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&Olu XXVIII., NO. 5114
HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 2i 1898.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
J. Q. WOOD.
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ATTORNFY AT LAW AND NOTARY
Public Office: Corner King and
Bsthel Streets.
DR. C. B. HIGH.
Ill : CO.
Will buy for you
DENTIST. PHILADELPHIA DENT-
al College 1892. Masonic Temple.
Telephone 318.
SR. A. C.WALL DR. 0. E. WALL
Stock or Bond
In this market or abroad.
DENTISTS OFFICE HOURS: 8 A. M.
to 4 p. m. Love Building, Fort
Street.
M. E. GROSSMAN, D.D.S.
GEORGE R. CARTER, Treasurer.
Office la rear of Bank of Hawaii. Lti.
DENTIST 98 HOTEL STREET, Ho
nolulu. Office Hours: 9 a. m. to
4 p, m.
DR. A. J. DERBY.
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GUIDE
THROUGH
HAWAII.
PRICE, 6Qc.
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
A DEWEY PET
OW IN PORT
The Unity Cutter Mcculloch is
a Hartor Visitor.
SHE EARNED FAME III MANILA
Fired the First Shot for the Am
erican NavyConveyed News
of the Victory.
DENTIST CORNER FORT AND
Hotel Streets.. Mott-Smlth Block.
Telephones: Office, 615; Residence,
789. Houra: 9 to 4.
GEO. H. HUDDY, D.D.S.
FOR SALE BY ALL NEWSDEALERS
WOMEN'S EXCHANGE.
215 Merchant St.
DENTIST FORT STREET,
site Catholic Mission.
From 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
DR. F. E. CLARK.
OPPO-
Hours:
DENTliST PROGRESS BLOCK, COR-
ner Beretania and Fort Streets.
C. L. GARVIN, M.D.
OFFICE No. 537 KING STREET,
near Punchbowl. Hours: 8:00 to
9:00; 2:00 to 5:00; 6:00 to 7:00.
Telephone No. 448.
OR. WALTER HOFFMANN.
CORNER BERETANIA AND PUNCH
bowl Streets. Office Hours: 8 to
10 a. in.; 1 to 3 p. m.; 7 to 8 p. m.
Sundays: 8 to 10 a. m. Telephone
510. P. O. Box 501.
T. B. CLAPHAM.
VETERINARY SURGEON AND DEN-
tlst. Office: Hotel Stables. Calls,
day or night, promptly answered.
SDecIaltles: Obstetrics and Lame
ness.
Iorrin A. Thurston. Alfred W. Carter.
THURSTON & CARTER.
Attorneys-at-Law.
next to Post Office.
Merchant Street
xxr n Achl. Enoch Johnson.
ACHI & JOHNSON.
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS
AT LAW. Office No. 10 West King Honolulu and Tannery.
Street. Telephone 8S4.
T. McCAHTS STEWART.
(Formerly o" the New York Bar.)
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
Law, Spreckeis Bunuing, ituom o,
305 Fort Street, iionoruiu.
CATHCART & PARKE.
The smoke from a steamer away oil
to westward at noon yesterday wa the
cause of many conjectures along the
front, until drawing closer, it was
found to come from the United States
revenue cutter McCulloch, on her way
to San Francisco from Yokohama. At
half past two o'clock she was anchored
on the Waikiki side of the gunboat
Bennington and Capt. C. L. Hooper,
commanding the now fammis little cut
ter, gave audience to the local report
era who were early on board.
It was the MCulloch that fired the
first shots of, the battle of Manila in
deed the first of the Spanish-American
war. When Admiral Dewey's fleet was
entering Manila harbor just at the en
trance from the ramparts of El Frayle
boomed the alarm gun that notified the
other batteries at El Caballo and Cor
regidor of the Yankees coming. The
sparks from the McCulloch's smoke
stack had discovered them. "It waa
the poor coal," mused Chief Engineer
Chalker, on board yesterday, "that
caused all this. We had taken it on at
Hongkong and it was poor stuff, but
ithe best that could be obtained at the
time. It was our luck to fire up just
at that time." The McCulloch's for
ward gun spit back at El Frayle, but
by that time the batteries were passed
by the United States fleet, the McCul
loch being stationed in the line of col
umn well behind, third from the last,
LOUIS K. M'GREW. tne Plucky Boston, whose oommander,
Capt. Wildes, passed through Honolu-
UNITED STATES CUSTOM HOUSE M lew weeks ago lor tne uaat on a
Brokers, Accountants, Searchers of leave of absence, bringing up the rear.
Titles and General Business During the battle the McCulloch was
Agents. Office: No. 15 Kaahu- anchored close to the action and soon
manu street, Honolulu. Formerly as Admiral Dewey s victory was accom
plished took the cablegram to Hong
kong announcing the fact to the United
States Government.
