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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01
before the second car reached the
finish line.
ROYAL HAWAIIAN CARRIAGE.

Managr Wells, of the Royal Ha-
waiian Garage, reports that business
has been exceedingly brisk in every
mobile agencies salesrooms, even in
full staff has been kept busy all along,
and there is plenty of work on hand.
The removal of the quarantine will
make a big difference, and this was
noticeable yesterday by the number
of cars that were hired for joy riding.
The Alec truck the first of it's kind
imported here, has been undergoing
some further trials during the week,
and it has answered all in manner
that was entirely satisfactory. It has
created lot of interest, and Man
ager Wells anticipates that big de-
mand will set in for this machine.
Two more are already on the way,
and should be here at an early date.
Both have been sold, so that not one
of them will be on the floor at all
after they have had the bodies fitted
to them.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01
MIDGET BUYS CHALMERS.

Master Gabriel, the midget actor
and stage creator of Buster Brown"
Little Memo" and Little Tommy
Tucker" has already placed his order
with D. A. Harrington, Chalmers
dealer in his home city, Providence,
R. l., for a 1912 Chalmers. Master
Gabriel has been an automobile en-
thusiast for number of years. Master
Gabriel at present drives a Chalmers
$50" Pony Tonneau. 1t is the first
car which the little man, who is but
trihe over four feet in height, has
been able to control with as much
ease as though he were large man.
Master Gabriel has found the Chal-
mers $50" 'just his size" in the mat
ter of comfort and ease Of control.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01
CADILLAC WINS
GRUELLIN6 TESTS

Competing against cars of their
own and greater power, Cadillac cars
have recently won honor for them
selves in a reliability run and in a
road race.
Acting as pacemaker throughout,
and as pilot car more than half the
time a Cadillac driven by George De
Witt won the only perfect score in
the recent Houston (Tex.) five-day
reliability run. The route covered 800
miles, and lay from Houston to Bren-
ham, Austin, San Antonio, Beeville,
Corpus Christi, Cuero, Victoria and
back to Houston. Many Of the cars
came to grief in the sand of the Texas
reads. The Cadillac maintained a
schedule of twenty miles an hour
This run, by the way, was the first
reliability contest held in Texas un-
der the sanction and rules of the
American Automobile Association
The winning Cadillac was a 1911
touring car, carried the referee and
one other passenger in addition tC
the driver, and complete touring
equipment,
Another Cadillac ran a remarkable
race in the Observation-Disclosures and re
turn road race in California. The dis
lance around the circuit was aproXi
mately 230 miles, which the Cadillac
completed in Z hours, 10 minutes, \
seconds; or at an average speed o
80 miles per hour. The car met wit
one accident, when it went into
shallow ditch. 1t was back on tn
road again in four minutes, and con
pleted the race more than an hou
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01
Fine Job Printing, Star once.
HAWAITAN COMMERCIAL &
SUGAR co.
Annual Meeting Of Stockholders.

Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Hawaiian Commercial
& Sugar Company will be held at the
office of the Company, Alaska Com
mercial Building, San Francisco, on
Wednesday, April 18th, 1911, and the
stock books of the Honolulu Trans
fer Office will be closed for trans
fers from March 91st, 1911, to April
18th, 1911, both dates inclusive.
ALEXANDER & BALDWIN,
Honolulu Transfer Agents.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01

