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The Washington herald., 1908-04-19
TO BUY EXPOSITION SITE.
Senator Daniel Offers Bill to Acquire
Big Tract on Hampton Roads

Senator Daniel, of Virginia, yesterday
introduced in the Senate a bill providing
that the government shall buy from the
jamestown Exposition Company go acres
of the site OF the recent exposition on
Hampton Roads. in consideration Of which
the company owes the government on
account Of money advanced for exposition
purposes, is to be remItted, and the COM
pany is to be paid ss69.000.
The ground. which It is proposed to
purchase includes that upon which the
principal buildings of the exposition stood
and the permanent Improvements thereon
are to be embraced In the sale The
ground. If bought is to be used as a
naval training and coaling station. and
for any other purposes for which It may
be deemed suitable.
OF the ss60.0o0 purchase price, 100000
is made Immediately available. and the
remainder is made payable on April
next.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-19
CURRENCY HEARING OFF.

owing to the illness OF Representative
Vreeland hearings on the Vreelsnd cur
rency bill. which has been proposed as a
substitute for the Aldrich BILL were post
poned yesterday by the House Committee
on Banking and Currency until to-mor-
row.
Further consideration of the Fowler
currency commission bill was given by
the House committee yesterday The
measure viii undoubtedly be reported ia
vorably, although not until action has
been taken on the question of emergency
circulation as provided in the Vreeland
bill and other pending measures.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-19
GOOD DEEDS NEVER DIE.

He walked the world with bended head.
There is no thing. he moaning said,
That must not some day join the dead
And then the old man. smiling. said.
With youthful heart and lifted head:
NO good deed ever Joins the dead.
joaquin Miller, quoted IN Senator Cal
linger's speech.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-19
secretary,s saIary Raised

SecretHFys satHEs F"IsSu'
The House provision for two assistants
for the Engineer Commissioner to be de-
tailed from the Engineer Corps and to
receive as compensation $500 each was
struck out by the subcommittee, and 1t
is provided instead that the secretary to
the District Commissioners shall act as
superintendent Of the District Building
the duty placed upon the two proposed
assistants by the House. the secretary 3
salary being increased by the Senate $3.50
a year making it s2.500 Many other
changes in the personnel of the District
departments among the minor positions
are made
The Washington herald., 1908-04-19
Cloth Plant Closes.

Bridgewater, Mass, April 1S.-The Caroot
Company, manufacturers Of worsted
cloth. closed its plant to-day for an in
definite period and viii liquidate with Its
creditors. The mill employs 200 hands.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-19
PRAISE DEAD SOLONS
Senators Eulogize MessrS.
Morgan and Pettus.
GAVE STATE FOREMOST PLACE

Statcsmanship and Personal Worth
of Late Alabama Senator's Both
Serving at Once, Declared 10 Have
Created Unique COnditiOn-Member
of Both Parties Express Affection.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-19

New YOrk's Experience.
From the New Yozk Evening Sun
A woman lives to love; a man loves
to live.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-19
DELAY CHEAPER GAS
Senate Subcommittee Elim-
mates Wilson Proyiso.
NEARLY TWO MILLIONS MORE

Made by HoaHe Are
Materially Increased-Ames.dment
for Improvement of Reno "Oad to
BE ccepted-LOngevity Pay for
school Teachers Is Cut.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-19
HOUSE.

The House further considered the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill in Committee Of
the Whole.
The bill. after debate under the hEe-minute
rule vas reported 10 the House from the Com
mittee Of the Whole and passed On an aye and
nay vote
At $50 the House vas declared adjourned until
tomorrow at noon.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-19
YESTERDAY IN CONGRESS.
SENATE.


Fifteen Senators made addresses euogistic of
the lives and public services Of the la;e Senators
from Alabama John T. Morgan and Edwin Win
ston Pettus
Without the amendment reducing the price Of
gas TO rs cents. the District appropriation bill
was reported from the Appropriations Commit
tee. II carries an increase over the House appro-
prstions Of nearly two million dollars
Senator wetmore introduced a bill to buy the
land bot now owned by the government inter-
vening between the Capitol and the Union Sta
tiOn.
Senator Daniel introduced bill proposing TO
purchase 4 portion Of the jamestown Exposition
grounds
Secretary Taft in an extended report favored
the Newlands inland waterways improvement bill,
but made suggestions for amendments.
At SD p. m, as further marx Of respect 70
the late Alabama Senators, the Senate adjourned
70 meet again at noon tomorrow.
The Washington herald., 1908-04-19
Detailed Items of Increase.

