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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
CABLEGRAMS OF YESTERDAY
FROM CLIFF ROUSE "HUT"
NO SMOKE SEEN.


SAN FRANCISCO April a 5:4s MT looks FIRE
is completely Can't any smoke.
OAKLAND NEWS COMING
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21-5:5o A. M.-Ferry building
standing News coming Oakland Newspapers issuing
FIRE UNDER CONTROL
s. SAN FRANCISCO April s e3o Man ,1 from town says
Everything burned
ing back fred yesterday the Western Addition
On West swept to Van Ness South clean Bay
They say you can't find your way
FIRE UNDER CoNTRoL-No ONE HUNGRY.
If SAN FRANCISCO April A. M-Headines from this
mornings Examiner printed in Oakland The waterfront de-
feed hungry that everything being done provide food
distributing procuring food Quantity and quality satisfactory
Fires under control
AN AUTO SERVICE WITH HUT.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2I-e4o A M-Operators say they
are trying establish Cable
operator Gable hut made breakfast this morning
NO CARS ARE RUNNING.
SAN FRANCISCO. April a1-8 O'clock, Honolulu Time.Not
car running in the city The quake threw dynaos OH the center enter
SAN FRANCISCO FIRE UNDER CONTROL.
SAN FRANCISCO April aI5 m Thf na fire snd IS beH all
being well distributed. The worst is over
SAN FRANCISCO WILL REBUILD.
SAN FRANCISCO April a5Ia noonThe & city will start to
being forced inspecting chirneys, houses. ETC.
SAN JOSE ALL RIGHT.
SAN JOSE April a11Is MThere was no damage t to
speak About six persons injured few small ires WHICH
were extinguished.
OAKLAND IN GOOD SHAPE
OAKLAND April 21.-6:57 A. M-Everything in Oakland o.
<. No serious damage.
OAKLAND, April 21.-e:36 A. M-Oakland practically es-
without damage whatever
SAN FRANCISCO, April a1.-o35 A. M-Weather Observer
for the fact that chlnys
are down things tossed about Chneys a
ing nothing nowadays.
LOS ANGELES SENDS RELIEF.
SAN FRANCISCO, April II A. Mos Angeles y. n.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22

Mrs. H. K Duncan. sister of James
Fox who visited here several months.
was a passenger to San Francisco on
the China. She was accompanied by
her child. The Duncan home was in
the heart of the wrecked section.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22
HELP FOR The
HONOLULU
PEOPLE
Relief Bureau viii Be
Opened in San
Francisco.

Headquarters for the relief
Of Hawaiian people will be es-
tabIished in San Francisco.
This will relieve the minds of
Honolulans who have friends
and relatives in the ruined city.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-22

SAN FRANCISCO, April RI, 5:45 {. MT look
completely out. Can't see any smoke.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03
NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON
[Trom Ths Tribuns Bureau.l ]

rTrom Tho Tribune Bursau.l
Washington Oct. 2.-Henry Ives Cobb. jr.. who
will marry Miss Carolyn Postlethwaits at ST.
Johns Church at o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
has arrived in Washington. and with him his
brothers, Cleveland Cobb. VINO will be best man,
and Chandler Cobb. and his sister Miss Leonore
Cobb who Is to be maid OF honor. Miss Grace Bell
entertained Ms. Postlethwaite and her daughter
at dinner last night. Those OF the wedding party
at the dinner were Miss Carolyn Hun, Miss Ethel
seckendorf Miss Edith Sanger. Miss Janet Fish.
OF New York Miss IngaM. Of Cincinnati; Miss
Constance Bacon. Of Boston: Blair Fairchid, Wen
dell P, BIagden. Julien L. Peabody, Franklin Alb
bOtt, Marmaduke Ttlden. tr., W. P. Wolcott and
W. B. Daniel, OF ST. Louis. Mrs Ormsby Mccain
mon and Miss Frederica Morgan were also pres
ent Miss Postlethwaite and Mr. Cobb have re-
ceived a number OF large checks as wedding gifts,
their immediate departure for Europe making them
the most desirable presents.
Mrs. Richard II. Townsend expects 70 sail from
Europe for this country October 28 and AFTER q
few days spent IN New York will come 70 Washing
ton and open her house for the season. Miss Ma
thilde Townsend. who Is abroad with hsr mothsr
and who was presented at court IN London last
season. IS also returaing to this country.
Mrs. Augustus n. EDDY mother OF Spencer
Eddy. secretary OF the American Embassy IN Ber-
lin. has leased house IN Washington for the
son and IS expected to return soon from Europe.
WHARF she spsnt the summer. Her daughter. Miss
Catherine Eddy. Is returning TO this country with
her. Mrs. EDDY was with her son and her sister,
Mrs. Marshall Field. ST.. while abroad.
Lieutenant and Mrs. John W. Timmons have
gone to Indianapolis for two weeks visit with
Mrs. Timmons's parents. vIce-President and Mrs.
Fairbanks.
Mr. and Mrs. Hs1nen Jennings and their daugh-
ter, Miss Katherine Jennings. returned to Wash
ington to-day and have taken possession Of the
house IN Rhode Island avenue occupied by them
last season.
Mrs. Joshua W. Butt Is preparing 20 leave her
apartment IN Washington that she may Join her
stationed.
Mrs. Robert Fitch Shepard and her daughters.
Miss Mary Shepard and Miss Alice Shepard.
turned 10 Washington to-day from their summer
home at York Harbor. Me-
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03
TIE so-oALLED BALLOON RACE.

