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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-13
THE MAN THAT CAUSED
NECKER ISLAND TO Be
ANNEXED BY HAWAII

Below is an extract from a sketch
of the life of Sir Sandford Fleming,
dean of the engineering profession
of Canada" who this year attained
his eighty-fourth year. Fleming was
born at Kincaldy, Scotland, and
landed in Canada at eighteen years
of age. He. built many railways in
that country and was called from
London in 1884 to pull the Canadian
Pacific Railway through tight place
in the Rockies where the engineers
on the job had stuck. Among other
distinctions he was the pioneer of
twenty-four-hdur standard railway
time and the chancellor of Queens
University for thirty-one years.
Sir Sanford Fleming is here in
troduced as the cause of the annex
alton by Hawaii of Vecker Island. At
the time of that incident the exploit
was regarded here as a clever fore
stalling of Great Britain's desire to
obtain the desolate isle, which would
make good capital for the anneXa-
ton cause in Washington 1t will
be seen from what follows that the
British betrayed to the Hawaiian
government the purpose of Fleming
to secure the island for a station of
the Pacific cable. one of his dearest
life enterprises, in consequence of
which the purpose was thwarted and
the promoter forced to go farther for
station.
The intensity of Sir Sanford's
promotion of the cable was once re-
vealed by himself in Honolulu. He
was passing through with his daugh-
ter on board a steamer for Australia.
To a reporter who interviewed him
he stated that the trip was one
purely of health and pleasure,
Among big men the veteran engineer
was as reticent as they make EN-"
but when the reporter-who hap
pened to be thoroughly posted in all
the Pacific cable projects of the time
quoted a remark made to him
shortly before then by Sir Audley
Coote of Tasmania, representing
cable interests opposed to Fleming's,
the distinguished promoter forgot
himself and wrathfully exclaimed:
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yes, that is what is taking me to
Australia The interview was saved,
for more followed.
This is what his biographer &C.
Frederick Hamilton), says of Flem-
ing's successful fight for the ALFRED"
cable:
phase the fifth sees Sanford
Fleming director of the Canadian
Pacific, active in university work,
busy with a dozen projects, living IN
Ottawa, which he had visited in 1S45
when it was Bytown. His days of
active engineering work were behind
him; he had leisure and means to
devote himself to public questions
which interested him. In particular
he put his back into the Pacific cable
project. The stubborn old gentleman
had been working at the scheme for
twenty-four years, before in 1902 he
sent the first cable message across
the Pacific. The cable ring fought
him with ingenuity, with tenacity
and with a complete absence Of
scruples. 1t would be too long to tell
the whole story-is It not written in
a book, Annals and Aims of the Pa
cifc Cable? But perhaps room may
be had for one curious incident
"a great obstacle to the project
was the absence of a suitable island
for the first landing place west aud
south Of Vancouver Island; Honolulu
was no part of the Empire and was
undergoing the process of absorption
by the United States. Rather more
than 400 miles west of Honolulu, and
2,431 miles from Vancouver Island,
was Necker Island, small rock, use
less except for some purpose such
as a cable station it was unclaimed
by any nation. Mr. Fleming, as he
then was, besought the Imperial gov
eminent to annex it. No, the I'M
perial government would not annex
it; this was part of the settled hos
tility to the project in Imperial gov
erning circles which Mr.. Fleming
had to combat Thereupon Mr.
Fleming sought out a retired naval
officer whom he could trust, and COM
Continued on page Thirteen)
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was choked up with tin cans and otn-
er debris. This ditch then extends
through to and under Kukui street, a
short distance above which street it
connects with and is fed by the ut
ters draining Liliha street.
In our opinion, an economical plan
would be to lay "a inches sewer
pipe the entire length of this ditch,
to carry storm water only.
A Notorious Camp.
After following this ditch to its
source on Liliha street we came out
on Vineyard street and visited Camp
No. 2, where we found some things
in very bad condition, for instance,
one water closet with seven compart-
ments, had an open trough filled with
excrement, the flushing of which had
been neglected, another closet with
nine compartments was in almost as
bad condition.
We found that the wash houses are
owned and managed by Mr.. Theodore
Richards, and that the tenements,
while owned by him, are leased to a
Chinese; these buildings are general
ly in bad condition, in some cases the
sinks having rusted and rolled away,
so that the water used in washing
runs through the floor forming a pool
under the building.
Upon further investigation We found
that Mr.. Richards, had used his ut
most efforts to force cancellation
of the lease to the Chinese lessee, on
account of the bad condition in which
the buildings and surroundings are
kept by said lessee, and had carried
his suit to the supreme court, at a
heavy expense, but failed to secure
relief in spite of provisions in the
lease which specifically state that the
lessee shall conform to all of the rules
and regulations of the Board of Health,
in his care of the property.
There are sixteen tenements of ~
rooms each, all of which would be
vastly improved by a liberal applica-
ton of whitewash.
We next visited the new tenements
erected on the site of the old Kau-
Continued on page sixteen.)
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Murder at oiaa.

