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SOL. XXVIL, NO.. 4883.
HOXOLULU, IIAWAIIAXi ISLANDS, SATURDAY, AfiilL 2,
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J. Q. WOOD,
Attorney at Law.
AND
NOTARY PUBLIC.
OFIICE:
Corner King and Bethel
Streets.
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De
ntist.
Philadelphia Dental College 1S02.
Haeonic Temple. Telephone 318.
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Dentist-
ZjOVU BUILDING, : FORT STREET.
31. i:. G KOSSMAX, D.D.S.
Dentist.
3S HOTEL, STREET, HONOLULU.
Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
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Dentist.
CORNER VORT AND HOTEL STS.
MOTT-SMITII BIXKIK.
Telep.;f Office, ( ?.5; Tusldence, 7S9.
IIOUR.- . 4.
KEO. II. 11 I)i)V, D.D.S.
Dentist.
FORT STREET, OPPOSITE CATHO
LIC MISSION.
Hours: From 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
DR. IV!. WACHS.
Dentist.
University of California.
Beretania near Fort street.
Office Hours: 9 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 4
0. EX.
lIi. WKDDICK.
Beretania and Alapai Streets, near
Pumping Station.
Office Hours: 9 to 11 a. m.; 1 to 3 p.
m.; 7 to 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. 7SG.
Private residence: GSO King street.
Telephone No. 32G.
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 G39. Supt. -
CIIAS. F. PETERSON,
Attorney at Law.
AND
NOTARY PUBLIC.
15 Kaahumanu St.
LYLE A. DICKLEV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
14 KAAHUMANU STREET.
Telephone, 6S2.
Attorney at Law.
AGENT TO TAKE ACKNOWLEDG
MENTS. Office: Kaahumanu St., Honolulu.
O. G. TltAPILAG EN,
ARCHITECT.
223 Merchant Street between Fort
and Alakea.
Telephone 734.
Honolulu, H. I.
P. O- Box
430
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Telephone
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New and First-Claw
SECOND-HAND FURNITURE
OP ALL KINDS
SOLD CHEAP FOR CASIL
Cifaeat Oa3h Price paid for 8econd-Haud
" Furniture at g j L Corner King
and Nr.aarm Streets.
Do Not Buy
Or Sell
locks or
Without Employing
a Broker.
Our charges 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.
0tf.ee In rear of Bask of lUwail. Ltd.
SPECIAL BUSINESS ITEMS.
- IF YOU BUY A SINGER,
You will receive careful Instruction
from a competent teacher at your
iiome.
rYou 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 wTill 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. BERGER3EN, Agent.
IGV2 Bethel Street, Honolulu.
The City Carria Company possess
only first-class hacks, '.ni employ only
careful, steady drivers.
Carriages at all hours.
Telephone 113.
JOHN S. ANDRADE.
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TROUGH
" HAWAII.
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
FOR SALE BY ALL NEWSDEALERS
WOMAN'S EXCHANGE.
215 Merchant St.
HAWAIIAN CURIOS Leis, Kapa,
Niihqu 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.
HoMtF.PATinc 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 9:30 to
10:30 a. m. Telephone 733.
Al. W. AlcCHESNEY & SONS.
Wholesale Grocers and Dealers in Leather and
Shoe Findings.
Aqeuts Honolulu Soap Works Company
and Honolulu Tannery.
The World Renown
MONITOR SAFES
30 TO 3200.
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H. E. WALKER,
Masonic Temple. AGENT.
Bonds
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N SOUTH KAUA
Graphic Acconot of the Flood In
One District.
SEVERAL BRIDGES SWEPT AWAY
Nearly.Two Inches of Rain In One
Hour People Fled for Their
Lives-Water On All Lowlands.
(Special Correspondence from Hana-
pepe, Kauai).
For a week all this section has been
deluged with rain. At Eleele 1 inches
of -water fell in one hour.
The climax came at midnight, March
26. The bridge at Hanapepe, the new
bridge at Lawai and the three or four
new ones built on the road being con
structed north of Koloa, whica is a
short cut from Lawai to Lihue, were
carried away.
The Waimea bridge is damaged not
passable, but not carried off. In Wai
mea the water rose over all the low
land, coming into Mr. Hofgaard's store.
