The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-18
MUNICIPALITIES.

Frederick H. Weyerhaeuser, the lum-
Der king, is German and came to this
country in 1852.
James l.. Davenport, who has been
appointed commissioner of pensions,
succeeding Vespasian Warner, has been
/ in the pension Office twenty eight years.
Hetty Rowland Robinson Green, who
has conserved the large fortune left her
by her first husband, who died in 1865,
is seventyfour years old. She is her
own financial manager.
George William Pyrkes, a copper
smith of Hatton Garden, London, is a
direct descendant of Robert Burns. His
mother was Anne Burns, the only
daughter of the Scottish poet.
! Prime Minister Zahle of Denmark
violates all court traditions by going
/ to royal reception wearing black
! SLOUGH hat His wife still retains her
| place as a stenographer in the Danish
Parliament
Edward Louis Neel has been in
charge of the lights at the French
| operahouse in New Orleans since the
| theater was opened in 1859. During
the fifty years of his service he has
| seen gas give way to electricity, and
| installation of hundred ingenious de.
| vices in the system which was very
| simple at first.
Robert L. Mccormick, president of
the largest bank in Tacoma, the biggest
/, individual stakeholder in a great lum-
F! Der company in the State of Washing
| ton, and Republican national commit
J - las
! Mr.. Mccormick, who is sixty-eight
I years old, prides himself on being a
| self-made man who never has worn a
neektie.
Mr.. William Watson, the English
! poet who has attracted to himself the
attention of the world by his poem,
HThe Woman with the Serpent s
Tongue" has been a prolific writer
since 1880, when he published "The
Prince s Quest Some years ago he
! went into retirement as result, it was
commonly said, of a mental collapse,
which may go a long way to explain his
present eccentricity.
Prof T. Jonnesco, the eminent
surgeon of Bucharest, Roumania, who
discovered the new anesthetie, stow
aine and strychnine, is visiting Amer
lea and will lecture before medical as
s0ciations. His discovery may be used
in operations ordinarily painful to pre-
vent any suffering, and the patient is
conscious throughout. The anesthesia
is said to be without after effect, yet
it is not as yet fully approved by Doc
tor Jonnesco' fellow practitioners.
Mrs. Jeanette Ryder, an American
woman who has been doing humane
work in Cuba for the last ten years,
is said to have done more to suppress
bull and cock fighting on the island
than any other one person. For this
purpose several years ago She organized
a band of mercy with a membership
composed chiefly of young men and
women who believe in training the
youth of the country to look with alb
horrence on institutions tending to low
er the moral standard.
Mrs. Mary Wood Simons is the first
| woman to win the Harris prize in econ
Omics at the Northwestern University.
| The prize is given for the best thesis
| of not less than 10000 words on any
| economic subject requiring original in
| vestlgation. Mrs Simons s thesis was
| 10000 words in length and was en-
titled ''History of Economic Thought
in Relation to Industrial Conditions in
| the United States from 100 to 1914. -
The judges were the professors of
economics of the universities of Miehi-
/ gan, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Chief Justice William J. Mills of the
| supreme court of New Mexico has been
! appointed governor Of the Territory by
President Taft. For upward of twenty
years Justice Mills has been resident
of New Mexico, so that this appointment
| is said to be in the strictest sense a local
one. The new governor s family came
| originally from New Haven, Connect
cut, and the new appointee is a grad
uate of Yale University of the class
of ~. Mr.. Mills was appointed chief
iustice of the Territory in 1898 by Pres
ident Mckinley and has served con-
tinuously in that position since that
! time.