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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12

1t pays to build a railroad we'll
When the Rapid Transit line was laid
down, a few stockholders thought that
needless care was being taken, involv-
ing too great a cost. To them steel
rails Npf a pattern used on the trans
continental lines We're too heavy; and
other details of equipment, such as
standard steel bridges, an extrava-
gance. They insisted that a much
cheaper road would answer.
But in building railroads a stitch in
time saves nine. Tt is more economical
to build so as to avoid costly future
repairs than to build in makeshift
way and take chances. With railroads
as with everything else. the best is the
cheapest in the long run. The repair
account, mile by mile, of the Southern
Pacific, a badly built line, would be
well worth having in dividends; while
that of the New York Central we'll
built line, would not annoy an ordinary
corporation as a debt.
The kona storm, through which Ho-
nolulu has just passed, tested the con-
struction of the Rapid Transit in such
a way that the least defect would have
been seen. But where highways were
torn up, the railroad made a sound
path through the debris. Bridges built
by the TERRITORY We're washed out but
no bridges built by the Rapid Transit
went down or were much hurt.
The showing made of honest construc-
ton is most gratifying, especially to
stockholders who. in these times. are
not eager to divert dividends into a
rebuilding fund
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12

1t is about time thar Russia called
out her elder statesmen.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12

Consul Saito is naturally cautious
but he need have no fear of offending
the United States government, by per-
hitting japanese in these Islands to
contribute to the war funds of their
country. In 1870 both Germans and
French, living in America and other for
eign lands, bought their national bonds
and the French, with the knowledge of
Washington, sent large consfgnments
Of arms to Bordeaux. 1t is known to
everyone that money from the Irish
in America sustained a hostile propa
ganda against England for years and
yet Great Britain made no complaint
When Turkey attacked Greece tens of
thousands of dollars We're forwarded
to Athens by Greeks in America. So
If our local Japanese want to help keep
the fatherland in funds. the Govern
ment of this country, following ample
precedent, will have nothing to say.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12
WAR STRATEGY. - -.

One Of the evening extras in antici-
pating an early battle between Japan
ese at Masampho in the extreme south
OF Korea and Russians on the Yalu
/ In the extreme north fails to take
4 account of distances. It is as far
from one point to the other as it is
. from New York City to the northern
border of Maine. Korea is a country
without highways though from Flu
san, not far from Masampho, rail
Yalu. According to the best advices
the nearest Japanese force to the Rus
sian position is that at the Korean
capital, about 300 miles away, with a
is not likely TO be a contest between
these forces at all, but a land fight
may be precipitated by the advent in
the neighborhood of the Yalu, of a
japanese army on transports. If ia
pan gets the mastery of the sea she
can easily land a large force under the
guns of her fleet
Paris reports that Japanese troops,
attempting to land at Port Arthur,
have been repulsed. It is not at all
likely that when the japanese fleet
went to attack the enemy's squadron
at Port Arthur it permitted its atten-
ton to be diverted and it's movements
to be hampered by the presence of
transports. In war the way is cleared
first; then the transports come. Paris
is straining every nerve to sustain the
prestige of Russia and would be quite
capable of either telling an untruth
outright or of describing the repulse
of a landing party of bluejackets as the
defeat of an army.
When the Japanese attempt to take
Port Arthur they will probably do as
they did in 1894, land twenty or thirty
miles away and come around to the
rear of the fortress. AssuredIy they
will not be foolish enough to go ashore
under the guns of the Russian forts.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12

Recent dispatches named the Koreitz
as one of the Russian cruisers captured
by the Japanese near Chemulpo. The
Koreitz is not cruiser but is gun
boat of 1,5Oo tons which was built at
Stockholm in 1856. Naval writer's have
recently stated that she is of no fight
ing value. Her armament consisted of
two S-inch, one 6-inch, four 4-inch guns
and six two and one-half- Founders.
The Koreitz is single screw vessel and
her maximum sea speed is only eleven
knots.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12
MILITARY COMPARISONS.