The Won HammYoung Company's
salesrooms have been crowded during
the week with prospective purchasers
looking over the fine display of auto
mobiles for sale. In hardly any auto
department during the past week. ,
the big cities on the mainland, can
be found such a varied number of
most up-to-date motor cars made.
The most conspicuous of all the
beautiful cars on show are the splen-
did Packards which are recognized
all over the States as the standard
best built car on the market, which
gives for it's factory price better
return and more satisfaction than any
other car built today.
During the week fine seven-pas-
senger Packard arrived for The Won
Hamm. Young Company which has
been placed alongside of pretty lit
tie Model "1S" Packard runabout,
which awaits the arrival of promi-
nent Honolulan who is now on the
mainland.
The big seven-passenger and the
small three seated runabout are as
different in size as can possibly be
imagined, yet both have the distinc-
tive Packard ear-marks of design
throughout, and the general appear
ance would classify them among thou
sands of other cars as distinctively
Packard" This distinction of APP.
pearance is only one of the many fine
points which have made the Packard
the most talked-of and most popular
high priced car on the market.
AS distinct as it's appearance so is
it's motor and general running gear is
of distinct and high-class type. The
best materials only are used in Pack
ard cars, and for refinements of body
and appurtenances it excels every
other American car built today No
only that, but the Packard is one
of the most economical cars to handle
1t is one of the reasons why ovel
y fifty per cent of the rent men in Ho
nolu'u have given up former makes
and invested their money in Packard
cars.
The expense of running Packard
in the gruelling rent service, which
never gives the car a chance for res
or overhaul, is fifty per cent less thai
almost any other high-class rent car
This is the reason that every rem
mans ambition is ultimately to owl
a Packard. The Packard for him il
a necessity, being the best money
maker. 1t brings in good return
without the necessity of spending lot
of money for the up-keep OF the car
The demand for 1912 Packards Il
already large, even though the an
nouncements of the 1912 Packard
specifications have not been made a
vet The Won Hamm-Young Compan,
have booked a number of orders add
y ing to same another order this weel
for a fine seven-passenger touring ca
for one of Honolulus prominent bust
ness men.
The allotment of the Won Hamn
Young Company of 1911 Packards ha
been all sold out, but fortunately tn
1912 cars will not be long in waitin
as deliveries will be made at the b.
ginning OF June, 1911.
Another car handled by the vo
Hamm-Young Company is the Cadilla
which in it's class maintains the sam
position ac the Packard in the higl
class cars. AS is generally admitte
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01
The Week With The
Won Harnn-Y Young Garage

the Cadillac is one of the most re-
liable, and the most perfectly built
car, and giving the best results OF
any American car obtainable today
around 100000.
Last week the Won Hamm-Young
Company delivered four Cadillac cars
to prominent people in Honolulu.
This week they delivered fine five
passenger touring car to the board Of
health, who have made excellent use
of same in their cleaning-up campaign.
Another Cadillac was added this
week by the City Fathers to the equip
ment of their road department, there
by increasing Mr.. Ceres capacity for
work by several hundred per cent.
Mr.. Gere is very much pleased with
his fine Cadillac, and is ready now to
do the work of three men, which ne
says he will do cheerfully.
A FIVE passenger Cadillac car will
arrive next week for Mr.. S. G. Wilder,
and another Cadillac touring car for
another prominent local business man.
Among the sales booked by the Won
Hamm-Young Company this week was
that of a Model 800" standardization
roadster equipped with the famous
Renault type of motor. This car went
to Doctor Hobby, who is very much
Several other orders were booked
by the Won Hamm-Young Company in
Guiding Pope-Hartfords, Thomas, Hup.
mobiles, and other cars handled by
this company, keeping their large
, staff of automobile men on the jump
, all the week.
, The repair department has worked
: overtime continually trying to keep
, up with the many demands being
2 made on same.
t Among the many additions to this
, department, which have included
l.. within the past few mnths larger
r repair shop anu a fine Oxygen Ascete
/. lene Welding Plant, and an up to-date
5 electrical department, has been added
| this week new feature consisting
of a baking enamelling process. BY
l this process the Won Hamm-Young
l Company is in position to enamel
t all brass work including oil and gas
4 lamps and other accessories giving
. such parts the popular black coating
t which of late has been adopted by al
a of the leading automobile manufac
5 turers.
: Aside from giving such parts dis
s tinctive and handsome appearance il
S does away with the necessity of hav
;. ing lamps continually polished tc
5 keep them looking bright,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01
General Specifications

