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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-28
ENTRIES
COMING IN
Waikiki Regatta Rouses
Large and Lively
Interest.

Interest in the canoe races at thu
beach on New Years Day is getting
| to be at fever heat
| The Kunalu Rowing Club (girls)
rowed at Waikiki yesterday morning
| for the first time and liked the course
They used Prince Cupid's gig Kanoe-
lani. This crew rows at $3.50 every
! morning.
The Hawaiian Girls crew rowed yes
lterday evening at Waikiki for the first
time. They are using Secretary At
kinson's gig Kapiolani-
At the demand OF the people desir-
ing to enter, four new races have been
slated, namely:
1-Four-paddle canoe race for mod
ern, f1at-bottomed canoes.
2-Two-paddle canoe race for mod
ern, fiat-bottomed canoes.
3.-Hawaiian sailing canoe race for
old-fashioned canoes.
4-Relay swimming race.
The race of the day will undoubtedly
be the six-paddle canoe race for the
championship of the Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaiians are very much inter-
ested in this race and five canoes have
already been entered.
An interesting event will be the sail
ing canoe race for fiat-bottomed ca
noes. There are ten entries already for
this race and four more prospective
entries.
In the amateur six-paddle canoe race
a canoe has been entered from Virtue
Villa composed of L. Preston Scott, r.
E. Wright, Bill Walker. George Fuller,
Harold Dillingham; and Kenneth
Brown.
Among the entries SO far received
are the following:
SIX-PADDLE CANOE RACE FOR
CHAMPIONSHIP OF HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS.
Course from Moana Hotel pier to
stake and return First prize, $50; sec
ond prize, $50; third prize, SIS.
Owner. Name.
Kupihea Kapolei
Representing Kamehameha Canoe
Club. Colors, red carnation.
Dr. A C. Wall. .Hanakeoki
Colors. Lei Male.
d. P. Okuu. Ealekulani
CoIors, Lei Male.
Albert Along. LEI lima
Colors, Violet lei
A. NJ. Brown. Ala oaiiia
Colors, white carnation lei.
FOUR-PADDLE CANOE RACE
Same course. First prize, $40; sec
ond prize, $40.
D. Kupihea.. ........-..- klokalarh
Red carnation lei.
DR.. A. G. wall. -Hanakeok1
Lei lima.
D. P. Okuu. Haiekulanl
Lei Male.
oi
Violet lei.
TWO-PADDLE CANOE RACE.
Course: From stake to Moana Hote
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MAINLAND SPORT
. $50 - 4:aeaasA.sgAsssAss

Cyclone Thompson won from Jack
Clifford in five rounds.
Washington James, the old-time
trainer of thoroughbreds, is dead.
Squires, the Australian, wants to
come to the States to fight for the
heavyweight championship.
Fred Beell, the champion catch-as-
catch-can wrestler won from yankee"
Rogers. the New England champion, in
two straight falls.
Frank Gotch defeated Fred Bell. IN
a catch-as-catch-can match. in two
straight falls.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-28

Red carnation lei.
Albert Along. lima
Violet lei.
Lei Male.
DR.. A. C. Wall. .Hanakeoki
Lei lima.
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WAIALUA TO
HAVE RACES