It was the irony of fate that the Mc
Culloch, a few weeks before leaving
Manila last month, should have been
detailed by Admiral Dewey to destroy
the battery of El Frayle, which had
fired on her, as narrated, and also the
forts of El Caballo and Corregidor.
They were all dismantled, the guns
some of them new 8-inch Armstrong
breech loading annon of the latest im
proved pattern were .taken out to sea
and sunk. This was done to prevent
them falling into the hands of a pos
sible foe the Filipinos and tens of
thousands of dollars worth of valuable
armament were buried beneath the
waves. While on Corregidor the rea
son Avas discovered as to why that bat
tery did not open on the Yankee fleet
the Spanish
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FOR COLONY NO. I
Make3 a specialty of ancient Hawai
ian Curios, and also carries the best
assortment of modern Hawaiian work
to be found in Honolulu, including
Mats, Fans, Leis, Bamboo, Lauhala
and Cocoanut Hats, Etc., Etc. Tel. 659.
DR. MILAN SOULE.
LATE S. S. AUSTRALIA HAS RE-
sumed practice at N. E. corner
Sutter and Kearney streets, San
Francisco.
DRESSMAKERS.
MISS FREIBURG KNOKE. DRESS-
maklng parlors, corner School and
Nuuanu streets.
C. S. RICHARDSON.
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER AND
Typewriter. Expert work at low
est prices. Telephone 313, with H.
Waterhouse & Co., Queen 6treet.
MORRIS K. KE0H0KAL0LE,
A. Rosa's Oflce. Telephone 620.
A. J. CAMPBELL.
STOCK AND BOND BROKER. OF-
flce Queen street, opposite Union
Feed Co.
M. W. M'CHESNEY & SONS.
Wholesale Grocers and Dealers la Leather and
Shoe Findings.
Agents Honolulu Soap Works Company
P. SILVA.
AGENT TO TAKE ACKNUWLEUU-
ments to Instruments, District of
Kona, Oahu. At W. C. Achl's office, as it entered the harbor
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
manu Street.
13 IvAAIIU-
CHAS. F. PETERSON.
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY
Public. 15 Kaanumanu otreei.
LYLE A. DICKEY.
King street, near Nuuanu.
Robert Lewers. F. J. Lowrey. C. M. Goose
LEWERS & COOKE.
Importers and Dealers in Lumber and
Building Materials. Office,
414 Fort St.
LEWIS & CO.
lole noil Retail Grocers
111 FORT STREET.
Telephone, 240 : : P. O. Box, SI.
commandant was drunk! This, on the
authority of the stray Filipinos who
were in readiness to occupy the de
serted fort.
El Frayle. El Caballo and Corregidor
destroyed, the McCulloch steamed back
to the fleet at anchor off Manila and
was then sent on the voyage which
was to bring her to this port. She
sailed from Manila on the morning o
November lGth, arriving in Hongkong
five days later, sailing thence to Amoy
Admiral Dewey has a way of sending
the United States vessels to the port
alone: the China coast to "show the
flag.'
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U. S. REVENUE CUTTER M'CULLOCIL 31
(Harry Roberts' Chalk Plate from a Kodak Picture.)
This natty little craft, in no way designed for war. purposes, has O
made a fine record during the operation of Admiral Dewey's fleet in O
and about Manila Bay. She drew the fire of the enemy May 1 and O
replied to the same. Catching a big shell would have been a case O
of sink to the bottom with the McCulloch. Therefore the men who O
went into Manila bay aboard of her are entitled to credit and recog- O
nition for their bravery and steadiness. To the McCulloch will al- O
ways belong the distinction of bearing the news of victory of May 1 O
from Manila to Hongkong. O
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ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY
Public. King ana iieinei oireow.
Telephone SOS. P. O. Box 7i5.
J. M. KANEAKUA.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
Law. Office: In the Occidental
Hotel, corner of King and Alakea
Streets, Honolulu.
CHARLES CLARK.
OUT
BUSINESS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW 121 MEH-
h.nt Street Honolulu Hale. Tel
ephone 345. Up Stairs.
0. G. TRAPHAGEN.
ARCHITECT 223 MERCHANT ST..
natMn Fort and Alakea. Tele
phone 73L Honolulu, H. I.
Goodhue Steel
Windmills
REDUCED IN PRICE TO
8 Ft., $30; 10 Ft. $40.
H. E. WALKER
Masonic Temple Block.
That was Commander Wilde's
mission when the Boston was sent
north cruising about the China sea.
From Amoy to Shanghai sailed the
McCulloch. leaving the latter port De
cember 1st for Nagasaki, wife re she
coaled on the 4th inst. The United
States collier Nero had sailed from that
port a few days previous. The McCul
loch arrived in Kobe December 7th and
in Yokohama the 0th inst.. sailing after
a week's stay in that harbor on Decem
ber 15th for Honolulu.