HILO, May 11;-Death caused by a
brow rect Woo from tn, hands oil an
unknown person, was the verdict re-
t.Ined !tsttrCay by the conorel's jury
in me ease / Korean who was lnur-
cLied last Saturday p'e!:t ~ liza
The case at t,"st seemed to be one Of
wilful murder and a Japanese named
Okamoto was placed under arrest and
charged with the crime but afterwards
was released, when the coroner's jury
he'd delivered it's verdict. Deputy Sher-
if Fetter was not satisfied with the de-
cision and will continue the investtga'
ton. He stated yesterday that he be-
lieved that part of the evidence had
been hidden or incorrectly given.
According to the testimony of GER
tain witnesses the dead Korean whose
name was En- Kah Sab and who work
as water boy for John Farcall at IL
Miles, was mixed up in a drunken
fight last Saturday night, his antagon-
ist being a Japanese named Okamoto.
The latter, according to some of the
witnesses, hit the Korean with his
fists and according to others used one
of his wooden shoes. The Korean was
found by a police officer lying in a
flume with water running over his
body and by him was turned over to
another Korean who carried the in
jured man home on his back. He died
later on.
The wife of the japanese who was
arrested testified that she was asleep
when the fight started and that her
husband was too much drunk.A At
about II o'clock she heard a noise out.
side the house and saw the two fight.
ing and that another Japanese brought
ner husband into the house and she
locked him up in his room so that he
could not get out.
The only witnesses that testified in
regard to the use of the wooden shoe
in the fight are Porto Ricans, while
Continued on page 16)
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ARMY AND NAVY

Pearl Harbor is situated, or intends to
surrender it to an enemy in the
event of war. In a remarkably clear
cut and intelligent analysis of the
situation he arrives at the conclu-
sion that the American attitude evil
dences a desire to keep Honolulu as
an outpost, but is confident that il
will fall before an attack.
In this connection he says:
b IAN outpost is valueless unless It
Is secure. 1t is waste of good time,
money and nervous energy to prepare
a place for defense and still feel that
only extreme good luck will enable
1t to fulfill its mission. The ships of
the navy must not be depended upon
for the defense of a naval base. The
value of navy is its mobility. Our
navy must be left free to seek the
enemy's feet and defeat it, to con-
voy transports, to attack the enemy's
coast or his commerce, to protect our
own merchant marine and to perform
hundreds of other duties that demand
its presence at sea, none of which
can be performed when it is tied
down to protect a naval base. The
naval base must offer a safe retreat,
a supply and repair point. whenever
the navy needs it,"
This point-that the outpost must
serve and protect the navy, and not
that the navy must protect the out
post-is we'll taken. Il is an assump-
ton altogether too commonly made
by Americans that, in the event of
war our floating forces could be re-
lied upon to protect our insular pos
sessions. The futility of such an ar
rangement is visible on its face, It
is much the same as expecting a
squadron of cavalry to defend line
of entertainments manned by infan-
try, instead. of looking to the fortified
foot-soldiers to give them succor
after a daring raid.
The writer declares that conditions
on Oahu render the presence OF fully
10000 men imperatively necessary to
assure it against capture He points
CONTINUED on Page Slxteen.)
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Came on the Sheridan.