In Koloa it was the same, flooding all
the low land and rising high enough
to submerge the bullock carts in the
plantation corral. At Lawai, Wahi
awa and all the above places, rice suf
fered more or less and in some places
was destroyed
Hanapepe had no immunity from
the torrent. Water rose about nine
feet, and all one could hear above the1
pouring floods, was the Japanese or
Chinese saying, "Too muchey pilikia,"
with a prolonged, voluoninous em
phasis' on the "too." Numerous lan
terns were seen, above the surface of
the flocd lighting the refugees to plains
of afGi.y Now and thn a pig went
down the stream, and an other pig with
a rope around its hind leg and the
owner at the other end of the rope,
went less easily to higher ground. One
Portuguese was rudely awakened from
his deep slumbers, and jumped out of ;
bed into a foot of water on his floor. !
His chickens were already among
the lamented and his cow had to "be
driven to higher ground. The water
rose two feet high in some houses anil
people had to' 'wade -waist deep to get
out. It rose to ithe steps of the teach
er's cottage and within four inches of
the floor of ".lie school house. Here and
there fences and outbuildings are car
ried eff, and the remaining ones are
loaded with weeds.
The Hanapepe bridge was made of
heavy timbers and when the water rose
to it a mass of rushes and debris was
collected. Against this the water press
ed and rose uritil the bridge gave way.
As soon as the bridge broke the water
fell 18 or 20 inches. I am told that
the bridges at Waimea, Hanapepe and
Wailua were carried away some 17
years ago. Since the Hanapepe bridge
costing about $S,000, was built in 1SS5,
Ti'n f o.t li n o licon t v if o n iitvi Knr rf t
times, and in one case was six inches
over the floor.
From this disaster a few points are
worth noting, for the construction of a 1
new bridge. It should be raised some j
two feet and then the lower timbers
would be above high water, the
substructure should offer as little re
sistance to water as possible; the ap
proaches should be as low as the im
mediate grade to the bridge would per
mit, in order that the flood water might
have extra room for escape. The
bridge could be strengthened for these
extreme occasions by running cables,
possibly old steam plow cables, to the
banks and there anchor them m ex
cavations filled with sufficient rock. I
believe this simple addition would have
saved Hanapepe bridge and probably
the others.
Well In Kewalo.
McCandless Bros, have just finished
in Kewalo, back of the Old Plantation,
an artesian well for E. Peck & Co., the
draymen. The well is of a 10-inch bcre
and something over 200 feet in depth.
The flow is a foot above the surface,
supplying an enormous amount of wa
ter every 24 hours. This is in every
way o e of the most satisfactory pieces
of work of the well 'boring firm. E.
S Peck & Co., will now soon remove their
stables to their new land and will, as
mentioned some time ago, supply cot
tages for their employes.
National Hand Funeral.
The National band-was at the head
cf a funeral procession yesterday after
noon. The dead man was C. K. Wilio-
kai. He pased away at Waikiki on the
night of the 31st inst. The cause of
death was dropsy, as reported to the
Board of Health. Wiliokai had been a
well known Hawaiian and a prominen
member of the band. Besides playing
an instrument he was a splendid bass
singer and his services were always in
demand with quintette clubs. Wilio
kai has not been in ..the best of hearth
since his return from the States. :
.Mormon Convention
The Intter-Island Co.'s steamer Waia
leale had a big passenger list when she
glided out the channel for Oahvx porta
yesterday morning. Amongst those
aboard were a large number of dele
gates to the Mormon church conference
to be held at Laie during next week.
This sect, is of Salt Lake connection or
branch. In Utah these conferences,
iieicl twice a year spring and fall are
iemarkable gatherings. At Laie there
will be preaching and addresses from
the prominent men of the church in
Hawaii. In the Mormon faith the eld
ers are in the habit of offering from the
pulpit hints on the economies of life
and it is not unlikely that the delegates
to Laie will be advised on farming,
etc.
DEED STAMPS.
The Nominal Consideration Figure
Up 4 gain.
It will be remembered that the S. S.
China, before securing Hawaiian regis
tration, was sold to Colonel Macfar
laine for the nominal sum of 5 shillings.
Immediately a mortgage for a heavy
amount was filed. The Government
claimed that the stamp fee for filing
the deed should be a percentage on
something like the value of the prop
erty and the matter was carried into
the Courts. Mr. Macfarlane won, the
judges refusing to go behind the bill of
sale made by the owners of the S. S.
China to the Hawaiian citizen.
