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HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, FED. 1013.
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RILEY H. ALLEN
EDITOR
WEDNESDAY
Fi:ni:r.u!Y .-, 1913
it : i i . t it i
if U(1I (III 'tf II tf II 'Jl i If JMM (I, ICl I tfflU
cast the ffift of a torch thomiht into the heart of
a friend, that irouhl tie (fir'wfj an the anyels (jive.
-Off)rw MaoDonald.
NEW PLUMBING LAV ATTACKED
will shake some much-needed activity into a d
partment that ought not to be regarded as a po
litical feed-trough.
PERSONALITIES
MONSARRAT
THE SIX-YEAR TERM
I
: f No WMiK r iK the new piumbing ordinandi
readj to go into effect than there i a proposal
to repeal it. Last nignt an ordinance knocking
out the measure pal only a few Avwks was
presented to the board and .will be dimissed at
the licit meeting, February 13. Tlie old conten
tion that the ordinance mates a , plumbing mo
nopoly and is a blow to the poor man is again
brought up. ,v
; The last board paKFeil thi? ordinance after
many months jbf work and in-the face of deter
mined opposition. There- was not noticed, bew
erer, inuch opi)bsiti6n from the l-esponsibie build
ers and contractors. The enemies of the ordi
nance Fay this is because the measure puts the
plumbing business in the hands of a" few. estab1
lishipd firms. - Now that is a matter whichtime
can easily prove,, and the operation of the ordi
nance after March 1 should jpiieWly prove it.
The ordinance has put the city to an. expense
o f , sonic $ SOO for advertising. - 1 1 was passed af t
( r inu ch ; considerat jqa To( knock it out i now,
v.-i t hou t giving it an oppcrtiin ity to demonstrate
its usefulness or Unfitness, does .not seeing the
height of wisdom or economy. .: --J-.. ,.'
If the ef fect c;f the ordinance is 'going to be
bad, a few weeks will bring put its weakness and
unfairness. The supervisors will then be able to
Judge lairiy wuai Kina oia iP.eaure;io suusu
tiite. To repeal a law that has had no chance, to
prove;itself and fo
and forceful reasons were given before it was
rassed: is not a course that strikes the average
citizen as particularly sound. , :m-. ...'.; '
L. AARON, a traveling salesman;
for a firm in San Francisco, was a J
passenger on the Honoltiian.
A. J. DALGER. who has been with
one of the local restaurants for some
time, was an outgoing passenger on
the Honolulan last night.
MR. AND MRS. R. G. RAPHAEL de
parted for the coast on the Honolulan
last evening. They have been connect
ed with the Palm Cafe since It oiene;i
in the new bufldine. j
FRANK L. PAOXARD, a magazine
writer, was lately reported to be in
New Zealand collecting material for
a new book and intending to visit Ha
waii among other Pacific groups.
HON. GEOROB E. FOSTER, minis
ter of commerce in the Canadian cab
inet, will be a tfirougb passenger in
the Makura on the 26th inst.. on his
way to represent the Dominion at the
Imperial Trade Conference in Aus
tralia. WILLIAM 3AVIDGE, the real estate
and stock broker. vas married last
by wise, legislation and farseeing policies have former wife from whonhe was di
little hope of SO doing in six Tears. vorced several years ago. Mr. Savidge
v. . 1 . . . 'recently secured a divorce from his
,or is the provision against more than one Becond wlfe A reconciliation was ef-
The people will always wish to fected with the first wife and the
Smith, of the Methodist Church.
ROASTS POLICE
It is exceedingly doubtful if the bill now le
for (Yitgresx limiting presidential tenure of of
fice to a single six-year term is" a. wise provision.
Six years is too long a tme for a poor man to
serve, too short for a good man. National poli
cies pngress slowly. Presidents who attempt to
leave a real impress on the history of a nation
term necessarv.
reward a popular president by more than one
term and to punish a selfish man by defeating
him. The case of France has been cited as an
example of a single-term presidency; but it is not
a parallel case at all. The French president is
considerably more of a figure-head than an act-
MAY BUY LAND FOR
THE ROYAL SCHOOL
candidacy last year.' The bogie of a "third-term
presidents was grotesquely overdone. And. pub
lic sentiment, -part of it at least, has gone to
the other extreme. .
NATIONAL BUDGET FAVORED
v..
RAISING CITY PAY
ion-
The 'proposal iiVade; by i3upenis6r AVolter last
:p.gh 1 1 hat .tlu pay if day-la borers' in the city and
( ounty eniploy lc raked, ib 2;afay has some
:::crit, but the move is not warranted until the,'
:ew lx)ard has given the community f evidence that
i t can get better work f roin the laborers than past
boards have been able togeC.Ju1:filyft ,
Supervisor Wolter is perfectly correct in his
contention that the cost'of living has been stead
ily going up.juntil it has reached a point where
the day-laborer finds it almost impossible to sup
port hunsef and a family on thb'resent munici-pal-
pay. n the" other hand, hej road depart
: :ient, where " most of ; the day-lai)6rers are ' em:
ployed, has been treated so long and so flagrant
ly as a political pasture that the' municipality
I; as not been getting anything like: value given
even in thx; $1.50-peray payment ?