True to it's past traditions Waiaiua
interesting program of horse-races
which will include:
Half-mile dash (two).
Quarter dash.
Three-eighths-mile dash.
, Half-mile dash (Japanese).
Half-mile dash and repeat.
There will also be several match
races
Several local horses are entered and
runners from other places are expect
ed to take part in the scurry for purses
at the Mokuleia track.
The Waia1ua band will play during
the races.
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In addition to the four new races
above mentioned, entries are being re-
ceived for the following events:
Single-Paddle Canoe Race. Course
from stake to Moana Hotel pier. Prize,
$40.
Six-Paddle Canoe Race for Amateurs.
Course from Moana pier to stake and
return. Prize. trophy.
Sailing Race, 12-Foot Lark Glass. list
Price, End prize.
Contest Surf Riding on Boards. Prize.
Contest Surf Riding in Canoes. Prize.
Canadian Canoe Race TwoPaddle.
Course from stake to Moana Hotel
pier. Prize.
A. L. G. Atkinson, A. A. Wilder and
L. p. Scott constitute the regatta COM
mittee and all are working hard to
make the affair an unqualified success.
Four boats must compete in any race
where a second prize is offered, and six
boats where a third prize is awarded.
Entries close on Saturday at noon to
James F. Morgan or A. L. c. Atkinson.
In order, however, to facilitate the
work of the regatta committee, it is
requested that names of competitors,
wherever possible, be handed in today.
In the race for old-fashioned Hawai-
ian sailing canoes $50 prize-money will
be given, $40 to go to the first boat and
$40 to the second.
The relay swimming race has been
put on the program at the request OF
the Diamond Head Athletic Club.
There will be six relays and the race
will be from flags off Justice Wilders
seaside residence to the Moana pier.
The Waikiki boys will also enter a
team in the swimming race and the
Bankers Swimming Club is expected
to be represented. A handsome cup
will become the property of the win
ming team.
The starting time of the first race
has not yet been definitely decided but
will probably be around p. m, as
high water occurs at 4:40 p. m. and the
races will be contested on the flood
tide.
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SIx-OAR GIG FOR LADIES.
Course: From Moana Hotel pier to
stake and return. Prize, cup.
Kunalu Boat Club.
Hawaiian Girls.
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SAILING CANOE RACE.

Limited to f1at-bottom modern canoes)
First prize, SO; second price, $3.50;
third prize, So; fourth prize. $3.50.
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George Dixon is training again after
having fought no important battle
since defeated by Terry McGovern,
seven years ago
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Jeffries has agreed to fight Tommy
Burns provided the latter knocks out
OBrien and that a purse Of $4,000 is
offered.
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staff Photo

ed, and although there had been no
church established on the square, a
Methodist class meeting was held weekly;
and If tradition is correct the attendance
was not confined to the members of Wes-
ley M. f. Church, but men high in the
executive and legislative departments who
were sojourning in the neighborhood were
wont to attend
East of the alley where is now the east
building of the Havenner bakery, was
lot Is. owned about the year 1917 by B.
G. Orr, who was elected mayor of the city
that year. and this ground in the twenties
became the site of the Circus. For a num-
Der of years it was the place which our
forbears were wont to frequent for light
amusement. 1t was a large brick build
ing SO constructed that the sawdust arena
could be transformed into stage, accom-
mcdating the theatrical folk when the
knights of the ring were on the road.
1t was here that for a number of years
the circus people wintered made hay"
and the Thespians were on the stage in the
spring and fall.
The circus companies of that day We're
insignificant in number in comparison with
the modern establishments, and often the
performers were called upon to put up and
take down the canvas, drive the teams and
do other stunts of similar character. The
horse OPERA" as southern society called
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
CONCRETE IN BUILDING.
Material Used in Erecting New York
Skyserapers.

Two concrete building operations now in
progress In New York city are being
watched with interest, says the New York
Times. not only by local constructors, but
also by advocates of the new structural ma
teria1 throughout the country. Samuel
Green's twelve-story building on 34th and
35th streets, just east of Broadway, is said
to be the first tall office structure in the
country to be built wholly of concrete and
this distinction certainly belongs to it so far
as this city is concerned
Mr.. Green's operation has been subject to
many delays-so many, in fact, that casual
observers who are familiar only with the
rapid construction of steel skeleton struc-
lures had begun to wonder whether the
possibilities Of concrete had not been over
stated. Mr.. Green, however, thinks not and
points out that one of his greatest delays
amounting to nearly four months, was in
no way due to concrete. This was occa-
stoned by his Willingness to hold up his
work until the foundations of w. R. H.
Martins new building on the adjoining
property had been practically completed, in
return for which Mr.. Martin has arranged
his structure SO as to afford much better
side light for the concrete building.
Over on Both street, west of 18th avenue
the large concrete structure Of the Nc
Graw Publishing Company has reached the
fourth floor, and Contractor Frank B. Gill
breth is putting forth every effort to make
speed. Concrete work under natural condi-
lions must stop the minute the thermom-
eter falls below freezing, but contractors
are learning a few little tricks which en-
able them to go ahead if the weather does
not get too cold. Thus, the McGraw
building If the temperature is lowering
around the freezing point, all the concrete
is made with boiling water, and, being
hoisted rapidly, is put into place steaming
hot.
Besides this, that part of the building
upon which work is in progress is cur
tanned off with canvas on the floor below
the one upon which the concrete is being
placed, and within this enclosure are placed
ten or a dozen salamanders. or plasterers'
furnaces. This keeps warm the floor above,
and with the use of warm water in the con-
crete allows the material to set before the
frost can affect it. Additional precautions
are also taken by covering the concrete
with hay and tarpaulins.
1t has been shown by tests that concrete
continues to harden for several days after
1t has been made, but it sets sufficiently
within very few hours to be free from
any serious effect from frost, so that. I'M
less the weather becomes very severe, work
upon concrete buildings is not necessarily
N ed
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Boston's Lack Of Humor.
Is Whtticy LII Elarstrood.s MagazIne.

