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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-07
American Electrical Progress.

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-At meeting
of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers in this city, President Scott
said that since the organization of the
institute in 1884, the value of electrical
installations in the United States out
side of telegraph and telephone plants
had increased from $1,000, 900 to over s4,-
coo. .OOo 900. THE United States" he
added, with only one-fifth of the pop
ulation of Europe and Great Britain,
has two and one-third times the kilo-
watt capacity in power stations, and
three and one-half the mileage OF cleo
trio railways. The power houses in OPP
Grafton and under contract in New
York City would replace all the central
stations for lighting and power in
Great Britain or Germany; they would
operate all the electric railways OF
Great Britain and Europe combined;
one alone would be sufficient for the
railways of Germany. and the output
of a single generator would run all the
RAILWAYS of Switzerland
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MascagnI Coming.

PARIS, Sept. 27.-Pietro Mascagni
and his wife are here on their way to
America, where Mascagni will fulfill an
engagement to conduct a hundred per-
formances of his own operas by a COM
pany formed under his supervision.
He embarks on the steamer Philadel-
phia at Cherbourg today. He is very
enthusiastic over his trip to the United
States, which he will now visit for the
first time. In an interview Mascagni
pointed out that the administration of
the Licie Musicale Rossini at Pesaro,
of which he is a director, voted his dis
missal because of his accepting his
American engagement which involved
such a prolonged absence from Italy,
on the ground that he was sacrificing
art to dollars. But the public feeling
in his favor was so strong that the
Minister of Fine Arts interviewed and
revoked the decision. Mascagni goes
from New York direct to Washington,
in order to be present at the first per-
formance of Hall Gaines Eternal
city for which he composed the in
cidental music
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NOMINATIONS
NEARLY ALL IN
Have Been Filed From All
the Islands But
Oahu.

Nominations have been filed with
Secretary Cooper by candidates of al
parties from all of the islands but
Oahu. These are as follows:
Delegate to the 5Sth L. S. Congress
Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, Robert w
Wilcox CWilikokD.
First Senatorial District, Island OF
Hawaii-O. K. Apiki, Stephen L. Desha
(KiwinD, r. H. Makekau, John D
Paris (Palika), Samuel K. Pua, Palmer
P. Woods.
First Representative District, Island
of Hawaii-David Ewaliko, Antoine Fer
nandez, S. H. Haaheo, ]. NJ. Kauwila
NJ. Kekino Kealawaa, Levi David Ke-
liipio, James D. Lewis (Kimo LuD
James Mattoon (Kimo Makuna), VIM
B. Nailima, Geo. w. Patty, JOSEPH
Pritchard, w N. Purdy.
Second Representative District, Island
of Hawaii-Basil Apiki, Frank r
Greenwell (Kinawe), w. NJ. Kalaiwaa
H. M. KanihO, John K. Kekaula, JOSEPH
William Keliikoa, John n. KeOuli, S
Lazaro (Lakalo), Robert Makahalupa
Henry Parker Kaahu Malulani, Julian
Monsarrat (Maunakea), Charles George
Naope, Charles H. Pulaa, William j
Wright (Uilama Laika).
Second Senatorial District, Island OF
Maui, etc.-Thomas Clark (Kamaki Ka-
laka), C. H. Dickey, ]. Kamakela, VIM
White.
Third Representative District, Island
of Maui, etc.-D. H. Aukai, Fred w
Beckley (Kahapula), Adam K. Forsyth
(Akamu), w. P. Haia, J. P. Hihio
Samuel E. Kalama. C. P. Kauimakaole
Solomon K. Kawaihoa, Samuel Keliinoi
c. L. Kookoo, Chas. K. Makekau, Joe
Nakaleka, Paia MAXI, Phillip Pali John
Richardson (Keoni LikikinD, Louis vor
Tempsky, Geo. P. Wailehua.
Fourth Senatorial District, Islands OF
Kauai and Niihau-I. H. Kahilina, S
W. Wilcox.
Sixth Representative District, Islands
of Kauai and Niihau-J. Apukai Akina
Chas. Blake (Kale Palaika), J. K. Gan
dali, H. A. Jaeger, l. K. Kaauwai, S
w. Kali. E. A. Knudsen, G. W. Mahi-
kOa, r. Puuki.
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LUCAS BODY HAS
NOT BEEN FOUND

