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fences and walls ....... 3,169 90
Engineering and Contin- =
gencles ............. - 1859 10
Total estimated gross r. ....
cost -. ~ IL, 4uV: %
TX. MAXIMUM SHARES OR UNITS
F OF COST (estimated):
"a. Area basis:
Pavement, cutters, etc, 80. OIL Goa
Storm sewer system, ........ 0.O036S
ID. Frontage basis: .
(a) Widening Manoa Road, per =
per front It, $500. O.O6S5
OBJ Widening East Manoa Road,
per front IT. ...........--.. O-2l3
(c) New curbing. per front it.. OBS
X. FURTHER DETAILS: ...:.. .
The map and general plans, details,
specifications, particulars of estimates,
and other data so prepared by the En-.
gineer, showing the area $and frons
tage Of each parcel of land subject to
assessment, the location of existing
eurbing, and the location of the storm
sewer system, may be seen and ex'
amined by any person interested at
the office of the City and County En-
gineer in the Kapiolani Building on
the North corner of King and Alakea
Streets in said Honolulu at any time
during business hours prior to the
date fixed for the public hearing be-
low stated e
M. DEFINITIONS: ..... 49,. T..
The term subject to assessment"
as herein used, relates also to lands
not subject to direct assessment but
with respect to which their proportion
Of cost is to be borne by the City and
County. -. g.. =. ..... T.
And notice is further given that by
the terms of said Resolution No. 14S,
as amended by said Resolution No.
Isl, public hearing respecting the
proposed improvements will be held
at the Assembly Hall of the Board OF
Supervisors of the City and County OF
Honolulu on Wednesday, the 7th day
of July, 1915, at the hour of 1880
o'clock p. M, at which time and place
a full opportunity will be given to all
persons interested to present sugges-
lions or objections to the proposed
improvements or any part or detail
thereof. ....... ~.
Dated, Honolulu, T. H., June ~.
1915. @~. e. ~
d. KALAUOKALANI, JR.,
Clerk, City and County Of Honolulu.
618S-June IL, IA, 15, 16, II, Is, 10. 81,
%, %, "a, %. -:.... -,
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Brodie, Master Parrish, Dr. J. K. Wet
more, Miss ]. Deyo, Mrs. J. F. Bowler,
Miss Mary Lucas, Miss Jessie Ken
nedy, Mrs. Sisson and two children,
Miss NJ. Lightfoot, Miss Katherine Nc
Intyre, Miss NJ. E. Sumter, Miss I. E.
Smith, Miss Florence Johnson, Miss
C. NJ. BraRthen, Miss Mccarthy, Miss
Mccarthy, Mrs. A. T. Longley, Mrs..
NJ E. Foster, Mrs. E. B. Solano, Miss
e. Walters, Mrs. j. w. Barlow, j. p.
Jefferson, DR. J. NJ Ingersoll, Miss R..
Copp. Miss L. Richardson, Mrs. John
Buck, Jr., Miss Viola Buck. Mrs. IA.
l.. Simpson, Miss Russell, Miss Nor
rison, Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Allen, Miss
johnson, Miss M. d. Dean, Mrs. J. N.
Ingersoll, Mrs. NJ, C.. Turnkey, Miss
D. B. Wetmore, Heine Engel, c. s.
Bokelund, Mrs. Douglass, Mrs. s. Ste
yenson, Master Wally, Miss Valley,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. ]. Wally, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. J. Blake, Mr.. and Mrs. L. II.
Mum, Miss r. Bohnenberg, Miss H.
w. Ludloff, Miss Pomeroy, Mr.. Bald
win, VIM Ruthman, Miss Myrtle Astle-
ford, Miss D. Barnes, ]. Coster, ]. A.
Buck, F. H. Armstrong, Mr.. La Fol-
lette, Mrs. A. v. Crockett, Miss Grace
Crockett, Miss A. Ting. Miss O'Reilly,
Miss Johnston, Miss n. Murphy, Mrs.
]. H. Brayton, Miss Katherine McIn-
tyre, Miss s. NJ. Angus, Mrs. H. j.
Stevens, Miss NJ. Loveland. Miss s. E.
Bradshaw, Miss F. Hoogs, Miss s.
Hoogs, Mrs. F. Hoogs, H. c. Brown
and wife, Miss c. Brown, Miss Mum
ford, Miss Nottage. Mrs Kametan.
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VESSELS TO DEPART

