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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16
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HONOLULU, H. 1.
San Francisco Agents-The Nevada
National Bank of San Francisco.
DRAW EXCHANGE ON
SAN FRANCISCO-The Navada Ma
tional Bank OF San Francisco.
LONDON-The Union Bank of London,
Ltd.
NEW YORK-American Exchange Ma
tional Bank.
CHICAGO-Merchant National Bank.
PARIS-Credit Lyonnais.
BERLIN-DresdnerB Bank.
HONGKONG AND YOKOHAMA-The
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation.
NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA
Bank of New Zealand.
VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER-BAnk
of British North America.
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING
AND EXCHANGE BUSINESS.
Deposits Received. Loans Made on
Approved Security. Commercial and
Travellers Credits Issued. Bills of Ex-
change Bought and Sold.
COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY AC-
COUNTED FOR.
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HOLOCAUST Of INNOCENTS.
ROCHESTER, ORPHAN ASYLUM
BURNS.
Believed That at Least Forty Children
Lost Their Lives-An Explosion
Sends Fire Through the Building.


ROCHESTER,, IN. ", January s.
The Rochester Orphan Asylum was the
scene, shortly after midnight, of a fire
and panic i'm which the lives of twenty
or more children and at least two of
the attendants at the institution We're
burned or crushed out, and half a hum
bred persons, most of them little ones,
were trampled upon burned or other
wise injured.
Twenty-seven bodies have been re-
covered so far, and it is believed the
death list may reach forty when all the
$40 inmates have been accounted for.
Of the injured many are likely to die.
When the fireman who responded to
the general alarm arrived the inmates
were jumping from the windows and
the attendants were throwing helpless
infants out of the windows regardless
of where they might fall The largest
number of dead is among infants rang
ing in age from 1 to 4 years.
The fire, which originated in the fur
nace-room, was first discovered by two
men passing by. They hastily sent In
an alarm and then turned their atten-
| ton toward arouslng nurses and chi
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16
CASTLE & COOKE, LIMITED
Commission Merchants.
SUGAR . FACTORS.
AGENTS FOR

The Eva Plantation Company.
The Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd.
The Kohala Sugar Company.
The Waimea Sugar Mill Company.
The Koloa Agricultural Company.
The Fulton Iron Works, st. Louis, Mo.
The Standard OIL Company.
The George F. Blake Steam Pumps.
Westons Centrifugals.
The New England Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company OF Boston.
The Aetna Fire Insurance Company Of
Hartford, Conn.
The Alliance Assurance Company Of
london.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16
BYAUTHORITY

SANITARY REGULATIONS OF THE
BOARD OF HEALTH FOR ALL
VILLAGES AND POPULOUS LO-
CALITIES IN THE TERRITORY
OF HAWAII, OUTSIDE OF THE
SANITARY DISTRICT OF HOMO
LULU.
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The following regulations shall apply
populous localities in the Territory of
Hawaii outside of the Sanitary District
of Honolulu:
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c, BREWER & co., LTD.
Queen St., Honolulu, 4. |.
AGENTS FOR