The search for the body of young
James Lucas who was drowned Satur-
day afternoon in the surf at Niu, was
continued with unabated Yigor yester-
day but no trace of it was found. Jap
anese sampans, canoes, and craft of all
kinds, including one of Young's launch
es, cruised along the entire shore line
beyond Koko Head without success.
The impression is current that the
sharks which infest the inlets of that
section have before this made away
with the body, as they did with that Of
Emil Ulbrecht more than a year ago
in the same vicinity.
Mrs. Lucas, the boys mother, is ex-
pected to arrive home this morning
from Kona, whittier she sailed from
Honolulu on Friday of last week. The
wireless message sent her on Sunday
reached her at Kailua, Hawaii.
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note Of his own, in which he expressed
the hope that it brought good news
His note was couched in rather en-
dearing terms, and his attentions were
not relished by Mrs. Humeku. 1t APP
pears that Lake would like to have
Becky frame her name with his in a
marriage license. She still has $40 900.
A NEW WRIGHT THEORY.
If Treasurer Wright slowed away on
the Alameda or went as a steerage
passenger, he will have trouble with
the quarantine authorities at San Fran
cisco. Failing to show a health certi-
ficate, such as is required of all except
those who book as first class passengers
the day before the steamer leaves Ho-
nolulu, he will have to go to Angel Isl
and for two weeks. In that case the
detective who went up from here will
easily nab him.
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Engineera ,n placusaion.

The Honolulu Engineers Society held
a well attended meeting last evening
The principal paper was on steam tur-
bines, by W. E. Skinner, which precip-
itatea a discussion bringing in Messrs
Hasson ana<Pratt. A paper by A Con
non of the Iron Works, on consumption
of bagasse, was read and there was
much talk on the matter. a paper had
been expected from Marston Campbell
on the Use and Abuse of Cement,
but his accident prevented appearance
c. A. Musgrave. c, K. Simpson and S
]. Carter were elected to membership
The subjects for. next month viii be
announced later.
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BRITISH
PLOMAT
VISITS us
Sir James Mackay
Here From
China.
DID SOME GREAT
WORK IN ORIENT
Once a Prosperous Merchant But
Now "a Polished Nesotiator
for the King.

One of Great Britains most distin-
guished diplomats spent few hours in
Honolulu yesterday during the time
that the steamer Coptic was in port.
This was Sir James Mackay, who has
represented Great Britain in the con-
ference of the powers which fixed up
the new Chinese tariff He is. now on
his way home to England by way of the
United States.
Sir James is something of charac-
ter in diplomacy. He knows considera-
! bic but does not care to impart his
knowledge to others. When interview
/ ed yesterday he declared he had moth
ing TO say about the tariff as he had
said all he wished to say to the other
powers and to China regarding it and
that he thought speaking in those
] quarters would do more good than talk
ing all day to reporter in Honolulu,
and at the end of this statement in
dulged in a hearty laugh just to show
the newspaper scribe that there was no
i'll will.
You might say that 1 am a man of.
er-er-er, prepossessing appearance.
! though-ha' ha" And with a merry
laugh he walked away to join Lady
Mackay and his daughter.
In his youth Sir James was trained
up for a hard business career and be-
came prosperous merchant, and 1t Is
probable that in this way he learned
some of the tricks of intricate diplo-
macy of which he is a master. He per-
suaded Chinese mandarins of the first
class TO agree to a business revolution
which they had for years been con-
vinced would not only be opposed to
the interests of their provinces but
would also practically ruin their own
pockets.
The work of Sir James Maclzay con-
sisted of getting the mandarins to
agree to the abolition OF the likin du-
ties and in their place substitute duties
to be settled upon by negotiation II
this agreement is carried out by the
7 Chinese it will be wonder. as 1t places
them at the mercy of the European
trader. They practically. open their
markets free to the whole of Europe
and cannot put duty on products un-
less by negotiation it is first found to
be satisfactory 10 the nation interested
in exporting goods into that market.
The English papers of the Orient are
very outspoken in their praise of Sir
James Mackay, and claim that he has
done much to bring about a more cor
ciaI commercial feeling between China
and the Western nations.
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Hay and the Roumanians.

