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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1915-11-19
STAIRS LEADING TO B. M. s.
ARE FINISHED
A fine WORK OF ART
BUILT OF CONCRETE and STONE and
LEAD FROM STREET TO SAN
ITARIUM GROUNDS

One Of the most beautiful sights
which will great strangers upon their
arrival in the city in the future will be
the new stairway leading from National
avenue to the Sanitarium grounds
eighty feet above.
The work is practically completed
and Is certainly work of art. The
plans were dra ~n by Chief Engineer j.
8. Goodrell, Of the b NJ. 8. and the
work of construction done by the
Rapid City Pressed Stone Company.
with John Merrett as foreman. This is
no doubt the only stairway of its kind
in the United States and is surely 1T
ting approach to the mammoth insti-
tuition maintained by the government
for the benefit of the old soldiers and
sailors who come here for treatment.
Below we shall attempt to give a
TECHNICAL description of the steps with
few of the dimensions:
The steps are of reinforced concrete
carried Oh stone horses. They are of
an elliptical form with one straight
flight of twenty-four steps coming into
the clips from the street level, another
straight flight of 6fty-two steps start
ing from the ellipse and running to the
sidewalk level on the ssnitarium
grounds. The clips Is eighty five on
the long diameter and sixty-Ave on the
short diameter.
The steps including the curb are ter
feet long over all, the curbs are nine
inches wide and eight and twelve inches
above the steps, leaving the steps eight
feet and six inches long with an eleven
inch tread and six inch rise.
The curb and tresds are connected
by expanded metal running thru tht
steps and turning up into the curb
The height from the lower sidewalk
level to the upper sidewalk level IL
"A. "A feet and the angle Of incline il
thirty degrees and thirty nine minutes
There are nine platforms or rest places
five Of the platforms having cemen
seats. There is two inch iron railing
on each curb, top of railing beinl
thirty-three inches above tread o
steps.
There are eight electrolier ave-ligh
posts and two newell posts carrying
forty-two lights in all and wired in tw,
currents, the single lights being for al
night service and the others until min,
O'Clock.
The stone work shows large newe
posts and two retaining walls an,
shows on the lower and outside of tn
ellipse and on the upper and inside
In the center of the clips it has beel
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1915-11-19
SISTERS HOSPITAL NOTES

Notes From Our Lady of Lourdes Sisters
Hospital
Mrs. Alex Orowser, Of Pedro. 8. D,
underwent serious operation Tues
day.
Mr.. Timothy Nowater, Of Pine Ridge.
bad enlarged glands of his neck re-
moved.
Mrs. V. L. Hanson and son, OF Har-
rison, Neb have left for home In good
spirits.
Mrs. O'Mara, Of Hay Springs, Neb
was operated on Wednesday of this
week.
Miss Ahren, the popular nurse
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1915-11-19
LITERARY MEETING
Report Of MiItonian Literary Society Held
Monday Evening

Report of Miltonian Literary Society Held
Monday Evening
Paper. 80. Glen Weldon, Wayne Gsmet
Football Talk From the Side Lines.
.s.................. Florence Bruce
From the Standpoint of Player. co..
............... ....... Clarence Beck
Talk on the Rapid City Trip..... 80.
...................P Professor Richart
Continued Story 900. Clarence Beck
Critics Report.
The following officers who we're elect
ed the previous Monday wers installed:
Catherine Wright, president; Mildred
Bean. vice-president; Dora Bruce, Sec
retsry; Myrs Knowlton. treasurer;
Robert Dolliver, reporter; George Glib
son, prosecuting attorney.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1915-11-19
Hot Springs South Dakota, Friday 10th,

terrsced aud large cement fountain
with bronz boy spray holding an um-
5arella. This terraced portion has
been covered with black dirt and will
be sodded in the spring.
From the sidewalk level below to
the upper level there are two hundred
and eight steps on both sides or one
hundred and forty two steps on one
side.
The cost of building together with
the cement and stone used was
S55OO,OO
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1915-11-19
ATTITUDE Of GREECE AND BAL
KAN SITUATION TICKLISH
STATESMEN CONFERRING
ALLIED POWERS PUTTING FORTH
EVERY EFFORT TO PREVENT GREECE
FROM JOINING GERMANS