Now there has grown out of this
China transaction just what represen
ta'..es of the Government urged in the
lawsuit. A few days ago at the record
office in the Judiciary Building there
was offered a deed for $1 and a "mort
gage back" for $1,200. The Government
insists that the $1 is a fictitious valua
tion and that the fee for placing the
deed on record must "be a proper per
centage of the actual worth of the
property changing hands. The parties
to the sale and purchase say that the
value they have agreed upon as shown
in the deed is correct for all legal pur
poses. .Another suit will be instituted. The
Government officials believe that the
S. S. China and the real estate case
differ and if the Courts say no will
I move for legislation in the promises.
The New Directory.
A number of business men yesterday
gave substantial encouragmentto the
Gazette Comnanv's project for a new
residence and business directory for
Honolulu and the Islands. It is accept
ed by all that the book will be a first
class one in every way. An entire and
completely new canvass of the whole
srroun will be made for the names of
i. ;
The Directory will contain an
.
immense amount of matter that will
be interesting to all. There will be
chapters on sugar planting, coffee, gen-
eral farming and the land laws. The
.book will be valuable for study as well
as for reference.
Malice Island Concert.
The band will play the following ex
cellent program of music at Makee Isl
and Sunday afternoon, beginning at 3
o'elocl::
PART I.
The Old Hundred.
Overture Star of the North
. Meyerbeer
Largo Xerxes Handel
Miserere II Trovatore Verdi
Melodies of Northern Europe. .Kuhner
PART II.
Cornet solo Everlasting Day.
, Bevan
Mr. Charles Kreuter.
Three Quotations Sousa
Chorus Tannhauser Wagner
Finale Fanfare Militairc Asher
Hawaii Ponoi.
Reported Highway Robbery,
Some of the natives arriving by the
steamer Mauna Loa yesterday had a
story to the effect that a highway rob
bery had been committed in desperate
fashion in South Kona, near the settle
ment of Hookena. The report was that
a Japanese known to be carrying a
large sum of money was followed on
the road by several Hawaiians and was
waylaid, relieved of his mony, beaten
and left for dead. The Marshal had not
received a report of any nature from
the district.
IS ENCOURAGING
Good Report From the Free Kin
dergartens of Their Wort.
HIGH AVERAGE FOR PORTUGUESE
Supervisors Hold Meeting -Several
Changes Made In Com
mittees. Yesterday morning at the meeting of
women who have Free Kindergarten
matters in charge, all business was
most expeditiously transacted, and in
less than an hour from the time of call-
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ing to oruer, tne meeung was uis-
missed.
Encouraging reports were received
from all the kindergartens, except that
in the Foreign Kindergarten, many
of the children had been absent be
cause of illness. There was cause for
congratulation in the persistency with
which the Portuguese children main
tained the high average of 62, and in
the remarkable increase of attendance
of the little Japanese.
-Mrs. Thompson has so far recovered
Tom her recent illness as to visit
he kindergartens, and all who know of
her and her work hope for her speedy
and complete recovery.
Some new committee appointments
were made. Mrs. F. J. Lowrey resign-
ing from the Palama committee was
made chairman of tho committee in
charge of the kindergarten on Ewa
lantation. Mrs. T. D. Garvin was
chosen to succeed Mrs. Lowrey on the
Palama committee, and Mrs. E. A.
Jones was also put upon that com
mittee in place of Miss Young.
Every member of the Board of Super
isors feit the undercurrent of sadness
hroughout the meeting in facing the
reality that Mrs. Schmidt, one of their
number, had gone out from their midst.
She was at the head of the Foreign
committee at the time of her death, and
furthermore had been from the very
beginning of this philanthropy a most
faithful and interested worker. Re-
solutions will be sent to the members ' all the people he met looked upon the
of her family expressing appreciation Annexation of the Islands as a trans
of her unobtrusive- and unfailing co- jactjon tnat was already the same a
operation in Free Kindergarten work, I , . ..af r nao
iUUl Hie bOIXOW UlilL 1S itJlt 1U Utfl UCdLU.
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Tho joy cf the last day of term wa3
added to the anticipated gladness of
Easter in several of the kindergartens
yesterday morning. In all of them the
teachers have been developing by
means of stories and songs and plays
the Easter thought of the awakening
of sleeping things butterflies, birds
.d flowers. Yesterday the celebrations
dealt with Easter emblems,-
?ggs and
flowers.
