The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-09

Int = uue weddings anu ING NdIlouS{
entertainments for the brides elect of
the traditional season of marriages are
of absorbing interest to society these j.
days. The wedding of Miss Bertha Ell
dredge Smith and Captain George Bige-
low Pillsbury, U.S.A., will be an event
of midsummer and the date is announc
ed for June % at noon in St. Luke s
church. The details are under consider
alton and viii be made known within
a few days. The bride will be attended
by her sister, Mrs. Philip Van Horne
Lansdale as ma ron of honor, but further
than this selection the bridal party has
not been chosen. Captain Piilsbury is /
still in New York, but will arrive in |
this city some time next month.-Cal, !!
May 81.
Miss Peggy Simpson. the pretty |
faneee of Lieutenant Harold Naylor, |
is to be the feted guest at tea to
be given next week by Mrs. Sterling
Postley Adams at the Preside. A |
series of pleasant affairs will be given
for this bride-elect before her departure
for the Yosemite. where she will pass
several weeks of the season. She will
be accompanied on the trip by her
father, Colonel Simpson.-Call, May p.
Promotions in the Army.
WASHINGTON. May 23.-The Presi
dent yesterday directed the appoint
ment of Colonel Richard T. Yeatman,
commanding the Eleventh Infantry at
Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., as brigadier-
general, Vice General Kerr, retired.
Colonel Yeatman viii be retired on his
own application Immediately after he
receives his brigadier commission and
Colonel Marion P Maus, commanding
the Twentieth Infantry at the Preside
of San Francisco, will then be made
a brigadier- general. The nominations
of these officers probably VIII 60 to
the Senate on Monday.
New Sheridan Q. M.
Captain Henry L. Kinnison, @. NJ,
| has been relieved from duty in the
| Philippines and is now en- route to San
L
quartermaster and acting commissary
| of the transport Sheridan TO take effect
on July II relieving Captain Campbell
Babcoek as quartermaster.
Deserter mvents Missile.
NEW YORK, May 22.-Zaeeheus
Favor, former private in the Coast Ar
tillery Corps, United States Army, now
serving a sentence of two years in
Castle William on Governors Island for
desertion, is about to apply for patent
for a death-dealing missile. which he
and his friends in the prison, as well
as firm of New York lawyers, who
| have agreed to exploit it, declare to be
the most destructive engine of warfare
ever invented.
] While refusing to give any technical
details of his deadly device, Favor de-
seribes it in general as flying cleo
| trical torpedo that explodes twice, once
when it strikes the object against which
it is fred, and a second time after it
/ has entered the object that is to be de-
stroyed.
Il He admitted that he had enlisted in
the army to learn all about torpedoes
After he had gained what he considered
a thorough knowledge of them he de-
cided it was time to quit the army and
sell his invention. He did quit, but
the government caught him, and he was
court -martialed and sentenced to Castle
William
The imprisoned inventor said yester
day that he had been indirectly ap-
preached by foreign government, but
that he had declined to enter into nego
tiations for the present.
"Though | am a prisoner sent here
by the government of my country,
am still patriotic enough to want my
native land to have the first chance al
this torpedo, he said.
Il "What do you shoot the thing
from?" Favor was asked.
"Ah,'' he answered, F'there is the
secret of the whole thing. 1t is sho'
from nothing at all. There are nj
tubes, such as are used in firing the
Whiteheads.
sit is like a great electrical bird
and it scars through the air. 1t can b.
fred from anywhere. and is just as eff
| | fective for land defense as for sending
warships to the bottom of the sea.
| "Speaking of warships, one wei
| placed projectile that can be fred from
| a distance of ten miles, If it strikes th'
ship. will send the ship and all the mel
| in her to the bottom. This torpedo O
mine is double exploding affair. Tha
is, it explodes first to effect an en-
| trance into the ship or fortifcation, am
once inside it goes off again to 6nisl
the job.
Would Kill Whole Regiment.
"Suppose you fred one of them at ;
regiment of soldiers, what would hap
pen to the soldiers?" Favor was asked
sit would kill every blessed one o
II 'em. - answered Favor.
II ''Would anything be left for the sec
ond explosion?'
: NO, that would just scatter ahou
: what was left added the inventor
sESuDDase Won set one off in the celia