BRAKES-Two sets: (a) Service band brake operates on
the transmission and is controlled by foot pedal; (b)
Emergency brake controlled by hand lever side of
car acting the drums of wheels
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01

acting the drums OF wheels
CLUTCH Multiple steel discs, operating in oil.
CONTROLLERS foot pedals By pressing the first
pedal C the slow speed is applied by releasing. it is
in the high speed The center pedal r. for reversing
the car. The third pedal B" is the brake The Ford
Model can be entirely manipulated either by of the
pedals by the controlling lever at the side of the
The carburetor lever and throttle just under the steering
wheel will regulate the speed of the from walk to
40 miles an hour, without shifting lever applying
the foot pedals.
COOLING.-Themo-sypho and fan.
CRANK CASE--Upper half integral with cylinder casting
Lower half OF pressed steel and extended to form oWer
housing for magnetic and transmission.
EQUIPMENT Touring Car, Torpedo Runabout
Open Runabout and Roadster include at the fully
equipped prices top automatic brass windshield
speedometer, two gas lamps and generator three oil
lamps tubular horn and kit of tools. The Town Car
and Coupe equipment include three oil lamps tubular
horn and tools only.
FINAL DRIVE.-By carbon shaft with single universal
joint to beve drive gears in live axle. Ford three
point system (patened in all countries) with all moving
parts enclosed in dust proof castings, running oil.
Vanadium steel throughout
FRONT AXLE-One piece drop forging in Ibeam Sec
ton, specially heat treated Vanadlum steel.
IGNTTION-Alternating current magnetic but with no NOV
ing parts. Entirely enclosed integral part of the
nsures powerful spark. No batteries dry cells
required.
LUBRICATION-Comb Combination splash and gravity system
simple and effective
SEIAFTS-Crank and CAM non-weded drop-forged heat
treated Ford Vanadium STEEL with all surfaces ground to
absolute accuracy.
SPRINGS-Front and rear semiellptica transverse, all
Vanadum.
STEERING-By Ford reduction gear system.
front 30x3 inches rear 30x3 IL inches
Standard makes Best quality. Larger tires than ordn-
ay used for weight of the which longest
vice and greatest comfort
TRANSMISSION-New design Ford spur planetary,
bathed in oil All gears of Vanadum STEEL silent and
smooth running in action.
VALVES-Extra large. all the right side and offset
WHEEL BASE-l00 inches; tread SO inches; 60mch
tread for Southern trade when ordered.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28
Pleasant Hours Win Native Birds A Preston Woman Who Feeds Them From Her Hand
 Eight Varieties Eat From Her Hand-sympathy For
 MT. Rawson in His Loss

foster parent that the sparrow was obliged to stretch up as tall as it could, and the cowbird to hold it's head down m order for the food to be put in it's mouth. In it's eagerness to be fed it seemed as if it would almost swallow the old birds head in it's enormous red
 mouth. It tiuttered it's wings and kept ur 8 continual harsh lisp when the sparrow was with it at the window. At first she gave it small crumbs: but in q few days. apparently in despair of ever satisfying ii, she would pick mp the nearest piece regardless Of size. and thrust it into the always open bill. Frequently it would choke and was obliged to stretch and swallow viz orously before a large piece would go
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

If any one has followed a suggestion in my last report and tanned some chipping sparrows, l wish they would write The Bulletin, so that we might compare notes.
 As usual I have had number of tame sparrows. l saw the first on April 18th. Four days later one came tu the window-siil for food, it's mate soon followed and by the tenth of May, when one ate three bits from my hand. there were two pairs. By the end Of the month one pair would eat together from my hand I did not try them again for about two weeks, then one day, when I stood at the open window, 8 chippy came and ate and carried away food from the sill. After It went I held out food. It soon came back and carried from my hand, without showing any fear. Another came and ate with it. Three times I held my hand up or out from the sill and one hoped on readily. Once it crept un- der my wrist to get food on the other side.
 The first baby came to the window on June 26th. The next day, an adult would feed it from my hand and the baby itself took one bite. Soon there were two, probably more. which would come to me for food.
 July 18th there was a new young baby, which 1 suppose belonged to the other pair. In 9 few days one of the new babies ate forty three bites from my hand at once, later one ate seven ty-five bites in the same way. An adult became so tame that it would sit on the sill and wait for me to raise the screen a little and hold out crumbs, then it would come and eat.
 On May 18th. l found chippy's nest, with broken egg shell, on the ground under the grape arhor This probably accounted for the second pair having their family so much later than the others.
 babies. which I sunppose belonged to babies. which l suppose belonged to middle sized. and the little babies con- tinued to come for a little. The last time, that I saw one at the window. was on September 11th. I have known them to come as late as October 22d.
 The cowbird, or "iazy'' bird, as it is sometimes called, because it builds no nest but deposits it's eggs in the nest of some smaller bird. is not welcomed by other hirds or by bird students. Yet during the past summer, 1 have had novel and interesting experience with one. On May 21st, song spar row commenced coming to the window, in few days it was followed by an other. June 11th I saw one in a tree feeding q young cowioird, which was able to fly only few feet from one branch to another. I had heard it's harsh cry for two days At the end of a week, 1t followed a song sparrow to the window three times one day and each time was fed g great quantity. The last time, when the song sparrow flew away, It remained and picked up few tiny bites, in d feeble babyish way It was so much larger than it's
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

