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How the Wooden Ship Which Served Our An cestors for Centuries Is Coming Into Its Own Again In Helping To Feed Our Allies De-
 spite the U-Boat Blockade.
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out delay" he said, while wooden reach port in the course of time. My goods are out of date and stale and I lose money by having to sell at a reduced rata." This statement will, no doubt, be verified during the next year, but in the present case the fact that the ship will finally land her cargo will find favor with the shipper for owing to the scarcity of foodstufss no matter when the ship reaches port the cargo will be sa1eable.
 Already plans have been formulated for the building of one thousand wooden ships of 5000 tons cargo. Each of these boats will have sufficient en- zine power to drive it along at nor mai ten knot clip and be equipped with. an extra engine which can be called into service to raise the speed to sixteen knots when mehaced by IT. boats These engines will be of the DeiseI or semi-Deisel type. Each of these ships will cost in the neighbor- hood of $300.o00, and will be about
 half the cost of steel vessel with the same carrying capacity. The work of this new fleet will be under the direc- ton of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation which has recently been incorporated in the District of Columbia and the sum of $5o.o0o.000, appropriated by Congress some months ago is to be largely devoted to the construction during the next year and 2 half oi this great fleet of wooden commerce carriers.
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to be much more than this. Undoubt- edly cases of smallpox are spread by
 this insect in cheap lodging houses.
 perhaps more frequently than by any
 other means. And were it not for the frequent vaccinations ordered by health authorities epidemics of this
 disease would probably not be rare. Consumption germs have been found
 in bedbug blood: also the germs of other diseases.
 This insect may live for weeks with
 out food. During the winter 1t will
 become comatose and will weathes the
 winter like any other hibefnating crea-
 ture It will continue it's existence. will demonstrate its will-to-live. against the hardest kind of luck. from season to season. in lumber camps. summer houses. empty apartments and the like
 F1eas Spread Bu5onic Plague.
 The chief iniquity of the flea lies in it's transmission of the germ of the bubonic plague. The roach has also been proved an infection conveyer.
 We must mention also Rocky Noun
 tain fever which has for several years occurred during the spring months ip
 Montana and the neighboring States. The germ or InlS QlS0dS6 IS transmitted from cattle to man by the tick. which
 insect is the responsible agent also for Texas or cattle fever.
 I have tried to present here the es- sential facts about the insect trans
 mission of disease. My article would. however. appear to be like the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out: for have written nothing about how to deal with such insect infection spread.
 CTS. Space has not permitted this:
 nor is it necessary. For every citi-
 zen's health department. town. city. or
 State. wall on application, supply full
 printed directions. Or such directions
 will be sent, without charge. by fse
 United States Public Health Service
 of Washington. D. C., or of the United
 States Bureau of Agriculture. usA~~ ington- n ~
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vessel there will be some experienced

vessel there will be some experienced men to direct the efforts of the other workmen. At present there are forty eight shipyards engaged in the build ing of s161 wooden vessels and none of these craft is of less than $50 gross tons, while the majority of them are 1900 tons and upward. Since the first of the year other plants for build ing this type of ships have started up with new companies organizing and every one of these will be needed in the Governments program to get foodstuffs across the ocean to our Allies.
 MT. Denman, the Chairman of the Shipping Board, said recently that the organization hopes that the native yards will be able to complete 100000 tons of the new wooden fleet and con- tinue to turn out at least as much every month thereafter until the total of one thousand wooden freighters are on the sea ready to answer the cry of the Allies through Lloyd-George for "ships and yet more ships" Fully 100000 men will be needed to bring this much desired situation about.
 Single Design. The only way to make the fleet pos sible in SO short a time is by the adop- ton of single design (shown in the photographic drawing) and by the lstandardizing of every operation This | is practical, but it's success will hinge upon complete coalition of everybody taking part in the work, and it is hoped that this can be speedily brought about on account of the ser iousness of the undertaking While the hulls are under construction in the
 shipyards. the propelling engines for these wooden vessels can be turned out
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person stung. If this latter unfor-
 tunate has not yet had malaria he thus contracts the disease unless his natural anti-germ forces are able to destroy the parasite before it can do any mischief in his bedy.
