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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
Business Men Opposed.

Along the business length of Fort
street, and on King street, among the
business men, in score of interviews
had. not one of those seen favored any
change in the Federal building site
Such a proposal, to upset the condi-
tiOn which had been regarded as set
tied, was denounced, even by those
who had nothing to urge against the
Irwin site. The cOnceusus of opinion
was that the matter had been thresh-
ed out and settled and should have
been allowed to stay settled. There is
a general fear now that another site
fight has been forced on the cOmmu-
nifty and that between the interests
and the showings pro and con that are
certain to be made 20 Washington, the
Federal building will be two years at
least longer in coming.
Meetings of the Merchants Associa-
tion and the Chamber of Commerce
have been called for tomorrow af-
ternoon and the intention is to pass
some pretty strong resolutions In the
matter.
"Our association expressed itself
very clearly in regard to the matter
before,' said George w. Smith, presi-
dent of the Merchants Association,
Yesterday. "'We certainly can not
favor any change now. / have con-
suited many of the business men on
this question and all are strongly in
favor of condemning any change in
the proposed site. l fear, and SO do
Others. that bringing up this matter
again in the way it has been done will
seriously affect Honolulu prospects of
getting a building as soon as we other
wise would. Any action taken to make
a change and any representation made
a change at Washington
are decidedly unfair TO this commu-
nifty
At the time Mr.. Smith spoke it was
not known definitely that the proposed |
change had actually been made SO far !
as all the preliminaries were con- !
cerned.
William R. Castle said: "It is an
outrage. People of this community
subscribed $40, 900 to open Bishop /
street so as to meet the government s /
about the Mahuka site. !
Full and fair agreements were made, /
and Honolulu did it part. Now we are I
coollv informed that the government /
proposes to break its pledge and put
the Federal building on a site which /
the people of this city, after q full
and free discussion, refused to accept.
| don't like the looks of this thing at
Continued on Page Four.) |
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
KOREA ON THE WAY.

Hackfeld & Co., agents for the Pa
cifc Mail company, received cable no
tice yesterday Of the sailing of the
Korea for Honolulu with 1850 tons Of
cargo for this port. She will also have
accommodations for about seventy-fve
passengers from Honolulu for San
Francisco. The Korea will arrive here
December T.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
ELKS HAD A GALA NIGHT
AT THE MOANA HOTEL

adorned with the American and Ha-
waiian flags in colors. Some verses,
"To Our Guests" from the pen of
L. s. Conness, and some jingles by
Jack Densham made it more attrae-
tive.
Secretary Henry Easton was in gem
eral charge Of the floor
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
GOES TO SOUTH AMERICA.

Dr. R. T. Blouin, who was at the
head Of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters
Experiment Station for a year and a
half, succeeding DR.. Maxwell. and then
went back to Louisiana, has resigned
his situation there to become director
of the Experiment Station at Tucuman,
Argentine Republic.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
ORDER AT NANKING.

PEKING, November 25.-Oder Nanking
where feared that foreigners danger their
were taking O gunboats for refuge
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
THE DISABLED RELIEF

MANILA November 26The hospital ship has arrived
here with damaged engines and otherwise disabled
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
HAYTIAN LEADER KILLED.

PORT AU PRINCE Hayt, November 25General LIE Comte,
Minister of the Interior today killed during murderou
saon by the popuace ereme of revenge summary
O suspected rebels
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
MONUMENT TO SHERIDAN.

WASHINGTON, November 25-The unveiing of the
General Philip Sheridan took place here today The address
of the occasion delivered by President Roosevelt.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
ARAB PILGRIMS BURNED.

VALETTA Malta, November 25-One hundred twenty
pilgrims, mostly Arabs who board the
dina have perished with the burning of the vessel
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
WELSH BESTS ATTELL

LOS ANGELES November 26-Welsh got the decision over
Attell in fifteenth round.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
SPERRYS SAILORS ASHORE

MANILA November 26-Fifteen
tleship fleet have been permitted land
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
THE LAMPHERE JURY

LAPoRTE Indr November 26-The Lamphee jury has been
locked up for the night #
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
DORANDO WINS MARATHON

NEW YORK, November 26.-Dorando won the 26-rliIe
Marathon race in Madison Square Garden from Hayes.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
GOVERNMENT
TO EVCT ALL
CONTRACT LABOR
Sweeping Order Issued by Secretary Straus---
Welsh Gets the Decison--The Relief
Arrives at Manila
ASSOCIATED Press cablegrams.)