Aeronautc contests Ike that which has Just
been held in Europe doubtless possess impor-
tance in the eyes Of those who take part IN
them, but they have little significance for any
body else. The spectacle afforded by the as.
cension Of sixteen balloons from a single place
was sufficiently fascinating 10 draw a crowd,
especially on Sunday. but not many persons IN
Paris or elsewhere cared a straw about what
happened afterward. The fact is that the COM
petition was not race at all. 1t was a drift
ing match. No opportunity for the exercise OF
skill was afforded, IN yachting, and there
was no chance 10 demonstrate the superiority
OF one mechanism over its rivals, as IN an auto
mobile race The craft which We're entered for
this weeks contest merely hoated in the air as
chips might do on the surface of stream The
only elements OF calculation involved in tho
venture were the original buoyancy Of the bal
looms and the precautions taken 10 prevent the
escape Of gas.
With one exception the airships which started
from Paris on Sunday differed in no essential
respect from those sent up by Montgolhers i'm
mediate successors. They were larger and, in
minor particulars, a little better, no doubt, but
they represented no radical improvement on the
primitive ideas Of a century or more ago. An
innovation was made by Santos-D Dumont, but
an accident 10 the aeronaut himself compelled
him 10 descend before it had been fairly tested
The judges permitted him 10 equip his balloon
with screw propeller arranged so as to help
IN keeping him aloft ard not TO promote horl-
zontal progress. Concerning any possible velue
which the device may possess no hint has
been afforded and there has been no iIIuminat-
ing revelation of real advance in aeronautic
science.
The latest drifting match is less noteworthy
than some Of its predecessors. because no new
record has been made. Several years ago the
Count de Ia NaulK traversed nearly three
times the distance covered by Lieutenant Iabm
and even the Frenchman's performance was
equalled, If not surpassed. by John Wises his
toric voyage from St Louis to a spo+ IN 81
Lawrence County y. Y, twelve hundred miles
away. The American army officer who car
ried of the honors this week might have rnada
better showing II he had deemed it tuditEous
to continue longer IN the air. for il is sejd thar
he descended when he did Whltby TO avoid
being carried out over the North Sea. There is
no telling OF course, how much further the wind
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03
THE SPIRIT OF GoVERyyEyT

SeTetaTy Taft touched the very gist OF the
C1han situation, and something more. when in
1os admirable address at the University Of Ha-
Tnna be suggested the inquiry whether il was
worth while for the Cubans 10 seek a change
IN The form OF their government eight years
ana more ago II they were not going TO make
Sn equally radical change IN the spirit Of Il. or
IN her own attitude toward It His implied
answer 70 his own question was. OF course, not
that II was not worth while 10 change from the
5uatus or royal province TO a salf-governing
republic, but that It was desirable and incurn-
bent upon the Cubans 10 prove the fitness Of
thai transformation by effecting q correspond
Ing Change IN themselves, by ceasing 10 Law Oh
others The responsibility OF government by them
selves generally participating IN both the re-
sponsibilites and privileges OF government and
ceastng % hold Gloof IN classes and castles. and
by practically realizing that the old Spanish
idea Of control OF the state by one man or bv
few men has been replaced with the Anglo
Saxon Idea OF government OF the people by the
people themselves. We can imagine no more
timely or profitable message TO the Cubans than
Just that for It exposes the source Of their
present trouble and 1t prescribes the only sure
remedy for Il
AS Alr tart suggested, and as we said in
these columns the other day, the need OF such
q change IN the spirit OF government or in
the attitude Of the people toward their gov
ernment is not confined 10 Cuba 1t is com
mon 10 other states OF Latin America II was
strongly shown not long ago IN Panama where
Mr.. Taft himself began and where Nj Magoon
carried 10 notable success precisely the work
which now requires 10 be done ia Cuba 1t is
not we have said, surprising, IN view OF
their Hntecedents, that the Cubans are so lack
Ing in what regard an essential type Of
patriotism, or that they have not more quickly
and completely attained the self-governing eff
cheney which we ourselves boast after two hun
dred years Of education and experience. Per
haps II is surprising that they have done as
well as they have. But the point Of the case
is that they must do better They must effect
a change In spirit comparable with that IN
form II ever they are 10 secure the benefits OF
the struggle which set them free from Spain
and II ever they are 10 prove 10 the world that
the struggle was worth while. That they Will
do so may not unreasonRbly be expected Their
reception OF Mr.. Tafrs very plain talk indi-
Gates a receptive frame Of mind. All that would
seem now 10 be needed is the doing there for
the next few months OF such a work as Mr.
Magooa has done at Panama. The situation In
the island is almost identical with that Oh the
isthrnus year ago, and 81, as foreshadowed by
gu Washington correspondent this morning be
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT

