The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-02-25
From Monday. dailyl

Prom Mondays dailyJ
. Road work is being done on the old
Manoa highway. Waikiki side.
] The transport Warren. from san Fran
I cisco. Ii expected here on Wednesday.
/ The engagement is announced 81 w
Il Langmaid Jr.. of Maine. To Miss
Met'ic lobe. Of Honolulu.
/ Mrs. William Levers Hopper will
give a big reception Thursday in honor
Of Mrs NJ. :. Grinbaum and Mrs. I. II.
/ Hanna.
The j. A. Cummins came off the
/ marine railway Saturday and made her
| regular trip To the windward side Of the
island and back yesterday.
| Mr.. and Miss Clawson. Mr.. and Miss
Tuzo and Mr.. Thornhill, who have been
stopping at the Moana Hotel. left yes
! terday for the Orient In the Doric.
The two factions In the Chinese So
ciety are still unable To agree. ard as
"A last recourse. the courts may be
called upon to settle the quarrel.
! Contractor Mckee is rushing the
work on the Rapid Transit extension
! to Waikiki, and expects To have the
cars running over the new branch
within three weeks.
| NJ. NJ. &ohn has severed his connec-
! ton as manager of the Oceanic Gas
and Electric Company. His resignation
was accepted at a meeting of the di-
rectors neld last Friday.
Most of the vessels in port were gaily
decorated in honor of Washington's
birthday. the color display of the British
| cruiser Phaeton the bark Mohican and
the Navy collier Alexander being espe-
cially noticeable
l.. Tenney Peck. treasurer of the Ho
nolulu Rapid Transit Company, is re-
joicing over the arrival OF "A son which
came to him and Mrs. Peck. Washing
TOMS birthday. Mrs. Peck, who was in
a critical condition, is now recovering.
II is reported from Waiohinu, Kau,
Hawaii. than an old resident named
Bartels is searching for $1,000 I'm gold
slugs said to have been buried in a
cave by an old chief some fifty years
ago.
Mons a Vizzavona, the French Con-
sui, will probably leave for Hilo to-
morrow on the Kinau. During his alb
sence he will make the trip to the vol
cauo and tour other parts of the Big
Island.
After a weeks battle with wind and
wave, the Alameda got in early Yes
tcrday morning nearly two days over
due. The trip was the toughest that
Captain HERMAN has ever experience
de; i'm fact, IL blew a gale all the way
from San Francisco to Honolulu.
The National Guard made "A fine APP
pcurance Saturday in it's Washington
birthday parade. The Government
Band headed the troops. all the men
marching on foot. After the return to
the Drillshed Colonel Jones made a
J patriotic address which was heartily
. Iapplauded.
Louis Wohlers, an aged laborer, was
thrown from Rapid Transit car No. 81,
Saturday afternoon, on King street,
near the Bishop Museum, in attempting
to alight while the car was going at
full speed Luckily he escaped with
out injury, though he barely missed be-
ing thrown against a telephone post.
The big dredger of Haas Il Henry.
, which is dredging the bar at the en-
trance to Pearl Harbor, is now located
, a short distance inside the outer piles
marking the entrance. The steamer
. iaena has her moorings near by. The
dredgcr is comfortably fitted up for the
convenience of the men, with bunk
quarters, dining room and neat kitch-
en-.
About sixteen young men started
. Saturday on the Young Mems Christian
Association jaunt to Konahuinul, the
highest peak in the mountains on this
side of the Island. but only about hall
that number finished the ascent with
Secretary Brown. The party returned
, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, hay
1 ing started shortly after in the morn
ing.
Lakes grand Washington's birthday
picnic at Kalihi on Saturday for tn,
, alleged benefit OF the concentrated
Beers in South Africa was a disma
failure. Nothing came of according I,
q program. and the much ADVERTISED
: greasy porkers. native ladies dancin.
in ancient costumes. sports for costly
n prizes, and poi and pie-eating contests
sigually failed to materalize.
High Sheriff Brown does not tax
y kindly to the proposition to establish
5 a jute mill at oahu prison He believe
roadmaking is the best work for con
4 victs or AT least. until penitentiar
r is established where long termers ca
be confined, who will have time to be
= come acquainted with the manufacture
y uf bags The short-term prisoners coul
still be worked on the roads.
- The drawing for the japanese lot
) terry is reported to have been held a
Palama, though n large number of III
- victims succeeded in securing the n
= turn of their money Two prizes wer
given, 5000 and 800, and ii is intimate
> that the winners We're friends OF N
70 promoters Of the lottery. AltoSethS
the promoters are said To have cleare
- up IN the neighborhood of $4,000
MIR. and Mrs. \. Hanneberg gave
TO dinner Saturday at the Moana Hote
W Waikiki, covers being laid for twel>
guests. The guests sat at a circuli
20 table, which was daintily relieved
Ia decorations of rose pinks, with an e
fective display of electrical effects
n the background. 4 specially prepar
te menu was given. Throughout the dill
ner music was played by the hotel q
he chestra, and the remainder OF the eve
ed H. was devoted tn dancing i'm the lar
dining pavilion.