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FOURTEEN EOKOLTJOT CTAB-BULLETIN, Fill DAY, JULY 31, 1914. - 1 1 ' I f M v I i I I I I l I I N I n 1 1 I I I I 1 : 1 I I f 1 : I I n, I irll - f l I 1 1 l - I I I I I I I I i I - w " X "V II II I I I I Y S y J'Jti ill J S & AS . -A .. SVs II I I J V i V V I a- ANNOUNCEMENT. Leading hat cleaners. Prices mod erate. We sell the latest styles In Panama and Felts. Work called for and delivered. Blaisdell Building. C895-6m AUTOMOBILE FOR HIRE. GET THERE QUICK. Telephones 2993- and -1003 HONOLULU AUTO & TAXI CO. , Alakea and Hotei SU., Opp.'Y.M.C. A. Managers Behn & Benford. ' ' "6739-tf . ' ' ; BICYCLE SUPPLIES. S. Komeya, wholesale ' and . retail dealer In bicycles and accessories. King street near Punchbowl street .. 5542-tf C1CYCLES AND SUPPLIES. We hare just received a splendid new supply of PREMIER Bicycles from mainland; also supplies, H. Yosh Imaga, 1218 Emma near Beretanla. - - S690-tf BUY AND SELL.. : Diamonds, watches and jewelry bought sold and exchanged. J. 'Carlo, Fort. . it- CAFE. r.cjtl Cafe, everything tn test at , r-r-iar prices; fine home cooking; rrcr.pt service: Beretanla, nr. Fort LL, c;p. re station. K. Nixxno, Pr. 1745-tf . - ' r -'-n Cifa. coolest clace In town. ..fi:r tie chow drop la. Open flay c 1 tiilL EUon theater. Hotel EL tS23-tl . Cc!--t!a Luach Hocxn; quick tervlca Lzi c:eanlines our motto; open day trltl;LL HoteL opp. Betnel ttreet. E518-tL Tis Ezsle," Bethel bet Ilotel and Kirs. A rico place to eat; fine I : 3 cccilrg. Open night and flay. -7t ncr2.n," Hotel EL. next tht Zzzzzb. Lzit cc&la lor price la tswn, Oren all day and all night . , -: US25-tt - : jrevr Orlnrs Cafe Substantial meals r tfcrtta. Alitea ccr Herchant Bt r.rsa.tf CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Gecrce Yamada, general contractor, Estimates furnished. No. 208 Mc-; Caadless Building. Telephone 2157. 5265-tf . Canko Co., Sanko bldg, Nuuanu and Vbryard. Tel. 3151. - Contracts for tuildin?:. pa ier hanging, cement. T.crk, cleans vacant lots. k5327-tf Y. Kclaj-ashl. general contractor, 2034 C Kir.s. Thone 3356. Reasonable. k5S27-tf CARD CASES. 3 r.nd visiting cards., engraved cr jrir.tcd, In attractive Russia 1 cr cases, patent detachable f tar-nulMin office. 5540-tf- CLOTHES CLEANED. A. II. C. rlcauirg. repairing; satisfac-r- "rantccd; call and deliver. -- .lea near PauahL TeL 4148. . 5335-tf ' - ' ' C.:: yov.r work to Pioneer Cleaners, I '.t-.r.Ia, cor. Alakea. Prompt : ; . ! :c. . ' , 5912 lm .': ; v '. I !:.yashl; clothes cleaned,' pressed. Tel 2278, Beretanla, cor, Tukol. j. . 59i3:im , : .:. Tor expert clothes : cleaning The Lion, iKng. at Maunakea.' " , 53 19-1 m '." CLCAMNG AND DYEING. Royal Clot!. c s Cleaning and Dycics fc'V.rp. Ca.:i end deliver. Tfl. 3140.? CUr.oto, Dcrctaria, nr. Al zl Zt r.nr-.-tf DRESSMAKING. Johnson and Olson, dressmakers. Elite building, Beretanla, near Bishop sta. 6910-lra EMPLOYMENT OFFICE. Union Employment Office. Tel. 1420 All kinds of help. G. I liraoka. Pro prietor, 1210 Emma, cor. 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Painting and paperbanglng.t All work guaranteed. Bids ' submitted free. - k5328-tf .PRINTING. We do not boast of low prices which usually coincide with poor, quality; '.but we "know how" ' to put' life, hustle and go into printed matter, and that is what talks loudest and longest Honolulu Star-Bulletin Job . Printing Department Alakea Street; Branch Office. Merchant street 5399-tf - r SHIRTS AND PAJAMAS. . YAMATOYA, ; ;. s 1250 Fort Luirts . pajamas, kimonos. 5752-tf - : ' SHIRTMAKERS. Wh n you want a- shirt have one made : to measure by Akagi. 1218 Nuuanu. 6808-lm ' - SHIRTMAKER. B. Yamatoya, shirts, pajamas, 'kimo nos to order; Nunanu near Pauaht. ..:.,.! - 5533-tf - SHIRTMAKER. Have your shirts made to order. - G. Awana, 348 S. King street 1 . V ' 591K-3m ' 1 SHOEMAKER. Shoes repaired, soles naile4 onrBeth el, near King street . I 5918-1 m - t TAILCRC. .. , ; !. ITcrcbant Tailor; up-to-V.'crk guaranteed. ; .'.vr. corner MaunaVea St -- ly r.t Tailors; up- ; r'r-.l-j an--l ' - : ::.?i fct r win- I tn?Vt CoUmn Bnl in IK Welcome, Little Want Ads In but few lines of business are the little, bits of business so much appreciated as In the newspaper business ' No matter how small your WANT ad may be, or how insignificant It may seem to you the Star-Bulletin considers it important and will give the same careful attention ta your two-line WANT AD that is given the two-page ad of the large advertiser. We want your little WANTS.