Charles Whitley m BiaraTOod'S Magazine.
have said that Boston loves relics The
relics which it loves best are the relies of
England's discontinue. The stately por-
traits of Copley are of snail account COM
pared to the memorials of what was nothing
else than a civil war. Faneul Hall, the
Covent Garden of BoS.on.. presented to the
city by Peter Faneui some thirty years be-
fore the birth of liberty is now but an
emblem of revolt. The Cid South meeting
place is endeared to the citizens of Boston
as 1.-The sanctuary of freedom" A vast
monument. erected mere quarter of a
century ago, commentaries the Boston
massacre And wherever you turn you
are reminded of an episode which might
easily be .forgotten.-..T e an Engiishman
these historical landmarks are inoffensive
The dispute which, they recall aroused far
less emotion our side the ocean than on
the other, and long ago we saw the events
of the revolution in fair perspective. In
truth this insstence on the past Is not
wholly creditabIe to Boston's sense of hu-
NOR The passionate Teans which Otis and
his friends sang to liberty were Irrelevant
Liberty was never for moment in danger
if liberty. indeed. be a. thing of fact and
not of watchwords. The leaders of the
revolution wrote and spoke as though II
was their duty to throw off the yoke of the
Foreigners yoke heavy as that which
Catholic Spain cast upon Protestant 1ol-
land. But there was no yoke to be thrown
off, because no yoke was ever imposed, and
Boston might have celebrated greater
events in her history than that which an
American statesman has wisely called the
glittering and sounding generalities of nat
ural right.
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the circus. was managed here by Buckley.
and the few old residents who remember
1t speak of 1t as giving very creditable
exhibition-eauestrian and acrobatic.
Some Star Clowns.
The clowns were "stars'' in their line
Joe Pentland. then very young, who had
attained a standing In the ring as 1.-The
famous English trick clown" was here
after the burning Of Cooks circus in Balti-
more. Yeaman, an old-fashioned jester,
was another of the clowns. Having in ad-
dition to his repertoire Of jokes, grimaces
and antics, a good voice and a seeming
inexhaustible store of comic songs. he was
unquestionably a drawing card" He was
particularly happy In songs ridiculing the
fashions of the day, the ladies being told Of
THE bishop and globe sleeve" One OF his
favorites, "Wedlock Is Ticklish Thing"
a hit at hasty marriages, became the
favortte for few years. Then, too, the
program included the performances Of Prof.
earns troupe of eight dogs. whose tricks
were as wonderful as are those in any
later shows of that character.
About the year 1880 the name of ''The
Amphitheater" was given the building,
and Joe Jefferson, the elder, with Others
appeared for a few seasons with much
success. Equestrian performances proved
otherwise than a permanent attraction.
and, for some reason not easily accounted
for, interest in the drama, especially
down town, waned, and the National The
alter, which was opened in 1885, became
the objective point of fashionable folk.
The property, through Alexander Kerr
and the Bank of Metropolis in a few
years went to Messrs. Walker & kfmmell.
who converted the lower portion into the
National livery stable and provided in
the upper portion a hall and meeting
rooms. The hall made fine drill room,
and for several years-in the forties and
early fifties-the Washington Light In
fantry had it's armory there. When. in
about the year 1S43, the Masons vacated
the hall at the corner of 4 " and D streets
one of the three lodges-New Jerusalem
No. 9-moved from there to one of the
rooms. Powhatan Tribe, No. 1. Of Red
Men. the Grand, Timothy. No. 1, and
Crystal Fount, No. 8, Of the Sons Of Tenn
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MILLION HOMES
LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY PAID
FOR HOUSES AND GROUNDS.
Prices That Have Prevailed in New
York in Recent Years in the
Residence Section.

