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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-01
FOR RENT.

/ Cosy residence near car line. Palolo
Heights, SIS per month: small farm.
with shack. Palolo Valley; loo acres or
more pineapple land.
FOR SALES shares McBryde; To-
year-old chestnut horse
w. L. HOWARD 3 Mcintyre Bldg.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-01
Furnished

Young Street, 2 bedrooms. =. $50. 90
Anapuni Street, 3 bedrooms. ..... $500
Pacific Heights. Z bedrooms. 49,. 5000
Nuuanu Avenue, 3 bedrooms. 5000
Manoa, bedrooms. .......... $500
Manoa Valley. 4 bedrooms. ...... 5000
Waikiki Beach, 4 bedrooms. 49,. 5000
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
Naval Officers Experts in Diplomacy

The story is that the Relief has been
burdened with woe ever since the
cruise began, and that every officer of
the navy, except the doctors, is
tickled to death that this is So The
line officers who didn't approve having
doctor as their commander have
found many ways, the story goes, of
making life miserable to the men in
charge of the hospital ship Of course
the suggestion of service conspiracy
to this end would be resented and
could not be proven, but there is a
sub rosa intimation that something
very like a cabal has been formed
with the purpose of proving how much
a doctor doesn't know about running
ship.
Wherever the feet has been the Re.
lief has usually limped along behind
the procession. She has had trouble
getting supplies, getting COAL getting
consideration of all kinds. 1t always
just happened this way and nobody
in particular was to blame. 1t is
hinted that when the fleet returns sug-
gestions will be made in many quar-
ters that the cruise has demonstrated
that nobody is competent to manage
a war vessel who is not an accredited
officer of the navy. In other words.
that the experience of the Relief, with
medical officer in command, has
been a hopeless failure.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
New Skyscraper to Be Six Stories Deep

When asked how he happened to
plan six stories underground, Mr.. Haz-
lett said:
"A man asked us how far we pro.
posed to carry the building down into
the ground and l told him about fifty
feet
IF you will carry it down as far
as you possibly can,' he said, 4 will
rent the space on a long lease
Il asked him what he wanted to use
it for and he said: I won't tell you,
but it will be for legitimate purpose
80 we planned for structure five
stories below water level, SO tenants
in the lower levels can't hang pictures
by driving holes through the walls"
With the improved methods of light
ing, ventilation, and heating, the un-
derground rooms will be just as
healthful as the thousands of offices
above ground when artificial light is
used during the day.
An extraordinary feature of the new
plans is that the engine and boiler
room will be on the third and fourth
floors. There will not be enough wood
in the building to make toothpick
There will be in 1t 5000 to 10000 tons
of steel. 100000 bricks, and nine
acres of rental area.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
Hope for Central America.

The international bFeau of central
American republics announces a COM
mendable purpose. 1t is proposed to
make uniform the civil, commercial
and criminal legislation of the five sig
natory republics, to establish uniform
customs anud monetary system, and to
work for the general development Of
commerce and industry. The success
Of the effort would be seriously doubt
ed were reliance placed upon the sta
bflity Of central American purpose
alone. But, says the Boston Herald,
back of this is the spirit of the inter-
national bureau of American republics,
and particularly the governments of
the United States and Mexico, each of
which is determined, for selfish as we'll
as unselt1sh interest, that constant tur-
MOL in central America shall be
checked. The five republics will be
given a chance to work out their own
salvation, and good government will
be assured the moral backing of larger
powers and more substantial support
II necessary
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
Twelve-Inch Limit for Dogs at St. Regis

til Mascord came rushing up behind
him excitedly, tape measure in hand,
and tactfully stretched the string so
his dogship would not be unduly Of
Tended
What do you think you're doing?"
demanded Mr.. TILES, Indignantly. my
dog has a pedigree and l don't pro-
pose"
Past the limit" snapped Mascord,
"and I guess you'll have to take that
collie elsewhere"
Nonsense" returned Mr.. TILES.
This dog is no lobster He has
stopped at the leading hotels in Eu-
rope"
No matter if it stopped at tho
White House." said Mascord, 1T
wouldn't have any more show of get
ting into this house than live teddy
bear-if it was over IL inches long"
Mr. TILES took the hint and led his
dog away reluctantly to the Fifty
third street institution.
When Mr.. Titles returned to the no.
tel a toy spaniel, wearing a rich coat
of purple material, skipped past him.
All" said Mr.. TILES, running up to
Mascord. You get out your tape
measure and apply it to that dog"
ALREADY did that" returned Mas
cord land his measure is just half an
inch under the limit"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18

