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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-28
A VERY PAINFUL STORY OF POVERTY

wage, and have engaged a stronger
girl to perform the harder work that
Mrs. Jacobsen is too frail to do. She
will be sure of home at my hands
so long as she cares to remain.
Mrs. Jacobsen also has a little boy
OF three years who is living in one
room with a poverty-stricken Spanish
widow with four children of her own,
and DIR. McLennan is also attending
this child who is a victim of lack
of nourishment.
tried 10 place him in the home of
the Salvation Army where the mother
could pay a small remittance but l
received the curt answer there was
no room whatever for him.
This incident brings to light de-
plorable condition in Honolulu. And
l want to ask the reason why baby
] seriously i'll should be sent away from
supposedly charitable hospital and
why, deserving, pitiable specimen of
neglected childhood should be denied
admittance into a supposedly charit-
iDlS CIdNln6
and receiving funds of money from
the public for the support of Just
such cases?
MRS. DONALD McLENNAN
1.-THE communication printed above Is
one to awaken sympathy, but the
point the Star wants to make in this
footnote is that the Advertiser,
which had made the error complained
of, was the journal to receive the
correction rather than the Star. No
doubt it would have made all neces-
sary amends. The Star does net like
to be the means of correcting the I'M
intentional mistakes of other papers
and it prefers the opportunity Of al
ways correcting its own without
neighborly help. The advantage to
the complainant in getting his version
before the same readers whom the
mistake may have deceived is self
evident and, the idea that a decently
conducted paper may like to expose
the errors, or even the blunders, Of
a rival, is born of a misconception of
which an older type Of journalism
perhaps gave warrant.-Editor Start
~
Fine Job Printing, Star Office.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-28
THE SANITARY
WORK A FARCE

"The anti mosquito campaign and
the sanitary work are farce in Ma
kiki," said, resident of that district
yesterday morning, oyer a couple OF
months past block of Kinau street
has has had water in a gutter, from
some leak or other that no one at.
tends to. 1t isn't from the rain, for
the water is there just the same dur
ing dry spells. 1t has been there so
long that there is green moss on the
stones CT The curb. What is the use
If property owners trying to keep
their premises clean and free from
mosquito pools when the public au-
thorities leave a street in such con-
dition?"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-28
A RELIABLE REMEDY.

You are not experimenting on your
self when you take Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy for a cold, as that pre-
paration has won its great reputation
and extensive sale by its remarkable
cures Of colds, and can always be de-
pended upon. 1t Is equally valuable
for adults and children and may be
given to young children with implicit
confidence as 1t contains no harmful
drug For sale by all dealers. Ben
son, Smith & Co., agents for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-28
Fine Food For New
Citizens Coming From
Gibraltar To Honolulu

The fourteen hundred and seventy
eight Portuguese and Spanish immi-
grants headed for Honolulu per S. S.
Orteric, as exclusively reported in
Saturdays Star, will find their sixty
day voyage from Gibraltar to Honolu-
lu a pleasant experience for they will
be fed better than any previous con-
signment of new citizen material.
On January ~ the immigration
board received from Campbell the in
formation that he had succeeded in
chartering the Orteric in London She
is new steamship and this will be
her maiden voyage. She is of 1926
tons gross and has accommodation
for 1900 people. She belongs to the
Weir line and can maintain 12k
knots. She will be equipped with the
necessary number of nurses and doc
tors and she will come over in charge
of reliable agents selected by Mr..
Campbell. She will carry expert
ships cooks. The cooks will not be
selected from among the immigrants,
as was the case in other shipments
The menu for the trip has been in.
corporated in the charter, so the new.
corners will have a bill of fare ar.
ranged on their own suggestion, as
follows: Sunday-Coffee, sausage OF
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-28
HA7TLESHIP WYOMING TO BE THE
MOST POWERFUL WARSHIP AFLOAT