- To give you perfect service the Star-Bulletin has Installed a perfect telephone system, handled by skilled ad phone operators enabling everybody having a phone , to call the Star-Bulletin and order their WANTS in Honolulu's great-" est newspaper. . : w . . i UMBRELLA MAKER. R. Mlzuta. Umbrellas made and re paired. 1284 Fort, pear KukuL ? Tel ephone 3745. ' 5553-tf r:: VULCANIZING. Auto, Motorcycle and Bicycle Tires vulcanized. Taisho Vulcanizing Co, 180 Merchant near Alakea Street Telephone 3197.. S. Salki, manager. 5618-tf ' V ;- ' PAYS $200,000 FOR A DINNER FOR 25 ' By Latest Mail - J BERLIN.-Following the automobile accident in which Herr Theodor Dre ber, the well-known . German sports man, met his death, some ' amazing accounts of the Hpendthrift habits of this son ; of a, millionaire have, come to general knowledge, . Two years ago hie lived, at Brioni during the winter months, and one day, feeling very dull, he sent out telegrams to 12 of his best men friends and to 12. women friends asking them urgently to come 'down to Brioni to have supper with him. Some of these friends lived at that time at Vienna, others in , Hungary and even on the Riviera, while among the women eight were at Vienna and four In Paris. In order that their , journey might be as comfortable s possible, each of them had a' special ' train placed at his or her disposal,, and, in order that every one of them might pre serve a pleasant memory of .the oc casion, each of the male guests re ceived a souveiir In the form of a golden cigarette case and each woman a gold handbag with the date of the supper set out In diamonds. The af fair cost 1200,000. ; i On the death of his father; he in herited J20.000.000. r More than half of this has evaporated during the last three years. -' " :. It IsnThard work that kills a man. U'b usually scheming now he can put In the most time cn a short job that plays havoc with liis vitality V hat is this Want Ad? ' ' . ., - ' A--. AXSWKB TO TESTKBDATS rrZZLK PROFESSIONAL CARDS MADEIRA EMBROIDERY. Mrs. Carolina , Fernandez, Union st Madeira embroidery, luncheon sets, . . baby caps a)id dresses. Specialty of initial and hemstitching. Reasonable. k5322-tf MODISTE. '- Miss Nellie Johnson,' 1119 Union St Evening gowns, lingerie dresses. V ' k5341-tf HYDRAULIC ' ENGINEER. Jas.- T. Taylor, 511 Stangenwald bldg., . consulting civil & hydraulic engiu'r. v; k5375-tf v.; . MUSIC LESSONS. Pri vate ' lessons on Violin, Mandolin, Guitar, English Banjo and Ukulele . by a teacher of many years expert ' ence. Address P.O. Box 311. Tel. 4179 ' 5650-tf r-':y:. - Ernest K. Kaal; 51 Young Bldg. TeL 3687 guitar, ukulele, mandolin,, ban jo, zither, - violin, cello and focal. ' : V - ' . ' :. k53 8 1-tf v ,-; t :' ' V Bergstrom.Mnslc Co. ; Music and mu ; sical instruments. 1020-1021 ; Fort street : 'v-:.':- : - h . ' . W. 5277-tf ' - I. ,- '; - ' Violin and piano taught by expert 831 N. King st - . - :- 5919-lm . ' COLLECTOR. W. L. Eaton, collector on cbmmisloo. Telephone 1842.; . 4 ;- . . : , : 5891-tf ; MAGAZINES. Subscription rates advance in the falL Ordejr- your magazines now and save money.,. Catalog free. Am erican Magazine Agency, box 1222, Atlanta. Ga. 1916-6t SURGEON CHIROPODIST. Dr. R. E. Merrill, Mclnemy's Shoe ; Store, Fort above King.: Private room , for ladles. Charges reason able, .V - . J- 59I8-tf The Americans In Story of the Panama Canal From Start to Finish By WILLIAAl R. SCOTT Published by the Staller PublUh Ins company. E01 Fifth avenue. New Vork city. ; .-; ..' ; Copyrlaht. 1912 and 191X by William: R. Scott. CHAPTER VIH. , The Canal Under Stevens. YV NOTIIER notable ligure in the A railroad world had been chosen AelV chief engineer of the Panama canal. John F. Stevens in 1903 " was general manager of the Great Northern Railroad company, and of i his selection as chief engineer James J. Hill said that If the whole country bad been ransacked no better man' could be found. It is not possible to estimate the mis chief that might have resulted if the selection of a successor to Mr. Wallace had been long delayed. His salary was to be $30,000 annually, or $5,000 more than that paid to Mr. Wallace. He was facing a situation In Panama that justified the figure. The yellow fever epidemic was still uncontrolled. An Invoice of the situa tion as left by Mr. Wallace showed that considerable pioneer ' work bad been done, but the housing, feeding and general preparations for the com fort of employees were unsolved prob lems. .' ,v.