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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
ROW BETWEEN
LADY AND VALET

There, was an open rupture this
morning between Alice Raymond, the
noted American cornetist VINO is re-
turning to Australia by the Mariana
after long absence to fulfill engage
ments, and her valet, H. Fontana,
The result has been that Mr. Fontana
nearly stayed in Honolulu, temper
ariIy, at least.
The pair came down here from San
Francisco in the Sierra last Friday to
join the Mariana. This morning, from
some cause that was not exactly ap-
parent, a row occurred on the AlaKea
wharf. Miss Raymond replied very
sharply to something that Fontana
said, and he became angrier than
ever. Suddenly he pulled what
seemed to be his contract from his
pocket and tore it into shreds before
her face.
She did not seem so very angry
either, about it. She took the loss
of his services quite philosophically,
but seemed to grieve over the money
that she had advanced for his fare,
and mentioned that she thought the
gentlemanly thing to do was to return
it to her.
He didn't think so and that was all
there was to it, but eventually they
got away together. AS there were no
friends around to interfere it made it
easier for them to patch up the trou-
bic between them,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
HONOLULUS FIRST
CAFETERIA OPENS

The Y NJ. C. A. opened Honolulu's
first cafeteria yesterday. 1t was a
great success. There were twenty
five in to breakfast, and about one
hundred to lunch.
The breakfast was a quiet affair
and everything went off we'll. The
lunch was more of a brisk meal.
There was a decided air of novelty
about it, it seemed as though many
of Honolulu's leading citizens had
dropped in just to see what it would
be like. Judge Lindsay, the attorney
general, had a party, G. G, Guild,
manager of the American-Hawaiian
Paper Co., had a party, Papa Herbert
had some guests and there were many
others who entertained.
OF course, everything was new to
them, and It was apparent that many
(Cotinued on page ten,)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
lCorrespondence Of nc san

Correspondence of The STAR
WASHINGTON. November ga
statement ISSUED by the Department
of Agriculture says; "A great deal of
money has been expended for reclaim
ing tidal lands without obtaining per
manent effective results, The failures
have been due principally to lack OF
cooperation among the landowners;
to ignorance or disregard of the fact
that, unless preventive measures are
taken, many marshes Will settle to an
extent that will render pumping neces
sary; and to the insufficient size, or
poor construction and maintenance, OF
leyees, sluices, and bitches.
Upon the efficiency of the drainage
bitches and sluices will depend the
elevation of the groundwater, and the
depth of the watertable below the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
RECLAIMING TIDAL LANDS
RECEIVES OFFICIAL ATTENTION

ground surface will control the kind
Of crops that can be raised Land l
to ] IL feet above the watertable will
furnish good pasturage; to IL feet
above, good hay and corn fields. 4
to 10 feet, good wheat fields. In
draining and blowing due care should
be used not to injure the soil struc-
lures.
Unreclaimed lands worth $1.00 to
$4,000 per acre VIII be worth $50 to
$500 or more per acre when drained
depending on location, elevation, fer
tility, and development The cost Of
reclamation will vary widely, but un
der average conditions thorough drain
| age will not exceed $50 to $50 pei
acre. Besides producing a financia
benefit, draining marsh lands destroys
the breeding places for mosquitoes
and reduces the unhealthful conditions
that cause malaria, chills and feyers
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
SHALL MR.. TAFT WITHDRAWN"
ASKS REPUBLICAN ORGAN

