The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-22

Meanwhile the House messenger had
handed to him a bundle of last
night s Bulletins, each copy having
marked in blue pencil the following
item:
''Los Angeles, April With a ter
rife detonation the big boiler of the
Union lee Works, at Second and Ala
media streets, blew up early this morn
ing, seriously injuring two employees
and setting fire to the plant, which
was destroyed. The fire burned for an
hour and a half and caused damage es-
timated at nearly 100000, mostly
covered by insurance. The cause of
the explosion has not yet been ascer-
tanned
Mark Hazel. one of the employees
of the night force of the company, had
miraculous escape from death in the
explosion. He had been beside the boil
er all night and had just turned and
walked away a short distance when
the explosion occurred. He was hurled
in great burst of flame against an
adjacent walk. With his clothing on
fire, he managed to drag himself from
the building, where he was picked up
by others anu rolled in the sand until
the flames were extinguished. He was
badly bruised and burned, but sur
SeOnS saw ne Will recover.
1.-The building was filed with expen-
sive ice making machinery and large
ammonia tanks. There We're stored in
the building 1900 tons of ice and forty
drums of ammonia. It is the opinion
of the chief engineer of the factory
that the explosion was caused by the
ignition of gases escaping from a car
load of oil that was being unloaded in
front of the engine ROOM
Scrawled along the border were the
words: ''Do we want anything like
this to happen here?''
The heading read:
OBSTRUCTION WROUGHT BY
LACK OF CARE HANDLING Low
OIL while brief introduction said
that 1.-THE danger to life and property
from low test fuel oil'' was shown in
the dispatch.
THEY SMILED.
The opponents of the octopus oil
monopoly lay back and chuckled after
reading the article, for the enemy had
come into camp. 1t was plain at first
reading that there was nothing what
ever to justify the supposition in the
first place that the place had been
blown up by oil at all; secondly, that
there was nothing to show that if it
had been blown up by oil that low
grade oil was responsible. The head
ing and introduction were simply sam
pies of a puerile attempt to mislead
the public and the House.
Still, with this wooden gun, poor
Broad was put forward to make the
fight
HE WAS FRANK.
Broad commenced with the assump- |
ton of frankness which is occasionally |
effective. He wanted to know why |
this bin had been put forward at all. |
He noticed in the papers the names of |
people interested in the oil business |
and supposed they were trying to get |
the bill through. If the House permit
ted the bill to pass he could see fierce !
in which the public would |
get all the worst of it. Then the la
boring man was lugged in by the neck
and shoulders and Broad pictured the
desolation which would ensue if the
men now holding jobs should lose them
when the new company came, if 1T
were allowed to come. Incidentally,
in the general introduction of oil burn
ars. he saw hundreds of handwriting
men thrown out of jobs because they
are used to handling coal instead of
oil
HIS BOMB SHELL.
Then Broad threw his fake bomb
she'll He had been supplied with an
copy of the Bulletin, so that
here could arise no suspicion as to
MS bona fides. He pointed to the article
reproduced above and in more or less
Hawaiian, he drew the at
-ention of the ROuse to if
The House did not laugh; it simply
,nickered.
Harris rose to point of order and
tsked to have the article read through
Read through it was, in English and
n Hawaiian.
BROAD DIDN'T KNOW.
Smith took Broad in hand
WHAT he asked, " exploded in