AGENTS FOR
Hawaiian Agricultural Company, Ono
mea Sugar Company, Honomu Sugar
Company, Wailuku Sugar Conn any
Waihee Sugar Company, Makee f'ugar
Company, Haleakala Ranch Company,
Sapapala Ranch.
Planters Line San Francisco Packets.
Charles Brewer a. Cos lie of Boston
Packets.
Agents Boston Board OF Underwriters.
Agents Philadelphia Board OF Under
writer's.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
Z, Z. JONES. President
GEORGE II. ROBERTSON. Manager
q. f. BISHOP. Treasurer and Sec'y
COL. w. f. ALLEN. Auditor
Directors.
c. NJ. COOKE, II. wATERHOUSH.
GEORGE r. CARTER.
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populous localities in the Territory of
Hawaii outside of the Sanitary District
of Honolulu:
REGARDING BUILDINGS AND
YARDS.-RAIN WATER.
Sec. q. Where the space between
buildings is less than fifteen feet the
water from the roofs of the buildings
shall be conducted in water tight lead
ers and made to discharge into suitable
drains leading onto street or alley gut
ters and if any building is so situated
that the water from the roofs of said
building will run under the building
and not drain off the same rule shall
apply. This regulations shall not ap-
ply to buildings where the amount of
water discharged from the proofs will
not be detrimental to the public health
or public sanitation.
AIR SPACE BETWEEN BUILDINGS.
Sec. (2). No building, flush with a
street or streets bounding the lot on
which it is to stand, shall hereafter be
erected within five feet of any other
boundary line of said lot, unless the
nature and location of such building
and the purposes for which it is to be
constructed and adapted, do not require
said vacant space for the preservation
of public health and public sanitation.
There shall be a clear air space of ten
feet between all buildings, except such
as are flush with a street or streets
bounding the lot on which they stand,
unless the nature and location of such
buildings and the purposes for which
they are to be constructed and adapted,
do not require said vacant space for the
preservation of the public health and
public sanitation. The word build
ings" in this paragraph shall be con-
strued to mean and include sheds, lean
tos, privies, outhouses and all other
structures of similar character"
LIGHT AND VENTILATION OF
DWELLINGS.
Sec. (0 Each and every room in
tended for use for human habitation
shall be provided with at least eight
square feet of window area having I'M
Distracted access into the open air for
each 100 square feet of floor space in
said room and free access shall at all
times be had to the same by the occu-
pants of the room; and at least one half
of such window space shall be movable
and available for ventilation.
AIR SPACE UNDER BUILDINGS.
See. (D. Every building shall have
on an average at least twenty inches
of clear space for the circulation of air
between the floor timbers and the
ground, and shall have sufficient open
ings for ventilation in the outer walls
to admit free circulation of air; but,
in case this air space cannot be secur-
ed without reaching ground water
level' then there shall be no air space,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LIMITED.

Subscribed Capital. ........Yen $4,000, 900
Paid UP Capital. Yen $4,000, 900
Reserve Fund. ..............Yen $4,000
HEAD OFFICE, YOKOHAMA.
The Bank buys and receives for col
lection Bills of Exchange, issues Drafts
and Letters of Credit, an transacts a
general ba king business.
INTEREST ALLOWED:
On fixed deposits for u months, 4 per
cent per annum.
On fixed deposits for months, 81 per
cent per annum.
On fixed deposits for months, per
cent per annum.
Branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank.
Rev Republic Building. Honolulu B |
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DIR. AND MRS. SANDOW.
SAN FRANCISCO. January S.-Dr.
and Mrs. b. f. Sandow of Hawaii are
among the guests at the Occidental.
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Fine Book and Commercial Printing
at the Star Office.
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REGARDING GARBAGE.

Sec. (22) No garbage, stable manure,
night soil or animal or vegetable re-
fuse of any nature which is dangerous
to the public health shall be used for
grading purposes or for filling up any
house lot or other tract of land
Sec. (23) Any person violating any
Of the foregoing regulations shall be
punished as provided by law.
BY order of the Board OF Health,
CHAS. WILCOX,
Secretary Board of Health.
Honolulu, January II, 1901.
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WATER TIGHT FLOORS.

