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HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1S9S.
PRICE FIVE CEHra.
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J. Q. WOOD,
Attorney at Law.
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NOTARY PUBLIC."
OFFICE:
Corner Kin
Streets.
and Bethel
Dll. C. 15. IIIG-II,
Dentist.
Philadelphia Dental College 1892.
IMasonic Temple. Telephone 318.
A. C. WALL, 1). I). S.
Dentist.
LOVE BUILDING, : FORT STREET.
GIIOSSMAN, D.D.S.
Dentist-
38 HOTEL STREET, HONOLULU.
Office Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p. ni.
DR, A. J- DERBY",
Dentist.
CORNER FORT AND HOTEL STS.
MOTT-SMITH BLOCK.
'Telephones: Office, 615; Residence, 789.
HOURS: 9 to 4.
GEO. II. HUDDY, D.D.S.
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Dentist
.FORT STREET, OPPOSITE CATHO
LIC MISSION.
Hours: From 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
DR. M. WACHS.
Dentist.
Oniversity of California.
Beretania near Fort street.
Office Hours:- 9 to 12 a. m. and l to
-1 p. m.
C. L. GARVIN, M.D.
Office No.
537 King street,
near
Punchbowl.
Hours: 8:30 to 11 a. m
m.; 7 to 8 p. m.
Telephone No. 448.
3 to 5 p.
MRS. F. S. SAYANT-JEROME, M.D.
HOMEOPATH.
Has onened office No. 223 Hotel
-.street.
Women's and Children's Diseases.
Special studies made of dietetics and
physiatrics.
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.
CMS. F. PETERSON,
Attorney at Law.
AND
NOTARY PUBLIC.
15 Kaahumanu St.
LYLE A. DICKEY,
Attorney at Law.
14 KAAHUMANU STREET.
Telephone, 6S2.
william c. parke,
Attorney at Law.
AND
TAKE ACKNOWLEDG-
-AGENT
TO
MENTS.
Kaahumanu St
Office:
Honolulu.
O. G. TRAPIIAOEX,
ARCHITECT.
223 Merchant Street, between Fort
and Alakea.
Telephone 734. Honolulu, H. I.
eonsolfdafed Soda if oler Ms. Co.,
LIMITED.
Esplanade, Cor. Allen and Fort Sts.
HOLLISTER & CO.,
AGENTS.
P. O. Box
480
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Telethon e
478
New and First-Class
SECOND-HAND FURNITURE
OF ALL KINDS
SOLD CHEAP FOR CASH.
"Highest Cash Price paid for 8econd-Hacd
Faroiture at L Corner King
and Nuuanu Streets.
1
of the following Stocks have
been placed in our hand3 for sale at
prices that should be of interest to in
tending Investors:
Ewa Plantation Co.
Paia Plantation Co.
Katiuku Plantation Co.
Hawaiian Electric Co.
Inter-Island S. N. Co.
Wilder S. S. Co.
Hawaiian Safe Deposit
and
Investment Company.
GEORGE R. CARTER. Mgr.
Office in rear of Bank of Hawaii, Ltd.
SPECIAL BUSINESS ITEMS.
ART AND SCIENCE.
At the "World's Columbian Exposi
tion art and science was thoroughly
exemplified. The greatest achieve
ments of modern times were on exhi
bition. Among the many beautiful
displays none attracted more atten
tion than that made by the Singer
Sewing Machine Company. It won the
enthusiastic praises or an. a. uerger
sen, Agent, Bethel street.
The City Carriage Company possess
only first-class hacks and employ only
I careful, steady drivers.
Carriages at all hours.
Telephone 113.
JOHN S. ANDRADE.
GUIDE
THROUGH
HAWAII.
PRICE, COC.
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
FOR SALE BY ALL NEWSDEALERS
WOMAN'S EXCHANCE.
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.
Homcepathic 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 p. m. Sundays 9:30 to
10:30 a. m. Telephone 733.
MISS TOWNE.
TEACHER OF CHINA PAINTING
Studio, Second Floor Pacific Hard
ware Company.
Olass Days Mondays and Tuesdays,
afternoon; Wednesdays and Fridays,
morning.
CHARLES CLARK.
Attorney at Law.
121 MERCHANT STREET.
Honolulu Hale. Tel. 345.
Up Stairs.
W. T. M0NSARRAT,
VETERINARY SURGEON AND DEN
TIST.
TELEPHONES 161 & 626.
The'.Name Plate That Marks
the High Grade Wheel.
H. E. WALKER, Agt.
l CLEVELAND J
V -l MANTO CO.
THE WAY
Notes on a Delightful Trip to
Hilo Tom.
SEHSATIOHS OH THE FREE SEA
Channel Weather God Smlled-Re-commendations
For Diet A
Sturdy Craft.
