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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19
SPRECKELS MANSION
NOT TO Be RESTORED

The palatial home of Claus Spree
kels on Van Ness avenue will not be
repaired for residence purposes, and
will never again be occupied by the
owner This home was the handsomest
in a city of handsome homes, and is
said to have cost, completed and fitted.
500. .O00 When the flames jumped the
avenue on the evening of April 18th
the big structure, with its broad sweep
OF lawns. acted as an effective barrier
to further progress of the fire north
ward. but the house itself was badly
damaged, and its entire contents, con-
sisting of magnificent and costly rugs
furniture. plate. china and paintings,
Were destroyed.
Since that time Van Ness avenue has
developed into one of the prlnclpal re-
tail streets of the city and the resi-
dence is closely surrounded with retail
stores. 1t was this fact that caused Its
abandonment as a residence. Mr..
Spreckels has renovated the old home
place out on Howard street, between
Sixteenth and Seventeenth, a nand-
some home in itself, and is now oc-
cupying if. What will be done with
the residence site on Van Ness avenue
is not yet determined. 1t Is possible
that the house may be repaired and
used as a big retail store. or it rlay
be torn away and the block filed with
temporary structures. It has been
suggested that the site is exceptionally
desirable for a great hotel, but the
character Of its future permanent oc-
cupancy has not yet been decided.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19
MANSFIELD
HOME BURNS
Fire at Waikiki That
May Have Been
lncendiary.

Jack Mansfield's house in old Waikiki
was totally destroyed by FIRE between
8 and o'clock last night An alarm
was turned in from box i27, corner of
Punahou and King streets. The sky
at that time was bright with the re-
Election of the flames and people for a
time thought that some of the hand
some structures along the beach near
fire station apparatus responded but
found no fire plugs in the vicinity of
beach road about half way between
Mochitsuki club and Sheridan street.
The structure burned for nearly an
hour and was then reduced to a pile
of embers.
1t was a five-room cottage built
about three years. ago by Mansfield at
a cost of about $1,000. With the furni-
ture and all the contents Mansfield
says his loss is $4,000 with about 5000
insurance.
Mr.. Mansfield did not appear on the
scene until the house was in ruins.
He surveyed the scene with stoicism.
''I left the house about $50 this aft
ernoon,' he said to a reporter, land
went to town with my wife. In fact
~, 4I,n for
about week, and have not had a fire |
in the stove or a lamp burning in all
that time. I came out this afternoon !
to feed the ducks and chickens.
can't imagine how the place could have |
caught fire. It's mighty strange. I'm |
hit hard l can tell you
The only out-of-door fire in the
Mansfield district yesterday was at the
garbage dumps several blocks away.
The wind carried embers far and some
nay possibly-just possibly-have
reached the Mansfield premises. An
other theory to account for the blaze
s that japanese set the house on fire
n revenge for the stout work Mr..
Mansfield did on the Douse jury for the
lcquittal of the man accused of burn
ng a Jap laborer to death.
Last nights fire is the first that has
occurred in several weeks and the
own was at once galvanized into ac-
ion. The hacks did a rushing busi-
less and the street cars were loaded
lown to the guards. Everybody went
o the fire.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19
FOUR BURNED TO DEATH.

BOISE Idaho July 1e-Four persons
here last night.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19
NEED NEW
HIGH SCHOOL
There Is Not Enough
Room for Pupils in j,
Honolulu.

