
circumstance that the ground upon
which Honolulu Ia built IL polluted
People have lived here for a great
while. possibly for over a thousand
years, and the dead under foot are le-
gion. We are crowding our modern
burial grounds with bodies, some OF
which, as in the lower part of the King
street cemetery. are said to rest in wa
ter which drains into the inhabited
marshes beyond But the chief source
of infection is the excreta which has
been 70 long piling up in some thou
sands OF cesspools and saturating the
earth under and near houses where
people live.
1t Is appalling to think how vast this
factor OF insanitation is. both in bulk
and power of mischief. For years filth
has been gathering here at the rate of
from fifteen to twenty tons day. The
excavators. two in number, have not
begun to keep even with 1t. We doubt,
from all we hear and see, that they
have half tried. The agent of the
Board OF Health says they carry four
tons each and are capable OF from six
to eight trips per day. If their services
had worked out that way we might
now have no plague, but the condition
of Chinatown, and of Honolulu gener-
ally, shows that the achievements of
the excavators were quite as much of
n delusion in the three or four years
preceding the coming of the black
death as were most of the other activi-
ties of the old Board OF Health.
We are getting more excavators now
and an aroused public sentiment and
a vigilant press may be depended on
to see that they do their duty. What
Honolulu needs Is a system by which
every cesspool in town will be emptied
at least once a month and the process
kept up until, by the construction of
sewers, the use of cesspools may be
prohibited by law. If we are rightly
informed, there are now four excaya-
tors at work or one for every ten thou
sand people. Four more are coming,
and there will then be one for every
five thousand people. We believe, I'M
der perfect organization, that there
should be one excavator to every 1000
people, and careful districting OF the
city that they serve. Certainly, eight
are not enough If any i'm
preston Is to be made on the filth al
ready underground
No matter what the process may
cost, Honolulu ought to purify It's soil
as much and as soon as possible. Trees
and shrubs do something to that end
and rain-water, driving impurities in
to the black sand, may help. But the
main thing Is to keep filth from accu-
mulating while the sewer system Is
making ready. Let the expense be
what 1t pleases, the burden would be
lighter than years sufferance OF the
plague.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23

BY switching off 100000 for paying
claims in the burnt district and $685.
253,24 for sewer extension in the next
year or year-and-a-half, and something
over S360,000 for authorized" expend-
lures for public works. saying nothing
of other items, the Minister OF Finance
has reduced the national surplus to
sl0,O6S.27, The figures are small, but
that fact need cause no alarm. Author
lied expenditures are not mandatory,
and long before the new sewer appro-
prIation has been drawn upon, the
Treasury will be filling up with taxes,
So Hawaii is not so much on the rag
ged edge financially as the exhibit OF
the Finance Department might make 1t
seem.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23

AnNef EuA fesI8efl HaIlltf tssa fsft
siHnf lhf fss hea8h 81 hnhnlni
nlinf fhf fanHaaf4iiUh NJ raiaa
int1 80 ~ iath Hth armed eta
sAnltHHs hilled al 30 fait. Fats ahd
fefs aiiempiiha 10 saHeps ffum iht
IRE
~ isR fact worthy ~ nolict that sss
ffal prominent ChlHate declared that
there ehH plague IN kahuiui several
daff before the 10Th They had been
familiar with tho disease N China
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23

Another case OF plague at Maui, aft
err an intermission OF week, has put
the white people of that island on their
mettle. They are doing good work,
but are too few to be sure OF keeping
the Asiatics in quarantine. On that
account 1t might be best, If the people
desire 1t, to lend them the services of
a company of the National Guard. AS
Maui helps to pay for that Organization.
II is entitled to a share OF It's benefits.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23

The closing of Oahu College is work.
Ing a hardship to a number OF young
people who had hoped to prepare for
entrance at Mainland universities next
year. Considering who the Oahu stu
dents are and where they come from
and the fact that the classrooms are
not crowded, 1t might be practicable
to exempt the college from the rule
closing the public schools. We doubt
that harm would be done by this CON
cession.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23

