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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

were soldiers. So you see it requires
a large force to manage a great hotel
without confusion or friction until it
seems to run Itself"
But the most wonderful part of the
Waldorf-Astoria is below the street
level, two or three floors embracing
the entire area of the great structure.
1t is another world of hotel activity
down there. Each floor, of spotless
tile and marble, with high ceilings and
wide passageways, Is everywhere bril-
lisntly lighted with a flood of cleo
tricity, presenting a scene like a Madi'
son Square Garden exhibit.
Michel NJ. Meyer, the chief steward
and purchasing agent, with an office
and staff of assistants all for himself
said their daily purchases and out
put rivaled the largest wholesale de
partment store dealing in groceries
and produce supplies, 1--WE buy in
carload lots, as you will see in walk
ing through the various departments
down here"
It was indeed a wonderful spectacle
a ,vertiable Washington Market in the
meat department, where a dozen but
cheers were busy cutting and carving
carloads of beef and lamb carcasses
Immense ice boxes, each as large as
small house were filled with poultr.
and many kinds of game. Then tn,
fruit department was like a market II
itself, while along an entire stretch o
the floors were boxes of canned frui
stacked to the ceiling like cordwoot
After walking a quarter of mil
through these bazaar-like passag'
ways, with racks and shelving all |
cold storage hundreds of feet long FL
ed with choice cuts, the steward r,
marked:-"All you see here Is b'
for the days supply" 1t seemed Il
creditable that It could be exhauste
in a week. Each day." he continue
"the stock has to be renewed up an
down these alleyways as far as yC
can see.''
On the floor below is the machiner
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
SYSTEM IN A. BIG HOTEL RIVALS
THAT ON BOARD OCEAN STEAMSHIP

When party of visitors from Wash
ington the other day were shown
over one of the big New York hotels
they wondered where the manage
ment found enough people to fill it.
A little later another party, who saw
thousands crowding the dining halls,
reception rooms and corridors, asked
where the hotel found sleeping room
for such a multitude.
But those wonderstruck sightseers
little thought of the army of employees
beneath their feet and the vast under
ground system of providing food and
luxuries that make the New York
hotels one of the marvels of the age,
An up to date ocean liner is its only
rival for efficiency and mastery man,
agement
To get facts and figures Mr.. Oscar,
the manager of the. Waldorf-Astoria
was interviewed yesterday. 1--WE pay
more than a million dollars year fol
salaries alone" he said, land fifteen
hundred names are on our payroll. II
takes a thousand experts to, cater &c
all our patrons and make them com
Portable. Their daily mail, averaging
six thousand letters and papers, IL
larger than that Of an ordinary towr
of 10000 inhabitants. Most of oul
visitors are society or business people
md constantly writing letters. /
takes six busy clerks to handle thu
mail From five hundred to thous
and kilograms pass through the offic'
a day.
The package handled average from
six hundred to eight hundred a day
with carloads of trunks and smalle
pieces in the baggage department. Tn
telephone business of from thre
thousand to four thousand daily calls
tops the list.
"The number of people entering an
leaving the Waldorf each dsy Is SUI
= prlsingly large. To get the exact fiji
. ures We recently stationed men wit
, counting machines at the varior
doors, and the record for the day wa
24,640, enough to make an army If a
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
Photos GYyYZS6t
FdWcelf, MshDC

to dry it Is usually found that the fuel
grows a shade or two lighter in color.
However, there are some exceptions
to this rule, particularly in the case
of the dark-colored plastic varieties
above mentioned, which, when thor.
oughly dry are nearly as hard and
compact as COAL The tendency OF
much of the peat to crumble when
it has been dried to the stage where
il will float in water has a disadvan-
tage in that it makes it ill-adapted to
lengthy transportation or the neces.
sity of frequent rehandling.
The use of peat as fuel in Europe
dates back many centuries. Indeed the
Latin authors, who wrote of the con-
quest of northern and western Europe
by the Romans, told, in wonder, of
the practice of the people of those
regions of digging the soil from tkcir
marsh lands and burning it, after it
had been dried, to warm themselves
and cook their food. In Ireland peat
has been the only domestic fuel Of the
mass of the people from the tradi-
tional time when the forests of the
country were cleared away, and it is
estimated that the people of the
Emerald ISLE. by the use of peat, save
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
SEND KISSES BY FILM

