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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-26
POLICE ON MAUI
nab F|FTY-TWO
AUTO SPEEDERS
Sam Kalama, Chairman of Su-
peryiSorS, and Rev. Dodge
Among Those Fined
Especial star-buiIetin correspondence)

Especial Star-6uiIetin Correspondence
WAILUKU, Aug. 25.-During this
morning and afternoon So warrants
have been served on Maui people for
spec ding on the highways where the
maximum speed allowed is Is miles
an hour Several very serious acci-
dents have recently occurred, or col
lisions have nearly taken place, which
have caused the Maui police to rigidly
enforce the law.
Several Of those arrested have COM
planned that heretofore the police
have not even warned them that they
were driving too fast. and then to be
suddenly arrested without such warn
ing; was little too much of good
thing. They paid their fines. however,
so the police department Is some 5000
richer than it was last night
Among those arrested is Sam Ka-
lama. chairman Of the board Of super
visors, and one of the men who helped
to put the ordinance on the statute
books. Another was the popular Fred
Nicholas. one Of the most careful
drivers on Maui, though some what
noted for speeding. Rev. r. b. Dodge
was another arrested, and so was r.
G. Bowman of the school department.
Frank Lufkin dug up his S., and so
did two score more of public drivers,
who needed lesson. according to the
Maui police. The people who were
fined were mostly Wailuku citizens.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-26
KENTUCKY BAR CASE
GETS INTO COURT ON
GARNlSHEE ACTION

Summons was returned to circuit
court today after being served en- the
defendants in the case of w. G. Pea
cock, Ltd, against Thomas A. Mar.
lowe, defendant, and S. NJ. Damon, Ell
al. doing business as Bishop & Com
pany; the Bank of Hawaii. the First
National Bank of Hawaii and the Bank
of Honolulu. garnishees. The action
is for debt in the sum of $412.15, the
p;aintiff also asking for interest and
the costs of court A writ Of at
tachment has been issued by Circuit
Judge Stuart covering the fixtures and
supplies in the Kentucky Saloon,
which recently was closed at the order
of the liquor license commissioners.
The defendant and garnishees in the
case have been summoned to appear
before Circuit Judge Stuart at 10
o'clock Monday morning, January 10,
1915.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-26

General Orders. No. 81, War Depart
ment, 1914.
6. The leave of absence granted
Acting Dental Surgeon Harry M. Del
her, Fort Shafter, Fl. T., is extended
10 days.
Z. Sergt. Charles Radc,iff, Band,
End Infantry, Fort Shafter. H. T., will
be discharged from the army by the
commanding officer Of that post by
purchase. under the provisions of Gen
eral Orders, No. 81, War Department,
1914
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-26
SUPERVISORS WILL
NOT HAVE TlRESDME
MEETIeE TONIGHT

Three features are que to come up
at the meeting of the board of super
visors tonight. The most important of
these is the opinion OF the city attor-
ney as to the legal right of the board
to grant a permit to the Mid-Paeific
Carnival to use Aala park exclusively
for Carnival City next February.
But the second feature probably will
be the most exciting.
The mayors proposed rules of pro-
cedure for the board, and many amend
ments are expected, with warm fight
in prospect over each one presented.
The third feature will be the second
reading OF the city planning ordinance.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-26
Tells
Of PLANS FOR
new THEATER

Plans for the building of large up
to-date theater in the heart of Homo
lulus business section were announced
yesterday by w. R. Hughes. the theat
rical man.
According to Mr.. Hughes, the build
ing is to be erected by William VOL
tiers who is now on the coast. Mr.
Wolters will put in a business block
at the same time the .heater is con-
structed. The buildings will stand on
the strip of property between the new
Wolters building on Union street and
the row of buildings just OF Fort
street. says Hughes, Entrances will
be placed at both Fort and Union.
The new theater will be modern ir
every way, featuring either regular
plays or motion pictures. An espe-
cially wide stage will be one of the
features. Construction work will be.
gin about November I. The building
will be leased by Mr.. Hughes It's
cost will be about $4,000, he says.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-26