This paper publishes today a compar-
alive table of the naval and military
strength of the belligerents. The
showing looks badly for Japan but Sc
far as the Russian part of it is con-
cerned it is open to doubt. No one
outside of the Cars advisers knows
very much about the actual militant
strength of Russia, but from past ex-
perience there is reason to believe that
! much of it is bluff. The discovery
that Russia has but 100000 men in
Manchuria instead of 30O,0 900 as claim
ed, may or may not be true; but such
shrinkage would surprise no one who
is familiar with the chameleon phases
OF Russian administrative duplicity.
There are experts who think Russia
will fail in a military way precisely as
France did in 1870, for lack of the men
and supplies with which she is credit
ed on paper. Up to a few days after
the declaration of war against Ger
many, France stood as the foremost
military power in Europe and yet she
was, of all important States. the weak
est. She neither had the men, the
equipment nor the discipline that had
been supposed. Under the first blows
military fabric went to pieces. As for
Russia in none of her wars has she
done anything proportionate to the
strength she has claimed. The Cri-
mean campaign was little to her credit
and she had the struggle of her life to
prevail against Turkey at a time when
the Ottoman army was mere armed
mob. Back of all that she was con-
stantly beaten by Napoleon and only
saved from ruin by her winter weather.
In the Picking campaign her soldiers
Japanese-and so We're some others of
even higher celebrity.
Even granting the existence, in Rus
STA, of vastly superior numerical
force of troops to that of her antag-
onist, the problem to be solved by ia
pan is only with the troops which
Russia can put into Manchuria and
Korea. Drawing upon her population
Of 46,000,O00, Japan, with the mastery
IF the sea, can land an indefinite num- |
Der of recruits on the mainland; while |
Russia must depend on one railroad |
rack 5000 miles long (from Moscow |
which the japanese are already blow |
ng up and which may also be dam /
-ged by Nihilists in Russia proper In |
'rief it is not the number of men Rus
Ia has which counts but the number
hat can be brought to bear effectively. |
Meanwhile this paper ventures the
reelection that the Japanese army in |
he perfection of it's discipline, in its
nobility and dash, in the thoroughness
its commissariat, in the keenness of |
s strategy, and in it's fawless courage
nd patriotism will gain a position in
istory not inferior to that of any army
hitch ever took the field. Man for
ian and general for general, it need
OF fear comparisons anywhere. So EAR
$ the navy is concerned it is Speaking
IT itself.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12

Things are going badly indeed when
Russia feels impelled to send the better
part of the Baltic fleet to the Far East.
That feet constitutes the first lire Of
defence for the Russian capital. No
ordinary circumstances would induce
the Car to let it go on a ten thousand
mile journey; but the destruction of
so many fine ships of his Asiatic feet
constitutes an emergency of the fist
rank.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12

The marines find shore duty wetter
than duty afioat
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12

Alezieff finds it troubleski to get
nextieff
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12
GOVERNOR BRODIES LIT
.BROCRURE.,


Inc annual report of Governor B~odie,
OF Arizona, is brochure consisting OF
go pages of fine print and 225,0 words
ne gives the boundaries CT his territory,
mentions its latitude and longitude.
dimensions in miles, yards feet, rods
and acres. His description of its re-
sources is most enthusiastic. The gov
ernoz expresses the opinion that the
territory should be irrigated and that
his salary should be raised.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12
THE SITUATION TO DATE.

< ae news continues to be satisfactory
9 a@Japan, though report is current
Russian cruisers bombarded Ha-
q fate on Tuesday No indication ap-
9 RS that the firing, which must have
( no n vigorously replied to by the forts,
O the the northern seaport any harm.
x der
Z on1aoubtedly Russia, by this demon
< alton. is trying to draw ships away
9 MEM Port Arthur.
( teiEhe japanese are still bombarding
DIRT Arthur and have lodged their
AlIs in the town, an easy thing to do
ing to the nearness of the shore
s=s...s...es of that miniature port to the sea.
may be inferred from the dispatch
at the three Russian cruisers re-
& .rted sunk there are not the vessels
szsigina1ly crippled but three more 1t
light to be easy for the japanese
lips. if they can keep within range
I'D secure proper elevation for their
sySsvans. to rain missiles upon every part
Af the town and anchorage of Port
Arthur.
The London dispatch about war risks
rather blind. In it's skeletonized
A<brm it reecs Thirty per cent paid
kJW5day against war risk France England
HI esifhin six months" Does this indicate
AVS fear that France may go to the as
AsIstance of Russia and that, in such
event England win declare war upon
sser2
The exhortation of the Russian Min
voEster of Finance shows that the Rus
tVgsian people, in their alarm, losing |
their heads and seeking to convert Sc
curities into cash before a fall in val
ues can occur.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12