The main armament will consist of
twelve 12-inch breech-loading guns,
mounted in six heavy armor-protected
turrets. For defense against torpedo
boat attacks there will be battery of
twenty-one 5-inch rapid fire guns.
There will also be two submerged tor
pedo tubes and fourteen additional
small guns. The total weight of the
projectiles capable of being discharg-
ed at one broadside from this mighty
agent of war will approximate 1000
pounds. The vessel will carry 1,O36
men and eighty-six officers.
The Wyoming" and her sister ship
contain certain distinctive character
istics which entitle them to be con.
sidered as a national type. The
grouping Of the gun turrets in pairs
coupled with their location on the
longitudinal axis, secures the valuable
advantages that the whole battery may
be concentrated in a broadside fire
the previous manner of mounting nee
essarily shutting off half the guns in
hroadside. The "Wyomings" twelve
5u-calibre guns are of the very latest
pattern. This fine weapon will hur
an S67-pound proiectile a distance Of
almost two miles and then penetrate
the heaviest armor plate made These
guns have proved to possess remark
able accuracy, and with the modern
system of fire control from platforms
at the top of the new lattice-worl
masts, our gunners, even at the ex
IRENE ranges, when once they have
found the mark, will be able to hole
the gun upon the enemy and place wei
over fifty per cent of the projectileI
upon the opposing vessel
The great steel hull is protected by
a holt of modern arInor eleven inche,
in thickness, which also covers al
magazines and turrets. Below tn,
wateriine and at the extreme ends thi
protection diTninisheS to five inches
ne nun Will tlSC HS pTOJeCJ6u DelON
the waterline by longitudinal bulk
heads.
The Wyoming is to be driven b.
turbine engines of 20 IL knots speed
In addition to the coal she will hav,
400 tons of oil stored in her bunkers
located in her double bottom. She will
be able to travel 5000 miles withou
recoaling. Her total cost will b
something over ten million dollars.
The "TeXas" and New York." tn
| former of which is to be built in New
port News and the latter in one of tn
government navy yards, will be c
: about the same size but of greater dis
: placement. These newer vessels wi
! have a total displacement of one tho
, sand tons greater than the "Wyom
' ing" and will cost approximate
e twelve million dollars each.
J. A. BRECKONS.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-28

Especial correspondence Of The starr
WASHINGTON, February 16.-Ac'
knowledging no superior among the
battleships Of the world, and but one
other its equal in size and fighting
armament-this equal being sister
ship in the United States navy-the
giant dreadnaught of the ocean, "Wy-
oming," will be launched at Philadel-
phia early in May. Within the next
two weeks it is expected the work Of
her hull will have progressed suf-
ficiently to warrant her builders in
asking Governor Carey of Wyoming to
name fair sponsor for this veritable
steel leviathan of the deep. AS the
governor has no unmarried daughter,
numerous candidates for the honor
are being urged. The members of the
Wyoming congressional delegation
several state officials and many repre-
sentative citizens of the western
state have already signif1ed their in
tention to be present when the mon
ster slides into the water.
The Wyoming" will not only have
the proud distinction of being one o.
the two most powerful battleships
afioat, but will have the greatest gun
power in broadside fire of any battle
ship in the entire world When the
British navy launched its dread
naughts-the "Conquoro," Orion,
Monarch" and "Thunderer"-the
world applauded what was expected tc
long remain undisputed monarchs oil
the ocean. The Wyoming" is as far
ahead Of these mighty battleships as
they were superior to their predeces
sors. and has displacement almost
1000 tons greater than John Bulls
mightiest dreadnaught-not to mention
its ability to deliver a broadside o.
twice as many twelve-inch guns in III
engagement
twenty-five years ago when we con
structed the baltimore" and "Chica
go" as the first vessels of our stee
feet, we thought we had reached thu
climax in modern naval warfare, anC
yet the "Wyoming's" excess displace
ment over that of the largest British
dreadnaught is greater than the tota
displacement of these two earlier add
lions to our steel navy. A better idei
of the size of this monster may b.
gained when it is known that it
length is almost equal to two ordinar,
city blocks, and it's width more thai
twice that of the average street
Af1oat the hull of steel will sink t
a depth about equal to a two-stor
building, with that much more abov
waterline. In one comparatively sma'
portion of the submerged part will b
bunkers capable of holding over fit
carloads of coal-equal to an entir
train load.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-28