Folly is a fertile plant and bears
fruit for long time. The French are
discovering the truth of this in the
decentralization of their navy. Mons
CASTOR Thomson, the minister of mar
inc, has resigned from the cabinet
after the chamber of deputies con.
demned his department because of the
explosion on the warship lena. in 1907.
when more than hundred officers and
men were killed. There have been
more than 80 explosions on French
warships within the past two years,
and the officers ond men are said to be
completely demoralized. The demor-
alization, however. did not begin under
the administration of Mons. Thomson,
but under that of his predecessor, who
issued regulations which destroyed
discipline on the ships. For the good
of all, the commander of a battleship,
even more than the commander of a
merchant vessel, must be an autocrat,
and any policy which undermines his
authority weakens the efficiency of the
ships crew.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
Woman's Education.


Just as certain college professors
and magazine writer's are we'll under
way in the work of proving that the
higher education Of women IL all
wrong and that the general system Of
female education is defective in that
it does not teach women how to be
good wives and mothers, along comes
; DR.. Lyman Abbott with the assertion
that it is not the proper object of edu:
cation to furnish woman with a Ian.
tern wherewith to aid her in q search
for husband. 1--WE have now got
wholly away" says DR.. Abbott, from
the idea that the object of a woman's
education is to make her a better or
nament for the parlor or a more capa-
bic hired servant. A woman should no
more be educated to be wife and
mother than man should be educated
to be a husband and father. She
should be educated to be a woman,
as a man is educated to be a man"
Evidently, remarks the Baltimore
American, the doctor does not count
the occasional professors and the mag.
azine writer's in when he says I'VE"
He means all the rest of the world.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
Increase in Divorce Is Shown

population was 81 in 1870 and 200 in
1890. This comparison" says the
bulletin, indicates that divorce is at
| present two and one-half times as
common, compared with married
population, as it was 40 years ago."
The Dakotas, which have a national
reputation as divorce states, prove. on
analysis of the tables, to be nowhere,
either in total number of divorces
granted or number of divorces per
100000 of population, as against other
| states.
In discussing the relation of divorce
| to population, the bulletin says: AN
increase of 80 per cent. in population
! between the years 1870 to 1880 was
| accompanied by an increase of 70 per
cent, in the number of divorces granted
In the next decade, 1880 to 1890, the
| population increased rs per cent. and
divorces 20 per cent, and in the fol-
lowing decade, 1890 to 1900, an in
crease of 21 per cent in population
was accompanied by an increase Of
&C per cent. in the number of divorces.
In the six years from 1900 to 1906,
population, as estimated, increased
10.5 per cent. and divorces 29.3 per
cent.
1T thus appears that at the end of
the 40-year period divorces were in
creasing about three times as fast as
population, while in the first decade
(1870 to 188O they increased only
about two and two-thirds as fast.
| Divorce rates appear to be much
higher in the United States than in
any Of the foreign countries for which
statistics relating to this subject have
been obtained"
| Two-thirds of the total number of
divorces granted in the 20-year period
covered by this investigation were
granted to the wife. Children were re-
ported in 1913 per cent. of the total
number of divorce cases.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18

A N interesting experiment is about
~ to be conducted in Washington. If
it meets with success it will be ex.
tended to other cities. In the course
of few days there will be opened at
one of the busiest points on Pennsyl-
vania avenue weather kiosk similar
to those now in use in Berlin and
other places in Germany. The object
of the agricultural department in
bringing about this innovation is to
supply meteorological information in
popular form. Behind the curtained
windows of the kiosk will be copies of
the daily weather charts, forecasts is.
sued by the weather bureau, maxi
mum thermometer and theronograph
for recording temperature and rair
gauge. There will be no barometer
for it is the wish of the department
that only meteorological facts in their
simplest form shall be shown.
Officials of the weather bureau be-
lieve there will be great public inter-
est in their new scheme. If their
hopes are realized similar kiosks will
be erected in about Is cities in the
course of the next five or six months.
Among other things expected of
these kiosks is that they will ruin the
regulations held by many cities Of tho
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18