.~' Friday, June IS. 4~" . :
Hongkong via Japan ports-Shinyo
Maru, Japanese str. c=.....
Vancouver and Victoria - Makura,
Br. str. -
Kona and Kau ports-Mauna Loa,
str, noon. =: J.. -. .
Windward Oahu ports - Komokila,
str. .... ..~.=. .-. ~...
Koolau ports-Kaena, str. . III +
-. Saturday, June 26. T.
Hilo via way ports-Mauna Kea,
str, 3 p. m. .... 81.
f.. ..... Monday, June %. H..
Kauai ports-W. G. Hall, str, 5 p.
m. ~ -:
Maui ports Claudine, str, 5 p. m. ri
=.~:r.~ Tuesday, June 20. -.
San -Chiyo Maru, Japan.
csc str. "--.- .-
!. Maui, Molokai and Lanai ports-Mi,
kahala, str, 5 p. m.
Molokai and Maui ports-Komokila,
str. ~~~ -. >.... :.
Kauai ports-Kinau, str, p. m.
Koolau ports-Kaena, str.
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OAHU RAILWAY TIME TABLE
OUTWARD.

Is OOJWAhDs
For Waianae, WaiaIua, Kahuku, and
way stations-s9:1 q. m, 1920 p. m.
For Pearl City, Eva Mil and way
stations-f7:30 q. M, s9:15 o. M,
s11:30 q. M, '2:15 p. m, 1920 p. m,
5:15 p. m, 1890 p. M, t11:15 p. m.
For Wahiawa and Leilehua-s10:20
a. m. f2:40 y. m, $500 p. m, '11:o0
p. m.
INWARD.
Arrive Honolulu from Kahuka, Wal
alua and Waianae-'8:36 .. m, 'b:31
p. m
Arrive Honolulu from Eva Mil ana
Pearl City-t7:45 a. m, 1886 q. m,
1902 a. m, '1:40 p. m, AIS p. M,
'5:31 p. m, '7:30 p. 10.
Arrive Honolulu from Wahiawa and
Leilehua-s9:f5 a. m, f1:55 p. N.
1901 D. m, .7:10 p. m. =
The HaIeiwa Limited. two-hour
train (only first-class tickets honored)
leaves Honolulu every Sunday at 1886
a. m. for HaIeiwa hotel; returning ar.
rives in Honolulu at 1910 p. N. The
Limited stops only at Pearl City and
Waianae.
.Daily. Except Sunday tsunday only.
G. p. DENIsoN, =. c. SMITH,
sUoerIntendens- G. p. a.
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TRANSPORT SERVICE :

Logan, from Honolulu for Guam and
Manila, June Is.
Thomas, from Nagasaki to HonolHlui
June 81.
Sherman, from Honolulu to San Fran.
cisco, arrived June IL.
Sheridan, from Honolulu to San Fran
cisco, arrived May Is.
Dix, from Honolulu to Seattle, arrived
May Is.
Warren, stationed at the Philippines
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MOVEMENTS OF
4. MAIL STEAMERS
VESSELS no ARRIVE

: Saturday, June g.
New York via Panama Kandahar
Br. str.
Hilo via way poFts-Marina Kea, str
Maui ports laudine. str.
Kauai ports KiRau, str.
....-. Sunday, June q. .~ .
Maui. Molokai and Lanai ports =
str. =..s...
Kauai ports-W. G. Hall, str.
Kauai ports-Likelike, str. s...- =
Monday, June %. ...". -.
San Francisco Sierra. o. s. S. -.
Tuesday, June %.
San Francisco-Lnrline. NJ. n. str
Hilo via way ports-Mauna Kea, str
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by AUTHORITY.