WASHINGTON, d. c., November 5.
One of the most significant politi-
cal editorials which has appeared in
a Republican newspaper since the
campaign of 1908 is that in the New
York Press of Saturday, Novem-
Der IS.
The editorial, in full, is as follows
with Theodore Roosevelt now out
as an open and enthusiastic assail-
ant of the administration in Washing
ton, with the Progressive Republican
League hurting tomahawks at the
White House from all over the West
ern hunting grounds, with farmers
bitterly resentful of what they deem
tariff heresy, and with Big Business
in the East grown strangely cold to
President Taft because, while stocks
went up after his election, they have
had a passion for darting downward
since his Inauguration, the Federal
machine, which is entrusted with the
mission of making a ticket for the
national convention to take, may be
said to be surrounded, besieged and
stormed by insurgency, instruction
rebellion and very nearly every other
kind of hostility.
Big Business Holds Purse.
ut is tradition to believe that Chief
Magistrates can be loved by the
masses for the enemies they have
among the classes. But it yet remains
to be doubted that in the Republican
party Colonel Roosevelt commands
the popular allegiance that is not ex
tremely radical say. We suppose
that nobody questions that the more
radical element goes horse, foot and
dragons with the Progressive Repub
lincan League, which is demanding
that candidates for the presidency
submit their ambition for nomination
to the popular test of direct primar
les. So much for the voting power OF
the party. AS for the sinews of war
it is needless to emphasize that they
are in the keeping of the exalted mi
nority which constitutes Big Bust
ness.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
HOUND DIES FROM DRINK.

TRENTON, n. j., November 81
Ben Franklin, valuable English
greyhound owned by Edward Tschopp,
is dead, and the cause of his demise,
veterinary surgeons agree, was
Bright's disease superinduced by al
coholism.
Ben could drink more beer in a day
than any two men, and for the past
two years he scarcely drew a sober
breath. Those who knew Ben's moth
er say that she was even worse tip
pier than her offspring. He had a
regular round of saloons to cover al
most daily.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 24-The Amer
lean Federation of Labor will proceed
to organize along the lines of indus.
trial craft unionism. The elimination
of jurisdictional disputes, the wiping
out of dual organizations. the combin.
ing Of forces into one organization of
each craft, one harmonious, progress
sive and militant American labor
movements this is the goal toward
which the American Federation OF
Labor will press toward during the
coming year
No Duplicate Unions.
With this end in view the conven.
ton, by a vote Of $4,000 for to 400
against, concurred in the report of the
adjustment committee, James OCon-
nell, chairman, which provides that
after 1912, the American Federation of
Labor will refuse to recognize more
than one organization of each craft.
In the case of the Amalgamated So.
ciety of Carpenters, and the Amalgl.
mated Woodworkers, the president of
the American Federation of Labor
and the executive council was in
structed to revoke the charters of
these organizations if they fail to
amalgamate with the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America prior to July /, 1912.
The same rule will apply to the car
workers and all other crafts maintain
ing dual organizations.
Furuseth Sounds Warming
Andrew Furuseth protested against
what he termed compulsory measure,
and said that the American Fedora
ton of Labor in pursuing such a pol
icy is drifting toward the rocks upon
which the Knights of Labor was
wrecked"
There are those who believe that the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters in
acquiring jurisdiction over the other
branches of that craft have been fav
ored by the American Federation OF
Labor. But as one delegate expressed
it, perhaps the United Brotherhood o
! Carpenters win be unable 20 digest thu
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
DITCH DIGGING
WITH DYNAMITE
lCorrespondence OF me San

Correspondence Of The Starr
WASHINGTON, November 21.-Re-
ports to Secretary Wilson show that
the work of the Agriculture Depart
ment recently did in experimenting on
ditching with dynamite in bitches 6
to 70 feet wide and 3 to 6 feet deep
proved successful and it is expected
will result in the general use of this
explosive for ditch construction.
The following statement was made
by the department: There has long
been need for an economical method
of excavating bitches of small and
moderate sizes, especially for wet or
timbered land. bitches wider than 16
feet usually can be made by a floating
dipper dredge for to IL cents per
cubic yard, through swamps where
stumps and logs are numerous. Very
small bitches and trenches for tile are
dug by hand when the total work is
too small for employing a trenching
machine, at a high cost per cubic yard
excavated but not excessive cost per
linear foot of cut bitches A feet or
more wide can be dug in firm soils
containing no stumps, logs, or large
stones, by scraper dredges of various
types. But in timbered land especial
! ly where too wet for efficient hand
labor bitches may need to be many
times larger than required for drain
age, to float the only machine adapted
to the work-the dipper dredge.'
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
TARIFF REPORT
IS RATE-BARE

