The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-06-27

(Mail Special to The Advertiser)
HIDO, June 23.-Does the shade of
the late G.. r. Buckland "Watch Hilo
Grow"l When resident of this place
meets you in Honolulu and replies in
answer TO your question as to Hilo,
"Oh, Jest tn same,n give him an
other guess Hilo is not just the same
in the past three years 1t has taken
such squirt in building way that
town folk look upon it as Just regular
and pass it up. IT is an age of con
crete, and Hilo is taking advantage of
| it in the construction of its high school,
| its library, building for the use of the
health inspectors and numerous build
| ings for commercial use.
| of course, all the buildings erected
in the last two years are not concrete;
many are of wood. This is the case
in proximity to the postoiiice, where
Johnny Kai, present county clerk, has
erected two full blocks, and all the
stores and apartments rented. Kai
leased the land from G. A. Brown
it is the property which he won from
the Spreckels after twelve years litl-
cation, taking it through all the courts
until he secured the decd. Once the
lease was in his name Kai arranged
with Hackfcld 4 Company for one
block and with the Mercantile for the
other. 1t is said that in six months
he will have paid up lIackfeld s ad-
vances and in another year he will he
out of debt to the Mercantile Com
pany, and will have an income of five
hundred dollars a month.
County May Recover.
Some of the officials here believe that
when all of the parties in and out of
Mcguire s game of hide and seek have
paid up to the extent of their respOn-
sibilities the county will get its own.
Tax Assessor Forrest is of the opinion
that any outsiders, those who cashed
warrants as an accommodation, while
in measure morally responsible, had
no knowledge of actual wrong. doing.
From another source the opinion is eX-
pressed that only Mcguire s bondsmen
will be made to come through.
Cocoanut Island, llilo's picnic ground,
seems to be wishing itself out of eX-
istence since the breakwater IL making
its way seaward The tremendous
force of the tides apparently has the
effect of eating away the land just as
the army work around Honolulu is by
the accretion adding to the real estate
owners along the Waikiki beach. In
the matter of provisions for tile enjoy
ment of bathers Honolulu is not in it
with Hilo, For instance: Here the
hathers have springboard as means
to an endless amount of enjoyment.
Honolulu has none. IIlo has a diving
tower with platforms for divers at four
different heights, and the men and
women from the highest stand 20 head
or feet first into twelve feet of clear,
sparkling water With the ban against
diving from the Moana pier, there is
nothing left but the slippery raft that
is anchored twixt the Outrigger Club
grounds and the loana.
; Few Billboards in Hilo.
BillbOards are not in evidence on
COcOanut Island-merely a muslin ban
ner announcing the good qualities of
a certain cigar Around town AN occa-
sional sign of the brewery or some
, body's ketchup may be noticed. 1t is
/ said there was to have been an adver-
tisimg campaign in which the boards
= were TO be featured, but the ladies of
, liilo formed a civic beauty club, gave
a ball. the receipts from which were
T to be used IN fighting this blight, and
| billbOards refused to grow with IIilO
) Felix Brughelli and John OiRourke
send their strings of horses to Maui
! by the 5. :. Maui tomorrow. 1t is said
l the six horses are the property OF
Brughclli, who became famous halt
a dozen years ago by the publication OF
: booklet, "Thc Bill Is Still SlT5.i
E dealing with an incident in the official
4 career of Governor Carter aud Secre
e tary Atkinson. Jack shot the mule
( it belonged TO Brughelli, and the gov
9 ernment, by Governor Carter, whose
G pistol was used, repudiated the claim
e Brugheili said this morning that In,
bill is still Sl75-with interest
. There is no particular activity IN
t kilauea, according 10 reports brought
e down today. The crater is flied with
a smoke ana the red glow keeps back ia
b spite OF the prophecy of Professor
5 Jaggar.
Children Visit Hilo.
Z Fifteen hundred children, eighty pel
cent of them japanese, came in from
railway last week on a tWO.bits round
r trip excursion. II WAS a great success
The HilO Hotel, the only carayansaT,
! in the town, can hardly be improved
upon as 10 meals or service. aud IN,
beds aud rooms are as comfortable a,
ono gets al h0me. With this as ul
! added attraction 10 Hlo Beuutiful
y with railway running through Ga,
beart Of scenic Hawaii aud strama
service that Averages uD vol, there b
= no reason why any OF this season
! stock Of tourists should be persuade
hY hangers on m the Honolulu hntel
- not 10 make the Journey
, "Gognmor Juo, bakpr h doing
= good thing for the llaWaiiaus, fer
haps IL would he nearer correct 20 sa,
that one Of the many good thinga Whlcl