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VOLu XXX., NO. 5328
HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS,- MONDAY. SEPTEMI5EK 4. 1.9. -T YV KLV K PAGES.
PHICE FIVE CENTH.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
A. L. C. ATKINSON.
ATTOnNEY-AT-LAW. OFFICE: CO li
ner King and Bethel Streets, (up
stairs). DR. C. B. HIGH.
DENTIST. PHILADELPHIA DENT
al College 1892. Masonic Temple.
Telephone 318.
DR. A. C. WALL DR. 0. E. WALL.
DENTIST OFFICE HOURS: 8 A. M.
to 4 p. in. Love Building, Fort
'Street.
.M. E. GROSSMAN, D.D.S.
DENTIST 93 HOTEL STREET, Ho
nolulu. Office Hours: 9 a. m. to
4 p. m.
GEO- H. HUDDY, D.D.S.
DENTIST FORT STREET, OPPO
site Catholic Mission. Hours:
From 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
DR. A. GORDON HODGINS.
Cottage, corner Richards and Hotel
streets. Office Hours: 9 to 11; 2
to 4, 7 to 8. Telephone 953.
DR. WALTER HOFFMANN.
BERETANIA STREET, OPPOSITE
Hawaiian Hotel. Office Hours: 8
to 10 a. m.; 1 to 3 p. m.; 7 to 8 p.
m. Sundays: 8 to 10 a. m. Tele
phone 510. P. O. Box 501.
OR. JE1IIIIE L. HILDEBRAIID.
'OFFICE: 512 BERETANIA STREET,
near Alapai street. Hours: 9 to 12
a. m.; 1 to 4 p. m. Telephone 915.
DR. T. MITAMURA.
CONSULTING ROOMS, 427 NUUANU
Street; P. O. Box 842; telephone
132; residence 524 Nuuanu street,
flours; 9 to 12 a. m. and 7 to 9 p.
m.; Sundays, 2 to 6 p. m.
OR. T0MIZ0 KATSUNUMA.
VETERINARY SURGEON. SKIN
Diseases of all kinds a specialty.
Office: Room 11, Spreckels Build
ing. Hours: 9 to 4. Telephone
474. Residence Telephone 1093.
DR. 1. MORI.
230 BERETANIA ST., BETWEEN
Emma and Fort. Telephone 277;
P. O. Box 843. Office hours: 9 to
12 a. m. and 7 to 8 p. m.; Sundays,
9 to 12 a. m.
DR. A. N. SINCLAIR.
13 KING ST., NEXT TO THE OPERA
House. Office hours: 9 to 10 a. m.;
1 to 3 p. m.; 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays:
12 m. to 2 p.on. Telephone 741.
C. L. GARVIN, M. D.
'OFFICE NO. 537 KING STREET,
near Punchbowl. Hours: 9:00 to
12:00 a,.m., 7:00 to 8:00 p. m.
Telephone No. 448.
T. B. CLAPHAM.
VETERINARY SURGEON AND DEN
tist. Office: Hotel Stables. Calls,
day or night, promptly answered.
Specialties: Obstetrics and Lame
ness. CATHCART & PARKE.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. HAVE
moved their law offices to the Judd
block. Rooms 308-309.
LORRIN ANDREWS.
.ATTO RNE Y-AT-LA W. OFFICE WTTH
Thurston & Carter, Merchant St.,
next to postoffice.
W. C. Achl. Enoch Johnson.
ACHI & JOHNSON.
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS-at-Law.
Office No. 10 West King
Street. Telephone 8S4.
CHAS. F. PETERSON.
.ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND NOTARY
Public 15 Kaahumanu Street.
LYLE A. DICKEY.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND NOTARY
Public. King and Bethel Streets.
' Telephone S0G. P. O. Box 7S6.
P. SILVA.
.AGENT TO TAKE ACKNOWLEDG
ments to Instruments, District of
Kona, Oahu. At W. C. Achi's of
five. King Street, near Nuuanu.