w. s. Lucky, an aviator, has been
detailed to the camp of the Penn
sylyania National Guard at Indiana,
Pa.
Mexican bandits burned bridge OF
the st. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico
Railroad. near Harrington, Tex.
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did not recede. All the ruin was done at once. Poland has been thrice submerged by the war wave. First there was the German march to the vistula, which cul- minated on october 10; then there was the German retreat to the frontier which SEW heavy rearguard fighting, and now there Is the second German invasion in which every town, village and farm has been a center of battle. Lodz has been five times occupied and reoccupied. Each change of masters meant added destruc- tion, more contributions, and more pay n,ents with worthless paper.
 Vladimir Ogneff, the Zernstvo worker. whc traversed Poland before the fall of I.edz, says that $900,00o.O0O must be spent if Poland isato be restored. Since the fall of Lodz things are worse. The only hope left is that the Germans for their own ends, may bring back prosperity. They have already appointed civil gov- erpor; they are building railroads, and they seem resolved to make Poland, like Belgium, a base and milch COW for fur tl.er operations. When they entered Skierniewice their first act was to com mand the rural commissary to make a list of farmers, farms and average annual harvests. They next put pressure on the farmers to stay at home and till. They threaten that they will themselves seize and till abandoned farms. and ttev prom lSe 10 pay Tn casn TOT grain grown in 1915. The aim is to feed all the occupa- tion army and perhaps part of Germany with Poland's grain surplus. For similar reasons they have set to develop Polish towns In Lodz arc new German ma chine shops and small arms arsrunition factories As long as the invaders oc- c''py part of Poland, a return of material prosperity Is possible. If war again sweep backward and forward, the last hope of material salvation will disappear, and Finis Poloniae will be literal fact.
 Copyright. 19i5 by Curtis Brown.)
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Ill the southwest 300 villages have been burnt or battered to fragments. Also 700 isolated farms. All villages and isolated houses on the Bsura river, between it's confluence with the Vistuia ana its con 1'nence with the Rawka. have disap- peared. Only backened brick chimney remain. Worst of all is the destruction west and northwest of Lodz. Here three weeks battle ragged in November and December. In a patch of country 10 miles square only two houses are left.
 In Warsaw hospitals so civilians are being treated for shell or bullet wounds They are all that have been brought here Of thousands of wounded noncom- batants. Half of the So are women and children; all are of peasant class The Polish peasant refuses to run away a. the right time. When he hears that d pattle is raging 50 miles away he takes everything portable, and, with his family, makes for Warsaw. The battle, he dis covers. stays for weeks on the same spot He assumes that 1t will not move any further, and he returns to his village and pays no heed to further warnings. Then the Russian defense recedes: war and flame advance, and in the middle of the light destruction sweeps over the vil- lege. Shells explode and set the thatchex aflame. The villagers rush from their bsos. If lucky. they escape If unlucky. tkey may find their village occupied at both ends by contending infantry. There is mad rush, infantry volleys are fired. civilians fall as thick as soldiers: tho women and children dash back into their cabins, and the whole village goes up in flame. Those who have escaped tramp iG their night clothes along the sodden. snow-covered roads to the next village east. and few days later, at the point of death. they are taken into Warsaw hospitals.
 Poland's nobles have lost their chateaux. Some of tho chateaux have been shelIed: some purposely burnt because they inter- fered with firing some pillaged and then burnt by marauders In South Poland are coco brigands. in small bands. who p'urder and murder. Most were formerly honest peasants. Hunger and immunity have driven them to brigandage. Where they find an intact country house they piunder 1t, and then, in order to cover up taeir traces, set 1t on fire. Russa's mili- faTy justice has summarily hanged 90 marauders. In the Lysa Cora hills round Kielcc flourishes "Tchorni Stanislas"- Black Stanislas-and a band of 30 brig ands. Black Stanislas has murdered doz- ems of men. and carried off 10 women or giils. He rules q little independent stat. anc does good business by spying for both Russians and Germans. Many chateaux have been destroyed because they served as fortresses.l The chateaux are surrounded by stone walls and have nu- nerous outbuildings. When battle on a small scale is planned. country house Is looked for as a convenient cover to an infantry flank. Riflemen are posted behind the walls and the house itself Is made an observation post. Against these house fortresses musketry fire is u;'eless. The enemy has to pc expelled b. shelling. and after . dozen big shells
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IS THIS THE END OF UNHAPPY POLAND?