, In order to spread the rpad-mprieys among as
many voters as possible, and overias many dis
tricts as possible, it has been theTianit of the city
to employ a great number of men f or, only part
of a month instead of a lesser number for the en
tire month. The road department has been run
somewhat, for votes instead of et!aciency.ind as a
very natural consequence the road-laborers have
"1 oaf ed'on the job," many tf thein. " Supervisor
Petrie confessed to the board last night .that in
some districts, snaming Kaneohe specifically as
one of them, the -city islnot getting its money's
worth from the men. r .- " :
laborers who will not give adequate service
to the city for 1:50 a day will not give adequate
service for $2 a day. Raising 'tKe daily wage is
not going to eliminate politics from the road de
partment, and unless politicsis as nearly as pos
sible eliminated, the city will always be paying
thousands of dollars for inefficient, careless, hap
hazard 'work. . v '
, We believe that the community will back up
supervisors will go through the road department
without fear or favor and weed out the loafers
and timeserrers. . Supervisors Wolter and Cox,
who spoke strongly on behalf of the man with a
family to feed, are right m saying that the mu
. nidpaJity will profit in the end if the road de-
S'o. wt.1 9 ilia lrtfifrvna t1 flio ini1ntri.
pus, honest laborers given a wage continuously
through the month that will enable them to live
V- That kind of a plan would result in the organ
ization and development of a corps of really
skilled road-workers, in each district. It would
''pay fn; the long run. But before the community
m11- ' in'.l.Kn T-nic?tlfr flfWiimS. the COtll-
munity Would like to see if the chairman of the
roaa committee, Mr. retne, ana nis associates
If the present plans of the board of
education are received favorably by
ive, influential leader. He has little of the Amer- the coming legislature, the property
icanVesjdenfs power of securing desirable leg- b" TttXi SSS
islation. Consequently, the French executive win probably be purchased by the
mar changed at the end of every term without IfrTK't'pop'". SpST
greatly Upsetting progressive policies. ' tor Gibson by tt. L. Dodaon, a motor-
-Of eourse the truth abont the hill now before
congress is mat 11 was iorcea out oy KOOSeveit s the department endowe the move
ment. ; -.
For several years past the board of
education has. been striving to secure
additional grounds -for the Royal
School, and Mr Dodson yesterday re
ceived assurance . that the board is
heartily in favor of the movement. A
few years ago the land In question
could have been purchased for about
four hundred dollars, but it is said
that Is could not be bought a,t the pres
ent time for lesi than $10,Q00. The
Royal School 'now has am Attendance
of over a Jth0usarif4 pupjls,'anj aV
though ,the , groundsart? not email,
tnere is hardly sulBcienf " room to pro
vide a playground for thatlnnmber of
pupils. Many of; the houses on the
land in question, lt is said, are liUie
more than1 shacks, and this condition
Iz not a pleasing one for ah education
al institution. Jn . order 16 aaiure the
necetary room' for; the lenlrfiement of
the playgroundit .Vould.te i ijeceds3ry
Iq huy iBeveraX cete&jitp&tiii
; Dodson further ltatea during f.HU
crnference tfith MessraPpp. and Gib
son that already he ha4dbured "prom
ises of 'hearty co-operation from the
senators of Oahu, and -also members
of tho board of supervisors, in getting
a meaasure through the coming sec
s!on of he legislature.
The Honolulu Chamber of Commerce voted
with the overwhelming ihajority on: thaf irst ref
erendum, taken by the. National Chamber of Com
merce, with j. which the local ? organization not
long ago became affiliated. iThe first vote was
on the question ; of an - annual national budget,
and of the 583Vo"tes cas 573 favored the budget,
two votes being cast for the Jocal chamber. : y The
fen opposing. vtes were"all ' from 1 the Detroit
Bdard lot Commerce. -:' ; - ' ;
The vote among the members of the greater
chamber iWill be followed by wbrk at Washingt6n
favoring the national, budget plan.
Building Inspector Miehlstein says in a re
port that local theaters are 'dangerous because of
fire hazard, It is perhaps true; that dressing
rooms and rears of stages are sometimes made
the repositories of inflammable material. It is
also very certain that the Honolulu theaters are
less dangerous than those of any large city on
the mainland. Few of the local playhouses have
stairways, the aisles are only slightly inclined
and the constructidn is largely of concrete and
metal. . Still, to give the maximum f protection,
the municipal authorities, eithet police or build;
ing inspectors, should have the ? right to order
reasonable changes made and the power to en
force their ordersV which, it would appear from
Mr. Miehlstein's report, they have not now.