Tt is probable that Honolulu will
present high school building, at the old
Queen Emma place, will be turned into
central grammar school.
There are, approximately, forty-fve
hundred school children in Honolulu,
with accommodations for possibly a lit
there are approximately forty-fve hun
dred children in attendance on the pub
lie schools-or there were, when schools
closed for the summer vacation. OF
course, when the schools open in Sep
tember, the number of children in the
schools will be largely increased. The
attendance always increases at the
opening of each term. And the accom-
modations are no greater.
In fact, it has been patent to the
school authorities for long time past
there was a growing need for school
accommodations. And, to meet this
need in part, Superintendent Babbitt
has plan that is now under grave con-
sideration in the department. This is
ton and erect thereon a high school
building, fitted with all the appliances
needed for such structural build
ing of from six to ten rooms, say, with
fnr ha ial
branches. When this is finished, the
present high school building, on Emma
street, will be turned into kind of
central grammar school. There are
eight hundred scholars in that school
now.
Every school in Honolulu, matters
stand, is overcrowded. 1t will afford
partial relief to this condition if the
Kalihiwaena school is built, but the re-
lief viii be only partial. Besides that,
it is a recognized principle, in school
construction, to build for the future.
Honolulu is growing, and the schools
will be more crowded before there is
any decrease in attendance-and this
in spite of the fact that the private
schools draw off largo number of
scholars If it were not for the private |
schools, the public schools would be al |
together inadequate.
Of course the matter of the construc- |
tion of the new high school will come |
up to the Legislature, but it is not
thought that there will be much diff
Guilty in securing an appropriation.
This next Legislature, if it is the kind
of body that it is hoped to elect, will
be expected to do justice to the public
schools-in the matter of salaries for
teachers, in making liberal appropria-
tions for running expenses, and in pro-
viding money for needed buildings.
The people of Hawaii have learned the
lesson, it is thought, that the last place
In which to economic is the schools.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19

of
earlier quae
morning socorro eenyfve miles south of this
earthquake of
There
rumblng followed
naant
Many
aloud for protection. Buildings an creaked
Walls plaseing
windows
hands,
of
gradually away of
NJ DONE
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSlNATE
CZAR'S AlDE-DE-CAMP

ST PETERSBURG July 1e-An attempt made last night
Todleben, bullet of
the missed the intended victim.
MAY DOUBLE-TRACK SIBERIAN RAILWAY.
The Cabinet discussing doubleackng of the Siberian
railway.
DEVASTATION AND MURDER
ST PETERSBURG July 18Extensive devastation of estates
the reported through
the empire.
ASKS CABINET TO STAY.
The the members Of the Cabinet
The members of the Cabinet placed their resigna
he evidently
not maxi change of ministry this time.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19
Oahu County Commit
tee Holds a Warm
Session.

There was warm session of the
members of the Republican County
Committee at their headquarters last
night, at which several of the mem
bers and number of the precinct club
presidents had grievances to air. Chair
man Hustace called the meeting to or
der and in the absence of the secre-
tary who arrived late, declared the
meeting ready for business without the
reading of the minutes
He explained that he had been re
peatedly asked for advice as to the
manner of conducting the precinct club
elections and asked that the following
letter regarding, the matter from the
Chairman of the Territorial Committee
be read for the benefit of those who
did not feel clear in the matter:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19
MANAGER GRAY TO LEAVE IN OCTOBER.

Middle East. He will leave Mrs Gray
in California and go east to look over
the two propositions there. before de-
Gliding which Of the three he will ac-
cept It is understood that Manager
Hertsche Of the Moana Hotel will be-
come general manager Of the Moana
and Alexander Young hotels when Mr..
Gray leaves.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19

Manager Noah W. Gray of the Alex
ander Young Hotel sewers his connec-
ton with that hostelry on October /
and. with Mrs. Gray. VIII go to South
ern California. Mr.. Gray has two or
three fine hotel propositions In view,
one in Southern California. another
ir Missouri and still another in the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19
LADY CURZON DEAD
AFTER SHORT ILLNESS

Cabegrams-Afernoon
died
of
H. and
OF
Washington, the Letters went to live
Theyw a
of
December, 1904
between representatives Of Guate
andSa
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19
ROBERTSON'S LETTER.
Honolulu T. H Julv 1s I.

Honolulu. T. H, July IS. 1905.
Capt. Samuel Johnson. President, Pre-
cinct Cub, Fifth Precinct. Fourth
District.
Dear Sir; In reply to your ques-
tion as to the enrolment of new mem
bers in the precinct clubs. 1 would say
that it is very clear from a reading
of Sec. 3. Art. 1, of our rules that any
one qualified to register to vote at the
Continued on Page ~
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-19
MANY FLEEING
IN TERROR OF
THE TEMBLOR
Fifty-Two Shocks of Earthquake Have Been
Felt in the Town of Socorro, New
Mexico, Since Sunday.
ASSOCIATED Press Cablegrams.)