 Naturally then the prevention of
 malaria depends on the destruction of
 all breeding places within the radius of mile. The way to do this is to drain or fill in with earth, or to cover the surface of any water with thin film of kerosene. Houses must be
 screened. Anopheles bites only after
 sundown: and only the Lady An opheIes does the mischief. Here. as
 elsewhere in the cosmos, is the female
 of the species more dreadful than the male.
 Spreads Typhus.
 The insect which in highbrow liter. ature is termed Pediculus UeStin1e9a- toruns. but which in plain language is the louse, is responsible for the spread of several grave diseases. Some lice which had been biting typhoid pa- tients were first immersed in a solu- ton of mercury bichloride; then they were put in sterile water. Next they l were ground in a sterile mortar and
 the resultant material was inoculated i into animals and were developed on
 culture media. By this means typhoid
 germs were demonstrated, in those lice. We have all read how dreadful
 an executiener was the typhus fever | in the earlier months of this present war, in Serbia and in the Balkans gen. eral1y; it is the louse which is the chief disseminator of the typhus germ
 This insect has also been proved to transmit relapsing fever, 8 disease
 generally associated with poverty
 striken, half-starved and overcrowded
 communities, where lice are apt to be in evidence
 The Bcdbug.
 The bedbug has from time immem-
 orial been obnoxious enough by just being bedbur But he is now proven
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Insects, Many of Them Small and Unimportant Are the Chief Factors In Spreading Disease Ways In Which the Germs Are Conveyed The
 Common Fly the Chief Offender.
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consumption, besides being a disease, is the most dreadful economic and so- cial degeneracy in civilization that this great White Plague exists largely by reason of human supiness and neg lect of the simplest precepts of hygiene and sanitation. The Babylonian king did not heed the warning which lay in the writing on the wall. By heed ing the lesson that lies in that little gelstine plate we shall be very far in the way, we and our fellow men and women, of banishing the tuberculosis which 1t represents from human ex- perience and from off the face of the earth.
 Of course, flies are not the only agency in the spread of tuberculosis: for they are active but a few months of the year, whilst that disease is con- tracted all the year round.
 Flies Swell Infant Death Rate.
 It is certain also that flies help greatly to swell the infant death rate. which is greatest in the fly season. There are few more congenial culture media for germs than milk, especially amid the uncleanliness which obtains in the houses of very many poor peo- pie, especially in the tenements. This fluid easily becomes contaminated by flies and with the noxious matter that is continually clinging to their hairy feet, their spongy bodies and their fluffy wings. Tuberculosis is thus cer- tain1y contracted by children, as are the various forms of dysentery. prac- tically all of which are germ ailments Breast fed infants seldom have such diarrhoeas, whilst bottle fed babies have them all too frequently. Typhoid fever is so often transmitted by flies that doctors speak of this insect as the typhoid fly. It pollutes food and drink, especially your milk butter and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-08-02

~HE U-boat is responsible for the revival of interest in wooden
 ships and within a short time - we will have sailing on the sea c larger feet of this kind of craft than we possessed before. the days of the iruu steamer. It is the concensus Of opinion that the wooden vessel will give the submarine more trouble than the present ships and some go so far as to, predict that through the use or them will be solved the difficulties which might result from the continaed destructiveness of the U-boat. This, of course. Is problematical. but If sue cessfrl another query will arise, whether they are only temporary or have come to stay as carriers of in ternational commerce..
 The food situation in the Allied countries at present demands imme- diate relief. for without am ample good supply the war might be lost and in the quick relief of the serious situa- ton the wooden ship has many merits.
 Some of Its Merits.
