The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-24
THE NEWS
OF HAWAII
H. {. Cooper Visits 0Iaa
Plantation.
PRESS NOTES FROM H|LO
In Jail for er--Burning Ohia
Wood--New Masonic
Temple.


ton on Tuesday as the guest of Mana
ger McStocker. His visit was mainly with b
a view to securing Information regarding {
the line Of the Hilo Railway Company.
lie has financial interest in either the
plantation or railway. He expresses sur
prise at the enormous amount of work
done under Mr.. McStocker's management.
My visit had no direct connection with
the sugar company" remarked the Sec
rotary on his return. All l wanted to
learn was regarding the proposed line of
the railway. The Government takes |
keen interest in the enterprise and We are |
anxious to see it constructed for the pur-
pose originally intended
II can readily see that the completion |
of the two railroads are of the utmost |
Importance to Hilo; with them your mer-
chants will be put in closer touch with the
outside districts. Mr.. Gehr seems very
much in earnest in his survey work and
the maps submitted to the Government
are exceedingly fine. With the HiIo line
TO Kau and Kona and the Kohala line
connecting with it at Kailua, or wherever
the terminus may be, Hilo will have an
increase in business that will change
things very materially What the people
should do is boom the railways. encour-
age the promoters in every way possible
50 they may build with the least OPPOSE
ton TO overcome. / had ten years expe-
rience IN railway life and 1 know just
what the construction OF line means.
'As to the shipping facilities of Hilo, ]
can see that improvements are needed.
Plans have been presented to the Govern
ment showing the feasibility of building
a canal from the sea and opening up Wal
Diana stream and ponds. / do not remem-
Der now just what the details of the
scheme are. bot it occurred to me al the
time that IL was better than the plan for
the breakwater, for il would give you
complete landlocked wharves all Che way
from Waiakea to Church street, and
Front street would eventually become the
wholesale district of the city. 1t seems to
me that this could be done for the same
amount OF money that the construction
| of a breakwater would require and you
would have something that was absolute
/ Il safe and dependable. With a break
water at most you would be making an
experiment which might not prove alto
gether satisfactory. The canal. to my
mind Is the best plan and the Federal
Government could condemn all the land
required. / should say a canal eighty
feet wide would be all that was necessary
and II the soil is mud this could be built
/ at a comparatively small expense: the
dredgers in Honolulu rip out such stuff
IN short order. Your shipping facilities
win come all right once you have the rail-
lroads-they are Indispensable and have
them both built as railway lines for the
use Of the general public rather than as
combination public and plantation roads.
THESE are *Aings which interest indirect
Is every resident of Hilo.
"As 10 the town itself il occurs to me
frnnF zfT.H ra~n HrfV wi l.
ant opportunity to improve the appear
arCe Of things: there is no doubt sde-
lmand for better quarters than / find In
some sections Of the town."-Herald.
IN JAIL FOR MURDER.
Frank Keyser. Aleck Reinhart and
Charles Anderson. three sailors from the
schooner OkanoCau. were re-arrested last
Friday and will De charged with the muir
der OF An Cho, the Chinese hackman'
nearly three weeks ago.
| These are the same men who were TAX
len into custody the day after the murder
was discovered and released after a
weeks detention. owing To lack Of evil
derce Persons We're afterwards found
who gave evidence which is considered by
the authorities sufficient 10 hold them for
ItrfaL The prisoners were examined by
Secretary Cooper. who found that sever
"a hours on the Saturday night on which
the murder was committed are not salts
from their own statements. were too much
Under the influence OF liquor TO know
where they were ANY evidence connect
ing them with the crime IS circumstantial
lup 20 Nlis time.-Herald.
HILO SIDEWALKS.
The street commissioners have recon-
mCnded that sidewalks Of cement or cut
stone be placed on Waianuenue. Shipman,
Front. between Shipmau and Waianuenue
and on Pitman street, between Waianue-
niue and the mauka line OF the bridge
across the Waikiki. The proposition q
have sidewalks on the mauka side OF
Front street. between King and Church
streets, was voted down, the commission
lcrs preferring 70 wait until the Govern
meI.t provided means for widening tha
Ithoroughfare. This recommendation car
ries with IL an order for the removal o.
ali wood sidewalks now on the streets
iuamed.-Her
NEW MASONIC TEMPLE.
The Masonic fraternity in Hilo has Sc
J cured a building site on Waianuenu'
street on which they will erect a hand
some temple This step IS made neces
: sery by the large increase in membership
and the erection Of the Lodge of Perfec
tion, Chapter Rose Croix and Preceptor-
OF Knights Kadosh during the past week
Plans will be prepared as soon as the de
tails are completed.-Herald.
KOHALA-HILO RAILROAD.
II. z. Soule is in receipt or a letter froI
- President Gehr OF the Kohala-Hilo Raj
road in which he says that the arrange
ments made for the construction of II
| line from Hilo TO the north are eminent
/ ly satisfactory to him. Material viii
shipped TO Hawaii so that the work
grading and construction may begin witt
Y cut delay.-Eerald.
WILL USE OKLA WOOD.
The Olaa Sugar Company has closed
I contract with Honolulu parties for Lars
- amount of ohia sawed and rough timb'
2. to be delivered at Caney road, mauka
: II miles, from which point the purcha
lers remove Il TO Honolulu II is n
known TO what use the timber VIII be pa
Herald.
THAT RAWHIDE MEDAL
T. Commodore Beckley was interviewed
-: q Tribune reporter early Thursday NOR
o. in5 upon his lfe-saving work Regat
or Day, and incidentally upon the leath