SOCORRO, New Mexico July IeThere have been ffty-to
OF earthquake yesterday
wrecked the hall during
and many people leaving the city
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-08
Our Entire Linen Stock ON Sale at Reduced Prices


John S. Brown & Sons Damasks
CSC yard for 90c all linen damask.
Csc yard for 2-yard wide Irish linen ]
damask. ~. f.. k. ~
75c yard for 2-yard wide heavy Irish
cream damask.
S5c yard for 70-inch damask, $1.25
value.
John S. Brown & Sons All Linen Napkins
$1.9S dozen for 2O-inch napkins, $275
value
1885 dozen for 22-inch napkins, $3.50
value.
1886 dozen for 24-inch napkins, $500
value
1898 dozen for 24-inch napkins, $500
value. ." '7-*- -
$3.50 dozen for 27-inch napkins, $3.50
value. q .-s @.~s ~. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-08
GIFTED MEN COMING
Mems Club of Park Avenue Congrega
tional Church Secures Them.

G1Oud4 OuulCA OGCuISS IL.
Four talented lecturers who rank
among the foremost in their profession
have been secured by the Mems club
Of the Park Avenue Congregational
church for the annual lecture course this
year. The series will be delivered in
the church, corner Park and Franklin
avenues.
Ernest Howard Crosby, a poet and
scholar who has received much praise
as lecturer, will deliver the first lee
tufe Of the course, Wednesday, Feb. Z.
"Tolstoi and His Message,'' will be
the subject of his talk and his own in
tense interest in the remarkable man of
Russia renders him able to give most
theme. A judge Of the international
| court at Alexandria, Egypt, after hav-
ing served in the New York legislature
and occupied other important positions,
! Mr.. Crosby one dav accidentally got a
copy Of one Of Tolstoi's books and was
so impressed that the whole course of
his, life was changed. -:
"Wednesday, Feb. 21, Rev. Herbert S.
Bigelow, pastor of the Vine Street Con.
gregational church in Cincinnati, and
one OF the famous pastors Of the ma.
tion, will speak on the subject, HSteal.
ing as Fine Art.'' Like MI. Crosby
Mr.; Bigelow was once an faristocrat'
and politician. During his earlier life
In New York he was prominent in the
"ring' Of which Theodore Roosevelt
was a member.
j. W: Bengough, cartoonist, lecturer
and writer, whose work with pen an6
ccrayon in Canada gave him interna
tional fame, supplies the second number
appearing Wednesday, March 7. HI.
number contains action and speech, boil
humorous and inspiring. Last, Wednes
day, March 81, will come the lecture O:
John z. White on 1.-THE Sources o:
Municipal Corruption,' interesting be
cause Of the exposures of graft thruou
the country and doubly Interesting t,
Minneapolitans will be the address O.
Mr.. White, which critics everywher,
agree is most powerful, sane and &C
curate
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-08
4 LIBERAL TERMS
4 DIAM 0H - 5
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ACTRESS IS NIECE
OF GENERAL MILES

Miss Margaret Miles, who plays the
important double role of Mrs. Spruceby,
the head of the seminary, and the
"high priestess of the Sacred Cat" in
IA Son of Rest at the Bijou this
week, is a niece of General Nelson A.
Miles, and this circumstance a year ago
attracted considerable attention, "but
it is an old story now,' says Miss
Miles, who now regards herself as a
full-fedged actress. "You needn t men,
ton it, for I want to be 'noticed' by
the papers now On my merits. Last
season I was in the chorus, you know,
and it was different
Still, Miss Miles is very proud Of her
relationship to the general, and does
no doubt in the least that if the Rus
SLAMS had sent for him they would
have defeated the Japs. Miss Miles is
also proud that she is from Boston, and
does not understand why there seems
to be so little interest here in the west,
concerning that seat Of culture and
learning. "It's all New York; she
says, 'and dear old Boston is 50 much
nicer However, she admits that to
like Boston is an acquired taste.
cones. got to know the town first, -
she explains.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-08
BOTH FOOD
AND MEDICINE.