Newport. r. L. Oct 2-COmmodors Cornelius
Vanderbilt departed for New York on his steam
yacht North Star.
Mrs. Elisha Dyer. jr.. was reported as com
Portable a could be expected after her accident
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Winthrop. who have bean
the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster
have returned to New York
Miss Elizabeth Ray and Miss Cornelia Delansld
are the guests Of Miss Ida E. Bliss. ae Quarter
Foil.
Mrs. Clarence Peu entertained yesterday with
card party.
Mrs. William Watts Sherman gave dinner yes
terday. and Mrs. 2. c. Knight f., a luncheon
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. knight, Jr., will close their
cottage tomorrow and 70 Phnadelphia
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Thompson Spencer. OF Phlladel-
phia. will close their cottage next week.
Many summer residents will remain Until late
IN the season. Among them are Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam Storrs Wells. who will stay until October 20;
Mr.. and Mrs. william H. Sands and Samuel BaEgsr
and family, who viii remain until November, and
Mr. and Mrs. T. Shaw Safe, until Dsosmbsr
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03
THE PENNSYLVANIA CAPITOL.

Pennsylvanians have Just been learning pain
full lessons I'm the uncertainties of arithmetic.
That supposedly exact science sometimes loses
its reputation for eXactness, and IL is nOto-
riousy never less sure of itself than when It
serves the uses of politicians with a bent for
architecture and architects with n speaking ac-
quantance with politics. We have had some
sad experience in this state and city with
building commissions which kept on putting
down one and carrying nine and making three
dollars do the work for which one was originally
appropriated. But we have generally had our
arithmetical miSCarriageS broken TO us gently
We have not walked up some fine morning as
the people of Pennsylvania have just done to
find that public building supposed 10 cost less
than 100000 has in reality cost about Sl3-
OOOOOO with obligations still outstanding. No
wonder the Keystone State is aroused and
wants to know how the architects and politi-
clans at Harrisburg could have more than three
times ''watered" the estimates for the new Cap
itol
So far as & partial investigation shows,
legal warrant for the tripling of the estimated
cost Of the building seems 10 have been estab-
lshed. But this warrant-blank on its face
was given in such an obscure and underhanded
way as seriously TO discredlt the good inten-
tons of the Legislature executing it and the
political and personal Judgment of the officials
accepting it as an adequate authorization on
which to draw millions Of dollars from tho
state treasury. The limit of cost for the new
building was fixed by legislation at S4.OO0,OOO.
and the Capitol Commission was able TO save
100000 Of this sum, contracting for the COM
pletOn Of the structure, with mural decorations.
for S3.GO00OO. Credit was naturally given TO
the commissioners for administrative efficiency
and economy and prominent Representative
in Congress from Pennsylvania called attention
last winter on the floor Of the House to the
fact that the new building would be one of the
few public buildings IN the United States, state
or federal, completed within the original appro-
priatiOn. 1t has been, in fact, matter Of pride
TO Pennsylvanians that the Capitol had been
apparently designed and constructed without
the slightest evidence OF waste or honest graft"
Yet now the veil IS torn aside and 1t is discov-
cred that a furnishing commission, composed cP
three state officials, has expended for furnish
ings" between $sOO0OOO and S9,OOO,OoO and ia
still running UP the score And the only au-
thorization for this expenditure Is q clause IN
an appropriation bill which, while apparently
sanctoning some minor repairs about the Capl
tol. could be construed as granting unlimited
right 70 the "furnishers'' to draw and paw out
any money not otherwise appropriated" In the
state treasury
Treasurer Berry, as memhs- OF the cons-
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03

