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kVOL. XXVH., NO. 4881.
HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, THURSDAY, MAKCU 31, 1898.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
J. Q. WOOD,
Attorney at Law.
AND
NOTARY PUBLIC.
OFFICE: Corner King and Bethel
Streets.
im. c. r. high,
Dentist.
.Philadelphia Dental College 1892.
Masonic Temple. Telephone 318.
A. C. WALL, D. D. S.
Dentist.
IjOVE BUILDING, : FORT STREET.
M. E. GIIOSSMAX, D.D.S.
Dentist-
S8 HOTEL STREET, HONOLULU.
Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
DE, A. J. DERBY,
Dentist.
CORNER FORT AND HOTEL STS.
MOTT-SMITH BLOCK.
Telephones: Office, 615; Residence, 789.
HOURS: 9 to 4.
GrEO. II. IIUDDY, D.D.S.
Dentist.
FORT STREET, OPPOSITE CATHO
LIC MISSION.
Hours: From 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
DR. M. WACHS.
Dentist.
University of California.
Beretania near Fort street.
Office Hours: 9 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 4
p. so.
DR. WEDDICK.
Beretania and Alapai Streets, near
Pumping Station.
Office Hours: 9 to 11 a. m.; 1 to 3 p.
in.; 7 tc 8 p. m.; Sunday, 9 to 10
a. m.
C. L. GARVIN, M.D.
Office: With Dr. F. R. Day, Bere
tania Street, near Fort.
Office Hours: 1 to 4 p. m.
Residence Telephone, No. 448.
DR. OWEN PAGET.
Office: Masonic Temple.
Office hours: 10-1, 3-5, 7-8.
Telephone No. 786.
Private residence: 6S0 King street.
Telephone No. 326.
THE HONOLULU SANITARIUM.
1082 KING ST.
A quiet home-like place, where train
ed nurses, massage, "Swedish move
ments," baths, electricity and physical
training may be obtained.
P. S. KELLOGG, M.D.,
Telephone 639. Supt.
CHAS. F. PETERSON,
Attorney at Law.
AND
NOTARY PUBLIC.
15 Kaahumanu St.
IiYIiE A. DICKEY,
Attorney at Law.
14 KAAHUMANU STREET.
. Telephone, 682.
william c. parke,
Attorney at Law.
AND
AGENT TO TAKE ACKNOWLEDG
MENTS. Office: Kaahumanu St., Honolulu.
O. a. TRAPIIAGEX,
"ARCHITECT.
223 Merchant Street between Fort
and Alakea.
Telephone 734.
Honolulu, H. I.
' P. O. Box
480
Telephone
478
New and First-Class
SECOND-HAND FURNITURE
' OP ALL KINDS
SOLD CHEAP FOR CASH.
Elgh"rt Cash Price paid for Second-Hand
F-arnitareat XL Corn8r King
, V and Bauann Streets.
Do Not Buy
Or Sell
Stocks or Bonds
Without Employing
a Broker.
Our chage3 are well known and we
adhere strictly to them.
There Is a chance that we can save
some money for you.
Hawaiian Safe Deposit and
Investment Company.
GEORGE R. CARTER, Manager.
Office in rear or Bank of Hawaii. Ltl.
SPECIAL BUSINESS ITEMS.
IF YOU BUY A SINGER,
You will receive careful Instruction
from a competent teacher at your
home.
You can obtain necessary accessories
direct from the company's offices.
You will get prompt attention in any
part of the world, as our offices are ev
erywhere and we give careful attention
to all customers, no matter where the
machine may have been purchased.
You will be dealing with the leading
company in the sewing machine busi
ness, having an unequalled experience
and an unrivalled reputation the
strongest guarantee of excellence.
Sold on easy payments. Repairing
done. B. BERGERSEN, Agent. .
1612 Bethel Street, Honolulu.
The City Carriage Company possess
only first-class hacks and employ only
careful, steady drivers.
Carriages at all hours.
Telephone 113.
JOHN S. ANDRADE.
GUIDE
THROUGH
U HAWAII.
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
FOR SALE BY ALL NEWSDEALERS
WOMAN'S EXCHANGE.
215 Merchant St.
HAWAIIAN CURIOS Leis, ' Kapa,
Niihau Mats, Calabashes, Idols, Fans,
Shells, Seeds, etc., etc.
SAMOAN TAPAS, Carved Emu
Eggs, Hula Drums, Gourds, etc., etc.