London, November l9.-The fact
that the Balkan situation, both mill
tsry and diplomatic, is disquieting, II
not critical, is believed to have led to
the visit of Premier Asquith, David
Lloyd-George aud A. j. Bolfour, to
Paris, for conference with the French
cabinet and General Joffre.
The main Serbian army, operating
under General Putnik in the north, is
encompessed on every side but one,
and cut off on the south by the Bull
garian advance. In the south the
Serbian position is almost as bad. Bull
garians can prevent a junction of the
Serbian and French forces, leaving the
former two lines of retreat, one into
Alabama and the other across the
Greek border, where the danger is they
will be disarmed and interned.
To prevent the latter eventuality the
Entente Allies are putting forth their
efforts.
England has issued orders that no
Greek vessel except those loaded or
loading can proceed to their desti-
nation.
Denys Cochin, q member of the
French cabinet, was given an enthus.
iastic reception in Athens. He is ex-
pected to express dissatisfaction at the
refusal to grant safe conduct to the
entente forces should they have to re-
tire.
Lord Kitchener is reported at Gal
lipoli.
King Constantine has expressed q
wish to see him. Like Italy and France
England demands that Greece join the
Allies or explain her neutrality atti
tude. She is asked to afford the facil-
tiles for landing the transports of tht
Allied troops.
There is no change on the French
Italian and Russian fronts. The pres
ence Of Russian warships on the coast
where they bombsrded the German
positions, suggests that Gen. Russk,
has not concluded his offensive west o
Riga.
The loss of the British hospital shiI
Anglia in the English Channel ant
another steamer, which went to her as
sistanee, is believed due to mines tina
broke their moorings in a recent storm
There we're about 400 abroad tn
Anglia, 300 were saved.
Dispatches to the Exchange Tele
graph company from Copenhagen
gives the report that q fotilla of 2
German torpedo boats and q big cruis
or, passed Helsingberg Oh the south
east coast of Sweden, proceeding q
high speed northward.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1915-11-19
SALE and CONTEST CONTINUES

Closing Date November 10 Postponed to No
yember Is
Owing to the delay of the piano ar
irving and being thirteen days in tran
sit, the sale and contest at Greene't
Store will continue for six days afte,
the previ ously advertised closing date
This will give the contestan ts thai
much more time to put in their work
even this makes very short time i1
VIII ich to earn this beautiful instru
ment valued at $3.50 90,
Its time that each contestant should
get busy. F. M. Greenes Clothes Shop
Hot Springs, South Dakota.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1915-11-19

Leslie Cope, whose broken shoulder
was attended to by DR.. Wheeler, is get
ting along nicely.
Mrs. Miller, of Gordon, Neb was op.
Grated on about two weeks ago and will
leave for home Friday.
Mr.. Lovitt, of Hazard, Neb., is seen
about the hospital occasionally for
professional treatment.
Mrs. E. E. Jones. Of White Clay,
Neb was operated on last week by
Drs. Geyerman and Wheeler.
Mr.. John Sweat left for Ardmore
Sunday night after having parted with
an aoutely inflamed appendix.
Mr.. Charles Brandenburg, Of Oral,
has been laid up at the hospital with
an infected hand for the past few days.
DR.. Jones, of Oelrices, underwent an
operation this by Drs. Geyermsn and
Wheeler and is making q flne recovery.
Mrs. Kannolt, of Oelrichs, who was
brought to the hospital in q serious
condition last week, is gaining rapidly.
DR.. Gilmore, of Gordon, Neb, was 9
visitor on Sunday, having brought q
surgical case to Drs. Geyerman and
Wheeler
DR.. Wheeler was called to Crawford,
Neb., Sunday evening to consult with
and operate for one of the local Oraw-
ford doctors.
Mrs. Floyd Trumbull, who is the
happy mother of baby girl, is doing
nicely and waiting for DR.. Wheeler to
let her 60 home.
Miss Mary Cartridge, of Pine Ridge,
leaves for home this week, having re-
ceived surgical treatment for enlarged
glands of the neck.
Mrs. G. l.. Good, of Bridgeport,
Neb.. is taking extended treatment at
the hospital. She was visited this
week by husband and grandson.
Mr. George Schocker, of Smithwick
had an operation for the repair of q
lower jaw which had been fractured in
three places by falling from horse.
Rev. Holler, who came to the hos
pital ten days ago for an operation, il
we'll along to recovery and his many
friends will be greeting him again
socn.
| Mrs. Buehner, of Edgemont, re-
turned to her home Sunday evening
She has been undergoing an X.Rsy
examination at the Medical Block fol
stomach trouble.
Miss Nina Warren, of Upton, Wy
oming. left for home the first of tn.
week having recovered from q severe
ear infection, neoessitating a mastoii
operation by DR.. Geyermsn.
Mr.. Charles Berkheimer, of Gordon
Neb, was operated on this week To-
an absoessed appendix, the condition
having followed sickness of typhoit
treatment and baths at the hospital.
Mrs. Sewell, Of Upton, Wyoming
who has been receiving extended treat
ment for pernicious snemis, has i'm
} proved since the removal Of the spleen
| She previously was transfused will
blood from one of the nurses.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1915-11-19
The lineup:
Rapid City

