The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-29
BUILDING
TO BEGIN
Rails Ordered for hilo.
Onomea Section
of Line.

Eight hundred tons of seventy-pound
eastern manufacturers by Philip Peck
for the Hilo-Kohala railroad and they
are now en- route to the islands. This
shipment will be sufficient TO lay the
track from Hno to Onomea.
1t has been decided not to lay steel
bridge across the Wailuku river at
HiIo as originally planned. because it
/ has been found too expensive This
bridge had also been planned for a
position which would have compelled
the engineers to build the road across
/ the river on curve.
! A pile bridge will be built instead
! to cross at another location. This VIII
! be a straight bridge and will be much
larger than the steel bridge
Mr.. Hawxhurst has been appointed
| Chief Engineer of the railroad and is
now actively working up plans and
specifications for contracts for grading.
He has placed contracts in Hilo foTas
ties for the first section of eight miles.
The rails are being furnished by c..
Brewer & Co., of Boston, who are taxi
ing part payment in bonds
The grading of the road will pro-
coed as soon as the cane is cut off the
fields along the line of the road and
this will be effected during the nexk
two or three months.
q. n n
other she but comes back to old mates
who know her we'll and no new drill is
required to fit her to the new condi-
tions.
TOXIC, Jan. 1910 understand fully
the critical situation in which Japan
now finds herself one must go back into
her history for many years. Undoubt-
eddy Russia's action in depriving her
of the fruits of her victory over the
Chinese in the war of 1S94-5 has done
much to crystalline among the Jap
anese people the hatred which now
longs to find expression in armed ac-
ton, But the ultimate cause lies much
deeper.
For 1000 years Japan has been inti-
mately associated with or concerned in
/.
the hermit kingdom. Her instructions \
in the Buddhist religion was given by
Koreans The beginnings of her civ
iliZation were Korean. Subsequently
when she outgrew her preceptor she
conquered Korea and enforced tribute.
Now she is the mentor and Korea the
pupil. In sentiment and in religion
their ties are strong. Japan feels that
if there is to be any development of
the Korean peninsula in the ways of
modern civilization it must come
through her agency. Moreover, a mat
ter of military necessity, the very life
of the nation depending upon it, Korea
must either be preserved in her integ-
rity and independence or come under
japanese influence completely, If not
into Japanese possession.
But as long ago as 1882 the watchful
japanese saw Russia beginning to-
move toward Korea. Even then she
realized what that might mean, and
she warned Russia that there must be
no encroachment by her upon the KO-
rean peninsula. Russia smiled and dis
claimed in the usual way. Even then
Japan was beginning to feel the press
of increasing population. Now her
yearly increase is in the neighbOrhoo6
of 600, 009. Her territory is occupied
in the north, yet affords an
outlet to her thronging people, and eV-
cry year from $4,000 to $4,000 of them:
find new homes there. Already the
limit is in sight. There must be an
other outlet.
When the war with China offered the
chance of obtaining a foothold on the
continent of Asia that might have
opened a way to relief it was eagerly
grasped. Then, through the aggFee-
sion of Russia and the incred4z&
stupidity of Great Britain, that chance
was lost. The statesmen of Japan saw
and realized what a blow Japan had
received; her people knew and under
stood the humiliating affrout which
had been put upon her. The suspicion
Of Russia, which mad been felt by the
men at the head of affairs, became a
hatred of terrible intensity among the
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