nation to many less fortunately sit uated I hope that we may hear from him in the future c. B. EI./
 Preston City Conn. Oct. 26, 1911.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

down suppose that it was less greedy than 1t appeared. It was so much larger than the song sparrows, that they must have been unable to have giyen it all it needed and prob ably went hungry themselves.
 It's colofs were similar to those of an adult female. dark brownish gray aboa and lighter below The breast mot tied or striped with brown, the throat Oliver Twist. for. like Dickens char aeter, it always asked for more" After few days it learned to come alone and pick up small pieces. 1t was more quiet, when by itself and when it succeeded in picking up q. crumb, it would sometimes give a sat iSfed little note, which sounded some like the noise d chicken makes when it is fulfilled and comfortable. Even an abundant supply of food it would beg to be fed if the song sparrow came to the window at the same time, but the sparrow seemed to know that this was unnecessary. If it was very per Sistent, perha pS it received a bite or two, then the old bird would pick up a load and carry away She had at least one baby of her own but it only came to the window once. Another time, 1 saw both the song baby and the COW baby following a song sparrow in the yard. The cowbird came to the window for eighteen or nineteen days coming fewer times in a day at the last. Some weeks later I saw one eat ing in the yard with some English ST arrows. Neither song sparrow or cowbird would eat from my hand. The sparrow came for about week lonoer than the cowbird.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

Now it isn't by any means sure that the last word has yet been said abcup farming the desert. Forty years ago no man would have thought of trying 70 crop crops where there wasn't rain enough in a whole summer to lay the dust. l. is done, now. And without irrigation, too. What do you suppose people will be doing the next forty years? Standing still and sucking
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28
Test of Modesty.

Test of Modesty.
 Our idea of a modest man is one who doesn't honestly think he'd make Q good resident.-Columbus Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

We're not anywhere near the ragged edge of national pauperism yet. The land which the gentlemen of the agri- cultural department kick out of court, now, as incapable of improvement '' will be hauled back into court, much of it just as soon as the real need for it's improvement demands it's recall.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

T,e juncos were very common a the win ow in January, February, and the frs part of March. Then they came less frequently, ending April 26. Eng fish sparrows are very common, but they rarely come to the window.
 Goldflnches nave been quite common in the yard during the summer. A number of times noticed one swing ing on a perpendicular, swaying branch of the grapevine. Several times one lighted on some stalks near a seed dandelion and reaching out with it's bill drew the stem under it's feet, where it held it and ate the seeds. When it let go. the stem was cracked, so that it remained bent.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

A female downy woodpecker came frequently in January and early in February to eat meat fastened on q tree near the house. February g 9 piece of suet was put on the window sill for the first time. DoNny very soon saw it and came and ate a num- Der of bites, when I stood within five feet Of the window. As there was also meat on the tree, she came to the house only occasionally until April F, when she became a common, per- haps daily, caller. She came for the last time on June g. During une last three weeks of her stay, she ate from my hand four times. Once picking up about forty pieces. She would fly away if I tried to put my hand out after she came; but was not afraid if she chanced to come, when I was already holding out food She could only eat tiny bites of soft food. When eating from the sill she held her bill sideways and seemed to scoop up the food.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

