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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15
No REASON
TO GIVE Up
Pushers for Panpacific
Conference Not
Discouraged.

The cablegram from F. M. Hatch
to the Governor, announcing that Secre-
tary Root pronounees the Panpacifc
Consular conference not practicable,
does not necessarily put the matter
finally out of discussion, - said A. Cart
ley yesterday. Mr. Gartley is the mem
Der of the Promotion Committee who
first brought up the matter of a Pan
pacific conference in that body and who
first persuaded his colleagues on the
committee that the matter was pfac-
ticable.
Mr.. Hatch doubtless called upon
Secretary Root in compliance with the
request of the Governor, but it is pos
sible that he had not the data to pre-
sent which he will shortly have and it
is also possible that Secretary Root has
not gone into the matter The scheme
of consular conference is so new and
novel that most are at first glance apt
to declare it impracticable, - eontin-
ued Mr.. Gartley. ''Many here did SO.
When the matter was first broached we
were asked, What could they do if
they did hold conferenee9' but after
the matter had been thought over a
little and gone into, many of those who
doubted the practicability of the
scheme at first are enthusiastic about
it now.
. The national meeting of representa-
tives of the different Chambers of Com
merce will be held this week in Wash
ington and this matter will come up
there. Both the Honolulu Chamber of
Commerce and Merchants Association
will be represented and it is most prob
able that the proposed conference will
be debated. At the very least We will
get lot of publicity from the affair.
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15
Los ANGELES INFLUX
GOING TO Be LARGE

From a matter of dollars and cents
alone which will be left here by the
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
excursionists the Promotion Committee
will have justified every cent that this
community has paid for its upkeep
since it was started" said Secretary
Wood yesterday, discussing the com
ing excursion, fuller particulars OF
which he had received in letters re-
ceived by the Alameda. THE informa-
tion i have at hand from letters and
from press clippings shows that the
excursion will be one of the biggest
things we have yet landed, the biggest
in itself, while 1t also brings us for the
first time into direct touch with the
clearing house for tourists of the whole
West, something we have been trying
for long time to accomplish.
Secretary Virgins. OF the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce, writes
me that applications for passage on
the vessel chartered specially for the
excursion are coming I'm In great num-
bers from all over Southern California
and that a number will have to be re-
fused, the accommodations being limit
ed to three hundred.
1.-THE Los Angeles Express, OF De-
cember 2S, published before the steam
ship had been definitely chartered, said
of the excursion and the rush for pas
sage: The requests for reservations
have been so numerous that the cham
ber is making an effort to secure a
vessel that will accommodate 300 pas
sengers. The steamer they have In
view for second choice carries only 200
passengers, but only AZ y last resort
will it be accepted. the requests for
reservations have been so great that
ii is feared the larger vessel will not
accommodate more than half of those
who desire to visit the islands in the
role Of excursionists. Today nine re-
quests were received from Pasadena
and four from Cotton, but the Cham
Der will make no reservations until the
vessel is an assured thing. Then ev-
erybody will have an even chance
"Since then the S. s. Ohio has been
secured for the excursion, a vessel cap
able of accommodating comfortably at
least three hundred passengers. The
excursion will sail from San Pedro on
February %, remaining here for the
first two weeks of March. Now 1t is
up to us to prepare for the entertain
ment of the Los Angelenos. If we are
as successful in making ii pleasant
here for them as we have been in get
ting them to visit us it will mean much
for the tourist traffic of Hawaii. Our
visitors will be out for business also
and the chance for definitely clinching
the establishing of the San Pedro-Ho-
nolulu steamship service will be the
best that has ever presented itself"
The s. S. Ohio, which the Los An
gelenos have chartered. is from Seat
tie and has been running In the North
west coasting trade for some time. She
is 343 feet long with net tonnage or
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15

