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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-15

AS I have stated, the FIRST personal
body servant OF George Washington !
met was running tho elevator in our
hotel lie told us about II while we
we're going from the first floor 10 tho
second. Personal body servants of the
late George Washington lose no time.
We signed deeply ana handed him 81
in grateful appreciation of services rem
dered the truthful George. There may
hc something in environment. but none
of Georges well-known truthfulness
ever soaked into any of his body SER
wants. The body servant running the
elevator looked to be about forty years
old
What's your nance" We asked a
ticndlsh Sherlock Holmes idea having
penetrated our dome of thought.
Abraham Lincoln Jones" he replied.
with face as innocent of guile as
that Of standpat congressman maxi
ing speech in his home district.
'.Ah, ha! IT you are old enough to
have been George Washington body
servant how could your name DO Abra-
ham Lincoln?"
We'll, boss. you see It's dis yere way.
l 'her;ted 1t from my fathah and he
'hcrited II from my gran'fathah, so
have got de job now. nm Washing
toms body servant. My fathah done
tole mo 50. My Gran'fathan lie thought
of II hTs; and held de lob till he die.
den he turn it over to my fathah an he
turn IL over to me. My son Will be do
personal body servant OF Alarac Wash
inGton in a few ycahs now"
There was no argument to he used
against that 1t runs In the family like
cauliflowcr cars pug noses or wooden
legs and the only thing to do Is TO
hand over the price. When we see a
personal hody servant OF George WASH
ington loom up on tho horizon now we
simply dig and ask no questions
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24
MUNICIPAL OPERA
IN SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, February IA
The members of the Board of Super.
visors are unanimous in their support
of the municipal opera-house project
on ground to be furnished by the city
at the civic center No official action
has been taken relative thereto, ex-
cept that Mayor Rolph has asked the
City Attorney for an opinion as to
what legal phases there may be in the
matter, but the question was generally
discussed both before and after the
meeting of the Board of Supervisors
yesterday afternoon. The unanimous
sentiment expressed was that the
proposition made by representatives of
the Musical Association of San Fran
cisco to present the city with a $780,
600 building if the city will furnish
the ground, was the happiest possible
use to which a part of the civic center
can be devoted.
The proposed opera-house is to be
placed on one or more of the lots EN-.
braced in the civic center plan, bonds
for which are to be voted on the 2Sth
of this month. The city will donate
the property for the opera-house, in
stead of devoting it to one of many
other uses that might be determined
on. The building is to cost the city
nothing, and the municipality will be
gamer to the extent of the value of
the Improvement, inasmuch as it is
the intention to present the building
after completion, to the city for per
petual use as an opera-house and home
of music.
Preliminary plans and specifications
will be in the hands of the architectu-
raj commission appointed by Mayor
Rolph, whose members will before
long lay before the city officials and
board of governors of the Musical AS
5ociation a concrete outline of plans
for the building so that they may har'
monte in detail and appearance with
the general plan for the civic center
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24
BIG AIR LINE
RAILWAY SCHEME

LOS ANGELES, February 13-Euro-
pean capital is understood to be back
of a $2O,OOOOOO corporation, the Cali.
fornia Air Line Railway Company, the
articles of which were filed here today.
The company is organized with a paid
up capital of $45O,OOO for the purpose
of building an air line" broad gauge
steam railroad between San Francisco
and Los Angeles to have an approx
mate langth between the two cities Of
$50 miles, twenty-five miles shorter
that the Southern Pacific coast line.
Beyond the statement that foreign
capital is behind the project there is
no statement of the plans beyond that
contained in the papers. 1t is obvious
that the directors are dummies" in
Guiding the law firm of Craig Behymer,
Ralph & Twombly; Leora NJ. Thomp-
son, the office stenographer. and " o..
Geofferion, a lawyer closely associated
with Craig. and Behymer Craig is
named as president of the corporation.
Behymer is 2 son of l.. E. Behymer.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24
HOW KAAIKAULA TOASTED WASHINGTON