The items for which increases were al
lowed and the extent OF the additions are
shown in the following table:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
STORY OF THE CREATION.

Antonio, a Porto Rican damsel
whose domicile is the Magoon block,
objected vigorously last night to TAX
ing off her hat at the police station
before being locked up on charge OF
disturbing the peace She mad not
been altogether amenable when placed
under arrest nor when being driven
through the city in the patrol wagon
but her little objections then were
mild compared to the walls of wrath
that she spilled when the clerk po-
litely asked her to hand over her head
gear and her hatpins before escortlng
her to the dungeon. When the officer
insisted on the removal of her mil
Iinery and she saw that her indigna-
ton play was unavaiIing, she flourish
ed a hatpin and dared the whole force
to lay one finger on the flower gar
dem After holding her enemies at bay
for some time she finally gave in and
took a receipt for the feathers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
JOHN COLLINS PERSISTENT.

A drunk, appropriately named John
Collins, appeared before Judge An
drade yesterday morning, his case be-
ing continued at the wish of the court
for a week to give him a chance to
get out of town. He was released al
ten o'clock and was back in the sta
ton drunken than ever by two.
When Collins was first booked the
name reminded 6Ierk Baker of another
John Collins who left his bail behind
him some time ago. He was one of a
pair of high-rollers who had run afoul
of the police and been run in, charged
with being drunk and disorderly. His
name is one very familiar to most Ho-
noluIans. and he did not wish 1t to APP
pear on the blotter, evidently. What
your name?" asked Baker, the usual
question put 10 all prisoners. The
fellow blinked for minute ana then
answered huskily, John Collins" re-
Numbering what he had had last.
John Collins, eh?" said Baker, and
what's yours?' turning to the other
one of the pair, who was farther gone.
''Whas mine? '' he hiccoughed. on
I'll take the same"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
MARINE

Unoficially. the manager for the
local agency not being available for
verifcation last night, it is announced
that the American-Hawa Steam
ship Company is about TO make an i'm
portant change in its local and coastal
schedules.
Not long ago there We're inaugurated
the runs of the steamships Nebraskan
and Nevadan between Honolulu and
San Francisco direct. two other boats
running between Tacoma and Seattle
and Honolulu.
The new plan, according to the re-
port is 10 take the Nevadan and Ne
braskan, the smallest boats of the
American-Hawaiian fleet in this ocean.
off the local run and put them in the
coastal traffic between Salina Cruz,
San Diego, san Francisco, Seattle and
Tacoma, putting one of the big freight
ers on the san Francisco Honolulu
run. or perhaps putting on two large
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
ALLEGED CRAFT.
STORY 4 JOKE.
Vealy Yarn Laughed at by the
Ones Supposed to Be
Involved.

Yamashita, who was convicted in
the District Court of running blind
pig and who appealed his case, is now
on trial before Judge Robinson. The
principal witnesses against him are
Lieutenant I.uahiwa, Police Officer
Hose Peter and an informer, Kawa-
motto Kitaro. E. c. Peters is appear
ing for the defense and Deputy County
Attorney Milverton is prosecuting.
In testifying yesterday Luahiwa was
ratified by the cross-examination of
Peters and his answers and those of
the informer to certain questions led
to the introduction of the word graft
into the case, principally through the
construction put upon the informer' S
testimony by the attorney for the de-
Tense for the benefit of impressionable
jurymen. Luahiwa testified that he
had caused to be paid $40 to the in
former for informer fees, the receipts
for the money being produced. The
money was paid the informer by Clerk
Rose of the Sheriffs office Rose being
in attendance at the trial to give tes-
timony to that effect. The informer
acknowledged his signature on the re-
ceipts, but stated that he did not
know whether he had received so or
not. He was inclined to think that it
was less than that. although he was
not positive.
There was no question of expense
money in this at all, and the report
of the Sheriff and Clerk Rose, made
yesterday afternoon, are to the effect
that everything was regular concern
ing the payment of the fees, without
any possibility of graft on Luahiwa's
part, the only thing out of the ordf-
nary concerning the payments being
that the fee was generally split at the
police station between the informer
and his wife, the former having on
two occasions taken his ten dollars
and blown it in in gambling and
opium.
No one at the police station yester-
day was at all affected by the wild
and groundless story of police graft
exposure played up in an afternoon
sheet. the matter being regarded as a
rather stupid joke.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08