In view of the proximity of the Brit
ish Columbian capital to the coal mines
of Vancouver Island, being connected
and Wellington, two of the principal
collieries, it is hardly possible that
the want of fuel has forced the clos
ing down of the schools. The winters
at Victoria are open ones as rule
and the buildings are not built for
especially cold weather, such as is evi-
IDENTIFY being now experienced.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15

caused some alarm, to which the ris-
ing of the sea soon added.
When the ship came to a standstill
capt. Brunswig went below to make
an investigation. When he saw the
engines practically crumbling to pieces
and their supports giving way. and
also found how much water the ship
was making, he knew that the beauti-
ful yachtiike vessel would never make
another trip.
The vessel was only about 300 or 400
yards from shore. close to Plum Rock
light, ana he had little concern for the
ultimate safety of the passengers. Con-
fldent that all would be rescued. he
went TO his cabin and took his life
with his hunting rifle. He was a
mighty hunter and had brought down
hlg game in various parts of the world.
HIS last shot was for himself.
Fewer harbor wrecks have been more
complete than that of the Prinzessin
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15
1o. .ya THE ss OFF Port

range after he had passed Plum Rock
light.
In some way he mistook the meaning
of the range signals and kept near the
light, and when the ship struck she was
headed almost in straight line for it.
When the Paris now the Philadelphia
went ashore on the south coast of Eng
land. several years ago, and threaded
her way into maze of rocks, simi
lar mistake was made.
The Prinzessin was probably the
handsomest ocean going vessel that
came to this port. This was her Sec
ond winter in the West India cruis-
ing service. In the summer she went
to Norway usually.
She was of only 4,400 registered ton
mage. She carried no freight and only
first class passengers. She was beau
tifully fitted up and was more like a
palatial private yacht than an ordinary
steamship.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15

Victoria Luise. The loss of the Rio de
Janeira in entering San Francisco har-
Dor about eight years ago was more
complete, for not only was the ship lost
absolutely, but more than 200 persons
were drowned. No ship, however,
could be rendered more useless than
this cruising ship of the Hamburg
Line.
The accompanying picture shows how
she lies. she went nose on on the reel
and then the tide swung her around
broadside, and she lies tilted up, with
decks awash and the water rushing
through her.
1t was the common belief at first
that the Prinzessin was leaving Kings
ton when she was wrecked. She was
really entering the harbor. The cap
tain had signaled for a pilot, and had
stood off Port Royal for some time.
1t was possible for him to enter the
channel by getting two red lights IN
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15
THE LOST PRINZESSIN.
View of the Vessel as She Lies on the
Rocks Of Port Royal. Jamaica.

New York Sun:-Here is a picture
taken of the wrecked cruising steam
ship Prinzessin Victoria Luise of the
Hamburg-American Line as she lay
on the rocks off Port Royal near the
port of Kingston. Jamaica.
When she glided on the rocks on the
evening of December Is last, the night
was So clear and the first conclusion
was so slight that few of the passen-
gers thought the matter serious at first.
The band was playing and the sudden
stopping of the boat was regarded as
merely a suggestion of shipwreek. The
second bump on the rocks, with the
bow of the vessel sharply elevated,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15
HARD LAW
To Emf ORCE
EducatiOnists Troubled
About Japanese
Schools.

There was a question about separate
schools for japanese discussed at some
length at the Board of Education meet
ing yesterday. It was not a PROPOSE
ton, like that of the San Francisco
school authorities which has made a
noise around the world, to segregate
japanese with other Asiatic children In
public schools especially established
about the lack of school accommoda-
ton at Waipahu and elsewhere, the
members drifted into remarks on the
private schools for japanese, with tut
ton, in their own language exclusively,
which have been started here. All at
once the subject broadened into a
question regarding all private schools
which in the end the meeting was not
prepared to settle offhand, but decided
TO consult the Attorney General about
it's legal aspects.
Mr. Dodge started it with query
which ELECTED a statement of the law
regarding private schools, and then
Mrs. Dowsett insisted to the end Of
the debate that the law should be car
ried out.
THE Law IN QUESTION.
To make the matter clear the sections
of the law in question are here copied
from the Revised Laws:
''Sec. 209. Any person desiring to es-
tabIish private school shall make an
application in writing to that effect
to the school agent of the district in
which it is desired to establish such
school, which application shall be ac-
companied by memorial from the
parents or guardians of the children
intending to attend such school, stat
ing that the applicant is the person of
their choice for a teacher of their chill
dren. If the applicant possesses the
necessary qualifications to become a
teacher of the school proposed, the de-
partment shall issue permit author
Continued on Page Three.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15
BRYAN THROWN
FROM SLEIGH.