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-Continual
rumors that the British Government
was consulted by the State Depart
ment before an appeal was made by
the treaty powers on behalf of the
Roumanian Hebrews are not well
founded, declares a London dispatch to
the Tribune All the powers were treat
ed on terms of equality, and there were
no conferences in advance with Lord
Lansdowne. The promptness with
which the Foreign Minister took up the
subject was characteristic of the ad-
ministration of his office, but not a
proof that Great Britain and the United
States are hunting together in the dip
lomatic field. He is glutton for work,
and keeps fully abreast with the routine
of the foreign office, where business is
seldom in arrears. His action on this
question was sympathetic, the dispatch
adds, but was not the result of pre-
arrangement.
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MARCUS ISLAND
STlRS ADVENTURE
Japan Locks for Financial Success
in the South Sea
lSiands.

TOKYO, Sept. 2O-The Marcus Island
affair has been beneficial in one impor-
tant respect; in other words, it has
been the means of informing our coun-
trymen of the presence of many unex-
plored natural resources in the South
Seas and therefore of encouraging
their enterprising spirit.
1t was by Mr.. Shinroku Mizutani, as
we nave more than once pointed out
here, that this lovely bit of land in the
South Seas was first explored and first
subjected tc a systematic method of
exploitation. Mr. Mizutani is however
an adventurer and not a business man,
taxi late of the Yokohama Boyeki
Shoten, an able collaboration supplying
the very qualification for success which
Mr. Mizutani lacked, Japan's enter
prise in the South Seas might have suf-
fered a serious check and the Marcus
island complication might have ended
in a way quite different to that in
which it has ended.
MIR. MIZUTANIS FIRST PROJECT.
Mr. Mizutani's first object in Toriji-
ma was a simple one, consisting in the
killing of albatross ond getting the
feathers. With the diminution of the
supply of bird, however, this business
became not very profitable, as the
L. 1 .-..fF h
more than 30 sen. Under the circum-
stances Mr.. Mizutani had the idea of
abandoning Minami Torijima and shift
ing his field of adventure further south.
MIR. KAMITAKI
Then Mr.. Kamitaki appeared on the
scene. The fact was he had incidental
ly heard of the great price which stuff
ed South Sea Birds command. He ac-
cordingly made overtures to, Mr.. Mizu-
tani, asking him to conclude contract
for the supply of 10000 South Sea
birds stuffed and at the price of sen
per head. The offer was d revelation to
Mr.. Mizutani, but automatically he
asked for sen, and at last the bar
gain was struck at 212 sen. The con-
tract was duly fulfilled in March last.
Sometime after the conclusion OF THIS
contract Mr.. Mizutanf, from curiosity,
sent a number of stuffed white swal-
lows to a certain biological specimen
dealer in Tokyo. He was amazed to
hear from the man that he was ready
to buy any number of the samples at
40 sen apiece. The amazement which
Mr.. Mizutani first experienced soon
turned into anger against Mr.. Kami-
TAXI who, he thought, had imposed up
on him, by taking advantage of his ig-
norance The two gentlemen had ex-
citing interviews quite frequently on
the subject, till at last Mr.. Kamitaki
was induced to give 75OOfyen extra for
the whole supply of 100000 birds. The
two men are now on good terms and
are said TO be fast friends bound by
the common interest of exploiting the
hidden resources of the South Pacific.
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Gen miles Way Arrive Today.

The transport Thomas was to have
sailed from San Francisco on October
1st for Manila. The local military au-
thorities have received definite news to
the effect that the transport will call
here. General Miles who is on tour
of the possessions of Uncle Sam in the
Pacific inspecting the army posts is, a
passenger on the transport, luxurious
quarters being placed in the vessel for
his accommodation. Allowing the
Thomas eight days IN which to make
the trip she should arrive here today
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Non-oonform,sss and Coli.

NEW YORK. Sept. 27-Premier A. j
Balfour and the Bishop of London are
piaeidly playing golf in North Berwick
while the non-conformists are convert
ing the education bill into football
and, cables the correspondent of the
Tribune at London, apparently are en-
Joying the sport. While the opposition
TO the bill is receiving fresh impetus
daily, there is no evidence that even
the churchmen support the measure
heartily
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No Meat for Prisoners

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-Giving as an
excuse that they could not work with
out meat twenty inmates of the State
prison at Trenton. n. J.. have struck
work in the Brush shop and most OF
them are now in chains in the dun
geons. Before the present high rates
were charged it was the custom to give
the prisoners who worked liberal sup
plies of meat. but lately rice has been
substituted.
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Substitutes for Coal.

