The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-07-28
Town TALK
By The Man About Town.

So NJ. H. de Young, John D. Spreck- |
els, James d. Phean, f. w. Dohrmann |
and Thomas Magee are to have the ad- |
ministration of the San Francisco re- |
lief fund instead OF DR.. Devine, Ed |
ward Moran, and Col George Puppy. |
Well, l hope their administration will
give satisfaction. In way this change
is a victory for the ExN miner. 1t has
been storming and raging against the
first set of commissioners ever since
they were appointed. Just why l
don't know. DR.. Devine was sent out
to San Francisco by the National Red
Cross right after the earthquake, and
the evidence seems to be pretty strong
that he has been a very efficient man.
Moran used to be political reporter on
the Examiner. He isn't very well
known outside of San Francisco news
paper and political circles, and so far
as my knowledge and observation goes,
he ut very we'll liked by those who
know him. In some way, however he
has made himself strong with
Schmitz, and thereby probably, incur
red the antagonism of the Examiner.
Col. Puppy is man who has held a
large number of very responsible and
arduous public positions, where there
was no salary attached, and has al
ways performed the duties with salts
faction to the public. He has been
president of the Union League Club'
which is the high grade Republican
organization in San Francisco as
clubs of the same name are in num-
Der of other cities. The success of the
San Francisco Union League Club Is
due more to him than to any other one
man. But as soon as Col. Puppy is APP
pointed to a position that carries a
salary. he is declared unfit and the
appointment a bad one. incidentally,
it is said that his appointment was
made largely through the influence of
NJ. H de Young.
Well, let us hope the new commission
will be free from graft and will do its
work satisfactorily to the public.
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I hear that Frank Vida has made
ten strike both financially as well as
in an advertising way. out in Shanghai.
Frank conceived the advantage Of
working the bill board advertising
scheme. He accordingly obtained the
advertising privileges Of the various
high fences in and around Shangai and
also erected number of bill boards.
Then he secured his ads. The scheme
caught on Immediately and Frank was
deluged with applications from adj
vertsers. One of the ads was the pic
lF rri,.I I,i,, oh M
payne bottle. Vida had to employ
some japanese artists to do the paint
ing. The bottle was painted all right
and then came the girl. With that
peculiar turn of mind of the Japanese
instead of painting the woman as any
other artist would have done, the ar
fist first painted her in the "alto-
gether." This occupied one day. Ma
turally the picture caused a great
sensation and the place was crowded
with pleople. The following day the
Japanese began to put clothes on the
woman, and right here l will digress to
say that I am not sufficiently ac-
quainted with the wonders of a wo-
mans toilet to hazard how the clothes
were put on, but in any event the
Japanese dressed their figure. And
when they finally had the brilliant
dress painted a weeks time had
elapsed. 1t was the biggest hit that
Shanghai had ever seen and now Vida
has been dubbed the legitimate success
sor of Barnum as an advertiser. And
from such accidents is fame frequent
ly born.
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