A0U0100"Ho 10"BO"ok1S y 018VoV0l
l; Rhyan, 1.
Goals-Rhyan. 2; Mcgowan, 1.
Off1cials-Mr. Dunn and Mr.. Rum
ner. umpire and referee.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-26
ALL MEN Of COMPANY K
ATTEND SERVICES FOR
SERGT.'S TINY sDAU Ugh TER

with Company n znd infantry, at
tending in a body, funeral services
over the remains of little Thelma
Whitaker, the three-year-old daughter
of 1st Sergt, and Mrs. Victor Whit
aker of Company X, End Infantry,
were to be held at o'clock this
afternoon from the chapel of Fl. H.
Williams. Interment was to be in
Nuuanu cemetery. Chaplain William
Reese Scott of the End Infantry was
to officiate.
The little girls casket was banked
in profusion of loxely. floral offer
ings from the men of X Company, the
United Spanish War Veterans, in
which Sergt. Whitaker Is prominent,
and many other friends.
AS announced yesterday, the little
girl died at the department hospital
after three days Illness from pneu-
monia Her father Sergt Whitaker,
is one Of the most popular men In
the company and is one of the oldest
men, in point of service, in the regi-
ment He has served in the. Second
since 1899.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-26
PARCEL POST BUSINESS
OF HONOLULU GROWING

Twelve thousand parcel post pack.
ages mailed from the Honolulu post
office in the first Is days of this
month. against 1900 for the same Pc
Rod in 1914, is the remarkable in
crease shown in a semi.annual report
issued by Postmaster William F.
Young.
The total number of parcels mailed
at the local office from October to
Is, was 1888 For the same period
in 1914 ii was only 1891. For the pc
Rod from April / to Is of this year
the total was 1894. The October fig
ures thus show gain of more than
5000 parcels over the April business
transacted
A total of l643 packages were insured
in the first Is days of this month.
against 452 during the 15-day period
In April.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-26
new MATSON|A'
Will BE BUILT,
.CABLEGRAM SAYS
tconuuusd rum page one,

the steamer should he In service aboa
January or February. 1917.
AS the Matsonia cost 81 500. 00i
| when she was built year and a hal
ago. the new ship will cost more. q.
bodybuilding prices have Increased ma
ter.alIy since the Matsonia was c0al
pleted," Mr.. Drew said today.
The Matssn;a ran carry 20 cabin
passengers. although she has accom-
modated az high as go by nsing {
part of the steerage which has been
remodaled fof uccl. ancy by men oalr
The Matson:a'E freight capacity is
5000 tens.
The new shin should help ont ma
teriaIlv in doing away with the sam
mer travel congestion which was 81
evident here from June / TO the mid
die of September. Nothing was SAID
In the csbleggaIn concerning the name
of the new steamer.
The following statistics coneern'ns
| the Matsonia will enable those who
have not seen the beat To gain some
idea OF the size OF the new ship w:liel
Is 10 duplicate her. TIE statistics or
iifsiu tue FIchdu Fattd HrSIStctr slol
1915:
Matsonia tonnage, 97as:: net
t6I73; bnilt. 1912, at Newport Newx
Virginia: length, $50 feet: breadth
5S.1: depth, 36.s:: horsepower, $500:
home port. San Francisco; managing
owner, Matson Navigation Company.
The Matsonia is one OF the best
equipped and most elaborately appo:nt
ed passenger steamers sailing the Pr
ciflc, and the news that a new ship te
duplicate her in every way viii De
built, Is welcome 10 Houolulans, and
is also evidence that Capt Matson
has faith in the future OF the Hawai-
ian Islands. both in their ability to at
tract tourists. and as source Oh
freight business as well
T. r. Cooke, who has jnsi returned
from the coast, saw Capt Matson
while In San Francisco and told him
then he would never regret the TN.
struction Of the new liner
THE news that the contract is
signed is matter of qualification gen
erally,'' said NJ. Cooke this morning
..and | believe. that this community
will stand by Capt. Matson and help
make the new liner profitable to the
company. This is a big thing for Ha-
weii."
The Importance of the announce,
ment in Pacific shipping circles is in
Dictated by the attentiah paid in the
coast papers to the plans of the com
pany. The san Francisco Chronicle
Of October IA carries at the ton o.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-26
GOOD PATH ON BOTH SIDES.