-. -.v '' Mr. Stevens arrived at Colon on July 27, 1905. As a railroad man his eye flrst was attracted by the congestion of freight on the wharfs and the self evident fact that the Panama railroad was In. n near state of collapse. Freight was plied. up In the streets in prodigious quantities and wan moving OTer the railroad at a snail's pace. ' s ? As for Ahe -railroad tracks in the Culebra cut be said they were rllnes which by the utmost stretch of the Im agination could not be termed railroad tracks." Mr. Wallace had found the Panama railroad, after half a century wipout tompetition. far behind the times in equipment and practically no discipline or efficiency existed among, the 1 employees. When Mr. Stevens took charge there was an Improved situation, butj the. long... absence in Washington of Chief Engineer Wallace Panama '? A - t - .V V -I 0 v JL : - 3 ;( I ' i l y : - t-, i. - I k; . 1 John F. Stevens. " and his suddeu departure had caused the railroad to Iwgltt a retrograde movement. t . ' For thirty-one - miles the main line of the niilrmid had leen retrncked with American; rails, and the work of double tracking it was just getting un der wayl . The principal shops were at Matachin. wlt.h a '.'-.capticlty.'. of ; over haliliug tire locomotives and t.V diinip cars a '; mouth. The canal employeeit sooii saw the'ralil)er of man at their head by the way 3Ir. Stevens straight-, ened wut 1 the railrosjd tangle, for Ihe freight lKgau to move; lax methods were runted out of the system, and the scmbl.-ince of mi efficient organization, operating a long modern lines, appeared. The commission visited the tethmus in July mid August and with ''Mr. Ste vens reached the conclusion that con stniction work should be reduced to a minimum, even to tunilng away em ployees, a ikI all energies !ent to build ing np" a system of feeding and hous ing the men and their, families. Pre paratory work was given the right of way orer construction, which accounts for the 'comparatively little excavation done under the Stevens regime. The general verdict wasi that the. ground work done by Mr. Wallace 'was gooil In spite of dlsorsnuireil conditions and that no Insuperable o!stncles. stood In the wny of building the canal. There were 8112 men Ih the depart- meut of englrieeiiiig and construction, and other employee brought the tot I to 9.50U. not iiM'luding the Panama rail road. Mnuidpul iiaprorciueuts in Co lon and Panama ard evrtiin canal tone towns were well under way.- Effective progress had been made !: the work of surveying the canal rotUe. In making borings for lock sites and In other engineering preliminaries,, A noted, 74 1.G44 yards had lieen excavated ami nine steam shovels were at work. -The 357 renovated French buildings and forty-eight new structures housed the employees, except those who provided shelter for themselves la Colon and Panama. . There was no commissary and no hotels. An executive order had made the civil service cover the canal xone on Nov. 13. 1904. but both Mr. Wallace and Mr. Stevens protested so earnestly against the restrictions of this order that on Jan. 12. 1900. President Koosc telt removed all employees except clerks from the scope of the act thus allowing Mr. Stevens to employ any one he saw fit on any terms be chose. The eight hour day restriction likewise was lifted, but agitation In the Unit ed States caused the president later to relmpose both limitations, with what ever Increase In time and cost of con structing the canal they might Involve . The Americans had been in Panama more than a year, and still the type of canal to be built was undecided. In the meantime Air. Stevens rapidly was rounding Into shape an organization of workers, getting suitable quarters erected for the employee, who were coming In large numbers, organizing the commissary and hotel systems, se curing ? mechanical equipment