SPOKANE, Wash, January 15.-
William Jennings Bryan figured in a
runaway accident here yesterday, his
sleigh being upset. He was thrown
into a snowbank and thereby escaped
injury
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15
MONOPOLY LIABLE
FOR MILLIONS.

FINDIlAY, Ohio, January 15.-Nine
hundred and thirty-nine indictments
have been returned against the Stand
ard Oil Company. A finding of guilty
on these counts would leave the Stand
ard Oil liable to possible fines aggre-
eating fifty-eight million dollars.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15
Japan TALKS
DISARMAMENT.

TOXIC, January 15.-The japanese
government has expressed itself as in
favor of submitting the question of in
ternational disarmament to The Hague
Peace Conference.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15
NO CONGRESS
WILL EXCLUDE
THE JAPANESE
So Says David Starr Jordan---HoodIum Act
for Any President to Sign---Ohioans
Indict Standard Oil Many Times.
ASSOCIATED Press Cablegrams.)

SAN FRANCISCO, January I-Pesdent David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford U university in speech yesterday declared
that would passage
sion against the Japanese and that president would
should passage signing
would be, he said hoodlum act
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15
EARTHQUAKE
IN SWITZERLAND.

BASIaE, Switzerland, January 15.-
An earthquake has interfered with the
electrical system here and the city is
plunged in darkness.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15

Basic is one of the principal cities
of Switzerland, the population being
given at III, 1,000
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15

Lord Charles Beresford is coming 10
the United States to settle the sl,oOO,Ooo
estate of his brother Delaval.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15

All the officers of the 1st Regt. Cali
fornia militia will resign IL the order
disbanding two companies is not re-
scinded.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15

The Hearst recount plan has been
checked by a court; order.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-15
COLD CLOSES
MORE SCHOOLS.

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Janu.
ary 15.-The schools in this city have
been forced to close because Of the
cold weather.
New-York tribune., 1907-01-20
RAIN AIDS CONTRACTORS
If No Freeze Comes, Streets Should
Be Cleaned by TO-wOTO7c.

The Street Cleaning Department and the snow
contractors were Offering thanks for the drizzle
yesterday. as It materially Iightened their Iabors
getting rid OF the six and a half inch snowfall
Deputy Commissioner Reilly last night went far
as TO express the hope that II the soft weather
continued the entire two hundred miles OF streets
on schedule might be practically cleaned by to
night or tomorrow morning.
The principal streets reported cleaned up 20 last
night Broadway, from Long Acre Square 10
Bowling Green: Fifth avenue; Third avenue, from
streets in Harlem such as l2Jth street Lfnox aht
Lexington avenues, and the streets in the dry
goods and financial districts.
Figures made up last night showed that the work
this storm far ahead OF that done on the
five inch fall OF February g. last year. hat was
winter. In the first twenty-four hours work on
the recent storm 1900 more cubic yards or snow
removed than In the same time last year The
number OF square yards of street cleaned exceeded
that of last year by $4,000. ,
The snow contractors win out through the assist
fell they viii be paid for the removal OF that
amount alt though the weather took away conSd-
erabla OF III is fair, however. that the con-
tractors should have this advantage SAID Deputy
Commissioner Reilly. IF there had been a heaNy
freeze after the rain the contractors might have
been picking away th= snow for week or more.
but they would nOt have got sny more pay. / nder
normal conditions IL is estimated that an inch =
day can be removed This time they viii no abe
get rid OF than six inches or snow ln thres
taken ten twelve DAYS. 1t costs about $1,000 an
inch to remove from the streets o. Manhat-
but It saves the business interests ot the city
thousands Of dollars
New-York tribune., 1907-01-20
BUILDING TRADES UNIONS SATISFIED
Don't Want to Affiliate with Alliance for
Fear of Disturbing Prosperity.

