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It is a masterful will that compresses a life
thought into a pregnant word or phrase and
wndu it ringing through the cfnturies. Wil
liam Mathews. ' '-
New occasions teach new duties, f ;;'.;
: : Time niakrs ancient good uncouth;
We must upward still and onward
Who would keep abreast the truth.
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HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII, TUESDAY, DEOEM BEK 2G, 191 G.
NINE
j LATEST ACCESSION TO
j: CIRCUIT COURT BENCH
PFAHFAI I niniiT
AFTER 50 YEARS
MEETS TROUBLES
AT PROPER TEIE
BIG ISLAND HIT
BY BIO WIS
WALDRON FAVORS 10 REVISIT HOSIE
NEV CONTRACTOR
HEALTH VORK ON
WHS PRAISED
HA1SEH
rtf
HILO. Dec 22. Notwithstanding
the tremendous rains of this week, the
drainage canal through the Walolama
- swamp hai been able to take care of
the water and convey It to the sea,
iSiigtneer Wheeler spent all day Mon
day In the heavy rain. Inspecting the
canal and other parts of the filled-ln
wwamn. Wheeler says that he was
delighted to see how the canal took
care of the water and he also com
men ted upon the fact that the reclaim
d Dortion of the swamp shed the wa
ter well and se.it It down to the tig
ditrh.
The 'heavy rains of the early part of
the ween flooded other parts of the
town, and there was much water to
be seen everywhere on Monday last
However, the wakuama swamp,
through- the eood work of the new
canal, showed but little effects from
the downpour or rain.
At. the Four Miles bridge on the
Volcano road there was as usual a
tremendous amount of waiter .backed
up and there must have been a depth
of four feet or more of water over the
bridge. The bridge was threatened
with destruction early in the day and
only for some wires that were attached
to It the structure would surely have
; been washed away. As it was, the
bridge keeled over at an angle and was
only held by the wires.
Many people who were on the Olaa
side of the flooded bridge had to pro
ceed to Eight Miles and there leave
their automobiles and take the train
for town.1 On the Hilo aide there were
many country people stranded and, as
In some instances, they lived beyond
the Fifteen Miles station, they had to
stay in town as the railroad track was
washed out at that point
The Wailuku river ran higher than
it has been seen for some years and
a tremendous volume of .water came
down the gulch, The Island above the
bridge was almost all submerged but
when the .water was at its highest
there as still a small patch of rock
to be en above the raging river.
There were some washouts along
the government road towards Ha
mskua, and small landslides also .hap
pened nt some points along the lne.
Xr heavy sea , ran along tne coast
and. steamers were unable to work at
the plantation landings.- .In the konas
there aa some rain and: a big thun
derstorm on Tuesday last' . : -V.
PROSPERITY BLAMED FOR -,v
.EPIDEMIC OF GAMBLING
SprUi Fut-Bn'iUy CompondBC)
WAILUKU,. Maul, Dec 27. The
county of Maui profited from planta
tion bonus money to the extent ol
nearly $1000 during the . past week.
It came in the shape of tines and
forfeited cash bail of Beveral doxen
Oriental gamblers taken in the police
dragnets. Most of the. raids were
made In the camps of the Puunene
plantation, where it is said some big
games have been in progress lately.
With the unwonted prosperity of
plantation laborers at present, due to
the heavy bonuses being distributed,
rambling Is said to be flourishing all
over the territory as never before and
stories of big winnings are to be
beard. One Japanese from Puunene,
who had gotten a little stake of about
1100 from his hoe hanahana, shook
tie bones to such good result that he
aa swelling around early in the week
with $600 in his- pockets. Then he
started for Honolulu to take a steamer
to Japan, but at L&haina be lost his
entire-pile In less than half a day
when he encountered some fellow
countrymen a little smarter or luckier
. than he.
JAPANESE HONOR
AVIATRIX STINSON
TOKIO, Japan. Dec. 24. Miss Cath
erine Stinson, the American aviatrix,
was yesterday presented with a gold
medal the gift of. the City of Tokio.
Since arriving here Miss Stinson has
made three successful flights.
In addition to the medal the bird
woman has received a check from
Princess Kanin and has been the
guest of honor at three dinners given
by businessmen and members of the
Japanese Women's Association." ,'';':'.