Point Lace Handkerchiefs, Doylies,
Fayal work and Hawaiian Dolls.
Telephone 659.
DR. GEO. J. AUGUR.
Homcepatiiic Practitioner and
Surgeon.
Special attention Given to Chronic
Diseases.
Richards street, near Hawaiian hotel.
Office and Residence the same.
Office hours: 10 to 12 a. m.; 3 to 4
p. m.; 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays 9:20 to
10:30 a. m. Telephone 733.
M. W. McCHESNEY & SONS.
Wholesale Grocers and Dealers in Leather and
Shoe Findings.
Agents Honolulu Soap Works Company
find Honolulu Tannerv.
The World Renown
MONITOR SAFES
$30 TO $200.
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H. E. WALKER,
Masonic Temple. AGENT.
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FOUNDRY TO MOVE
The -Iron Wort to Have Six Acres
Id Kaiaak
AH EXTENSION OF PLANT
May Have Marine Railway New
Large Buildings Something
About Heavy Operations.
The city district which has so long con
tained the site of the Honolulu Iron
Works will soon be minus the smoke from
the furnaces, the reports of the hot blast
ings, the hum of the machinery and the
wild clanging of the hammers. This great
industrial plant of the mid-Pacific is to
be moved. Negotiations for new land
have been under way for several weeks.
Mr. Swanzy, the vice-president of the
company, said last evening that the trans
action would in all likelihood be closed
today. Further than this he would not
proceed when asked for information.
It is learned that the Honolulu Iron
Works Company has secured from the
B. P. Bishop Estate six acres of land in
Kakaako on a long lease said to be fifty
years. It is understood that the company
will secure the prize it has so long covet
eduse of harbor front, with the priv
ilege of having its own marine railway
and coffer dam on the premises. The
Bishop Estate land at deep water is mau-
ka immediately of the Healani boat house.
The location chosen is in every way admir
ably adapted to the uses of the Iron
Works Company. It offers the advantage
of the most economical handling of the
enormous amount of shipping repair trade
that has grown up during the past few-
years and that is increasing constantly.
Another great feature for the company
will be that its great cargoes of material
can be landed at the storage yards. This
alone will save thousands of dollars an
nually. The Iron Works Company is one
of the best patrons the drayage concerns
have.
Every effort had been made by the Iron
Works people to use the small space at
the old stand. But the business has sim
ply extended beyond the proportions of
the place. In Kakaako there will be built
large structures after the style experience
has proven will be best suited to the ex
act work of the company. I.i providing
these buildings there will be expended lit
erally fortunes in material and labor. An
army of men will be employed in con
struction work. It is said to be the set
tled purpose to move to the new place
without unnecessary delay. For a long
time the Iron Works people have been
cramped at the present compound. From
time to time small bits of ground have
been secured from adjoining possessions
and within a very few months new build
ings of considerable size have been add
ed. This new turn of the Iron Works will
have a marked effect in several direc
tions in Honolulu. It is anticipated that
a new residence district will appear. Thu
force of men will be increased. More
work will come, as it will be advertised
all over the world that the largest ships
afloat can be repaired in Honolulu. In
all likelihood the plant will be so extend
ed in the new location that vessels of
considerable size can be built right in
Honolulu. Freight from the East will be
as cheap as San Francisco concerns en
joy. As was pointed out by Theo. H. Davieu
in his address recently at the annual din
ner of the Iron Works employes, the es
tablishment is largely a local concern.
Mr. Davies is the president, F. M. Swanzy
is vice-president. Other local stockhold
ers are W. G. Irwin, John F. Hackfeld
and Castle & Cooke. The three widow
ladies living abroad mentioned by Mr.
Davies in his speech as owning stock in
the concern are Mrs. Greene, Mrs. Janion
and Mrs. Perry.
What was probably the largest, heaviest
and most interesting casting made at the
Honolulu Iron Works this year, was
drawn yesterday. Every man about the
place was anxious concerning the job.