The trip has been uneventful a
pleasant one throughout. Just four
teen days with fair weather all the
way. with the exception of some light
head winds the last two days.
Of course the McCulloch is full of
war stories. All the officers, excepting
rant. Hooner and Chief Lngineer
Chalker, took part in the battle o!
Manila, and the crew, with the excep
tion of ten men. were all participants
Mounted on the forward deck are two
Soanish 5-inch bronze guns, taken off
the Reina Christina and destined to be
cast in the statues to adorn the collosal
Maine monument. They are centuries
old and have histories that would
a book.
Capt. Hooper relieved Capt. Hodgs-
don, then in command of the MCul-
och, last July, and will be remembered
as passing through Honolulu on the
China the month previous, for .the
Asiatic station. He is a handsome type
of the veteran American mariner
somewhat in looks after the style of
Commander Houdlette of the Australia.
Thirty odd years ago, in company with
Capt. Andrew Fuller, the well known
harbor master of this port, he sailed in
the United States merchant service on
the Atlantic. Later he took a com
mand under the United States revenue
service and has ably acquitted himself.
Tt was in the .spring of 1S93 that
Capt. Hooper had charge of the reve
nue cutter Richard Rush, that brought
11-fated Commissioner J. H. Blount to
Honolulu. It was a bright morning in
March of that year that the Richard
tush anchored in naval row and with
Blount came also ashore the newspa
pers containing President Cleveland's
message urging the reinstatement of
..iliuokalani. And it was on this trip
that Blount is said to have leaned over
the stern of the Richard Rush and
asked the commander "how the wheel
went around." For Blount was a land
lubber from the wilds of Georgia, and
iad to be explained everything naut
cal. This was one of the unpleasant-
est tasks of Capt. Hooper's whole ca
reer and he was glad when his fort
night's stay in Honolulu harbor was
over and he could steam back to San
Francisco.
The McCulloch left Baltimore on
January 9th, 1S98, on her famous trip
around the world destined to be in
terrupted at Singapore, where she re
ceived a dispatch from Washington to
hasten with the utmost despatch to
Hongkong and report for orders to Ad
miral Dewey, whose fleet had ren
dezvoued there. Only a few days of
preparation was allowed, under the ut
most secrecy, and then the McCullceh
sailed south with the United State3
men-o'-war to act as dispatch boat
which work was most dutifully per
formed. Prior to her arrival on the
Pacific the McCulloch had been regular
ly reported by press dispatches at Med
iterranean ports and along the coast
of Southern Asia.
Going through the straits of Gib-
ralter now nearly' a year ago Feb
ruary 5th, 1S97, the McCulloch passed
the Italian cruiser Etna, now a visitor
in these waters. The Etna was on her
round-the-world voyage and fate was
to lead these two vessels to meet again
in this haven of the Pacific.
Executive Officer D. P. Foley, who
superintended the building of the Mc
Culloch, is still on board, as are many
of the men who were assigned to her
when she first took commission.
In the cabin of the McCulloch is a
loving cup. presented some months ago
by the children of Hugh McCulloch,
the distinguished statesman, famous as
Secretary of the Treasury during Lin
coln's administration, with the historic
inscription solitary but forcible
'Manila, May 1, 1S9S."
trial trip) of 17 knots. The McCulloch
can maintain an average of 12 knots.
The McCulloch has ten officers and
a crew of eighty-five men. Her officers
are as follows:
C. L. Hooper, captain..
D. I'. Foley, executive officer.
W. W. Joynes, navigating officer
W. E. Atlee, third lieutenant.
J. Mel, third lieutenant.
J. II. Chalker, chief engineer.
W. C. Myers, first assistant engineer.
W. E. Maccoun, second assistant en
gineer. H. F. Schoenborn, third assistant en
gineer. J. B. Green, M. H. S., assistant sur
geon. The McCulloch will remain a few
days in port coaling and then proceed
to San Francisco to resume operations
in the revenue service.
Mystic Lodge Officers.
The annual election was held last
night in Mystic Lodge No. 2, Knights
of Pythias, with this result:
C. C C. H. Belli.
V. C S. J. Walker.
M. of W J. A. Mehrten.
K. of R. and S. A. E. Murphy.
M. of F. Chas Phillips,
M. of E. J. F. Eckardt.
M. at A. O. Whitehead.
I. G. A. G. Cunha.
O. G. Sam'l Johnson.
Trustees H. E. Waity, Ed Tdwse, J.
M. McChesney.
Physicians Dr. C. A. Peterson, Dr.
F. R. Day.
The installation exercises will take
place on Wednesday evening next and
there will be a banquet, with speeches.
Emma Square Kindergarten.
