The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-16
LOCAL BREVITlES.
Orpheum tonight.

Doe Tanner uleu OF consumption dI
$3.50 last night.
Letters for II" and "3H" avail.
claimants at this office.
All Government schools will be
closed until further notice.
Don't go wrong when buying cam
era. The POGO excels all others.
Matted barley-NO more. no less
c. d. c., the high-ball whiskey.
whitney & Marsh, Ltd. advertise for
today extra values in American
hosiery.
Tents. with poles, pins and ropes
complete, for sale by Pearson & Potter
Co., Ltd. y
The schools Of the district were
closed yesterday by order of Minister
MOtt-Smith.
There will be no meeting Of the Pa
cifc Lodge, No. S22, A. F. q a. NJ, this
Tuesday evening.
The Hawaiian band did not play last
night at Emma Square owing to the
failure OF the electric lights. \
The Naked Truth is a new four-page
monthly journal on advertising edited
by Mr.. G. l.. Clement of Honolulu.
A list of the officers Of the Apokaa
Sugar Company who were elected to
serve for the ensuing year is published
in this issue. y
Block No bounded by Beretania,
Maunakea. Pauahi and Smith streets
will be swept by fire today by order Of
the Board Of Health.
A list OF the names Of officers who
were elected at the annual meeting of
the Telephone & Telegraph Company is
published in this issue.
Dick DAILY, who is now in charge as
commissary of the First Regiment, IS
giving over 900 meals a day to the Off
GERS and soldiers on quarantine duty.
Tents have been erected on the
grounds OF the Executive Building for
the use OF the soldiers, who have
vacated the basement of the building.
The Orpheum theatre and all places
of public amusement were closed yes
terday, by order Of the Board of Health,
and will not be opened until further
notice.
The FIRE department was called 10
the corner OF Queen and Richards
streets at 2:3O Monday morning, but
the alarm was false one. There was
no fire.
The arrival of Japs on the Doyo Mari
has crowded the facilities Of the Quar-.
antine island. Extra accommodation
may be built by the Board of Health a.
an early date.
Shippers of Island freight are adj
vised to look up new adj. of Inter-lslanc
3. N. Co. and Wilder's S. S. Co. regard
ing freight rates from Honolulu dur
ing continuance Of the plague.
Yesterday afternoon one of Peck
coal carts was driven over the edge o
coal pile at the Inter-Island Goa
yards and very valuable horse killed
The driver, fortunately, was not on tn
cart at the time.
Fred. Harrison takes exception Z
the statement in an afternoon pape
that his stores, destroyed in yester
days fire, were old structures, an
states that they had been built onl
eighteen months.
a certificate, No. 4S. for six share
of the capital stock of the Honom'
Sugar Co, standing in the name o
George Ross, has been lost in transi
and all persons are warned against nc
gotiating the same.
The inspectors named by the Cit
liens Sanitary Committee enumerate
in another column are requested l
meet the committee this morning q
. o'clock at the Office Of the Rapid TrdI
sit Co. on Fort street.
There will be an auction sale Of tn
delinquent shares Of assessahle stoc
of the Olaa Sugar Co, unless assess
ments are paid previous 70 date or sal
al Morgan's auction rooms, 30 Quee
street, January q, 1900.
Reports to the Board of Health sta
that much of the garbage depositt
outside the harbor by the scows Is b
ing driven back into the harbor by Il
winds. The Board will take measur
10 have the garbage towed further OF
The fumigating plant for the y
tional guardsmen, now being erect'
on the drill shed grounds Is going
RAPIDLY. The corrugated roofing "
being laid on last night, electric Ign
being put in TO enable the work to
on all night.
Minister MOtt-Smith has suggest
to Colonel Jones that many or the a
plicants for enlistment in the Fll
Regiment be acted upon favorably. 1
military arm was cOmplimented "
terday by the Board Of Health for
efficient service.
F. w. Aston. equipment engineer
the Pacific Telephone Company ca
by the Gaelic to install the new sWltC
board of the Mutual Telephone GO
pany. Mr.. Aston is In charge or
equipment department of the telepho
system from San Diego to Spokane.
Since last Friday the streets ha
been sprinkled with per cent so
ton Of sulphuric acid and the wa
closets and vaults OF the quarantir
district and vicinity have been trea
with s per cent solution.
strength OF acid win insure the
struetion OF any plague germs "
which II comes in contact.
The Occidental Hotel block at I'm
Square was burned yesterday, the o.
building saved being the Occiden
Hotel. The fire burned slowly 9
night came before the nremen had