 First, it can bo built in much shorter time then ths iron vessel. it Is cheaper and requires just as an ex- pensive torpedo to sink as is required to blow up a steel covered ship. For centuries the wooden ship servedi all nations in war and peace. both as battleshfps and commerce carriers. Tn many instances wooden ships have sur vived accidents where steel vessels have foundered. One British shipping man declared that he favored steel ships Instead of wooden ones for this very reason. ''When' a steel ship strikes rock she goes to the bottom promptly and get my insurence with
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this disease.
 SAnophe1es breeds in still water, in moist sand or moss. .2 pools by the sides of open streams, in permanent accumulations of water of every sort irrigation ditches, staguant water where there is green scum, in beds of old canals, in old, horse troughs and the like. When the blood of ma laria sufferer is sucked into the stom- ach by anopheles the malaria parasite in that blood undergoes developm ent {; and the products of this process enter the mosquitoes salivary glands and are elected into the system of the next
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-08-02
How Insects spread Disease.
THE UNWELCOME TENANTS
SVsY

MEETING the mandates of all
 authorities I filled my garden
 last fall with bird boxes and
 " bird houses," said the quiet woman. tT put also a large bird bath in the center of 1t. Then set tied down to wait for spring and to enjoy my bird neighbors. Early in the spring I observed that my bird houses were tenanted. There were great goings on within them, subdued chirpings and much activity, and got out my opera glasses and prepared to enjoy myself. The tenants came forth after a period. A head appeared from the bluebird's door and 1t is not too much to say that my heart pal pitated fearfully. But alas, upon in-
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DEERE is a photograph shown
 at Health Exhibitions which
 many people at first sight take

- HERE is a photograph shown at Health Exhibitions which
 many people at first sight take
 for a picture of the crusts on the surface of the moon. or of the canals on the planet Mars. What 1t really shows is circular plate con- taininz gelatine culture of the con- sumption germ-.the tubercle bacillus. This plate to begin with was a perfect blank--a t0bE1o Uaso, as the ancient Romans used to call their tablet be- fore writing on 1t. But there soon developed on this gelatin plate let ters about as onainous as those which the Prophet Daniel pointed out to Belshazar at his royal feast. Here is the way of 1t:
 The laboratory doctor had put on that plate a fly that had got his feet stuck in the spittle of consumptive: and he had then covered the whole with glass jar so that the fly could not get away. This insect, thus heavy footed, then promenaded all over the plate Twenty-four hours later coI- onies of the consumption germ, made up of uncountable millions of those tubercle baciili. developed on it's tracks.
 You may think l exaggerate when I compare this fact of the gelatine plate with the Prophet Daniel and the writing on the wall. We'll. be that as it may, I ask you only to reflect how consumption has up to this time been carrying of every third or fourth of us between adolescence and maturity; that in all the wars of-the nineteenth century (including those of Napoleon) i, IA millions succumbed. whilst 30 nnil- Hons succumbea to consumption, the Captain of the Men of Death: that the advanced consumptive day by day coughs and spits out several thousand millions of the tubercle bacilii; that
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1t carries thence from sources of con- tamination and of the refuse which 1t transfers from rotting vegetables, meat and fish. Twenty-five per cent of flies breed in manure heaps.
 Besides the diseases mentioned flies have been brought to the bar on in dictments for having spread cholera. lockjaw, trachoma (granular 1ids). :. anthrax tthe stable fly is here guilty land something like a dozen more germ diseases. The ordinary fly may swallow the eggs of tapeworms and other intestinal parasites. and then distribute those eggs where they may do hurt to humankind.
 I am by now painfully conscious tn at my article does not read precisely like 8 report of pink tea. Indeed, lit deals with some very unpleasant and qualnish things. And yet hope my readers will go on with me to the bitter end. by reason of the. great importance of this rather creepy sub Ject.