In Miss Snow's room 'the little
Chinese children hunted for eggs that
had been hidden away, and as they
found the gaily colored eggs, they
placed them in a large nest in the mid
dle of the room. Then after the bliss
ful indulgence in orange-water and
bananas, came the ceremony of the
good-bye, hand-shaking, which left an
egg in each child's hand. It must be
added that out on the play-ground
some of the children enjoyed hard
boiled duck-eggs as a later course cS
the repast. Every face was radiant
with joy and the twelve visitors found
the occasion most enjoyable.
In the Japanese Kindergarten mat
ters were arranged somewhat diffe-r-
pntlv. Thft persrs werp- of suar. and i
each child had a nest all its own. In ;
the Hawaiian room a characteristic j
touch was added to the hunt for candy
eggs by each child's making for him
self a lei of marigolds. In the Palama
Kindergarten not eggs but bags of
candy rewarded the hunters, and tiny
bouquets of carnations or roses decor
ated each plate for all sat down at
long tables for .their Easter cake.
Miss Alexander had no festivity for
the Foreign Kindergarten, since many
of them had been ill and the Portu
guese Kindergarten will celebrate
Easter next week.
All the kindergartens closed fcr the
Easter recess of one week.
An Official Inspection.
W. E. Rowell, Superintendent of Pub
lic Works, left Honolulu early yester
day morning for an official visit of
three days to flood devastated regions
between Kaneohe and Waialua. It has
been reported that along the road indi
cated 16 bridges have been wrecked.
Mr. Rowell will report on Monday, if
he can on that day compile the notes
made while absent. He will 03 well
submit rcommendatlons. "Jim" Olds
was in town yesterday from Kaneohe.
Mr. Olds has bv-cn on this Island since
1S4S. During all these years he has Been
no such storms as those of the past
week or 10 days.
Railway Bridges and Line.
It is understood that as a result of
observations, taken after the recent
general storm on the island, Mr. Klfi:e-
gel, chief engineer of the Oahu Rail
way -and Land Company, will run some
new route lines and revise some bridge
plans. There will be an especially cans--fill
investigation between Waialua an.d
Kahuku. The Waimea gulch has al
ways been a problem. Now the water
has made a stronger stiowing there
than ever known before. For this rea
son some important changes will bo
made in the vicinity of the gulch. Such
a storm that of last week would
have carried away some of the line if
the road had been in operation on tho
survey first made.
WATER WOKKS.
Repairing Damage to System lly
the Flood.
Andrew Brown, Superintendent of
Water Works, reports that the damago
to the system by the flood of last week
while considerable, was not so grext aa
people might suppose. Mr. Brown, and
his assistant J. Little, were on guard
at the reservoirs in Nuuanu valley each.
evening during the heaviest rains. Ono
of the big ponds was injured and this
broken wall has been repaired But for
prompt and efficient advance meas
ures of precaution, one or more of the
reservoirs might have broken badly.
In that case the flood volume would
have been much increased. 'There was
slight damage near Luakaha. In Ma-
;kiki the small screening plant was ren-
dered incapable for several days. Only
.yesterday the work of clearing It was
completed. Tons of stones had been
washed down from above. The re-
servoir at Makiki was handled so that
there was no overflow from it. The
flood in that vicinity was down he
stream bed an was not harmful to tho
water system. Mr. Little, the new as
sistant of the superintendent, had a
fine initiation during the-storm period.
. He was on one job for three nights and
three straight times found his work
undone during his absence.
As a Matt-r of Coarse.
Geo. P. Castle, who returned from the
Coast a few days ago, says that about
ClCOlHl lliiMJCJ. X 1UU1 till I.J1C4.U UlLU
tie could gather he feels satisfied that
the joint resolution will pass the House
cf Representatives at Washington by a
d bi majority and without any
, , ,
.unnecessary delay. There was any
I amount of war talk while Mr. Castle
was on the Coast and the citizens seem
ed determined to have satisfaction for
the blowing up of the Maine.
Latest Parisian Styles.
Any Lady wishing a Stylish Hat or
Bonnet for Easter will do well to call
at L. B. Kerr's, Queen Street, where all
the latest novelties have been Imported
direct from Paris, and the prices aro
only one-half that charged elsewhere.
Election in D "
There was a big turnout of members
of Co. D, First Regiment, N. G. II. for
the election of a first lieutenant to suc
ceed C. D. Crane, resigned. Second
Lieutenant Timraons was promoted.
1 When it came to the selection of a sec-
nd lieutenant, the honor was confer-
red upon Sergenat W. Needham. After
the elections the boys of D had quite a
sociable time for a couple of hours.
Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
Absolutely Pure
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