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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-14

| forty-tive feet deep and capable of seat
ing 400 persons. The building itself, is
14O feet deep by 100 feet front and 60
feet high, with a seating capacity of
$500, while 5000 can gather here to hold
conventions. 1t cost $4,000. The gov
/ ernment building and postotiice each
cost 100000.
The south's industrial giant is the
tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
company-the most extensive producer
of pig iron for the open market in the
world, and the largest iron, steel, coal
and coke making corporation in the
southern states. Some idea of the
vastness of it's investment and the
great scope of it's operations can be
had when it is stated that it's capital
stock is s23,0oO,0OO. all Of which is COM
mon stock; that it alone produces one
half of all the iron made in Alabama,
over half of the total of all the coal
mined; three-fifths of the states out
put. and operates the only important
steel plant south of Pittsburg, being
the pioneer in southern steel produce
tion. 1t owns fourteen iron furnaces in
this district-in addition to the largest
sides operating a steel mill with a daily
capacity Of 1000 tons of steel made
from Alabama iron. 1t has 1857 coke
ovens, with a capacity (yearly) of over
O,0OO, 600 tons. Iron ore capacity is
2,5OO,O0O tons, and coal, 5,2SO,0OO tons
yearly, and the furnaces 100000 TONS
The employment of help runs we'll up
into the thousands.
The Birmingham district is seldom
troubled with scarcity of labor, owing
to the fact that practically all of the
labor employed at the furnaces, coke
ovens ore mines. limestone quarries,
and half that at the coal mines, is col
ored. and therefore very easy to re-
plenish from the immense agricultural
sections of the state. About the coal
mines quite per cent of northern and
some foreign labor is employed. A fea-
ture worthy Of special notice is the
friendly relations existing between the
employer and employees. Fixed scale
or wages are in vogue, and consequent
ly labor troubles are rare. This local
ity is peculiarly free from strikes and
labor disputes, and this practical i'm
from them comes from the fact
that the negro is proverbially easy to |
get along with, and does not ask or |
expect the high rate of wages paid in |
the north. 1t is very evident that !
much, or all, of our labor strikes in the |
mining centers north would have been
nverted had our coal and iron oper-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-14
BIRMINGHAM
and VICINITY

score or more of private schools con-
Quoted by tirst-class teachers. The
thorough and up-to-date system of the
Birmingham schools received the high
est award at the Atlanta exposition in
1895. All political parties recognize the
Importance Of education for both races,
and planks favoring the maintenance
of these schools are embodied in all
their platforms.
The Birmingham Age-Herald is joy-
full over a bill just passed by the Ala
bama legislature, which provides for n
five months term in every year for the
free schools Of the state.
No reference to education in Ala
bama would be complete without ref
erence to the important work being ac-
complished by President Booker r.
Washington at the Tuskegee Normal
and Industrial institute, of which he ia
the moving and controlling spirit. This
institution may we'll be termed the
most successful of any in the country
designed for the education of the col
ored youth. 1t was organized in 1881
by President Washington, himself a
colored man, and leader of his race,
and today it owns property valued at
S29O,OOQ, which includes 2,267 acres Of
land, upon which have been erected by
the handicraft and labor of the stu
dents themselves forty-two buildings.
1t has 1913 students, Sc instructors and
every year young men and young wo-
men are sent out who, with their in
tellectual and industrial training, are
willing to go among the ignorant of
their people and labor, even though
the compensation is hardly sufficient
to supply the ordinary needs of the
teacher.
Birmingham is peculiar in the splen-
dor Of her public buildings and among
the most magnificent are the court
house. costing a half million dollars,
the government building, the postoffice,
st. Vincent's hospital, erected by the
Sisters of Charity, school buildings,
hotels, theaters and the auditorium. If
there is anything the people are proud
of, it is their beautiful auditorium
magnificent in it's proportions, noble
monument to civic pride. 1t is COM
modious house. The stage is one of the
largest in America, sixty feet wide,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-14

is Mr., d. H. Gardner, of Faotoryyillc, who can.
vases this vicinity in the interests of the Cor.
reSpondence schools. Even though he comes TO
many IN his capacity as collector, his agreeable
manner makes him first friend and then a bus.
ness associate, and the way he kecps right on
dong business is proof OF his energetic aud PRO.
grcSSiyc qualities.
One OF the ablcSt papers at the farmers in,ti.
tute Was the essay on "IIow to Run Farm" Iy
Mrs. Kate lllwley, of ChinchiI. The manage.
ment conferred words of special commcnditi0n
upon Mrs, llawley's production. and indicated
their desire for copy, that il might be printed
in the report Of the state board Of agriculture.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-14
CLARk'S SUMMIT.