GT GATJTIC REVSPAPEIl TRUST IS TOLD
WHEW JOURNALISTS ENTER QUARREL
" VIENNA, Austria. "Concordia,"
a journalistic association of Crans,
consisting of German-writing news
paper men of Bohemia, Salzburg
and the Tyrol, has involved itself in
a bitter controversy, and in doing so
is throwing some interesting side
lights on the newspaper situation in
Austria by. charging that a definite
effort is being made to assemble the
press of Vienna in. a gigantic trust
Privy Councillor Sleghart of one of
the largest, of the Vienna banks is the
man the "Concordia" is fighting, and
the Journalists claim he, not content
-with controlling a large part of the
Vienna papers, is now trying to extend
nis sphere of influence to Bohemia
and the Tyrol. The control Is being
exerted, they claim, through the banks,
and they want the new government
to take a hand In the interests of a
free and independent press.
Privy Councillor Sieghart, when the
attack on him opened, defended him
self vigorously and in a communica
(Rprll SUr BulUtin Corrrondnc)
HILO, Dec. 22. "I believe," said
Fred I Waldron the other day. "that
something more should be done to
amuse the tourist when he or she is
in the islands. It is all very well to
get the tourists to come to Hawaii,
take in the sights and then leave for
the mainland again. What I would
like to see would be something in the
amusement line that would keep the
visitors here longer and make them
all happier while they are here."
"Tourists," continued the j well
known Honolulu man," are always on
the lookout for amuRements. They
are accustomed to have a good time
wherever they go in their vacation
time. If the Hawaii Promotion Com
mittee would take up the home am
usement part of the matter. T think
there would be more contented tour
ists and that they would remain for
& longer period in Hawaii than they
now do.
I would suggest that a big amuse
ment hall or pier, where dancing
could be indulged in at any old time,
would be appreciated by the tourists.
People like to dance and there should
be some place where they could fox
trot or bunny-bug to their heart's con
tent. Amusement features should be
provided so that time would not hang
heavily on the bands of the visitors."
Waldron came to Hllo on the Ki
nau last Sunday morning in order to
be on hand to meet the steamship
Great Northern, for which he is the
Honolulu agent. He wanted especial
ly to meet Mr. O. D. Jackson, general
manager of the steamship company,
and Mr.; Koeppel, who is the agent
for the company in Los Angeles, both
the mainlanders are accompanied by
their families and they are making
the round trip in the Great Northern.
FORT BUILDINGS
AH old buildings at Fort De Russy
madv) useless with the erection of
new and modern ones for officers and
men will ,be demolished in a very
short tilde, according to word at the !
office of the constructing quartermaster..-;
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: When the wrecking work starts, the
cost artillery post for a short time will
look as if a hurricane has hit; it in
spots, for the old structures are to
come down in a urry.
- Screens have already arrived for
the officers' residences and as soon
as they have been installed the work
of demolishing the ancient buildings
will begin. :
MAGISTRATE DEMURS IN
ACTION FOR DAMAGES
Special Stkr-Bnllctin Gorrtipondence)
WAILUKU, -Maul, Dec. 25. On be
half of District Magistrate Joseph G.
An jo of Makawao, County Attorney
Bevins has filed a demurrer to the
complaint ot Dang Nam in the latter's
suit for $5000 damages, which he
claims to have suffeied through hav
ing had his person searched for opi
um on November . 7. The-demurrer
holds that the action against the mag
istrate !b not t arranted. The case
will probably come up after the first
of the year before Judge Edings,
Considerable interest attaches to the
case. The plaintiff Dang alleges in
his complaint that he was arrested
by Police Officer Joseph Morris on a
John loo search watrant, issued by
Judge An jo and subjected to the in
dignity ct having his clothing gone
through in the presence of a gaping
crowd. No opium was brought to
light and the damage suit follows.
Eugene Murphy is attorney for Dang.
PROMINENT NEW YORK
FINANCIER IS DEAD
NEW YORK. N Y, Dec. 25. Col.