MR. EDITOR: The freedom of snir-
it that the mere planning of a sea
voyage brings be the prospective voy
age ever so brief often comes before
the free sea, but alas! when we are
actually sailing from Honolulu in the
Claudine our exaltation is tempered by
a lively consciousness of having had
some previous experience with Hawai
ian channels and landing places. It is
just for the reason that -not once in
my trip across the dreaded channels
did I find them very dreadful, that
I am writing to tell you so. That not
once did I lose the "divine intoxication
of the first league out from land." In
the retrospect, as in most of the journ
ey, it was a pleasure, and not the bug
bear it is generally supposed.
The first hour we traced familiar
landmarks and met our fellow-passengers,
with whom, strangers or not, we
were to have much in common for two
days. There came the rounding of
Koko Head and the process of ship
ping water, which is an accompani- j
ment of the rougher places. It dam- i
pered our clothes and our conversa
tional ardor, and made us willing to
seek our berths (because there was no
other place to go) and to confine our
remarks to our room-mates.
That is to say, for a little. There
are only three or four rough places
on the trip, andy when the boat is
rather uneasy the average man can
only lie on his back and be patient.
Even so he need not be miserable,
for he may perhaps help out his pa
tience with a good novel, ginger ale,
poi-cocktails, crackers and cheese, or
even mustard (to be applied external
ly, this last). I only know that each
of these remedies had its advocater,
who boasted of good results.
I was assured (by those who knew,
of course!) that the Kinau would have
been speedier and quieter than "the
stubby Claudine." I cannot say. I
shall judge on my next trip to Hilo,
when I have the Kinau then to prove
it. However the Claudine is a doughty
little steamer and has tasted "the free
sea" more than once on her journeys
to San Francisco. I for one am grate
ful to her for bringing us to our de
sired haven, for the courtesy of her
officers, the faithfulness of her sailors,
and the solicitude of her steward. She
cannot help her stature, but her rooms
are neat, the table is excellent (espe
cially the square meal one has at Ma
hukona bay), the shelter of the wheel
house is a luxury in heavy seas, and
the inspiration of the run from Laha
ina to Maalaea, enjoyed from the cap
tain's bridge, with the cool breeze and
the jubilant stars in attendance make
one glad to be aboard; while the won
derful panorama of the Kohala and
Hamakua coasts, with their magnifi
cent stretches of cane, their gorges
and waterfalls and mysterious valleys
is well worth any discomfort there
may peradventure be in the trip. If
only the boat dared go a little nearer
and if, when one had stupidly forgot
ten the map, there were large maps in
each stateroom with explicit details.
This coast was glowingly described "bj?
Isabella Bird, of course, but before the
hand of the planter had spread over
it a carpet of silvery green that later
turns into gold.
Rather a small band of the cabin
passengers proved intrepid sailors, al
though many of us rose to positive
euthusiasm between times. For the
melancholy ones, the deck load of
Japanese had no charms. To go aft
was almost picking one's way over a
battlefield with its heaps of slain!
Only those at leisure from themselves
could have any sympathy to spare for
the cheery, patient, long-suffering hu
man creatures- huddled on the deck,
and get pleasure and snap-shots from
the simple Japanese ways of accept
ing life. The climax of their hard
journey was in the rough landing at
Koholalele, when the darkness shut
from us the spectacle of the dangling
crane and its victim. The shouting
led us to fear some accident, but the
boat-boys are very skilful and when it
was all over returned to such apathy
that no one could have been lost or
injured in the least.
Speaking of boat boys, we admired
ALONG
the ease with which they lowered the
boats and brought them up to the
stays again, a ceremonial that is by no
means a dumb show. I could but think
of what Kate Field had said to a
church full of natives on her last
journey through Kona. There were
three things, she told them, in which
they excelled catching fish, manning
boats and managing horses, and she
besought them not to allow any other
nation to wrest these, their own pe
culiar occupations, from them.
It was after midnight when we sight
ed the friendly lights of Hilo. They
were a prophecy to us that we should
find the Spirit of Progress manifesting
itself in the land, and we even found
a second welcome innovation in the
water the Waiakea boat wharf. We
reached it, a solemnly silent company
(and six hours before we had been
most sociable!) after being rowed
across a bay as smooth as glass. Even
in the darkness we could distinguish
parts of the new long wharf where
ships will come, and out in the harbor
were four vessels at anchor, for the
wharf was not yet.