New uses for the cinematograph
are being discovered The Italian
War Department requested the rela-
tives, sweethearts and friends OF the
members of the Eleventh Regiment to
present themselves on New Years
Day at that regiments barracks in
Naples. There they moved past the
moving picture machines and waved
their hands or threw kisses to the
camera as they came opposite, says
the photography magazine. The films
were then sent to Tripoli and the
men, during their leisure evenings,
are cheered by the sight of their
wives, parents, children and sweet
hearts reproduced on the screen be-
fore them.
Still another new field of photogra-
ply was opened with the recent re-
markable hydro-aeroplane flight of
Frank Coffyn in the vicinity OF New
York City. He carried as a passen-
ger photographer fully prepared for
the work and fine plates of the scenes
were secured. The newspapers have
reproduced enough of them indi-
cate something of the wonderful pos
sibilities Of this sort of photography
This Immediately suggests TO the per-
son who has ever in minds the uses
OF the flying machine in war the posi-
biities of securing an intimate rec
ord OF the position and resources OF
the enemy. But 1t has a more general
\ promise than that. The "birdseye'
view is the new view of the earth We
live on. 1t must have its charm for
those who do not go up in airships.
How soon It will be that we shall
have the moving picture camera
mounted on the aeroplane and land
scape by the reel reproduced for the
delectation OF the multitude OF ten
cents a unit. These are only hints Of
what may be as the airship's reach
) and success increase.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
BRITONS AND MORMON WORK
German Dog Detective Finds Murderer
London May Soon be SmOkelesS
Norwegian Girl HarpOOner.

evils, polygamy still exists, and that
when they arrive in Salt Lake City
they have no choice but to accept
what is virtually a form of slavery"
Another clergyman of the Church
of England, Rev. ]. Williams of Bury,
is also on the wsrpath. He declares
that the Mormon missionaries only
visit houses where good-looking wom-
en- are to be found, and he has invoked
the aid of the police in trying to
rid the town of the missionaries. The
young men of the various religious
organizations have promised him their
cooperation with a view to making
Bury too hot for the Mormons.
Several appeals nave again gone to
the Home Office. invoking official
help in suppressing the propaganda
but the Governments programme is
already too congested with overdue
business, and there is no likelihood
of Parliamentary assistance, even Il
! there was a strong body OF opinion II
the House of Commons in favor OF II
So the matter is left to local actor
in the districts most affected, where
to Judge from the present temper o
the citizens, such action will sool
find drastic expression, especially II
Manchester, which, as the center o
Mormon activity in England, has beef
described as THE Mormon Mona'
y tery"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

the local police chief telegraphed to
Odessa requesting the aid of the mar
velously clever dog-detective Spitz.
The dog, in charge of a gendarme of
ficer, was at once dispatched to the
scene of the crime. The bodies of the
five victims lay, as they were found,
in the same bedroom; they had all
been strangled with short lengths Of
stout cord
Spitz made his usual shifting inves-
tigation of the bodies, from under one
of which-that of the youngest child
he dragged forth a large colored
handkerchief. This article occupied
Spitz's close attention for few mo-
ments, then he unhesitatingly took up
the TRAIL With nose to the ground
the dog proceeded without pause or
halt to a small and isolated cottage
lying half mile beyond the township
boundary, at the door of which he an.
grily parked for entrance.
When the officers came up the door
was forced Spitz made straight fol
the bedroom, where the occupant, a
peasant holder, was sleeping. He
sprang upon the bed and was about
as is his wont, to seize his quarry
when he was restrained by the officer
Despite the mans disavowal of al
knowledge of the murder he was ar
rested on the unerring evidence o
the dog-detective. Later in the da!
he made a full confession.
This is the ninth murder case IL
which the murderer or murderer
have been traced and captured by thi
wonderfully intelligent and cleve
dog-detective within the last eighteel
months. He has not once failed 4
running down the murderous quar-
on whose trail he has been set.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

