The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-01-31


The Volcano is booked to make it's re-
| appearance in the course of week
or so.
There is talk of raising the level of
Quarantine Island when the harbor is
dredged.
Professor Koebele is preparing
mountings Of plant blight in Hawaii,
to be sent to Washington.
Prospects are bright for the forma-
tion of a polo team on Kauai to oppose
the Oahu, Maui and Hawaii combina-
tons.
/ Superintendent Boyd has been i'll for
several days, and as a consequence, no
meeting of the Executive Council was
held yesterday.
/ Madame Genevra tombstone Bishop,
who is to take the soprano part in
Handel's Messiah" on February 18th,
leaves San Francisco on February 9Th
by the Sierra.
Native Hawaiians are agitating the
7 organization of historical society.
Papers for signatures are already be-
ing circulated, and the society will be
formally inaugurated within few
days.
| The Rapid Transit is now putting on
trailers attached to the motor cars in
the morning. the noon hour, and after
business hours, when men are going to
their homes. The traiers are for those
who desire to smoke.
The bids for erecting the College
Hills residence of Frank Atherton are
as follows: Mcdonald & Langston,
1886: Craig, s9,97S; Knight, sS,7S6;
Harrison Mill, $4,000; Patty, $3.50; Her
shaw, s9,247; Savory, $4,000.
Invitations have been issued by Mrs.
S. b. Dole for a reception to be ten
dered at the residence of Governor and
Mrs. Dole, Emma street on Friday af-
ternoon. to meet Mrs. Sidney Hooker,
Mrs. Edgar Walker and Miss Perkins.
News was received by Mrs. Robert
/. Wilcox from her husband, the delegate
in Congress, that he was rapidly re-
cuperating from his recent illness. He
expected to be out and upon the streets
! again few days after writing his let
ter
L. Thompson. supervising engineer
, for the United States government in
the surveying of Pearl Harbor began
. his work yesterday. The marking of
the channel by buoys will be ready
for dredging to commence about Feb
: ruary 10.
Eva b. Pail has filed suit for divorce
in the Circuit Court, against Frank S.
: Pail, who is connected with the Bere-
tania Street Ice Works. The libellee
is charged with cruelty, and using OBJ
scene vulgar and threatening Ian
guage toward her.
In a short time Sorenson & Lyle's
marine railway will be closed up for
, alterations and repairs. Among other
. improvements, new tracks will be laid
{ on account of the work necessitated by
the change, the owners of the railway
have decided to close it for month.
r Naval Paymaster Hall has vacated
, his offices in the Capitol building, and
is now domiciled in the new officers
building at the naval station. Captain
Merry, commandant, and the other
naval officers, have also been quarter
ed in the same building.
Military high mass will be celebrat-
ed next Sunday at 10 o'clock at the
Catholic Cathedral. Twenty armed
-. marines and 100 sailors without side
arms, will attend. The procession from
Brewers boat landing to the Cathedral
4 will be headed by the Catholic Mission
e band.
The steamer Hawaiian will leave
e here on Thursday for Kaanapali with
5 800 tons of sugar on board. She will
take 1000 tons from the Pioneer mill,
and will then proceed to Hilo, where
e she will load about 1900 tons more from
Pepeekeo, Olaa, and Waiakea planta-
tions. Her total cargo for New York
. will be in the negihborhood of 5000
tons.
Early yesterday morning the big rail-
road barge used in the moving of the
: Myrtle boathouse got adrift in the har-
Dor. The Waterman on the Quarantine
wharf notified the pilot boys of the fact.
: and they went to the rescue of the scow,
5 catching up with her when she was
= drifting dangerously near the reef at
Kakaako. After several hours of hard
, work the scow was moored in safety
near the Quarantine wharf
Thirty-two stowaways were discover
ed on the transport fitzpatrick during
, the trip down. When Honolulu was
. reached only eleven could be found
and they We're landed. The rest got
into soldiers clothes, left the ship, and
rejoined her just as she was leaving
=. here. On Sunday, so Captain Flint de-
clares, seven Of Honolulu's best-known
Migrants made the fitzpatrick safely
and are now on their way to the Phil
2 ippines. This, so Flint maintains,
2 leaves him four ahead Of the game.
> Tomorrow bids for dredging the har-
Dor will be opened at the office of SUI
!. perintendent of Public Works ]. H
2 Boyd. The specifications provide for
= two contracts. the job having been split
3 into two sections. The first section in
cludes 400 feet of the harbor from the
1 mauka wharf line and from the railway
4 property to the end of the channel
q The other section lies between the new
0 wharf and Queen street. This space
including all the harbor except striI
outside the 400 feet width, is to be
, dredged to n depth of thirty feet a
!. mean tide. The material brought up II
the dredging operation on section vii
be distributed on the government lo'
behind the Quarantine wharf, and or
Quarantine Island. The material from
section . will go to Aala Park, Queer
: street. and other government prOperty