With the arrival of the good ship
Sheridan today from the Coast the
military forces of this army, navy
and marine district were increased by
the arrival of eighty-seven men, who
come here as recruits to be assigned
to the various branches of Uncle Sans
service.
Besides these casuals there are six
teen first and second class passengers
for Honolulu and two hundred and
thirty-four tons of freight to be put
off here.
The arrival and anticipated depar-
ture of the U. S. A. T. Sheridan marks
a happy period for this port, in so
much as the quarantine, which has
cast a shadow over the shipping at
this harbor, is raised. And with the
going out on Monday afternoon of the
transport, all health quarantine of
restriction, will have passed, as an un.
pleasant dream, into the events of
yesterday
Captain ]. w. Healley, who is the
master of the army transport Sheri-
dan, is always welcome visitor to
this port, as he is at every port of call
at which the troopship stops.
Captain Healley is the youngest
captain in charge of water craft on
this side. He was master of trans
ports sailing through Philippine wa
ters for seven years and it is said no
skipper knew the treacherous reefs of
the Sulu Sea or of the South China
Sea as did Captain ]. w. Healley. He
was always placed in command of any
ship of State when officials from
Washington, D. c., were visitors to
the Philippine Islands,
Troops e and F of the Seventh Cav
airy from Fort Riley, Kansas. en- route
to join their regiment in the Philip
pine Islands, are travelling on the
Sheridan.
Oahu As An Outpost.
Seattle Times: A contributor to
the Infantry Journal remarks that
the United States should decide, once
and for ALL whether it purposes u
hold the Island of Oahu, upon whicI
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-13

Why have fire engines place those antique
squefo they of the model of 1872whch expected
reach fires behind perceon horses time the
door?
If house gets abaz Pacific Heights Aewa Heights
Manoa the Kamui ridge the have the
with Providence and the settlement with the aduster. But
wouldn't be if the had modern fire apparatus fire in
Manoa could hardly report itself before cang Cang would
ing around supply would deuge the blaze with the
geme fluid you sawputng out the holocaust the
ing paper would call it, and killing the bacl Same thing up Ka
mu down by Billy Twins and Jim Castles places Will please
tell whether either of those palaces could be saved they caught
fire But the would have hardly begun his hes
work Hogan says when the Cadillac engine and the Stevens Dur
and the White and the Buick chemical would have enough
and acid sud pouring through them the
that they made mistake taking out marine insurance
Poor Princess Kawannaoa have the papers
invented command for her attend the coronation but they
bound golden feather cape, They hest
hula skirt drum but they won't hesitate long
She will have those decorations and then will come the tale of
princess She going the coronation like other folks from
convenient window and she will act and dress like other cultivated
ladies private life do and be of the spectacle herself AS
would have got anybody here had
but Her English Majesty has not scattered her commands outside the
limits of the British Empire,
Kuho candidate GOVERNOR You bet your life
then Not that he personally anxious the point
politician Hawaii him that robins
chamber things Our Hawaiian friends don't
why they shouldn't be department chiefs and judges and Federal Of
fas any country especially when fine Fedora
negro Once they drew big There
Bovd running the Department Public Works. Boyd running
the public land business there Wright and Kepokai in the
others Those blessed days and they nigh
return the Territorial appointing and the Federal advising
Kuho this and ready do his part and that is VIII
he is warning on Frear.
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Continued on page 49,
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CONTINUED on Page sIxteen.)
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Oahu As An Outpost.

Seattle Times: A contributor to
the Infantry Journal remarks that
the United States should decide, once
and for all, whether it purposes 10
hold the Island of Oahu, upon which
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iii. that would make man politician
- 80 30 had it 10 accompany his hand-
w., Her hair IS tinged with gray ana
80 % very. very earnest
sn Drna v,hole trouble started began SlFs.
,.,tiiu a. sbe got out a well filed BOOK OF
H ,,Hn,nss "wben the central organization
s s,laorsr.a that had headquarters ID nay
'.'','ood,s saloon. It was Increased o5 'He
i ,'usS', Of the Clason Point suiFas' pa
i H. brewer gave the Woman su.-
s-I's,.'' nort,, the use Of tent al the fol'll
LEE n'as 5,rsereut borough organizations ..''''
gu - ~ this tent on aeparate o"' p
Tn me pavillon was allotted 20 IN. lNe
t,iDqs organization myself ana MES
80, were put in charge. ,..o
-, eound that our predecessor "''' 49,. 49,,
- and accomplished little o''.'
p-d,ng OUT tedious tracts, "l''"
''"l.0' .,,rour away wiihour oeins re''''
orce hired n saddle horse "''u
.,,tracnne attention. r'''
- sYNraee anc signed up voter.
"a, vas over ] D4s 30 ed-o's
-, GOV arc do- ursd and the %. = -.
- O. noth.ns tiat VIII take INC -'- p.
- els. 81 .-or ~ ] s'epPe- ..'
81 ana t3.gbt ~. .i4@e on
- ON the tgp ns- salem 's''''
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Duke the Able $15O00OO0
Tpdnted HILL and with Marble Palace
Surround with Full Grown with Cascades with oun
That VIII from Pump-Filed

