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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04
PRIZES OFFERED TO CHILDREN OF
WASHINGTON FOR CATCHING FLIES

The Washington Star of July 20 has
the following:
Hundreds of Washington children
today are busy mapping out lines OF
battle and arranging various cam
paign details preparatory to the big
war on flies which they are going to
start in the capital bright and early
next Monday morning.
The word has gone out that the fly
must go and Washington youth have
determined that the capital shall be a
nyless city.
Following the announcement yester-
day of the Stars "Swat-the-fy" con-
test in which prizes aggregating 500
are to be awarded, the inventive gen.
ius of the youth of the city is turning
itself loose with the object of making
It impossible for single fly to sur
vive the great campaign
Homemade traps and other devices
for putting the fly out of business are
being designed and manufactured in
almost limitless number. Experiment
tation with bait is being made on a
large scale. In fact, the whole ques-
ton of fly determination is being gone
into and the result promises to be the
doom of the fly family in Washington
4 ann 1 iet Of 3 ,fPan te
Inquiries received at the office OF
the Star today concerning further de-
tails of the contest indicate that DR.
Murray and his associates at the
health department will have theil
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04
ST, LOUIS COLLEGE SENDING
APPEAL FOR BUILDING FUND

The following appeal for st. Louis
College is being sent to prominent
citizens:
an the Name of Education, Greet
ing: St. Louis College, in its more
than a quarter of a century's growth,
has become one of the indispensable
educational institutions of Honolulu.
! BY the sound instruction in mowl-
edge and manners it has impaired, to-
gether with the wholesome discipline
maintained, hundreds of boys OF Ha-
waiian and foreign birth have become
men of usefulness in this community.
Former students of st. Louis are
found throughout the Territory of Ha-
wall occupying public and private sit
uations with credit both to them
selves and the institution
"St. Louis College, with other pri-
vate seminaries, has shared very
large par of the burden of educating
the youth of these islands with the
public school system. Indeed, those
who realize how difficult the govern
ment problem of revenue for schools
has been must wonder how, at any
time for decades past, the educational
authorities could adequately have
mastered it were it not for the relief
the private institutions afforded. 1t
may therefore be recognized that st..
Louis College has saved money as
well as men to the community at
large.
within the past two years St
Louis College has entered upon an
enlarged phase of value. This is
through the addition of a science de-
partment and the affiliation of the
seminary with the College of Hawaii.
It's graduates are admitted upon their
diplomas to the Territorial institu-
ton. Three were thus admitted last
year, and a like quota will be this
year.
est Louis had an average attend
ance of $40 students of all grades last
year. The college has out-grown it's
accommodation and equipment. Be-
ling without endowment or financial
patronage other than moderate fees.
its conductors are constrained to APP
peal to the generous public for funds
to verect and furnish a new building.
st. Louis College Alumni Association
engages to raise, among it's members,
at least one-sixth of the amount re-
Iquired.
"a building to cost with equipment
twelve thousand dollars ($12,OOO) is
what the director and faculty desire
to have erected. The details are of
the description following:
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04
BUREAU OF Immigration" IS
ALSO STATISTICAL BUREAU

If you have a penchant for Stats
tical information you will soon be
able to satisfy your thirst in this di.
rection concerning things Hawaiian,
through the work of the new Depart
ment of Labor, immigration and Sta.
tictis, often improperly dubbed the
Bureau of immigration"
The truth is that this department
stands for a good deal more than sim
ply the bringing in of various kinds
of foreign laborers to involve the al
ready badly mixed local race prob
lens. 1t will be in the lead in the
work of trying to establish the ideal
American small farmer in Hawaii,
and already is working to that end
along the lines suggested by s. T,
Starrett, the expert who was brought
here by the oBard to give advice on
farm products marketing.
Now, however, the third feature of
it's work has been taken up seriously,
which is the compilation of statistics
on a large number of matters con
corning island affairs. DR.. Victor S.
Clark, the executive of he Board, has
outlined number of subjects to re-
ceive attention and Capt. Paul Smith,
of the office force, has been delegated
to devote most of his time to this
work
Already quite a start has been
made. The figures concerning immi-
grafton for the past month or two are
complete. The nationality of taxpay-
ers has also been figured out, while
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04