Frederick Lawrence, financier and
capitalist and president of the New
York Stock Exchange, died here yes
terday. tion to the new Koerber ministry de
clared, first, that he is not an owner
of a large part ot the Vienna press;
second, that he has no intentions on
the press of Bohemia and the Tyrol,
and, thirdly, that he never had any
Intention to create a newspaper trust
"Concordia" "returned to the attack
with another communication to Koer
ber, in which the association declared
the Councillor Sieghart controlled the
Vienna Fruendenblatt and its ad
juncts, the Military Press, the Vidette,
the Vienna Mittagzeitung, the Vienna
Allgemeine Zeitung, the Illustrierte
Wiener Extrablatt the Neue Wiener
Tagblatt the Austrian Volkszeitung
and the Vienna Achtuhr Abendblatt
As to Bohemia and the AyroL "Con
cordia" enumerated the purchase or
control, through the Sieghart bank,
one Prague dally paper and seven
provincial papers papers which are
financially bound up with many others
in Salzbury, the Tyrol and upper Austria.-.
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TEAR DO 'I OLD
Advices Teceived from the mainland
state that Benjamin F. Pitman of I.
P. Hollander & Company of Boston is
,to revisit Hawaii after an absence of
nearly i years. . .: -
, As gome will remember. Pitman is
part Hawaiian, a son of Chiefess Ki
noole. She was a daughter of Hoolu-
jlu, a famous chief in the time of Ka-
. mehameha the Great
i Hoolulu and L'lumaheibel (after
wards converted to Christianity and
renamed Hoapili-Kane by the mission
aries, and first. governor of Maui) took
the body of Kamehameha at his death
and hid it in the caves at Kaloka fish
ponds, according to Hawaiian custom
with great chiefs.
The Chiefess KInoole who married
Benjamin Pitman, senior, lived for
many years in a mansion on the spoj
where the Hilo Hotel now stands.
Pitman, is a first cousin of the late
George Beckley, for many years pur
ser and director with the Inter-island
Steamship Company. Beckley '8 moth
er was Kinoikl, sister of Chiefess KI
noole. Pitman and a party of nine
friends expect to arrive at the end of
January In Honolulu. They will' go
to Hilo February 1 on the Matsonia,
where he expects to spend several
days looking up friends and descend
ants of his people. ;
As a Christmas gift to the Korean
Girls' Seminary, Dr. Syngman Rhee,
principal of the institution, has re
ceived from Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Dil
lingham a check for $1000 to start a
fund, of $8000 for the erection of -a
nev donnHory which will accommo
date -100 girls. - .
The gift, was made Sunday. On
Saturday Campus Day" was held at
the seminary, at which time a number
of Korean men cleared a portion of
the school premises in. Puunui on
which it is proposed to erect the new
structure. Since the founding of the
seminary the work hasgrtin so rap
idly that a new dormitory is now im
perative and Doctor Rhee feels he will
have littleor.no difficulty in securing
the balance kof the needed, fund; which
the XDIIlIiighams ' have so -generously
started: ' -, . '- .
SCRAP IRON TAKES
ON. NEW VALUES AND
IS EAGERLY SOUGHT
(8pecUl SUr-Bulletln Corretpoodenea)
HILO, Dec. .22. Scrap iron seems
to be on the move nowadays. The
remnants of better days on the vari
ous plantations and villages are be
ing bought up and shipped to Hono
lulu, and thence to the mainland, in a
manner that shows how the war in
creases the value of any old kind of
iron...'-: :v.
The steamship Kaiulanl of the Inter-Island
fleet left yesterday for Ho
nolulu with a load of scrap Iron and
firewood. - The iron will eventually
find its way to Europe, it is surmised,
but the firewood will be disposed of
by the Honolulu housewives. '
Then there was the steamship Nil
hau, which sailed from Keauhou yes
terday 'with sttll mora scrap ; Iron.
The . iron will probably be bunched
with that from the Kaiulanl and be
forwarded to Europe via the United
States, but the rest of the cargo,
which consists of cattle, will, without
doubt, go the way of all flesh, via the
butcher shop route in Honolulu.
RAILROAD PROBLEM SEEMS
NEAR AMICABLE SOLUTION
(Assocltttd PrM by Federal Wireles)
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 24. Con
ferences which may solve the problem
of the railroad trainmen's eight-hour
law and the Adamson act will begin
here next week.
Representatives of the four big
brotherhoods of. railroad trainmen, en
gineers, firemen and conductors, and
the executive heads of all the roads in
volved in the threatened strike early
this year will meet at the conference.