T. McCANTS STEWART.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT
Law, Progress Block, opposite
Catholic Church, Fort Street, Ho
nolulu, H. I. Telephone 1122.
T. D. BEASLEY.
DRAUGHTSMAN. PLANTATION AND
Topograhpical Maps a Specialty.
Room 300, Judd Building, Tele
phone 633.
ALBERT F- JUDD JR.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
OFFICE: OVER BISHOP & CO.'S
Bank, corner Merchant and Kaahu
manu Streets.
FREDERICK W. JOB.
SUITE 815, MARQUETTE BUILDING,
Chicago, 111.; Hawaiian Consul
General for the States of Illinois,
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Wis
consin. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
F. D. GREANY, A.B. (Harv.)
TUTOR. WILL TAKE A FEW PU-
pils for private instruction. Of
fice corner King and Bethel Streets.
Telephone C2 and 806; P. O. Box
759.
MISS F. WASHBURN.
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER AND
Typewriter. Office: Room 202, Judd
Building. Telephone 1086.
WILLIAM SAVIDGE.
REAL ESTATE BROKER.
REAL ESTATE IN ALL PARTS OF
the Islands bought or sold. No.
310 Fort street; Mclnerny block.
C. J. FALK.
STOCK AND BOND BROKER. MEM
ber Honolulu Stock Exchange.
Room 301 Judd Building.
WM. T. PATY.
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
HAVING PURCHASED THE Busi
ness of Mr. J. C. Chamberlain, is
now prepared to do any and all
kinds of work. Store and office
fitting; brick, wood or stone build
ing. Shop, Palace Walk; resi
dence, Wilder avenue, near Ke
walo.
DR. A. C. POSEY.
SPECIALIST FOR EYE, EAR,
. THROAT AND NOSE DISEASES
AND CATARRH. Masonic Temple.
. Hours: 8 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 4 and 7
to 8 p. ml"
0. G. TRAPHAGEN.
ARCHITECT 223 MERCHANT ST.,
Between Fort and Alakea. Tele
phone 734. Honolulu, H. I.
JAMES T. TAYLOB, . AID. SOC. C. E.
CONSULTING HYDRAULIC ENGI-
neer. 306 Judd Block, Honolulu,
H. I.
A. J. CAMPBELL.
STOCK AND BOND BROKER. OF
fice Queen Street, opposite Union
Feed Co.
STENOGRAPHER.
MISS A. A. ALLEN, EXPERT STE
nographer and Typist, will be
pleased to receive orders. Office
cor. King and Bethel sts. (up
stairs); telephone [phone]
COOK'S MUSIC SCHOOL.
LOVE'S BUILDING, FORT STREET.
Fall term begins Sept. 4. Pupils
who have not arranged for hours
should apply at once.
ANNIS MONTAGUE TURNER.
REMAINING IN HONOLULU FOR A
few months . will take a limited
number of pupils for
VOCAL INSTRUCTION.
Terms by the lesson or month.
Commencing on and after the 10th
of July. "MIGNON,"
720 Beretania Street, Honolulu.
HONOLULU SANITARIUM.
10S2 KING STREET.
Telephone 639.
Dr. Luella S. Cleveland, medical su
perintendent. Hours: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Methods of Battle Creek, Michigan,
Sanitarium. Baths of every descrip
tion. Trained nurses in bath rooms as
well as in sick room. Massage and
manual movements. Electricity in
every form. Classified dietary, etc.
Ample facilities for thorough examina
tion. Dr. C. L. Garvin, consulting phy
sician and surgeon.
S. E. LUCAS, Parisian Optician.
LOVE BUILDING, FORT STREET;
"Upstairs; P. O. Box 351. I carry
a full line of ALL KINDS OF
GLASSES from the CHEAPEST
to the BEST. Free Examination
of the Eyes.
