The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-07-07
Town TALK
BIZ The Man About Town.


Perhaps some day we shall have
motor boat races across the Pacific,
together with the yacht races which
have made such an suspicious start
this year. The motor boat business is
i'm its infancy, but over 80 miles an
hour are being made in smooth waters
by small boats, and speed contests over
the water are becoming more and more
a fad, just like automobile speeding.
The latest proposition is a boat with
lifting power combined with it's forward
propulsion, As it is urged forward
the boat is also urged upward, 50 that
finally but little of it is really in the
water and it Skins along, on an inclin-
ed plane Maintained just above the
surface, except where the propellers are
the boat escapes over half the friction
caused by pushing a boat through wa
ter i'm the ordinary way. On this
principal, it is claimed, a speed of a
mile a minute can be made, over the
surface of the water. 1t is a new
principle, and no one knows how far
ment now, with small boats. But who
knows that the future will not see
large ocean vessels applying such
principle? A mile a minute means COW
ering the distance between here and
San Francisco in a little over a day and
a half.
@ G G G
happen to have a very rich friend in
this town and one who used to smoke
the very best of cigars. Consequently
when I saw him cross the street and
enter cigar store l followed across to
ask him some question about the wea-
Their and incidentally have him offer
me a cigar. Just as I entered the door
I saw him buy a half dozen of the
"Six-for-a-quarter" variety
He spied me as I entered and cheerily
called out Come on, Bill, and have
smoke"
mo thank you" I replied, 81 was
going to buy some for myself"
ooh no, smoke with me-" he insisted,
and as I was wondering how 1 was go
ing to get out of the predicament he
turned to the clerk and said GIVE him
a good cigar"
"Why-why," 1 stammered "I just
saw you buy six of those stinkers."
Eyes I know I did and the reason I
bought them was that 1 am trying to
stop smoking and these are helping me
to do it. As for asking friend to
smoke them that is another affair. I
wouldn't ask a dog to smoke one of
them"
Q Q G @
mo water-Gear's taking a bath. is
the extraordinary cry that rings
throughout Kaimuld at frequent inter-
walls Gear is one of the prominent
citizens of the beautiful suburb in
question and in the matter of baths he
is almost the whole thing. Neighbour
ing housekeepers have to watch an
xiously for the times when the sub
stantial leading citizen intends to do
his aquatic stunt, for it is an actual
fact that a bath by Gear is enough to
discommode a large part of the water
system There is nothing small about
Gears bath. 1t is a concrete tank, in
the middle of his lawn. 1t is seven
feet deep and about fifteen feet long by
twelve feet wide 1 have been told
that the picture of the learned jurist
wallowing in this glorious pool is one of
the happiest spectacles to be seen in
all this vale of tears, and it happens
often. Turn on the water" said the
judge on arriving home. TOO much
pilil1iaf' says the Japanese servant
with a glance at the source of supply
on the hill near by. But the water is
turned on. Soon the heads of house,
keepers are seen bobbing from their
kitchens and the cry begins to circulate
mo water-Gear's taking a bath"
Then County Attorney Douthitt, the
! nearest neighbor, comes over with
threats of a writ of habeas aqua or
something of the sort. After a look
at the tank he darts home after bath
! ing suit and joins the lawless Gear.
Protests in person are impossible, for
everyone who comes to protest remains
| to join in. And so Kaimuki has de-
| cided that it will have to make a move
on the legislature. 1t will vote for
men pledged to give the district an UNI
limited supply and its campaign slogan
will be the all-sgnificant cry mo wa
| ter-Gear's taking a bath"
@ @ Q Q
''Ever attend a smell party?" asked
| a government employee of me- the
! other day. 81 never did myself till
last week. 1t was a new one on me.
But the form of entertainment was in
teresting and furnished a good deal Of
| of fun.
"There was a small crowd of us meet
J ing at the home of one of the Agricul-
/ tural Department officials last week,
and in addition to a little supper and
some other entertainment, he had ar
ranged a smelling match for the benefit
of the guests. He is an ingenious sort
of a character, and do not know Of