H. c. Tricks purchase of the Lenox
Library property as the site for a new
residence has occasoned not a few ex-
pressions of amazement that anybody
should feel willing to put nearly $500, 600
into the mere ground on which to build
a house, while others have gratiied a
fancy to do mental arithmetic in the mil
lions by trying to figure out just how much
Mr.. Tricks establishment will have cost
when it is completed.
incidentally, those who have been ia
miliar with the building of the many man
sions facing Central Park, from 59th street
up to Mr.. Carnegie's at 91st street, have
reached the conclusion that it is not only
the ordinary workslday citizen of this me-
tropoiis who has cause to complain of the
increased cost of living. The fact is, all
though it may sound rather paradoxcal
that it also costs a good deal more to be a
millionaire than it did twenty-five or even
fifteen years ago.
AS compared with Mr.. Tricks purchase.
it is interesting to look back in the real
estate records to 1879 and find that the
block front on the west side of 5th avenue
from 51st to sd street, plot 200 by $50
feet on which stands the famous Vanderbilt
mansions, transferred to William H
Vanderbilt for 100000. That amount today
would not buy either one of the single cor
ner lots in that site, and If a prospective
buyer went into the upper 9Th avenue terri
for ground he would have to be content
with d frontage of forty or fifty feet.
''MiIlionaires' Row;
So great has been the increase in real
estate values since the development of
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perance divisions, and Association No l.
brothers OF Temperance, also met here.
Old-Fashioned Methodism.

West of the circus building, on part of
lot Is, Thomas Havenner settled in 1918.
first taking a lease and purchasing The
property ten years later Here he erected
bake house and a dwelling and COM
menced business. In the conduct of this
business are Messrs. Edward and Benja-
min Graves, assisted by other grand:hil-
dren and great grandchildren Of the
| founder. and on its payroll are over a
hundred men. the parents of some of
whom long years ago served their APP
premiership in the establishments. The
elder Havenner was one of the most de-
voted members of Wesley NJ. e. Church
from it's organization in 1928. and long a
class leader and member of TIL. Off oial
board. His class for Il long term of yedts
met at his house, and, above stated.
others than members We're accustomed to
meet here. Thus, long before locating a
church on this square there was old
fashioned Methodist worship N Mr.. Ha-
venner's parlors.
In the forties Mir. Havenner had as
roomers Senators Hunter. Mason, A P
Butler, and other members of Congress,
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IN THE EARLY DAYS
Conditions in Square Between
Al and 9th Streets.
ClRCUSES AND SHOWS
Armory and Drill Room Conveniently
Located in the Section.
PLACE OF DIVINE WORSHIP ALSO
Senators and Representatives In Con-
gress as Boarders in the Vicinity
kaleidoscope View.
PLACE OF DIVINE WORSHIP ALSO