Chairman Lee of the men's com
mitee stated yesterday that the
brotherhoods were confident of an
amicable agreement being reached by
January 1, before the supreme court
could decide on the constitutionality
of the eight-hour law and before Con
gress could act on the Compulsory
Arbitration BilL 1
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
.OF AIRMAN FROM DEATH
(Aewitted Preni Federal WireleV
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 2 .
Lyman Doty; a well known aviator,
while flying over the exposition
grounds yesterday afternoon, fell
from a height of more than 500 feet
and wrenched his ankle and suffered
a slight cut over one eye. High and
variable wind was the cause of the
accident. !
NAMES TAX ON SAKE
Ralph Johnstone of the internal
revenue office Saturday sent out let
ters to sake brewers and dealers in
forming them that the tax on sake is
to be 10 cents a gallon as from Decem
ber 22. A cable last night from Wash
ington set the date on which the new
classification should become effective.-':
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forddrSry
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Judge James L. Coke, recently
named by President "Wilson as
third judge of the first circuit on
Oahu. He will handle the crimi
nal calendar next. year.
AT EXAMINATION
L Because ther laborers are afraid to
take tne physical examination re
quired by the board of health before
commencing work on the Maole ditch
and tunnel project. Hillebrand Glen,
J. C. PIcanco and Frank Gomes, con
tractors, are facing unexpected diffi
culties. -..V , '." '
The contractorshafe,isked for a
special meeting of the loan fund to con
sider their case, and it is Jikely that
one will be called early this week.
"We had 25 men ready for that Job,"
declares Gomes, "but they soon got
scared nt the mention of a physical ex
amination. They do not like the idea
of going before .z. doctor. So far as I
know no such requirement was ever
made of a contractor before."
It is laid that there is a clause in
the contract whereby the commission
is allowed to grant the use qf non-citizen
labor in case of emergency, and
the contractors may ask this privilege
at the meeting. v
IN VAR ARENA
BRITAIN TO CENSOrt NEWS
OF STEAMER CASUALTIES
NEW YORK, Dec. 24. It is esti
mated that the British losses in her
merchant marine now total 12 per
cent of her available bottoms at the
outbreak of the war. A total of 435
steamers have been lost in various
ways, - eacU. of a tonnage averaging
over 1600. -: . '
Word was received here yesterday
from London that all shipping agen
cies and periodicals printing or send
ing cut marine reports have been
notified that no information will be
given out in the future of Lthe sailing
of ships to. and from England and En
tente ports. The . only exceptions to
this rule will be in the case of vessels
which meet with disaster. :
HOLLAND TO SELL FOOD
SUPPLIES TO GERMANY
LONDON, Eng., Dec. 2",. Holland
has signed a treaty with Germany to
supply certain provisions to the ' Teu
ton nation, according to a Central
News despatch from Amsterdam.
Eggs, milk and fruit are the three
commodities included in the treaty,
which Holland agrees to supply to her
neighbor.. '
AUSTRIA BANS LUXURIES
VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 2 5.-rT he re
cently enacted law forbidding the im
portation of luxuries became effective
yesterday. The object of the measure
is to prevent the exportation of
money, which is sadly needed at
home. , j . ' -
WEDDING !n"tHE TOMBS
r. : ' ' ; " . ;"' . ' .
rWnrUted Pres by Federal Wirelep
TUSLA, Okla Dec. 25. Albert Pat
rick, the attorney who three times
was sentenced to die in the electric
chair at Sing Sing for the alleged mur
der of William Rice, and who was
finally pardoned by the governor of
New York, yesterday announced his
engagement to Mildred West, daugh
ter of a well known oil operator here.
Patrick's first marriage was to the
woman .who had been his landlady
and who stuck to him through thick
and thin The wedding ceremony w as
performed in the Tombs, New York.
Dr. John Palcolm Sha w was form
ally Inaugurated president of, Elmira.