Russia was uppish about the neu-
tralization of China a week ago and
would make no promises. Now she
hastens to file her acquescence with
the powers. Russia has troubles
enough without wanting a diplomatic
row with England and America.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12

If the Japanese could take Dalny and
Port Arthur before the Baltic fleet ar
rived, the latter would have hard work
finding a boarding house
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12

If it all turns out to be true about
the japanese torpedo boats, the worlds
stock of battleships viii depreciate.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12

As there is rise and fall of the tide
at Chemulpo of thirty-six feet, the
sunken Russian cruisers will have their
regular time for reappearing.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-12

Amid all the noise and the shouting
it is well not to forget that poor old
Sumner was robbed of $4,000 by men
he trusted.
The evening world., 1904-08-06
OUTING
W|LLDRAWCR0WDS.
Assembly District Leader
Keahon Assures His Friends
that Next Tuesdays Affair
Will Be a Big Success.

The annual outing Of the Tammany
organization Of the Seventh Assembly
District will DO held next Tuesday Al
witsels Pavilion. College Point, l. I.
Leader Patrick H. Keahon has assured
his friends that the outing will be a
success In every particular. A large
number Of tickets has been sold, and II
will take Q small feet Of steamers aud
barses 10 carry all OF thu faithful To
the grove who mean to 90.
Under the direction Of Mr., Keahon.
and assisted BY his able lieutenants, the
evening parade will be q march OF trl'
umph from the boat 70 the club house.
Dinner will be served by Mr.. Witsel,
after which there will be games, con-
Quoted under the rules OF the Amateur
Those in charge Of the affair are
Patrick II. Keahon. chairman Of the
Committee OF Arrangements; John II.
Little, chairman OF the Reception Com
mittee. and Edward w. Hart. chairman
OF the Committee on Games.
As there are many promising ath-
ietes living IN this Assembly district. II
IA expected that some keen competitions
will occur IN The games. Many. Of ths
young men OF The district already have
gone into training.
The evening world., 1904-08-06
TIDAL WAVE HIT
THE SHIP LADST0CK
Rough Rounding Of the Horn
Told by Log Of an Old Iron
Bark That Is Now in the Erie
Basin.

THE taut little old.fa shioned iron
bark Ladstock. Of Liverpool, now on
Cranes dry-dock. In the Erie Basin,
Brooklyn. came through a tumultuous
passage from Peru, feeling the violent
hand OF many an uprising OF the sea.
on the Horn the wind increased TO a
heavy gale, and the compact vessel
strained and rolled heavily, shipping q
mighty tonnage Of water.
Under strenuous press OF storm and
biting hail. snOw iurries and rain. the
crew engaged In one long struggle with
sin canvas and gear, while the nurri-
cane squalls hurled themselves upon the
laburing Iron hull. which had to submit
70 the pondcrous bombardment.
"A cyclone was now screeching through
the coidage, bending the spars and
causing yards to grOan. The tops Of
tremendous pyramids Of leaping green
slammed upon the deck plates, burying
the ships hull continually.
ahr decks we're impossible even IA
the mate's cat, which had a sailors
habit OF walking through water.
Up forward the curling crests doomed
aboard with terrifying reye!beration,
smHshing the forehead ladder ana the
~forecastle scutile TO bits.
The san topsl and ihe fore royal
burst from their gaskets. and In a
second were less than rags. The hands
got IN under the poop dodger Tor safety.
Decks were flooded without lntermis-
sion from noon until s 7. N All braces
n running gear we're washed adTlft.
J At =. VI. the ship seemed suddenly
70 be at the base OF n tidal wave and
with roar and bang the tremendous sea
smashed over the poop. crushing In the
vheei.bor and flooding the cabin.
A considerable quantity OF water got
down In the lazarette. spelling about
lQ pounds OF -four and other stores.
In the evening, after wind and sen
had stilled down a trifle. the ship wa,
put before the wiad. as she raie easier.
Al daylight Capt. Milburn SCI 10 work
e~traightening up. He found the greater
part Of the ropes and braces over the
aide through ports and scuttle holes
and chafed to pieces. The carpen'or
measured In the we'll seven inches ot
water, which had found It's way h,isy
II was soon pumped down.
After undergoing many trials and
vorking up through the trades N The
Atlantic nothing happened more ;ragi.
thar the death OF Mike. IN sand,
Hook. who was poisoned by eating dol
phin.
The evening world., 1904-08-06
SERGEANT SHELLS
IS RE-|NSTATED