Official confirmation of The report that the
Natson Navigation Company is to build IAN
other Matsonia' is hailed by Hawaii with
qualification and gennine appreciation Of
Capt. Matson's enterprise and faith in the in
dnstrial future of the territory for the next few
years.
One million six hundred thousand dollars
viii be put into the new liner That IS an evi-
dence Of the same good faith which prompted
he businessmen of Honolulu to stand behind
home company, an American company, when
there was "A strong effort to swing sentiment
here in favor Of suspension of the coastwisc
law, which meant competition by foreign lines
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-26
N ADOO CASTS
DOUBT ON SALE
Of PACIFIC Mail
Secretary of Treasury lnsinu-
ates Company Had Chance
to Make Big Profit

A strong defense OF the Seamen's
law, together with the scarceIy-veiled
accusation that the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company has gone out OF
business because Il could sell It's ships
al big profit. IS contained In a let
ter from Secretary OF the Treasurer
MeAdoo TO Secretary of Commerce
Redfeld. given out TO the public in
Washington.
Copies of this letter reached Homo
lulu today. Secretary MeAdoo at
tempts to show that the Pacific Mail
could have complied with the new law
without much trouble or expense. also
that his lMcAdoo's) Interpretation OF
the language clause" proved TO be
correct and made conformity with Il
not difficult.
Near the end Of the letter, which is
a lengthy one. he takes up Pacific Mail
finances and the prices at which the
five Pacific Mail steamers were sold.
at would appear to be possible he
declares, that the company after do
ing business for f6 years without q
dividend found that existing conditions
gave them an opportunity OF selling
out portion of their property at 4
price which would return them the full
valuation Of that property upon the
cornpany's books. plus at least $1,000
coo more"
He ends by saying he is inclined 10
think that otner vessels under the
American flag will be found to handle
traffic to and from the Orient.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-26
EDITOR
THE. REAL CRIMINAL.

Some time ago n Kansas City officer, in re-
lfHsing to prosecute a man who shot his drunk
en- son because he had brutally assaulted his
own mother, said:
The criminal in this case is not You. nor
yet your son. He is the man who gave your
son the whisky, and you will do yourself and
this office and your whole neighborhood big
service by finding ont the name of the man who
sells Southwest Boulevard whisky On Sunday
When you find him bring the evidence to me- .
A few days ago citizen of Honolulu, having
murdered his own wife and stabbed himself
to death, as reported, stated in his dying
breath, Booze did it. Booze did it. =
The city of Honolulu is shocked The neigh
borhood in which the tragedy occurred is hor-
rifed. 1t must have been bloody sight which
met the eyes of the police. Near the bleeding
body of the supposed murderer were the empty
demijohnss of Maui wine. 1t was vines con-
-tribution to Oahu's crime. And the real crimi-
nal, who was he? If booze did it, what about
the man who sold the wine, and he who made
it and those who licensed it according TO the
laws ofsthe territory which legally provide for
the traffieg
Slowly it dawns at last on the great body
fotefH lfdt Iile WIfOte 9lfcetiS6
tenn of the liquor traffic is criminal. 1t is a
legalized conspiracy against the welfare Of
society, the stability of government, the peace
of the home and the happiness Of the indi-
vidual.
The tragedy of Manoa Valley is only one of
many. Thousands of others daily occur here
and elsewhere and In fully ninety per cent of
them, liquor is the prima causa, the real crimi-
nal. Booze did it Booze didit .
That many defenders of the license system
are too ignorant too incurably besotted to be
reached by any moral consideration is undis-
phtably true, but how long will it take sane,
reasonable, and generally well-meaning men
to see that every time they sustain the license
system by their vote they are sustaining law
lessness and making It certain that homes will
be wrecked and tragedies multiplied on every
handf
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SUGAR INDUSTRY
NOW OPTIMISTIC
ON TARIFF Plan
lconlinned ron 90 onel

