The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-06
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| ing at door. The police seem to be
| aroused to sense of utmost danger
arising from this source and are now
| busy studying proper measures Of ade-
quate control over the dangerous stores.
| 1t is stated that the number of houses
engaged in manufacturing guns and am
munitiOn in Osaka is about twenty
three.
Airships in Japan.
It is common belief today that great
wars of the future will be waged in
the air rather than on land and sea;
and every Power seems intent upon
| the invention and construe ion of really
efficient aeroplanes for warlike pur-
poses. We are therefore exceedingly
gTatified to learn that a new and nearly
perfect specimen of the aeroplane has
| recently been invented, finished and pa
tented by Mr.. Isaburo Yamada, whose
| name is not unfamiliar to us on account
of his already meritorious services in
connection with the aeroplane. The
necessity of possessing truly efficient
aeroplanes for fighting purposes was
realized in Japan during the China
Japan war, and it was at this time
that Major General Furukawa entrusted
Mr.. Yamada with part of the work in
connection with the building of airships
for the peculiar use of the japanese
army. Mr.. Yamada steadily and dill
gently fought his way in discharging
the important commission entrusted to
him. His long and painstaking en-
deavors were finally crowned with vie
tory which was, as the world knows,
amply turned to account in the late
Manchurian campaign. Particularly in
the battles of Port Arthur Mr.. va
mada's aeroplane rendered invaluable
services In accommodating work; but he
was by no means satisfied with the re-
suit won, nor was his airship such as
might be called perfect. He doubled
his energy and faithfully kept on work
ing at the airship, till at length he has
succeeded in innovating a type of aero
plane which may, without fattery, be
well termed as the nearest approach to
perfection The "Safe and free air
ship is the name by which his latest
production has been patented Though
the particulars of the new vessel have
not as yet been published its most prom
/ inent features are said to be remark
able freedom and safety with which it
can maneuver in the air. Along with
this splendid invention Mr. Yamada has
turned out what he calls an airship de-
stroyer, which though comparatively
| small in size is so swift in motion, that
it serves in the air duty similar to
that of the torpedo boat on the sea.
The Reception of Ijich1.
Japan Times.-The reports now being
| received of the very hearty and cour-
teous reception accorded to our EXPOSE
| ton Commissioners in American and
also of the exceedingly warm and en-
| thusiastie welcome which our training
squadron under Vice Admiral Iiuin has
met at Hawaii, cannot but be most
gratifying to the public here. The Con
sui General at Honolulu, Mr.. Uyeno,
has telegraphed that the hospitality ex-
| tended to the squadron was most sincere
and the functions got up in it's honor
very elaborate, even to the length that
the Hawaiian Legislature in the name
of the whole community, presented to
| Admiral Ijichi a written address of well
| come couched in terms of utmost cor
| diality and esteem Mr. Uyeno adds
that the event did not fail to have great
effect i'll intensifying the friendship of
local Americans and japanese. On the
other hand, not a whit less significant
appears the manner in which the Ex-
position Commissioners are being enter
! tanned at the continental cities of Amer
| lea. At New York they were ovated
as one despatch put it, and at Washing
ton they were received with every mark
of distinction by President Taft and
| downwards. By this time they are
| probably in Chicago, where another de-
monstration of goodwill is expected for
them.
All this display of friendship is no
doubt intended to be in return for what
we did to the various bodies of Amer
| lean visitors on these shores last year.
But we must not see in it all a mere
matter of formal courtesy. Nor did we
hope for a moment to be just thought
nice and polite when we received those
Americans last year; it was our wish
then, that in everything we did and
| said the Americans should read the
value we attach to our friendship with
their great country and our desire to
promote to all possible extent the trade
and other relations of the two countries
in peace and prosperity to the benefit
of both. And we do not think we are