MANCHESTER, April 20.-Res emit
ment against Mormon activity is again
finding expression in the English mid
lands and northern counties, where
missionaries of the Latter Day Saints
have been conducting their campaign
with renewed pertinacity.
Stubborn resistance to the Mormon
propogandists is now on foot. Local
city councils are refusing the use of
city halls to the Latter Day Saints,
although for many years the use OF
such halls has been granted without
demur for conferences and public
meetings of every sect.
The Mormon leaders accompany
their latest applications by written
statements that polygamy has been
abandoned in Utah, and offer $1,000
reward to any one who can produce
evidence of any instance of an Eng
fish girl who had been induced to 60
TO Utah for polygamous purposes.
This challenge has in no way al
Iayed the fears of Manchester citizens
who are indignant at the house-to
house campaign carried on by Nor
mon emissaries for some months past
The method is to call and leave some
tracts at a house, then to return
few days later in the hope that th'
literature has produced results
Rev. w. ]. Canton, rector OF St' Mar
garets church, Whalley Range, is on
of the most active and stalwart oppo
nents of Mormonism, and he meet
their denial of polygamy with scorniu
incredulity.
MANY girls from Manchester LIN
erpool and the neighboring DISTRICTS
he declares, have been enticed troI
their homes and situations by MO
mon missionaries, to discover too lat
that, while Mormonism may nav
been purged of many of its crosse
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

and the various mechanical depart
ments, busy helping to run the hotel
1t YVES like going through a monster
machine shop with big engines and
cars bringing in coal and carrying out
ashes and cinders; an ice plant of
forty tons capacity daily; a, silver
plating, repairing and manufacturing
plant large enough for small town; a
plumbing and machine shop depart
ment with carloads of pipe. iron and
plumbing supplies occupying what
seems a quarter of an acre.
Opening a large book, the chief
steward said;-"Here are figures
showing what 1t costs year at whole
sale prices to feed the patrons of our
hotel Meats, $25O,OOO; poultry, $121,'
600; fish, $4,000; fruit and vegetables,
$111,000; butter and eggs, $1,000;
milk and cream, $4,000; groceries
$4,000. Then there is coffee, very
important item where you have from
thousand to fifteen hundred people
to be served daily. Our annual coffee
bill is $21, 900; flour. $4,000; coal and
charcoal for broiling, the enormous
sum of $125,OOO.
You will observe that the stewards
department IS the most important fea
ture of the hotel. It requires three
hundred and fifty people run II
with more than a thousand employees
at work in other departments of thu
hotel. To make our pastry twelV
French cooks are employed ;also si'
for ice cream and eight in the bakery
MANY of our specialties are eN
pensive. We import delicacies as 500
as they are in season, even from dis
tant parts of the world. Our frs
strawberries from Florida cost a do
lar and a half a quart; peaches, plum'
j apricots and nectarines from Cap
Town, South Africa, delivered cos
from forty to fifty cents apiece, The
little items like baby lambs cos
seventy-hve cents to dollar a poun'
= 1--WE use a thousand pounds da
I of the best butter We use a lot
: sugar amounting to $50 barrels
month. The largest number of visitor
, we have dined in the Waldorf'Astorl
! at one time is seven thousand pc
u sons. OF course this includes tho'
in private dining rooms and banqu
halls.-N. Y Herald.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