WASHINGTON November 26-A sweeping sorder de-
poraon of aborers by Secretary
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
METEOR KILLS HORSES

MUSKOGEE, Ok, November 26.--A fell into barn
here last night, killing horses.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-26
ANTI-AUSTRIAN ROMANS

ROME November continue and troops
have been called out suppress them.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
PRIZE FOR 83-YEAR FUTURITY
Close of q Remarkable TOntine Prop
erty scheme in Thrifty
Connecticut.

A futurity race in New Raven, Conn,
which lasted eighty-three years, with at
least $4,000 for the prize was settled Sep
TENDER 80, when the death OF Deacon Lu-
cius Wooster of Westville was announced.
Now the seven final heirs to the Tontine
hotel property are left and the estate will
be decided. In 1870. 800 persons subscribed
500 each, maxim a pool Of O.OO0. with which
the Tontine hotel. one OF the best known
in New England. was constructed. It was
, finished in 1875 when the race began.
According to the terms OF the original
agreement, every shareholder had a right
to nominate any person for the futurity.
The property was to be kept intact until
Only seven survived.
The nominees were In most cases babies
in the cradle. care being taken to make
nominations of persons who were Of fam
lilies with a record OF longevity.
The Connecticut Legislature granted a
charter for the company. and the hotel be-
gan doing business as the chief hosiery
Of New Haven As time passed on It's
site on the New Haven green became ex-
ceedingiy valuable and the land it owned
near the hotel became the site for other
valuable business blocks.
The hotel continued to prosper under the
tontine association. and some financial
experts place the value Of the property and
the surplus at $25o.O0o.
The charter granted by the legislature
permitted complete secrecy in the financial
operations. and no report has ever beer
made of the funds held. or the payments
made by the officers of the company. In
deed, the nominees and the shareholder
have never been announced,
Deacon Fitch, one OF the most prominent
alumni and former officials OF Yale uni
versity. was the eighth nominee surviving
This was learned a few months ago. and
the care taken to prolong the lives of the
survivors in the hope that each would ex-
list until after one more OF the number
died has rivaled that described In Robert
Louis Stevenson's book 1.-THE Wrong Box .
In which a similar tontlne race is described
The contest for the futurity for several
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
TIRED OF AN OLD BARGAIN
strange Contract Entered Into by =
New England Town and n
Citizen.

Because Of one Of the s~traneest contracts
ever entered into by the town fathers OF a
New England community snd one Of It's
citizens. Mrs. Lyman Jennings and her
daughter. Mrs. Herbert /. Stratton, both
OF Orange. Mass, will receive an annuity
from the town OF Athol as long as they
live. Each year when this pension Is set
aside by the selectmen OF Athoi the latter
have occasion to lament the bargain ar
ranger between the town and Lyman Jen-
ming thirty-one years ago.
THE Jennings annuity" as the gift Is
now known. has become the source or
much interest and discussion among the
financial experts Of the state.
Thirty-one years g Lyman Jennings,
then 50 years old, went to the selectmen of
Athol. where he then resided, and pro-
posed to Civ 5000 outright to the town
on the condition that Athol pay him s per
cent interest as long as he lived, and con-
tinue after his death to pay his widow $3.50
a year. and each of his three children $40
a year, an amount equal to that which
| Jennings would receive yearly during his
lifetime.
The town fathers agreed to the bargain,
their decision being based upon the figures
OF an insurance table as tn the average
longevity of the five beneficiaries.'
But much to the surprise of the Ehrewd
according to the table OF statistics, JeB-
nings continued to draw the annuity of
$40 until last year, when he had exceeded
the average insurance longevity by six
teen years.
The town had returned to the old man
during his lifetime for the 5000 loaned the
sum Of s1s. 200. and this year the sum OF
$500 had to be set aside for the widow and
his one remaining child, now so years OF
age and in the best of health.
Still bound by the contract. Athol will he
hereafter compelled to continue to pay $SGC
per year in addition to the SIC, 200 already
paid, as long as Mrs. Jennings and Mrs
Stratton live.
Herbert stratton, son-in-law of the late
Jennings, believes that Athol cannot pos
sibly lose, and that at the current rates Of
interest since the money was given, thC
town is several thousand dollars to the
good.
Judge Charles Field. now living in Athol
drew the contract.
It has been figured out that had Jennings
put his money in a savings bank he woult
have had a smaller return in interest, bu
would still have the principal. On the othei
hand, many of the Athol experts declar,
that the town gains, since It has paid 8 pc
cent interest for thirty years on n princi
pal that never will have to be paid, and
smaller interest on that unreturnable prin
cipal for a longer time.
While the peculiar bargain with Atho
made the name OF the late pailmaker ia
nous for his shrewdness. otherwise the oil
man until his death possessed the reputa
ton only Of being the hardest worker IL
the county. To make up for his slownes
in turning pals he often worked fifteen t
eighteen hours in the factories at Ervini
and Winchendon.
Last year, just before his death, occurre'
the date OF his sixty-fourth wedding an
niversary, his widow being now IS year
old.-Boston Journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