Hilo treated us well. It placed its
new comfortable hotel at our disposal,
and sent its representatives to welcome
us even before the breakfast hour, and
calls were paid and returned the same
day. The Hilo skies reflected the hos
pitality of the people, for we saw not
a drop of rain in the two days and
more of our loitering and pleasuring
in the peaceful town. We are more
than ever impressed with the future
that Hilo has before her, and mark
the changes we see in Hilo revisited,
six years after. The beautiful Foreign
Church, the new large blocks In the
business center, the comfortable new
houses, cosy or costly that are going
up in Puueo. I believe it is Hilo's
Nob Hill the new beach road to Waia
kea that promises to be the Boulevard
of the place and the rumor of still
other blocks and other homes. The
Hilo Tribune and Hawaii Herald are
less than five years old, together, and
the Hilo Electric Light and Ice Com
pany is a study one-year-old that
shows no sign of speedy dissolution.
Let us hope for it the youthful vigor
that distinguished the immortal gods.
Waianuenue street has been widened
and macadamized but, permit me a
'isigh of sentiment tne picturesque
walls surrounding the court-nouse
have been levelled and with them has
disappeared much of the beautiful fol
iage that made the Court-house gate
such a favorite subject with photo
graphers. Alas! the finest plati
num finish of any picture of the Court
house taken today will not atone for
tho lnss nf the old beauty. But tis
progress, and 'tis well, and I approve.
I understand that the tiny wooden
shops on the waterfront are to be de
molished, and Nature, with grass and
trees will be trusted to extend a beau
tiful beckoning finger to all who gaze
upon Hilo from the bay. M. W. C.
TRAVELERS.
Some of the Passengers on the
Steamship Doric.
Among the through passengers on
the Doric are the following:
Mr. Barbour La"throp, well known in
the city. Mr. Lathrop has been in the
Orient for quite a while and is now re
turning to his home in the States.
Lieut. S. C. Paine, U. S. N., executive
officer of the Olympia who is now cn
his way to his home in the States on
account of illness. He is accompanied
by Mrs. Paine.
Baron Meyer Watson, now on his
way home to Europe after a trip "in the
Orient.
W. Bleckyrden and James White of
the Edison kinetiscope, who have been
traveling about taking pictures in the
Orient. They went ahead in a tug
when the Doric sailed from Yokohama
and took that vessel as she went by.
They were then taken aboard. Messrs.
Bleckyrden and White will take some
pictures here today.
Getting Their Letters.
Since the introduction of the Kapoi
kai Senate bill on qualifications of
office holders, there has been quite a
rush at the Foreign office with appli
cations or petitions for letters of deni
zation. Nearly, if not quite all the
names handed in have been those of
men who would come within the taboo
scope of the act fathered by the Sena
tor from Maui. Four letters were is
sued yesterday, as follows: Inspectors
Rhodes and Storey of the Customs ser
vice, Mr. Deidel and Richard Weedon.
DEPENDABLE BARGAINS.
Now that the stock cf the fire sale
is out of the way, L. B. Kerr will
turn over a new leaf and offer to the
trade a personally selected stock of
beautiful dry goods at prices with
prices attacked which competition can
not touch.
NEW HARBOR PLAN
Honanii Stream to Be Diverted
From Present Coirse.
CABLE BILL COMES UP AGAIN
Railroad Company Loses Its Bill.
Lively Scene In House of
Representatives.
SENATE.
Seventy-first Day, May 9.
When the appropriation bill for con
tingencies was- taken up Minister
Cooper moved that the item of $95,000
for harbor improvements be increased
to $215,000. Plans of the proposed
Improvements were shown by the
Minister. The principal change advo
cated is an abandonment of the You
mans' estate proposition and the build
ing of a retaining wall at the upper end
of the harbor to divert Nuuanu stream.
The stream is to be carried between
retaining walls 200 feet apart along
the front of the Prison to the sea.
This will necessitate cutting through
the embankment of the Railway near
the present location of its scales, the
stream to run at right angles to the
upper end of the harbor. By diverting
the fresh water from the present
stream to the artificial course, Minister
Cooper argued that the vast deposits
of mud and debris, now emptied into
the harbor and dredged out at great
expense, would be sent along the new
course into the sea below Kalihi.
The plans as exhibited by Minister
Cooper were for the dredging out of
a slip 160 feet wide and 800 feet long
through a portion of the Youmans' es
tate to the proposed embankment. On
each side of the slip it is proposed
building a wharf 60 feet wide with a
driveway running along tne entire
length. The harbor end of the slip is
to be on the present harbor edge and
will not interfere wltn tne naroor
I traffic. On the exhibited plans were
outlined slips which could;, as neces
sity warranted, be made on the makai
side of the proposed slip. The increase
asked in the appropriation includes es
timates for condemnation of the land,
dredging, building the slip and the re
taining walls of the proposed embank
ment and building the wharves and
roadway.
Senator Brown said he was opposed
to such a plan. He had lived in Hono
lulu many years and remembered no
such bed of the stream except during
freshets when there was an overflow.