not less than $3O,OOO,OOO a year that
they would otherwise be obliged to
eXpend for coal. In other European
countries, notably Holland, Germany,
Russia, parts of France and Austria,
the use of peat dates back nearly as
far as in Ireland and has continued
to this day Latterly the European
nations, not content with the use o.
peat for heating and other domestic
purposes, are resorting to it for gener.
ating power for manufacturing, etc,
and a number of the governments
have made appropriations and estab-
lished experiment stations to investi-
gate and perfect new processes for
producing peat in compact forms suit
able for transportation and storage.
Even Canada has established a gov.
: eminent experiment station to try out
the possibilities of peat as fuel for a
gas-producing plant
In the United States, where the coal
seemed so plentiful, little or no at
tention was paid to peat as a posi-
hle fuel until the great coal striHe
of 1923 in the anthracite regions OF
Pennsylvania. When the country was
then brought to realize to what ar
extent all it's eggs were in one basket
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it will be well worth the while OF
the people in certain sections of the
United States to develop the peat de.
rosits which may ultimately take
rank as one of our important natural
resources.
Peat is familiar by reputation TO
many of particularly to those
Americans whose parents came to tue
New World Cfrom the Old. Often it
is designated by other names. The
Irish, for instance, usually refer to it
as turf" of mayhap dub the peat
BLOCKS "sods." Peat, when looked at
through scientific spectacles, resolves
itself into partly decomposed and dis
integrated vegetable matter, and, as
may be surmised, considerable lapse
of time has been required for it's for
nation. Moreover, the presence OF
water which makes an excellent me.
dunn for preserving the remains OF
dead plants is an essential aid to
peat formation Thus in the United
States, as in other parts of the world,
true peat is to be found only in those
regions which are pretty plentIfully
supplied with water.
The color of peat varies from brown
TO black, according to its origin and
the conditions under which it accu
mulates. Nor is all peat alike even
in texture. For example, it may be
light and spongy coarse and porous
ready to fall to pieces when dry, OF
again it may be found as mss de-
void of structure and which, tho gh
plastic as clay when wet, becomes a
dense, hard mss when drv. After
reat has been dug or cut from its
earthly bed and stacked in the oDer
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

Sans chief expert on Eeat Mr.
Charles A. Davis, says that a readily
marketable type of peat fuel, in the
form of air-dried, slightly compressed
blocks can probably be produced at
an expense of from seventy-five to
Sl.25 of $3.50 per ton. In any event
the average ultimate consumer"
could probably buy at least two tons
of peat for the price of one ton of cCal
OF any kind and not even the very
best grade of coal has twice the heat
ing value, pound for pound, of good
fuel peat.
When Americans do get ready as
there are indications they will in the
very near future, to make use of our
wealth of peat as a substitute Tor coal
they can find Illuminating object les
sons in the experience Of European
nations, which, as explained above,
have been using peat as fuel for CEN
turtles past.
er who has a peat bog on his prop
erty, may readily prepare his own
fuel if he will adopt the simple meth
od of cutting peat in vogue in Den
mark, Ireland and other countries
where this form of fuel is a mainstay
of the major portion of the popula-
ton. The part of the bog to be work
ed" is first drained by means of ditch
es after which an area Is cleared to be
used as drying ground and then the
actual work of cutting is begun. The
tools used for cutting peat in different
European countries vary somewhat in
size and shape, but the most highly
approved implement is a stout narrow
spade, having the length and width of
| the bricks to be cut. The size Of the
peat bricks also varies is different
countries, but the usual range is from
ten to eighteen inches in length and
from four to seven inches in width,
Icy three to six inches in thickness.
The newly-cut blocks are placed on
the drying ground and allowed to dry
and drain for several days and are then
stacked (eXposed to the seasoning in
Continued on page nineteen.)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

aggregate of nearly thirteen billion
tons of peat Presenting that all this
peat were converted into the machine
bricks, which constitute the most ac-
ceptable form of peat fuel, it would
sell for, say, SO a ton, or total 0
more than $3S,O0O,OOO,OOO No won
der that peat is entitled to take con
spicuous place S one of America S
neglected natural resources, to say
nothing of the fact that we have
enough of it in our domain to furnish
heat and power for the entire coun ry
for many years.
Peat beds are not to be found in al
parts of the United States, but are
pretty widely distributed for all that
The best deposits are in the Northern
| States-that is those in line with or
north of New York State but there
are also excellent peat beds along
the Atlantic Coast all the way to and
including Florida. Likewise is peat
found in Texas and on the Pacific
Coast; there are some peat areas
Of workable size in California, Oregon
and Washington. 1t goes without say
| ing that the localities remote from
the coal fields may be expected to be
! the pioneers in the utilization of peat
resources.
One factor in favor of peat that
cannot fail to impress American fuel
consumers when they are finally
aroused to the possibilities of this
long-overlooked producer of heat and
energy is the low cost and minimum
of danger with which peat can bt
produced as compared with the min
ing Of coal. The peat is almost in
b variably found at or just below the
= surface of the ground and conse
qUently is cut in open pits-open tc
the sunlight and the free circulation
of air in contrast to the dark and
dangerous underground workings Of
our coal mines. And just because the
peat is reached without any outlay foi
J shafts and tunnels and because nc
t such expensive equipment is required
as in the case of coal it may be OBJ
, tanned at fraction of the cost. Uncle
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
AsToR,s soN.IN.LAw.

