Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-13
BAD TURN ON VOLCANO ROAD Is
CAUSE OF SERIOUS ACCIDENTS
Twenty Miles, is Scene of Numerous Smashups in Which
Several are Badly lnuFed-DeIuge of Parts of Machines
Pour Into Peter Lees Yard in Last Six Months and He Ap
peaIS to Board of Supervisors for Action

! Rheims must look like newly built
modern city compared with my little
! lot at Twenty-Five Miles.
Hewiy-Weds Arrive
We'll, settled down for a nice
| little snooze and hoped that all would
we'll until evening again. This hoped
/ for respite did not eveutuate because
at three in the afternoon. there was a
sudden swoop. as if Zeppelin was on
| the job, and there arrived, in a hurry
lit would appear. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
| Lyman. They we're accompanied by
the usual shower of wheels, spokes
| and other important parts of an auto
mobile. Henry was as debonair as
ever and he even smiled as he extrac-
ted a silver of windshield glass from
his leg. Mrs. Henry made her debut
with lei made out of lamp reflector
decorating her head. was glad, OF
course, TO meet the pair, but would
have preferred to have them cone in
in, the regular fashion.
The Lyman car was a wreck and
its remains were gathered up and de-
posted on my ever-growing junk pile
The newly-weds were attended to and
sent homo in another machine-not
mine, for my gasoline had run low
and had bunch that | would he
called upon during the night to do
some ambulance work. That was some
bunch, believe me,
Nothing much happened except a
few minor collisions with the earth
honk on the road until about eleven
O'Clock. Our lights we're all out and
we might as well have been in London,
for all we knew of anything.
Uncle Sam Too
AT eleven O'Clock distinctly heard
the Whirr of an aeroplane as it passed
over our house. There was no mistak-
ing the sound. 1t was utterly different
to the noise that emanates from an
automobile--whole or broken, ] can
swear to those sounds nowadays
and as | sat up in bed imagined that
at last Twenty-Five Miles was to he
strafed good and plenty.
"The next instant there shot
through the side of my home what
must have been at one time the front
wheel of a motorcycle. The other
wheel or what remained of it, was not
far behind and as the gasoline tank
blew up / went to sleep-hit on the
head by broken handle-bar.
The smash was complete and when
/ came to, the first thing j saw was
a soldier. He was bleeding from his
ears and nose and was unconscious.
just behind him was another of Uncle
Sans men and he too was knocked
out as surely as If he had been gassed
In Belgium. s..-..-..
Well ii was a pretty mess and il
looked as If this time men had been
killed on my premises. A hurry-up
call was sent for a doctor and I stop
ped the flow of blood as much as pos
sible. The men are now in the Hilo
hospital and J am doing steady work
at the old place. wonder what will
find around the house when | get
back from Hilo this evening, probably
there will be the remains of tank
or some other engine OF warfare
festooned around the yerandah posts.
ann getting tired OF the whole pro-
position. | am willing to do my bit,
sure, but this continual ambulance
work gets my goat. And, what | am
really afraid of is that my house will