W ASH1NGTON.-1t was generally
W known that divorces in the
United States were getting more
numerous each year, but nobody was
prepared for the surprising statement
made in census bureau report that
one marriage out of every twelve in
the country terminates in divorce.
Yet such is the case, as shown by the
bureaus figures
The statistics are the result of care.
full gathering of figures in every state
In the union, the period covered being
from 1887 to 1906. The last set OF
national statistics on marriage and
divorce covered the period from 1867
to 1886. The present set of statistics
taken in conjunction with the former
one, therefore, gives a view of the
marriage and divorce question for the
past 40 years.
The total number of marriages re-
corded for the 2O-year period from
1887 to 1906 was 12,S32,044. The total
number of divorces for the period was
945,625.
For the period of the first investiga
tion of the subject, from 1867 to 1886
the total number of divorces was 328,
ZIG. At the beginning of the 4O-year
period covered by both investigations
there were in this country 10000 di
vorces annually; at the end of the
period there were $4,000 annually.
The divorce rate per 100000 popula
tion increased from 20 in 1897 to 81
in 1905. The rate per 100, 900 married
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
Ethel Roosevelt Mourns Loss of Lemon

general lookout order was sent to
every district in the precinct, and by
nightfall there was not a dog on the
streets Of Washington. In the collec-
tion held for Identification was every
species of canine from a NANCY mastifl
to Aea-bitten fice, but none answered
to the name of Lemon.
Various motives, if dog may have
a motive, may be assigned to Lemons
abrupt departure from the Roosevelt
household. He might have had a
vision of a small bull pup swinging to
the port side of lion in the wilds Of
Africa, and his masters voice shout
ing ''sic 'em Lemon"
Again, he might have dreaded the
time when he would reach the proper
age to be harnessed to one Of Master
Arches carts, or be matched in a
main with the household cat, or wear
an empty can attached to his tail.
However, Lemons motive for running
away is purely speculative, for it is
not given In the police report, and his
mistress "can attribute no cause for
the rash act"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18

I PIERPONT MORGAN has paid ap-
Je proximately $4,000 for a rare Chi
nese rug. This price is the highest
ever reported paid for any rug sold in
the United States, and dealers through
out the city were amazed to hear of
such large transaction. 1t is be-
lievcd, although curators of the insti-
tuition declared they had heard of no
such gift, that the remarkable textile
will be given to the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art.
The museum only recently began to
acquire high-class rugs, and this splen-
did fabric would be the chief object
of the collection. It was purchased
from the Ames estate in Boston. This
floor covering is an imperial palace
rug and was made 900 years ago. 1t is
of soft texture and it's colors are i'm
perial yellow and blue. In the center
is a royal dragon, represented as de-
vouring the moon, the action symbolic
ing an eclipse of the orb of night. It's
size is 23x25 feet.
Chinese rugs have within the last
few years come into high favor with
collectors and are steadily enhancing
III price. One of the finest in the coun-
try was acquired five or six years ago
by Henry c. Frick for 5000, and the
price was considered low in view Of
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18

NEW YORK.-Mrs. William B. Leeds,
~ widow of the tinplate millionaire,
who inherited the bulk of his $3O,O0O,-
900 estate for life when he died in
Paris few months since, is reported
engaged to James DeWolf Cutting, the
society and club man of Newport, and
their friends look for an early mar
riage
1t Is said that, on account of the re-
cent death Of Mr.. Leeds, who lavished
so much money on his beautiful wife
and devoted his life to her, the we'd
ding will be strictly private and will
be announced to their friends by news
paper publication after the marriage
ceremony has been performed.
Since her return to this country,
Mrs. Leeds, who first gained fame by
her beauty, and by the fact that Mr.
Leeds paid $3,000,000 to claim her as
his wife, half the sum to his first wife
to grant him a divorce, and a like sum
to his bride in presents, has been al.
most constantly by Mr.. Cutting, one
OF Newport's most popular and social.
ly active bachelors.
1t is said by the friends of Mrs
Leeds that she has been quietly ar
ranging for her wedding ever since
her return from Europe. so that Nc
Cutting must have won her consent to
marry him shortly after her husbands s
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18