babbling incoherently the while
A large crowd gathered and APP
plauded Kaaikaula's performance. One
tourist asked If it was part of the
carnival program.
Kaaikaula stated that as it was the
day before the anniversary of the
birth Of the immortal Washington she
did not think that it would be consid.
cred amiss If she bought a jug of
wine and offered to Almighty God her
heartfelt thanks for allowing her to
become an American.
She was saluting the flag and voic-
ing her patriotic sentiments when the
police appeared on the scene in an.
swer to a riot call. She wasn't drunk
at all and was, as matter OF fact,
drinking the health of George Wash
ington when arrested.
Prosecuting Officer Brown said that
Kasikaula was public nuisance.
When she got lit up she frequented
the most public places instead Of re-
| firing to a neighborhood where drunk
enness was not so much thought Of
The corner of Fort and King streets,
he remarked was a mighty bad place
in which 10 drink George Washing
tons health.
Judge Monsarrat in passing sen.
tence. said that thirty days would
keep her of the streets for a spell and
would give her chance 20 reform,
| II possible,
Kaaikaula will take some reform
ing When last arrested on Burns
birthday. she told similar tale to
the one she sprung in court this morn
! ing, with the exception that the cause
OF rejoicing on that occasion was that
she was a Scotchman.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24
CHURCHILL FACES BELFAST MOB
AND OUTLINES HOME RULE BILL

BELFAST, Ireland, February s.
Essential features of the liberal gov
eTuments home rule bill, TO be intro
duced in the British parliament, were
set forth for the first time today in the
speech Of Winston Spencer Churchill,
the first lord of the admiralty. The
hill is to contain provisions for fair
representation in the two houses Of
The Irish parliament for all classes Of
the Irish people and restrictions will
be placed on the passing of laws or
the impositions of taxes which might
&c unjust to any party, while religious
freedom is to be secured. The armed
forces in Ireland are to be controlled
by the imperial government, but Ire
land is to control its own finances,
while the imperial government viii
continue it's land purchase and pension
schemes.
Mixed Reception for Churchill
Mr. Churchill, the chief figure In the
home rule demonstration, arrived this
morning with his wife at the central
stat on and had a somewhat mixed
reception. A number of orangemen
who had gathered at the station greet
ed him with groans and boos, but these
were drowned in the heArCy cheers OF
the crowd of liberals and pGtionalists
There was no disturbance n. that hour
and the large force of police or duty
in the station had an easy task.
Crowd Threatens Churchilrs Car.
Matters looked ugly for a moment
when Mr. and Mrs. Churchill started
for the place where the meeting was
to be held. A large crowd which had
gathered outside the hotel appeared
inclined to rush Mr.. Churchl,rs motcT
car, and tried to block its passage
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24
ATTACK ON WILSON ON ACCOUNT
OF HIS BOOKS IS FUTILE