10 the office of the "gminde'' headman n and given half an hours notice to the population to clear out The engineers made some surveys. Out of their cabins tnmbled the villages. and out of the ba ok wards were brought carts. The carts were loaded with clothes, bedding, kitch- en utensils and the lighter furniture. These were rushed to the bank of a stream and left there in pouring rain
 The destruction of the village began wooden houses. The wet matches would not light. Then matches were laid to curtains inside and the houses blazed At the end of the village were three brick cottages with common dividing walls. big dynamite cartridge wus buried deep under the floor of the mid die building. The explosion destroyed all three cottages. Next the villagers were given erowbars and ordered to break down the brick chimneys and the re- naming fragments of brick wall The women wept; the children looked on and applauded. Behind Mozsisxa was an oak copse of about two dozen trees. The villagers were bid saw down the trees. As the work took too long, dynamite cartridges were stuck into holes bored in the trunks and the trees were blown up. Half the villagers of Mozsiska are now in this city; the rest in villages outside. The defense artillery of War saw will require the raging of 15 vil- lages within range of the runs.
 Around Warsaw. and around Lodz, 200 Villages have been destroyed in order to clear trajectory for artillery projectiles. This is nothing to the destruction caused by fights for villages; by artillery duels; by burning for reprisals In part of Gen. tra' Poland not one village is left. Of the l2 nearest villages to Skierniewice 10 have been burnt. In Petrokow province
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have fallen in house and walled garden. nothing worth having is left. Most of the nobles managed to move here their art treasures. A big house owned by Count Tyskiewicz with POD French pic- lures was destroyed last week.
 Everything that escapes shell and flame is taken for army use. Bread grains stock. and winter clothing have disappeared. The Germans requisition even the peasant sheepskin "tulups." Their sentries wear these on cold has been requisitioned by Germans and Russians since the beginning of Oc- tober. Payment is made in paper I. O.. U's. The Germans have two sorts of requision I. o. Us. One promises that at the end of the war the German gov ernment will pay stated amount for goods supplied. The other class invites the Russian government to pay. These tickets begin: Die Russische Regierung wird ersucht ...." '"rhe Russian gov ernment is required to pay .... roubles to .... for .r.." The tickets asking the Russian government to pay have no value Nobody will pay any cash for them. The peasant owner pastes them on his door as proof that he has once ful- filled acquisitions and cannot fulnll any more. The promise that Germany her self will pay are quoted like stock ex- change shares. They are at present at about third of their nominal value A promise to pay e10 ct the end of the war changes hands at about e3. In most cases the man to whom they are issued has had to sell his goods at half the market price, so that if he realizes his ticket in cash. he gets only a sixth of the value of the goods. In this way
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first advance on Warsaw. Field Marshal Hindenburg made good roads for his own use and improved the old roads. Cause ways were made through the morasses. When the Germans retired they destroyed thoroughly all roads. They dug holes in them alternately on left and right side
 The bridges were blown up Even -ie hand rails were twisted or broken On their second advance the Germans start ed making new roads, and they are still busy at work with thousands of Polish civilian laborers whom they hire at 50 cents day. If they retire they again will destroy the roads once more. Be- fore the war Poland was fairly well for ested. It owed to it's woods the freedom from famines which ravage Russia as a resuh of drouth caused by deforestation
 When the invasion began Polands trees began to vanish. At first they were cut down for roofing trenches. When the autumn rains turned the country into morass material was needed for road pavement Poland has no accessible stone Millions of trees were hewn. The trunks were cast into the morasses. Dur ing their second advance the Germans made 5c-mile long road from Bombe to Lowitsch through the marshes of the Bsura river. This road swallowed up 400.- GOO trees The forests near Kalisch and Retrokow have entirely disappeared In December, 1914. the Austrians engaged 3O.- 600 Poles to cut down trees and make roads with them. Poland is becoming like East Russia, where there are no trees to keep moisture in the~s soil, 50 that the melting snows carry off the surface soil to the big rivers. and leave only desic- cated sand. None of Poland's material losses will damage her as long as this.
 Poland has suffered far more than Bel glum, France or the parts of Alsace and Of East Prussia occupied by the invader. In France and Belgium there was ons overwhelming invasion wave which. in most cases, reached 8 stopping point and
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February 15.-(Special Correspondence. l-Poland Is gut
 ted, ravaged. razed. turned into a waste. Almost in sight of
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Copyright, 1s15 by Frank G. Carpenter)
 Mar dal Ioln Ia Ar.ro,,ti,,, :