Kohala Midget Many "guesses'
have been going round lately as to
the original of that fire that ragged for
a few days last week on the upper
western end of Maui las we see It'll
Some peoule thought it was a vol
caniC eruption, others that it was a
signal fire for opium smugglers, and
still other downed us with the most
iooical assumption that it was smoke
from Il charcoal pit. Anyway, we are
still! here, in spite of the earthquakes
which preceded this smoky mystery,
SO we guess that Pele has no rival
after all. We've had as much fun
over that smoke as Isl" and Josh"
would have over a new village arrival.
Prison Labor satisfactory,
UiLO Aug. County Engineer
Southworth returned last week from
a short trip to Kau, having gone as
far as Waiohinu. The main object of
his visit was to look into the matter
OF the petition of Manager VOTERS OF
the Hut hinson Sugar Plantation Com
pany that the plantation be allowed to
run railroad along a section OF the
government road. Southworth will re-
port in favor of having the railroad
run in the cane fields, but to allow it
to cross the government road at sew
eral points, which arrangement is SAID
to be satisfactory to the plantation.
Dujng his trip SCuthworth also
locked into the construction of the
road on the Kau side o. the Volcano
House, on which prison laborers have
working for some time past Lately
the statement has repeatedly been
made from various sources that the
building of the road by means of
prison labor was costing the county
a ErCat deal more money than if 1t
~ built by the county with citizen
labor or by contractors. Southworth
states that the work has been carried
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04
CALIFORNIA HAVING A SCARE
OVER FRUIT FLY; OAHU IS
DESCRIBED As DEVASTATED"

tricts of Australia, New Zealand, on
one island in the Hawaiian group and
also in the Bermudas.
The fly deposits it's eggs under the
skin of the fruit, while it is ripening
the eggs hatch into maggots which
feed on the meat of the fruit, and of
course destroy it for commercial or
other purposes. There is no kind OF
fruit, berry or vegetable, which the fly
does not attack, but it is especially
destructive to stoned fruits.
1t propagates every sixteen days
and once it gets foothold it becomes
as common to the orchards, both wild
and domesticated, as the common
house fly is to stables and unclean
residences. Here is a list of fruits
which it attacks and in which it al.
ways deposits just enough eggs to in
sure the maggots maturing and be.
coming adult flies: Peaches, cherries
mangoes, pineapples, persimmons, or.
anges, grenadillas, apricots, pears
shaddocks, tomatoes, plums, bananas
figs, nectarines, apples, loquats, man
darines, berries and maupi fruit. The
only known way to prevent it running
an entire fruit crop is to screen the
trees with netting so as to keep it
from reaching the fruit.
Jeffrey Taking Precautions.
while l am not an alarmist nor
dc l believe that even if the fly should
get into California we would not be
able to combat it in some way" said
State Horticultural Commissioner j.
w. Jeffrey, 81 fear the possible intro.
duction of the pest. 1t has destroyed
all the fruit on one island at our doors,
and too careful precaution cannot be
exercised to guard against it.
"The pest is one of the most revolt
ing known. 1t lays it's eggs in the
fruit, and from the outside appear
an2e a person cannot tell that the
fruit is infested. 1t is only by open.
ing peach or an orange that the
PRESENCE of the maggots can be ascer-
tanned. They are nothing like the
fruit worms which develop into cod
lin moths-they are maggots, and ter
ribly revolving.
Fruit containing the maggots of
The Mediterranean fly has been found
aboard steamers from Honolulu upon
landing in San Francisco. Large
amounts of fruits containing the pest
have been destroyed by burning in
rmde OIL The introduction of the fly
would have been inevitable had it not
been for the quarantine which was
declared, but we now hope that Cali
for ia at least will remain sealed to
Continued on page twelve)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04