"I am surprised at the police offi
cers placing a woman under arrest
and bringing her and her little child
to the police station in this condition."
declared District Magistrate Monsar
rat this morning, when called upon to
pass judgment in a case where a party,
of five persons had been arraigned on
a charge of making a loud and riotous J
noue ana generally aisiuroing ine
peace.
A young Hawaiian woman, with a
mere babe tugging at her skirts, made
a pitiful picture as she lined up in the
prisoners' dock with a motley assort
ment of drunks and malefactors, and
she awakened the sympathies of many
in the courtroom, including Judge
Monsarrat.
The police declare that a series of
telephone messages came from the
lower Queen street neighborhood,
where the melee was in progress. Two
officers hurried to the scene and short
ly after 7 o'clock they placed the wo
man and four companions under ar
rest.' On the stand this morning it was
declared that all parties were much
under the influence of liquor.
The strictures offered by Judge Mon
sarraf! were along the line that the
woman appeared in court scantily
clothed. The child, it is believed, will
be cared for by the authorities.
Three members of the party entered
pleas of guilty. In passing sentence
Judge Monsarrat gave . a suspended
sentence in the case of the woman,
while the male companions were each
fined two dollars and costs.
FLORAL PARADE
(Continued from page 10 "
PROMOTION WOOD 1
BOOSTS FOR LECTURE
- The Democratic board of supervisors is fear
lessly approaching the question of purchasing
steam-rollers. It will be remembered that the
last board also approached this question and then
backed hastily away because of numerous, per
haps unfounded but certainly peculiar rumors
that favoritism was being shown to certain of
those who have the rollers to sell. Probably the
Bourbons will do their business more publicly.
Haghes Enthusiastic. 4 '
John Hughes, chairman of the horse
driven floats section, has a corps, of
hustlers who are finding plenty to do,
as the time for closing entries draws
near. The Normal school, and the Ho
nolulu School for Boys, at Kaimuki
are two recent entries that wUl have
good features in. this part of the par
ade. The Kaimuki school 1 will have
at least two entries.
The Biggest Job. .
John H. Wise is the man with prob-;
ably the bigge'st job of all the chair
men lust now, partly because1 his part
of the work la. big anyhow and partly
because it was so late when he took
it op. Wise succeeded W. T. Rawlins,
when tne latter was taken ill, as head
of the Waikikl regatta and plan for
representation of the Landing. of Ka
mehameha. He Is picking out a list
of assistants ; and in the meantime
hustling for canoes, for he expects to
lind the modern Kamehameha with an
eaeorfVo?;' abfeutff if fyr canber f ull ;tf
warriors. ' Two of the canoes win be
vessels which were actually used by
the great king himself, a "hundred and
twenty years ago. One of them Is the
property of Prince Kuhio, having come
to him from the late King Kalakana. It
is on Hawaii and has been sent for.
The other was brought to x Honolulu
yesterday and offered to Mr. Wise by
A. I C. Atkinson, the present owner.
It was at Puuloa, and is in such con
dition that it may need almost a new
bottom. These canoes are bigger than
those usually seen. They are between
fifty and sixty feet long and four feet
It was in these identical canoes
the "Napoleon of the Pacific-
made some of his inter-island trips, ac
companied by his chiefs.
In Carnival week, in the presence ofi
thousands of spectators the king will)
come around Diamond Head again and
land as before, with International mov-4'
ing picture companies' agents, on sta
tions specially erected at sea, record-J
ing everything tor rums tnat win De
used all over the world.
H. P. Wood, secretary of the pro-
i motion committee, In a statement this
morning, urged the people of Honolulu j deep,
to attend, the lecture to be given by that
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Kemp next
Saturday night at the Opera House,
the seat sale for which Is now open at
the rooms of the promotion committee.
'These three lectures," said Mr.
Wood, "are among the finest. They
bring to the eyes, and ears of those
who go vivid pictures of the life of
the great painted desert, and the re
markable HopI Indians who live there."
The Hop! Indians' snaxe dance,
which will be the feature or the lec
ture Saturday night, is' famous the
world over and the moving pictures
which will be shown were taken by
Mr. Kemp himself during a stay
among the Indians, and axe said to be
the only moving pictures ever taken of
the ceremony. Honolulu, Feb. 4, 1313.