CHICAGO, Sept. 27-Peat, cut from
the swamps near South Chicago and
dried until fit for fuel. may be placed
on the market as rival of high priced
coal if experiments now being made
are successful. For years residents OF
that district have noticed that beds OF
burning peat, which were ignited in the
summer often burned long after win
ter began, and have been known tc
continue through the year.
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Soldiers and strikers.

SHENANDOAH, Pa, Sept. 2?.-About
midnight last night it was reported to
General Goblin that the strikers held up
a coal train that was being taken away
from Potts colliery at Locustdaie ana
drove off the engineer and crew. To-
day the general sent a company of in
fantry to the coiliery under the cons
mand of Provost Marshal Farquhar'
and with the soldiers to protect 1t the
train was taken away without interfer-
ence.
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Hawaiian Emigrants.

The government has issued an in
struction to the local governors to the
effect that the number of emigrants
for Hawaii which was limited to 80 male
enigrants per month for one emigration
company viii be increased TO As and
downward including women, after the
1st prox-Japan Times.
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BITS OF FASHION.
Fanciful Finery That Snow in Favor
Among Up to Date
presserS.

Narrow black velvet ribbon is much
used for trimming simple evening
gowns.
Exquisite gowns are fashioned from
pria cloth and a similar gauze fabric
termed just, both importations from
the Philippines.
Buttons of rhinestones, with setting
of gun metal are used as fasteners for
suede gloves in. gun metal tint, to be
worn with black gowns, says the
Brooklyn Eagle. ---
Turquoise buttons are seen on some
of the new white gloves for evening
wear.
A fancy which still obtains is the
black taffeta coat for small girls, and
some of these have deep collars of
white panne trimmed around the edge
with lace.
On some light cloth gowns OF PaFi-
sian designing hand-Painted medal
Mons of satin encircled by velvet rib
bon form border for the skirt.
White and gray is favored combina-
tion in Paris, and also that characters
istically Frenchy combination, pale
blue and pale pink. - 81.
Taffeta glace, the old glace silk with
softer finish, will be much used for
evening gowns.
Mousseline brillante is slightly
thicker type of chiffon with glsteH=
ing surface, and particularly effective
for ruehes, frills and trimmings.
A novel hat imported from Paris is
made of black caraeul with brim
facing of white chrysanthemums.
The few jet combs that are favored
these days are very pretty. The de-
signs are varied fieur de lis, horse
shoes, and blossoms set with diamonds
or pearls being the most attractive.
In vailing. the latest is white
ground with large black and white
SPOTS
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1897. THE SUN. 1902
BALTIMORE, MD.
The Paper of the People, for the People
and with the People.
Honest in Motive.
Fearless in Expression.
Sound in Principle.

While maintaining unimpaired the high STAN
dards of private life and public policy which it
has upheld unfalteringly for more than sixty-four
years, The Sun is also in the front rank of
modern journalism in every factory which enter
into the production of great newspaper.
Its mechanical equipment is complete and
arrangements for the prompt collection of news
are unsurpassed.
Its special correspondents throughout the
Africa. the Philippines, Porto Rico Cuba and in
Efforts If the general agencies by which it is also
served $" That 1t Is enabled to print all the news
every day in the week.
Its Washington and New York bureaus are
among the best in the United States and give
The suns readers the earliest information upon
all important events in the legislative and fnan-
cial centers of the country.
The Suns market reports and commercial
columns are complete and reliable, and put the
farmer. the merchant and the broker in touch
with the markets of Baltimore. Norfolk, Charles
ton New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and all
other important points i'll the United States and
other countries.
The sun is the best type of newspaper, morally
and Intellectually. 1t is an educator of the high
est character, constantly stimulting to noble
ideals in individual end national life and it
gives all the news all the time
The sun is published on Sunday, well as
every other day of the week.
by mail The Daily sun, S. wear; including
The sunday sun, s.. The Sunday Sun alone,
SLIGO Il year. The Weekly sun, 81 GO year.
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THE VANISHING ELEPHANT.
MyStirHalg Trick of SIeight-Of-
Hand Performer md the
Way of Doing 1t.

