The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-02
COLD OVER
THE TREATY
Slight Demand for Fire
Works for Mikado's
Birthday.

/! 1.-The undigniied treaty of peace,
as prominent japanese designates tn
| Portsmouth results, is said to be tn
cause of very considerable lack o
interest among japanese generally il
the celebration of the birthday of tn
Emperor of Japan which will be hel(
tomorrow.
A japanese manufacturer of fire
works, whose place of business is il
| Honolulu, was quick to notice the ap
| parent lethargy, by reason of the lacl
of orders for fireworks. In preceding
| years the orders from other islands, a,
| well as Honolulu, were very large. The
| celebration was always the great EVEN
of each year, and large sums of money
were spent in making each occasion
| brilliant from the pyrotechnie stand
point.
This year the fireworks manufactur
er has not received an order from out
lying islands.
However, the Honolulu end of the
celebration will be undertaken as
usual.
From 10 to y a. m tomorrow the
japanese consular residence will be
open to foreigners wishing to pay their
respects to the Emperor through the
Japanese Consul, Mkt Saito, and Ma
dame Saito. AT this time officials of
the Federal and Territorial govern
ments and the consular corps will call.
In the evening the consular residence
Japanese residents exclusively.
The japanese Merchants Association
viii hold their annual celebration at
Mochizuki, Waikiki, in the evening.
The japanese Nuuanu street school
will celebrate at the Boys Field, about
two hundred pupils being on the rolls
The japanese Buddhist school will
celebrate at Kapiolani Park. This
school also has about two hundred
pupils.
At the residence of Editor Shiozawa,
Pawaa, the thirty successful candidates
of the Shinpo s voting contest will be
rendered a banquet.
The Japanese have noted with some
degree of satisfaction that the Govern
Or chose the date of the Emperor's
birthday for the Arbor Day celebration
Of TIE TerTitory's public schols.
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trance mud. That is to say, their con-
tract does not include rock, and that
is where the waterfront wiseacres are
going TO lose their bets. For the
three men in a tub say that the Pa
oific. being suction dredger, is going
to be up against it good and hard
when she strikes this Hawaiian coral
rock. They say the ''malihini ma
chine will cost her owners a pretty
penny if she tries to dig up coral with
her cutter. But the Pacific will simply
cave the coral there and if Uncle Sam
wants any of it for exhibition in the
Smithsonian Institution he will have to
pay extra for it.
At o'clock this morning the NAM
moth machine will get away from the
railway wharf, where she has been
fitting up and steam out to light
mouse point. There she will drop one
II her twin spuds and by u she will
begin actual work.
These spuds are timbers q inches
square and so feet long, set up abaft
# amidships and rugged to slide
through the deck and shell of the ship
Town into the soft bottom. AS they
tand up like masts and drop perpen-
licularly when released, their great
weight Q2-14 tons) drives their needle |
POINTS down six or seven feet into the
mud and rock. With only one down |
II a time, the dredger has at once both |
IN anchor and an axis upon which to |
urn. When thus fixed the scoop pro-
leeds to dig away in semi-circle. |
When completed the other side of the |
hip is six feet ahead of the spud that |
$ down. Then the other spud is drop
,ed and the first one pulled up. The |
peration is then repeated six feet fur |
her ahead, so that the dredger will ad |
-ance on her work with a motion |
omewhat similar to a boy walking on |
ugh stills. the dredger's stills being |
0 feet long, however.
Capt. W. A. H. Conner, the genial
manager of the dredging company, ex-
ends a cordial invitation to the gen.
raj public to visit the Pacific any time
uring working hours next Saturday
'oats viii be provided to take all. COM
rs from the channel wharf to the Pa
lfic Capt. Connor will endeavor to
&c that all visitors Saturday are shown
yer the vessel and every feature ex-
lained to them. After that however,
ne necessities of the urgent business
/ the dredger require that the vessel
e 'tabu," and the no visitors allow
! on board sign will be permanently
Isplayed and enforced.