There is just as ample scope for improving our wooded mountain lands as for improving our gardens. When the farmer of New England grasps the one simple little fact that wood and timber are crops as truly as wheat and apples, when he gives as ratable a share of attention to his forests as to his fields-why, then he will be getting a better income and making more off his farm than he generally does, now.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

am sure all bird students sympa- thized with Mr Rawson in his loss of specimens and valuable notes, when the Quail Trap" burned, yet he must have many facts and pleasant memor- ies stored in his mind. and his writ ings have given pleasure and infor-
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

This summer l have had my first
 opportunity to observe a pair of barn
 swallows and their family. The nest
 under q piazza was partly built when
 I first noticed it May II. There were
 babies June F. perhaps a day earlier. Both adults brought food and l
 thought that they took turns in sitting on the eggs. In a week five comical little heads showed above the row of feathers, that stood up around the edge of the nest. They were covered with gray fuzz and had enormous yellow mouths. The babies went out from the nest the l last of June or JulW l.; but came back
 at night for week and also in the day time to rest
 There have been only a few nests in our yard. The oriole carried away material put out. but did not betray her secret until I saw her driving a nuthatch from a tree and upon inVes- tigation discovered the nest Later was surprised to see a very large rat evidently trying to reach the nestlings, which were very noisy. It had crept up the tree about three feet, when l hurried that way, it walked slowly down and ran into the wall A trap was set and that trouble was soon ended.
 The robins chippies, and song spar
 rows also had nests in the yard and
 the swifts in tine chimney
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

Of the eight kinds of birds, which visited the window for food, there were probably forty individuals, be- side those mentioned in this article, there were five chickadees and six nuthatches I am sure that sixteen ate from my hand and I think there were several more, but the little chip pies looked so nearly alike that I could not tell The kinds of birds seen in or adjoining our yard. so far this year, number thirty four I have also heard the whip poor-will and screech- owl. In other places I saw four additional kinds among them a pair of scarlet tanagers, which were in an oak tree on the edge of a wood.
 October g. I saw juncos. the next day myrtle warblers. On October f9, a flock of perhaps hundred meadow larks stopped to eat in the moving lot next our back yard.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

their thumbs? There is reason to ex- goect that they will know more about dry farming in 195o than we do, just as We now know more than they did in 1860. Land which, half century age, was considered hopeless, is now growing noble crops. Why may not land which We consider hopeless, now, ne dcing something half a century hence. for farmers who know more than we?
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

The robins, chippies, and song spar rows also had nests in the yard and the swifts in the chimney.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-28

Why. it begins to look as if the calf had get about to the end of its tetherl
 Can it be that we are so near the limit of agricultural expansion? Is there really ground for gloomy fore boding and fear that the time is at hand when we shall not be able to produce crops for our own needs :? Let's see: What sort of land actually IS this half which is summarily dis missed as incapable of cultivatiol."? :?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-22
TOLD FORTUNES BUT
 COULDN'T TELL OWN
Mystic at Savin Rock, Gets Paint Washed Off Face and Is Arrested for Theft of $1,50O.

New Haven, July 22.-For weeks past scores of visitors of Savin Rock have gathered about the olive hued person who in flowing robes and tur- ban sat on a raised platform in the Grove, and with the aid of a magic Hindoo wand, told fortunes as they gazed on in open eyed wonder. With the grease washed from his face and dressed in his royal raiment the orien- tai wonder was none other than Chas. B. Baker. His assistant, known bet ter to those in the business as the "come on man" was Conrad LeMaire.
 Late yesterday afternoon Detective Sergeant Horter, of Newark, N. J., ar rived in West Haven and few min utes later in company with Sergeant French, of the West Haven police force went to Savin Rock. There they visited Baker, but not to have their fortunes told. With LaMaire he was placed under arrest on the charge of stealing s1,50O worth of platinum from the Baker Engineering Co.,, of Newark. They waived extradition and left for Jersey on the 9:25 train last night
 Baker is in no way related to any of the members of the firm from which he took the platinum. He was employed by them, and in that way managed to gain access to safe con- taining the valuable platinum leaves.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-22

Roger Bresnahan smoked a Nugget while in town a