NOTICE OF PROPOSED STREET
IMPROVEMENTS IN MANoA VAL
LEY, HONOLULU, TERRITORY
OF HAWAII, IN "MANOA IN
rRoVEMENT DISTRICT NUMBER
ONE" AND OF PUBLIC HEAR
ING THEREON.
TO- THE OWNERS, LESSEES AND
OCCUPANTS OF LANDS PR0POS.
ED TO BE ASSESSED IN PRO.
POSED MANOA IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT NO. ONE, AND OF THE
LANDS HEREIN PROPOSED TO
BE ACQUIRED FOR STREET
WIDENING; AND TO ALL PER
SONS INTERESTED GENERAL
LY:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
At q regular adjourned meeting Of the
Board OF Supervisors Of the City and
County OF Honolulu, Territory Of iHa-
waii. 4held ON Friday. June a, 1915
kasolution No. las vas adopted by
the unanimous vote Of the full Board
proposing and approving the making
Of certain street improvements In Ma.
noa Valley in said City and County,
I'm an improvement district proposed
20 be known and established as ma.
noa improvement District Number
One" according TO the map, plans,
specifications, details and estimates
prepared and submitted to the Board
By the City and County Engineer in
his report thereon, with exhibits at.
taehed, dated May 20, 1915, filed with
the Board June 2, 1915, in compliance
with Resolution No. "a adopted by the
Board May IL, 1915.
And I'm compliance with law and the
terms of said Resolution No. 14S, as
amended by Resolution No. Isl with
respect 70 the date of public hearing
thereon, notice IL also hereby given:
j. IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.
The Improvement district proposed
TO be- established and within which
said Improvements are proposed to be
made, win be designated as "Manoa
improvement District Number One,
IN Manoa Valley, In Honolulu, the
boundaries being as follows:
beginning at point on the south
side Of Manoa Road which Is by true
nzimnth 1922 So IS" and distant 735. 3
feet from the Government Survey Sta
ton, Rocky Hilp' A and running by
fr11a aHfmufhe as follows:
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NAILS

Malls are due from the Icllowin.
points as follows:
San Franciseo-Sierra, June 90.
Yokohama-ChiyoM artl, June 49,
Australia onoma, July H.
Vancouver-M akura, July IA.
Mails will depart for the following
points as follows:
San Francisco-Chiyo Maru, June 30.
Yokohama-Shinyo Maru, June 25.s
Australia-Ventura, July IL.
MISUNDERSTANDING, June %.
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NOTICE.

Sonntag, den q Juni, wird in der
Deutschen nge1isch-Lutherisch
Kirehe Gottesd:enst stattfinden, gu
dem freundlichst eingeladen wird.
Herr Pastor Isenberg wird predigen.
6l99-2t - -.
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PASSENGERS EXPECTED

Per NJ. N. S. S. Lnrline from San
Francisco. Due at Honolulu June 90:
DR.. F. A. Plumm, j. X. Choy, A. w.
Brown, c. T. Bisserer. Miss Margaret
Seymour, Miss Hazel Harrison, Miss
Janet M. Dewar, Miss Martha Shaw,
Mrs. NJ. H. Weinberg and children.
Hoibrook Goodale, Mrs. W. w. Good
ale, Plat Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke,
Mrs. Russell Harding, Allan Renton,
Edward Dekum, John W. Gwilt, Miss
Simpson, Miss Larsen, Miss Jessie
Shaw, NJ H. Weinberg, Cabot Brown,
Vernon Tenney. H. B. Mariner. Mrs.
J. Melanphy, Mrs. Julia p Smith.
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A severe earthquake shock was re-
ported from Bavaria
The war on June IS will have cost
France $4,SO0, coo, 600 -.
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Vice Admiral Aubert. chief of the
French naval headquarters staff, died
in Paris, aged CT.
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STAR-BULLETIN GIVES YOU
TODiY'S NEWS TODAY
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The polling places for the election
of members of the convention shall be
the same polling places as established
end used at the last General City and
County Election, held in said City and
County of Honolulu on the Sd day of
November, AID. 1911. l..
In Testimony Whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caused the Seal
of the City and County of Honolulu to
be affixed this 18th day of May, A. D.
1915, r .~.... -. -: =.
(Seal) JOHN C. LANE,
Mayor, City and County of Honolulu.
618S-June II to July 5. daily. -.
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STAR.BULIETIN GIVES YOU
TODAY'S NEWS TODAY
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. S. s. G.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. s. s. c. CANAL LINE
Steamer will despatched from NEW YORK for HONOLULU
FORTYTIIREE DAYS. SEATTLE AND to
MEXICAN sail 27th sailing TEN
DAYS thereafter
For particulars a rates. etc, apply to
C.. r. MORSE, n. HAckFELD CO, LTD,
General Freight Agent Agents.
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BRONX SUBMARINE A SHARK.
Helpless After BEING informed by
RecedinG Tide.