WASHINGTON, November 25.-The
Taft tariff board, for whose report the
whole nation has been waiting breath
lessly, will not, according to one of
its members, fix a single rate on the
tariff. And as for wool, which this
much advertised body was expected to
pull from the eyes of the people, it
is said that not even so much as a
suggestion Of rate will be made.
The same prediction applies to cotton.
This announcement has created a
sensation in official circles. For months
the mouthpieces of the administration
have been assuring the public that
there could be no intelligent tariff
legislation without the expert advice
of the tariff board 1t has been pic
tured as an inspired body, diyinely
appointed to lead the grand old party
out of the wilderness of the high cost
of living.
Only Old Statistics.
Then, after everyone, or at least
some, had pinned all hope for better
tariff laws upon the action of the
board, comes the amazing and crush
ing information that the only assist
ance which congress or the country
at large will get from their report will
Continued on page twelve)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
GOVERNOR FREAR MAKES PLEA
FOR COASTWISE SUSPENSION

merce, which, with the increase of
that commerce, is giving it in larger
and larger measure shipping facilities
out of all proportion TO it's own indi-
vidual Importance. This has been the
case heretofore especially as to mails,
but only to a limited extent as to pas
sengers and freight, because of the
American navigation laws, which pre-
vent, excepting under penalties, the
carrying of passengers ana freight on
foreign vessels between Hawaii and
the Pacific Coast States, and because
the through American steamers are
often nearly full before they arrive
from the Orient During the year an
additional American steamer was
added to the run between Honolulu
CCotinued on page tenn
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
LAUNCHES BRITISH eATTLEsHlP

LONDON, Nov 1S.-The Centurion,
Great Britain's 21st battleship of the
dreadnought type, was launched at
Davenport today II is asserted that
this newest addition TO the navy is
the best armored ship ahoat Mrs.
Churchill, wife of the new First Lord
of the Admiralty, christened the YES.
sci
The Centurion is a sister ship of the
King George ", and has a displace.
ment of $4,000 tons. The length is
$50 feet, beam SO feet and draught
l27i2 feet, while her engines are ex-
pected to develop $1,000 horsepower.
A remarkable feature is the extra,
ordinary number of water tight com.
Ipartments, scores of which are intend
ed to render the vessel unsuitable,
even ii section below the water line
be penetrated by a torpedo
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
CALIFORNIA La
TOILETTE LEAGUE

Z = lSsH.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 25.-
The La Toilette League of Califor-
MIA" or some organization of similar
name, whose object is the organiza-
ton of movement to give Califor-
MAS vote to Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette for President was born in a
conference of leading Progressives of
the State this afternoon in the Palace
Hotel.
The early activities of the meeting
were devoted to the election of TEN.
porary president and secretary and
the naming of committees on organi-
cation and platform. 1t is not I'm.
likely that the form of permanent or
CARNATIONS decided by this conference,
will be much like the Lincoln Roose-
welt League, which is the precursor of
the Progressive movement in Califor.
mia.
The conference this afternoon was
marked by the presence of some of the
State. Former Judge Frank r. Devlin
of Solano was in attendance and made
a speech, as did Chester Rowell of
Fresno. Harbor Commissioner J. ].
Dwyer, Charles r. DERRICK, secretary
of the Republican State Central Com
mittee; City Attorney Percy " Long
and many other officials were on hand,
Governor Johnson found it impossible
to leave Sacramento,
The La Toilette call had been sign
ed by 43O names up to this morning.
When the list was first printed there
were only $50, but each mail has
brought scores of signers, all eager to
enlist under the La Toilette banner
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
WOULD MAKE MANY BOYS GOOD