oME out of the ice and snow into
 the sunshine and take a look at the great seaside resort of the Argentine as it is in the
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Bedouin Superstitions
From the Geographical Magazine

From the Geographical Magazine.
 Some of their superstitions are fanci- ful indeed. They believe that when a man dies. of thirst that his soul goes forth in the form of gresn owl. which flies about above the desert a thousand years screaming for water. If fish leaps from the water into @ boat where woman Is riding, 1t is a sure sign that she will soon bear son. They live in daily dread of the evil eye; the Arab mother fears for her child. lest this curse descend and blight its life. Some say a man so pos- sessed has merely to cast his baneful glance on bird flying when the creature will fall to the earth stone dead If an Arab woman finds the threads in her mutton become tangled, she planes the meddlesome evil spirits Many women have their limbs and bodies tat- toed in fancy designs, as much as & charm to ward off disease as for beautys sake.
 Mama is still much eaten among Meso- potamian, Arabs; the women collect and prepare it from the ground beneath cer- tain hill trees, whence it drips Yet the Arabs-and the Jews and Chaldeans as well-frmly believe that this sweet, whit ish gum-like food is cast down from heaven; that it is the same mama which tradition says was cast down from heav- en for the children of Israel.
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hand. He added, however, that there were men who made manicuring a pro- fession. and that he would order one to come to the hotel. assented. and in due time came the manicure man with bag holding his tools and his powders. He was half hour on the job, and at the end charged me five Argentine dollars. equal to about s2.50 of our money. The same service in Boston, Philadelphia or Washington would have cost me just 50 cents.
 Last evening I strolled into the Casino and watched the men gambling. Two tables were going. and 100 men and women were sitting about them with great piles of chips before them. Tho chips were of mother of pearl of different colors. They ranged in value from $ to s1oo, and could see that s10oo or so changed hands at every shuffle of the cards. The croupiers dressed in black, We're as soher-loolSing as parsons. They announeea the results in a singsong way that gave no indication of the amount staked on tho throw. and the people took their losses and gains without demon- stration. There are other gambling rooms al the cluo, and. in fact. high play goes on at many places over this country. The Casino at Mar del Plata has seven sa- looms for roulette. baccaret, poker and whist. There is high play at the clubs in Ruenos Aires. and at the Tigre, ono of the fashionable suburbs situated on the islands nearby. are clubs where tens of thousands of dollars are sometimes staked on the turn of the wheel. The same is true of the Jockey club, which is made up of about 2000 of the richest Of the Arsentnos, and gambling in a small way goes on at the other clubs which are less fashionable.
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hundreds q. the best class of the Ar gentinos. The girls usually walk in groups by themselves and the young men by themselves.
 Now and then you see young dandy strutting along looking as though he owned the whole Argentine republic. and behind him perhaps a young married couple who have come to celebrate their honeymoon at the shore There are many middle aged men, all carefully dressed, moving along in groups chatting and talking, and now and then a family or young girls with their brothers and cousins. At the same time the seats on the esplanade are filled with parties chatting, and other parties are drinking tea or enjoying the sights of the beach. The crowd is more like a great family than the stiff and staid one at Bar liar everyone else. and the atmosphere is tha< of good humor and pleasure.
 The scenes of the evening are more beautiful than those of the morning Mar del Plata at night is one of the gay places of the world. The great hotel is then ablaze with electricity. and the Rambla is glorious. Its wide esplanade has long rows of electric lights resting like balls of fire upon the bronze col- umns of the balustrade. There are lights in the stores at the back and lights in the corridors that run from one end of the great walk to the other. The tearooms and the promenade are crowded with people sitting about tables. The esplanade is thronged with people strolling back and. forth, and the lights from the roofs of the arcade make all as light as day. Indeed, there are no such seaside surroundings anywhere else in the world. IL makes one think of what Pompei must have been at the height of it's glory 1t is more like an ancient Greek temple than a part of one of the newest of -the up-to-date countries of South America.