weeks has been a battle Of rsine forces
and doctors. and the elderly people who
have been left In the race have practically
led lives In glass cases.
The annual meeting OF the tontine asso-
citation will be held In about two weeks.
At that time steps will be taken to wind
up the affairs OF the tontine company. The
corporation would be criminal now under
the laws Of Connecticut. but It has been
thought best not to disturb the assOcia-
ton, but instead TO allow Il to continue
until it wound up It's affairs in a natural
way.
It lie know that three OF the surviving
nominees are Mrs. Bessie Ives, Mrs. II.
w. 8. whspies OF New Haven, and Mrs.
Sarah Coan Of Chicago.
Deacon Fitch was IS years old. He was
for many years assistant treasurer OF Yale
and was for two years its treasurer.-New
York Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
COLD FEET A BURGLAR ALARM
Awakened Owner Warmed VI by
Lively Fight I'm the
Dark.

Charles Bailey, of New York, owes 1t /,
the fact that he was sleeping with his fee
stuch' out beyond the bed clothes that hi
house was not ransRcked. To the sam,
circumstance. also. the police say. is du,
the capture OF one Of the most seasoned
burglars in the city.
About 3 o'clock in the morning Mr.. Bailey
was awakened by a cold draught on hi.
feet. Rubbing his eyes he saw flashes o.
light In the dining room. Tumbling out OF
bed wide awake, Bailey went into the mex
room and stumbled over a man stoopint
In front Of the sideboard.
The fight that followed was not according
to Queensbury rules. but according to tn,
police, It would have done credit to any
ring. Bailey is a big. strong man, but tho
fact that he was in his night clothes anC
barefooted handicapped him. Besides, tn
early morning intruder, while not nearl
so large as Bailey. was a tough and tireles
customer. who, so Mr., Bailey thought
seemed never to know when he had enough
BY circumstance almost evenly matched
the men rolled on the floor of the dininf
room for full twenty minutes Bailey go
his man down at the start and pummelet
him about the head and face with grea
vigor, but the little man got busy under
meath hit bach violently and scratched ant
used his teeth on Mr.. Bailey's bare legs.
The scramble awakened Mrs. Bailey, VIII
was asleep in another room. She shouted
out the street door for help. and Sergean
Click and Patrolman Wey came on the rur
Rushing into the room where the two meI
struggled on the floor. they were unabl
at first to make out which was the burgla
and which was the householder, until Mrs
Bailey Identified he husband.
Battered and bleeding but still full o.
fight. the intruder set about to tackle N
newcomers. until Sergeant Click touched hir
none to gently on the head with his nigh
stick. This quieted him. and Mr.. Bale
got a much needed rest.-New York Time
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
DYNAMITE IN THE MAKING
wOrkmen Who Are EncIrcIed by
Death In Cans, Kegs and
Tons.

