The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-07-22
Street CARS FOR
HAWAII CAPITAL
HiIO Business Men viii Ask for
Charter to Lay Rails for a
Trolley System.
tMaii Special to The Advertiser.)

(Mail Special to The Advertiser.)
It is tolerably certain that certain
business men of Hilo viii endeavor to
secure franchise from the next legisla-
ture authorizing the construction Of a
street railway to run from waiakea
along Front street and up Waianuenue,
with tracks across other streets to Sc
cure the patronage of school children.
Such line would pay from the start,
if the success of Che twenty or more
japanese buses that ply for passenger
traffic is any criterion.
Celery Crop Bnghted.
Anton Walton, the well.known noun
tain gardener, who furnishes Hilo with
vegetables and Honolulu with celery,
is deploring the loss of this year IS
celery crop. Some blight or disease has
struck it, not only at waltjen's kitchen
garden, but also at the Volcano House
and other places on Hawaii. The same
trouble has also affected the California
celery crops. Waltjen has tried rene.
dies in large and small quantities, but
to no avail. The effect of the disease
is to check the growth Of the plant and
prevent its bleaching, the stalks as
served being stunted and only about
five or six inches long.
Charlie Mcguire, county auditor of
Hawaii; Mrs. Mcguire and Miss Woods
of Kohala started from Hilo last week
on a trip to Kau and Kona, and ex-
pected to return ON Wednesday of this
week.
Meet Federal Requirements.
A resolution will be introduced at the
next meeting of the Hawaii supervisors
asking for an appropriation to build a
road through the federal site in Hilo,
this being one of the conditions on
which the 100000 building appropria-
ton was passed by congress. The super
visors viii do their part to get the
money spent
Politics on the Big Island simmer
quietly in caucuses. The merits and
dement's of probable candidates are dis
cussed and plans made for controlling
the party conventions Secrecy is the
order, as leaks are not wanted.
Honolulu's former favorite caterer,
smile because of the patronage ac.
was so crowded that men were glad to
get cots on the upper lanai.
Big Island Notes.
Mr. and Mrs. w. J. Lowrey and Ed
Paris are Honolulu's business repre-
sentatives at the Volcano House. The
latter is making ten days visit. Mrs.
George Lycurgus, with her two children
and maid, is also there.
Miss Edna Curtiss and Miss Hazel
auckland visited Hilo at the end of
last week, coming down from Kurtis-
Vile.
Colonel Schuyler and his nephew,
George Schaeffer, visited Sam Johnson
at his Puma lumber camp, Col. Sam and
Mrs. johnson autoing to the Volcapo
House early on Sunday morning and
footing them over to the ohia tie fac
tory. They will return by Kau and
Kona, probably visiting the Parker
ranch to inspect some horses.
Frank S. Dodge, secretary of the
Bishop Estate, is at the Volcano House
with Mrs. Dodge.
Japanese laborers and their families
are frequent visitors to the volcano of
Halemaumau, nearly three dozen men,
women and children tramping across
the lava last Sunday,
Hilo business men auto to the volcano
and back on Sundays, making a days
outing and picnicking with their fami-
lies. Last Sunday Attorney Carl Smith,
Banker Harry Patten and H. G.. Wears
took the mountain trip with their fami-
lies.