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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16
By MRs..I. d. REID

We see no better way to advertise it, to
enhance It's value, than to divide it into
small tracts and build house and let
the soil prove its worth.
Properly fertilized and cultivated intel
ligently with a series of crops of market
able material it would soon be a gold
mine In yielding the necessary harvests
for the citys demand
Them observed our new-made ac-
qualntanee, can you get people to work
these tracts? Don't you find a tendency
to move to town, even though the conse-
quences mean great want rather than
honest country labor? Take, for instance,
the mining camps. Many families are
able to keep hired help-that Is, they are
prepared to pay for 1t and to give good
homes; and do you know 1t is impossible.
The negroes that is the men, make good
wages, and the women do not have to
work, and often we are months without
help. Some of us have tried white help
from the city: but they are eager for the
noise and excitement of town, and really
do not seem to know how to work and
care less to learn"
This condition is easily solved when
We realize half the world regards domes-
tic service as degrading, and rather than
train the young girls to home duties they
are pointed to town for the weekly sala-
ries in the business houses that hardly
allow for living expenses. This situation
has filled our cities with a drifting popu-
lation, not equipped for any duty. The
girl marries some man, perhaps, with a
small salary, and Is unwilling to make
home; they enter some boarding place
and spend their income in foolish pleas
ures get in debt and then the unhappi-
ness begins.
These are the stories we hear from
many unfortunates, and we could not re-
frain from thinking If this adjoining ter
rtory could be utilized as a patch" for
marketing and our vagrant men and
women could be forced to use their hands
in honest work, how much better Off the
cities would be. and what a boon to the
helpless.
Thousands of chickens could feed on the
worms of our woodlands; and we are
buying turnip green's from Florida; any,
body could feed chickens and raise tur-
nips; there is no art; 1t is work and care.
But the man who expects to live from
the efforts of his aeighbors is not a good
citizen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16

We noticed some enterprise, however
Along the road-bed many old box cars
are being used for rooming houses, and
with the windows curtained they looked
quite comfortable, but simply a place TO
eat and sleep. With very few exceptions
there is not a plant or fowl in view
Certainly the word home means little
else to many than a resting place, when
1t should be the starting point of life
plant kept busy manufacturing all the
elements that go to build character, con-
tentment, industry in fact, to mould the
human mind and soul for lifes activities
In its varied spheres.
One could not help but wonder at this
dearth of cultivation by man when ma
ture was arranged I'm the glorious colors
of autumn, ready TO celebrate the har-
vest tipe; and really there was no har-
vest. Few wa sons were seen under
shelter and few cows biting the FROST
nipped grass We could only picture
every ounce of foodstuff is bought in
town, and everybody was waiting for paw
day to furnish the home
Returning to Birmingham after trip
around the country we are soon con-
fronted by the numbers on the wav to
| the charity office" and we wondered
again IL some scheme could not be worked
to get them to honest toil-off the thor
ONSiiAeli %, WHtIS IL taxes a nlckie Tor
every necessity of life. To have an ex-
pertinent station; not to idly move to the
country and wait for rations, but to train
and give them work under different envi-
ronments. The city has a problem in its
vagrants. They are arrested serve a
short sentence and are free, We know
because one of our Jail birds' was freed
few days ago from fine at thieving-
10 days and cost. He came Immediately
to our door and told us: II am out; they
sure treated me fine, and didn't work
hard" That very darkey Is loafing the
streets now. He should be made to pillow
some of this idle land and there are hum
dreds of his kind that should be farmed
out and the office of "overseer'' created
to see that they work from sun to sun.
The fdlers have no care. They feel sure
they can live somehow
Let the world slide; let the world go;
ng for care, and fig for woei
II | can't pay, why 1 can owe,
And death makes equal the high and
low"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16
Real September Morn

Clad in nothing more than the dense
fog which has overhung Los Angeles har-
hor each morning for the last few days, a
young woman has created sensation
among the residents of Terminal Isla nd
by her prediction for indulging in the
early morning surf bath, says a Los An
eeles dispatch to the New York Ameri-
can.
Residents of the island who are early
morning risers have chr'stened the Young
woman the "T~rl-- Df~o.''
Der Morn and although many of them
have attempted to le AZ
the fair bather none has succeeded The
young woman appears on the beach near
the surf wearing bath robe. escaping at.
tent'on Of other early bathers by this
means. Then selecting a portion of the
beach unfrenuented the robe Is discarde1
and she plunges into the surf. The bathei
has succeeded in conceallng Identity by
bathing on mornings on which dense foe
overhangs the water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16

