The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-24

tract is advancing in manner which
is distinctly pleasing to the Govern
ment officials and the progress which
has been made under the new contract
is such that it looks as if the work
would be completed even before the
time specified. Within month it is
expected that the sluicing on the Wal
kiki side. of the valley will commence
and will proceed with such rapidity
that hundreds of yards Of material per
day will be brought down for the big
structure. y
The basin behind the dam is at pres
ent supplying water for the use of the
city and after next Monday, when the
famous lockbar pipe will be in use, the
water for the city and also for power
for the municipal lighting plant will
come from the new Nuuanu structure.
place at that time and the water Will
probably be turned on by Acting-G Gov
ernor Mott-Smith.
For sluicing the water will be raised
from the present basin, by two six
inch centrifugal pumps, to level OF
one hundred and fifty feet Here It is
handled by a second set of pumps
which will deliver the stream to a
monitor, which, with a nozzle three
and three-eighths inches in diameter,
will throw a stream over one hundred
and fifty feet. These pumps will fur
| -
ond and the stream, when directed at
boulder weighing over a hundred
pounds, will toss it around like a toy.
This stream of water with the sluic-
ed material will then flow through a
| large flume, over 5000 feet in length,
to the dam where it will be distribut-
ed by laterals from three fumes OF
varying heights. The first of these will
be about twenty feet above the present
water level, the next about twenty feet
higher and the third about thirty-five
feet above that
Sluicing on a small scale is now go
NA4.,A q - 80. 4.rA,AA-a,4Srn4 >~~4~s~s-%<Db-
army scarcely $4,000 of mobile army
are stationed in the United States. In
case of the most urgent emergency 1t
would require fully two weeks to mo-
bilize 5000 soldiers for shipment to
Venezuela. Difficulty would be found
obtaining sufficient transports to con
, vey these.
The will of the late Benjamin Whit
man, long a newspaper editor of Erie
Pa, who died several weeks ago in thu
City of Mexico, provides that the pub
lie library shall receive magnihcen
oil painting to be painted by an Am
erican artist. Requests of $1,000 eacf
are made to the Home for the Friend
less and St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum
> and a fund is created for newspaper
, workers and members of Erie Typo
! graphical Union who may require care
: at either the Hanoi Hospital or st
) Vincents Hospital.
No services could be held in the Re
formed Church at Petersville, Pa, a re
4 cent Sunday, because the congregation
= having gone into oil prospecting
. struck a gusher the night before OF
- the church lot, so feet from the build
5 ing. The flow came in so strong tina
4 a large force had to be kept at worl
- to care for the oil The lucky strike /
$ godsend to the struggling congrega
= ton, which is in debt for it's propert.
/ and owes it's pastor back salary.
e On leaving the White House April
Herman Ridder, president of the Am
S erican Newspaper Publishers Associa
- ton reiterated his former declaration
= that President Roosevelt and William
a ]. Bryan will be the opposing condi
dates in the coming presidential cam
= paign. If Secretary Taft was not nom
s mated on the first ballot, Mr.. Riddle
e said. the convention would be stamped
4 ed for Roosevelt. He did not look TO
:, Taft to have a majority on the tirs
d ballot. Equally assured was he tina
n Roosevelt would defeat Bryan.
For relieving the congestion of stree
" traffic in Berlin, the German postf
It authorities put forth a project for a
e underground postal railway. 1t is pre-
e posed to connect the general postoftic
t, with the various branch Offices at tn
n railway termini by an undergroun
e railway, by which letter bags will /
l. whisked to and from the mail trains
= % miles an hour. The tunnel to
D, placed close beneath the road surfaC
ID is to be only 29.5 inches in height b
l. II inches in width. Each truck or ca
lie is intended for the conveyance of
ID large-sized mail bag. The compleI
rs train will be composed Of dwarf ele
,e trio locomotive and not more than fol-
trucks. The line will be double tracl
n ed throughout.
a. Seems as though Count Szechen
al might have had a sort Of fellow fee
e, ing for the beggars of Hungary.
Mt Bidden to cease shooting peopl
l. Haiti's President cuts of their hear
IN now, not having grasped fully the spi
lg it Of the Jaw.
mt tom Watson walks away with