Speeding to all parts of the worlds
seacoasts.
I'm writing we have considered the
disease from "a broad standpoint. Com
ing to Honolulu the destruction Of the
rat here, while difficult enough. would
be far simpler than on the mainland,
for once the Island of Oahu was freed
ii would not be very difficult, with
proper wharves and shipping regula-
tions, to keep this city free from these
rodents. Whether the expense and
trouble of doing this would be justified
remains for the people OF Honolulu to
decide. All can tell you is that a city
free from rats can not experience a
plague epidemic, while a seaport that
is rat infested is like a keg of gum
powder which only needs the applica-
ton of the match. However / do want
to make one point clear and that is
that procuring a few hundred rats a
week for the purpose Of ARCHAEOLOGICAL
examination to ascertain whether
plague exists here or not, Is one thing:
and the destruction Of the rats of your
city is another thing. Both are meas
ures having a definite object: both are
useful, but they are separate and dis
tinct. A certain number Of rats may
be sufficient TO tell. with a fair degree
of certainty, whether plague does or
does not exist; and yet that same
number may not represent the natural
increase in one large grain store or a
few livery stables.
THE first of these measures are be-
Ing done now and / can tell you from
the rats thus received that IL is i'm
probable that plague has existed in
Honolulu proper for six months or
more. The destruction Of the RAJ.
however, is a far more serious UNDER
taking. and, much as / should like TO
see you free from them, / must advise.
unless you intend taking 1t UP in full
realization Of what IL means and are
determined 10 see IT through, that you
do not attempt IL at all.
ITO destroy a small fraction Of these
rodents and then stop is but waste
Of money and effort the prolific rat
soon reflls his broken ranks"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08

and piling, .16 per ton by day, 20 on
Sundays, holidays and nights. Dis
charging and loading freight, AS per
ton by day and 65 per ton nights, Sun
days and holidays. Loading coal in
carts and dumping on the lighters, IA
per ton by day. and Is per ton nights,
Sundays and holidays. Bunkering coal
SO per ton by day. IT 1-2 per ton
nights. Sundays and holidays, with the
contractor furnishing the gear. With
the government furnishing the gear so
per ton by day, Il IL nights, Sundays
and holidays.
Enos A. Fosters bids were all made
with the condition that the government
furnish the gear: Dischargiag coal
from ships, loading into carts and pill
ing .16 per ton by day, 80 per ton on
Sundays, holidays and nights. Dis
charging and loading freight As per
ton per day, IS per ton on nights, holi-
days and Sundays. Carting coal from
pile and loading on lighters Is per ton
by day, $1.00 per ton on nights, holi-
days and Sundays. Bunkering coal so
per ton by day, $1C0 per ton on nights,
holidays and Sundays.
r. K. Clark: Discharging freight so
per ton by day. Bunkering coal so per
ton by day, $1.00 per ton on nights,
holidays and Sundays. Carting coal
from pile to lighter IS per ton by day.
Pifing coal and unloading .16 per ton
nv day
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
SHIPPING NOTES.