schau (Berlin), which proposes the
partition of Morocco between Spain
and Germany. This is to be accom-
plished by an attack upon France. We
read
zone fact is certain-the very basis
of the Algeciras Treaty has crumbled
away, and the whole compact, there
fore, becomes null and void. The sig
natory Powers have taken back their
liberty of action-among them Ger.
many, whose strength and Importance
give her the preponderating influence.
Two courses are open to us. Ger
many must forever bury her hopes in
Morocco, or feel herself compelled to
make war. Since the partition
of Morocco has begun, we are not con-
tent quietly to look on like good lit
tie boys at the cutting up of cake;
we will not be satisfied with the
crumbs that fall from the table of
France. What we ask is a share in
the spoil commensurate with the
strength of Germany"
The French papers view Germany's
action at Agadir with an airy uncon-
Germ which is possibly based on their
reliance on England. The Humanite
(Paris), the principal Socialist organ
of the country, simply remarks that
trouble is impending in Morocco"
MI
ments," advises the Republique Fran
caise (Paris). THE interests which
England has on the Mediterranean
and African Shores" says the Petite
Republique (Paris), naturally call
for her opinion on this subject" Ger
manys action, though by no means
graceful" charitably remarks the
Matin (Paris), is merely intended as
a hint to France that the Kaiser de-
mands compensation for the march
upon Fee. Other Paris papers accuse
Germany of egging on Spain against
France in Africa, and the Temps, the
Liberte, and the Figaro demand that
a French ship of war be Immediately
dispatched to Agadir. The opinion
that Germany and Spain are cooper
ating is somewhat borne out by the
fact that Madrid editors and cartoon
lists as a rule approve of Germany's
acton as perfectly reasonable, and the
editor of the semi-official Diario
seems to shTug his shoulders as he re-
fleets that the coup of Germany is
more to the prejudice of England than
of any other Power"
The English press all view the stu
alton as dramatic" Startling" "seri.
Gus" grave" critical" with the ex.
ception of the London Times, which
refuses to regard the situation over
seriously and relies upon the COM
pleteness and correctness of official
reassurances from Berlin.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04
WHAT GERMANY WANTS IN
MOROCCO AND HOW SHE HAS
PROCEEDED TO SECURE It

Something like CONSERVATION has
struck European political circles al
IGermany's sudden swoop down upor
the most important port in Southern
Morocco, says the Literary Digest
Agadir is now occupied by German
forces and guarded by a German war
vessel. The German Chancellor had
been looking on in silence while
France fought it's way to Fee and
Spain landed troops at Larache, on
the northwest coast of the African
Empire. The Berlin papers, however,
kept complaining that these French
and Spanish operations violated the
Algeciras Treaty, which confined the
operations of France to the eastern
frontier of Morocco, and guaranteed
that Empires integrity. Germany, say
the European press, had long been
waiting for an opportunity to step in,
and when the Algeciras agreement
was thus treated as so much waste
BdDClB II paw III ltiSOli why II DllOulu
not share in the rich spoils of Moroc.
co. The German press frankly adj.
nit that Agadir furnishes a fine naval
depot and coaling station on the high
way to South America, where Ger.
man interests are steadily growing
year by year. The conduct of France
and Spain has given Germany just the
chance she was waiting for, declares
the Deutsche Zeitung (Berlin), in
which we read:
ut is the duty of a true statesman
not to let propitious occasions slip
through his fingers, though he must
wait till the moment for action has
ripened The gradual development of
affairs in Morocco has therefore JUS
titled the attitude of patient waiting
taken by our foreign minister, Baron
Won Observation-Disclosures"
This writer goes on to say that
"the Algeciras treaty has long since
been a broken treaty; that Spain
has declared through the mouth of
Mr.. Canalejas that this treaty has
been violated by France" Germany
has nobody to answer to except
France and Spain, and she claims
the same liberty of action which they
have asserted" France, observes the
Kreuz Zeitung (Berlin), may have the
support of European chancelleries, es.
peclally that of England, in her views
of international treaties, but her Gin
depreciation of such treaties is not
that of the narrow but unerring minds
Of Europeans who are not Frenchi-
fed" 1--WE have been waiting for the
Government to show that we Germans
will be trifled with no longer" re
marks the Berlin Post.
Much more extreme is the action
advocated by the Tagliche Rund
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04