On the evening OF November s. we went
company with many men and women
/ see and to hear the senator from Wis
pnsin. Upon the lecture platform sat
II. Weatherly, who, at the entrance of
short, sturdily built man, arose to in
oduce Robert LaFollette, mot only of
Wisconsin, but of the nation" Mr.
Featherly's speech was short and our
|tention was divided between his clear
|t intellectual face and the silent giant
tting at the rear of the stage, whose
Iassive arms in repose, gave the same
Inse Of tremendous reserve force that
lie feels in Robins Adam
IWhen Mr.. Weatherly had finished his
hk, Senator LaFollette advanced and
anked him from fun heart" Our
st impression was that of disappoint-
ent. AS we had watched him seated In
Is chair we hoped that his personality
build be a fitting expression OF his ap-
Iarance, but 10, when he arose, we saw
lat his stature was short, and we OBJ
tied to his claiming that his heart was
In.
Irh ere followed much talk of the old pa
Iots. George Washington peace to his
lhes) was resurrected from the dead,
d Thomas jefferson was likewise
ought to life. This always happens on
Elidays and anniversaries, and we are
honciled to the inevitable. But as La
lllette spoke of them, a fiery note crept
o his voice (and his voice was big like
breadth of his shoulders). He spoke
their cold and their hunger, and he
oke of the terrors of Valley Forge.
ehey did it TO erect this government
said. s'Would we do as much now?"
here was a pause, and then, 81 am not
lite sure" he whispered. And again,
|his is my work. To bring to the
Inds of men the old-time patriotism,
| help raise the country's standard to
IN plane where 1t used to be. have
more years to fight, please God, and
bnly ask that when my last day comes
will find me In the field still fighting
Hin fighting"
there was something big in. that, and
IRE was something big in tRe way he
Id it. He was not polished. He was
/ even easy. His words came out as
in travail, he threw them AT Nou' ne
s rugged, he was virile. He flung his
ms about, at times he violently shook
II shaggy pompadour, and his voice
| lew all shades of intensity.
lille really may have a message" we
|bught, "and yet why need he agonize?
lie lightening's power Is spent in its
LIE; only the thunder busters"
|laFollette followed up his eulogies on
|Itesmanship by a fling at the Standard
company. In one ironical word he
hthed the lobby, and effectively and
| sely sneered at the legislature of Har-
burg and Albany. He used crude slang
scribing them. "He is playing to the
[lleries1 we thought contemptously.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16

and the cities of Virginia were none too
good. She has devoted her life to i'm
proving them. She has worked for bet
ter buildings, better light, better
plumbing, better ventilation. She has
studied the effect of light heat, color
and environment generally upon the
school child. As a result of her indi-
vidua1 efforts the schools of Virginia
compare favorably today with those OF
any other state.
There is another Richmond woman
Mrs. Barksda1e, who has made good use
of her life. There are thousands Of
girls in Richmond who have to work for
a living and whose wages are small.
Through Mrs. Barksdale's efforts a re-
creation center, known as the Summer
Rest, has been developed for them. This
Summer Rest is the country club, the
country home of all the girls. There
they go for recreation. 1t is not con-
Quoted as a charity, but as something
that belongs to them, something to
which they have a right. What such
an institution as the Summer Rest
means to working girls Is hard to ina
gine.
This is but partial list of the hun
dred or more women who might be in
cluded in the group of the most useful
of their sex in the United States. No
list would be complete, however. with
out the name of Sister Rose Elizabeth
She rarely is heard of. Nearly so years
of her life have been devoted to a
work that few know about. She has
little office in New York and a hosni-
tai some miles out of the city. To that
hospital she takes the poor who are
doomed to death from that dread dis
ease, cancer. She comes of one of the
greatest families of America. She is d
patrician by birth. Her father was one
of the best loved men of the western
world She is daughter of Nathaniel
Hawthorne. But when she took on the
robes of a nun, she assumed the name
of Rose Elizabeth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16