The proposition to form New York branch OF
the National Structural Building Trades Alliance.
which body has called a meeting IN this city for
February g. Is not favoraby received by many
OF the local unions in the building trades. il
learned yesterday. II also learned that the
National Building Trades Council, Socialistic
body had sent agents 10 this city 20 induce the
building trades unions TO afiate with it.
The main reason for the apathy Of the local
unions is said be that many OF them have agree
ments with the employers running from to
three years, by which they get higher wages than
they ever had before and they do not want to be
mixed up I'm any scheme which might disturb their
present relations with their employers. These
agreements affect about 5000 men. Bricklayers,
who get 20 cents hour. also paid double
wages for overtime and work done Sundays and
holidays and last year many OF them were enabled
20 earn so a week when building work was rushed
These conditions guaranteed for another year.
The plasterers earned as much, and the other
trades made money in proportion.
Another is that violation OF the arb-
tration agreement, which might occur at any time
if the unions connected locally with either
central body, would likely be followed by the open
shop in the trades which violated the agreement
Some OF 1he local delegates said yesterday that
der the circumstances they could
for making themselves liable another assess
ment besides the regular union dues
New-York tribune., 1907-01-20
MR. TAFT At CHARLESTON
The Secretary Of Var addresses
Red Cross UOrkers.

Charleston. S c.. Jan 1s.-Secretary Taft, with a
distinguished party OF Red Cross workers. was to-
day the guest OF the South Carolina branch Of the
Red Cross. being entertained by the citizens Of
Charleston. The Secretary addressed The Red Cross
at public meeting tonight, AT which Miss Mabel
Boardman. OF Washington. chairman OF the cen
tral committee OF the national organization, also
made address.
ing with President Kaufman. OF the South Carolina
branch. who accompanied them from Washington.
Governor and Mrs. Ansel came from Columbia 10
assist in welcoming the visitors. The Secretary 5
party entertained al breakfast by the Medical
Society of South Carolina. A visit made To
the navy yard, and the party taken for r
cursion about the harbor. Including visit 10 Fort
Sumter and concluding with trip Fort MOul-
tTie Artillery Post, where reception was held by
Colonel Greenough.
Tomorrow special services will held in St.
Philips Episcopal Church, ana reception will be
held CITY Hall by Secretary Taft. Mr. and Mrs.
Taft are the guests OF Mayor and Mrs. Rhett
New-York tribune., 1907-01-20
COUNTESS VISITS THAW.
affecting Scene Bet5ccen Prisoner
and SiSter-CrOzcds Block Way.

For more than two hours yesterday morning the
Countess OF Yarmouth the favorite sister OF Harry
X Thaw who Killed Stanford white talked with
the prisoner IN his cell in the Tombs- II was the
hrst time since Thsws arrest. June .. hat he
had his sister who arrived from England on
Friday. With the countess wsrs her mother Mrs.
William ThRw. and Thaws wife. Mrs Evelyn NeS-
BIT Thaw.
The visit Of the countess TO the Tonbs had been
awaited BY e throng with almost much interest
: the daily visits Of Mrs. Evelyn Thaw early last
summer. For nearly hour "A crowd had waited
for her arrival. There several photograp piers
about The three women arrived IN electric
brouRhCm and TO "A considerable extent escaped
the discoUrjeons cameras But the crowd pushed
forward without hiudranca untI the policemen
forced it back The countess the first titled per
son. incidentally. ever 10 visit the Tombs-was
forced To allow herself To be scar.hed the same
cvery other visitor prisoner. Not only on her
entrance Was she searched. but also as she was
going
Thaw had been impatently awaiting his sister ;
arrival for some time and stood at the door OF
door was ajar, and when he saw his sister ,ap-
pletey. Mrs William Thaw did not remain all
Of the time IN the conference that followed, but
waited below. The wife and sister. however. re-
mained through the whole time allowed them.
on the way out TO the brouEham the same crowd
again assailed the women and It with Off
hcuty that they were able 70 get through TO the
street. AfteIward they held lsng conference
with Clifford ", Hartrdge counsel for rhaw, at
hsrG h ali Of Of the the %e % Ts, & KEEP
counsel. Among them Was AdOlpn M. Marks, Of
Tomorrow morning Thaw VIII leave ais cell
for the first time In months 10 appear in a court
room ard win hear his case called. II will be post
poned, however owing TO the delay In tho trial Of
viii n@llr bsgIh either T WedResday or TMursday
The list of two hundred talesmen under subpoena
for the trial was made public yesterday. Among
them are G TIFFANY Richardson, Robert E. Mac
kay, Charles w. StOughton Charles ID. Halsey
George G. Budlong and John J. Coscd-
New-York tribune., 1907-01-20
SECOND BIG FOUR WRECK
PosOder Explosion Urecks Too
Trdins-Many RepOrted Killed.