We like best to call SCOTS
Emulsion a food-medicine. It
is a term that aptly describes
the character and action Of
our Emulsion. More than a
medicine-more than a food,
vet combining the vital prin-
ciples of both. 1t is for this
reason that SCOTS Emulsion
has a distinct and special
value in all wasting diseases.
There is nothing better to
remedy the troubles of inn
perfect growth and delicate
health in children. The action
of SCOTS Emulsion is just as
effective in treating weak
ness and wasting in adults.
SCOTT s. 9owNE, 400 Pearl Street. New York
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-08
LIVED THREE LIVES
Or. Aloe 3. stocl<ham Has Been Physl
clan, Author and Home Maker.

Or. Alice 3. stockham Has Been Physl-
clan, Author and Home Maker.
DR.. Alice B. Stockham, who is to lee
ture here next Wednesday, may be said
to have lived three lives in her three
score years and ten, having been a sue
cessful physician, author and home
maker.
While still a young girl she showed
especial aptitude for nursing, and at the
age of eighteen, while a country school
teacher, she met Mrs. Emma R. Coe, the
first woman law student in this country,
and was advised by her to study medi-
cine Drawing opposition and ridicule
from friends, Alice Bunker, at the age of
twenty, entered the Eclectic college of
Cincinnati, and graduated In a class OF
over three hundred, Of whom only eight
were women. She also studied hydro
pathy at various water cure institutions
In 1855 she married DR.. G. H. Stock
ham, whom she met while in college, and
together they began practice in Lafay-
cite, Ind. While practicing her profes-
sion. housekeeping and bringing up hel
children, DR.. Alice maintained high ideals
for, herself and her patients, and seeing
the wrecliage woman was making OF
her life, tried to point the way to better
things. At first she gave parlor lectures
to women. and later wrote "Tokology,'
which brought her teachings to the
widest circle. In 1889 she was the CUES
of Tolstoi, and the count and countess
became interested in translating "Tokol
ogy" into Russian and later into Swedish
French and German.
DR.. Stockham has been a traveller il
the far east. and has studied the condi
lions Of women and educational systems
wherever she has gone. Her later year
have been devoted to writing land lee
turing, with the desire to bring to he
sister women and to all humanity tn
fruits of her lifetime Of study and labor
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-08
NOT NATURES FAULT
Miss Alice Boiling Explains Man s
Blindness to Natural Laws.

Miss Alice Boiling, in her lecture
last evening at the Unitarian church,
said in part:
EDO we come to our lives on earth
like beings new to it? Was the infant
Mozart, who composed at 3, touching
his art for the first time9 What he,
and all geniuses, show in supreme de-
gree, we all show in some degree. We
all have aptitudes towards this or that,
which show that we are not new to it
all. We are taking up the old story
where we left it. It is not nature 3
fault that we make such little progress,
that we are heroes and geniuses and
orators only by flashes. We have only
ourselves to blame and to thank. Ma
ture gives us every opportunity.
| sold age should be no curse. It is
the time. appointed for retrospection,
for learning the lesson. for the growth
of wisdom. It is the spiritual time of
| life. It is not natures fault if the
| body was so misused in youth and man
| hood that it fills with disease and re.
duces the mind to senile idiocy and sec
ond childhood. Lastly, nature with.
draws us altogether for the sleep called
| by us death; that is, for a period of
| altogether unclouded spiritual rest; and
then she brings us back to repeat the
cycle, to ripen more powers and touch
new joys and dignities Of life.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-08
City News
CHARITIES HAD
BUSY DECEMBER
TOTAL OF 1850 PERSONS DEALT
WITH IN MONTH.
Over Half This Number Were Fami-
lies in Destitute Circumstances Be-
cause of Sickness-Wife Desertion
Also a Large Cause Of Suffering
Charitable Agency Effective.