oil industry of West Virginia, says there
was an oil well o nthe banks of the
Kanawha river at the present site of
Charleston, '51 years before the Drake
well at Titusville. Pa, ushered in the Pc
troleum industry of the world"
1t is probable that there We're such wells
in other states. Kentucky had one at
an early day, but it's possibilities were so
little realized that nothing was done with
1t beyond bottling a limited portion of
the product and peddling it out as lini-
ment. AS to the priority of these old
time wells 1t is matter of small impor-
tance, since the birth of the petroleum
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16

business dates from the famous Titus
vile discovery referred to by the Intel
ligeneer, says the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal
West Virginia did not become a large
oil producer until about 90 years ago, al
though oil operations of varying charac-
ter have been going on at intervals in
that state almost since the beginning OF
development in Pennsylvania. There was
a fairly flourishing industry prior to the
Civil war, but 1t was crushed out during
the period of hostiities, and for many
years thereafter 1t was struggling for ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16

istence. Production reached high water
mark in 1900 whe nthe output of West
Virginia wells amounted to more than
100000 barrels. 1t has not been SO large
in any subsequent year, although West
Virginia stands high on the list as an oil
producing states. The production for 1872
was 12,000,00O barrels. In value it exceeded
that of any other year with the exeep-
tion of the record year of 1900
oil has been source of great wealth
to West Virginia, and from present indi-
cations will continue to be a valuable
asset for many years to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16
Site of First Oil Well

The location of the first oil we'll In the
United States Is claimed by several statos.
The Wheeling Inteligencer. reviewing the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16

on until something breaks anu they stop
me and put me to bed
1t was not said for eifece. EIe merely
mentioned the fact IN passing, and it was
not his grande finale. In fact we think
that that was the chief thing which
convinced us of his sincerity; he had no
grande finale. If he had spoken his ap-
pointed two hours and wound up with
a burst of eloquence you might have
felt that 1t was Robert LaFollette first
and his country afterwards. But the fact
that he spoke on and on, at the risk of
wearying his hearers, giving all of him
self, saving no jot of his strength, must
have convinced the most skepticaI among
US of the intensity of his interest
After a long time he ended quietly
enough, with no rhetorical flourish. One
might say that his calm ending was an
anti-clmax to all of the fire which had
gone before, and it may be it was, from
the viewpoint of effective speaking, but
In deeper sense his ending was no anti
climax. He stopped because he was
tired. The fire had gone out Of his voice
because he was spent and he had to feel
again that his frame was dust He stood
there a few minutes. alone on the stage,
wracked with a cough that had made
itself apparent from time to time through
out the evening. Already most of the
men who had heard him were pressing
forward with eager, awakened faces, to
grasp him by the hand But with the
vision of the man, tireless though IA
tigued, verile though half sick, vivid
through his pallor, we turned away And
we thought of his prayer to die on the
field, still fighting. To feel for human
creatures, to work for them, to spend
ones strength in doing it and then to
die. Could one ask for greater des-
tiny? Always, in each generation, there
have been few who have done this and
1t is they who have kept the life blood In
the veins of the nations. Truly 1t is an
end worthy of men. and LaFollette is a
mani
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16

| Miss Helen Dinsmore Huntington. of
istaatsburg, N. Y, will wed Mr.. Vim
cent Astor, one of the wealthiest young
men in America.
Miss Huntington and Mr.. Astor have
been engaged six months. The we'd
ding will take place next spring. prob.
ably rather early, in the little Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Messiah, at
Rhinebeck.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-19
MAINLAND firm
gets JOB;LOCAL
BIDS SHUT OUT
W. N. concannon Lands Pearl
Harbor Coaling-PIant Steel
work Contract at
$346,000

