davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-22
ARRIVES
nine HOURS
LATE

With ~ cabin, five second and two
Hteera&e passengers and onIy 4 Htt1e
over four tons Of freight. the Can
adian-A steamer .Makura ar
rived here late Friday afternoon from
sydney and way ports. She was nine
A6urs late, which. according TO Capt.
]. D. s. Phillips, was due to strong
head winds. Through passengers for
Victoria and Vancouver numbered 81
cabin, 43 second and "a steerage, and
from here she took "a cabin. 13 second
and 8 steerafe passengers.
Freight from Honolulu amounted to
900 tons. part Of which was 6O00 cases
81 canned pfnes and 500 bags Of corr
There were 3 number Of changes
Of officers this trip Of the Makura-
W. McN.( Spires Is the new pursef,
taking the place 81 W, G. Barnett
who Is now doing shore duty 81 Dune.
ain: n. B. Henderson Is second pursei.
succeeding A. w Wynn, WfIlianass
George Knowles first officer has
Shcceeded J. C.. Mclean, and r. n,
plimore II the new Wireless operator,
stcceedinf s. ]. Hiiydas, $, 7
Prominent through passengers are:
Sir william Mcmillan ana Lady Nc.
MILAN; r. @. Richie and wife, he
Being one Of the directors Of the Union
lire, and Nj. and Mira L,offillard, very
wealty residents Of siffa 8 s
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-22
ENGLISHEMBARGO
CAUSES RATES
TO DROP

Causes for the recent drop in ocean
freight rates and the possibilities OF
more reasonable rates continuing are
discussed In a recent issue of the
American. issued by the National CitS
Hank OF New York. which says:
An order Of the British council.
which forbids the furnishing Of bunker
coal in. any British port Of the world
to steamships except when the latter
are bound for another British port has
within q few days had the effect with
other factors IN the International trade
sifuationl OF causing D drop Of % to
80 per cent in ocean rates between
neutral ports and to England.
The purpose OF the order, OF course.
was BY economsc pressure 10 force all
chipping into British service. II had
an Immediate effect In the way or
creating an increase IN Londo n-bound
cargo space and a drop in rates 10
England. But l has made shipowners
chafy Of sending their vessels off .5A
VOYAGES to Australia and other far
away parts OF the empire, and while Il
is doubtless effective for obtaining the
temporary transport Of Australian
wheat 70 Europe. il may restrict the
supply Of shipping later. -
The voyage to Australfa from our
own coaling station at Panama is so
long that steamships cannot make Mel.
bourne or Sydney with cargo and
then proceed with the fuel Ia, their
bunkefs 10 Manilas says The reluct.
snce, of owners to charter for such
long voyages to British ports and the
low rates to England have caused the
preference for Buenos Aires and other
neutral ports to decrease freight rates
and charters.
However, authorities in maritime
markets are undecided about the per,
manence of the lower quotations. This
is the normal time of q drop in ocean
rates. The tendency among owners.
used to high freight returns for the
last half year, is to draw back from
voyage commitments at the new fig
ures in hopes of a rise. which, indeed,
may come s
But It may not, because England's
Worldwide embargo IS already being
felt in q drop of ocean.moving tonnage
OF heavy freight, and for several
causes there may not. be, for a con.
siderable time, the insistent demand
for transportation that characterized
the early months. of this year. =
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-22

Per Observation-Disclosures steamer
Makura, for Vancouver, Friday-O. N.
Mobiles. Mrs. q. Smart, H. L. Gochen
our, Miss X. Burgner, Miss C. s.
Wight Mrs H Brodbeht, p. J. Stry.
ker. r. B. Wink, Mrs., e. L. Hadiey
and infant. Miss Grace Erickson, Miss
N. McEauchlan. H. L. Ross, Miss E.
G. Barker. Mr.. and Mrs. II. Hutchins
and two children. Miss M. Campbell.
Mrs. and Miss McStocker, Mr.. and
Mrs. AN. Brown, DR.. and Mrs. George
Herbert Charles Herbert, Miss Her.
bert Miss +. Gatfeld. Mr.. and MIS-
]. p. Carson. n. Carson, Miss Lucille
Reed. Aley Brpbery, w E. Berney,
Douglas Damon, Mrs. Jane Campion,
]. NJ. Rich. Harry Lee, Rannie Ct.
Scott, Mrs. B. Waibridge, Miss Cleo
Winters rs p. Falronef. Mrs. Bare
boom and child o. BaTber
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-22
MOVING WHEAT e60P
SEhI0US M en- FOR
AUSIh ! IA TO SOLVE

