The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-28

people generally stirred up and in pro-
ducing a crop of suspects, who after all
have nothing the matter with them,
except perhaps a sore throat or a touch
of fever.
Hilo's New Water Pine.
There is quite lot of water pipe "
ing around down in Jack Wilson's pas
ture. 1t is water pipe theoretically
destined to supply Hilo with LIQUID re-
Testament and baths. The appronria-
ton for its purchase was passed nv
the Legislature two years ago: esti-
mates OF the amount required were
sent down to the Interior Department
one year ago last December. These
estimates became pigeon-holed in
RoWelPs whiskers and naturally were
never heard of again" The next
April MIR. Vannatta was in Honolulu
and enquired about the pipe; he then
heard OF the loss of the estimates. He
went through the Rowen meadow With
a bull-rake and followed this up with
curry-comb. but failed to find his
original estimates. He came back to
Hilo and made some more estimates
and forwarded to the pigeon-holing de-
partment. These managed to survive
and in the course of six months the
pipe was ordered just as it touched the
top market price, about 80 per cent
above what it could have been pur-
chased for when originally ordered
FROM Hilo. Hence it took all the ap-
preparation to buy the pipe and there
is nothing left to lay it with. Accord
ingly 1t will not be laid, but it will con-
tinue to lie where it has been landed
for anywhere from two to ten years,
according to circumstances. Such is
the financiering of Rowell. Is it any
wonder that the people of Hilo are
driven to strong drink and become
mobs, when they can't get water?
Athletic Exhibition.
Jackson Hearde, the energetic CO.
median, is to give the Hilo people one
more show, next week, before his de-
parture for Honolulu. It seems there
is young man on the Conemaugh who
tn nks he is something with the gloves
aud match has been arranged between
hin and Johnnie Simpson. The affair
will take place at Long wharf next
Tuesday evening; ten unds. There
will be some preliminary bouts be-
tween local amateurs, for which see
advertisement and posters. The ad-
mission will be 81 straight; no reserv-
ed seats. c. M. Smith of the U. S.
Army, who is prepared to run UP
against the local man, has something
of record. He has to his credit a
six-round contest with Tom Johnston
of Indiana and five-round bout with
Jack Ryfle of Ohio; also a draw in a
bout with est. Joe Kid" in New York
Young Peoples Society.
The Y. P. S. C. E. gave social in the
church parlors on Tuesday evening
! last, which was well attended and g
very pleasant affair. Various devices
were adopted for producing a circula
ton of the victims, who naturally or
such occasions persist in lining up or
| the four sides of the room and posins
as statues of RameSes, signs of life be
ing carefully suppressed.
A General interchange of autograph:
wa. Effected by means of cards furnish
| ed for that purpose, upon which every
| one got everyone else n write hi!
name This took about an hour, an(
was followed by a guessing contest up
on various freaky hooking articles eact
enc OF which was supposed to symbolic
some work Of art. For example &
| match floating in cup Of water wa!
/ 'the SWIMMING match" or three cop
per pennies were common sense
| (Which by the way is hardly work O
art). LOIS wife, was represented b.
bag Of salt, etc. Some people guessed
some of them Most neonle didn't
There is very little Of the imaginative
in the Hilo make up "a primrose OF
| the rivers brim," etc. The usual In
digestion provoking refreshments fol
| loved vocal and instrumental music by
local artists, and the affair broke up a
Il perfectly proper and Christian
hour On the whole the Y. P. 5. c. E
are more successful at this sort of thins
than their oJdorc