The farmers institute, which was held in the
Methodist Episcopal church on Saturday and
Monday last, Was more largely attended than any
Of the preceding ones at this place Representa-
sives irom all the nearby towns were present and
. general good time was enjoyed during the en-
aTe institute.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20
JAMES II. BLOUNT.

Prior to the announcement In the last
files that ex-Congressman James II.
Blount had been stricken with paraly-
sis. little had been heard of him since
the critical days of 1893 when he was,
next to President Dole the foremost
fisure in Hawaii. That little referred to
the unlikelihood that President Cleve-
land would entrust any further respon-
sibilities to him and embodied the news
of his Withdrawal to aAprivacy which
has been unbroken until now.
Before the Hawaiian affair took place
Mr.. Blount was a rising man In the
Democratic party-a risen man. in fact.
His service in Congress had been dis
tinguished and his chances to secure
the Governorship of Georgia were con-
sidered good. with a Senatorship In
further prospect. In an evil hour he
accepted the mission to Hawaii which
was. In it's secret initiative. an at
tempt to convict the Harrison admins
tration of having seized these Islands
by force Of arms MIR. Blount, as used
! to be said of drumhead court martials,
was organized to convict" In pursu-
ance of his orders he directed the Ad-
miral on this station to haul down the
American flag which had been raised
over the Government buildings To sig
nalize United States protectorate.
That act started the greatest political
row the United States had seen since
the disputed Presidential count OF 1876.
The storm which broke over the heads
! OF Cleveland and Blount must have
appalled, them both Almost the entire
press denounced the flag affair; and
when at later date, Cleveland, re-
gaining courage. ventured upon a plan
! to restore the Queen-a plan which put
every patriotic American in Honolulu
| including the majority of the G.. a. X
post, under arms---it was seriously pro-
posed TO impeach him. Democratic
Congress then took the Hawaiian af-
fair out of his hands and put an end
to a conspiracy which 40 far as II had
gone, had threatened the Democratic
ticket in every Northern State and city
with defeat.
1t was necessary to have 'scapegoa'
and Mr.. Blount was the handy man
He was accused by the administration
papers of having deceived Presiden
Cleveland in his report upon the politi'
cal conditions of Hawaii. Had 1t no
been for that, they said, the Presden
would never have pade the mistake o.
trying to compel an American colony L
endure monarchical yoke. Mr.
Biount protested in vain. He went L
see Mr.. Cleveland and came away dis
pirited. 1t had been made plain to hin
that the President did not mean L
carry a responsibility which could b.
unloaded upon him, Thereupon tn
once Paramount Commissioner an
Minister to Hawaii returned to hi
Georgian home and public life kneN
, him no more. His retirement was tina
most binding of exiles-the passing int
: the private station of an able and once
: conspicuous men who had become un
, available for any party service
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20
WILL NOT WORK.

That white men will not work in the
cane fields is just as true as that they
can do So Trials have been made.
White men have been brought to the
estates and given employment in the
various branches of the industry In the
past. Some came under contract and
stayed until they had lived out that
term. What became of them then?
They sought the towns and there they
stay. except those who became, through
some force of character. lunas and stay
to direct the labors OF the coolies. With
so many instances which might be cited
it seems that there must be something
behind the iteration of the charge of
bad faith on the part of the plantation
men, in endeavoring to secure labor
which may stay in the fields, rather
than a pure desire to see an American
citizenship in these Islands.
II is not necessary to go far 10 find
instances of the desertion of the plan
tations by white laborers. Take the
Portuguese Almost all the men of this
race came here for the purpose OF work
ing in the fields, and they did so so long
as their contracts held. How many of
them at once deserted their hoes and
cutting knives for the towns is a mat
ter of a census rather than of argu-
ment. They are of the most industrious
| citizens. They work haru and long
but even they would not stick to the
stripping Of cane. and the harder work
Of loading II on the cars Nor are they
alone in this. There have been tried In
the past other nationalities.
There were the Galicians. whose trials
gave food for so much thought and talk
two Year, ago. They knew to wha'
they were coming. and yet It wa
found that they would not stand the
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20
IMPORTED PESTS.