Publishers association at Philadel-
phia
He addressed one of the most in
tluentiaT audiences ever gathered to-
gether. He was easily the star of the
evening. but he fell far short of his
customary brilliancy. Usually he is
a most attractive after dinner speaker.
It has been my good fortune to hear
him not less than six times, and until
the Philadelphia affair l never have
known him to fail to the best type
of after dinner oratory.
1t could not be said that he was dis
couraged by the La Toilette fiasco, for
he spoke before the Wisconsin states
men. Perhaps there was something
about the moment fatal to aspiring pre-
sidential candidates. At any rate, both
Wilson and La Toilette came out with
fewer laurels than they took with
them Senator La Toilette cast away
his strength among the magazine men
by a most ill-timed and tactless talk;
Gov Wilson sacrificed nothing, but
gained nothing, for his speech did not
rise above the commonplace.
1t is rather interesting to note that
these two literary men in politics.
or, shall say, politicians in literature?
made so fiat failure in addressing
distinctly literary audience.
Cost of Lorimer Probe.
The approaching end of the Lorimer
investigation calls attention to the
cost of the effort to determine the
fitness of that gentleman to seat in
the United States senate. l am in
formed upon the best authority that
the government has spent more than
100000 in this case. Senator Lorimer
admits having expended 100000 in his
defense. The newspaper which has
pressed the case against him has APP
parently spent rather more than both.
At present no one can tell with GER
tainty whether the charges against
the accused senator have been proved,
But it has been proved that a poor
man whose seat in the senate is at
tackled - by a powerful corporation
might as well resign. Either Senator
Lorimer had to go down into his own
pocket for the enormous sum neces-
sary for his defense, or he had to find
somebody who would advance the
money.
If the former were the fact and the
man guiltless it would be a gross in
justice. 1t the latter he would be un-
fit to sit in the senate, for he would
be owned by those who had paid for
his defense. Whatever be the issue,
so far as Lorimer is coicerned, it is
suggestive of a flaw in our national
organization. To reduce it to the per-
sonal illustration, neither Senator
Kern, on the democratic side, nor Sen
ator Kenyon, on the republican, would
have been able to finance such a fight
for their places as has the man on
whose csse they are sitting.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24

but escorting cars packed with detec-
tives succeeded in working a way
through the groaning throng and got
the Churchills safely away.
In the course of the morning a crow1
of uniOnists paraded the streets carry
ing an efigy of Mr.. Churchill to which
was attached a plscard bearing the
words: Down with Churchill" mo
home rule" They proceeded to the
hotel at which Mr. and Mrs. Church
i'll are staying and sang the national
anthem after which they dispersed
without disorder.
Rain Soaks Football Field.
Rain fell the whole morning. The
football grounds, at which the meeting
is to be held, is a swamp and the
saturated canvas marquee in which
Mr.. Churchill is to speak has sagged
threateningly several times.
Mr.. Churchill and John e. Redmond
the nationalist leader, reached the mar
quee safely. Their journey through
the streets was marked by nothing
more serious than outbursts of groans
and Kisses, To guard against an in
vasion by the unionists only ticket
holders were admitted to the group Is,
Inside the marquee efigies bearing
the labels Carson and Londonerry-
Turncoats and Traitors" swayed
from poles.
All Challenged at Entrance.
Bodies of infantry and dragons
were stationed a short distance from
the marquee in readiness for emer-
gencies. The police challenged every
one who tried to pass into the grounds.
Occasional bands or rowdy youths
marched by with banners bearing the
CONTINUED on page sixteen)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24

Kaaikaula (w) was sent to jail
for thirty days for drunkenness by
Judge Monsarrat yesterday.
John Santos, drunk again, was fined
81 and costs. Downing and c. w.
Anderson, also drunk, forfeited bail
of Sc each
Kaaikaula Indignantly protested
that she was not drunk.
Officers testified that on Wednesday
afternoon defendant was standing at
the corner of King and Fort streets
with a bottle of "dago red" in one
hand and Hawaiian jews harp in
the other. She was doing a sort of
serpentine dance on the sidewalk,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24
PENNSYLVANIA GIANT pEAp.

POTTSVILLE (Pa), February ID
Ambrose Moore, the Pennsylvania
giant" is dead at his home near Mount
Carbon of kidney disease. He weighed
525 pounds, was of unusual height and
measured more than five feet around
the waist His strength was enormous
and he frequently carried a 40O-pound
barrel of oil in his three-fioot should
ers without great effort. He was
forty years old.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24

course the King coming, stayed away.
did island politics
asked them both. Everybody there and
all the officers the other ships They had
throne the quarter deck with flags and things the
they always and the King expected I'm
feelings coming
She a beside the throne and all
told the officers of the Pawucket
they frightened o Nobody going
happen Then the royal boat coming the
Lutte began banging away His Majesty walked slowly
deck everybody bowed" Mrs
story talked, assuming the urbane
King the respectful the people.
him going up the companion way the quarter
deck. Queen standing this very straight
naughty with ropes essamine ooped hair
the King walk to her and hold out his hand She
gave him hers We could not hear what they said
taking the throne himself he led
tated moment while all held breaths then
when seat her, like this
declare all said afterwards felt like APP
pauding"
splendid him!" cried Florence was like
King / wish ! could him"
the social life
enonng many familiar scarcely
cough o be paaabTe.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24
FATHER OF THE BOY SCOUTS
A GREAT PEACE ENTHUSIAST