Sec. co. All houses, structures, rooms
or parts thereof, in which water is used,
or intended to be used, in such guam
tity as to render the floor or floors
thereof constantly damp, shall have
such floor or floors, made absolutely
water proof, with proper drainage into
trapped leaders conveying the water
away into cesspool or sewer where
practicable or drained away so feet
from any dwelling; and the water
proofng of all such floors shall be done
in a manner satisfactory to the Board
of Health.
Sec. CD No building or structure
shall be used as residence or place Of
human habitation or abode which is
situated upon land where there is
standing water within eighteen inches
of the surface of the ground; nor shall
any building or structure be so used
that is placed on land that has been
made by filing in with dangerous and
insantary refuse or garbage or any
substance dangerous to the public
health.
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insanitary refuse or garbage or any
substance dangerous to the public
health.
REGARDING PRIVY VAULTS AND
CESSPOOLS.
Sec. 50 No privy vault, sink or cess
pool shall hereafter be located or con-
structed within fifty feet of any stream
lake, pond, well or spring of water, nor
within two feet of the line of any lot;
nor shall it be made more than eigh-
teen or less than six feet deep, or
placed in such a position that it is not
easily accessible for emptying and
cleaning.
Sec. C9) When necessary for the pre-
servation of the public health the sides
and bottom of any privy-vault sink or
cesspool, shall be made either wholly or
i'm part water tight, so as to prevent
any saturation of the ground about the
said vault, sink or cesspool, and shall
be provided with suitable ventilating
arrangement.
Sec. GO No structure or cover shall
be put upon or over any privy-vault,
sink or cesspool, until it has been in
spected by the proper agent of the
Board of Health and approved as meet
ing the requirements of these regula-
lions and of public health.
Sec. I'D Any privy-vault, sink, or
! cesspool, already constructed which has
become a nuisance, or in any way dan
gerous to life or detrimental to health,
shall be removed, reconstructed, or
altered to meet the requirements of
these regulations and of public health,
as directed by the Board of Health or
it's Agent.
Sec. Q2) The Board of Health or its
Agent may cause the emptylng or dis
/ injecting of any privy-vaults sink or
cesspool that is dangerous to the pub
| lie health, at the expense of the owner
or occupant of the premises, after 4S
hour notice and failure to comply there
with.
Sec. 03) No privy-vault or cesspool
shall be eXcavated or maintained with
| in ten feet of any dwelling house or in
habited building or cook-house or place
where cooking is done.
Sec. GD All waste, soil, sewer or
| drain pipes shall be of cast iron, lead
or vitrifed clay. If of iron or lead the
| joints shall be caulked with molten lead
if of vitrifed clay, they shall have tight
cement joints all points to be smooth in
the inside; open drains may be of water
! tight masonry.
Sec. G5) All cesspools or privy-
vaults when abandoned and the use
thereof discontinued shall be at once
disinfected and filled with earth, sand
ashes, or other such clean material. In
no case shall material dangerous to the
| public health be used in filing such
privy vault or cesspOol.
SANITARY REGULATIONS FOR
STABLES.
Sec. 06) The floors of the stalls shall
be made water tight and may be made
of the following materials: Tongue and
| grooved planks, cement, asphaltum OF
broken (cOraD rock to the depth of six
| inches covered with clay well tamped.
Sec. 90 All stalls shall be construct
ed with slant of at least three and
one half inches from front to rear.
mi
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-16

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
Charles NJ. Cooke. President
p. c. Jones. ..............Vice-P President
g. II. Cooke. ............ Cashier
f. C. Atherton. Assistant Cashier
Henry Warehouse, Tom May, F. w.
Macfarlane, E. d. Tenney, ]. A Nc
Candless.
Solicits the Accounts of Firms, Cor
poratlons, Trusts, individuals, and will
promptly and carefully attend to all
business connected with banking en-
trusted to it. Sell and Purchase For
eign Exchange, Issue Letters of Credit.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Ordinary and Term Deposits received
and Interest allowed in accordance with
rules and conditions printed in pass
books, copies of which may be had on
application.
Judd Building, Fort Street.
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THE
BANK OF Hawai-
LIMITED.

incorporated under the Laws of the
Territory of Hawaii.
PAID=UP CAPITAL 100000
RESERVE $4,000
UNDIVIDED PROFITS I2I,5o4
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but the floor shall be of concrete or
masonary.
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SANITARY REGULATIONS FOR
STABLES.

Sec. Q6) The floors of the stalls shall
be made water tight and may be made
of the following materials: Tongue and
grooved planks, cement, asphaltum or
broken (cOraD rock to the depth of six
inches covered with clay well tamped.
Sec. GO All stalls shall be construct
ed with a slant of at least three and
one half inches from front to rear.
Sec. QS) The water tight flooring of
the stalls may be covered with suitable
material, provided such material shall
not be allowed to become saturated
with animal discharges and remain
until insanitary
Sec. Q9) Liquid discharges from ami
mails shall be conducted into a drain or
ditch to a cesspool or sewer where
practicable and said drain or ditch
shall be flushed and kept clean.
Sec, 600 All manure from stables
shall be removed at least once in each
week.
Sec, (2D These regulations shall ap-
ply to livery, hack, bus, tram car,
truck, express, dairy and all other sta
bles where five or more horses or mules
are kept.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-26
He would Enjoy 1t.