Neither the press. police nor the va
rious Government inspectors can be
too careful to guard against the intro
duction OF the raobit tribe, under what
ever variation OF species, to these ISL
ands Carelessness In similar respects
has hurt Hawaii prodigiously- irr the
'past. though IN honorable exception
may be nSted in favor Of the ono ~ In
who killed DIR. Hildebrand's snakes. The
mongoose. imported to eat rats in the
canef1elds. was n most undesirable ac-
QUESTION. II liked poultry and eggs bet
ter than rats and has succeeded In not
only depopulating hen yards but in pref
ty nearly cleaning out the quail and
pheasants and other ground-nesting
birds. The japanese beetle came In on
plants and has taken away the roses
which used to bloom so generously here.
There were some things like the mos
quito. the scorpion. centipede and big
spider that could not have been kept
out. They came, mostly, in ships from
the coast Of Mexico. But the mongoose
and the mynah bird were brought here
with a deliberate purpose which should
have had a better judgment behind IT.
Rendered wise by misfortune our peo-
pie tried to make II impossible to intro
duce the rabbit pest and a law was
passed against the importation of the
scourge of Australia and Southern
California. Unhappily some feeble
minded legislator got through proviso
favorable to rabbit pets" and only
those hares and rabbits designed for
breeding purposes were debarred. But
the pets. with serene contempt OF
statutory law, proceeded to breed, and
now there are hares and rabbits
enough in town to menace the integ-
rity Of every vegetable patch and cane
field on Oahu providing they are not
rounded up and killed.
The police are doing their part and
| already have colony Of hares and
abbits behind the bars. But enough
are outside In the guise of pets to con-
stitute serious danger. II is prob
able that the law cannot ind n way TO
touch these. II that la the case we have
no letter advice to offer the planters
who are assembling today than that
they appropriate a sum large enough to
buy what hares and rabbits there are
under private control in the Islands at
fancy figure. It would be cheaper to
pay a dollar pound for rabbit meat
now than to go to the expense later on
of building rabbit proof fences around
and through the great plantations
Further cons;gnments of rabbits from
abroad could probably be kept out
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20

II is not question whether white
Americans can work in the cane fields
and truck farms of Hawaii but whether
such men will. This paper has often
said that the $4,000 young Americans
who were lately chasing natives
through the miasmatic swamps of the
Philippine archipelago were working
harder and earning less than they
would on the Hawaiian plantations. Yet
when 1t comes to getting American
farmers for our work they feel in
suited. Even on the cooperative plan
they do not take to the cane field pro-
gram. II the theorists think otherwise
let them get contract from the plant
ers to supply American white labor and
see what happens TO them when they
try to round up their men.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20
THEORY vs.. FACT.

1t is easy to theorize on making Ha-
wall rich by sending fruits and Vege-
tables to the Coast. but those who have
tried it have small patience with the
theorizer After paying steamer freight
over 2,l00 miles of sea to a glutted mar
ket and settling with the commission
merchant at the other end of the line.
who makes a large deduction for spoil
ed goods whether they are spoiled or
not-the grower, unless he is China
man, doesn't get enough to pay his
expenses. Further loss is apt TO be in
CURED at the hands Of the Coast Off
Gals who subject Island fruits and
vegetables to the closest scrutiny for
insect blights.
The only fruits from Hawaii in de-
mand on the Coast are bananas, pine
apples and alligator pears Our or
anges have never been popular there
for the reason that they are, compare
lively, an inferior fruit. Bananas are
now in competition with those of other
points and sell, on San Francisco
wagon stands, at the rate of three for
FIVE cents. What Is left for the grower
here may be imagined. II pineapples
paid. the vacant lands near town
would be covered with them. The
losses are SO great on consignments OF
alligator pears that the retail dealer al
San Francisco has TO ask thirty-fivt
cents apiece for them. Certain vege'
tables raised on Oahu. near the por
of departure. might sell as Bermuda
potatoes and onions do In the Ne"
York market, but the trade in those
II it ever develops, will go to Chinamer
with whom white men cannot com
pete.
To seriously urge that Hawaii woult
pront by losing its great staple and go
ing into picayune fruit and vegetable
trade Is to incur the smile OF derisioi
from every one who knows anything
about either agriculture or economics
The only argument for diversified prod
ucts here is that which holds out tn,
prospect Of making living cheaper a
home Export on any great or profit
. able scale n out Of the question
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20

The mainland press. or a portion of
II, has An eruption of Islander about
Hawaii which sounds like the TRADES
Of certain sensational lecturers and
press correspondents who infested these
parts a few months ago. Many of the
articles We see are unfit for re-pubA-
cation In these columns. Such stories
Of iuiquity coupled with the libels Judge
Humphreys is uttering whenever he
can hire a newspaper to print what he
says, have served to give the Islands
name they never have and probably
never will deserve. 1t Is pity the
identity of the writer's Is withheld but
slanderers are usually anonymous IN
their methods OF assault
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20

Why not select the slackest business
day in the week for the clerks half
holiday instead of the liveliest? SAT-
urday, the world over, is time for
shopping and this must always be so
where a Sunday law obtains. People
then have to buy for two days and they
usually have more money to buy WITH
Here in Honolulu every store Is crowd
Cd on Saturday while its doors stay
spen. This shows the presence OF a
publideaemand which ought. not stoabe
arbitNrily cut~sn. In, some countries
the clerks get their half-holiday on
Wednesday, an arrangement whicn
breaks the week in the middle and does
not interfere to any marked extent with
trade. ~ rs
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20