YONKERS, ~ Y. November 21.-
The successful operation performed
here on fourteen-years-old Frederick
Morris, which is believed to have
transformed him from an incorrigible
into a model boy has excited wide
spread interest among mothers of bad
boys and the hospital surgeons are
receiving a food of applications for
advice and treatment
A chum of Morris, who is also UNI
der court probation for implication in
several theft cases, will be examined
by X-ray in an effort to ascertain
whether his moral condition is due to
a brain lesion from fall three years
hgo. ST any conditions warranting
surgical treatment are discovered he
will be subjected to an operation SINH
lar to that which appears to have sue
ceeded with young Morris
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
'DR. SUN YAT SEN OUTLINES
FUTURE REGIME IN CHINA

A missionary was wounded, hut sue
ceeded in rescuing a number OF school
children. The English Baptist Mission
was threatened, but not attacked.
When the rebels restored order they
decapitated many of the outlaws.
When the missionaries left Tung
Chow Flu, the rebels continued to adj
minister the city capably, but brigands
swarmed throughout the province.
The country people near Tung Chow
FIJI organized and captured and killed
several of the robbers
Another party arriving in Pekin
from Southern Shen 81 believes that
Sian Flu missionaries will be unable to
get away, owing to the condition of
the roads
Brigands Loot Town.
This party also gives an account of
a massacre at Tung Kwan. Brigands
posing as revolutionists captured and
looted the town, killing 1000 of its in
habitants.
Imperial troops then recaptured the
place. killed $1,000 of the brigands and
carried off down the river eighteen
boatloads Of Chinese girls.
The revolutionists took Tung Kwan
later.
CONTINUED on page tweIve)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08
LAZY" FATHER SENT TO JAIL.

LAZY" FATHER SENT TO JAIL.
SACRAMENTO, Cal, November 81,
Edward Westlake was sentenced to
two years confinement in the county
Jail by Superior Judge Hayes today
as a "lazy" father The sheriff was
ordered to put Westlake at work on
public roads. The law under which
Westlake was sentenced provides that
a husband or father who fails to pro.
vide for his family shall, upon con-
viction, be put at work for the county
and paid $3.50 a day, the money to
be paid over to his family.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08

Another year will see the hydro
aeroplane developed to such an eX-
tent that each battleship of the Amer
lean navy may have its own flying
machine, in the opinion of Captain
Washington |. Chambers, who has
charge of the aeronautical work OF
the navy department.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-08

with the lines thus drawn, it
would be idle to deny that the situa-
ton of today presents itself as a
crisis for the Republican party. This
is not to our liking No more can it
be to the liking of others who see
the interests of the country best in
sured when there is a Republican
president in the White House, with a
Republican House of Representatives
and Republican Senate in Congress
What the likelihood is of such a re-
suit, following the national election
of next year; what the likelihood is
when the party is threatened, not with
.dissension, but with actual separation
into several fragments, is a subject
for the careful consideration of every
body-for Mr.. Taft it is a matter of
deepest concern.
Taft's Confession.
Anticipating something of what
has now come to pass, Mr. Taft has
confessed the possibility of party de-
feat. Did he have it in mind then,
when he minated his misgivings to
decline a nomination? We say decline
a denomination, rather than a trial
for it, because we take it that, if he
should be so minded, the Federal ma
chine could march to the convention
the delegates necessary to place him
at the head of the ticket For it is
Federal officeholders who, in person
or by proxy, man the nominating en-
CINE of the national convention.
But, though he might be willing to
face, or even court defeat at the
head of his party, in fair and square
contest, Republican host against DEM
ocratic host, could he be willing to
go upon the political battlefield with
out great party perhaps not without
so much as a fraction of his party,
behind him? Such is not our opinion.
We believe that the public will not
! be left long unaware that such is not
the opinion of Mr.. Taft. In any event
there must be Immediately some very
dramatic developments of situation
that so suddenly has become all but
tragic
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-25
The Liquor Question