and bringing the transportation .facilities toa satisfactory standard. Governor Magoon simultaneously was organiz ing a civil government along the lines blazed . by Governor Davis. Police, courts, schools, fire departments, post offices, recreation clubhouses, church es in short duplicating on a scale suitable to the canal zone the civiliza tion of the United States. . By June. 1900, the end of his first year as chief engineer, Mr. Stevens had made a remarkable showing in every phase of the work. There were thirty-nine steam shovels at work as against nine la 1905. The working force had increased to 23.901, of whom 3,204 were Americans. But as show ing how closely his efforts were con centrated on preparatory work the to tal excavation for the year was only l,499.5(i2 yards, the highest figures for one ntonth being in March, 1908 hea 239,178 yards were removed . Colonel Gorgas and his sanitary de partment '. got on top of . the yellow fever epidemic In September, 1905. and In general so dominated the hitherto unhealthful Isthmus that even the hos-. tile press begad to show a change la heart on this score, with the result that the immigration of workers largely in creased. Recruiting agencies already bad been opened In the ., West Indies, Europe and the principal American cit ies,, 5 More than 12,000 men were; lm ported In 1900 on contract with the commission.' - "The common labor was estimated by Mr. Stevens to be about 33 per cent as efadent as similar Amer ican labor. It was not until 190tf that the wives and families of the Ameri cans began coming to ; the canal, zone in considerable numbers, although there had been a heroic band of them throughout the trying days before the tropical terrors had been conquered. - Early in his connection with the canal Mr. Stevens discovered that practically all the material In the Cule bra cut would have to be blasted be fore it could be handled by the steam shovels. He bad to be careful in se lecting dumps so as to Insure that they would not become an obstruction to any type of canal or route that might be selected. Y Y : The high " wages 'and salaries ; for which the canal zone, Is noted originat ed uuder Mr. Stevens.. So bad a name had been given the Isthmus In the past that extra Inducements bad to be made to attract workers, free quarters, pay from 30 per cent to CO per cent higher than In the United States and a rate of $20 from New York to Colon on steamers operated by the government with other perquisites, being some, of the advertised attractions. Besides. In the latter part of Mr. Stevens regime, the' United States was enjoying unex ampled prosperity," the palmy daya be fore the panic of 1907. Mechanics and all kinds of workers' could obtain em ployment at borne at high wages and would not come to Panama unless for the nnusiinl inducements numerated, and. In addition, vacations with full L pay. sick, leave on pay and cheap food and other necessaries. V'-.vY; ' Although the French had abandoned 5 the Idea of. a sea level canal In favor ; of a lock type.1 there still was a good deal of life' In, the Idea among the American eopl. For one thing, a sea level canal was so much more easily grasped by the popular mind, and then all engineers "concede that - It is the Ideal canal where It Is practicable. In Panama division of opinion arose over this point of practicability. , A sen level canal aptly has been de scribed as "a, wide and deep passage navigable at all times, day or night, at, all seasons and i- H weathers by all sorts and sires of vessels. The lock type Involves operations not readily portrayed to the lay mind, bnt emi nently simple when seen In practical " The Walker commission of 1901 bad estimated the cost of a sea level canal at $115,000,000. The commission of j 1905 recommended sea level type to : trmt $27.000.000. Mr. Wallace later t tlmated the cost at sn level at $300.