We are glad to note the evidence of
a chastened spirit In the Bishop Es-
tate. The trustees of the properly are
filling up their submerged land at Ka-
kaako and causing old shacks to be
burned. They have also denied leases
of property which might become in
sanitary to people who wanted the
land to live on, This is moving in the
right way, and may be accepted as a
cheerful augury of the time when the
Bishop Estate will be property upon
which the sanitary authorities will
have no reason to look with dLsfayor.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23
l.fnrnn aslallf FnNnlltIs

isFprftn asisftt FtrnNtitfs.
A correspondent ei sh sf4nins fsfe
aillstit 20 Ne tafhlhs ~ Imported
Asihiit foodstuhs - the ff1ahd ihAf
{, ponid deprive he chiness ma isp
shess ~ lhelf customary de- and lend
% make them fick We csnnal ihlnk
ihai she point u we'll taken. These
fo1dsiuns are mainly dcilmeles. -.
called. which the Asiaiics can safely
90 without fof time, Just ~ oihef
people. c0mina here from the Coast. 70
without their cracked crab. and spriee
duck and other special and peculiar
table Injuries Of home 80 long ns the
staples Of Asiatlc food are 10 b. had
The Chinese aud. japanese will get on.
with rice, fresh FISH. tea, pork, eggs
and poultry for the Chinese, and rice.
tea, fresh FISH, eggs, salt salmon and
beef for the Japanese. We do not think
they viii suffer much for the want OF
seaweed, salt plums, bamboo sprouts,
dried FISH. birds nests, and sweet
meats We can let them have the sta
pies all the while, with some lmporta-
tions from California added to food re-
sources OF this country. aud that should
be enough for the time being. The
Injuries can be waited for until the
plague is over.
Quite likely, II the admission OF food
stuffs from the Orient is cut off tenn
porarily, some new industries will be
created here or old ones improved
upon. There may be more Chinese
and Japanese fishermen and better
ones. Shark meat and shelllsh may
be taken from Hawaiian waters and
dried. More chickens, ducks and veg
etables may be raised. In that way
there might be found profitable en-
ployment for hundreds who are now
idle and being cared for at public eX-
pense. Who knows?
The correspondent we refer to thinks
there can be nothing infectious about
imported Asiatlc proyender because, as
yet, no harm has been done by 1t in
San Francisco. The plea might pass
II 1t were not for the fact that 80 much
harm seems to have been done by 1t
here. The evidence of plague in the
imported merchandise, though cir
is very strong. There is |
no assurance that San Francisco will |
not get taste OF the pestilence yet;
or If not, who can say that her immu-
nifty is not climatic? Inert germs that |
are warmed to vigorous life in Hawaii |
might be exterminated by the frosty
winters and chilly, fog-permeated sum
mers of San Francisco.
On the whole, we see no reason to
change our previous opinion about i'm
ported Asiatlc foodstuffs Those on
hand should be burned and those or
iered for delivery kept out. 1t is a
of public safety to eradicate
all possible and probable causes Of in
lection, and what is more possible
and probable cause than proyender,
much of 1t ill-smelling and half-de-
cayed, which is brought here from in
'ected neighborhoods?
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-23
A RUMoR DENIED.
No Hog Cholera on Maui--Deaths
From Other Causes.

Editor Advertiser: noticed "a
statement in the Star the other day
that large number OF pigs had died
in Kamaole of the above sickness. !
would like to say that there Is no hog
cholera on Maui, nor has there been
since 1886, when 1t ragged very bad
ly. A large number of pigs did die In
Kamaole and other parts of Kula dur
ing the months of September and DC
tober, but they merely died from the
effect OF the terrible drought we were
then undergoing. 1t was 30 severe
that 1t shrivelled up the leaves of the
cactus, which, in ordinary seasons, is
the principal food of the hogs during
the dry months Of the year.
l.. Won TEMPSKY.