r HE strenuous life is not for Lemon,
l small bull pup, whose habitat.
until recently, was the White House.
Lemon noticed a door ajar the other
morning while roaming the White
House, looking for excitement, and has
not returned.
Though his name might not indicate
it, Lemon is puppy of class and
caste. But for all that he's dog and
the sight of his vagabond brothers
romping in the streets, lodging auto
mobiles and swapping at horses heels
disgusted the Lemon with being the
first dog in the land and he beat it.
Lemon is the property of Miss Ethel
Roosevelt, debutante elect, who report.
ed her loss to the police. Instanter a
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
TALK OF NEW YORK
Gossip of People and Events Told
i'm Interesting Manner.
Leeds Widow to WedA2ain, SaysRumdt

death. The match is looked upon al
an excellent one and Mrs. Leeds's in
come and great private fortune, given
her in cash and bonds by her husband,
will not be affected by her second mar
riage.
Mr.. Cutting has frequently been re-
ported engaged. The report was that
he had been engaged to Mrs. Ogden
Goelet. This he sadly denied, saying
that he only wished it were true, but
about Mrs. Leeds he has not been so
frank.
Mr.. Cutting is a nephew of Mrs. L.
Townsend Burden. He has been one
of the prime favorites in the exclusive
ly social set over which Mrs. Astor
presided during her lifetime.
Mrs. Leeds, whose life has been a
romance, is strikingly handsome
woman, and it is regarded as rather
curious coincidence that her husband
should have been largely interested in
railroad properties with which Mr..
Cutting was identified, although they
were strangers to each other.
AS Nancy May Stewart of Rich
mond, Ind, she was one of the most
beautiful girls in the Hoosier state.
Her first marriage was unfortunate,
and after her separation the courtship
of William B. Leeds, who also was di-
vorced, led to series of peculiar CON-
plications.
When his first wife divorced him
Mr.. Leeds settled $1,000,000 on her,
and after he married again the first
wife made it point to appear near
the second Mrs. Leeds and seek to
outshine her in jewels and gowns
Leeds died suddenly in the Hotel
Ritz Paris June 22 last
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
The Goodwill Habit,

A habit of holding kindly attitude
of mind toward everybody has a pow.
erful influence upon the character. 1t
lifts the mind above petty jealousies
and meannesses; it encircles and en-.
larges the whole life. When we meet
people, no matter If they are stran.
gers, we feel certain kinship with
and friendliness for them, if we have
formed the goodwill habit In other
words, says the New York Weekly, the
kindly habit, the goodwill habit
makes us feel more sympathy for
everybody. And if we radiate this
helpful, friendly feeling, others will
reflect it back to us. On the other
hand, If we go through life with a cold
selfish mental attitude, caring only for
our own, always looking for the main
chance, only thinking of what will fur.
ther our own interest, our own com
fort, totally Indifferent to others, this
attitude will, after while, harden the
feelings and the affections. and we
shall become dry, pessimistic and un-
interesting.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18

r. HE proposed 43 story building at so
Broadway marks the beginning of
the new movement in skyscraper con-
struction, for six stories will be under
ground, and they have already been
rented on long lease for total rent
al Of $1,O0O,O00.
1t will be constructed by the Broad
way and New York Realty Company
at cost of $3,s75 900, of white en-
ameled brick and terra Gotta, and will
be 536 feet six inches tall-the tallest
single, compact building in the city.
And in view of the probable action of
the city to limit the height of build
ings, it will, according to Mr.. Hazlett,
be the last of skyscrapers in New
York. The Singer and Metropolitan
buildings alone in the city tower high
er than will the proposed building, but
neither, said Mr.. Hazlett, is q compact
structure.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18


1889
estate about 700 the original Ae
daughter of Col Edmund Kirby of the United States
British
as of peers
peerage
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18