Pearl Harbor will be busy place in
n few years. The l,200 workmen VINO
are likely to be put in motion at the
navy yard mean a new white popula-
tion of between five and six thousand.
Naturally commerce will seek the big
port and a thriving town will grow UP
on ite Beach. The future plans for
Oahu railway improvement have al
ready been outlined here and they irdi-
cate the probable trend of commercial
enterprise on all sides.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20
AN EXPORT FALLACY.
The observation-disclosures discussion
iraws out this interesting letter:

fus
draws out this interesting letter:
Honolulu. Aug. 10, 1901.
Editor Advertiser: There have recently
appeared in the Advertiser two editorials
dealing with the question of diversified
products. The writer of these, stimulat-
ed to argumentative zeal by extreme
statements In hostile sheet, has. ] be-
heve, gone beyond the legitimate purpose
Of his plea, in writing 50 hopelessly. and
indeed disparagingly, OF the attempt at
the production of anything other than
sugar. In so doing, he has done injus-
tice to'certain interests OF the Islands,
Upon the profits of sugar a large mer-
camille and economic structure has been
built up. To cripple the sugar industry
would be to undermine this structure,
and II Is out OF the question to imagine
that any other industry or combination
OF industries would Immediately rise to
take the place Of sugar
AT the same time Il Is not true, as
SEINE people insist and AZ one might in
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20
McBRYDE SUGAR CO., Ltd.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
the twelfth and final assessment Of Is
per cent 93. 90 per share), levied on the
assessable stock Of the McBryde Sugar
Co.. Ltd, is due on September 2. 1901.
and will be delinquent on September
IT, 1901.
Stockholders will please make prompt
payment at the Office OF Messrs. Theo.
H. Davies & Co., Ltd.
r. M. SWANZY,
Treasurer McBryde Sugar Co., Ltd.
Honolulu. August Z. 1901. 1881
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20

Every time Mr.. Carnegie gives mil
Non To library ne intensifies the bit
Serness of the iron and steel strikers.
Great displays of wealth made by the
employers of these men with their
help. brought on the present difficulty.
Mr.. Carnegie's bland remark in Lon
don that he had &2S5. 900, 600 yet to give
away was accepted as tannt by the
lAboring men on his pay-rolls and now
the Carnegie wheels are still.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20
Latest Sugar Pricsa

NEW YORK. August io.-Sugar-Raw,
quiet fair refining. 3 s-lSc; centrifugal. IS
test, exc: molasses sugar. S-lSc. Re-
fined. quiet; crushed. kssc' GRADUATED,
as6c. powdered, k<5c '~
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

THE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING
been duly appointed administrator Of
the estate Of James Munden, late of
Koloa, Kauai, deceased, notice Is here
by given to all persons having claims
against the said estate to produce
proper vouchers to the undersigned at
kealia, Kauai, within six months from
date hereof, or they will be forever
barred. and all persons indebted to
said estate are requested to make i'm
mediate payment to the undersigned.
]. w. NEAL,
Administrator of the Estate of Jas
Munden.
Kealia. Kauai, August 6, 1901.
2304-Aug. 6, 13, 20, %; Sept. 8.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20

Killing the lantana with scale-bug
may also kill the coffee trees. People
IN the agricultural line, before making
radical moves, should consult the ex-
perte.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-20

A sponge industry would at least
have the advantage of giving the ma
tive Hawaiians a pleasant and lucra-
tive business quite in their line.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-02-28
WHITE HOUSE WOMEN
FIRST LADIES OF THE LAND DE.
ScRlBED IN A MAGAZINE.
WIVES OF PRESIDENTS

Spriehtly Abigail Adams the First to
Occupy the Executive Mansion
Dolly Madison's Career-Harriet
Lane and Other Famous Women
Folk Before and Since.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-02-28

necessitate bringing him into vision,
she could not help but feel that his
gaze was riveted on her face.
fsiddenly happy thought seemed
to strike her. She turned her head
quickly, and calmly fixed her gaze on
the fellows feet. Not once did her
eyes waver. At first his face began
to flush. Then he shuffied his feet I'M
easily. BY this time other people In
the car had observed the little
comedy, and many smiled broadly as
they noticed his discontinue.
Seeing that she had succeeded in
thoroughly embarrassing him, the
young woman now changed her mode
of attack, and boldly raised her eyes
to his face, and then, with contemp-
tuous curve of her lips, quickly
glanced again at his feet. This
he suddenly beat a retreat.
AS he alighted from the car there
was faint sound of applause in the
vehicle, and when later the young wo-
man arrived at her street, an old man,
who was seated near the door, said as
she passed him:
"You deserve to be congratulated,
miss. It's too bad more young women
haven't your wit"
She merely smiled an acknowledge
New York Mail and Express.