"Did you father used to whisp
you when yOu were a boy?'
asked the youngster who had been
chas tised.
Ibid hef repeated the old gen
tlemau, refectively. "In those
days parents were made of sterner
stuff, aud he used to whale ME
With strap"
The boys eyes frightened 10
stantly.
"Golly!" he cried. "pd like to
see him do it now. Chicago
Post.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-26


The cOnsulting-room of Carls-
bad physician seems about the last
place in the world for humorous
incidents. Yet this is what hap
pened 10 one OF these haunts of
the sick the other day. a new pa
tent, after having been thorough
ly crOss-examined by the doctor,
had received minute instructions
as TO diet, etc., aud was dismissed
with this injunction: las for
smoking, yOu must limit yourself
to three cigars daily; three light
cigars and no more After few
days the patient appears again in
the consulting-rOom. "Well, and
how are youi" asks the physician.
81 should be all right" replies the
patient, "but yOur orders about
smoking are difficult to follow"
"I am sorry" the doctor says
categorically, "but no more than
three cigars a day. You must just
put up with it" "But, doctor, it
really is an awful business.
Wouldn't two day dol l feel Ill
every time l smoke. E" "Why, man,
what in the world do you smoke
for at all, if that is the case?" the
doctor roared. "But, doctor, wasn't
it you yourself who said three
cigars day and no moref Of
course, thought they were part of
the cure and began upon them,
though I've never in my life taken
to smoking" Tableau West
minister Gazette.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-26
A Non arnent for Napoleon.

Ex-Mayor Walbridge, of st. Louis,
spoke on Missouri day at the Buffalo
exposition July 2. He gave special at
teution to the coming celebration in
St Louis OF the Louisiana purchase
and announced the intention to raise
a monument of Missouri granite to
Napoleon. who ceded the territory to
the United States-Rochester On. VI
Democrat and Chronicle.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-26
Salt 81 q Medicine.

Salt is considered one of the most
useful medicines. Rheumatic people
find great benefit in a glass of cold
salt water taken regularly before
breakfast Falling hair is often ar
rested and new growth insured by
The daily application of strong salt and
water, with considerable amount Of
frictiop, either with the finger tips or
hair Brush.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-26
Mosquitoes Held Responsible.

For September Havana's death
rate was only 1864 per Thousand,
the lowest in Havana's history, and
a rate lower that that Of the twenty.
eight large cities of the United
States. 1t was formerly one of the
sickliest in the world. And the
systematic destruction of mosqui-
toes accounts for the most import
ant part of its Improvement
Charleston News aud Courier.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-26

Two thousand of the 10000 books
o.. the French Revolution, which have
beNl presented to the BibliothsQue Ma
tiont by the British Museum, will be
kept there. The remaining $4,000 will
be sent to the Bfbliotheque Sevigne.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-26
How Gum,Drops Ar. Made.

Gum drops are made by letting fall
from a Tsechanical device large drops
Of an '.fready prepared syrup; the
drops are permitted to fall upon
starqA, where they dry without losing
kheif peculiar form.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-26

For palms and other large-leaved To-
age plants in the house there is moth
more important than cleanliness
frequent sponging of their leaves.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1901-10-26
a Valuahl. Watering

secent rain in southern California
ped the LompOc valley mustard
pm three sacks an acre to thirty
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-24
GEORGE ALLEN, Secretary.

trict composed of the counties of Samp-
son. Harnett and Bladen. Mr.. Currie was
elected by a safe Democratic majority
His seat was contested but the contest
was afterwards voluntarily withdrawn by
the contestor. Senator Currie is chairman
of the Committee on Federal Relations,
member of the committee on Enrolled
BIS, Printing, Internal Improvements,
Judiciary, University, and Senatorial APP
portionment. Mr.. Currie was elected by
the Democrats to represent Bladen county
in the House of Representative in 1898 He
is successful merchant and farmer. SEN
ator Currie is a man of broad views and
looks well after the interests of his dis
trict and State. He is a genial good
natured gentleman and one of the most
popular men in the Senate. He is espe-
cially interesting to the ladies, who have
crowded the galleries of the Senate cham
Der, as he IS young, handsome, intelli-
gent and single.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-24

years after his graduation he taught
school at Laurinburg and at Elizabeth
City. He studied law under the late DR..
Manning at the University, and received
his license to practice in 1890. He locate
al Maxton, where he still resides. He is
a prominent Democrat, and has twice
represented his county in the General As
sembly, being elected in the campaign of
1898 by majority of $40 During the
session of 1901 he served on the commit
toes on Rules, Judiciary, Banks, Chair
man Penal Institutions, Election Law, Inn
migration, Judicial Districts.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-24
REPRESENTATIVE II. D. MCLEAN, OF
SCOTLAND.

