The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-08-11
Town TALK

About Town.
it lease it out again as plantation?
or break it up into small holdings?
And if it does the latter how will it
manage the irrigation works? There
are possibilities in this for a great ex-
pertinent Of some kind in public own
ership
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Unless Admiral Beckley gets a new
chauffeur, that automobile that his
many friends took such trouble to pre-
sent to him, will soon be thing of the
past. The other afternoon the admiraTs
automobile, fortunately with the Ad-
miral not in it, came very near being
run down by an electric car on King
street The fault was with the young
man who was driving the auto, In a
spirit OF youthful assininity, the youth
deliberately ran the machine as closely
in front of an approaching electric car
as possible. Both conceyances were
moving rapidly at the time. Had not
the motorman checked the car, there
would have been a collision, with the
AdmraIs auto and three young hope
fuls piled on the street. As a friend
of the Admiral 1 want to protest "a
sainst such careless use Of his auto
mobile
\ woman went to the police station
couple of weeks ago-it was just pre-
ceedng the election of officers i'm the
Republican primary clubs,-to report
the theft of a baby carriage. "Oh, you
lose baby carriage" said an officer.
well more better you come back, We
too busy with politics now to attend
to such little things. You come back
after we get through with the cleo
TONS
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l wonder how many people wrote to
their friends in Washington and else
where on hearing the report that our
jack was to resign as secretary of
the Territory? 1t would be interesting
to know. When signs of a nice poll
teal job becoming vacant appear here,
those who have lighting rods in the
air quietly write to their Senator
friends, or other friends supposed to
have influence, and intimate that the
rods are all ready for business. So
have no doubt that the publication
Of the fact that Atkinson might resign
resulted in little increase of man
matter en- route to Washington
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Why isn't the Judiciary building
clock lit up at night? Most towns of
Honoluiu's size have at least one big
clock behind which lights burn all the
night and such clocks are a great public
convenience. The Judiciary clock is a
fine big one, centrally located, and it
is in tower which could easily be lit
up, for the governments electric wires
reach the building. The tower should
be wired and lit up, for the benefit OF
the belated ones who have soaked their
watches before starting home.
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They have had another one of those
revolutions in the San Francisco news
paper offices which come in cycles, and
when they do come, tear things up, as
probably no newspaper revolutions ex-
cept in the office of the New York
Herald, ever do tear things. One of the
peculiar things about the San Fran
cisco upheavals is that like their earth
quakes, they make a clean sweep. All
three of the morning papers expert
enced the shakes-up this time, as usual
A friend of mine, writing me on the
subject, says that from all accounts.
Mcknight, who up to the time of
the cyclone was the whole thing on
the Call, was frozen out. Apparently
he liked the temperature or else be-
lieved in homeopathy, for he has gone
to Alaska Joe Mansfield, who went
to the Call from the Examiner at the
time John d. threw Charlie Shortridge
out, was himself thrown out with Nc
Naught, and has gone back to the Elk
aminer.
Hornick, business manager, and Ern-
est Simpson City Editor of the Chro-
nicle, have become manager and man
aging editor. respectively of the Call,
and Hubert r. Hunt, who for years has
done railroads and hotels, and the big
assignments for the Chronicle. has be-
come City Editor of the Chronicle. No
man in San Francisco, probably, has as
wide a personal acquaintance among
the prominent men of California and
the Pacific slope as Hunt, and there
is scarcely a railroad man in the
country that he does not know per-
sonally, and doesn't know his entire
railroad connection.
Ny frienG says that Immediately fol-
lowing the earthquake and fire, all the
San Francisco papers cut their staffs
down almost to nothing But now
they are recruiting them up to a war
footing, and it looks as though there
would be keen competition and a
period of newspaper hustle among the
San Francisco newspapers.
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