According the Hon Henry B. Gray the retiring Lieutenant
the Legislature OF that state que
likely work of it's predecessor by repeating the Sa"de
reenacting local option Oher WelOheu
Alabaman seem opinion AS the Statewide prom
bon only years DID, to repeal 1t now would LOOK rer
sudden The Legislature that passed it had received no mandate
take such course ProhDon mao not Oen
the issue in campaign the contrary the dominant Demo
cratic party was pretty thoroughly committed to the local option
principle which about ninety per cent the counues ana
towns ayeady dry But along came the pro
hbiton the city of Birmingham was carried by majority
that came from Jefferson county, the professional
politicians the Legislature swept OIL It's rect 1t
submit to the people resolution putting
very drastic statewide prohibition into the constitution
But that prOhbOnists proved to be capital mistake
The amendment by majority OF something IKE TWO
to one and the reaction stop until ONei anrohDo
list had been elected governor with legislature in which one house
certainly favOrs repeal the other also consent to It,
How will eventually probably depends III very
large liquor people themselves Their own misconduct
and updv their repeated of public sentiment were
principal cause of the original uprising against them There are
MANY people that thorough and sensible regulation OF
tbe liquor business than prohibition But if the liquor bus
refuses regulated and tries instead to run things e
then large proportion people will be for prohibition
most communities prohlD-
ton or reguaon-not prohibition doasyouease-
Weekly.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-25
LITTLE INTERVIEWS

A. S. HUMPHREYS-Every once
in a while some astonished and indig-
nant person will run into newspaper
office, exhibiting an envelope address
ed TO him at Honolulu, Manila" or
other place where Honolulu is not
expressing wonder that his correspon-
dent was unaware that Honolulu is,
III fact, in Hawaii. l am inclined to
think that We are, in a large part,
responsible for the ignorance that
appears to exist, even in intelligent
circles, as to the location of Homo
lulu. Nearly every letter-head sent
out from here bears the date line,
Honolulu, r. f." meaning, of course,
Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. This
sbbreviation for the political entity,
Territory of Hawaii, is understood
perfectly, by those OF us who are
here, hut it does mislead those else
where, as it is not customary to alb.
breviate the names Of Territories SINH.
lar wise, anywhere else, as | find by
reference to the Standard Dictionary
and other authorities. No one ad-
dresses a letter to San Francisco, as
San Francisco, S. c." meaning San
Francisco, State of California, yet.
there is just as much sense in so abb
breviating the address, as there is
in using the abbreviation "T H." Ha-
wall, is a short word the phrase Ho-
nolulu, Hawaii, is euphonious and
alliterative. Why not write it out in
full? Every one, at least once in his
life, has been unable to get rid of a
musical phrase, a line of poetry, the
name of some place, which pursues
him everywhere with the invincible
obstinacy of a spectre. A sweet or a
nonotonous voice murmurs in your
ear the theme, a dumb orchestra plays
it within your brain, your pillow re
peats it. and your dreams whisper
it: an invisible power forces you to
mutter it stupidity from morning to
night, as a devotee repeats his som
nolent litany, reminding one of Mark
Twain's Punch conductor, punci
with care" Let us make an effort Il
get some part of the world addicted
to the habit of saying HONOLULU
HAWAII" making the start RICH
here.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-25
WALT MASON.

ation and resolve affects the soul like noble music Indeed
be found in all his utteranCes strain which like
leading mOtve-the LetmOf-n musical drama; strain of
mingled pathOs herOm and resolution That the
two nauguras in the gettysburg Address, and in his letter
ISOLATION bereaved mother which the heart generation
after generation"
Mr. Perry next tries the experiment of lining portions
Lncon utterances if they blank verse; obserng
Casting them into such lines does course more
actually pOeca but it does call attention orciby
that they pOetcaln form well quality The
is still there be that musical
toned by Mr.. Glider is seldom absent
I'm the ubOned examples it claimed that
lines is the possible division they capable Of more
pacsed might the lines that the pOetical
would be heightened
THE FAREWELL ADDRESS AT SPRINGFIELD.
Friends on II my
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children beenb
IS
Or whether with a before
Greater than that which Washington.
Without o Being
With that assistance fail
Trusting him who with
And remain with be everywhere
Let confidently hope that all will yet be we'll
To His commencing hope
In
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