 How Insects spread Disease. ,, Before considering other insects I had better state more clearly 5ust how these pests perform their part in dis ease dissemination. The germs may stick to the bodies of the insects. Or the germs may be eaten by the insects and deposited upon human food and drink with their excreta. Or the in-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-05
NO MAIL OUT NOW
Until SEPT. "A

Unless some ship now unschedulet
arrives here bound for San Francisco
there will be no mali 10 the coast
until a week from Friday. September
II. This period OF 10 days from the
sailing OF the Maui this morning until
the departure of the Nippon MarV
will be shortened only by the unex
pected arrival of a Dutch vessel.
The unusually long period between
mails is due to the withdrawal OF the
Manoa to the Manila run. Otherwise
mail would have gone TO the coast on
next Wednesday.
About the time the Nippon Marq is
due here there is Union liner due
from Sydney bound for Vancouver, but
she will probably not reach here until
a day or so after the Maru departs.
Including the Maui. there have been
five vessels leaving for San Francisco
since last Monday. They were the
Sherman, Ventura, Venezuela and
Rindjani. but all the mail was taken
by the MatsOn vessel.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-05
MINERAL PRODUCTS COMPANY
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING.

Notice is hereby given that pursl
ant to a resolution of the stakeholder
at the annual meeting held on Jul
90, 1917, a Special Meeting of Stool
holders is hereby called for Monda1
September 10, 1917, at o'clock p. n!
at the ROOM of the Chamber of Con
merce, Kauikeolani Building, Kin
Street, in Honolulu.
The purpose OF this meeting Is t
authorize the sale by the Mineral Pr
ducts Company to a corporation to b
incorporated under the law of tn
Territory of Hawaii and to be know
as the Mineral Products COMPANY
Limited, an Hawaiian corporation, d
all the assets, rights and franchise
of the Mineral Products Cor pany,
Nevada corporation, and for such otl
er business ancillary thereto as ma
BE- brought before the meeting.
MINERAL PRODUCTS COMPANi
b. G. S. WATERHOUSE,
Secretary.
6S71-16t
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PORT OF HONOLULU

Arrived
Str. Mauna Kea, from Hawaii, a
m.
Str. Venezuela, from Yokohama, a
m.
Steamer Mauna Loa, from Kauai, a
m. .-......
NJ s. Mayfair, From Hilo, a. m.
Departed
Str. Venezuela, for San Francisco
) p. m.
Str. Rindjani, for San Francisco
noon.
Str. Mikahala. for Maui and Molo
kai ports, p. m.
Str Kinau, for Kauai ports, p. IA
Sail Today
Str. Maui, for San Francisco, lC
a. m.
Str. Mauna Kea, for Hilo, 10 a. IN
Due Tomorrow
Str. Claudine, from Maui ports, a
Sail Tomorrow
Str. Mauna Loa, for Kauai ports
) p. m.
Due Friday
Str. Kilauea, from Kona and Kau
ports, a. m.
Str. Siberia Maru, from coast, a.
m.
Sail Friday
Str. Claudine, for Maui ports, p
m.
Str. Siberia Maru, for Orient, p,
m.
Due SATURDAY.
Str. Mauna Kea, from Hilo, a. m
Sail Saturday
Str. Mauna Kea, for Island ports,
3 p. m. -. :
Due Sunday ::
Str. Kinau, from Kauai ports. a
m. ...
Str. Claudine, from Maui PORTS a,
m.
Str. Mikahala, from Maui and Mo.
lokai ports, a. m.
Str. WaiIele, from Hawaii ports, a,
m.
Sail Monday
Str. Claudine, for Maui ports, 5. p.
m. r.. -:..-....
Due Tuesday
Str. Mauna Kea, from Hilo, a. m.
Sail Tuesday
Str. Kinau, for Kauai ports, p,
m. :
Str. Mikahala, for Molokai, Maui
and Lanai, p. m.