falls, rolling grounds, trees, shrubs foun-
tains and winding drives. He ordered land
scape architects to draw up plans embody-
ing his visions. and then this most ex-
traordinary attempt TO build scenery be-
gan.
When Mr. Duke bought his Zoo acres
about ten years ago he had al first a trot-
ting farm on the estate. But soon he tired
Of horses and turned his attention to dairy
farming This did not satisfy him either,
and II was then that the idea struck him
of Transforming his estate into a park.
The work has become a hobby, the only
recreation that attracts him anC Of which
he does not tire. He has no taste for golf
or shooting or horses; even automobiles
are only incidental and all his leisure
hours are devoted TO the supervision Of
the huge task.
Dukes Park, as he likes to call his es-
tate. is to be the finest of its kind. and
cost is no consideration. The plan grew
out OF the original idea 70 create a noun
tain. A the work progressed and the
first plans were carried out, new ideas
were conceived by Mr. Duke, and as he
went on the park took a grip on him.
He became an enthusiastic landscape
architect, and many Of the features were
entirely designed by him. Those who know
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driveways There are springs and rustic
wells too, placed in the artificial rocks
which conceal the pipes that supply the
water. Some day when moss and other
growths will have covered the stones It
will be hard TO tell whether these springs
are natural or not
A dozen or more lakes and groups Of
ponds have been created 70 add TO the
picturesqueness Of the park. The lakes
are on successive levels, connected by
waterfalls and csscades. To supply the
millions Of gallons necessary 70 feed those
lakes Mr.. Duke has built a great pumping
station on the bank OF the Raritan River
that IS kept going day and night. The
building looks Ike an old English castle
and the casual observer would never think
that fl contained nothing else except ma
chinery required 90 pump md aiter the
water
When M Duke was ready % iA with
water the big holes dug for his lakes, and
H. became known that It would require
more than twenty million gallons Of water
a dav 10 keep his lakes full and IFS foun-
tains spouting. the residents along the
Rar,tan River began 70 protest, IN fear
that their water supply would be cut of
TO 7lease the fancy of a millionaire. Their
fears were allayed 10y the promise that only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-15
Little Mrs. Rubin Thinks
Her Scheme for Raising
Funds Beats Contribution
Boxes All to Pieces.

IL rs only with reluctance that orci@s
2. No. PIP Metropolitan Tower win dis
cusg statements OK the strenuous MIS-
Rubin. Have they read Mrs. Rubin out
of the uarty? oh. nor at all Not az all.
ION tile contrary." as Mrs. II. L. Grif-
fifth. chairman NJ tle ways and means com
uittee put it. "we liked Mrs. Ruhliu very
very mucH-and still DO but re didn't see
thar the cause of woman suffrage would
be holp.d materially BIZ such thing as q
Dri-efght. and we simply told her so shs
hasn't been removed from office a. head or
the 10th Assembly District and I can't say
tLat sic VIII Doe.
Mrs Gertrude Duncan. head OF the old
limo suffrage organization for the 35th As
senlbly District, having once been a news
paper woman. talks 20 the reporters ~h"
come into cio SIR. Duncan had this
TO say.
we aren't lighting with Mrs. Rubin
She is hard worker and her valuable SER
vices have been recognized. The fact that
she Is d saloon keepers wife has nothing
whatever TO- 10 with it. Yes, I have read
that she Las begun tho formation o.
party Of ner own We didn't read her out
of our party. The tact is that she has-sr.
we'll. read herself out Of the party as
were. I ara afraid that Mrs Rubin takes
herself bit TOO seriously.
So there, AIRS. Rubin.
sim the Dove Of Peace IS asleep a. 10
witch, r. < rLSDALE
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THE WORKER Of the Women Suffrage
,ar+y haven't scratched the surface Wheh
Won consider how many women there are
and how few belong TO the party. lhere
are eight million working women III tns
state of New Tork-the suffrage party mas
forty thousand enrolled Their stand-ofr
methods are 70 blame for their poor snow
ing. They don't get down next TO the oFcI-
nary woman. They seem 20 have lost sisA-
of the important TACT that every woman vi
age is going 90 have vote whatever her
social standing: whether she drinks Deer
or sarsaparilla.
This boxing exhibition isn't TO arouse
public sympathy Tor the cau5e-l' %
finance the new suffrage party The money
that comes IN VIII go 10 pay ONCE reh1'
hire q stenographer and 70 arrange dances
ana such things for working girls. The
seats viii cost % cents and s. When th-
New York end Of our party IL well estaD-
ished we VIII begin 10 branch out ana
make fl q national organization. We have
now three hundred members and are only
q few days old.
"Our plan Of operation is simply 20 cut
out the skeins Of red tape ana get in touch
with women Of al classes. The hrst th!nS
We intend 10 do is TO beat somebody for
something-like this Before the next cleo
ton wc are going to look over the cand
dates and select ono who is opposed Ia
votes for women Then we viii set busy
Nth the mon and defeat This candidate
tor whatever Dc be- after That WI -no"
the men whether ve arc worth listening
- or not and win help elect candidates
who arc iu favor OF trusting no with ~
-4fIrf
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A LApyLrke WRESTLING MATCH MAY BE PROVIDED.