AS a result Of preparation of Pearl
Harbor bids in such a manner that
local contractors were prevented from
competing, mainland firm has sue,
ceeded in landing the contract for one
of the biggest federal jobs of the year,
the coaling-plant steel work at Pearl
Harbor
w. n. Concannon of San Francisco
is the successful bidder, his figure be-
ing $346,960. The only other bidder
was also a mainland firm, Hamilton
& Chambers of New York, whose esti.
mate was $367.SOO.
News of the outcome of the bid
ding has stirred up local contracting
firms to the point where an emphatic
protest to Washington is now pro-
posed on the ground that local people
are qualified to do the work and
should not be shut out Of the bidding
The Star-Bullein on September 80
called attention to the fact that the
bureau Of yards and docks was asking
bids on such short notice that local
firms could not compete On that day
first appeared an official advertise.
ment which said in part:
Sealed proposals, endorsed Pro
posals for steeiwork, Pearl Harbor.
will be received at the bureau Of
yards and docks, navy department, un-
til II o'clock a m, October 49,"
1t was pointed out at that time
that the local firms could not send 10
Washington for plans and specifica-
tiOnS as necessary uO6or tho u-OrI
ing of the bid, get the plans back, pre-
l'are their bids and send them in to
Washington by October Is.
Local firms, while recognizing the
fact that they we're shut out of com
petition, believed that the job includ-
ed only the furnishing of the steel 1t
was not until recently that they found
cut the proposals were for both fur
Continued on page four)
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STAR-BULLETIN
STORY Brings
HELP QUICKLY

A new light was thrown on the case
of Mrs. Angus Mcdonald and her two
children this morning when it was
learned that, through the efforts OF
John Hughes, John Walker and IIiHh
Sheriff William Henry. several of the
creditors of the decamped Honolulu
contractor. who have liens on the
little house at Beretania and PikCi
streets, nave offered to either waive
all claims or compromise to the eX-
tent of receiving so much on the COL
lar in payment of the debts, in order
that Mrs. Mcdonald and her children
may retain their home. John Walker,
thH local contractor, WEO is one OF
the heaviest creditors, has intimated
that he is willing to waive his claim
i'll order to help the woman.
At the request Of High Sheriff WI.
liam Henry, John Hughes, master Car
builder of the Oahu Railroad & Land
Company, visited. Mrs Mcdonald at
her home yesterday afternoon and
there learned her story. AS a result
Of that visit, the lights and water have
been turned on in the Mcdonald hOMo,
{, large order of grO( cries has arrived
at the house from some mysterious
source. and. through Deputy Sheriff
Charles Rose, the police Officers have
teen removed. leaving Mrs Mcdonald
to go and come as She pleasCS. Mr.
Hughes said this morning tLal. a,
these several creditors have cone 70
the assistance Gf Mrs. Mcdonald AMI
are willing. in many cases, to accept
so much On the dollar to settle the
accounts Of her husband. it is bCliev
I'd that sufficient funds MAJ E1 raised
through means not yet decided upon
to settle these accounts and leave
Mrs. Mcdonald and her boys tre-
from worry.
Case a Pathetic One.
1T is the most puthori~ case Nh;r'
| have ever deai; w';l.' said NJ.
Hughes today. In t.o first place,
Mrs. Mcdonald is a woman CT refine
ment and culture, is we'll related. and
is both sensitive aud proud. That is
why she has accepted no charity, and
she demanded that She hc allowed t.
pay for everything which she receives
from friends or Otherwise under,
(COntinued on mage eiShtl
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CONSPIRACY
IS ASSERTION
OF ATTORNEY
Detectives and NeWspaperman
Said To Be Involved in the
Case Against Keiett
COMMISSION PROBING
MATTER THOROUGHLY
Peters Brands Testimony of
One Witness as False
Says He Wants Truth