30 thoroughly deceptive is dynamite in
the making that you are apt TO be dis
appointed on viewing the surface Of things.
You could more readily fancy thunderbolts
leaping and crashing from tender blue
skies than that the most fearful forces in
creation arc hidden under such a peaceful
exterior. Nitroglycerin, a cupful OF which
would distribute you over square miles OF
landscape. Is diligently mixing around you
in hundreds and thousands OF gallons.
II is making itself in big iron retorts,
cascading down leaden cutters and merriIy
tumbling in minute Niagaras into immense
watts, where the deliquescent yellow peril
pursues its journey p~owderward. Out OF
one receptacle II fares furiousiy through
special lead coils. driven only by cooling
blasts OF air, and is drawn off like draught
ale and piped on to the next perfecting
stage. Gaze with the nitroglycerin expert
into one of those big caldrons. The in
terror Is brilliantly Illuminated by cleo
tricity. the only Illuminating agency per-
mitted in or about the danger houses.
Around you are other houses. at uni
form distances apart. and connected by a
series OF narrow-Eause tracks, wherein
workmen are railroading nitroglycerin from
here and pulp cotton from there. to be
compounded into dynamite and blasting
g~elatine. Greatest care is taken In rolling
the product from house TO house. As soon
as a loaded cart IL ready TO pass out Of the
notroglycerin house. for instance. a soma
phore signals from an adjoining station. TO
which the consignment IL carefully hurried.
Around you are long storehouses packed
with pulp in tons OF innocent whiteness.
Presently this pulp WIN assume a tan
color under the nitrstins process, and
then, suddenly becoming caTbonite. red
cross. hercules, hudson and giant powder.
~forcite, OF what you order. It develops the
quasi virtues OF dynamite-dynamits or
blasting g~elatine, in which more natural
forces are condensed. to the cubic inch
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

Advertise In The Rec, the paper that goe
into the homes OF the best people.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

than exist anywhere else IN creation.
Death. curbed and sleeping. enriohes you
in gallons and tons. Annihiiation threatens
at every turn. In the form OF potential
pulverizing forces. But the man and the
mercury are there also, alert. responsive,
relisble.-Leslie's Weekly.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
BARGAINS Before Your Eyes

Constant hep in bargain finding is given thew woman ofheh house by The B@C classified pages
Every day these pageso peny your window ITO all the chmcs to save money that can possibly
interest u No matter how closely you are confned within the furw walls of home, the whole
array is opened out before you each day.
If your edf umhure, the classified pages disclose a van full of thief n@t which some house
holder, who is making a long move will dispose of att dcuouJyh low figures
If you HAYES little money to invest in house or lot there is just the property you want on
The market at half its value beauses somebody must hweH the none at once Read these advertise
mems You will surprised to see now little it takes to becomes property owner.
ANYTHING and Everything you can use-yo will find it in these pages
And fwu have something to sell the Classified pages come up promptly with the buyer
Many women are not only avmg mmey but constantly adding to. the family income by max
a bushes of watching these pages
Won't you please take look tmm ornngf
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11
Minor POesy.

A thought once stole by mistake into the
mind OF a minor poet. II was a very little
thought and IL was frightened at the vast
Empty spaces, and covered timidly into a
lark corner. where It hoped to escape
observation.
But In a moment the poet had discovered
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-11

II and straightway he pounced upon II
avidiy and mauied. damned, cut, squeezed
and otherwise tortured Il.
The thought suffered greatly, but the
poet aid not desist until he had achieved
his purpose. which was 90 grind out an
other sonnet and keep himself before the
Jubiic.-puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-19
GIVE THEIR REASONS.
Illinois Committeeman Tell Why They
Favor Cannon for President.

Springfield, Feb. 19.-The resolutions
adopted by the state central committee
after endorsing the policy of President
Roosevelt, "in administering even
handed justice to all the people of the
United States, without regard to per-
sons and in the character of his recon-
mendatfon to the congress-" proceeded
as follows:
I'VE invite the attention of the coun-
try to the well known fact that with
out the cordial, earnest and constant
support of the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon,
as speaker of the house of representa-
tives it would have been impossible for
the recommendations of the president
to have been enacted into law and that
the policy Of the Republican party as
manifested by the president and enact
ed by the congress. can not be better
carried out and continued than by plac-
ing the administration of the same in
the hands of the man whose authority
and influence has been second only 20
that OF President Roosevelt himself
The resolutions close with formal
endorsement of Speaker Cannon for
president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-19
ALL ABOUT A CAT.
A Holly Contested Suit Is Running
Through New York Courts.