have brought publicity and cash-the cause
Of womans suffrage needs both. And 80
seeded.
THAT boxing exhibition is going to ~
eld al the Long Acre Athletic Club, in 2su
street. near Seventh avenue, on The even
ing Of October g. 1911. II VIII be under
the auspices Of the Women's Progressive
Political League There Will be several
three-round bouts Of one minute each, and
the state law viii BE- complied with. 90 that
there is no chance Of being raided. Mr.
Ruhlin viii be the tlmekeeper and he
viii have 20 fight. too He probably Will
put on the gloves with TON" sharGey, or
some of the o.aers who aren't % rough
1853 they used 90 De. KNOCKOUT" Brown
has agreed 20 attend ana put on an exhibi-
ton bout with some one ! have just re-
ceircd = letter from jack Sicily, the
famous lightweight -ayinc that me will
gladlr cutcr tire riur again for such =
JUST cause as Dom8 suffrage $50 viii
l.,. referee. With Eis license tas plainly
displayed. li- toeugght 1T and what
grey other .cqu.rcueu.. tbe new isw de-
m8ud- Ticksta g. i1e .hor win sc 80
cents auG 81 Tier wa-. 10 p i-ur'0- art
end t,gr her- ecu women ~-esI,-
Ga.. u-feu. and %. ur. -p teI tle
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have no children. Usually Mr.. Rubin is
TO be found playing some other game than
casino with customers at one OF the afore-
mentioned tables He is an excellent living
exponent OF the best way TO retire from
the prize ring. Some Of EN- let the demon
~un knock en- out; the wise ones, ike
Mr. Rubin. lock friendly arms with strong
drink and thus ripen into q pcrtlY and CON
tented old age. Change his clothes bit
and the monumental Rubin would TT with
out a wrinkle into q picture as We genial
host Of an English Inn Tie laughs az
everything ne says and everything YOU
ssy-not because It is funny, but because
he likes 70 laugh.
Mrs. Rubin" he repeated. "Sure-rght
upstairs First door 20 the right. About
that suffrage business, ehe' and his race
folded I'D into another laugh that shook bis
figure and ratified the windows Mr.. Rubin
stands about six feet four in his stockings.
Mrs Rubin wouldn't touch the hre-toot
mark in high heeled shoes. She IS slight
active and the posscssor of tudicious
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TOO FAR.
Of course

Realism may he carried too Tar
The speaker was Augustus Thomas.
the playwright or Now York. Mr..
Thomas was condemning certain over
realistic plays that he had seen in Paris.
They were SO realistic he said, that
they inflicted pain and disgust on the
audience The audience under this ex-
cessivc realism suffered like Mrs. Blank.
Mrs. Blank vas horror struck 20 see
her little daughter come home from the
bosch one morning with her new silk
frock cut INTO about a hundred holes ~
various sizes.
What on Earth. the mother cri.d.