- , C00X500. exrlnsive of the $.10,000,000 ! -pakl for the canal zone and French property. . : That these American estimates should come, in the main, under the amount actually spent by the French, who lit tle more than scraped the surface, shows, for otie thlug. that the Ameri cans believed there had been gross ex travagance - and inefficiency la the French operations and, for another thing, that the Americans had no ade- ' quate grasp upon the task they were undertaking. . This same Insufficiency of estimates continued until 1908, : when Colonel Goethals faced the situ ation frankly and announced the cost for a lock type to be $373,000,000, which was far ahead of the highest estimate for a sea level canal. In 1909 Colonel Goethals said sea level canal would cost $503,000,000 and take six years longer to build than a lock canal, which was before the slides in the Culebra cut became so formidable and a sen level canal had been shown ' thereby to be all but Impossible. President Roosevelt took a charac teristic step to end the dispute. On June 21. 1905. a few days before the appointment of Mr. Stevens as chief engineer, he named an international board of advisory engineers to recom mend a type of canal. Out of this board five were foreign ers and eight ' Americans. . The board visited the Isthmus in October, 1903 and reported to the president on Jan. 10, 1900. "The majority, composed of eight engineers and comprising all of the foreigners, recommended a sea level canal. Messrs. Davis. Burr and Parsous were the three Americans who signed the majority report. The minority of five Americans recom--mended a lock type canal with a lake at elghty-flve feet above sea level form ed by a dam across the Chagres river at Gatun. They estimated the exca vation at 103.795.000 cubic yards and the cost exclusive of sanitation and civil government, at $139,705,200. Nine years, or until 1913, was the time estimated for completing the canal. There were to be three locks in Clgit at Gatun. each 05 by 100 feet usabl dimensions and on the Pacific side one lock at Pedro Miguel and two at La Boca, at the entrance, the distance be tween ' Pedro Miguel and - La Boca, eight miles, to be a second artlSclal lake. The Culebra cut was to be 200 feet wide for five miles and 300 feet wide lor four miles. Chief Engineer Stevens and all but one member of the commission con curred in the minority report. Secre tary Taft's visits to the istbrau had converted him to the. lock type, and President Roosevelt consistently had favored it. The. situation was one where the choice would be decided by the weight the president shoukl throw to either report To reject the majority report favoring a sea level canal and to ad vocate the minority report for a lock, type canal was a responsibility of un usual magnitude for an executive who professed to hate' no technical engi neering knowledge. Yet President Roosevelt made the momentous deci sion without hesitation., sending a strong message recommending the mi nority report.- . . - - Congress debated the issue until June 21, when the senate by the close vote of, 30 to 31 decided for a lock type, and on June 28 the bouse concurred, the bill becoming law ou June 29, 1C0O. Two years and two months bad pass ed frou the time the Americans came to Pauama in May, 1904t to" July I, 190G. before this decisiou was made, and at last the commission kuew what plan of canal was to be followed. - In September, 1900, Mr Stevens started the excavations In the sites for the Gatun locks, the Tedro Miguel lock and the Gatnn dam spillway. Surreys were lregun for relocating the-Panama railroad, which for a considerable dis tance would be swallowed up by the completed canal. The fifteen months' preparatory work was beginning to tell In the Increased excavations in the Culebra cut. as the organization was getting its stride. Commissaries, which sold everything the , canal employee needed, were lu operation in tbe prin cipal towns.' the hotels for the bache lors were well organised quarters had been erectetl until "all ;were housed, though at times rather crowded; ma chinery, supplies and equipment were on baud or ordered to the extent of 80 per cent of what would be needed to complete the canal, .health conditions were admirable., and the whole situa tion was shaping for the real work of bujldlns the canal. , c .. (To be Continued) : MAN CARRIED $8000 IN LEG YVYY- By Latest Mail . DENVER, Colo. An - artificial leg containing $8000, the property cf I?en rV fe: Vfise, ;fho dleci "at a hospital, la in the possession ot B. F. . V, I ward, public administrator, awa! . - t an . heir. :-' . : Wise, said to have been a we " ' -Texas oil man, was found ur.rrr.