The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-02

TIE OIASE not imam ten or nTre2n.
One of the National Civil Service Com
missioners gave a lecture on civil SER
vice at Berkeley University 1t fur
nished the papers a rare opportunity TO
tell the citizens of California what the
Administration point OF view was on
this important subject; but they were
not told. The mere fact that he gave
the lecture was all that got into the
paper. These are typical Illustrations
It is hardly too much to say that I
found in one issue of the Nevada
| state Journal" as 1 came over the
| mountains, more and better informal
ton respecting affairs in the State OF
Nevada than 1 found in a week re-
ispecting affairs in the State of Cali
fornia in the San Francisco journals
which came into my hands.
| Per contra, the new rapid transit
| system between San Francisco and
Berkeley is the best, the cleanest, and
the most expeditions 1 have ever
known. The only system comparable
TO it is that of the Illinois Central
Railroad in Chicago. From them both
the suburban transit systems in New
York City might advantageously take
| lessons The Key route. so called, is
just opened large ferryboat car
ries passengers to the end of a pier.
which reaches a mile or more in length
| across the shallow waters of the bay
! from the Berkeley shore. This ferry
boat carries only foot passengers-no
wagons, horses, or carriages. There is
| therefore, no waiting to get teams off
| or on. The passengers assemble in a
| waiting-roon walk on to the ferry
boat, and the moment the last pas
senger is on board, the ferryboat is
off. At the other side an electric
train is waiting when the fer
ryboat comes into the pier, and the
moment the last passenger is in the
train, the train is off. 1t was irnpos-
sible far me not to note the contrast
| between this expeditions system with
no hurry on the one hand and no wait
ing on the other, with that pursued by
our elevated road in New York. One
| comes in from Yonkers on the Putnam
Division, to see a train on the opposite
side of the track, with the alternative
offered to him Of climbing the stairs
and rushing over the bridge, with a fair
| chance that he will get on to the oppo-
| site platform just in time to see the
! gates closed and the train move off
or waiting on the hither platform five
minutes, sometimes ten or even more,
cooling his feet and heating his irnpa-
| thence, for another train to come in
A striking Illustration of the energy
and enterprise of San Francisco also
has been afforded recently by the his
tory of the First Congregational Church
in that city. About eight years ago
DIR. George Adams was called to this
church from ST. Louis. He came to it
| in the spirit in which a soldier answers
a call to forlorn hope. The church,
apparently, had been irretrievabiy dam
aged by the public scandal brought up
| on 1t by the immoral conduct OF its
previous pastor. The damage had been
made the greater by the factional bat
tie within the church between those
who for a time loyalty defended their
pastor against what they believed was
an unjust scandal, and those who, con-
WINGED of his guilt, demanded his resig-
nation. His tardy confession of wrong
doing eventually proved his loyal sup
porters to have been mistaken in their
judgment, but did not establish peace
between the contending parties. The
trustees, despairing of the future of the
church which had become involved in
debt during the period of strife, pro-
posed to sell it, at one blow clear off
the debt and the scandal, and begin
again in another part of the city, but
were prevented by the resistance of
resolute minority. Many of the pew
holders had gone to other churches to
get the Sunday quiet which this church
in its time of stress and storm could
not give to them and their households.
To this church, burdened by debt, rent
by faction, stained by scandal, and re-
duced to a handful of supporters, came
DIR. Adamsa Today the church is unit
ed most OF the exiles have returned,
the debt is paid off, the scandal is for
gotten, and the congregation fills the
church to the doors. No doubt the
credit of this result is primarily due TO
the wisdom, the courage, the heroic
endeavor of it's pastor; but it is also
certain that no such result could have
been achieved if he had not been sus-
tanned by energetic, enterprising, cour-
ageous, heroic souls in the church and
congregation. The energy and enter
prise indicated by the Key route and
by the story of the Congregational
church are manifested in other ways
The st. Francis Hotel manifests its APP
probation of the religious wants of its
guests by hiring pews in two, perhaps
three of the churches of the city ana
putting them at the service OF It's
guests. I have rarely if ever visited
a structure of greater interest thah
that of Mr.. Keith, by whom We We're
most cordially welcomed; one of the
most attractive art stores have ever
visited, possessing a great variety OF
art articles. is that of Mr.. Vickery, OF
National reputation, and, not the larg-
est. but certainly the most artistic ana
charming bookstore 1 ever visited,
East or West, in America or Europe, is
the bookstore of Paul Elder adjoin-
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