Terre Haute. Ind. Jan 19-"Big Four" off,
GERS Tonight received report from Sandford
'heI car OF powder exploded on a siding
wrecking westbound passenger train. the
wreckase was burned. The freight train carry-
ing the car Of powder was also DESTROYED.
The report said that eight or ten persons wera
killed and twenty-five to thirty persons injured
A boy who walked to the wreck from St
Mary's' Ind. reported that nearly every one Of
the passengers was killed. The boy also re-
ported that the of powder was standing
over new pipe line from the Casey GlID field:
that gas had been escaping from the pipe and
had probably filed the OF powder. Sparks
rom the passenger locomotive are supposed to
nave ignited the gas and caused the explosion
of the powder
New-York tribune., 1907-01-20
SALE OF s1,oooOoo WORTH OF 0RYeooDs

The O'NeiIl-Adams Company, of Sixth avenue re-
Gently bought the entire stock of Chapman Co,
one OF Brookiyn's largest department stores, con-
sIstinE Of more than 100000 worth of merchandise
of ill kinds. The sale of this stock begins to-
morrow morning at a.. m, and many hundreds of
extra salespeople have been engaged for the occa-
sion
a slight idea OF the variety and extent of the
goods offered can be gained from the fact that
CHAPMAN q CO. had between fifty and seventy five
different departments, carrying every line OF goods
usually SOLD by department store. For the last
two weeks "A force OF more than three hundred
clerks has been asserting and packing the goods
be brought over to Manhattan. and from seventy
five 10 a hundred wagons have been constantly
gagged in hauling the goods from Brooklyn to this
lOr
New-York tribune., 1907-01-20
fifth Hvsnus, s4lb and sstb Streets, nsw York
SITE NEXT TO GOULD HOUSE LEASED.

Charles A Gardiner. general counsel OF the Inter
borough system. hss leased his home. No. So
Fifth avenue. and the adjoining house, No. 5ss
Fifth avenue. which he recently bought from Fred
erick Roosevelt. to client ok Julian Benedict
yearly rental OF $4,000 year for a term OF
eighty-fOU- years. The houses occupy plot sSxloo
feet. A modern twelve story commercial loft.
Office and studio building. win be erected the
site. The parcel adioins tho old house Of jay
Gould The store and basement OF the proposed
new building will specially fitted up for banking
purposes. negotiations for which are now pending
The structure will be known the Gardiner build
ing
New-York tribune., 1907-01-20
HAS HUSBAND ARRESTED AS THIEF

Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Jessie Pick. OF No.
2ls West 14Sth street, went 10 the West 125th
street police station and asked that her hus-
band be arrested for stealing two paintings
from her one OF them a Lucretia, by Rene
which she said she valued al $1,000.
Detective Campbell went with the woman TO
No 3i4 Pearl street where he arrested the nus
band He was taken To the station. where he
said he was Demetere Pick salesman. of No.
l3 South Portland avenue Brooklyn The
woman told the police that they had been mar
ried fifteen years. Sne said She came from
Cleveland with her husband a year ago. She
fhen went 20 London. on her return, she said
she discovered The absence OF the paintings.