College for Women. : -
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fSprll SUr BulMio CorrponJen,)
I HILO, Dec. 22. It would appear as
if the troubles of the new handler of
the Hil j breakwater contract are be
ginning for on Sunday last he lost
a scowload of rock which was on
its way from Waipio to Hilo. it is
reportel from the Waipio quarry that
a scow that was being loaded there
bumped Ibe bottom of the little bay
and must have sustained a puncture
which later on resulted In the scow
. becoming waterlogged. Then, encoun
tering bad weather coming along the
Hamakua coast, the scow bucked about
until ner load was thrown Into the
sea; The scow is now said to he wa
terlogged in Hilo bay.
The bad weather of the last week
would have made it Impossible, any
how, to load or transport rock, and
the new contractor is now experienc-1
ing some of the troubles that Contract
or Marshall had to contend with for a
. long time. -. ; "
j Mr. George. Marshall, Sr left for
, Honolulu in Moiday last and his fam
ily will follow about the end of, this
monih. ' . -:
(Associated Pre by Federal Wirle)
f WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec 25.
The state and war department alike
now have official confirmation of the
reports that the Villista bandits have
driven the Carranza troops out of the
most important of the north Mexico
cities, Torreon.
No details have been received, fur
ther than that the foreigners living in
the city were given an opportunity to
leave before the occupation.
Despatches from ' El Paso confirm
the statement by the' state depart
ment. ' ' '.'''.'' "; '"' ::
SHINGLE BACKS UP
STATEMENTS-MADE BY
OUTDOOR CIRCLE WOMEN
That Charles R, Frazier, owner of
the Pioneer Advertising Company, was
offered $5000 for his billboard busi
ness by. the Outdoor! Circle and . that
he refused it, demanding $15,000, Is
the statement of Robert W. Shingle,
through whom the negotiations "were
carried on. During a recent contro
versy over billboards Fraxler denied
that he had been offered $5000.. Shin
gle, who was away at the time, has
now returned and substantiates the
claim of the Outdoor Circle that the
offer was made.
Shingle says that the offer was
made April 12, 1916, and when Frai
ler refused it, he then suggested that
an arbitration committee be appointed
to obtain the valuation of the bill
board plant. The negotiations occu
pied considerable time and finally
nothing was done as the ladies scat
tered for the summer.
GARDNER TO FIGHT
HOUSE LEADER'S POLICY
JAwMwUted Pre by Ftdrl Wirele .
WASHINGTON, D C Dec. 25.
Marked agitation in the ranks of the
Republican party in the lower bouse
for a conference which would outline
a definite plan for constructive action
has at last taken definite form.
Representative Gardner of Massa
chusetts announced last night that he
intends to Beek at once for a confer
ence of the Republican leaders in the
house in an effort to formulate the
party policies for the session.
Mr. Gardner, who has been in
strong opoosition to Republican House
Leader Mann of Illinois, declared that
his latest move has nothing whatever
to do with that opposition, which,' he
says, Is based upon; the belief that
Mann represents "Pnisslanism in In
ternational affairs, j
It is, as a matter of fact," said
the Massachusetts solon, "high time
for the party to be ; planning for the
adoption of really progressive ideas.
It is with this idea In mind that I
have begun the work of calling a con
ference which will at least enable
those of us who are bent on making
progress instead of standing still, to
voice our views.. :
MANY FILIPINOS ARE
SEEKING CITIZENSHIP
r -t
. (Speiel SUr-Bnlleiin Corrernondenee) '
WAILUKU, Maui, Dec. 24. During
the past two or three weeks a total
of 120 Filipinos have taken out their
first papers of naturalization before
Clerk V. C. Schoenberg of the 2d Clr
cuit court, and there are some 400
others hoping to- get into the same
class before the first of the year. AH
of . them are members of National
Guard companies; and in order to re
main so they must declare their in
tention to become American citizens.
Whether the 400 will be accommo
dated during the next week or not de
pends upon whether or not the Na
tional Guard authorities can secure
half a j dozen assistants to aid Clerk
Schoenberg in the large amount of
clerical work involved.