 The hotel life is interesting Take the Bristol, at which I am stopping. It Is the most famous seaside hotel of the Arr genuine, having something like TOO rooms, with dining rooms and parors so large that they would cover at least half an acre. The hotel is built something like a great Swiss chalet. running in the shape of half moon facing the Rambla The front is walled with glass, and there is a wide promenade under cover. The promenade is filled with gayly dressed people at night. There are dances in the enormous ballroom, and a gypsy band plays the music of the tango the maxixe and the popular fox trots. You may have your dinner as early as o'clock, but you will find few at the tables before 9, and they do not get through until 10 The men all wear evening dress and most of the women have low-necked gowns although many also wear hatA
 As I looked. I was surprised at the number of families, and especially so when I thought of the cost. This is resort of the rich, or of those who would seem so, and will starve half a year to spend here in great style. The prices at the hotel are BIO and upward per per son day. and the estanciero with fam fly may know that it costs him more
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Poland's wealth in farm produce and raw material disappears. Just now the Germans are requisitioning metals. In Lodz they have copper and lead cen- sus. which means that every house. holder must produce everything he has of these metals or of alloys which con- tain them. Meticulous German bureau- crats march round with notebook esti- mate the weight of lead in the roofs and give notice to the house owner that ne must not remove his roof, as any day the lead may be requisitioned
 Requisitioning Poland's food supply means hunger now. and few months hence, 1t means famine. Polands fields can no longer be cultivated Much of them is swallowed up in roads. As the old roads cannot be traversed the trans port columns march across the fields. Much land cannot be ploughed for sow ing, because It is already ploughed by trenches. Trenches are double, trfple or quadruple. and they run for five or lo miles. Thousands of miles of trenches have been dug. Farmers make unavail- ing efforts to fill in the trenches. The frost makes 1t impossible. The soil on the flat surfaces between trenches is ruined. Under the fertile humus dfe strata of sand. The trench -digrers turn the sand on to the humus. When there n thaw and snow melts, the water washes the humus into the trenches and leaves the sand. Fertile nelds which covered square miles are now like tho sandy beds of rivers. It will take Ave f1elds.
 Poland has lost her roads and woods. Before the war Polish roads were good. judged by Russian standards. During his
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The yak along the Rambia is in full view of the sea You look over the bill lows of the southern Atlantic us they
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have board walks with shacks, shanties and q miscellaneous tumble of buildings splendid and mean scattered along them. The Rambla Is of artificial stone built in the shape of an ancient Greek tenn pie with an esplanade running for about mile around the chief bathing quarter. The temple is perhaps 30 or 10 feet high. 1tis a combination of Moorish and Greek architecture and it runs in the shape of a half moon around a stretch of beauti- ful sand. It has 8. magnificent entrance of stone upheld by stone columns. and you pass through a grove of columns on to the esplanade, which is high over the beach. This forms the chief walking place of the great summer crowd. It is very wide and is bordered by a stone balustrade fit for the palace of a king.
 At the back of this promenade is a long areaded structure about 10 feet wide backed by the stores. This is about 20 feet high. It is paved with porcelain tiles and it runs around the whole esplanade from one end to the other The esplanade outside is 30 or 40 feet wide. At the ends