He had been told that the reason the
harbor entrance was clear of coral was
because of the fresh water from the
stream.
He said he had no confidence in the
abilitv of the Superintendent of Public
Works to execute economically such a
plan and he thought it outrageous for
the Executive to bring in, wnen tnere
were but 19 days more of the present
session, a proposition calling for the
expenditure of over $200,000 on an es
timate totally different from the one
proposed at the opening of the session.
He was not opposed to naroor im
provement, but he would refuse to vote
in favor of such measure on such slight
consideration.
Minister Cooper said the plan as
presented had been formulated by the
Government in an attempt to meet the
wishes of the people. Many ideas in
the proposed plan were incorporated.
The Executive would control the ex
penditure. -
Senator McCandless believed that the
subject should be considered with the
greatest care. He too had no confid
ence in the ability of the Commissioner
of Public Works and it was altogether
too large a sum of money to be placed
in his charge to spend.
Senator Waterhouse's motion that
the item be inserted in the bill and
referred to the special committee hav
ing harbor matters in charge with in
structions to report on Friday was
passed. The remaining items in the
bill were read and the whole bill was
deferred to Friday.
Minister Cooper offered an amend
ment to the cable bill vesting the pow
er of srrantine: a franchise, exclusive
or otherwise, in the President and
Cabinet. The words Pacific Cable
Company are stricken out and the
word company inserted. In explana
tion the Minister said this proposition
was favored by the Cabinet who de
sired the right to make the contract,
exclusive if the occasion demanded.
The amendments and the bill were re
ferred to the special committee having
the cable bill in charge.
In the discussion on the bill to pro
vide the Oahu Railway with-wharves.
Senator Brown moved that the bill
pass and that the report of the com
mittee be indefinitely postponed. He
said he was a firm believer in the
policy of the Government to own all
wharves on the harbor. In this case
a definite contract was entered to with
the Railroad Company. It seemed to
him that the Executive was attempt
ing to repudiate Its contract to a com
pany, in the absence of which the Gov
ernment would not be receiving sucli
revenues from the lands on this Island
which were opened up by this Rail
road Company.
Minister Cooper said if there be a
repudiation it must be that of a vested
right; if the company have a vested
right their recourse was in the Courts
where there was ample protection to
individuals and corporations alike. If
they had these vested rights why did
the company apply to the Legisla
ture? Minister Cooper said the con
tract made with the Government for
vacating on 90 days notice was as
solemn a contract as any which the
Railroad Company cited.
Senator Baldwin said that one argu
ment, in favor of the Government own
ing the entire harbor front, was that
because of the increasing needs of the
harbor there must be in the near fut
ure a sacrifice of public funds for
wharf room. It was reasonable to
suppose that the Government would
be better able and more willing to
make such improvements than any
private company.
At 11:45, the Senate adjourned to
1:30 o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
In the afternoon session, there was
further consideration of the bill. Sen
ator McCandless said that the present
controversy was similar to all those in
the history of corporations. It was
an attempt to acquire more property
to themselves. But the Government
must maintain its rights. The Senator
said he was opposed to the bill on be
half of the public good.
Senator Brown again spoke favoring
the bill. He rehearsed the legislation
pertaining to the railroad from the
time when it was first projected to the
present date. After considerable argu
ment by the Senator, during which he
proposed that a compromise be effect
ed, by allowing the company but one
wharf, if no more could be granted,
a vote was taken on the bill. It fail
ed of passage by a vote of 8 to 6 and
the report of the committee to lay on
the table was adopted.
The House bill relating to the des
cent of property was read by title and
went to the Judiciary Committee.
Senator Holstein presented a peti-X
tion from 15 members of the band of
Kalaupapa praying for salaries and an
appropriation for uniforms. The peti
tion was referred to the Committee on
Health. - s
The House bill prohibiting the
sprinkling of clothes by water ejected
from the mouth passed second read
ing. Third reading was set for Tues
day. Communications were received from
the House relative to joint action on
bills and concurring in minor amend
ments. In response to a petition from the
Carter Memorial fountain committee
the Public Lands Committee was ap
pointed to confer with a similar com
mittee from the House and meet the
Memorial Committee to discuss the
question of a site for the fountain.
The bill relative to Chinese Immigra
tion was read by title and referred to
the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Minister Cooper gave notice of his
intention to introduce a bill to regulate
the opening of streets on private land
and a bill to open a marine park on
the east side of the harbor.
At 2:30 o'clock, the Senate went into
a 15 minute executive session and then
adjourned.
HOUSE.
The following petition from the Citi
zens' Guard was read by Speaker
Kaulukou and referred to a special
(Continued on Page 2.)
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