ton parade. They marched half way
across the country. And they got in
the parade, where English boys could
not get But the boy scouts are peace
full.
If anything, through them England
and Germany might be said to be get
ting on really intimate terms. Boys
in English companies Of scouts cor
respond systematically with boys in
Germany. Through this they are pick.
ing up bit of each others language,
although most Of the correspondence
is carried on in Esperanto, an achieve
ment of every boy scout"
Denies Scouts Foster Militarism.
The boy scouts movement is much
misunderstood. l understand labor or.
CARNATIONS and others have been
against IL contending it fostered mill.
tarism Quite the contrary. There is
scouting in peace as well as war The
scouts were organized for the purpose
of instilling strong notions Of man
hood and ability in the boys.
I'VE had slight Misunderstanding
about this in England when we first
started to organize the boys. But q
bit of investigation showed the COM
planners their error and now we have
practically no opposition"
Calls General Head Of Scouts.
The interview was interrupted for a
moment by the arrival of James e.
West, chief scout executive in the
United States, and Capt. H. H. Sim.
mons, an official in the Chicago organi-
zation.
"Sir Robert is looked upon as the
head of the world scouts, you know"
said Mr. West, to the reporters.
The generals military brusqueness
gave way to a pleased smile as he pro-
tested the honor by a gesture. A mo-
ment later he was shaking hands in
farewell to the newspaper men.
very nice of you" said the great
warrior smiling, "and do not for
moment forget that l am a man OF
peace
Guest Of Luncheon Here.
Sir Robert came to Chicago accom-
panied by NJ c. Wroughton of Lon.
don England, and Lee Keedick, who
is in charge of the arrangements fer
his tour He went directly to the
Blackstone hotel, where he was the
guest at luncheon of Julius Rosenwald
and A. Stamford White. After the re-
view of the Boy Scouts this afternoon
in Dexter pavilion, he hopes to get the
opportunity to visit the Chicago stock
yards.
He will leave Chicago early tomor-
row to return to New York later to
visit Buffalo and then to tour the
south. On his way to San Francisco
he Twill not pass thdough Chicago
again. He will give twenty lectures
in the United States, thirteen of them
under the auspices of the Boy Scouts.
Don't miss seeing the Maoris. Opera
House, next Tuesday night. You may
never have the chance again.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24

WASHINGTON, D. c., Februry r.
The letter of the Hon. George Fred
williams to former Senator Pettigrew
concerning Woodrow Wilson and his
books is interesting, but neither novel
nor important. Everybody who reads
books knows well that the Wilson
history is tainted with toryism from
the first page to the last. There is
perhaps no more interesting perod in
our national life than that of which
he treats. The half century since the
civil war has been one big with i'm
portance to the nation. More than
that, it has been full of Importance to
the world The years that saw the
United States welded again into a
coherent nation after the most cruel
and bloody civil war of the century
might well INSPIRE a historical writer
to his highest efforts. Years that made
the nation one of the world powers,
that put it second among the naval
forces, that made American diplomacy
something to be reckoned with, that
brought the Panama canal to the verge
of completion, are years the story
of which is well worth the telling.
But, as Mr. Williams has pointed out,
it is told by Gov. Wilson in way out
of sympathy with the spirit of the
time.
Criticism of Little Weight.
However, the Williams criticism is
not likely to be particularly effective
as a political document. | recall very
well that in the 1900 campaign the
books of Theodore Roosevelt were sub
jected to the most painstaking scrutiny
by an attache of the democratic ma
tional committee. 1t was easy to dis
cover in them many tactless and un-
fortunate references to organized lab.
or, to our citizens of foreign birth, to
some of the fathers of the republic.
All was carefully gathered, collated
and widely printed. Some phrases, like
his famous reference to the American
workingman is "a woolly rhinoceros, -
even were set forth in three sheet post
ers. But in the end nobody who knew
anything about politics could trace any
votes for Bryan, or against Mckinley,
to this attack on Roosevelt's literary
style
Probably the Williams attack on
Wilson will be much of the same sort
of flash in the pan. The American
voter does not judge a candidate by
his published works of decade before
the election. Gov. Wilson would not
be made a presidential possibility by
his history. Therefore he ought not
to be unmade by that work. Literary
criticism and political agitation are
quite dissimilar:
Fails to Seize Opportunity.
But with a great opportunity to com
bine the political and the literary ap
peal at once, Gov. Wilson failed to
seize it at the dinner of the Periodical
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24