the present congress contains an addi-
tional appropriation for the further
study of irrigation in the humid re-
gions, and experts now engaged in
the work predict that each year will
see a larger irrigated acreage in the
east until all lands devoted to valu.
able crops will be supplied with sys
tens enabling them to be artificially
watered at a profit.
]. A. BRECKONS.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-28

salt fish for breakfast; pea soup, roast
beef and potatoes or rice for dinner;
boiled mutton, macaroni and stewed
fruit for supper. Monday-Coffee and
boiled Goldfish; lentil soup and vege-
tables, picked beef, potatoes or peas;
corned beef hash and horse beans.
Tuesday-Coffee and fish cakes; beef
or mutton broth with rice, Irish stew
with, potatoes; salt pork and Garva-
nos, rice. Wednesday-Coffee and
cheese; macaroni soup, beef or NUT
ton hash, rice or peas. Thursday
Coffee, sausage or salt fish; lentil
soup corned beef, bean salad with
native dressing and potatoes; beef
stew with dumplings, potatoes. Fri
day-Coffee and Goldfish; fish chowder,
beef or mutton, peas; beef, beans or
potatoes, stewed fruit and rice. Satur-
day-Coffee and beef hash; rice to-
mato soup, salt pork and beans; boiled
beef, potatoes, bean salad, native
dressing prunes.
Bread will be served with breakfast
and supper; biscuits with dinner. Tea
is to be served at dinner and supper
Fresh beef, mutton or pork twice a
week. Corn meal (Portuguese) every
day. Milk for the children at meals
and at three p. m. Green vegetables
when possible.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-28

The position of commander of the
second division of the Pacific fleet is
going a begging. Rear Admiral Suth-
erland, who was appointed to the posi-
ton, is said not to want the job, and
Rear Admiral Cowles, the next choice,
prefers to remain in Honolulu, where
he took command only few weeks
ago. The other available officers are
keeping very. quiet, and the secretary
of the navy is scanning the horizon for
a nice, obedient admiral, who is willing
to take life easy in the shadow of COM
parative oblivion for an indefinite per-
iod.
Theoretically, of course, an admiral
obeys without question or hesitation
any lawful command issued by SUI
perior, for even an admiral has a boss,
In practice, however, the great god In
fuence sometimes tempers the harsh
will of discipline, and although the god
may not be able to give his favorites
everything they want, he can usually
be counted upon to save them from
anything they may regard as undesir
able.
Admiral Sutherland is said to DC
very comfortable where he is in WASH
ington, which is the gods headquar
ters. He is ready to go to sea II ne
must, SO the navy gossip goes, bu'
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-28

Better hurry up that battleship for
delivery" suggested the shipyard
manager. "Is there going to be WARP"
asked the superintendent mo, but
it's only etiquette to deliver the boat
before war goes out of style alto
gether. Toledo Blade.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-28
MANY JAPANESE GOING To PERU
AND JOINING PERUVIAN ARMY

SAN FRANCISCO, February
imported
shp
EAST according officers of the Conditions
mos steamship Uada which arrived still
yesterday Europe
american republic has increased the interior.
conducting mercantile Government
have taken place only in the
Peruvian northern
uneasy
1.-THE boundary line the Uarda officers
frontier soldiery
ling They
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-28
NAVY WANTS
AN ADMIRAL

S. F. Call:
WANTED-Rear admiral to command
second division of Pacific fleet Must
be able to play second fiddle grace
fully. Speedy advancement, insured
to the right party. Apply Navy De-
partment, Washington, D. c.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-11-10
GOOD MATERIAL FOR FLOOR
French Inventor Has Devised Combi-
nation of Concrete and Carborun-
dunn for Severe Use.