Sir WillIdm Mcmillan, wealthy busf
ressman Of Australia Who passed
through here Friday on the Makura,
stated that moving OF wheat in Ans.
tfaIia Is becoming a serious matter
"A large proportion Of the last years
wheat Is etiil ufshifped.' he said,
land with this years crop, which win
De a large one coming on ! don't
know what we are going to do about
II Vessels are scarce and regardless
81 the embargo on coal and other pro-
duets which has been imposed BY the
cbmmonV ealth the crop IL moving
very slowly
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-22
RAsSENeKKs IxPEcrfD !.

Per Nation str. LuriiHe, due here
S1lE Is RI Pendef, Mr.. McAdaifis.
Mrs IA Motto and daughter, mrs.
Roy Skapgs Miss Mary Pringls, Mrs.
Jones Miss Bertha N. Body, Mrs.
Belle La Barr. Mrs. Charles Andrews,
Atthqf Baldwin, Master Henry Bald.
win Master Fred; Baadwfn. Mrs.
Rosenblatt T. Furness, Mrs. ]. p.
Cooke. L. Pender. M. Mott. Smith, Roy
Skaug, Miss Mildred Slraug. Mr..
Jones. Nine Elizabeth Buck, Mrs Nc
Adams and child Miss irene Andrews.
Mrs p Jefferson, Mrs. Arthur Bald.
win. Miss Louise Baldwin, Mr.. Rosen.
1iatt Mr.. Jefferson. u p. Cooke, DR..
a, N Sinclair.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-22

Between Boards: Sales: %. 100,
so McBfyde, f33s Is, To- 50, 100 Nc
Bfyde, fSKs TO- so; 20 Eva, 36H SO,
50 DIVA, IS ~: 100 90 Eva, 381s; 20,
s: 81 5 iPf0htef, b41z 10 Oahu Sugar
Co.. 49, 1910 Oahu Sugar Co., 43 !:
100, 80 Fl. g. & 8, Co., 521s; 100 .Ha-
waiian Pineapple Co, 457s; 80 Hon.
BE- & n. Co, 2o51ks 5~syVaialuas 36ss44 |;
$1,000 eolaa IS; 1924
ofaa 19s49 70 Raauhsu. 2elas 30, 30,
40, Pioneer. 81 100 Waialua, 81;
Wafalua. 1915 5, Is. %, 20 WaiaIua,
81; 20 McBryde 1874; 40. so Nc
Bryde, 1914; q, 10 Eva, 36z; 50
Eva, s6jz; 400 McBryde, ID; 10 Eva,
ScAs so .Kahukd 22Ik 20. 5 San Car
los, 15% IS, IS, Is 0nomea, 81.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-22
aNoTtcE

Honolulu, 7. H., July %, 1916.
At aIneeting Of the directors of the,
Eva Plantation Company, held this
morning, it was decided to increase
the regular monthly dividend from y
per cent to 2 per cent. Beginning July
81 and until further notice, the reg
ularl monthly dividend of the Eva
Plantation CoInpany viii be 2 per
cent. t
Latest sugar quotation: s6 deg.
test, CTS cents, or $f23 per ton.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
, Daylight Saving Plans.

The adoption by several countries of the scheme for saving daylight through a. manipulations of the clock hands in spring and autumn Illustrates how war necessities are bringing social and po1iticaIzreadju djustments that under peacea conditions would have been slow or impossible.
 For q generation: there <has been wide academic discussion of pushing the clock hands forward an hour in the spring and setting them back again in the autumn, so as to keep the working hours of the day, within the daylight sector in winter and to bring the hours of both work and recreation into the longer daylight arc of the summer. k It was urged t.tais- would effect Ia large economy in fuel for making ar tificiaI light; would be better for peo- pie, through making them live more in. natural sanda1ess under artificial light; would increase efhcfency. Against this there has been some very cogent reasoning as to the dfn1euIty,sn very warm. climates, of trying to sleep in the early evening hours, with the air in the house 51ike, that of a furnace: i: and as to the folly of losing the very early morning hours in such weather for the refreshing sleep whcIha is DOS sible only at that time
 Germany was the first country to adopt the new schedule in a sweeping
 