Louis j. Grant. OF No. % Nassau
street, counsel for Police sergt. John
shlels. said to-day that he had re-
oeived word frcm Albany that the
Court OF Appeals had granted an order
for his clients reinstatement to the
force. The order was one OF the last
signed bv Chief Judge Parker. before
his resignation 20 enter the P>.iden-
tial campaign. The appeal was made
on a question OF law.
Shieis was 'Oroken" through the &C.
~tivtties OF the Parkhurst Society, whose
agents charged him with failing 10
suppress a disorderiy-house alleged 10
have been conducted by Laura Mauret,
q well-known character, when ne was
on Use desk At the Tenderloin police
station.
Several other Officers were dismissed
from the force at the same time as
Shiels. but O n OF them have as yet
been relnstated. Shiels Is now aid 10
be wealthy. having amassed a comfort.
able fortune through real estate opera
tlonsL
The evening world., 1904-08-06
CARS COLLIDE IN
SHOPPING DISTRICT
Women Get a Bad Scare and a
Few Bruises In Trolley Crash
at Twenty.thlrd Street and
Sixth Avenue.

There was a collision at Tw~enty.third
street and Sixth avenue this afternoon
between " o trolley-cars Of the Sixth
avenue line, caused by the mistake Of
a swltohman In switching a northbound
sixth avenue car into Twenty third
street lust a. a southbound car came
down.
n svltchma1 mistook the north.
pound car for a Seventh avenue car.
Wnlch ought to be turned west at
I~wenty-third street. Motorman JOIN
sullivan Of the north bound car started
ahead and didn't notice the open switch.
hotorman Patrick Hogan Of the other
cas' seeing that %sulliyan's car was a
sixth avenue car, also started ahead.
Al the switch S%ullIvan's car went
sailing over TO the southbound track
ana tAere was a terrific smash. TIE
~dashbolrds OF the ears we're bent
double, the windows broken and the
headlights torn on. The passengers
we're BADLY shaken up. but no one wa,
seriously Injured. Mis-. Della Wheaton.
OF No. IS Two Hundred and Twentieth
street Wili!amsbridge. tainted from
right, and Mrs Clara Green, OF M.
- Market street. Amsterdam. \ Y
was bruised about the head and
shoulders. As Mrs. Green emerged
irom the wreck a man In a biz red
automobile came up and Invited her Ia
step IN and he carried TO a doctor,
Sh" accepted the invitation and when
an ambulance surgeon arrived there
was nothing for him TO do.
The tangle was Strengthened out
without more than ten minutes DELAY
10 'rafic. ''
The evening world., 1904-08-06
BOOTBLACK
GIVES UP STRUGGLE

Tony Gasiiaido, q ~bootblack. killed
himself to-day because his old mother
is starving, and there has been so much
rainy weather he couldn't earn enough
to keep them both alive.
when he took a dose Of poison he
hoped that after he was dead charitable
persons would look after his mother.
II wasn't very brave OF Tony. but he
was so wretehed and hungry and
heartsick that he couldn't keep up the
struggle. -
Tony and his widowed mother lived
at No. " Mulberry street, and he has
supported her with his box and brushes
ever since his father died.
But De rain came day after day and
The evening world., 1904-08-06

BURY THE RATCHET Is
HIS ADVICE T0'FAcrpNs,
Scrap to a Finish Next Year,af
. You Must, He Says, but Keep
Quiet During National Cam.
paign.