New York. Feb. I9.-The appellate
division of the supreme court has
been called upon to decide the owner
ship of a cat. It seems that the cat
originally belonged to an actress who
when she left town, turned the ami
NAL over to the restaurant where she
was in the habit of taking her meals
The restaurant belonged to Pauf
Mortimer Brown and in his employ as
a. cashier was Miss Louise Mall, who
was friendly with the woman who
owned the cat. 1ts
Some time after the cat arrived at
the restaurant Miss Mall married
Max Doring. They. went to Germany
on a wedding trip and when they re-
turned the former cashier remember
ed the eat and decided that it would
be an adornment to her home. So
Doring went to the restaurant and
carried the cat away. Brown prompt
~ had Doring arrested, but he was
discharged and the next day brought
suit against Brown for $4,000 for
false arrest. A jury awarded him $500
and the case goes to the appellate
division on an appeal by Brown.
Brown says he will carry the case
through all the courts in the land be-
fore he will pay the $500. In the
meantime the cat has disappeared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-19
He DID NOT KNOW.
Governor Pennypacker Unaware That
State Was Being Robbed.

Harrisburg Pa, Feb 19.-Former
Governor Pennypacker was an import
ant witness at the state capitol con-
spiracy trial yesterday afternoon. Mr.
Pennypacker. by virtue of his office as
governor, was president of the board
of grounds and buildings during the
equipment of the capitol. His colleagues
on the board were former Auditor Gen.
eral Snyder and former State Treasurer
Mathues. Its active officer was former
Superintendent Shumaker. The former
governor was called as a witness for
these three former state officers.
Mr.. Pennypacker said extraordinary
precautions had been taken to safe
guard the commonwealth in the pay
ment of bills by requiring the architect
and the superintendent of grounds and
buildings to certify to them. and the
contractor to make oath to their cor
rectness-
The former governor admitted under
cross-examination that he did not know
that 81, 069 600 had been paid by Snyder
and Mathues to Sanderson without the
approval of the board or that, on jan
uary 10, 1905, the date of the adoption
of the resolution by the board requiring
the architects certificate on bills, $2.-
900, 900 had been paid to Sanderson In
excess of Illusions estimate on the cost
of the furnishings
Mr.. Pennypacker said he had no rea-
son Tor LndL huston QlQ NOT 10
as fully as he could the work he was
called upon to do.
eff you are asking me for a judg-
ment," he said, II think it is great
achievement"
Asked how long his reliance upon the
architect continued, the answer was:
TT continues down to the present
time, until I am shown reason to the
contrary"
The commonwealth showed in the
REORGANIZATION of James H. Steven
son, Sanderson's bookkeeper, that bills
for furniture for the senate and house
amounting to over $600,000 We're made
out as so many feet in bulk and paid IN
the course of Sanderson's business, and
that several months afterward Steven
son, when ordered by Sanderson to
make out detailed bills, simply took tho
lump sum and "apportioned" it among
the articles. cleaning some Information
from blue prints and receiving the re-
mainder from Sanderson.
Stevenson had some feet left, and
he added that to the rostrums Of the
senate and house caucus rooms. Evil
dence was introduced by the defense
to show that, in spite of the approx
imately" system of billing the Sander
son furnishings, the state was the gain
er to the extent of $34s,277. on Sander
sons bill for furniture and that Sander
son could have collected $1,224, 292 in
stead of S376,066 for the furniture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-19
Victim of Poisoned Money.

New York, Feb. 19.-John Med.
Hopkirk is dead as the result of han
ding poisoned money Mr.. Hopkirk
was manager of Mills hotel No. 2
and from the money which he han
died he contracted malignant scarlet
ina. Mr.. Hopkirk acted as cashier of
the hotel in which cheap lodgings arc
given to the poor and in that capacity
handled hundreds of dirty, germ,
laden bills. The physicians say there
is no doubt that the disease was COM
municated by means of the dirty bills.
Mr.. Hopkirk was well known in char
table work throughout the city.