h. G. Peters, the attorney for Dc
tective YChn r. Kellet:, gave notice
to the commission this morning q few
minutes after it convened TO resume
the hearing CT the charges against the
aiscba gei Cfcer that he Will pro-
duce facts to prove the existence Cf a
conspiracy Gu the part OF a few de-
,ecti2es Cf the police department and
j IerCftCr On the Advertiser which
has as it's aim end purpose the undo
ing Cf keilett.
While the Korean detective, John
Woo, who figured prominently in yes
terday's hearing, was on the witness
stand this morning Peters declared
that such conspiracy existed ant
that evidence will be adduced later to
bear him cut And limitations to the
same point were made during the
hearing Of the charges ~ef brutality
made by Joseph Perez Jr. and Kong
hung Do, who appeared to testify
this morning.
Before the commission adjourned at
noon today, the sheriff's case against
'Kellett on the score of brutality was
practically completed. 1t is now plan
ned to take up the hearing again Fri
day afternoon at 2 O'Clock but it is
likely that the time will be reset until.
Saturday morning as Peters stated he
would be engaged in another case at
least part CT Friday. :
More progress was made this morn
ing than yesterday The commission
Is doing all possible to reach the truth
of the charges, and to that end fine
nsints cf evidence are disregarded.
This course has proved ghgreeable to
both Peters and Deputy Attorney-gen.
eral Smith. Sto sst@aseiis a}5~r.
rstsishat we want 1te get out Of tffsss'
exclaimed Peters during his examina-
ton of Woo, who has dropped into a
lapse Of memory for the time being,
SIS the truth. We are as anxious as
anyone to get to the truth Of this
matter; and that is what want to
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SOLDIERS WILL
REvEL DURING
THE CARNIVAL
Department Commander Will
Give Uncle Sans Boys HoI-
iday During 1914 Fiesta
H0RSELESS CAVALRY TO
REMAIN AT ScH0FIELD
Regulars to Number of 5000
Will Participate in Parade
Troops to Camp Here

That fully 6e00 soldiers OF the regu
lar army will be in line of march
Monday, February %, when Honolulu
and King Carnival at one and the
same time, is the statement of Briga'
dier.general Frederick Funston, made
this morning. Horse, foot and wagon
soldiers Of the mobile army. and also
the coast artillery, will be turned out
for the ceremony, and not only will
the trocps from SchofieId barracks be
brought to the city, but they will be
camped in the vicinity Of Honolulu
for several days, so that the men may
enjoy the aIrusemeilts and attractions
Of the carnival week.
THE cayalrymen for whom there
are no mounts will have to stay at
Schoheld, and possfbly some Of the
field artillery. although we hope in
tfie next few months to get horses for
them" said General Funston. az will
also order out the coast artillery as
infantry, leaving only sufficient men at
each post to perform the regular duty
This should put at least 5000 regulars
In line, which win make quite a pa
rade, II win also help I'LL up the city
for the celebration, as ! intend to have
the out-of-town troops catnped here" :"
General Funston expressed the hope
that the National Guard of Hawaii
would be recruited up TO sufficient
strength to take part In the parade as
q fun regiment. Ha Is much inter
ested in the success of the Mid-Pa-
cihcl Carnival. and the military fea.
tnres, according to the department.
commanders plans proniss to eclipse.
ANYTHING or the kind ever seen on
Oahu. u. Y
General Funston Is also favorable
u the suggestion az 3. ereat fnaese1,
band. to gtve an cpen DIR concert The
i've military banda Of the island and
the Hawaiian band, VIII probably be
combined under the leadership Of Cap
tain Berger for this concert, and with
suficient time to practice. the result
should be splenuid musical attrac.
ton. -. 4
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LETTERS, SAID TO HAVE
BEEN WRITTEN By MRS.
WELSH, AMONG EVIDENCE

A dozen or more letters, written
upon paper bearing the imprint of the
seventh territorial legislature, and az
legged to have been penned by Mrs.
William L. Welsh, have been passed
from attorneys to bench at district
court, there to be admitted In evi-
dence in each instance BY District
Magistrate Larnach, before whom At
torneys J. NJ. Camara and James
Coke, representing the plaintiff, and
]. As Magoon, the defendant, argued
for and against their rejection.
Magoon took the stand that the let
ters which are filled with many inter-
esting passages. gave no dates and IN
some instances bore no signature. The
tenor Of the missiye in most cases
was the making o. demand upon j.
J. Medeiros for sums Of money.
Specified amounts are mentioned,
and through the lengthy correspond
Ience arrangements were suggested
whereby the sums might be forwarded
through a messenger, which In this
case is said to have been Tom, the
Japanese cook employed at the Welsh
home.
1t is the purpose Of the prosecution
to call this Japanese as witness.
the brother of Medeiros, who has been
residing on the island OF Maui, ID also
to be Included among the important
witnesses to be summoned before the
hearing is brought to a close at the
lower court. il 9@
Mrs. Welsh appeared at district
court accompanied by Attorney Ma
COON, who sought continuance until
tomorrow on the ground that the cal-
endar precluded a completion OF the
hearing today. .-sr..... H.. ...
The case, it is believed, win be con-
cluded at the next sitting OF the
court. - - ~r~ f~