Dave MCGOWAN OF The Bronx said
las, night that what he at first took
TO be n foreign submarine skidding about
in the mud OF Weir Creek near Throggs
Neck yesterday afternoon turned out to
be a shark that had escorted the tide
ashore and had been left FIAT when the
tide went out.
MCGOWAN, who is an inspector in the
Bronx Department OF Sewers. and A. l..
Hartman, an assistant engineer in the
same depa rtment. were quoted as say
ing later that they were relieved - find
that associating with the shsrk-ihe
length OF which at a comparatively early
hour after II had been killed was sevon
and one-half feet and still stretching-
was no n dangerous than being in
Belgium.
MCGOWAN and Hartman were over
looking some construction work when
the wells Of children attracted their at
tention TO n ccmmotion in n pool OF
much mud and little water left by the
tide. Aided by allies in the form OF
Italian workmen srmed with % bars
MCGOWAN and mis- army entered the mud
and spoiled their clothes and the shark.
The shark after n lot OF jabbing was
utterly spoiled. The Bronx said last
night that II the shark hadn't been
killed promptly il might have eaten
some OF the children bathing at Penny
field Beach rear by. None or the chill
dren was missing.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-21
DISHES FLY AT SING SING.
burton ". '.ihs"n HAS Clutches
Kicked From udrr utn.

OsstNGNG. y. Y. July 2U.-TNo Of
Warden Thomas Mott Osbornc's most
notable guests at Sing Sing have IN
jured feelings. Burtun W. Gibson had
his crutchcs Kicked from under linn 90
day when he tried TO bc a pcicemaker IN
a row in the mess hall, aud curly jos
Cassidy, former democratic boss OF
Queens county, asked TO he drafted %
Great Meadow prison AT tomsiocN. De
cause MIR. Osborne hasn't asked him 10
tea.
The fight Gibson tried To- stop arose
because SON Barbicri couldn't persuade
Bosco Lynch. head Of the ~"lowbroS"
party in Sing Sing politics. to let him
be sergeant at arms. James Casper.
another "lowbrow". WAS also involved.
and for n few minutes dishes and stools
flew about in the mess hall and the
guards had their hands fun. Gibson.
who has locomOtor atINid tried to stop
the fight and his rrut"nes were kicked
from under him. II" struck Violently IN
the concrete floor and had to hc patched
up.
The Mutual Welfare League will ia
Vcstigate the fight.
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and are barely convalescent They need
every care and attention.
The company includes ten nurses who
are returning to New York. practically
worn out after nine months hard labor
at DR.. Ryan's American hospital at Bel
grade. Terrible are the tales they tell
OF the hundred and one privations suf-
fe ed in the Serbian capital during the
FIRST months OF the war. At one time
food was SO scarce at the Ryan hospital
That the patients had to be put m half
their usual rations of milk and bread.
and II looked almost as II the doctors
and nurses would starvc to death. Over
work with little or no God became the
order of the day.
Some Idea OF the hardships which had
to be faced may be CLEANED from the fact
that when the Austrians entered Bel
grade the pressure on the hospital was
SO great that Of the 5000 soldiers who
applied for admission. 5000 had to be
tended In the courtyard outside, while
the remaining 5000 were Carried into n
building designed to accommodate 1900.
Apart from Austrian orderlies. the hos
pital stam AT this period numbered only
three doctors II twelve nurses. For
over -four months Miss Mary Frances
kellar OF New York served as sole night
nurse to nearly a thousand patients.
As the result of the strain of his recent
flying O Of investigation through Ser
bia Sir Thomas has mad a slight break
down. the first time he has succumbed
to the luxury Of an illness for several
years. He IL gradually regaining
strength. His high spirits all along have
been undaunted. often he has known
what it is to live in IA primitive Serbian
railway carriage for twcnty.four hours
at a stretch on nothing more substantial
than a tin of sardines.
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I 800 GO ON
STRIKE IN NEW YORK
workers for Clyde and Mallory
Lines DE md More Pay.

. Fifteen hundred dockmen employed by
the clyde and Mallory Steamship com.
panies on piers &c, 81. IS. ~ and As.
North River. went on strike yesterday.
demanding an increase OF pay. Although
unorganized. the men, soon after walk
ing out. enrolled In the Marine Trans.
port Workers Union OF the I. W. ".
The immediate cause of the strike was
the adoption of an efficiency plan by
the companies under which. the doSk-
men say. the foremen are given BONUSES
to get more work from them.
Their headquarters is at 1879 Charlton
street.
clifford u. Mallory. manager Of the
Mallory steamship Company. denied last
night tina there had been any general
strike Of the dockworkers. There had
been some trouble during the day, he
said. due only to the refusal of hands
on Pier 3S to transfer to Pier Go. The
former pier is being torn down and until
II is rebuilt the company has rented
Pier 65 of the Hamburg American Iine
THE d~ockhands refused to go to Pier
G5 because they are not union men and
the workers at the new pier are ex-
planned Mr.. Mallory. Perhaps they
were afraid Of an attack. At any rate
there were abou 125 men who refused
TO work. The rest were all on the job
when I left at $50 o'clock and ] have
not heard of any strike or of any de-
mand from the men for higher pay"
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METAL PLAN
HOUR DAY DEMAND
Consider Time RIPE for Nation
wide Action.

officials OF the International Associa-
ton of Machinists in this city said yes
terday that they regarded the time ripe
for a national demand for an eight hour
day on the part OF the metal workers
o. the country. and asserted hat they
considered the metal workers have n
better chance now of getting the eight
hour day tina at any time in the history
of the metal workers organization OF the
United states.
According TO officers of the %maChinists
there is a widespread sentiment among
metal workers in munition factories and
iron and steel plants in favor Of a gen
cral eight hour demand throughout the
country.
Secretary James Il. Wilson OF district
No. 10 of the International association
of Machinists, said The tim. is now
ripe for the machinists and other trades
employed in munitiOn, iron and steel
plants and foundries n other metal
plants TO make a demand for the eight
hour day. The enormous output Of the
munition. ron and steel plants OF the
country, due to the European war. JUST
lies the workers In these plants in max
ing a general eight hour demand"
business Agent l.. j. bccring or tie
International Association Of Machinists
said 'Tiiere are hundreds Of thou
sands employed in the metal trades OF
this country and these workers are of
the opinion that now. since tae machine
u iron ana steel plants and tho Rm-
munition factories Of the country are
running fun blast. the worhmen shoul1
make UP 'or lost ,ime by demanding
the eight hour day"
Local officials OF the metal workers
unions are now awaiting conferences
with the int%crnationa, officials concern
Ing the general eight hour demand
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-21
N. Y. GIRL HEROINE OF
SERBIAN HOSPITALS
Miss Mary +. Kellar Only
Night Nurse for 1000 Pa
tents for Four Months.
Special Correspondence 10 Tng srv.