 lowed. England was expected to re- tject it, as tribute part to 1nnate Iconservatism. But the Commons in dorsed the proposal and it will prob ably become effectiye May 30. At that time the clocks will be set for ward an hour People who on May 29 went to work, sun time, at 8 o'clock will go to work the next day at what would have been z but for the change in the. clocks; and instead of quitting at 5, sun time, they will quit at what would have been. 4 under the old schedule.
 They will go to the theater an hour earlier; go to bly---an hour earlier; turn down. the gas and turn off the electricity an hour sooner. Will they? That's the question Many people think the tendency to live a certain proportion of ones life under the gaslight will be so strong that peoplewiH merely sit up later at night; if so,s there will be a loss in ef- f1ciency and no gain in coal. Expe- rience will prove. For ourselves we guess the; Germans were right. They thought manawas a slave to his watch, and if the watch gave him different orders he would obey-New York Press. j
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
CORONER RESOLVES
 CAPT. TAUSCHER IN
 CRAWFORD FATALITY

Coroner John J. Phelan has absolv- ed Capt. Hans Tauscher of criminal responsibility in the killing of Henry Crawford, 20, machinist of Cos Cob, N. Y. Crawford. it was shown at the inquest which the coroner conducted yesterday, jumped off a moving troll ley car at Greenwich directly in the path of an automobile driven by the captain.
 Captain Tauscber has been accused of complicity in plot to blow up the canal at Welland, Canada. Riding with him at the time he struck Craw- ford was Hans Hecker, head of the German Red Cross in the United States. Captain Tauscher is the hus- band of Mime. Gadski of the Metro poIitan Opera Company. Mime. Gadski will appear in the production of Die Wa1kure,'' which will be given in the Yale bowl on the night of June 5. Dutch" Garter of New York city, a famous pitcher of the Yale baseball team, has protested against her appearance there on the ground that her husband is a German. spy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
WHERE MEN
 Y WEAR COMBS
Tn Ceylon They Mark the Native Males Social
 Standing.

-Cey1on is perhaps the only country in the world where men wear combs. It is the delight of the native males of twisted into a roll at the back of the head, with a horseshoe shaped tortoise shell comb at the top. The women, curiously enough, do not affect this or nament.
 It appears that one of the great am hitions of the Cingalese man of humx b1e position is to possess and wear a huge comb of the finest 1uster and most perfect manufacture, and many indi- cate their higher. social status by means of an additional comb rising to a considerable height above their gIos- sy- coil.
 The artist in tortoise shell who makes these combs obtains his raw materials from the hawk bill turtle. The turtle is killed and it's carcass inn The plates when separated from the bony part of the animal are very irreg- ular in form. Being brittle, they re- qilire careful manipulation, especially .as high temperature, which would 8soften them, tends to darken and cloud the shell. %.-aThey, are therefore treated at as low heat as is possible for, the work
 Thickness is obtained by softening several plates and then applying pres sure, when a union of the surfaces takes place. Under heat the shell also is molded into various artificial forms. -Exchange.~
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
GERMANS CLINCH NEW POSITIONS
 AROUND vERDUN

Paris, May 25.-The tide of battle at Verdun flowed against the French during the last 24 hours. The Ger mans, ra1lying from the smashing blows which took from them the greater part of Fort Douamon hurl- ed their Iegions once more against the ruins which retain, by courtesy the title of Fort, and, by lavish expend1- ture of life, succeeded in partially re- trieving the ground they had lost on the right bank of the Muese. They also gained a/smaIY advantage on the left side of the river.
 Military opinion is not greatly con cerned here over the result of the days fighting such incidents are re- garded as inevitable in the strategy of action and reaction upon which the stubborn defense of Verdun is based. The aim of the defender is to inf1ict the greatest possible loss upon the enemy at the least possible cost tee themselves.
 French counter attacks. are expect ed to restore the situation by tomor- row in favor of the republic.
 The occupation of the village of Cumieres gives the Germans a slight advantage as to a certain extent it commands the French lateral com munications.s However, the village is so we'll covered by the French artil- lery that the Germans will be unable to profit to any extent by it's posses sion.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
MRS. BENSON GETS
 DIVORCE; HUSBAND
 MAY SEE CHILDREN