DUBLIN, April 2O.-Captain Spend
er-Clay, Waldorf Astor's son,in-law,
evidently does not share the Aston
family's antipathY toward Ireland,
Before his trip to India few months
ago he YVES in communication with
the Irish Board of Agriculture with a
view to promoting the breeding of
steeplechase horses that would ulti-
mately be the basis of breed of ami
mails suitable for army purposes. To
encourage the experiment he offered
CONTINUED on page nineteen.)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

During the present season of strikes
and rumors of strikes in the coal min
ing regions in all parts of the world,
attention has been directed as never
before to the subject of possible sub
stitutes for coal as fuel. In the Unit
cd States the necessity for such a
quest has been brought home to the
people with increasing emphasis be-
cause of the realization that our coal
deposits particularly in the case of
hard coal-are slowly but surely be-
ing exhausted while the reckless pro.
digality with which the American Tor
ests have been cut down during the
past half century precludes the pos.
sibility Of relying to any extent upon
wood for fuel, at least for many
years to come.
However, the United States is hold
ing in trust for future generations "a
considerable store of one form of sub
stitute for coal the very existence OF
which has been overlooked b" a large
share of our population. This hidden
heat-producer is none other than peat
Compared to coal, peat is most dis
tinctively a low-grade fuel and there
are difficulties connected with utilIz
ing it for fuel, due to the fact that in
its natural state the material con
tains only about ten per cent. of com
bustible matter and ninety per cent
Of water At the same time peat is
being successfully used for fuel in
many European countries and wit
improved facilities for the producti3r
of a really well-cured compressed pea
fuel there would appear every like!i
hood that the time will come Wien
with a constantly rising price of coal
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

in the matter of fuel supply it began
to take notice of the possibilities of
peat, and during the last decade, much
money has been spent in experiments
looking to the placing of this form Of
fuel on the general market
1t may surprise many readers to
learn that in the United States, peat
fuel, in the form of cut peat, was
used in New England almost continu.
ously from time of the first settlement
until the use of coal became general,
In various parts of Massachusetts
and Rhode Island one may see today
the old abandoned peat boys with the
depressions yet showing where the
peat was removed years ago. It is
claimed too, that there are in New
England, even today, localities re-
mote from the railroads where set
tiers continue to cut a limited amount
of peat for home consumption as is
done in foreign countries.
United States government experts,
who have lately been investigating
the deposits of peat in this country,
estimate that we have peat deposits
OF good quality covering an area of at
least 1000 square miles, and that
there is in these beds the enormous
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
DOG DETECTIVE

BERLIN, April 2O.-In the small
Bessarabian township of Floreschti a
Jew storekeeper named Khaimovich'
with his wife and three children, the
latter aged respectively three, seven
and twelve years, were discovered
brutaIly murdered. Failing to obtain
a clew to the murderer or murderers'
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

Star classified" ads. cost one cent
a word, or five cents a line. Cheaper
than writing letters, and far more sat
lsfaotoFy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-25

The names and residences Of signers
Of the recall petitions for Mayor H. NJ.
Schriyer and Commissioner Archie
Hart, az they appear on the petitions
in the city clerks office. are printed
below. although those who have filed
notices Of withdrawal are omitted from
the published lists. Many whose names
appear signed both petitions, notwith-
standing a larger number sought to
accomplish the recall of Commissioner
Hart than Mayor Schriver: