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The citizen., 1915-08-26
MESSENGER SERVICE
A "CRIME FACTORY"
90 Lewis W. Hins Tells Child Tabor
Conference.

"Crime factory" is the term which
an investigator for the National Child
Labor Committee made use Of In de-
scribing the evils Of the messenger
service at the Eleventh Annual Con
ference on Child Labor. This man.
Lewis W. Hine. believes that there Is
not messenger boy OF any experience
who does not know more about the
underworld than the average citizen.
because one very common phase Of
messenger work Is the serving Of pros
titutes by carrying messages. running
errands and procuring dope. Investi-
cations Of the night messenger service
during the past five years in cities rep
resenting every section Of the country
The citizen., 1915-08-26
BANKERS DIsCREDIT REPORT
Continued from page ~

serve s2sf 100000. The total gold OF
the world is $500. 900, 900, of which
Germany and Austria have $780,
660, 900.
Since the beginning Of the war Ger
many has been buying little, COM
paratively speaking. from outside ma
ton. so its gold has been kept in re-
serve. As long as II holds onto this
gold II will never be bankrupt among
nations, no matter what condition its
internal finances may be in.
The citizen., 1915-08-26
LISTEN, wAGE.EARNERs.

Students OF statistics tell US that
the number OF wage-earners employed
In the liquor industr, is 62.92O; in the
bread and clothing industry, 492,655.
Wages paid in the liquor industry
are $45,252.000; in the bread and
clothing industry. s24. 1876. 900.
Cost OF raw materials for intoxicst.
ing liquor is sl39 900: for bread
and clothing. s744,337, 900.
The people OF the United States
spend more than s2,OO0.OOO 900 annu.
ally for liquor. 1t requires eight times
as many men TO sell bread and cloth.
ing as II does TO sell the same money
value OF beer and whisky
The citizen., 1915-08-26
NO CHILDREN IN THE MINES.
California Eliminates Children Under
Sixteen From Mines and ousrries.


Among the new limits established by
the California child labor law Of 1915
Is n sixteen year limit for mines and
quarrics. California has mining prod
ucts valued at more than s63.O00,OoO,
according to the 1910 census, but she
has never before set an age limit for
the children who might be employed
in their production.
Now that sixteen year limit has
been adopted no fourteen or fifteen
year old trapper boys will be found
among the victims of an explosion. as
was the case In West Virginia last
year. nor will their thoughtlessness be
the cause OF disasters In which others
are killed. ms II sometimes Is where
boys under sixteen are permitted to
work In mines.
Mining has the highest fatal accident
rate Of any industry. but quarrying Is
not far behind. A signal boy was
crushed to death by falling stone in
The citizen., 1915-08-26
NO BACKWARD STEPS ON NOTE
Continued from Page ~

mediately be severed.
Until complete information is at
hand, though. Mr.. Wilson and Secre-
tary Lansing will reserve final judg-
ment on the sinking Of the White Star
liner. The hope of the president and
his advisers is th-t this judgment viii
not long be deferred. Steps were
taken to expedite matters. Instruc-
ions were sent to Ambassador Page
n London to cable a summary OF the
afidavits obtained by him and a mes
sage also went forward to Ambassa-
dor Gerard at Berlin. directing him to
inquire OF the Berlin foreign office II
a report had been received from the
commander OF the German submarine
in regard to the sinking OF the Arabic.
Mr.. Gerard is not TO ask for any ex-
PLANTATION, but his inquiry will amount
to an invitation to Germany to furn-
ish to this government the report or
the submarine commander. Also the
opportunity will be at hand for Ger
many to make any statement in her
President Wilson Will avail himself
Of every opportunity to avoid rup-
ture with Germany. but he will go no
further. There will be no backward
step from the solemn warning con-
yeyed TO Germany In the last note OF
this government. Information OBJ
tanned here sweeps awav every vestige
Of doubt as to the presidents resolu-
tion TO deal firmly and quickly with
the situation, once he is convinced
that American rights on the high seas
have been deliberately violated by the
German government.
There is no way OF telling exactly
how long II will be before reply Is
received from Ambassador Gerard.
There have been suggestions from
BERN already that II may be a week
or even two weeks before the German
admiralty receives report from from
the submarine which sank the Arabic.
II Germany desires to play for time
she will have the means at her dis
posal for doing so. for President Will
son Is determined that this govern
ment shall do nothing rashly, but shall
act only after II has received all In
formation in regard to the attack up
on the Arabic. II is assumed by the
government officials that Germany
will not necessarily delay the pre-
sentation Of her side OF the case.
To emphasize the determination OF
the president to secure all possible In
formation before closing his mind as
10 the Arabic incident. this statement
was issued al the White House.
"The secretary TO the president,
after conference with the president,
made the following statement: With
reference 10 the sinking OF the Arabic,
as soon as all the facts are ascertained
our course OF action will be deter
mined
There was evidence OF some irrtta-
tion in oficial quarters over the fact
that no detailed evidence had been re-
ceived from Ambassador Page.
The citizen., 1915-08-26


THE PRODUCT OF THE CRIME FACTORY"
have failed to reveal a single night
messenger whose work had not brought
him into personal contact with vice.
The chances of promotion In the
messenger service were summed up by
one boy as follows: Nothing TO II un-
less you are the right kind Of guy.
You can get to be a check boy or file
clerk after being In the service a year
or two II you stick to II. but ordinarily
nobody wants 10 stick. ''' There Is
nothing To do when we're not on calls
You can go into the office and sit down
and loaf. or you can go outside and
stand up and loaf In our Office the
manager never cared what became Of
you as long as you were within calling
distance"
The attitude of other employers to-
ward the boy who has worked as a
messenger was brought out last winter
by Miss Anne Davis Of Chicago at a
hearing on the proposed Illinois child
labor law. which included a twenty
one year limit for night messengers
employers tell me-" said Miss Davis.
"they always specify that boy shall
not have worked as messenger when
they employ him"
The citizen., 1915-08-26

BOYS WHO REMOVE SLATE PROM COAL IN
THE BREAKERs.
a Maine quarry last fall The occupa-
ton OF signal boy Is not generally sup
posed to be dangerous, but II Is evident
from this that any occupation In q
quarry Is unsafe for young boys and
that sixteen year limit is Imperative.
A number Of mining states having
both mines and quarries have adopted
a sixteen year limit for mines only.
forgetting that the dangers from fall
ing stone and blasting make the pres
ence OF young boys In quarries a risk
to be avoided.
California's action Is regarded as
particularly significant by the National
Child Labor Committee In view OF the
'Iaw OF recurrence" which Dr. Felix
Adler spoke about at the Eleventh An
nual Conference on Child Labor. Dr.
Adler said that the evils OF child labor
had followed Industrial development
from England TO New York and Mas
sachusetts. from there to the south
and from the south would go 10 the
west unless the west prevented II by
enacting child labor laws In advance.
Child labor I'm the mines will not re
cur In California.
The citizen., 1915-08-26
ATTEMPT TO OPERATE CARS.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Rioting resulted
when an attempt was made to operate
cars on the Allegheny division OF the
West Penn Traction Co.. where mo-
tormen and conductors are on strike
for recognition OF the union Several
cars operated by strike breakers were
stoned, while another car was burned
by strike sympathizers. who threw
burning waste into 1t after il had been
derailed by steel rails placed across
the tracks. A number of persons were
struck by rocks or cut by glass.
The citizen., 1915-08-26
FEARS OF LIQUOR DEALERS.

Quite recently the New York State
Wholesale Liquor Dealers association
put their fears into concrete form in
the declaration that the events OF
the last ~ months have created a
situation more grave than has ever
before confronted our trade. For.
merly We were called upon to oppose
town and county option. Today We
must combat state and nationwide
prohibition. Originally our opponents
were few and scattered. Today they
are many and united"
The citizen., 1915-08-26
GERMANS SINK THREE MORE.

London.-German submarines con.
tinuing their efforts to destroy British
shipping sent to the bottom the fol.
lowing ships: British steamship VIII
liam Dawson, 2S4 tons, OF Middleboro;
blown up and five lives lost. Steam
ship Windsor, 6.O55 tons. OF London;
sunk and her crew saved. Steamer
Cober. 5000 tons, of London; sunk and
crew landed.
The citizen., 1915-08-26
win Help Finance Cotton Crop.

Washington, August 24.-Announce-
ment was made at the treasury depart
partment that Secretary McAdoo will
deposit 100000. 900 in gold in the fed
eral reserve banks OF Atlanta, Dallas
and Richmond. II so large a sum is
needed. in order to facilitate the
financing OF the cotton crop. This
step was decided upon as a result or
the action Of the allies in putting cot
ton on the contraband list
The citizen., 1915-08-26
Watch Your Children =,

Often children do not let parents know
they are constipated. They fear some
thing distasteful. They win like Rexall
Orderlies-a mild laxative that tastes
ike sugar. Sold only by Us. 10 cents.
Porter. Moore Drug Co, Inc.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26
OdfAs The Race.

TNIfE Idea Is lpEreSaient III tie United states
i that our Thanksgiving is peculiarly an Am
erican custom Of New England origin. This is
truein part only The general observance through
many years of a set day which to give thanks
TO Almighty God for his blessings has made the
custom dstinctivey American; but its origin
long antedates the settlement Of the western con-
tnent, and we must look elsewhere for it. The.
idea Of Thanksgiving day goes back to remotest
antiquity. 1t is a part of natural religion, and
lis probably as old as the human race In written.
records we have ample evidence that the festival
was celebrated in connection with "the fruits OF
the earth by the ancient Egyptians the Jews, the
Greeks and the Romans. Long before Luther's
revolt from Rome in the sixteenth century II had
been observed by the Christians and after the
Reformation, Thanksgiving days we're in frequent
use by the Protestants, especially those Of Eng
land, AsHa a. ..-s at ID. ~ asg. 1.fts +. q ~
The, festival appears early in, Jewish history,
and as il was connected with the land and its
possession may have had a Canaanitisi: proto-
type Its celebration was annual, and each fes-
| tiva continued through seven days. AT the be-
1 ginning "two vessels OF silver were carried in a
ceremonious manner to the temple, one full of
water the other of wine, which were poured at
the foot of the altar Of burnt offerings, always
on the seventh day of the festival" Plutarch
describes this ceremonial, which he believed was
/ a least OF BacchuS. lie says; - he jews cele-
brate two feasts of Bacchus. In the midst of the
vintage they spread tables, spread with all man
ner of fruits and live in tabernacles made espe-
cially of palms and ivy together. = A few
days later they kept another festival which was
openly dedicated to Bacchus, for they carried
boughs of palms in their hands, with which they
went into the temple, the Levites going before
with instruments of music" " VI ~ "a -.
" Analogous to the Jewish festival and possibly
borrowed from it was that of the old Greeks, the
IThesmorphia. This was feast to Den1eter, the
goddess of the harvest. 1t lasted nine days and
consisted of sacrifices of the products of the soil
with citations of wine, milk and honey" The
ocritus refers to it in the Seventh Idyl" where
Simchidas says: Nov, this is way to the
Thalysia; for our friends, in sooth, are making a
feast to Demeter of the beautiful robe, offering
the first fruits of their abundance, since for them
in bounteous manner, the goddess has piled the
Ithreshing floor with barley" ,..
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26
STEVENSONF FAILS
TO ENTER A A.
--5-,. DIV We 1lVlHl .lNNEN-- A.II
Alleged Sohuman' Company En-
bezzIer Secures Liberty On
Bond. of $3.50

In the police court yesterday after
noon, Frank L. Steyensoa appeared to
plead to a charge NJ bpezzliug $67, the
property of the scbePEan Carriage Com
pany. Defendant reserved his plea un-
til tomorrow morning and was released
on $3.50 bond. 'F 80 q -
Stevenson was arrested on Tuesday
morning, shorty aftor the arrival of the
steamer Wilhelmina, and was accused
Of having embezzled $60D, the property
of the company by, which he was en-
ployed as foreman and collector.
Stevenson said yesterday that he had
thought the matter would have been
settled out of court, until he was call,
ed before Judge Monsarrat to plead,
He further expressed his intention of
making good the shortage and leaving
the Territory.
Prosecuting Attorney Chillingworth
said that Gu account Of defendant be
ing sick man he would not press fol-
a heavy sentence, but that even though
reparatiOn be made to the Schuman Car
rage Company, the charge will not b'
dropped.
Yesterday morning Mrs, Stevenson
and her sister were visitors at police
headquarters, and in the afternoon con
ferred with Judge Monsarrat.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26
POSTS DAUGHTER GETS
MILLIONS, DEFEATING
HER STEPMoTHER

DETROIT, November ia report
from Battle Creek, Michigan, says that
Mrs. Edward Close, of Greenwich, Con
necticut, daughter of the late G. W.
Post by his first wife, has succeeded in
defeating the wiil of the breakfast food
manufacture, who committed suicide a
year and a half ago, leaving his $l5,-
900 900 estate to his second wife.
'''1t'is reported that the legal conn was
effected through the production of court
records made at the. time Post went
through bankruptcy proceedings, Post
having declared that the Postum Cereal
Company was founded and built up out
of a small fund of $3.50 which had been
saved up by the original Mrs, Post aad
rlaced TO the credit of their daughter
Marjorie. AS part of the same testi
mony, it Is n matter of record that Mr.
Post swOre the company was the prop
erty of Marjorie, and that he, c. w
Post, was her agent. This has never
been corrected, according to the record
and Mrs, Close will become the sole
owner of the Postum Company.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26
FILIPINO TRAMP
R|OpASG SUFFERS
N. Fierce TYPHOO|| On
T. 81. - % 's ..
After a Voyage of Dire Peril
Storm Beaten Steamer
Calls For Coal

Weather beaten and short of coal,
the Filipino tramp steamer Rio Pasig,
Capt. Arlante, of Manila, came to port
yesterday morning. She, came from
Shanghai and is bound for San Pedro
and San Francisco with 1000 tons Of
general cargo.
The vessel ran into typhOon on the
night of November ~, and for twenty
four hours bore the stress Of the storm.
Until four o clock of the morning of
November 10, the steamer was prac-
tically at the mercy of mountainous
seas which buried everything below
the bridge every few minutes.
Docked at Pier Z, the Rio Pasig is
taking on $50 tons of bunker coal.
Captain Arlante stated yesterday
that the typhOon was the worst that
he has ever experienced and that sew
eral times it looked as if the ship
would founder. The vessel at one
time rolled to an angle of thirty-two
degrees, and the wind when the blow
was at its worst, registered eighty.
four miles an hour ON the Beaufort
scale
The coal taken on at Shanghai was
of such poor quality that instead OF
burning twenty-tOns of coal every
| twenty-four hours as is the ease with
good coal, the tramp ate up from
thirty to thirty-three in order that
steam might be kept up. This account
ed for shortage of fuel which com
PEELED the steamer to put in here fol-
bunkers.
The crew of the Rio Pasig are al
| FilipinOs. The steamer is getting Q
freight rate of eleven dollars a tor
for her cargo, from Shanghai to Sar
Francisco. The cargo includes tea
wool, ore, and various Oriental mer
behapdise. ss-r,,jw rs,sseq yd .,,,y ts,fg
7" During February the Rio Pasig ealiett
here en- route from Manila, her HON,
i port, to Seattle, being short of Goa
on that occasion as swell She has beer
used in the inter-island trade in thu
Philippines, but Aattering charter
have resulted in her being placed o.
the transpaciic run. a.. /. "a, q rs
| The steamer will probably get AVA,
| for San Pedro this faftHrn6ohl q fSh,
was built in Stockton, England, .aht
is l947 tons net and 1884 gross ton
mage. -. il. ,.f,}t.
i October % was, the date of the de
partpre Of the Rio Pasig from MaDili
FOR Shanghai to load cargo. She saile'
from Shanghai for San Pedro, Octohe
I3l. D..
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26
MAKING SAYS ROSE
ISLWNG WONDER

81 see that Sheriff Rose blames me
now for the fact that one of his noble
police officers tried to graft a razor
from Hotel street barber shop, says
Fred Maxine, owner of the HAWAII
Hochi "Of course, il the sheriff says
that I'm responsible, i guess am" !
only hope that he doesn't also find out
that l IN responsible for the loss OF the
"a or the taking of the tariff of sugar
"The afternoon paper is in error in
supposing that il was Officer Gpnder'
son who was the hero Of the barber
shop tale. II is. Officer Richardson.
at is surprise to me that the sher,
in, who has such an, unerring way OF
placing the responsibility on me for %
much cannot place some of the resPon'
sibility for the hundred or so burglar
les committed IL the city Of late, 81
why he cannot lceate q few Of the big
che-fa games, which every newsboy in
town knows all about, or why he can
mot do any of the things he is paid tC
do. II he thought less about inventine
excuses and, more about doing his
duty the city would be better oil. y g.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26
We and They

In the smaller towns and country districts peo-
i pie say 'we." when they speak of governmental
activity. 1--WE" built the courthouse and got it
done at low cost 1--WE" organized the high school.
I'VE" pay the expenses Of keeping prisoners in
the Jail"
In the big cities people say they" "Why
don't they do thus and So" People wonder when
the city government falls down. 1t isn't per-
sona matter with them The government isn't
their government. 1t belongs to somebody else.
T. There is world of difference in the two ati-
tudes, declares the Kansas City Star. When the
people of the cities get to saying I'VE" about thHr
cities and counties then they are going to clean
house and take possession.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26
The UIsefuh B4t lQ1 y

DERIoDiCALLY Ithc suggestion q importing
y and acclimatzing bats in theIslandsas mos
quito destroy4rs il advanced, and now, following
the rains and the reappeafance in several parts o
the city Of thepesky singers appears to be goot
time to suggest II again! IL there be any gaot
reason why bats should hot BE brought here, I
has escaped our notice, The following from
recent mainland publication, offers some sugges
.tions which appear worth consideration, ,Ih'
article says FRS b.T mr. "', ''E '.,-,r.r.,
We hear n ereat deal from time to time about the
value Of birds destroyes Of insects but until recent
y Il seems not to have occurred to any that the
familiar bat should be given recognition in the same
connection Yet of everyone lie aware that the
bat lives on insects and 1t requires but moments
thought TO convince that the insects in question
are probably not of character to be useful to man.
In point of facts it has been found that in certain
regions the bat feeds very largely on mosquitoes.
As isi now wen known that The mosquito Is the
exclusive carrier of malaria and that ~ probably on
occasion trans the germs of other diseases ms WE'LL
II is obvious that auyereate that is enemyto the
Z mosquito Is a friend of man. -
The first person, seemingly, to make praeticai appl
cation Of thf line of reasoning is Dr. C.. A. Camp.
bell Of San Antonio, Texas. He began by demon.
strating that single bat may consume as many rs
260 mosquitoes in night. He ended by having
official bat constructed at San Antonio, cap
able Of housing 100000 of these animals 49,.
The cost of constructing such bat rOOst ms that
erected at San Antonio Is comparatively slight, and
IL appears that the outlay may, soon be repaid not
mefeiy publ1c health DuI III WoHeyJ
much as the bats produce guano of high fertilizng
value Mt such rate that single roost, housing 250,
900 Of the animals is expected to produce twelve TONS
valued at $3.50, in of nine months
The idea of having the pestiferOus mosquito con.
sumed by friendly bats and its remains returned into
valuable guano is certainly attractive. OF course
scheme that planned to eliminate the mosquito alto
gether by aboishing its brewing places would be even
more attractive but it is not Away practicable In
all regions where there parks of marshes that
cannot be drained, economically treated with kero
sene to destroy the arval mosquito let u.s. by all MEANS
have official and carefully guarded bat roosts.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26

In justice to Sheriff Rose it should be pointed
out that as yet there has been no intimation that
swipes joint is running in the county Jail, while
up.to the present there have been no allegations
made concerning counterfeiting. AS matter Of
faGt nothing has been brought out to the dscredit
of the Rose police administration except that the
Jail ran gambling game, turned the hospital over
for free booze joint provided private door for
visiting prostitutes and,wa used cache for
struggled opium until it could be sold That's
all. No pika. &IS,+Hh.,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26
WELL KNOWN GENTLEMEN
MIX It IN KING STREET
Frank Levy and Jakiei BDhnsteiR'
Give SIugging Exhibition .,,
i! Oh! Oil Such a to do!

vi! VII vi! puCn u W uOs
D., Frank Levy, the well known clothier,
and jake BOhnstein, the local pawn
broker, mixed up in King street last
night, and for a time the fur flew with
a vengeance.
Along about eight o clock BOhnstein
and companion walking along the
street, passed Frank Levy and the two
men instantly went to 1t.
The combat was preIaced by re-
mark by Bohhstein that Levy was a
cheap pickpocketter.
Levy retorted that Bohnstein was a
cradle robber and a number of other
uncomplimentary things.
Bohnstein then asked Levy If he
wanted a blue eye, and the latter, re
marking that blue was his favorite col
or. swung on the pawn broker with
pTecisio and force. IT, ..
Bohnstein is the heavier man, but
Levy used to be a feather weight boxer
of distinction and has had the gloves on
with several, of the best men Of his
weight that the country has produced
For some minutes the fray wage
vigorously but withal eOurteously. Wher
! one Of the belligerents was knocked
down the other would help to get hin
on his feet before again essaying al
uppercut. .<
l HoDors were abont even when SOM
! marsport distracted the attention o.
the combatahts by dropping a dOllaj
on the sidewalk and than jumping il
and grabbing it before either coul'
reach il.
"Oh, what's the usei" exclaime'
Messrs. Levy and Bohnstein, in unison
as they went their several ways.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26

Congress Convenes on December 6, and there
is much of importance to Hawaii to be taken up
Kuho cannot possibly Ieach his post OF duty now
in time for the opening days. He was booked
on the Matsonia and didn't go He stated that
he would wait for the Lurline, which sailed yes
terday without the Delegate aboard We are
keeping track Two!
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26
EARLY COLDS.

BE careful of the colds yon take at
this time of the year. They are par,
ticularly dangerous. A neglected cold
may mean winterIIong cold. Take
Chamberlain s Cough Remedy at once
For sale by all dealers. Benson,
Smith & Co., Ltd, agents for Hawaii
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26

John A. Dix, former Democratic gov
ernor of New York, accompanied by his
wife, is expected TO arrive here some
time during the coming month for
long stay at the Moana Hotel. g.. b.,