New Haven, May 25.-In the civil side of the superior court Tuesday af- ternoon Judge Futile granted a de- to1erable cruelty, to Esther M. Benson from her husband, Otto Louis Benson, The court gave the defendant the right to see their minor child, Will liam L. Benson, 19 months old, at req sonable time, and to have custody of him for two monthes each year. Ben son was also ordered to pay $3 a, week altmony for the support of the child.
 The couple were married at South Norwa1k, March 30, 1912, Benson's home being in Bridgeport. He filed a cross complaint charging misconduct on the part of his wife with one John Bates of Bridgeport. A Mrs. Fowler with whom Bates and the Bensons boarded on John street in Bridgeport testified that one evening when all were about to go to a whist party of the Knights of Pythias to seeing Bates
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25

the Swiss policy of putting no unnec- essary obstacles in the way of the sightseer. It is nearly an ideal :'sight''. All the elements of interest are pres ent, conveniently arranged and proper Iy balanced There is the mountain lake, clear as a mirror and fair as a jewel. There are the quaint cottages and the graceful villas about the banks, standing apparently perfect re- f1ections There is the dark forest staring moodily at it's own dark i'm age in the quiet water. To make all complete, you have the ancient historic dungeon, home of romance and sub ject of death1ess verse. It is no won der that it takes a war to make us see, America first.
 The dungeon itself nowadays is a graceful bit of architecture, more like a church than a prison, with it's cool gloomy interior arched and pil1ared af- ter the best traditions of the build CTS art. In the time when it was op- erating actively as a dungeon, how ever, this open space was divided up into little cells, and the graceful pillars were used to anchor the business end of a chain; all of which contributed largely toward efficiency but very lit tie to the comfort of the inmates.
 In spite of all that has been said and written to wear the subject of the old time prison threadbare, you can not suppress a little thrill of pity and horror when you see the hollows worn into living rock by the feet of some un- fortunate pacing up and down helpless and hopeless through the years and the decades. In spite of forty-two- centimeter guns and submarines and poison gases, you feel that it is a sa- gacious to be born iii the twentieth ee eentury.-Niksah in The Rochester Un- ion and Advertiser.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
Jockeying for Peace.

The peace ta1k'' drifting out of Flu rope coincides pretty well, for once, with the official despatches. Official utterances in England, France and Germany furnish a basis for the broad est speculation yet permitted. The powers are plainly maneuvering for position, and there are no restrictions on comment this time-such restric- dons, for instance, as existed before the beI1igerents had marshaled. their full forces and shown the full sweep of their plans. t'
 With the war at it's stage of drag. the final stage when all that military force can do has been done, and when there is nothing left but the effort to acquire a. vantage point for negotia- tions, each of the principal be1ligerents has begun to put forth pride-saving g speeches. England says there will be no peace until Germany asks it. France says peace is impossible except as it brings French victory. Germany with no consideration whatever for Eng lands part. in the war, points to the slow bleeding to death of France and the great territorial loss iAof Russia, and invites peace proposals fl orn the other side. @,e4 .>r,.,. .se.
 A deadlock lasting for half a year might easily result from such a .situa- tion. But there is one ray of hope and reason-the commerce of the war ridden countries. The cost of keep ing armies in the field is. dear, even when the fiercest of the combat is past and a renewed commerce is the only means Of paying the wars cost. Once the heaviest of the. fighting is done, a restlessness is felt, and no deadlock can long survive it. -. In this greatest of wars we have now come to the saving of facesHroyal fa- ces and national faces too, Germany, where one-man and one-class power are foremost, has the most to save in that particular. Germany, of all the belligerents, can least afford, to appear as pining for peace, and it may be sur missed that at this moment the more discreet official minds among the aI- lied governments are cogitating on
 means of escaping from their previous rugged insistence upon forcing Ger
 many to quit.
 A graceful suggestion from some neutral government that had strangely. perhaps intuitively, measured the mood of England might be the means. toward a preliminary movement for peace From the Boston Journal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
Fashions Set by Soldiers

Alexander the Great is said to be re- sponsible for men shaving their faces. When his phalanx swept into Asia the boards of his soldiers were found to be a source of danger to themselves In hand-to-hand encounters with the en- euy the latter were found to possess too great an advantage in being able to grasp the beard. As a matter of military necessity Alexander ordered all his fighting men to shave. Today :n the trenches of Europe soldiers are permitting their boards to grow as a protection against cold-again a ne cessity of war and doubtless the wearing of boards will be very gem orally revived in consequence.-The Baltimore Sun.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
Na1e,cz,zQl 0QHll12Izzz Stratfield Hotel Bldg.
WHAT THE VETERANS GAVE

