The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-23
ORhTORy AND
WIT HOLD SWAY
Bar Association Dinner Is Gala
Event For Honolulu
Lawyers.

guest of honor at the annual dinner
of the Hawaiian Bar Association at
the Young Hotel Saturday evening,
was the last speaker of the evening.
His speech followed a number of toasts
nv eminent members of the bench and
bar. Among those present were Unit
ed States District Attorney R. ".
Breckons, POSTMASTER; Judge Sanford
B. Dole, Justice A. Perry, W. o. Smith,
Judge Andrade, Deputy Attorney
General Lorrin Andrews, Assistant U.
s. District Attorney W. T. Rawlins,
former Judge c. F. Peterson, Judge
j. T. De Bolt, Judge Robinson, Judge
Lindsay, c. E. Olson, Robbins Ander-
son, E. NJ Watson, L. Warren, George
A. Davis.
The paper prepared by Thomas
Fitch, who left for San Francisco,
during the week, was read by f. E.
Thompson The paper, entitled "By
and By, follows:
Be it remembered that in the year
1910 Doctor Sempre Nivas, Spanish
physician, discovered the germ that
destroys the old age bacilli, and that,
barring accidents, prolongs human life
for a period of two hundred years.
/ took a dose of this specific along
with other distinguished and undis-
tinguished Honolulans, and as con
sequence / am here tonight, to join
with you in celebrating the fftieth
anniversary of Judge Woodruff to the
Federal bench here.
Those fifty years have been filed
with marvellous achievement in every
field of human effort, few of which
achievements | will recall.
The cause of the new explosive
potentite-w which has fifty times the
power of the dynamite we were ae
customed formerly to use, has COM
bined with aerial and submarine navi-
cation, put an end to war between ma
tions.
The government electric range find
er, the disappearing potentite gun and
the heat generator and wireless motor
though it has not been used since it
sunk or burned up the Chinese fleet
thirty years ago. The search light
has a sweep of twenty miles and with
the telescope attachment any vessel
from a. fishing boat to battleship
may be discovered within its radius
at any time night or day. The ocean
for twenty miles out is mapped and
numbered into sections five hundred
feet square. If an enemy is discover
ed the officer in charge by means of
the range finder ascertains the exact
position of the foe. Then the big gun
is run out of the tunnel where it is
kept to protect it, its muzzle is ele-
waited and at the word of command
the gunner sights it according to the
diagram and throws five hundred
pound shell of potentite into square
number twenty seven, and whatever
vessel is in that square is blown up
and sunk. Or maybe instead of a
shell column of air heated by cleo
trieity TO a temperature of 500 de
grees is sent by wireless telegraphy
into square number twenty-seven and
the vessel is melted and sunk in the
boiling ocean.
Nowhere has there been greater i'm
provement than in these islands, In
1910 ] collected the sake money, and
invested my share in Honolulu real
estate. The income has enabled me
to crafty propensity for travelling
and now in the pride of my youthful
manhood, in my one hundredth and
tenth year 1 am making my twenty
third permanent settlement in Homo
lulu.
find the city greatly changed. The
surrounding hills are cultivated to their
SUBMITS. Insect pests have disappear
ed. The farmers imported Australian
beetles to eat up the potato bugs, and
Philippine sesquipedalian wasps to eat
up the beetles, and China sparrows to
eat up the wasps and East Indian fer
rets to eat up the sparrows. The pres
ent problem is TO get rid of the fer
rets. 1t is proposed to lure them to
the seashore at Waikiki and read to
them a speech of Jack Atkinson that
viii cause them to take to the water
with view of swimming back to
India.
Our benefcent inventions have
brought wealth and happiness to the
people. Our hills are now forests of
hardwood eucalyptus. The lantana of
the valleys is manufactured into pa
per, and the farmer whose crop is
troubled with bugs uses patent horse
power sucking machine and clears an
acre in an hour.
There have been great improvements
in stock breeding. The gurgaseutus
mules on Sam Parker's ranch, with
long legs on one side and two
short legs on the other side, have
solved the problem of blowing steep
side hills.
Condensed food tablets enable one
to carry a dinner of seven courses for
week in a pill box, with no dishes
70 wash and no tip hunting walters
to affliet one.
Education has been simplifed. We
simply place one and of the wire in
the arithmetic and the other end ii
the students ear and turn the crank
and make mathematiciap of him in
one day.
The new electrical eastigator ha:
proved of immense benefit in the in
FAINT schools. They save time and the