There has always been difficulty in
finding material for flooring which
will successfully withstand the grind
ing action of constant procession of
persons over 1t, as at the entrances Of
large railroad stations. but French
inventor has devised combination Of
concrete and carborundum which has
been experimental with in Paris, and
the results have been found to be su-
perior to anything else which has
been devised for the purpose. A
flight of steps built of this combine
ton showed no perceptible wear after
they had been used by an estimated
army of 100000 persons who passed
over it. This Is very severe test, for
i'll going up and down public STAIR
ways persons follow the shortest line.
so that the great majority of those
using it follow the same path, the
wear and tear is very great in pro-
scribed area.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-11-10

VIZ ASHINGTON.-For the
w practical completion OF the Pan
ANA canal by July l, 1913, the 18TH
milan canal commission. in its annual
report, recommends congressional
legislation governing canal tolls, Or
ganization for the operation Of the
canal and for government of the canal
zone, utilization of canal revenue to
pay operating expenses and to repay
the capital invested, and other action.
Expedition was urgently demanded in
order to advise the commercial world
OF the use it may make of the great
waterway, OF the cost OF sending ships
through 1t and just when it will be
opened. The commission wished to
give at least eighteen months notice
or the rates to permit the worlds
maritime interests time to readjust
their routes and to build new ships
and organize new transportation COM
panies.
1t was also deemed desirable to put
the canal to use as early as possible,
not only to secure financial returns on
the enormous capital invested, but to
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-11-10

day to day, is 6 source of some con-
Germ to the tidy householder Then
again the transferral of the ashes
from under the heater must be looked
after constantly and is a task which
many a man performs only with the
assistance Of considerable profanity.
The matter has been solved by bury
ing the ashes as they fall from the
heater. A revolving system of ash
boxes fits in a well in front of the
heater and when the heater IL raked
the debris therefrom is drawn directly
into one of these buried receptacles
These may be emptied at ones own
convenience.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-11-10
Zacharlah of Michigan by His Per-
sonaI Force and William E. of
New Hampshire by Adroitness
Made Hayes President.

One evening in the midsummer of
1881, after day in which the wounded
President Garfield had been so free
from suffering that his physicians were
strongly of the hope that the crisis
had been reached and passed and that
the president was on the road to re-
covery, the secretary of state, James
G. Blaine, chatted with two or three
Of his fellow members of the cabinet
as they stood upon the porch of the
White House refreshing themselves
in the cool Of the evening.
1t had been noticed earlier in Gar
fields illness that whenever the news
from the sickroom was favorable
Blaine responded to these reports, he
being more quickly affected either
with dependency or hope than any
other member of the cabinet. That
was characteristic or fundamental
feature Of Blaine's temperament at
that time, as always. And sometimes
when he was hopeful he became remi-
niscent, and that was the case upon
the evening of which now write.
II have always thought" began Mr..
Blaine. without first explaining what
had awakened his train Of thought
another Blaine haracteristic-I have
always thought that no other two men
of the United States that have known
of personally or through history could
have organized so swiftly and 80 tri-
umphantly for their party a great cleo
ton contest as did the two Chambers
Of the Republican national committee
that directed the party's presidential
campaign of 1875.
"Zachariah Chandler, chairman of
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-11-10

says, that out of a total of $11,S64.S9
spent during the year for subsistence,
only four-fifths of l per cent, or $780,
906. is accredited to losses from such
causes as ordinary wastage in issue
and transportation, deterioration from
climatic causes, theft and property
worn out.
The experimental farm conducted
by the subsistence department at
Camp Wears, P. L., for the purpose of
determining whether potatoes could
be successfully raised In the Philip
pines has proved the unfeasibility OF
such project. Although the condi-
tons were exceedingly favorable when
the plants first came up, the report
admits, blight invaded the farm, and
while the yield averaged twenty-five
bushels to an acre, only fourteen OF
these were found fit for consumption.
While the results are declared to
have been great disappointment, tho
commissary general feels that the ex-
penditure of time and funds was well
repaid.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-11-10
ztlg8 li| I 4 RI(aHzT
~ alEHlE|ttA5|I|E( 1l lE|a'5'Z~ ~
Now Aim to Make the Panama Canal Pay

