The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-09
JOHNSON FACES
A HEAVY FINE
Victim OF Smash Tells Story OF
Experience-Young Souza
in Bed Again.
tFrom wodnesdav 8 Advertiser.l

at the city jan under pan Aor lhe same
amount and will appear in court this
morning to commence his explanation
of the almost fatal accident on King
street Saturday night.
Attorney j. Lightfoot will defend
him. 1t is not known whether he will
use as his defense the same story which
he first told after the accident, that
of another automobile which struck his
machine and turned it over.
Still dizzy from the terrific fall that
almost killed him, Manuel Souza, the
driver of Peacock & Co.'s delivery
wagon which was struck and smashed
by johnson IS auto, was up and about
his ward at the Queens Hospital yes
terday. He remembers very little of
the accident; nothing but the blazing
headlights of the auto tearing down the
street directly in front of him, the sud
den impact and then blank for the next
two days.
There were two boys on the seat be-
side him when Johnson's auto struck
his wagon instead of only his son as
was at first supposed. The second boy
was Patsy Rawlins, friend of his
son. He was also thrown off the wagon,
says Souza, in the same way as he and
his son were but unlike them, escaped
unhurt. He did not wait at the scene
of the accident more than was just
long enough to take in the limp bodies
of his friends on the ground, the shat
tered wreck of the two vehicles and the
scattered sailors from the auto pain
fully picking themselves up. Then he
ran as fast as he could to Mrs. Souza
who was attending Holy Ghost fes-
tival, and told her the news.
~ was sitting on the drivers side
of the wagon,' said Souza, yesterday,
"when l saw the auto coming towards
me. L was on the right hand side of
the street, near the car tracks. The
| auto was coming from Waikiki on the
same side of the street as / was and
was coming very fast. When it struck
my wagon l went off the same side. l
know nothing after that. / did not see
any other auto coming from either side
of me-.
Little Johnnie, his son, has been sent
home at his own request, "because he
wanted to go to school, but yester-
day became so dizzy and i'll that he was
/ CUUu ptlltu W SO W Dtu again. hlbCi
effects of the shock and examination un-
der chloroform are thouht to be the
only cause.
Hansen, the fireman of the South Da.
kota, who had his jaw and foot broken
has been sent back to his ship where
he is under care of the navy physicians
| --s.<.s.-
The announcement was made at a
l &c Atnnrioon Nha har nf
Commerce in Paris that $17, 1880, 1929 was
spent by the United States for works
of art in Paris in 1911.
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the present small army with distinct
reference to its mission in case of war.
This first involves adequate forces for
foreign garrisons, which can not be
reinforced from the United States af-
ter the outbreak of hostilities. With
the rest of the army mobile force is
to be organized and distributed among
about eight great strategical points in
the United States, instead of scattered
in 40 posts, as now.
Two or three of these groups would
be on line between the st. Lawrence
river and Atlanta, covering the Allan
tic seaboard; two or three groups would
be on the line between Puget Sound
and Los Angeles, covering the Pacific
seaboard; at least two groups between
the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande,
serving as first reserves for either sea-
board and for the development of the
national guard and volunteer forces
to be organized in the interior.
BY the concentration of the army in
eight posts, it is asserted, the annual
cost Of maintenance would be reduced
about $5,500000.
Posts to Be Retained.
The following posts are said to be so
located as to permit of their being
retained as strategic concentration
points: Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York
(Albany is suggested as an alterna'
tive position); Fort 0glethorpe, Geor
gia Especially desirable for cavalry
J brigade; Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta
Georgia (of CRATE strategic value witt
reference to the South Atlantic and
Gulf coasts); Fort Sam Houston, Texas
. (the best strategic position for thu
southern frontier; Fort Lawton, neal
, Seattle, Washington, and Yancouve
Barracks, Washington, near Portland
and the Presidio of San Francisco an,
Monterey, one or both of which ma,
, be included in the California strategi
| cal group.
: The report says that each succeeding
o year the secretary of war has beer
7 hampered in getting rid of useless AM
/ expensive posts by local and politica
n influences. 1t is asserted that no les
e than 10000, ,00o has been spent ON sue
posts in the last ten years, and ever
E, dollar so expended became an argt
?, ment against their abandonment.
e "'Doubtless this argument will b
!; used again to prevent the concentratio
1. desired by the present secretary G
); war;" the report continues, "and III
r less approached in the spirit of tn
a. great business corporation which rutl
o, lessly tears down six-story buildin
p no longer suited to its needs, TO ere'
y twenty-story building found nece
e, sary, the present movement for etlieieI
and economically administered for
IN viii fail as have preceding efforts. "