is sent TO Cuba fortunate results may be ex-
pected.
We have said that Mr.. Taft touched some
thing more than the gist of the Cuban situa-
ton. or even the Latin-American situauon'
The principles which he urged upon the Cuoans
are, it is true, those which this country pro
fesses to practise and TO have been practising
for generations. Yet It does not practise theh
so perfectly that it does not itself need 10
have them recalled 10 attention and urged upon
II. When Mr. Taft deplored the fact that so
many Cubans, especially those Of wealth and
education, trained themselves, not only TO In
difference. but to inactivity, In the field of po-
'1itical and governmental matters" he indirectly
rebuked not a few of his own counrymen
Time was when such 4 rebuke was not needed
and could not have been truthfuly made. We
cannot say that of the present time 1t is not
only in Cuba that some who should be men OF
light and leading in governmental affairs con-
tent themselves with the function Of criticism
and disdaiu, or at any rate fail TO take an etfi-
cient part in constructive politics. The United
States has undertaken 10 teach Cuba a great
lesson, In which we believe IL will succeed. and
II may itself derive some profit from the reflex
action OF the self-same lesson.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03
AmuSenentS.

ACADEMY OF NUsIC-2-sI6-MizpAA
A11lAMBRA-2-s-VauGs
AsIOR-2-S-A Midsummer Nighrs Dream.
nELAECO-S.l0-The Girl the Golden West.
ElJOU-S:So-The Genius
ERoADWAE-2-S-The Prince OF India
CASlNO-Ssl5-My IAdy's Maid.
COLONAA4-2-S-Nsu
CRITEElON--S: :l5-1he Little CheIub
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Mary.
EDEN MU6EE-The World Wax.
EMPIEB-e:lo-S:lb-His House in Order
GARDEN-2-e:lB-The stolen story
GAhhlCk-S .20-The Price Of Money.
HACKETT-S; ;l5-The walls OF Jericho.
EANA1ESTEIN'S NICrCRIA-2-S -l5--NhuoeNllas
Sz&EI-EN CAEINO-RiEo Plays Nightly.
HERALD BQTARE-2-S-About Town
AHFODROME-2-S-A Society Circus
EUDSON-21b-S I5-The Hypocrltes.
KNICKERBOCKER-2; :lS-The Red Nil.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Marjorie
LYCEUM-S.1b-The IAon and the Mouse
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 20 II .. m.-Counts
Fair
NAgESTIO-2-S-The Tourists
MAINTAIN .1S-Clothes
NEW fSTERDAM-2-S.1b-Pzolo and Francesca
NEW YORK-2-s:l5-Nrs. Wlggs o. the Cabbage PAtch-
PRgNCESS-S15-Ths Great Divide.
SANOY-S 3O-The Chorus Lady.
WALI.ACK S-2-s :2O-POpusrity.
WEBER -Slb-John Hudson's Wife.
WEST END-2-S-A Nlllionairs's Revenge
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03
CHILD LABOR EVASIONS.

The complaint of Commissioner Sherman Of
the Department of Labor that the city magis-
trates thwart his efforts 10 enforce the law
against child labor, certainly deserves careful
attention. We must assume that Mr.. Sherman
has not made it without due consideration Of
its gravity, and at the same time we must rec
ognize that it would be an extraordinary thing
for magistrates deliberately TO array themselves
on the side Of lawbreakers. Unhappily, there
have been many occasions, in connection with
excise and other matters, on which the action
of some minor magistrates has seemed inexpll-
cable on any ground which would be creditable
TO them. and it may be that in this case, either
Willingly or unwittingly, some Of them have
lent themselves 10 the shielding of evasions OF
q salutary law.
On the face of it, some of the cases cited by
Mr.. Sherman seem to give ground for his COM
plant. To the practical mind it is extraor-
dinary that children should be old enough to
work IN a factory, and yet not old enough to
testify in court Neither does it seem that the
common excuse that cit was the first day the
child was at work" should be always accepted
as exculpatory. First Offences-if they really
are frst-may properly be dealt with more
leniently than persistent repettons Of them,
but they have no title TO go entirely unwhipped
Of justice. AS for the argument that the par
ticular work at which Il child was engaged In
a factory was identical with task which it
might be set to do at home, and was, there
fore, domestic and not factory work, it would
be worthy of a place in one Of Mr.. Gilbert's
topsy-turvy comedies
The former Labor Commissioner was sup
planted in Office largely because of his failure
TO take steps for the enforcement of the law
against child labor. The present Commissioner
appears TO have been vigilant and energetic
and is credited with trying conscentously to
enforce the law. Under such circumstances 1t
would certainly be disheartenlng, if not some
thing more, to have his efforts nullifed by the
very officials who should make them effective.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
From The Tribune Bureau ]

