The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-10
cWELTERER
FROM SOUTH
warm Wave and a Warmer Wet
WIIted HonoIuIans Yesterday
Rain Does Good.

All day Yesterday -Aera were others
besides politicians Who looked toward
he heavens anu declared -ha, there
would he rain. los of ran. before IN
"a. ghc was over.
L may appear inappropriate thai
politicians should look toward heaven.
but they nevertheless di8. and even
Mayor Fern said There VII be ? d.
ose tonight" though whether he was
talking from political 81 from q
meteorological standpoint would be
hard TO ascertain.
Heavy Sweaty. perspirinr indigo
clouds hung over the city all dav YES.
rerday. until about FIVE o clock in the
| afternoon when they changed their
Watery minds about hanging longer and
! began TO leak.
II ralned heavy and hard for about
an hour. chasing the corner groups OF
/ politicians into restaurants ana other
places and Fastening home he Iadv
shoppers ana those who had no desire
/ To remain out IN the wet. OF course
conveatlonisJs. those who had duties 10
perform, according TO their lights in
the Republican party. had to STAY out.
The wind blew from the south and
from the southwest. chiefly from the
former. and the wise one- on the water
front declared that a true kona was
| in progress.
The waters of the harbor were ruffled
and the tempers of the Republican con
ventionists up town were still more
ruffled
On the metal roof of the New Or
| pheum Theater where the Republicans
were holding their county and district
convention there was the noise of the
rain keeping time to the eIoquence of
the argufers.
About the dinner hour the electric
lights in many Of the Offices and stores
on King street went ont on account Of
an accident due to the weather, to a
! connection at the mauka- Waikiki cor
ner Of Bethel and King streets. but
within ten minutes the electric c/t-
panv had remediad the defect and once
again the incandeseeuts and the big
arcs shown forth gloriouslv
The big British steamship Grevstoke
! Castle. away from Antwerp. which ar
rived in port a little before six last
evening. was indeed grateful for the
fact that she had entered port before
the storm broke
Along Waikiki and Kalihi beaches
| the breakers roarei. and il must have
been "'tough'' last night indeed for
small craft al sea. such as Japanese
! fishing sampanS.
After seven o'clock in the evening
the rain was almost incessau- and there
was a GOODNESS. as compared with the
DAYS insuferabe heat, following the
break of the overchargea clouds.
Whatever the scientific instruments
NAV record. the fact remains that the
EXPRESSION Of public opinion in regard
IN vas+erdav's heat was unusual. II
NAV have been observed by close watch.
ars Of things natural. normal and usual
that Yesterday was not according &c
schedule. or was out Of season. extra
] ordinary or unexpected and unanrlelp
lated As each observer likes II put o.
EXPRESS it. ana that there was more
kicking and knocking against th'
weather than has occurred for many
dav.
/ Men who take their coldwater show
ers every morning went home a an uh
insuaI!v early hour 70 take an addltloha
shower. Heavy drinkers cut out tn
.thard-stuff' and took 81 baths, - to
vii; claret. lemonades ana soda -sours
BARRIERS ala a rushing business wit
the hand and machine messages. Haci
) horses ran less energeticallv and ever
ohanffaurs were less inclined to speed
for speeding takes more nerve an
therefore more Precipitation than goln!
~ Iaisurplv rate. Stenographers an'
other Office gods and goddesses sent gu
for ice cream and there was more thar
onn noIitieian who changed his cola
before convention.