The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-13
BISHOP NICHOLS WILL
COME WITH KNOWLEDGE
The American Church Representative Has Net
and Heard Bishop Willis and Has
Impressions.

impressed by what he saw in Hawaii,
he framed an interesting lecture,
which, illustrated with lantern slides.
he delivers whenever opportunity Of
fers. An evening or so ago he describ-
ed the beauties of Hawaii to a hall
full of people at the Los Angeles
Young Mems Christian Association.
THE FISH EXPERTS.
1t is evident that Dr. Gilbert, who
heads the piscatorial commission 10
Hawaii. and who is one of the most dis
tinguished icthyologists in America,
was not liked by the students Of Stan
ford University, at which he has
chair. One of the cleverest graduates
OF Stanford is Will Irwin. now on the
editorial STAFF of the Chronicle. Irwin
writes on DR.. Gilbert in the News
Letter as follows:
DR.. Gilbert of Stanford University
has gone TO study the fishes of Hawaii,
and there is a great sigh of relief COM
ing up from Palo Alto. Perhaps this is
the cause OF the great winds that have
been sweeping through the city this
week and threatening to blow the Don
ahue fountain into the bay. Be that
as it may, I am glad for the students
and sorry for the fishes. This medieval
inquisitioner and intuitive spy has so
long stirred up i'll feeling in every COM
munity he has entered that 1 should
not be at all surprised if the Honolulu
fishes get wind of his coming and mi
CRATE in a body to Labrador or Alviso
slough. or some other out-of-the-way
body of water where Gilbert is not
When I reflect that the study OF fishes
is the specially OF DR.. Gilbert of STAN
ford. I lift a little silent prayer Of
Thanksgiving that I am not fish.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. Gladys Piver Ray, who is a sis
ter of Johnny Piver, and who was well
known in Honolulu, where her mother
kept a boarding house. is now singing
in public She recently sang at a me-
chanical piano recital. The concert
was as follows: Piano recital by An
gelus piano player, assisted by Gladys
Piver Ray, mezzo-soprano, and the
Victor talking, machine. Mrs. Ray was
sandwiched in between the machine
Paderewski and the photograph, but
did very well 1 am told. BY the way.
the use of these mechanical players Is
becoming so common that current
Joke Illustrates the possible future:
Little Mary-"O, mamma, come down
stairs quick. There is man playing
the piano with his hands"
NJ. A. Hunt of San Francisco, is re-
ported in the New York Commercial as
saying that the freight line between
San Francisco, Seattle and Puget Sound
ports and Honolulu will be big diVi-
dend payer. He says: Business be-
tween these points is steadily increas-
ing because the Hawaiian Islands un-
der American rule are developing rap
idly. There has been so much to at
tract Americans that they have not
attracted the attention they would
have done under normal conditions
However. Americans are beginning "a
appreciate the possibilities of the ISL
ands now and many are going there
l believe that within few years they
will be as important from commercial
viewpoint as any State in the Union.
A! The. daily papers note the death OF
DIR. George Saul, at Honolulu. The
body was expected TO arrive on the Al
ameda Dr. Saul was a native of Peta-
luna, aged % years. He was recently
graduated from the San Francisco
Medical College, and had served with
the United States army in the hospital
corps. FREDERICh q BRlEN-
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