The advise Of, Democrssio Nuk1posl
Chairman Thomas Tsswart and ssngtpr
Joe Bailey. Of Texas, to the lighting
Democrats Of New York to-day u TO
bury their differences until altar Slsc-
ton and then sail into n anuthsr
again. II they must and fight 20 . On.
ish. Neither Of these national Leaders
mean to interfere in any ways<fsh Be
local situation. they say. a. intsrssr~
sncs IN LEGAL nights by outsiders h.
variably ends In makiag 3 htuas6o
worse and strs up the resentmsntaeuH
factions. /
Mr.. ragsart 60. up early <oday sa4
started out with National sscrSentS
Uuy woods6n to ind a suitable pAnbs
to establish the Eastern headqunnws
foc tho campaign. They looked OVENS
number Of places and returned toSns
Hoffman House for luncheon.
I'VE haven't found a place yet" sai0
Mr.. Taggart. but ! am not discouraged.
A lot Of places were offered to VI. bue
my objection to them all is that they 'sEs
not commodlous enough. What We wane
Is q big, roomy place where all can have
plenty Of space. not Q lot OF little, stuffy
Offices. Between now and next Tuesday
expect to have Just such a place, but
! must admit that l haven't found is
yet"
Mr.. Tasgar. was asked wha..he meant
70 do about Strengthening out the local
situation.
Nothing" he said. That will iron
, itself out IN time. II. Is not for me to
tsll THO Democrats Of New York how
will attend TO that and be on deck to
support the tickoI on election day an
right. am not doing any worrying
about that. | have no conferences on
to-day and know OF nothing OF impor-
lance IN politics until the Executive
Committee meeting on Monday"
Mr.. .faggart emphatically denied than
he had an appointment to meet Charlas
F. Murphy to-day. Sena tor Joe Balicy
who Is known TO take a keen interest In
the Murphy McCarren row, said to a.
Evening World reporter:
Let Local Men settle Fight,
This local situation is one which the
people OF New York can take care ~
themselves without outside ntcrferenr.
NJ experience IS that such Interference
invariably engenders resentment. New
York's Democrats are well allie IN taLs
care OF themselves. Ar appear by ths
local leaders to the Matte nal Commit.
tee might result In some advice bsins
given. but, as say, ! favor letting Nsx
Workers attend TO their businsss
For myself, ! will not be a marty "a
any individual. or committee from orr.
side Stepping In aid presuming 10 ~
just the. differences here. II gave srv
advice to the contestants at ali, IL wouid
be TO bury. their differences uni, "aftsS
election. when they can resume tosm
II they must. withou, detriment 10 re
national ticket. l think that Ia ths 49,
Of all the leaders from outside Of tSis
State" ms
The meeting OF the Executive Com.
mlttee OF the National Committee tSIa.
place Monday at the Holman Honse'
All Of the big leaders will be present
and DE- Lancey Nicoll Will come IN frn,n
Southampton, where he Is spending az
vacation. TO attend.
The evening world., 1904-08-06
GALWAY MEN WILL
PICNIC TOMORROW
They Will GO to Riverview Grove,
on the Hudson, and Enjoy
Their Annual 0utine-Pro-
gramme of'SpWts.

Many Of the brainiest and, most scnox
arly cftisens Of New York win b OUT
Of town tomorrow. for every Galway
man has arranged to 80 to the picnic
OF the Galway Mems Social and Bsnev-
olent Association at R~iverview Crow.
on the Hudson. Mayo men wtif notshS
barred, II they keep quiet about Il
The association will trsvel to River
view Grove on a big steamboat and
barses, leaving the foot Of West Thirty
nth street at II o'clock and the foot Of
wsst One Hundred and Twenty-ninth
street at ESQ o'clock. There VIII bee
programme Of games at the row
The ofieers Of the Galway Mems A.
ISOLATION are: Patrick Lally. President,
Thomas J. Heating. vice-President;
Patrick T. White. Treasurer; Alfred n.
o'Reilly, Financial Secretary; +. Quinn
Recording Secretary; 7. j. Brennan
Corresponding Secretary; T. Walsh, Ser.
geant-at-Arms, and p. j. Cody, NJ, Con.
molly and T. McHush, Trustees.
Col. Cody will have direction Of tia
refreshments arrangements, and he ava
the stun will be better than that whjch
Is dispensed In the Doxolosy tavern.
The evening world., 1904-08-06
RECEIVER NAMED
FOR BUTTON TRUST

An involuntary petition In bank.
ruptcy was filed to-day against the
United Button Company, OF No. 50,
Broadway. The p%etitionlng creditors
are officers OF the company. The but.
ton company Is a Delaware corporation
owning large tactories In Springfield,
Mass. Easthampton, Mass. and n
Boston.
Its liabilities are estimated at i7J0,Gs
and assets at $4,000. Peter Alesande,
was appointed receiver with a bond Of
5000.
gan business two years ago, came 10
grief over a note OF G5,Vo given 10
Theodore NJ. Poe. When the nots war
presented at the Citizens Central Ma
tlonal Bank. and wa not paid, an at
tachment war levied, and the trusts
business was yesterday placed tenn
porarily In the hands OF the Sheriff. The
Inability to meet the note II q mystery
70 the trade, II was thought that ths
business OF he trvst was ~pfospsring.