Come, let us fancy that we are in the
hall where famous magician is giving
performance. One number on the
programme, we notice, is 1.-THE Vanish
ing Elephant" and we wonder what il
means. Surely he is not going to bring
an elephant on the stage, and with "a
wave of his wand make him disappear,
as he does a watch, an egg or bird!
says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
But now we shall know, for the ele-
plant comes next, and here is the
magician making things ready. He
moves to the front of the stage small
wooden stand with a circular top. The
top is supported by single upright
rising from broad base. Between
his thumb and his finger the magician
holds a little figure of an elephant,
which glistens like silver. Taking his
position near the stand, he thus speaks
to the audience:
During my visit to East India,
ladies and gentlemen, / witnessed a
strange disappearance. l am going to
reproduce that disappearance this
evening, and l trust that it may inter-
est you as much as it'did me. The lit
tie wooden stand here serves to isolate
the silver elephant which | now int1 o.
duce, cutting it off from all communi-
cation with the stage and the sur
roundings. l mount the elephant on
the little column, and thus make a
miniature statue of it. The little ami
NAL is pretty heavy, as you may know
from the sound it makes as drop it on
the table There! We will now place
glass shade over the statue. Now, as
you know from the sound the statue
made when l dropped it on the stand,
it is not light enough to rise and float
off through the air, and yet am going
to make it disappear.
'Pardon me if now cover the shade
with this colored handkerchief; it
does not reach all the way to the bot
tom, but that does not matter. As |
have said, am going to cause the lit
tie silver elephant to disappear by
making it pass through the shade and
away into space. Where would you
like to have it reappear? Shall it be in
the pocket of some one in the audi
ence? Very well. I take my wand and
command the elephant to leave. One,
, two, three! He has gone! Let us re-
move the handkerchief and see for our
selves!n
The cover is taken off, showing the
stand without the elephant, which is
found in the coat pocket of gentle
man in the audience.
Well, how is it done? 1t is the SIM
plest thing in the world-when you
learn the secret. The statue is frozen
mercury. The conjurer of the present
day knows a great deal about science,
and he can freeze mercury as hard as
stone by eyaporating solid carbonic
acid dissolved in ether: He puts the
fluid mercury into a mold shaped like
an elephant, and thus makes the
statue by freezing. The disappear
anee of the elephant is simply it's MELT
ing into fluid mercury again, which
runs down the hollow upright of the
stand. The little elephant taken from
a gentleman in the audience is real
figure, made of metal and then sill
vered. 1t gets into this gentleman's
possession by collusionn or by some
trick of the magician's.
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MEN BEDMAKERS.
They Are Employed in Lodging
Houses and Form Trade
of Their own.

Making beds is commonly consid-
cred a woman's work; but there is,
nevertheless, in New York, quite a
bunch of men who follow bedmaking
as calling; finding regular, steady
employment in the many great lodg-
ing houses for men established in
this city, states the New York Sun.
For many years all the bedmakers,
in these places of many beds, were
men. Within the last six or eight
years there have come to be en-
ployed at this work in many of the
downtown lodging houses Italian
women; but in most, if not all, of the
great lodging houses uptown men
bedmakers are still employed.
In big lodging house with
from 400 to 500 beds, there would be
a bedmaker to every floor, having
perhaps 80 beds to make daily. Incl
dentally he sweeps the floor and
keeps it clean and in order.
The bedmaker goes on duty at six
a. m. and WORLDS till six p. IN. The
bulk of his work, however, is over by
three p. m. The scattering beds to
be made after that are so few in
number as to call for little labor
Some men bedmakers make
slouchy bed and some are not only
quick, but careful, and with an eye
to appearance withal, making q bed
that looks inviting and is comfort,
able to sleep in; in short, good bed
makers.
The pay of the man bedmaker is
small. Commonly he sleeps in the
lodging house where he is employed.
The man who follows bedmaking
for living has, if he is capable, a
good worker, and sober, a chance to
rise in the house. His next step up
in lodging house would be to the
post of Waterman. From that he
might get to be the day clerk, and
then, if he might keep on advancing,
night clerk. The night clerk holds
the most responsible post and gets
the most wages of any man employed
in the lodging house.