- - =,
duty will Be hy suspension on ne op..
Grafton OF the clause IN the tariff bin.
or whether there viii be q repeal of
more far-reachlng aafnre. has not
yet become manifest THAT prob
ably win not develop until Congress
meets" he said.
Mr.. Cooke was IN New York when
the news became public OF Secretary
McAaoo's recommendations.
~ came a, : varv ,,m.lv n,omsnt
IN the surar Industry. ~ romu.srss.I
.sIt saved the martet s,nn enire -
pieces There wss alreadv : sse,,.,
Of apprehension and the 6est.lnforrs
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-26

President Wilson's action jim naming New
7 ork colored man as minister to Liberia recalls
to older residents Of Honolulu the career here
|of B. MeCants Stewart, the negro who after
ward went to Liberia and became prominently
identified with The public life. of the African
republic AT one time Stewart, his eloquent
tongue sprinkling classic phrases, was very
much in the limelight of a community consider
ably smaller than it is at present
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-26

spect to the late clerk, federal court
today was adjourned until 10 O'Clock
Thursday morning. Above Afr. MUIR
phys office in the federal building the
Stars and Stripes are flying at half
mast.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-26

Those who declare that the German army
organization lacks initiative must be rather
taken aback at the spectacle of the Teutons, on
the verge Of winfer; launching the Balkan cam
paigns in whirlwind fashion and meanwhile
holding more than 100 miles Of front against
the French, British and Russians. AS develop
ments in the Balkans come one after another,
II is evident. that the Teuton drive into Serbia
was delayed until sBu lgaria's cooperation was
assured and the bolt started the moment
Ferdinand committed himself to the cause of
the Teutons
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1t is gratifying to know that Capt. Won
Papen thinks. enough of those idiotic
Yankees not to encourage Lieut.. Fay, of the
German army, in tying his internal machines
on to steamers leaving U. S ports.
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THE MAN-rAcToRy, Z

High Sheriff Jarrett aptly terms the terri
Iofial prison 1Inanfactory. Under his
1anable administration it is making more use
I1l the lives OF many prisoners; is preparing
hem 10 resenter society and win and hold a
I|ace there on merits and in addition is prov
ne business investment for the territory.
Very likely the conditions previous to Mr..
Jarrett s inc,mbencx were not so dark as now
<eem the case BY contrast, but it Is certain that
tremendous strides in hnmanitarianism have
been madeNnder his direction, without loss of
Essential discipline and without breeding in the
prisoners The belief that being pampered, they
need not work
The high sheriff insists, as fundamental
part Of his policy, that the prisoners be useful
men during their terms. They are not merely
LEADERS,, but producers. And the habit of being
Producers will remain with them when they
merge from The Jail
He gives them also vastly more opportunity
0I developing initiative, self reliance and self
.'.ripline tlIen they have hitherto had, Self
.|IefnmeIt s encouraged. The qualities thus
'1s'tred should stand. them IN good stead when
.1r they come to the moral and mental battles
A competition in the outside world,
Ne use 81 prison labor on public works is
.s. new, butnnder Mr. Jarrett it has been car
11 farther and, according to other territorial
.||'cials. 10 better results than ever before.
.'1ated to reach at least 81 900 q year.
hefe will probably be individual instances
hero tic policy will seem to fail. 8 The honor
Ienl steadily growing among penal insti-'
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Greece's position between the upper and
neither millstones is untenable for long 1t
does not seem possible she can avoid being
drawn into the war.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-26

A quarterly dividend Of 8 per cent
on the common stock was declared
by the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-26

to use at the Hawaii building during
the big Pineapple Day and in the clos
ing days OF the exposition.
FRED A. McCARI.. who has spent
some time in Honolulu looking after
the interests of the soldier and sailor
with reference to Y. M. c.. A. work.
will leave this city today on the
Lurline, being called to San Francisco
on business connected with the assoc
citation.
RICHARD SCHMIDT, yice-president
OF the Schmidt Lithographlng Com
pany of San Francisco, left San Fran
cisco on the Ventura today for Homo
lulu. Mr.. Schmidt is one Of the lead
ing men in the Autograph. world, and
Is known as q good booster. He will
stop at the Royal Hawaiian hotel dur
ing his stay here.
MR.. AND MRS, W. n. EARRING
TON, with Miss Ruth and Miss Fran
ces Harrington. viii return next Tues
day in the Manoa from q three
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Summarizing the territory's contention con
e6rning Rapid Transit depreciation, it seems
ia be that the rolling stock gathers moss.