hands full keeping the records of the
entrants up to date. The interest be-
ing taken in the campaign is exceeding
expectations and indications are that
thousands of boys and girls will par
ticipate in the contest.
DR.. Murray will have the records of
the entrants ascertained Immediately
after the close of the contest, so that
the results can be announced in the
Sunday Star August 6. The winner of
the first prize will receive S25, while
the second prize will be worth $40,
Twenty-seven prizes in all, making a
total of 500, are to be awarded.
AS announced yesterday, sticky fly
paper for catching the insects is elm
mated under the rules of the contest.
This is largely responsible for the eX-
tensive preparations now being made
to exterminate the fly by other means.
Chance for Inventive Genius.
The boy or girl who invents a prac-
teal fly trap may not only be able 10
make a large score, but may achieve
a considerable reputation as an in
ventor. In a "Swat-the-ny" contest
conducted in Worcester, Mass, the
boy who won the first prize used traps
of his own design and make. His
score was more than a million for the
fifteen-day campaign waged there, In
cidentally the fly family in Worcester
has practically been exterminated.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04

The following is from the San Fran
cisco Evening Bulletin of July %:
The crusade against the Mediter-
ranean fruit fly, the most destructive
of all fruit insects, which was discov-
cred recently at Honolulu, was begun
in San Francisco in earnest this morn
ing. The quarantine against the fly
was declared some time ago, but it
was not until this morning that the
representatives of the Horticultural
Department began their labors to pre-
vent the arrival of the fly in San Fran
cisco.
With the arrival of the steamer
Wilhelmina this morning from Homo
lulu, the horticultural experts searched
the baggage of the passengers and the
fruit shipments on the Wilhelmina for
specie of the Mediterranean insect.
All incoming vessels from the island
will receive a searching and every.
thing possible will be done to keep out
the destroyer
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04

al. Hall of Study Of late the col
lege has had as many as seventy tC
eighty boys in a room thirty-four feet
by thirty feet. This will be used as
a classroom when the new building
is opened.
%. Reception Room. This is badly
needed for visitors, especially parents
of boarders, who now have to wait on
the veranda.
"3. Additional CIassrooms. For
College of Hawaii preparation work
the laboratory has had to be used as
a classroom.
a. Play hall. Formerly the boys
had a room for indoor recreation, but
it has been appropriated for class.
room purposes.
IS. Quarters for teachers. That
such are needed is all that is neces.
sary to say.
&c. Guest chamber. Occasionally
heads of the Order visit the college,
to whom the teachers have now to
give up their paratments.
81. Equipment Besides school and
domicile furniture, the new building
will call for appliances in the science
department
"As there are two divisions which
promote students to the college pre-
paratory department, naturally this is
now overcrowded.
eve trust we have shown that st.
Louis College is a valuable asset to
this community, and that it's financial
resources, outside of public-spirited
beneficence here invoked, are unequal
to the present demands upon it's use
fulness. Therefore we confidently ap-
peal to the prosperous inhabitants of
Honolulu for contributions to the new
building fund. Any sum will be CRATE
fully received and acknowledged.
Recipients Of this letter may ex-
pect a personal call from member
pr members of the committee within
b few days, or those who prefer to
contribute otherwise than upon a sub
scription list may fill out the enclosed
Hedge card and mail it to the chair
man.
Respectfully presented,
FATHER VALENTIN,
Chairman.
"E. A. BERNDT.
JOHN c. LANE.
JAMES L. HOLT.
"R. w. SINGLE.
&c. F. ALFONSO.
DANIEL LOGAN.
"St. Louis College New Building Fund
Committee"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04

the retail price of food products, as
averaged up from data collected from
half a hundred big and little stores
in all parts of the Islands, is com
plete for the month of July and will
be kept up to date in the future.
Arrivals and departures by steam
ers, covering steerage, and cabin pas
sengers, different nationalities, sexes,
etc, are also now being carefully, and
will be complete from July LIST on.
On this last subject mentioned, the
figures for last month are interesting
in showing that the cabin arrivals of
Japanese changed the excess of de-
partures of this nationality to an eX-
Japanese arrivals by steerage, and
twenty-three by cabin, and 219 de-
partures by steerage, and six by
cabin.
Altogether there were 1O7 more ar
rivals of all classes and natiOnalities
for July than there were departures;
there being 564 coming into the Ter
ritory, against 457 going out.
Fifty-nine Chinese arrived in this
port, while .sixty-six departed. Thirty
Filipinos arrived, and four left One
Hindoo left, and none arrived. Eleven
Koreans departed, and none arrived.
Fifty European steerage passengers
arrived, and 1O5 got away.
1t would seem that the general eX-
cess of arrivals over departures must
be largely tourists, or citizens.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04