TFrOm The Tribune bureau
Washington. Oct 2.-Phya Akharaj Varadhara
Minister from Siam, will be relieved OF his diplo-
matte obligations here the last OF this month that
he may visit his country. He presented his
credentials to the State Department on December
1S 1901 and has not visited his country since that
time. Luang Ratanayapti. formerly charge DAFT
faires for Siam at St. Petersburg. will arrive In
Washington on Thursday, and will serve his coun-
try here In the same capacity during the absence
Of tha Minister.
The Minister from Sweden viii return to Wash
ington the middle OF this month The counsellor
OF the legation and Nine. de Straie are expected
at the game time.
Mr.. Havenith, counsellor Of the Belgian Lega-
ton, who spent the summer az Lenox. has returned
to Washington.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03

mission. had access to the record OF payments
made on the furnishing account and he
startled the state a few weeks ago by assert
inc that the attings Of the Capitol had cost
twice as much as the Capitol itself. The facts
are now gradually leaking out and they dis
close. II not laxity and favoriusm, at least
amazing extravagance Governor Pennypacker,
himself member of the board. has tried to de-
fend it's lavishness by saying that the best is
only good enough in furniture ana nttlnss' that
the state is rich and that the Legislature gave
him and his associates blank warrant TO De
filed in to the amount OF millions at their own
discretion. These facts may be adniltted. let
they do not condone a policy OF secret ana
unaudited expenditure and the waste OF mill
ions on overluxurious and oyerlavish furniture
and adornments. The new Capitol scandaI
casts a cloud on Mr.. Pennypackers admlnlsua-
ton. which has been otherwise not without good
features 1t must also greatly stimulate the de-
sire of Pennsylvanians TO cut loose from the
old order, under which such transactions We're
chronic and to set up new standards in admin
istration and politics.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-03
REPUDTATING MURPHY.

Mr. Hearst tries valiantly to mix oil and
water when as an Independence Lacquer he
says he has no use for Mr. Murphy, while as
Mr.. Murphy's candidate he Is asking the polit-
ical support Of Tammany Hall and the state
Democracy. No one can question the fact that
Mr.. Hearst owes his nomination at Buffalo TO
the man who, If his newspapers are to be be-
leved, should to-day be eating his meals in
Sing Sing, and not at Delmonico's And If he
is willing to accept that nomination, to profit
by political alliance which, to say the least,
he did nothing to discourage. how can he hope
to convince the public that he has no sympa-
thy with or tolerance for his prima facie part
ner and allyn The editor candidate apparently
realizes that this is the weak spot in his armor,
and he struggled on Monday evening to square
himself with his supporters Of independent pro-
clivides by saying from a Brooklyn platform
that though Mr.. Murphy was for him, he was
not for Mr.. Murphy, and that he purposed to
pay no attention" TO Mr.. Murphy's political
wishes or interests.
But will this bare assertion be accepted as
sufficient proof of the non-exis+ence of any ties
Of sympathy or fraternity between the Demo-
cratic candidate and the Democratic leader2
Mr.. Murphy has shown his absolute control Of
the party machinery in the state and has put
at the head of the state committee the orig
inal Hearst boomer and organizer, the Hon.
"Fingey" Corners. VIII Mr.. Hearst go so far
as to say that he has no use for Corners or
for the state committee and no intention OF rec
ognizIng or reciprocating the services they may
do him in the coming canvass? The Indepen-
dence Leaguers have looked on with something
like stupefaction while the great foe of bosses
and bossism has been coquetting for a nomina-
ton at the hands Of a boss whom he has de-
nounced as a political corruptionist and an in
citer of crimes against the franchise. Can they
be convinced that an alliance with such boss
means nothing and commits the party Of the
second part TO nothing, or that bOssism becomes
innocuous as soon as it enlists in the service
Of an Embossed candidate? Mr.. Hearst will
have hard time satisfying his intelligent inde-
pendent followers that he is a foe of bosses while
he calmly consents to enjoy the political profits
of bOssism 1t Is impossible for him TO eat his
Buffalo nomination cake and then deny that
he has eaten it. Actions speak louder than
words. and actions proclaim the existence in
full force, with binding obligations on both
sides, OF a Hearst-Murphy alliance.