CHICAGO, February 6.--Lieutenant.
General Sir Robert Baden-Poweu. X.
c. b., X. CIV. o. and peaceful warrior,
arrived in Chicago at 1915 a. m. to.
day over the Michigan Central rail
road TO review the boy scouts and give
a lecture tonight on the boy scout
movement, Of which he is the founder
Sir Robert brought with him a spirit
of contempt for war and an abiding
conviction that the boy scouts will be
a potent factor in establishing world
peace. At the Central station a COM
pGny of boy scouts greeted the hero
of Mafeking with present arms"
This afternoon 5000 boy scouts of
Chicago we're given half holiday from
school in order to pay respects to the
man who is the idol of the boy scouts
of Great Britain. The inspection was
one of the many which Sir Robert is
making on his tour around the world
in which he already has been greeted
by boy scouts of the West Indies,
Panama, Boston, New York, Philadel
phia and Washington, Inspecting a
grand review of the scouts in the CAPT
tai city in company with President
Taft.
Peace His Principal Theme.
Peace formed about the entire sub
iect of the doughty warriors CONVEX
sation 1t was noticeable from the mo-
ment he swung briskly into the lobby
of the Blackstone hotel over a roar
ing hearth fire he placed himself in a
position of siege as several newspaper
reporters advanced
is this all of your" asked the gene
raj, smiling.
The reporters assured him it was
and one casually remarked their err
rand was peaceful one.
That's the idea-peace, said Sir
Robert. mo man that has had a
glimpse of war ever approved of it.
surely do not International peace
should be the object of every civilized
country. Trouble between the powers
Really, l am not a bit interested.
am not up on that sort of thing al
! all.
Warrior Slight Of Statue.
The general stood in a characters
tic attitude He was dressed in a trim
blue suit, which seemed to accentuate
his slight stature. His complexion is
rudy, an effect heightened by brist-
ling auburn mustache. His keen eyes
I glanced around the half circle of re,
porters as he spoke, His arms were
folded across his chest, and he stood
with his feet apart upon the floor.
Calls German Scare Twaddle.
81 say | am not interested con
tinued Sir Robert. There is one point
however, on which l do not mind eX
pressing myself. That is the frequent
rumors of a German invasion of Eng
land. This is all the twaddle of the
newspapers.
1.-THE only thing approaching a hint
of a German invasion was when a
troop of boy scouts came over from
Germany to take part in the corona
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24

Coronation King George, Opera
House, Tuesday. Book now, Promo
ton Committee Rooms. 81, SOC, 25o.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24
The OnIooker 2 "a, : 7; Is ~! n: ::

The Harry Corson Clarke Clarke
pointed with the whole result with the Frawey Wae
showngs made
have tried
which that this
is good
The opening night very
badly
their regulations fair there ended Few
trouble
have liked them couldn't the Those who could
kind that didn't 81
Honolulu bucoic anything There
white population which cuue
travelled
have good acting and heard
music the earth that would
its hundreds the Neils
The and if
find Honolulu quite nhospitabe really artist
did the smaller