Str. Kilauea, for Kona and Kau
ports, noon.
Due Wednesday
Str. Matsonia, from San Francisco,
a. m.
Str. Mauna Loa, from Kauai ports,
a. m.
Sail Wednesday
Str. Mauna Kea, for Hilo, 10 a. m.
Vessels in Port
Schr. Repeat, from South Bend.
August IS. .....
Schr. Flaurence Ward, from mid.
way, Aug. II.
Schr. Alice Cooke, from Puget
sound, August 90, a. m.
Schooner Marian, from San Fran
cisco, August "a.
Str. Sherman, from San Francisco.
August "a.
SIP. Kestrel, from Tanning Island,
6 a. m.
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doris GOES OUT
ON FIRST VOYAGE

With Capt s. Harris, formerly
master of the Waileie, in command,
the new inter-island steamer Doris
went out this morning on her first
regular voyage since she was brought
here from the coast to replace the
S. s. Hamakua which was destroyed
a few months ago by fire off the Maui
coast.
The Doris, which Is to be renamed
the Onomea, when the necessary per
mission is secured, has undergone a
number of alterations, principally to
make quarters for crew of 40 men,
and the installing Of davits for the
number of boats necessary for a YES
sci in the island trade. The Doris has
a cargo capacity of $50 tons. She is
to be used for service to and from the
Hamakua coast ports on Hawaii.
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PASSENGERS DEPARTED

BY the Matson liner Maui. for San
Francisco at 10 o'clock this morning:
A. W. Abraham, ]. Auer, Mrs. J.
Auer. Miss F. A. Bishop, c. E. Bar
ter, S. F. Beatty, P. NJ. Brock, Miss
E. Breckons, John Buck, Jr., E. T.
Conant, R. L. Coney, F. @. Cannon,
Manuel Camara, Miss Phyllis Curtis.
r. T. Campbell, F. D. Creedon, J. w.
Campbell, S. G. Culbertson, J. Earle
Cline, e. T. Conan, Mrs. E. T. Conan,
Miss Conan, Mrs. NJ. E. Calender,
Mrs. F. r. Culbertson, F. r. Camp
son, Mrs. A. J. Campbell, Miss Camp
bell, NJ. P. Davidson, Miss Kenny Da-
mon. D. B. Dean, Miss E. Damon, Miss
H. Damon, Mrs. B. G. Dickman, Mrs
w. r. Duenner and two children, Mrs.
w. T. Dunn and child, Col. H. E.
Eames, Miss B. Erbaugh, Lum Fong,
c. E. French, A. G. Ease, Mrs. A.
G. Ease and child, ]. w. Fesler, Mrs.
j. W. Fesler, J. H. Fiddes, Mrs. j.
H. Fiddes, Hon. w. F. Frear, Miss v.
Frear, w. o. Forsyth. NJ. A. Frank.
lin, Mrs. c. Gordon, Mrs. K. Gibbons,
Mrs. ]. A. Gilman, Miss c. Gilman,
Miss c. Giffard, Mrs. w. L. Giffard, C..
Gait, Mrs. W. w. Goodale, c. E. Hal
stead, Dang Tai Hee, Miss Verna Har-
ris, F. Halstead, Charles Holoua, Mrs
r. w. Hammond, Col Frank Hal.
stead, Miss Margaret Hind, Gen. A.
Hero, Mrs. A. Hero, Master A. Hero,
Miss l. Hansen, DR.. H. K Hope, Miss
G. johnson, z. Kanagasuku, Sam Kelu-
moi, Mrs. 2. King, Mrs. J. Kilbourne,
d. Kahalewai, Miss G. Kinney, Mrs.
J. NJ. Kuhns and child, Rev. L. l..
Loofbourow, Mrs. K. Lane, RIB. Lind
say, Mrs. William Tougher and two
children, F. NJ. Shaw, w. B. Murdoch,
Mrs. NJ. C. Martin, H. H. Mugley,
Miss G. Mann, B. w. Marshall, Mrs.