| At noon today the steamer Mauna
! Loa sails for Hawaii and Maui ports.
! The P. NJ. S. S. China sailed on We'd
nesday from Yokohama for Honolulu.
! The All. s. s. virginfan arrived at
San Diego yesterday from Salina cruz.
! The steamer Claudfne leaves this
evening at 5 o'clock for Hawaii and
Maui ports.
The steamer Kinau sailed at o. m.
yesterday for Kauai ports with numer-
Gus passengers.
Early this morning the o. s. S. Ala
| media is due from San Francisco with
a weeks mail.
The schooner W. H. Marston, which
left Hilo on April Is, reached san Fran
cisco yesterday.
The T. K X. s. S. America Maru.
which sailed hence May 1, arrived at
San Francisco yesterday.
1t is expected that the P. NJ. S. S.
Siberia will make port today from the
Orient, sailing for San Francisco this
evening or tomorrow morning.
Sailing direct for this port and cut
ting out the Sound trip, the All.
S. s. Texan on Wednesday left San
Francisco. She is due here next Thurs
day afternoon.
The island schooner Ka Moi, Captain
Hipa, is bound for Kailua and Napoo-
poo with two large boilers, ten tons
each, for the Mahogany Lumber Co.
and general cargo.
The bark S. c. Allen. Captain wi1ler,
yesterday morning arrived from Grays
Harbor, twenty-six days out with $780,
600 feet of lumber her decks being
piled high. Light winds We're expert
enced throughout. No sail nor stack
was sighted.
Castle & Cooke. local agents for the
Matson Navigation Company, are in re-
ceipt of cable advices announcing that
the sailing of the Hilonian from San
Francisco for Honolulu was delayed on
account of the arrival al San Francisco
of the big fleet and that She will ar
rive here on Thursday morning next,
May IA.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
SHERIFF WITNESSED
AN ATTEMPT To BRIDE

Sheriff Iaukea, his son Fred and De-
tective Leal had tussle with jiu-
iitsu exponent in Iwilei last night,
having to struggle for some minutes
with the japanese before he would
surrender to superior numbers. The
man was making a getaway after a
raid by LeaI on one of the closed
cribs. during the course of which an
offer to bride the officer was made by
a notorious Japanese of that quarter,
the man wanting to hand the detec-
tive five dollars under the very nose
of the Sheriff. A warrant charging
him with attempted bribery will pro-
ably be sworn out this morning.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
NEWSPAPER MANS
EXPERIENCE WITH DIAR-
RHOEA.
s G. Mathers, publisher

Mr. S. G. Mathers, publisher OF
Chronicle, Normantown, Queensland
says: "Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy completely cur
ed me of chronic dysentery from which
I had suffered for years. feel conf
dent that this remedy also saved the
life Of my infant daughter, who when
teething was severely attacked with
diarrhoea and was given up by the
doctors" For sale by Benson, Smith
& Co, agents for II. l.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
TODAY'S PROGRAM.

A busy bunch of business is sched-
uIed for the waterfront today and
should start with the daylight arrival
off port of the Oceanic steamship Ala
media from san Francisco with seven
days mail, perhaps closely followed
by the All. :. :. Nebraskan from San
Francisco, with the All. S. s. Alas
kan coming IN from Seattle toward
evening, and the P. NJ. S. s. Siberia
looming up from the Orient during the
forenoon.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
HOPING FOR BANGALoRE.

Opinions widely differ on the water
front as to the likelihood of the long
overdue American ship Bangalore 1913
days out of Norforlk for Honolulu with
csal for the Navy, showing up here.
Navy men here have said that they
will not give. her up for fifty days yet
and, on the other hand, certain pilots
and shippers declare that she will
never again be heard of.
The reasons for these opinions are
peculiar. Backing the statement that
she should be allowed another fifty
days, Navy man last evening declar-
ed that he had a "hunch" that she had
shifted her cargo in heavy weather and
had for many days been unable to
make any progress and that much time
was occupied in trimming cargo when
the opportunity offered after the storm.
Some of those who maintain that she
will not be heard of again think she
has been burned at sea and that per-
hapS some of her crew will turn up.
They have no faith in the shifting of
cargo theory, saying she would not live
Out'a storm in which she shifted her
load.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
BRITISH BARK HOLLYWOOD HERE

The tug Intrepid yesterday afternoon
towed in the British bark Hollywood,
Captain Smith, ffty-one days from
Junin ports. Peru, with fertilizer. On
account of failure to perfect her health
papers at the last port she was placed
in quarantine here in the stream and
will probably enter a slip today when
the documents are Strengthened out.
The Hollywood, a vessel of 1477 tons,
and formerly commanded by Captain
Mcconnell left Peru on March 16.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
QUICK TRIP AROUND HORN.

The British s. S. Carlton. which ar
rived at San Francisco a month ago,
made the run from Baltimore to that
port with only one stop, and that for
ten minutes to enable the engineers to
replace a badly behaved check valve.
The voyage occupied sixty-five days
and fourteen hours. She had as cargo
$3.50 tons of coal for the U. S. Navy.
Contrary to the custom for steam yes
sells she rounded Cape Horn.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
FOOTING sUEY FOR EI&ELE.