After a year Of record breaking the
Associated Charities ended the year
1903 with the biggest December IS work
on it's records. The report presented
to the board of directors Yesterday bv
Manager e. D. Solenberger showed
that 40 families, representing a total
OF l,5oO persons, We're dealt with dur.
ing the month. December, 1904, is the
month coming nearest to this record,
with 400 cases. ~ =.
Out of the AIS cases dealt with,
forty nine were tuberculosis patients
who received attention from the visit
ing nurses. Over half of the total
numbers of families looked after We're
IN destitute circumstances because of
sickness. Wife desertion also showed
decided increase as a cause Of pow
erty. ...
The provident savings fund, largely
made up OF money deposited with
agents of the association by children
at the various schools, was increased
$1,000 and 400 new depositors were
added to the list. There was also
marked increase in cooperation on the
part of churches and other charitable
| or seml-charitable organizations. The
number of churches cooperating, sixty
five, was about twice that of those
which joined in the December work in
| 1904.
The years record shows that 1890
cases were dealt with. TO accomplish
this the agents of the society, includ-
| ing the visiting nurses, made 1900
calls. It is estimated that 1000 per-
| sons We're affected by this work. Com
| menting on this report, Manager Sol
enberger said:
"Perhaps the most salient point
| brought out by the December report is
| the increase IF cO-oporotioo o>,,o,-~ ~ y
| charitable agencies of the city. This
might be called the era of good feel
ing in charitable work. Another point
| deserving mention is that the finding
for December and for the year is that
Minneapolis has no real pauper class
Sickness and death played a large part
in producing the need Of assistance in
a majority of cases. With the excep.
tlon of those permanently incapaci
tated by, old age, accident or chronic
illness, the vast majority of the people
with whom we dealt showed strong
desire to get on their feet and care fol
themselves. Of course there are few
sturdy beggars' who have to be
! dealt with thru the vagrancy laws OF
by the Humane society.
1.-The great majority of those wht
are brought to our attention are in NJ
sense dependent Door. They are work
ing people who thru sickness or loss Of
employment are in temporary strait
and need only u little assistance tt
tide them over a period Of financial de
preston. The lack Of reserve funt
is apparent in nearly every case. 1
is to remedy this evil that we hav,
stablished our provident savings funt
and it is encouraging to note tn,
school children have begun to form
habits OF thrift and economy thru it. ,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-08
The Filling Of a Promise

Today's story is very different, but as
wonderful, and the marvel grows when
it is considered all today's achievement
has been built upon that recent reckless,
prodigal, turbulent past Petroleum, cot
ton, rice wheat, meat, the rise of cities,
the laying Of railroads, seem opposed de-
cidedly to pioneer adventure frontier
chivalry to racy theme of horsemen,
Mexicans, and Indians; but 1t, too, has
its stories, its miracles.
And the present, which succeeded the
past, opens into a future which may be
said to be already here. It is a future
such as no other state in the Union can
expect, since the vastness of Texas alone
places her in a class by herself at the
head Of the column.
There are her riches. whose potential
ity staggers the imaginative; her men
and women, made up Of the brawniest
the most energetic stock of both the old
South and old North; her strategic situa-
ton. which. for the new developing trade
Of the world. renders her as fortunate as
was New York for the trade Of the last
seventy years. Texas cannot escape her
| destiny by any accident or blight. She
is marked for empire as surely as in the
past she was marked for romance. III
her heroic days are behind, her great
days Of wealth and power unlimited lie
before-and that Immediately.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-08
San Antonio Historic Ground.

San Antonio possesses the most heroic
ground and building in America, the
Alamo, the Western Thermopylae. Here
1T frontiersmen, rlfemen all, who never
missed a squirrel, stood off the immense
Mexican army Of General Santa Ana To
storm these low walls and butcher the de-
tenders cost the "greasers' 5000 men,.
Bowie, Crockett, whose names are as IA
nous as those Of Richard of the Lion
Heart and Robert Bruce, persisted there,
refusing to surrender, scorning to live.
The Anglo-Saxon blood well may be
proud when the story of the Alamo is
told. ''Thermopylae had her messenger;
the Alamo had none.'' is the inscription
in the wall Of the shot-riddled church to-
day. Its brevity is heroic. ....
Vengeance was wreaked a few DAYS
after. Sam Houston, gathering an army
as he advanced, marched to the rescue.
Like the rescuers Of Gordon Of Khartoum
he was too late, but unlike them he did
not neglect to inflict a. fearful retribution.
His little army routed Santa Ana, to the
cry. Remember the Alamo!''
What pen can write the romance OF
the days of cattle raising, when the
'1onghorn' was king and the cowboy his
grand vizier! The great ranches, ten
thousands of acres, the thousands of cat
tie, the rounds-up, the stampedes, the
Texas trail in length a thousand miles
we'll into Kansas-these have been woven
into story and into song, but none caR dc
them the justice they deserve. Il