Spectators still more nervous about the
casting were officials of the Wilder Steam
ship Company. The great weight ta.ken
from the mold w-hich has been a full
month in preparation was a piece of ma
chinery for the steamer Kinau, the larg
est, finest and fastest boat of the Wilder
fleet of inter-island packets. Chief En
gineer Johnson discovered the serious
break in the high pressure cylinder while
the vessel was alongside. Had the Kinau
been at sea there would have been not a
little trouble in running her with the
low pressure cylinder alone. It might
be explained that high and low pressure
cylinders mean the double expansion sys
tem. The steam is used twice. Its ini
tial force is applied from the high (44-
inch) and its secondary force from the
low (24-inch) pressure cylinder, with 36-
inch stroke. Mr. Johnson who has charge
of all the machinery for the company and
who for the past two years has been
most of the time at the Coast overlooking
the construction of new steamers, found
the break in the cylinder in the regular
course of inspection. The flaw was more a
natural wear than anything else. The
piece had been in use fifteen years. Tha
contract for casting a new cylinder was
given without delay to the Iron Works
Company from figures made by Manager
Hedeman and head Accountant Kennedy.
Since the order was accepted the Iron
Works Company has kept a number of its
most skillful men on tie job night and
day. The men take the keenest interest
in an affair of this sort. The critical
climax comes on the day of casting. If a
single mold is placed wrong, if the stream
from the cupalo is too hot or too cold, if
there is a sudden turn of the weather,
if there is the most trifling carelessness
anywhere, the entire work, involving sev
eral thousand dolhys, may be a total
failure. This big casting looked all right
yesterday and the men who had made it
a part of their lives for four weeks were
confident that it would prove successful.
Besides the manager and his immediate
lieutenants, the heads of .three depart
ments at the Iron Works are important
men, with great responsibility, in a mat
ter of this character. First the patterns
are made. In this room, H. C. Reid is
the veteran foreman. His establishment
is a line art carpenter shop and wood
working mill. He and his men make,
from blueprints, the castings for the
molds. California redwood is the favored
material. Thos. Smith is the chief of
the molders. Everyone knows that the
Iron Works Company imports a lot of
sand for molding. The large majority of
people are under the impression that when
a pattern is ready, this sand, perhaps
slightly moistered, is packed around the
form, that then the form is withdrawn
and the molten metal poured in. Well,
the sand is only a portion of the mold
composition. Every, year the Iron Works
Company uses tons of flour and thousands
of gallons of molasses to mix with the
imported sands for molding. Once made
the molds are baked in a huge oven and
then faced with plumbago. They are
then almost like iron. Mr. Smith looks
after all this, and much more. This
new high pressure cylinder will weigh
out in the neighborhood of four tons. To
be certain of enough metal, with several
technical allowances, the head molder had
fiy- ton? of iron melted up for the run.
It was picked scrap, too. Qld castings
are smashed up down there in rather a
primitive wray. They are, laid out under
a tripod derrick and a massive weight
is hauled up by steam and dropped on
them. A casting like the high pressure
cylinder is quite open and cools rapidly in
comparison to the "setting" of a roller,
for instance. After the casting is released
by the chief molder it goes to the head
man of the machine shops, Mr. Cushing
harn, in this instance. He must see that
the trimming and finishing are properly
done. On a large piece like the cylinder
twenty-five or thirty men are employed
under the direction of the master mechan
ic for a couple of days. When a job like
this is completed, it is a handsome thing
to look upon new and shining, a tribute
to the skill of a whole lot of trained and
careful men who take the greatest pride
in their work. When the cylinder is de
livered to the Wilder Company, Engineer
Johnson places it in the Kinau. This part
will be done in quite a rush, for the pre
sent is the busy season with the company
in the transportation line and the vacation
of the Kinau means a lot of idle money a
considerable loss.
There are busier times at the Iron
Works here these days than even on any
of the big plantations with grinding in
full blast. Twenty-five new men came to
the Works by the Moana yesterday, but
there will be no stoppage of overtime
operations. Men come from the Coast
readny, leaving certain positions up there,
because the wages are better and the
hours shorter here.
A steamship man who was at the Works
yesterday while the Advertiser reporter
was making a visit said that it was be
coming plainer every day that it would
be necessary for the Works to complete
its marine repair department. "This
place is a station in ocean business," said
he, "and must be equipped to do the
work. Here they have work for the
Klondike steamer. That ship would have
drifted about on the Pacific for a month
or six weeks unless it was able to get its
work done here. The Honolulu Iron
Works has saved those people from mak
ing a failure of the voyage. The same
thing has happened a dozen times in a
few years."
One of the gentlemen heavily interested
in the Works hinted that the marine re
pair department was to be enlarged.
Work is piled everywhere about- the
Founary. In the boiler making annex
men are using from a recently arrived
shipment or order of 12,030 tons of steel
plate. Nearly all of this is going into
water pipe for various plantations. Five
teams have been at work for some time
hauling this material from the wharves.