NJ HEN it comes to diplomatic
W maneuvering to accomplish their
designs the officers of the navy can
give pointers to the Russians and the
Japanese. AS an instance the case of
the hospital ship Relief may be cited.
1t will be remembered that last win
ter President Roosevelt made an or.
der that the Relief should be COM
manded by a medical officer The men
at the navy department were amazed
that a doctor should be given COM
mand of a vessel, but there was no
appeal from Mr.. Roosevelt's order.
The Relief was detailed to accompany
the feet on its trip around the world.
Letters from men who are with the
fleet have been received here telling
of the sad experiences of the hospital
ship and her commander. In describ-
ing these experiences one writer pref
aced his letter as follows: THE Re-
lief is the most unpopular institution
in the navy. There is no exception.
The Relief has everything else beaten"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
r WELVE inches of dog is the limit
Il at tho Ct Qouic

WELVE inches of dog is the limit
/ at the st. Regis
Too much dog in the past has
caused trouble in the big Fifth avenue
hostelry, which explains the presence
at dog hospital in Fifty-third street
of the fine collie of C. A. Titles of St.
Louis, while it's owner is a guest at
the St. Regis.
Not that the hotel management
doubted Mr.. TILES word when he told
them that his dog was not an ordinary
dog. Far be it. 1t was simply in COM
pliance with the new rule that the
TILES canine was subjected to the in
dignity of having a common tape
measure passed over it.
Hey! Where are you going with
that dog?' called Reception Clerk
Mascord as Mr. TILES, just arrived
from Europe, started up stairs to a
room he had engaged.
or course, Mr.. Titles did not pay
any attention to Mascord. He did not
know he was the person addressed un-
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
Pickinu up information.

An addition to the list of phraseo-
logical condolences has just been
made by speaker at the religious
congress now assembled in the Oxford
schools. For a competent student of
any great subject there was, said
Prof. Rhys David, no better way Of
clarifying and increasing knowledge
than writing a book about it. Some
thing like the same sentiment was ex-
pressed a little more cynically by the
late Bishop Creighton at q Dictionary
Of National Biography dinner. when.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
Mistaken,

In spite of the difficulties and dan.
gers that best them, they had ascend
ed one of the highest points in the
Alps.
He was very fat, and as he stood
painting and hopping his brow he
turned to his wife and said, with a
touch of true pathos in his voice:
See, Maria, how small one is in the
face of the immensity of nature"
Small, indeed!" replied his wife.
why, you're standing in front of me,
hiding the whole of Mont Blanc and
the best part of the Chamonix valley"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18

A rich man in Pittsburg shot himself
because, according to what he meant
for his ante-mortem statement, he had
too much money. There is small dan
ger of the same causes decimating
the community. The Millionaire and
the pauper have this complaint in
common-that they never have enough
money.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
AMERICAN is SCOTCH LORD

Having been confirmed by the committee on
privileges of the house of lords in his right as
the twelfth baron of Cameron, Albert Kirby Fair:
fax, native American, now officially bears the
title of Lord Fairfax of the Scotch peerage and
is entitled to all the privileges of peer in the
United Kingdom, excepting that these do not
include seat in the house of lords, distinction;
which, however, may be attained by him through
election as one Of the 16 delegates to the house
by the Scottish peerage for each parliamentary.
session.
The house of Fairfax dates back to 1927 It's
founder was one of the few mobiles who sided,
with Cromwell and he held chief command at;
Marston Moor. His son was general-in-chief Of
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
Weather Kiosk to Be Placed ON Street

United States, especially Washington,
for excessive summer heat, many rec
ords of this kind having been estab-
lished by inaccurate thermometers be-
ing hung outside stores and other
buildings not conducive to correct
readings.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18
Institute on Wheels.

A full-f1edged farmers institute on
wheels is attracting the attention of
agriculturists in Pennsylvania. 1t is
a train of three cars run by the Penn
sylvania railroad in connection with
the school of agriculture and expert
ment station of the PENNSYLVANIA
State college. A corps of trained in
structors and agricultural experts ac-
companies the train and lectures on
various topics that will aid farmers in
making their lands more profitable
are given at many points on the line.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18

An army officer in Washington was
convicted Of disorderly conduct on a
street car, the evidence showing that
1t took five policemen to carry the BEL
ligerant officer to the hospital. The SEN
tence of dismissal was commuted, and
with reason, for a fighter like that
would be great loss in time of active
service.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-12-18

ever" he declared, II have found N.Y.
self especially ignorant of any sub
ject, have always tried to get CON-
mission for an article on it, and in this
way have picked up a good deal Of
useful information."- Westminster Ca
Zette