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

The battleship Mississippi will still
be of $4,000 tons displacement and
have four 12-inch guns and maximum
speed of II knots, after having received
from the State of Mississippi the much
advertised silver service that bears in
relief the portrait of Jefferson Davis.
No harm win be done to the fleet.
During the recent bitter weather in
Colorado and other states of the West
which are large growers of fruit, men,
women and children were busy for two
nights in the orchards using every heat
ing device to protect the tender buds.
1t is said that 80 per cent of the crop
in Colorado has been saved by this
method.
The government at Washington is
also noticing the great increase in the
price of rubber. Its yearly bill for
rubber bands used in tying up papers
is now about $250,000, which is said
TO be five times what it was 10 years
ago. The postoff1ce department is ask
ing stationery supply houses to submit
samples of substitutes which NAV be
used instead.
Paris is much excited, but there will
be far more nervousness in the New
York clubs this week. King Edward,
who is at the French capital incognito.
has taken to having his trousers creased
down the sides instead of in the front
and back, and now every man who is
supposed to be in the height of fashion
will have to do the same thing.
Prominent Cincinnati business men
have started a movement for such a
change in summer hours of work as
is being agitated in England They pro-
pose that the workday from May / to
October l begin two hours earlier than
for the rest of the year, and end two
hours earlier-thus giving over a good
part of the afternoon to outdoor rest
and recreation.
Senator Root is engaging in prae-
teal forestry on his country estate in
Clinton, n. Y, where nearly 10000
young trees are being planted in rows
six feet apart. 1t is interesting to note
the kinds he plants. One account says
there are in the Lot 16,400 white pine,
1920 Norway spruce, which were
shipped from Germany, 5000 red pine,
5000 red oak. 5000 black locust, 5000
chestnut and 5000 Eastwood.
Miss Ada Rehan was such delight
ha A or Is-ha in
prime, in the great days of Augustin
DAILY, that her present state of health
is shocking to those who have been I'M
familiar with her breakdown. She was
so feeble when going aboard the steam
er for England Saturday that servants
had to help her up the gangplank. Miss
Rehan has heart disease. She hopes
much from her summer to be. spent at
her north England country place.
The carriage and cabdrivers of Chi
eago are to begin strike this week,
and among the instructions sent out by
| the leaders is one that the strikers
must not modest funerals employing
''scab' drivers This may be reassur
ing to many people there, for it is
remembered that at the last strike of
| the union drivers, funeral professions
were broken up But then strikers do
not always follow the published injunc-
tions of their leaders.
The Yakima district in Washington is
rapidly becoming the most famous APP
pie orchard in the world. This spring
hundreds of men are busy in the valley
| Ia L
| ing up new land for orchards. So much
planting is being done that labor has
| become scarce. The beekeepers Of the
section report that the prospects for a
big honey crop are excellent, and that
the bees are now harvesting the crop
from the blossoms on the fruit trees.
John Bigelow, who will be 90 years
old next November, has returned from
a sixweeks' Atlantic voyage and So
| iourn in France, feeling in fine fettle.
| He went over with his daughter, who
was not feeling well. ''Of course he
| said, ~ got out bit while in Paris;
but as a rule | kept close to my apart
ments, working on my portfolio. +" The
captain of the liner La Provence in
sisted on taking the veterans arm as
he walked ashore, though Mr.. Bigelow
really did not need any help.
On the west slope of the Cascade
mountains a giant red fir was recently
blown across the tracks of the North
ern Pacific railroad Traffic was block
ed by the monster log, which measured
eight feet in diameter. There was no
saw within miles that was big enough
to cut the timber, and as the railroad
company could not wait the five days
required to saw section from the
huge log, dynamite was placed in deep
lly bored holes and the aged tree blown
to splinters. 1t was easier to repair 10