Regret is often expressed that the exereises of tnes paAioaaI Memorial Day attract soNIfttfe Attendance and attention A pessimist remarks that . parade of cal1ow soldier boys of 1916 in their spick and spandy uni forms would attract much larger crowd Yet these youths are mere raw recruits who have had no bap- tism of fire. But they represent the forward look. The men who. wore the Blue or the Gray represent a past kge and the backward vision. History and s9thOse who stand for it are set hside in tl1ia Eidrr isaae. rse
 Yet 1t is not always possible to guage popular interest merely by at tendance at public exercises. Poor church attendance does not mean that the people are ready to give up religious worship. The Memorial Day observances are about the same thing year after year, and our restless peo : pie demand novelties..--s4 s-z
 Pub1fq apQrecfatson is always tardy But the 1uster of soIdierly deeds of ,s1 is bound to increase Great so- cieties will grow up of men and women glad to claim descent from soldier blood Records will be search ed to prove this distinction.
 When the old soldiers are asked to address school children, the young sferS always seem thrilled by their simply told told of heroism. The public gratitude to these men is warmer than they or their friends realize When oAe~of thenfs dies. the fact of his so1dferly service is the one thing the newspapers emphasize the most.
 It is toolbad that full recognition is not given these men before they pass on- The younger generation too little realizes what they gave up for their cause. Half Aof those who returned were so affected by disease and over strain that they could never achieve any business success. They gave up their all, and our people should never forget it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
THE PRISON
 OF CHILLON
The Ancient Swiss Dungeon Made Famous by
 Lord Byron

The prison of Chiffon is monu- ment to the value of advertising. Con- sidered as a prison, it has little claim to greatness. There are dungeons far better arranged from sanitary and es- thetic point of view, if you are looking for high class dungeons. On the oth- CT hand there are dungeons far worse and more inhuman, if you wish to revel in thrills of horror and pity. Chill lon owes it's world-reputation to the activities of Lord Byron, who wrote the Prisoner of Chil1on'' and thereby secured the. fame of Chiffon for all time.
 Chiffon is very accessible, thanks to
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
SUBMARINE OIL LINES.
How the Wells of Vera Cruz Are Tapped for Tank
 Steamers.

Many of the most productive oil wells in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, are situated near the port of Tuxpam. For some distance from the shore there the water is so shallow that few of the large oil steamers can get into port. The oil steamers can get into port. The oil companies hit upon the idea of laying submarine pipe lines to points where. the largest oil tanlSers can be conveniently moored for load ing in any state of the tide and wealth CT. IVY
 There are now five of these great iron pipes in duplicate. They are from six to eight inches in diameter, and four of them are nearly a mile long. They terminate in forty-three feet of water, where. it is so deep that the waves have no effect, on them. When they were laid divers fastened to the. end of each 120 feet of flexible hose. When not.in use the free end of the hose is. cIosedsand allowed to lie on the bottom of the sea, where its position is marked by a small buoy slt- tached, to the hose by a stout. chain
 When the tank steamers arrive they moor themselves to the permanent buoys near by, lift the marked buoy with a derrick. raise the flexible hose to the deck of the ship and attach 1t to the tank openings By means of a signal code the captains of the ships notify the pumping station on shore, in which are the valves that control the flow of oil through the pipe line. Gen l era11y speaking, it takes about twenty four hours to load one of the large t15,O0O ton tankers, which means that the pipes deliver 4, ,375 barrels of oil an hour.-Youtfl's Companion. a:s..
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
HEAVILY GUARDED, ANSONIA FACTORY
 REOPENED TODAY

Ansonia. Conn, May 25.-rWith the American flag flying above it's wills nd with a. large force of armed guards within and without the mill, the fac tory of the Ansonia. Manufa curing Go. reopened today after having been closed fora week as a result of the rioting of strikers there last Tues day. General Mnger A. R. Lemieux. of the company. said that while they had not had time to check up in all of the departments yet, apparently a large percentage of the employees had returned to work.
 The strikers claimed, however, that comparatively few persons had enter ed the plant.
 There was no disorder of any kind reported and no congregation of strik- CTS near the mill, it was stated.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25

emerge from Mrs. Benson's room.
 Another witness said that Bates was too friendly with Mrs. Benson for a man who was not her husband. On one occasion when she tainted at house they were visiting he brought her a glass of water, her husband be- ing there at the time and able to go to her assistance. Bates took the stand and completely denied all the insinuations against him. Attorney Louis E. Jacobs appeared for Mrs. Benson and Attorney Theodore E. Steiber of Bridgeport for the husband.