The Kindergarten on Emma Square,
formerly taught by Miss Pauahi Judd,
will be occupied this year by Miss
Martha Hitchcock.
Miss Hitchcock is the daughter of
Dr. C. H. Hitchcock of Dartmouth
College. She has graduated from one
of the Boston Kindergarten Training
Schools, and has had experience as a
kindergartner, besides teaching a
term with Mrs. Philip Dodge of Ho
nolulu. The winter term will open
January 3th, 1S99.
Formation of the First Associa
tion :of Settlers.
GOOD LAND IS SELECTED
A Tract 1.300 Acres People Anx
ious to Enter Location.
Model Town.
Intended only for the purpose of
thwarting smugglers and enforcing the
regulations of the United States Treas
ury Department the McCulloch is not
built, armed or manned for warfare.
There are a half-dozen odd guns
mounted, which might hurl unpleasant
missies at an escaping merchantman,
but would have little effect against a
vessel with the least protection. She
is schooner rigged, with a square fore
sail and three masts. Her length over
all is 219 feet, beam 32 feet, mean
draught 15 feet (13 feet forward and 1Q
feet aft) with a displacement of 12S0
tons. She has triple expansion engines,
four Scotch boilers, 2400 indicated H. P.
and a speed under forced draft (on
Another for Fort Street.
It is stated by Mr. Desky that he In
tends soon to build on a portion of his
property at the corner of Fort and
Beretania streets. He will occupy with
a new structure the land in front of
the Orpheum theater. Plans are in
course of preparation. As Mr. Desky is
in the habit of making handsome per
manent improvements, something
meeting his established standard may
be expected.
SOUVENIR CALENDARS.
-If you have not purchased one of
those handsome calendars at the Wo
man's Exchange, do so at once be
fore the supply is exhausted. 25c.
Byron O. Clark, secretary of tho
Board of Agriculture, and one of tho
hardest working officers in the civil
service, is making on well with hl3
Settlers' Association plan. The organ
ization for the first colony is practical
ly perfected. A list well-nigh suffi
cient has already been made and thero
are further applications almost every
day. i f
For the purposes of this Settlers As
sociation there has been secured a tract
of 1,300 acres of land makal of tho
wagon road .between Pearl City and
Waialua, ten miles from Pearl City and
eight miles from Waialua. The selec
tion is back of the pass into Waianae
from Mokuleia plains. There are two
streams of water on the site and the
records assure an abundance of rain
fall. BtiL to guard against drought
thee will be an irrigation plant.
Holdings so far selected range from
twenty to sixty acres. It is the inten
tion to grow vegetables for Honolulu
and fruit for export. A main produc
tion will be pineapples, to he shipped
fresh and to be canned. Under tho
head of oranges and limes and so mo
other orchard fruit, Mr. Clark 4s quita
confident. A survey is now being made
of the land and a number of the mem
bers of the Association are ready to be
gin building and the cultivation of tho
soil at once. The twentyseven acres
of nursery land under lease to Mr.
Clark at'Pearl City, go over to the As
sociation. The Oahu Railway people
and prominent Government officials aro
doing everything possible to forward
the movement.
The settlers are to have quite a vil
lage, Avith a church and school. In the
center of the fanning territory will bo
the homesteads to form the model
town. The town or building lots will
be five acres yet. So far Mr. Clark has
interested in the plan a number of ity
people in addition to the Californiana
with whom he has been corresponding
for more than a year. Any number of
people desire to come down from the
coast if they can sell their present prop
erties. Mr. Clark is the author of tho
amendment to the land act under which
these Associations may be formed.
This i3 the statute, from tile Session
Laws of 1898:
"Section 71. In case six or more per
sons, who are qualified to apply for
Right of Purchase Leases and Cash
Freeholds under this Act, shall form
themselves into a Settlement Associa
tion and apply for holdings in one
block of land, the Commissioners may,
with the approval of the Executive
Council, cause to be surveyed lots in
one block corresponding in number to
the number of persons forming such
association, in agricultural or pastoral
land or both, according to the provi
sions of this Act.
"Section 72. The provisions of thi3
Act relative to Right of Purchase
Leases and Cash Freeholds, shall be
followed in the settlement of such block
of land, and shall apply to all matters
relating to the occupation thereof and
the rights and obligations of the Gov
ernment and Lessees and Freeholders
under stich occupation, provided that
the notice by the Agent of Public Lands
declaring such land open for settlement
shall be directed to such Settlement
Association 'and shall be in one lan
guage only; and further provided, that
in case of the surrender or forfeiture of
the holding of any member of such as
sociation, such holding if declared open
for settlement shall be open to any ap
plicant under the provisions of this
Ikirt of this Act.
"Section 73. If any lot of such block
of land shall be left for three months
after such block is declared open for
(Continual on I'apre Seven.)
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