The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-21
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Federal Grand Jury meets this
morning, after a four days vacation.
A petition is being circulated for the
appointment of George Sea as Supreme
Court bailiff.
F. W. Hankey was one of the pas
sengers from the Coast on the Ala
media, Saturday.
]. w. Bergstrom, of the Bergstrom
music store, returned home Saturday
on the Alameda. \
e. r. Hendry received notice by the
ALAMEDA of his appointment as United
States marshal to succeed the late
Daniel a, Ray.
The commissioner of agriculture is
/ importing $40 pounds of the best seed
potatoes to be obtained in California,
for parties on Maui.
A nine composed of printers on the
Advertiser, Republican and Bulletin,
defeated the Oahu Railroad team on
Saturday by score of 10 to T.
The reception to Fred Young, the
new physical director of the Young
| Mems Christian Association, will take
place tonight in the association hall
! Judge Humphreys is at the Palace
! Hotel in San Francisco, and is now
| expected to return on the Sonoma. the
! Goth.
Among the arrivals on the Alameda
| is L. b. Beebe, who represents the
Globe Navigation Company, in Seattle.
He viii stay in this city for some time
to establish the basis of the new lire.
Three Chinese rigs mixed up in a dis
astrous runaway on PunchbowI street
yesterday morning. No one was injur-
ed, though the vehicles were somewhat
n iCoh la1 RI =; r{r, fE.,,
| promiscuously along the road.
Paymaster Hall, formerly in charge
of the local station, has been ordered
to Honolulu to relieve Paymaster Phil
lips. Paymaster Hall it is reported
made a request for the assignment,
having been charmed during his first
stay.
The old American League pole which
was recently presented to Major Rob-
inson, U. S. A. for the army quarter
masters department, has been newly
painted. the derrick rugged, the hole
dug for the base, and all is in readiness
to replant it in front ofsthe stone bar
racks.
TT Give Davies, the delegate to the
Episcopal convention at San Francisco
returned Saturday He believes that
the convention will take favorable ac-
ton to the recognition of the Ameri-
can church here, though no definite
decision had been reached prior to his
departure.
DIR. T. T. French, of Waianae, has
been appointed Hawaiian correspond
ent of the Harvard Medical Alumni
Association. The plan of the associa-
ton is to collect once a month all pos
sible information concerning the grad
yates of the school and publish it for
distribution.
Encouraging news was received via
the Alameda by United States Clerk
W. b. Mailing regarding the condition
of United States Attorney Baird. His
! son writes from San Francisco that
the colonel was much improved in
health, and had gone on to the Colora-
do mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bergstrom We're
passengers on the City of Para, which
left Sunday morning for San Francisco
Mr. Bergstrom built the new pipe or
gan for Kawaiahao Church, and came
down to superintend its erection. He
also erected the organ in the German
Lutheran Church.
n A careless smoker on the front plat
form of a Beretania street mule car
almost set fire last night to the dress
pr woman passenger seated inside
the tram. The smoker fiicked of
ashes. and the flying sparks came in
through window and fell upon her
gown, burning several small holes in
1t. Many complaints are made by la
dies against such careless habits.
Capt. Charles Bradford Hudson, who
with the other members of the United
States fish commission, has been stop
ping at the Moana for the last four
months, has left for his home in Wash
ington, d. G. Mr.. Hudson is the son
of the psychologist and writer, T. Jay
Hudson, author of THE Divine Pedi-
gree of Man" The Law of Physic
Phenomena, and other metaphysical
works
Superintendent Boyd received a wire
less telegram aSturday from w e
Ball, stating that the Waikiki reser-
Voir at Wailuku, Maui, has been Sc
riously damaged. No further inforlna-
ton was obtained. excepting a request
that either Boyd or Campbell coue
Both Of these gentlemen
leave on the Kinau for Wailuku, and
will then cross over to Lahaina re-
turning next Sunday
The reception at the Young Mems
Christian Association hall this evening.
at o'clock, to Physical Director
Young will be quite an event a fine
program has been prepared,
including songs by Miss Edith L. Rog-
ers and Mr.. n. F. Wichman, and Sc
lections by the Amateur Orchestra. A
cordial invitation is extended to mem
bers and their friends to be present.
Refreshments will be served