The Dublin, Ireland, metropolitan
police -are agitating for a substantial
increase of pay as well as a war
bonus, to date f from the outbreak of,
the war. ;: j
TORREON TAKEN
BY VILLA BAND
V
. (Speeia! Star Bal1ti Corretpoadence)
WAILUKU. Maui. Dec. 21. Partic
ularly gratifying to Maui are the state
ments made by Dr. J. S. B. Pratt,
president of the board of health, who
spent several days" this week on a
general Cnsection of health conditions
of this Island. Dr. Pratt had been
precede ibr several days by. Dr. U I
Patterson, the board's expert In
charge f tuberculosis, work,, and by
M. li. . Pairos. asabtant food commis
sioner, who had been investigating In
their own special lines preparatory to
his comjng. r
Praises Sanitarium
Dr. .Pratt was particularly warm In
his praise of the work being done at
the Kula Sanitarium. He and Dr. Pat
terson are a unit in declaring the Kala
district to be most eminently adapted
lo the treatment of the great white
plasue of perhaps any place in the ter
ritory, ,md they are equally enthusi
astic over what has been accomplish
ed by Dr. Darney and the sanitarium
board of managers in the past few
years. With the J recently installed
ice and electric olant in good running
order, a big- ila.ry herd, and plenty of
land on which to raise produce for the
institucioo. the Honolulu official see
a bright ruture for Mauis fight against
the destructive malady.
Work on School Starts
Dr. Piatt ;waj particularly pleased
with th'3 progress of the children of
the InstHution, for whom school class
es are iiow Jnaintained. Material for
a new school building is at present on
the ground. : ' 1 .
In his tour of the plantations by au
tomobile, Dr. Pratt noted very exten
sive new construction, and generally
a satisfactory condition of camp sani
tation. The big new water filtration
system of the Hawaiian Commercial &
Sugar Company is probably one of the
most striking illustrations of the tri
umph of science over disease. Since
the camps of the big plantation have
been supplied with Mtered water, ty
phoid f"ver; has almost disappeared,
where before that tlw hospital was
constantly caring ; for sufferers from
this disease;
Wailuku Now Safe
The Wailuku water supply is now
pronounced : safe by the . health au
thorities since there are now 'no resi
dences In lad Valley above the intake.
In a few week3 more the Intake will
be located Still further up the stream
where contamination will be even less
likely. j"- '.-. -,-vr,r
COULTER CANVASES TO
BE SOLD AT AUCTION 1
AT NOON ON THURSDAY
A lar?e number of, oil paintings by
W. A. Coulter, the California artist,
will be put up at public auction Thurs
day noon in the gallery, 10C1 Alakea
street, where he is now showing his
canvases. Ir. Coulter's work is well
known and;' appreciated in Hawaii and
it is expected that the attendance at
the sale will be large. A number of
his fine marine views are already in
Honolulu homes and many others in
California private4 galleries.
The gallery' hero, which is in the
Kerr building, will be open from 9:30
a. m. to 5: p. m dally and tomorrow
evening al 7 o'clock.
CELLULOID FACTORY FIRE
CLAIMS HEAVY TOLL
(SpecUl CMe to Nippu Jiji) .
TOKIO JaDan. Dec. 25. A big fire
broke out yesterday following an ex-1
plosion In the factory of the Mikuni
Celluloid Manufacturing Company in
Osaka. The factory, several ware
houses of the company and 44 houses j
surrounding the factory were destroy-'
ed. Missionaries In Osaka and other
cities are doing their best to help the
victims and. families of the dead. ,
NEW 1M10N '
LIGHTWEIGHT IS
The first shipment of the new Mar
mon ".34" to arrive in Honolulu came
today on the Manoa to the local
agency, Ables-Hertsche Company, Ltd.
" More than ever before weight is a
feature which attracts a great amount
of attention from the motoring public.
People who buy the costlier makes of
cars know from experience that, as a
rule, the! cars are very heavy and
very expensive to operate and main
tain. The Marmon 34 Is practically 1100
pounds lighter than any other car of
equal size and power of the same
class. It Is Interesting to note just
where this saving lies, that is to take
various parts of the car and show
where these parts are lighter than cor
responding parts in other cars.
As an example, the Marmon 3
motor weighs altogether about 700
pounds. The average six-cylinder mo
tor of the same class will weigh about
1100 pounds, while, as a general rule,
the same powered motor, with 12 cylin
ders weighs about 1200 pounds. .