B. w. Marshall, w. D. MacLay, Mrs.
w. d. MacLay, H. J. Mohr, Mrs. H.
]. Mohr, Mrs. R. A. McWayne, NJ.
Nagasawa, Mrs. S. Olinder, J. H. Pc
terson, Miss D. Peterson, p. VI. Pond,
E. ]. Pond, w. c. Pohlman, Mrs. w.
c. Pohlman. Leroy Percy, H. P. Roth,
Miss B. Richards, G. F. Rankin, Harri-
son Rice, A E. Rice, Mrs. NJ. E. Rob-
inson, Miss Ethel Roche, J. A. sylvia,
H. Sands, w. l.. Showalter, Mrs. w.
l.. Showalter and two children, D. G.
Steen, Mrs. o. G. Steen and two chill
dren, R. Saitta, Mrs. r. Saitta. l..
Z. Stearns, Miss Verna Shaw, Miss
Lillian Snyder, H. H. Scovel, Mrs.
H. Fl. Scovel, c. P Stuart, Mrs. H.
A. Schroeder and child, Mrs. NJ
Spayde, Miss l.. A. Siegel, V E. Tsen,
Miss Helen Teves, Miss Grace Tier
man. Lorrin Thurston, F. E. Thomp-
son, Jr., Mrs. J. Y. Ting and infant,
E. D. Tenney, Mrs. E. D. Tenney, Yer
non Tenney. Mrs. H. Won Holt, Miss
X. Won Holt, Mr.. R. Won Holt, Lieut..
c. C. Windsor. G. Wakefield, Mrs.
A. S. Woods, J. Wyllie, Mrs. j. Wyl-
lie and four children, R. S. West,
Miss s. Wichman. ]. S. Wight, Mrs.
J. S. Wight and child, c. T. Vessels,
G. W. Vessels, Miss X. Waterhouse,
H. r. Wolcott, H. o. Withers, j. Watt.
sTAR-5UlLETIN GIVES YOU
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COLLEGE YELLS
GIVEN AS MAUI
SAILS At IOA. N.
Students. Army Officers and
Capitalists Are Numbered
Among PASSENGERS

College yelIs. music by the Hawai-
ian band and Ivy a Hawaiian club
with stringed instruments and an
abundance of flowers added a gay at
mosphere TO the departure of the Mat
son liner Maui when she sailed for
San Francisco at 10 O'Clock this morn
ing. She took out large passenger
list many OF the passengers being
students who are returning to the
mainland 10 enter VARIOUS educational
institutions.
In addition there were a number OF
passengers OF note, Including one gen.
eral and other army officers who have
been transferred to the states. Gen.
Hero was the ranking army officer
leaving.
Collector NJ. A. Franklin is bound
to Washington for a conference with
officers OF the treasury department.
He is accompanied BY former United
States Senator LIE Roy Percy who
spent a week sightseeing in Hawaii.
Ex-Governor w. F. Frear left on a
business mission to the states.
E. d. Tenney, Mrs. Tenney and Yer
non Tenney were other departing pas
sengers They are going to New York
where they will bid farewell to Miss
Wilhelmina Tenney who is to leave
shortly for France, where she will en-
ter war hospital work.
J. A. Buck. Jr., son of the San Fran
cisco capitalist who has large hold
ings in Hawaiian plantations, is re-
turning to his nome after a week
spent here.
Mrs. Lily Tougher, wife Of William
Tougher, experimenting sugar boiler
of the Puunene mill on Maui, and chill
dren, departed for visit with her
two sisters in New York, Mrs. Carl
Hedemann and Miss Ella Murray. She
will remain in New York for nine
months or year.
The Maui took out a full cargo,
which consisted of 1850 tons of sugar,
94S tons of molasses and 1900 tons OF
general freight, in which is included
100000 cases of pines.