Special Correspondence TO Tnr SrS.
SALoNIcA, June 1?.--"I guess we're
back at Sandy HOOK" a lusty American
voice called out over the ships side as
the little tramp steamer which brought
from the pir@ns the second contingent
OF some ~forty-six American Red Cross
sanitarians bound for Serbia dropped
anchor here yesterday. IL did look as IL
by magic New York had been trans
planted to the busy Greek port. Ameri-
can faces were seen everywhere, while
waiting for the new arrivals was a
spruce motor launch flying the burgee
OF the New York Yacht Club.
Then the familiar figure of Sir Thomas
Upton was espied in the launch. Three
rousing American cheers rent the air,
"Hurrah for Sir Thomas :"
81 a you boys to come right away
with me now for tea OF the Erin. You'll
fnd a big company of Americans OF all
shapes and sizes to greet you on board"
Sir Thomas called out.
After two days on n tramp great was
the change to this S%alonica tea party.
Although the Erin has been converted
into a hospital ship and plies to and from
tbV Nai sollts ~ dIkt toiNONS vi
doctors and nurses, to say nothing of
medical supplies on board. she still re-
mains one of the most luxuriously
equipped pleasure palaces afloat.
Mementos Of the celebrities who have
crulsed on her. King Edward. the En-
press Eugene. Edison. Roosevelt. abound
on all sides.
The American visitors were soon made
to feel thoroughly at home. This is
the most sumptuous warfare ] have
ever seem one sanitarian confded In
my ear as he contentedly munched a
macaroon and looked round at the row
upon row OF afternoon tea tables. all
laden with dainties. II this was his
impression OF the afternoon tea yes
terday. what must he have thought OF
the big luncheon party given by Sir
Thomas in honor of DIR. Richard strong
mt his fellow workers on the American
Sanitary Commission in Serbia just be-
fore the Erin left Salonica this after
1907? The company was almost entirely
American. The deck OF the hospital
ship was draped with the f1ags OF many
nations. among which the Stars and
Stripes pr~edoininated.
Many of the sanitarians were on their
way to take up the work OF cleansing
Serbia from vermin and filth In some OF
the loneliest and most %unsanitary parts
Of the country. The rest OF the
was composed mainly of the doctors and
nurses who are now travelling home on
the Erin to get a few weeks we'll earned
rest. Many OF them contracted typhus
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-21
PLOTS SUSPECTED IN
BATTLESHIP FIRES
The Oklahoma Is the ThiNA
U. 8. Vessel TO Be Ablazc
in Nine Days.

WAsHiNGToS. July 2O.-The suspicion
subjected to the hostile activities OF par
t.isans OF the war IN Europe was
strengthened here to-day when reports
OF the fire discovered yesterday on board
the battleship oklahoma were received.
This Is the third ba,tlcship on which
fires have occurred within tho last nine
DAYS. officials found II impossible not
to entertain the possibility that these
fires are more than u coincidence ard
we're of incendiary origin.
Secretary Daniels has thus far taken
no action on the basis Of such sus-
picions. For the monen ne is accept
ing the reports OF naval officers. who are
disinclined to accept the theory that at
tennis are being made to destroy naval
vessels.
The Secretary has asked. however. for
a report from capt. k~aeLnncrling.
naval officer in charge Of the inspection
work ON the oklahoma. which is still in
the hands of the New York Shipbuilding
Company at Camden. y. j., in regard to
fire on board that vessel p~reliminar:
reports said that the fire was caused by
the catclcssness of wOrkm,n who are sad
to have left matches near some tenn
porayy woodwork.
Regarding the fires in tho battleshipo
New Jersey and Alabama, official re-
ports state that they were Tue To defects
In electrical wiring,
1t is pointed out that hattleships are
always very warm below decks and
that summer heat always increases the
temperature In the compartments. maN-
ing spontaneous combustion more likely.
Spontaneous combustion In coal bunkers
Is a frequent cause Of fire.