The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-16
Old Friend Of Postmaster General
Burleson To Reorganize
r Local Office
HAS BEEN PUBLICITY MAN
FOR POSTAL DEPARTMENT.
Wants To Administer Office "To
Satisfaction Of People Of
Honolulu" II. LII
By ERNEST O. WALKER
mail Special to The Advertiser)


WASHINGTON, January 31--with
in month or six weeks Honolulu will
have new postmaster in the person o.
David Hastings MacAdam, provided
the senate confirms him, as it probabl,
VIII. President Wilson forwarded thu
nomination this afternoon. Postmas
D tcr.General Burleson has been consider
ing names for this vacancy for som,
time, and decided in Mr.. MacAdam' 4
favor quite recently. But there ha,
been delay while Mr.. MacAdam wal
considering whether he wished to pul
up stakes at Washington and settle il
Honolulu. '-t.'..' ~, Es
For something over two and n hall
years Mr. MacAdam has been employed
at the postoffice department most of the
time under the first assistant postmas
ter general, in charge Of the depart
ment's publicity bureau. During the
past summer he went to New York and
was stationed Mt the Democratic ma
tioDal committees headquarters. He
edited the Democratic textbook, and Ii
said TO have made an excellent Job Of
It. He also did a lot of effective work
in the campaign. Since the election
MI. MacAdam has been back in the
postofice department. He undoubtedly
has large fund of information and
also not a little experience about the
workings of the postal system. =" -
Postmaster-Gcneral Burleson, noting
that several postmasters at Honolulu
had not been islanders, thought Mr..
Macadam would be an excellent man
In mo nt,k Nhoro II Al. /. a
service on up-to-date lines. He pressed
the matter with Mr.. MacAdam, whom
he has known for many years, and the
nomination of today was the result.
The prospective new postmaster Of
Honolulu was born at st. Louis in
1879. His father, Of the sang name,
was an oldtime newspaper man In st.
Louis and also served the city as re.
corder under its old charter. The son
was educated at Washington Univer.
sity and then studied for FIVE years at
the st. Louis Fine Arts School. Dur.
ing this time he painted many pictures.
He eventually went into the newspaper
business on the st. Louis Republic, and
in 1904 came TO Washington as the rep.
rcsentatiye of that newspaper at the
capital He continued at that task
till about two and half years APO,
when he took employment at the post.
office department. ~
Mr.. MacAdam has been quite pro.
life writer, and apart from his news.
paper efforts has written considerably
for the magazines. He has turned out
a number Of excellent fiction stories
that have given him considerable
reputation in that field. He married
Ada G. Ellis, in this city FIVE years ago.
They have one child. n boy, David
Hastings MacAdam, now three and
half years old.
Mr.. MacAdam lives on Kenyon
Street in his own home He has some
property in this city. His mother, a
widow, has been spending the winter in
California.
Breckons Fights For Bills
Mr.. Breckons had n hearing this
week before the house territories com.
mittee on several bills introduced Mt
his instance. One of these was the
bill, in behalf of plantation owners in
Hawaii, to exempt them from the pro.
visions of the Interstate Commerce Act
regarding automatic couplers and like
equipment on railroads. Mr.. Brock,
Ons appeared in behalf of the planta-
tion owners but appeared in his own he-
half for the bills TO authorize the cleo
tion of d governor Of the Territory of
Hawaii, for woman suffrage on tho Is,
lands, the appointment of territorial
officials from residents of the islands
and so on. '%@ '.;-. .s
There is no hope of these bills be.
HnmInU In Nry "a fhso ne
but the effort is 10 advance them in
legislative. channels and thus eneour.
age discussion and agitation. Some of
the plantation owners have made their
protest against provisions of the new
revenue bill, just passed by the house
for taxing profits of corporations in OK
cess of eight per cent y r. r. y
IT Is stated here that Superintendent
Forbes did not 90 to Boston, follow.
ing his recent brief appearance in
Washington. Collector of Customs
franklin has been expected in Wash.
ington but has not arrived here yet. O.,
Balch In Washington Y W.
j. A., Balch of Honolulu, has been
stopping here. He appeared before a
house committee with reference TO d
bill TO regulate radio communication
and made a most excellent impression.
Members of the committee were con.
WINGED that Mr.. Balch knew his sub.
iect very thoroughly and complimeptcd
The house territories committee has
reported fayorably a bill to prohibit,
under certain conditions any person
or combination of persons from import,
ing. receiving or shipping or aiding or
assisting in importing receiving OF
shipping into the Territory Of Hawaii,
or from manufacturing, selling, giving
away, or attempting to sell, give away
ar otherwise dispose Of, or have in DOS,
session any Intoxicating liquors within
'hc jurisdiction of said Territory. j
Ponrefeptative Hamlin, of Missouri,
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