The steel was shipped from New York to
Panama, thence to San Francisco, then
down here in the sugar and other packets.
Besides the rush or emergency work on
the Klondike steamer, the Iron Works
people are making some pieces of engine
for the local Electric Light Works.
Probably half a hundred men are labor
ing in various ways on rollers for Oahu
and Lahaina plantations.
It's a grand thing to drop into the Iron
Works once in awhile and see how men
use steam and master metal.
THAT "PETITION "
Ssnt to f asMfliM Bj Hawaii
fins Is Unfler Fire.
SIGNATURES WERE EXAMINED
By L. A. Thurston Who Says Some
of Them Are Forgeries His
Analysis.
The Hawaiian anti-annexation peti
tion of 20,000 odd names, .has been ex
amined in Washington. The analysis
of the petition by L. A. Thurston is as
follows:
The petition consists of 5oG pages, of
which 30S pages conain what purport to be
male signatures; and. 248 pages, female
signatures.
The number of male signatures purports
to be 10,378; the number of female sig
natures purports to be 10,891; making the
total number of signatures 21,269.
The petition contains a column in which
opposite each name, the age of each
petitioner purports to be written. The
male petition contains a nummary iu
which it is stated that the adult signers
number 8,116; and the minors between
the ages of 14 and 20 years, 2,262, making
the total of 10,378 males. The female peti
tion contains no summary of adults and
minors, but examination thereof shows
that there purport to be, adults 8,213; un
der 20 years of age, 2,678.
The face of the petition therefore shows
that there are: male adults, 8,116; women
adults, 8,215; total adults,. 16,331; male
minors, 2,262; female minors, 2,676; total
minors, 4,93S. :It thus appears, even from
the face of the petition, that 23 per cent,
of the petitioners are .minors. There is
strong reason to believe that a much
larger number of the petitioners are
minors, for reasons hereinafter stated.
REASONS FOR DISCREDITING THE
PETITION. The following facts, tending
to discredit both the genuineness and the
good faith of the petition, appear upon its
face. The certificate or summary accom
panying the male petition states that the
minors are between 14 and 20 years of
age.
The petition shows on its face that there
are 3T0 male petitioners, and 327 female
petitioners, or 677 in all, under 14 years
of age, of whom 7 boys and 6 girls are
only two years of age. The page of the
petition and number of each male peti
tioner under 14 is given above. There is
strong reason to believe that the number
of minors under 14 is much greater than
that given above, by reason of the fact
that several hundred fraudulent changes
in the ages of petitioners is apparent on
the face of the petition, particulars of
which are hereinafter given.
The number above enumerated is simply
that appearing on the face of the petition.
Second fact tenduog" to discredit the peti
tion. The ages of 52 of the male peti
tioners, and 228 of the female petitioners,
making 278 in all, have been fraudulently
changed from a lower to a higher figure.
The object of these changes is manifest
ly to try and make the face of the petition
comply with the statement contained
therein that the minors are over 14; and
second, to give an appearance of greater
responsibility and weight to the petition
than it would have if so many young
children appeared to be signers.
The page of the petition and number of
each male signature which has been
fraudulently changed, is given in Table
2, hereto attached.
The page of the petition and number of
each female Signature, the age opposite
which has been fraudulently changed ia
given in Table 3, hereto attached.
There are a great number of other ages
which appear to have been tampered with,
but only those are enumerated above
which have plainly been fraudulently
changed.
Third fact tending to discredit the peti
tion. The signatures of over 1,400, or near
ly 10 per cent of the adult petitioners are
not original, but forgeries. There are
an immense number of other signatures
that appear to be forgeries, but only
those plainly appearing to be so are
enumerated above.
The pages of the petition and numbers
of each of the signatures which are not
original are enumerated, as to the male
signatures, in Table 4; and as to the
female signatures, in Table 5, hereto at
tached. The following are some of the most
glaring instances of wholesale incorpora
tion of signatures all in one handwriting.
On page 95 of the male petition, 10 signa
tures, Nos. 22 to 40, as are all in the same
handwriting. On page 161 of the male
petition, IS signatures, .Nos. 33 to 50 are
all in the same handwriting. On page
1G3 of the male petition, 7 signatures,
Nos. 9 to 15, are in one "handwriting; 9
signatures, Nos. 17 to 25 are in one hand
writing, and 14 signatures, Nos. 32 to 45
are in one handwriting. On page 164 of
the male petition, 46 signatures, Nos. 5 to
50, are all in one handwriting. On page
1k of the male petition, 20 signatures.