Hon. Hector D. Mclean member of the
House from Scotland, was born in Robe
son county, June 10th, 1854, and is a
son of the late DR.. A. D. Mclean. Dur
ing the early part of his life he was a
farmer, but about twenty-five years ago,
he moved to Richmond county, where he
engaged in the mercantile business. In
1877 he married Miss Eliza Patterson, and
they have had six children, four of whom
are living. He is an elder in the Presby-
terrain church, was for many years, super
intendent Of the Sunday School at Laurin-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-24
THE APPROPRIATIONS
$55f, 06l.81 is Needed For
Education and Charity.
Careful Consideration of All the Needs of the
State Institutions. Additional Buildings
Are Amply Provided For.

The General Assembly investigated
carefully the needs of the State Educa-
tional and Charitable institutions. 1t
took much time both in committee
work and in debate to make bill that
would reach up to all the requirement
of the people, and still keep within the
limits of the money 10 be raised by the
revenue bill.
The amounts appropriated for the
charitable and educational institutions of
the State are as follows:
Deaf and Dumb-AnnuaI appropriation,
100000 for waterworks, fire pump, fire
escapes and equipping for better pro-
lection against loss by fire, annually for
years, $4,000; total, $49,500.
Cullowhee High School--Annual appro-
priation, 1000; new building (all prop
erty to be conveyed to the State,) $4,000;
total, $1,000
Deaf, Dumb and Blind-Annua1 appro-
priation, $4,000; annual for two years,
$15,OOO annual for library, $50; annual
to pay deficit and to furnish dining hall,
repairs, plumbing and basement, fix ar
tesian we'll, gymnasium, electric light
plant, paving and matchmaking, recover
kitchen and laundry, $4,000; total $65, 050
University of North Carolina-Annual
appropriation, $4,000; annual increase,
1880; total $37, 500.
State Normal and Industrial College
Annual appropriation, $4,000; to pay in
debtedness of $4,000, build practice and
observation school and additional dormi-
tory and recitation rooms, annually for
four years, $4,000; total, $4,000.
North Carolina College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts-Annual appropriation.
$4,000; annually for 2 years to pay
debts, SIC. 26O. 81; annually for years to
build textile building, 100000; total, $780,
260.s1.
Colored Agricultural and Mechanical
College-Annual appropriation, $1,000;
annual increase, $4,000; total, $12,5OO.
State Hospital at Raleigh-Annual ap-
preparation, ST., 500; annually for years
for iron stairways and repairing, $1,20O;
annually for years to pay Indebtedness,
$4,000; total, $77,750.
State Hospital at Morganton-Annual
appropriation. 100000; annually for 2
years to pay Indebtedness, 100000; an
nually for years to complete present
buildings and erect new ones, $4,000;
total, Size, 900.
State Hospital at Goldsboro-Annual
appropriation (19OD, $47,500; flor 1902 in
creased to 100000; annually for years,
to erect new buildings, $4,000; total,
$500.
Provision. None but INDECENT insane
to be admitted to hospitals free. All
others to pay as directed by Board of Di-
rectors. Officials violating act guilty of
Inisdemeanor.
Provision. Money to be used exactly
as appropriated. No buildings to be COM
menced that would require more money
to complete them that is appropriated,
the Board of Directors to determine this.
Provision Unlawful for any governing
official to incur any debt except as pro-
yided by law, unless in extreme emer-
gency and authorized by Council Of State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-24
REPRESENTATIVE ]. A. COLLINS, OF
HAYWOOD

Hon. j. A Collins, of Clyde, was born
in Haywood county, May 22nd, 1S43, and
lived on farm till June, 1861, when he
volunteered in Company B. 25th N. G.
Regiment IN which regiment as private
soldier he was in many hard fought battles
He was wounded at Malvern Hill during
the seven days fight around Richmond,
Va. In 1854 he was appointed second lieu
tenant of Company A., in Col w. H.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-24
REPRESENTATIVE C. NJ. SHEETS, OF
DAIVIE.

Hon. Charles NJ Sheets, OF Advance,
member of House of Representatives
from Davie county at the session of 1901
was elected by a majority of 402 votes
by the Republicans. He was born Dec. 8,
1870 in Davie county and is now 80 years
old. He was prepared for college at
Fork Academy and entered Fairview In
stitution and Commercial College (now
Whitsett Instituted in 1893. He taught
several public schools in his county prior