The Marmon 34 frame Is about the
same weight as the frame of any other
car of the same class, but the Mar
mon Is different in that the frame as
sembly includes the running boards,
running board brackets, side shields,
fenders, supports, etc., which are not
included in an ordinary frame and
which on the usual car would make
.Muinjns vi nu3neis ci wneat are ly
ing In Australian iorts, badly needed
in Kngland. but lacking transporu
tion: all wool in the southern do
minion has been taken .over by the
government, which fixes its own
price; over 100.009 Australians are
somewhere in Africa and Fmnce fight
ing for their king; labor difficulties
are becoming frightful and despite all
this Australians who want peace sty
"when the proper time comes."
Colin Campbell, a wealthy sheep
man and wheat' grower of New 8outh
Wates. is here for his first visit, tak
iug a much neded vacation in com
pany with John F'aulkner of Sydney.,
They go to Hilo this afternoon. Camp
bell controls several thousand acre
of grazing and farmloj; land and
frnn a o n-rio If Id 4a ni til KAlitAA
over to the governineitt, but does not
nnmla In
"We hive to sacrifice something."
n A i
Wneat which Campbell could have
sold to private concerns for ft or
more a bushel goes tQ the govern
ment for about 6o cents and - then
can not be shipped; wool, wbtch U
selling privately ror as much as
cents a pound, is bringing much less
from the government; laborers ;are
striking and there is a probanllity ot
government interference, so Camp
bell came here for a rest '
mutual any
REDUCES RATES
big reduction of ; the wireless
rates between the islands has been
announced by the Mutual'Telephone
Company following a meeting, lasi
week of the directors. The new rates
will go Into effect January l.
The pew schedule abolishes the
minimum charge of J1.50 for straight
messages, permitting the senlinj'if
one word for 15 cents. , The chargw
of 0 cents a word for code massages
has been reduced to 23 cenU nd the
minimum rate cf U.50 abolished, and
the night radio messages, nermittlnj
24 words, will cost 51 Instead cf flO,
and the charge for each extra word t
cents Instead of 5 cents.
CHINESE TROOPS FOIL -TEUTON
ATTEMPT TO CLOV;
UP RUSSIAN RAILROAD
(SptcUl CbU to llawaU HocM)
TOKIO, Japan, Dec 21. A band of
80 German soldiers, dressed In civil
Ian clothes, attempted to blow up a
section of the Trans-Siberian Railway
at Hairal, Mongolia, yesterday, ac
cording to despatches from Harbin.
The point of attack is near the Rus
sian frontier. , ,
The sudden, appearance of such a
large armed force of Germans at this
point created a sensation. The dyna
miters were attacked by Chlse3e
troops and routed.' None was cap
tured. '..-' "
It is believed that the Germans are
all members of a party of 1000 or more
that escaped from Tsingtau before the
city was captured by the Japanese.
Russian officials here freely stats
that they suspect the plot to dynamite
the railroad and hamper the shipment
of munitions and supplies from Japan
to the Russian front was hatched by
German consular officials in China.
Korean bandits who succeeded in
damaging a part of the Eastern China
Railway Friday are suspected of work
ing in cooperation with the Germans.
A novel fan' that resembles the fami
liar electric affair is driven by a hot
'air engine in its base, gas or dena
tured alcohol being the fuel used.
REACHES CITY;
STRONG FEATURE
the total weight considerably greater.
The rear axle of the Marmon 34
weighs about 630 pounds, including
the transmission. The weight of this
rear system is partially unsprung
weight and partially sprung weight,
so that by mounting the transmission
at the front end of the rear system,
the unsprung weight is reduced to an
absolute minimum. ; The vast advan
tage which accrues from lightness of
unsprung parts Js apparent when you
consider that with every irregularity
of the road the parts below the
springs jump npward with a hammer
like blow, the force of which is direct
ly proportional to the weight - With
the ordinary car, when the UOO or
1200-pound weight of the rear system
strikes up against the springs, it de
livers a heavy blow, which must be
felt by. the passengers in the rear
seat, no matter how perfect the spring
or shock absorber ; action may be.
This-light weight of -unsprung parts is
one of the most Important features of
Marmon easy riding.
The fenders on the . Marmon 34
weigh about seven pounds apiece,
against 23 to 50- pounds on the ordi
nary car. The principal advantage of
this saving of weight, in addition to
the Intrinsic weight saved,' :1a tne re
duced strain on frame and brackets
and the elimination of considerauie
vibration, v : ' ." . . " ; v. " .