Followine the lecture "The Indians vHtnr unnniniu star-RuiioHn
of the Painted Desert," Mr. and Mrs. sir: I feel that I have been mis
Kemp will giye two other lectures, represented enough in the Inter-Isl-"Yellowstone
Park and the Sioux In- and controversy, and I must deny that
dians," with vivid pictures or the great i was in possession of Captain Tul
national reservation and of Indian life, Lett's resignation, sooner than Febru-
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' The late President McKInley's rela- The "drya? Jn Iowa-won a victory
tlves are much exercised because his when the, lower house of the leglsla
niece, Mabel, sold V gold plate given ture sent a memorial to congress ask
the president by the Knights Templar ing for the enactment' of the Kenyon
of San Francisco for 1700 to a New Sheppard bill prohibiting the shipment
York pawnbroker. - ; ' , ;,: . jof liquor Into dry territory -. , .
nMfAi: T.t'. ttm; Wneui.tb :;: cruiser a- California was
San Francisco minister, has resigned Dlatea Maw water llne were found
his pastorate and will become an un-ir C . I 1 "1 we e I0un
rtirtivor "tVlto be twisted and bent. The mystery
I ''; J la 'that. no one knows how or when it
The Saa Francisco supervisors have was done
O. !K.'d :Mayor ! Rolph's. offer of 37 a New York Immigrant sold her bus-
millions for the Spring Valley water, ban(i o a younzer woman for JSO and
system. ' : :w ; v .i ? ?
James Hammond, a millionaire type
writer manufacturer has just died In
Florida.. - - : 1; ;;--V- '
vent to Russia. Afterwards she re
turned, : wanted her husband, and un
able to get him. had him arrested for
bigamy. . t -
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FROM CAPT. IIAGLUSD
Fire Chief Thurston and his laddies are plan
ning to enter two of the new auto trucks in the
Floral Parade. They will be decorated just
enough to embellish their beauty and not enough
to hide the handsome exteriors or destroy the im
pression of iin efficient fire-fighting machine.
The firemen always "come through'' with a good
representation in the parade.
Women leaders of the proposed Washington
suffragette parade want a guard of soldiers, sail
ors and marines. There won't be much chance
for the college students and their mice.
Supervisor Wolter's oratory adds to the inter
est of the board meetings. He has the rare gift
of unconscious humor.
and "Panama and ,the Cana: Up to ary 2nd,
Date.
The second lecture will be given
next Tuesday night and the last one
week from Friday. The tickets are
selling fast, and a large crowd is ex
pected. Much interest is being taken
in the lectures by the students of Pu
nahou and other colleges.
1913,
on which date he met
me in the evenine a.nd handed it to me
; shortly before 6 o'clock,
j I make this statement in contradic-
tion of th? impression which might be
gained through the reading of your
paper, which stated that his resigna
I tion was dated January 18, 1913, and
I would infer that I was in possession
of it from that date. Yours truly,
J. F. HAGLUXD.
Wilson says hehas practically de
cided upon his cabinet positions, but
he will not divulge any names as Mrs' Elanor B. Barry, a one-time
yet. I wealthy woman who had me, with re-
Jewish objections caused "The Mer-' M-sf s through real eitate deils. com-
hant of Venice" to be left out of the nted fuicide i na Xew Yo.-r apart-
grammar school studies in New "Vork. '"..t-nt house.
Sail
Col. ('astro has to go and get a reputation
lefore he can enter the United States.
While talking of the tent city, there is no rea
son to stop jKHMiianent building.
COLLEGE HILLS 2 choice residence lots 13,500 sq. ft. each $1250
OCEAN VIEW Modern home with all conveniences ....$8500
New Bungalow, excellent view $7000
WILHELMINA RISE 5-room Bungalow $3000
KAIMUKI Modern 4-room house, large grounds $4500
WAIKIK I Choice building lot, 7200 sq. fL $1750
PAW A A Modern 1 story house $4000
Fine building lot 12.981 sq. ft $2000
PUNAHOU 6-room house and cottage $6000
12 story modern cottage $4500
Modern 5-room bungalow $4850
l PALAMA 3-bedroom house and lot $1750
PACIFIC HEIGHTS Choice home $8000
WAIALAE TRACT Several choice ots and acreage.
Anyway, Judge Humphreys has the diction
ary eating out of his hand.
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WHO'S WHO AND WHY
The man WHO buys in Kaimuki at present prices is the
man WHO will clear from 25 to 50 per cent, profit on hia
holding? within the year.
AND WHY?
The Panama Canal with all the traffic It will;brlug to the
Pacific Coast is bound to affect Hawaii. Business men and
foreign steamship men have been studying the situation for
a year or more and all predict a great future for Hawaii.
We have the following property for sale In Kaimuki:
House, Lot and Furniture, Park avenue $2700
House, one and one-half acres. Fifth Avenue .$2350
1 acre, Tenth Avenue, Kaimuki $ 00
3 lots, Ocean View, Kaimuki .-...$1450
1 Lot, corner Fifteenth and Maunaloa Ave $ 600
1 Lot corner Fifteenth Avenue ..$ 575
5 acre tract, Palolo Hill, per acre $ 500
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