Nos. CO to 49 are in the same handwrit
ing. On page 212 of the male petition, 20
signatures, Nos. 29 to 4S are in the same
handwriting. On page 255 of the male pe
tition, 12 signatures, all there are on the
page, are in the handwriting of Edward
K. Lilikalani.
All of the signatures on page 8 of the
women's petition, 16 in ruitfare also
in this man's handwriting. Qja page 77 of
the women's petition, 16 s'gnatures, No?.
34 to 49, are la the s.uue handwriting (not
Lilikalanl's; but a number of the names
signed by Lilikalani on page 8 are written
again by some one else, on page 77.)
A strong side light is thrown upon the
petition as a whole by the fact that IJli
kalani' is an Intimate personal adherent
of the late reigning family, a prominent
office holder and member of the Legisla
ture under the Monarchy, and is now an
implacable Royalist and advocate of re
storation of the Monarchy.
In addition to signing his own and all
other names on the two pages above in
dicated, he attests his enthusiasm by,
again signing his own name on pages C3
and 255 of the male petition. I am per
sonally and intimately acquainted with
Lilikalanl's handwriting. Mr. John Ross
also signs his name on page 307, and
again on page 30S.
On page 260 of the male petition, 23
signatures, Nos. 2. to 27 are In the same
handwriting. On page 294 of the male
petition, 23 signatures, Nos. 2 to 24 are
In the same handwriting. On page S of
the female petition, all of the 48 signa
tures and the age, are in the same hand-
r a. . - . 1 A I
wrnung. kjji page a oi me lemaitj men
tion, all of the 16 signatures are In the
same handwriting. On page 12 of the
women's petition, 44 of the H signatures
are in the same handwriting. All the
signatures on pages 108, 109 and 111 of the
women's petition, 126 in all, are in the
same handwriting. All of the signatures
(except 13 on page 120) on pages 116, 120,'
121 and 132 of the female petition, 178
in all, are in the same handwriting.
On page 240 of the women's petitionee.
K. Pa, a man, has signed all the names
from Nos. 6 to 36, 31 In all. His own
signature appears as No. 1 on page 134
of the men's petition. All the numbering:
of signatures on pages 130, 131 and 132 of
the men's petition, is in his handwriting.
The pages of the petition and numbers of
the signatures of male petitioners, whicn
do not appear to be original signatures
are given in Table 4, and of females in
Table 5, hereto attached.
Fourth fact tending to discredit the
petition. The petition purports to give
the ages, on whole pages of the petition,
are filled in, all in the same handwriting,,
and manifestly without attempt on the
part of the enumerator to insert the real
age of the petitioners, the ages all ending
in even, or round numbers. The following
examples will suffice to demonstrate that
no reliance can be placed on the correct
ness of tho nirps ir1vMi On nairo 75 nf
the male petition, signatures Nos. 30 to
49 inclusive, have set opposite them, all
in one handwriting, the following, as their
respective ages, 30, 20, 30, 35, 48, 42, 45, 20,
48, 45, 42, 30, 40, 60, 30, 40, 60 years. On
pages 78 the ages set opposite signatures,
Nos. 9 to 22, inclusive, all in the same
handwriting, are 45, 40, 20, 30, 40, 35, 40,
45, 30, 50, 55, 40, CO, 43 years. There are
scores of other Instances of ages all in
one handwriting manifestly inserted by a
different person and at a different time '
from the signatures.
Again, the ages of 27S certainly, and
probably many more petitioners have been
fraudulently changed. The ages of peti
tioners are not ordinarily an essential
part of a petition; but having in this case
been made a part, frauds in connection
affect the bona fides of the whole peti
tion.
Fifth fact tending to discredit the peti
tion. Each and every page of the male
petition is countersigned with the original
signatures of Enoch Johnson, secretary,'
and James K. Kaulia, president of the
"Hawaiian Patriotic League" and each
page of the female petition is counter
signed with the original signatures of
Mrs. Lllia Aholo, secretary and Mrs. K.
Campbell, president of the "Women's
Patriotic League."
These four people are all intelligent.
Johnson and Kaulia are members of the
bar of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.
Kaulia is now chairman of the Royalist
delegation in Washington, and: toernnnallv
brought the petition from Honolulu.,!?
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