Few of the present generation have any
idea Of what was to be found on the south
side of c street between AZ and 9th streets
northwest over seventy years ago, and it
will no doubt be surprising to the general
public to know what could be seen there
In the early days Of the last century when
it is recalled that circus and theatrical
performances were given in that square,
and it was afterward a meeting place for
societies. An armory and a drill room for
a military company were provided, and it
is therefore evident that village-like as
the neighborhood then was, there were
attractions for the people.
Nor were the religious interests neglect.
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''Millionaires Row began, about fifteen
years ago.. that the prices paid for the
land on which some of the city's most
famous mansions have been erected seem
positively insignificant in the light of pres
ent-day real estate transactions.
The southeast corner of 9Th avenue and
61st street, 100 by IT'S, where stands the
Gerry residence, was conveyed to Mrs.
Gerry by the Hamersley estate in 1891 for
$3.50, 900. In the same year the northeast
corner of 65th street, Is by 100, part Of the
present site Of the Aston mansions, was sold
for $15O.0O0. Henry o. Havemeyer, whose
house is at the northeast corner of 66th
street, acquire dthe greater part of his
property in 1SS9-that is. 80 by 100 on the
avenue. with an extra lot on the street
for $4,000.
George Gould's property at the northeast
corner of 5th avenue and 9th street, As by
125, was formerly owned by Jacob H.
Schiff and was bought by Mr.. Gould in
1892 for $685.. 900.
At 6Sth street the original plot bought
by the late Charles T. Yerkes, at the south
east corner, is said to have cost less than
$500, 900, although a year or two before his
death Mr.. Yerkes spent about 600 more
in acquiring adjoining property on 9th ave-
nue. and on 6Sth street. At the northeast
corner the Whitney mansion SO by 200, sold
to James Henry Smith for 81 100000, occu-
pies plot which AMI L. Barber bought in
the early sos for $50, 500.
Other Magnificent Homes.
Senator w. A. Clark, who has bought up
stone quarries and bronze foundrles in
order that his mansion at nth street might
be properly constructed, began with a site
of comparatively modest cost, probably not
! over $3.50 600. His entire plot measures II
feet on 9Th avenue and 200 feet on the
street, and of this he acquired 52.2 by $50
from Samuel Untermyer in 1893 for $500, 900.
When Mr. Carnegie decided that the top
of the hill at 91st street would fulfill his
Ideas of a residential location he picked out
spot that was at that time almost mile
beyond the northernmost limits of the fash
ionable colony, and he found prices proper
| tionately low. He took advantage of this
circumstance by getting control of a large
area-nearly thirty lots in the two blocks
| 1t Is estimated that the amount Of his
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A British Institution Falling.

From the London Daily Chronicle
AS regards the long and deadly warfare
between the turkey and its fat-breasted
rival, the goose. for the prime honors of
the Christmas dinner table, an expert con-
fesses that the goose's defeat in popularity
is probably irretrievable now. "The flesh
is proving" said he, too rich for the den-
cate tastes of most well-to-do people, and
there is not enough of it for the poor. None
the less. for the real trencherman who has
a healthy gusto and a well-flled purse your
turkey, which has to be helped out with
sausages and bacon to give it a flavor, is
nowhere in it with your goose"
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building as the entire house can be contin-
ued back the entire width, with windows
opening on the side space. Dark rooms are
thus avoided and 1t Is not surprising that
houses Of this type are popular, although
where land is expensive 1t requires some
effort on the part of the average builder
used to the old ways to allow so much
space to go apparently unoccupied.
For Light and Air.
In fact such space Is occupied and to the
best advantage. There Is also ampler pro-
vision in the regulations for back yards.
and the practice which existed here to
some extent of pushing the walls Of a
house to the back line of the lot is not pos
sib,e in these days
those who reside in houses that front on the
broad streets and avenues of the city are
being safeguarded by official regulation, the
well being of those who make their homes
in the alleys are not forgotten, and 1t has
become increasingl difficult to put up
dwellings that are not readily accessible IN
every part to light and air. A good deal has
been written about the condition of the hab-
itations in those portions of the city that
in other places goes under the name of the
sums and 1t might appear to the casual
reader of these accounts that the situation
here in this respect Is worse than in cities
where the main streets are no wider than
some of the alleys in this city, and where,
of course, the alleys and back streets are
in proportion.
Conditions In Poor Sections.
There is no wish to minimize conditions
here which are capable of improvement and
which are being rendered better through the
efforts of men and women who are devoting
unselfsh service to the lettering of the sur
roundings of the poor. At the same time 1t
might as well be understood that while
there is here the class of poor, and some
desperately So yet they are not as rule
amid such environment the same class
is compelled to submit to in cities where the
living places are located in narrow and
winding streets, and where the population
Is congested.
A Change In Office Site.
The real estate corporation of Moore &
Hill has outgrown its offices on 18th street
just above street. and has made arrange
ments to secure more room by going
around the corner on G street and occupy
ing the first floor in the building adjoining
on the east the Colorado building
The new place of business is now being
altered for that purpose. and what is known
as 1888 street will be, after the LIST of
February next, the home of the corporation.
| The new office has entrance on level
with the street and has depth of about
100 feet. 1t Is planned to provide the
! space which the growing business Of the
company needs. At present it is necessary
to occupy. in addition to the first floor, a
portion of the second in the building where
the company is now located.