make possible the passage OF the
worlds fleets without confusion or de-
lay. The report showed that the engi-
all the concrete in the great Gatun
locks will be laid by June /, 1912, and
five months later the locks on the
Pacific side will be finished, except
the gates, which will be ready June l,
1913. Meantime by April l, next, the
giant spillway at Gatun would be at
the fifty-foot elevation and the entire
following winter.
The excavation through the Culebra
cut, the greatest earth-digging enter
prise the world has ever seen, will be
completed July 1. 1913. II the slides
are not in excess OF the estimates. In
that case the exterior channel will be
sufficiently advanced to pass the ship
ping that would use the canal.
The total outlay for maintaining
the canal will be for wages Of the OPP
erative force, engineering work, SAM
tation and civil administration. The
commission was insistent that the
revenue of the canal should go to pay
not only the operating expenses, but
to repay the capital invested. Every
legitimate means for raising revenue
should be adopted, said the report.
which recommended that the govern
ment should not only supply coal and
oil for it's own vessels, but should sell
them to merchant shipping.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-11-10
MAKING FLOORS OF sAWDUsT
Extensively in Germany-Re-
semble Mosaic Pavements.

Artificial floorings, made of sawdust
and other ingredients, are manufac-
tured extensively in Germany. 1t is
understood now that certain firms are
to introduce a similar process in this
country.
The flooring composition consists of
solution of magnesium chloride to
which pulverized magnesia is added
and which of itself forms a white, alb
solutely solid. artificial stone. II to
this cement sawdust be added in con-
siderable proportions the combination,
when it becomes hard, possesses many
of the qualities of both wood and
stone
Some Of these floorings are mixed
on the spot and laid soft on the space
to be covered, while others are mold
ed into plates and delivered ready
made. According to consular and
trade reports. one Hamburg firm i'm
pregnates the wood meal with oil be-
fore mixing it with the magnesia
paste and thereby renders 1t nonab-
sorbent.
In Germany the cheaper grades Of
flooring are colored to resemble lin
oleum or mosaic pavements, and in
many instances have given entire sat
isfaction during a considerable term
of years. The emigrant halls of the
Hamburg-American line in Hamburg
are paved almost entirely with this
composition. Floors thus made are
more elastic than cement floors, are
much warmer, and preserve smooth
er surface. Under the fire test this
flooring chars, but does not burn, and
is poor conductor Of heat.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-11-10
How Quay Won Big Victory

down on that third day he gave notice
that his speech was not yet finished.
SO, upon the fourth day, Senator
quay rose to continue his speech. He
had the right to the floor; no one
could take it away from him. And
upon this occasion he sent to the
clerks desk large volume, asking
that the clerk read certain marked
passages therein. The clerk droned
away for more than an hour and had
not finished the reading Of the ex-
tracts when the hour for adjournment
came. Therefore, Senator Quay's un-
finished speech went over to the next
day, when it was observed that Quay
had upon his desk large number of
senate documents and many volumes.
A curious colleague asked him how
long he expected to speak.
Until doomsday, or until this con.
gress adjourns, or until the senate
votes down the sugar schedule" was
the reply. Il have tariff documents
here by the yard; have volumes bear
ing upon tariff questions that would
I'LL a library. / purpose entertaining
the senate with these volumes and ex
tracts from these documents, for these
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-11-10
Rangers Exterminate Predatory Beasts

will get at least $4,000 worth. The
stock killed by wolves is principally
cattle. Calves and yearlings are gen.
orally selected by them for slaughter,
but If these cannot be readily had,
COWS and even full-grown steers are
killed.
1t Is said by stockmen that wolves
In Wyoming kill from 10 to 20 per
cent of the annual increase OF the
herds. In some sections OF Montana
they are just as bad.
THE problem OF the determination
of predatory animals" said John A.
Rhodes, guard of the forest service,
is one that calls for determined and
persistent labor along lines that are
practical, at the hands of men who
are accustomed to the country. thor
oughly understand the habits of the
wild animals and are familiar with the
means of their determination.
Where hunters are employed, the
use of poison as means of extermi-
nation stands first. Its advantage
lies in the ease and rapidity with
which 1t can be handled. Where the
labor of half dozen men would be-
required in setting and watching a
line OF traps. one man could easily
cover the same country with poison.
The greater the number OF bats the
greater the chances for killing"