The American bark Foohng Suey,
Captain Banfeld, left yesterday after
noon for Eleele. Kauai, to load sugar
for around the Horn to New York. She
arrived here from New York on April
IS after a voyage of 40 days. Going
back she hopes TO knock off about
month from her outward score.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08

rected for temperature, instrumental
errors, and local gravity, and reduced
to sea level. Average cloudiness stated
In scale from to 10. Direction OF
wind il prevailing direction during "A
hsurs ending at s p. m. Velocity OF
wind is average velocity in miles per
hour T indicates trace OF rain.
WIN. B. STOCKAAN.
Section Director
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08

Yesterdays arrests We're made in
three separate raids. on River. King
in Palama, and Beretania avenue. The
arrested men are Maruyama, Shibata,
Shida and Hirano.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08
CIRCULAR TO sHIPMAsTERs.

Beginning with the month of July,
1908, it is the intention of the L. S.
Weather Bureau to issue each month
meteorological charts of the North At
lantic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean,
and to distribute these charts free of
cost to all cooperating shipmasters.
I'VE have at the present time 1900
observers. hailing from every port and
flying the flag of every nation, and by
a systematic collation. on a daily
synoptic chart of the meteorological
data received from these vessels we
are enabled to show the meteorological
conditions prevailing over the oceans
at Greenwich mean noon of each sue
cessive day.
aside from it's scientific value to the
students of meteOrology, it is the pur-
pose of this tabulation to furnish the
navigators with a statement of the
average force and direction of the pre-
vailing winds for all coast stations and
for each deg. square of latitude and
longitude. the average pressure and
temperature and the percentage of
gales, calms, and fogs, the percentage
Oh log D01HS IOF SdCH ueS. square OF
latitude and longitude.
THE normal pressure and tempera-
ture curves will be drawn on the face
of the chart; it is by a careful study
of these data that the practical naviga-
tor may be enabled to more economic
ally and safely shape his course; it is
from this chart also that he can OBJ
tain information of the character and
progress of ocean storms. and of the
regions of the ocean in which they are
most liable to occur.
THE scope of these charts is at
present confined to the North Atlantic
and the North Pacific oceans, but it is
hoped that an increased interest in our
work, on the part of vessel masters,
may in the course of another year en-
able us to issue charts for the south
ern oceans.
1.-The meteorological charts will be
mailed direct from the Central Office
in Washington, D. c., to all cooperat-
ing observers and the captain of each
ship, and number will be sent to each
foreign consulate and the branch
Weather Bureau stations named in
Form 12O1-Marine; those for the North
Pacific will be mailed about the list
the 5th of the preceding month.
1.-THE u. S. Weather Bureau also
maintains, for the use of shipmasters
and others, eight telegraphic stations
on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, viz:
Block Island, r. l.; Cape Henry, Va;
Jupiter and Sand Key, Fla; Southeast
Farallon and Point Reyes, Cal; North
Head and Tatoosh Islands, Wash.
These stations are equipped for sig
mailing by the International Code and
prepared to transmit, by telegraph,
messages of passing vessels. Sand Key,
in addition, is prepared to transmit and
receive messages to and from passing
vessels at night by ffashlight signals
(Morse COde). During the last fiscal
year 27,S76 vessels were reported to the
agents and owners
willis L. MOORE"
"Chief L. S. Weather Bureau
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08

First quarter of the moon May S.
The tides at Kahulu1 and Hilo occur
shout one hour earlier than at Homo
iulu.
Hawaiian standard time is 10 hours
~ minutes slower than Greenwich
time, being that of 1.-The meridian of 157
agrees thirty minutes. The time whis-
tie blows at 100 p. m, which is the
same as Greenwich 0 hours minutes.
sun and moon are for local time for
the whole group.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-08

READ THE ADVERTISER
WORLDS NEWS DAILY
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NOTICE.

Bay mare turned into Manoa pas
ture November, 1907, by some person
unknown, will be sold if not claimed
by owner Immediately.
$3.50 F. NJ. SWANZY.