SACRAMENTO, July 25.-To safe
guard the fruit interests of the state
against almost certain destruction, if
the Mediterranean fruit fly secures a
foothold, the State Horticultural Com
mission has issued quarantine
against all fruits, plants and roots
from the Hawaiian Islands; the coast
steamship companies plying between
Honolulu and San Francisco have is
sued orders requiring passengers to
agree to allow the officials of the COM
mission to search their baggage for
infected fruit before landing; the
United States War Department has is
sued orders that no fruit from the
islands be taken aboard transports for
the army on the way to San Fran
cisco, and the commission has taken
up the matter with British Columbia,
Washington and Oregon authorities to
close the northern ports to infected
Hawaiian fruit.
Islands Devastated.
That the introduction of the pest
which has already ruined the fruit on
the island of Oahu, although it was
introduced there only last October
from Australia-would mean the de-
struction of the fruit industry in Cali
fornia is the declaration of George
Compere, one of the best known ento-
mologists of the country, who spent
many years for California searching
the Orient for beneficial insects; State
Horticultural Commissioner jeffrey,
and E. X. Carnes, an authority on in
sect pests.
There is no known way to fight the
fly once it is established. 1t has
ruined the fruit industry i'll large dis
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04
INTBR-ISLAND HAPPENINGS

out according to the instructions
which he gave in regard thereto last
May, and that the prisoners, under the
able direction of Oliver Akau, have
been doing good work. He made a
careful examination of the work
which had been done from day to day
ever since the work started, and he
says that no contractor could have
done the work for anything near the
figure which it is costing the county
by means of prison labor, nor could it
have been built cheaper by other
laC,r. He intends to make a written
report on the matter which he will
submit to the supervisors.
Real AmericanIzation.
Kohala Midget: Hilo Boarding
School is the incubator, The future
citizen who knows how to handle
tools, run a small farm with profit,
grow the best bananas, raise the best
stock, and make the best roads, is hav.
ing common-sense, high-grade citizen
ship drilled into him every day by
actual experience in field and shop
and stable.
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Lyman and their
predecessors, from Mr. Lyman's grand.
father down, "out-Armstronged" Gen
eral Armstrong and "out-Bookered'
Booker Washington in giving a prac,
tical, wage-earner's education to the
heads and hands of Hawaiian boys
land now to some Oriental YOUTH, for
seventy-fve years.
Pick out the biggest plantation on
Hawaii, and the Territory could better
afford to have it wiped out than the
Hilo Boarding School.
Talk about the characterization OF
Hawaii" and God knows it needs it
the TIilo Boarding School and similar
institutions are actually turning out
Continued on Page ten.)
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Fine Job Printing, Star Office.
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Continued on Page ten.)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-04

"St. Louis College New Building Fund
Committee"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-02
REAR ADMIRAL SCHLEY Who SMASHED
SPANISH FLEET, DROPS DEAD TODAY

New York, oct. 2.-Rear Admiral
Winfield Scott Schley dropped dead
here today.
Schley dropped dead near the corner
of Forty Fourth street and Fifth ave
nue.. while on his way down town. He
died before medical aid could reach
him.
Schley had been out of town over
Sunday and on his return here had
gone 20 the New York Yacht club. AZ
ter a short stay there Schley left the
club house and started TO walk alone
on f'orty Fourth street towards Firth
avenue when he was taken suddenly
ill a hurry call was sent for physi-
clans and an ambulance. but before aid
could reach him the admiral was dead.
Smashed Spanish Fleet.
Previous 90 the outbreak OF the
Spanish American war Schley, then
commodore. was ordered on the
Brooklyn" and given command of the
flying squadron" II was his squadron
which located the Spanish fleet at
Santiago on May %. 1898 and blocked
the harbor. on the morning Of July
.2. 1898. Admiral Sampson. who was the
superior in command. departed for