PERRY S. HEATH
Sketch of lie Career of the
Assistant Postmaster General.
HELD MANY POSITIONS OF TRUS
Identified With Hawaii Through His
Connection With the First
American Bank.
Now that the First American Bank
of Hawaii is to open its doors in a
day or two a sketch of the public ca
reer of its first and foremost promoter
will not be inopportune.
The recent official visit of First As
sistant Postmaster General Heath to
Porto Rico, resulting in the placing of
tue postal service of that island upon
an independent basis, and his selection
as a general secretary upon the nation
al committee to receive contributions
for the purchase of a home in Wash
ington for Admiral Dewey, have again
brougnt that popular young man into
public view. The secret of Mr. Heath's
success and popularity is not strange
when a little of his life is known.
Those who have only known Perry
Sanford Heath, First Assistant Post
master General, as the suave, adroit,
hardworking executive officer of the
Postoffice Department the "greatest
business concern in the world," as
roisimaster General Charles Emory
Smith described it in a recent maga
zine article those . who have only
met him, surrounded by prominent
public men in his business office,
equally alert in his intercourse with
them to grasp a political point or to
master a complicated executive detail,
might think that, like the traditional
poet, he was "born, not made," for his
position.
1 his would be far from the truth.
The facts are that he has been ham
mered into shape, so to spek, by hard
experience and variegated vicissitudes.
Some of these have been told; others
and the most interesting are not gen
erally known. That he was born on a
farm in Indiana and passed the early
years of boyhood in farm labor, has
often been published. There is noth
ing very significant in this, in view of
the bright galaxy of familiar names in
American history who received similar
initiation into public life. But Perry
S. Heath had training of otuer kinds.
rrinter, DanKer, newspaper corre
spondent in fields of special danger at
home and abroad; the confidant of men
of more than national reputation;
newspaper editor and publisher, and
manager of one of the most successful
of political literary bureaus, he made
a name and a mark in each avocation
before he was called upon to fill an of
fice, which, but for inherent modesty,
would have frequently placed him in
the Cabinet councils of the President
of the United States, as a representa
tive of the Postoffice Department in
the absence of his immediate chief, the
Postmaster General.
In the earlier years of his life, after
leaving his father's farm, Mr. Heath
entered a printing onice and learned
all the branches of the "art preserva
tive of arts." From that experience
dates his sympathy with all legitimate
trade organizations designed to pro
tect the interests of labor without at
tempting to do wrong to capital. This
feature of his public life has been rec
ognized by numerous formal resolu
tions of organized trade bodies. One
case in point: During his manage
ment of the literary bureau of the Mc
Kinley campaign, in 1896, at Chicago,
when he was furnishing matter to 12,
000 newspapers and political literature
by the carload, he ascertained that one
large order for printing, amounting to
probably $20,000 or $30,000, had fallen
into the hands of a non-union office.
He refused to accept the work after it
was completed, and so firmly resisted
all pressure and threats of litigation
that the important firm which had
made the contract as a last resource
took itself into the typographical
union, with its hundreds of non-union
employes, and then its work was ac
cepted, and printers all over the United
States rejoiced. He induced eight or
ten of the largest non-union printing
offices in Chicago to unionize, augment
ing the rolls of the unions by several
thousand names. For this action the
Allied Printers' Unions of Chicago
passed eulogistic resolutions and
thanked President McKinley for ap
pointing him First Assistant Post
master General. It was a like sym
pathy with labor that led him to ex
ert himself successfully, in his present
official capacity, to secure the classifi
cation of clerks at postoffices. another
achievement which has been widely
recognized.
While acting as newspaper corres
pondent at Washington 1SS1-93 hp
devoted much attention to financial
topics, and, with his brothers, started
several banks in Indiana ar. 1 Ohio.
serving as director in them as long as I
his time would permit, or until 1S94.
when he became president an ger,nral
PERKY S. HEATH, FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL ONE
OF THE PROMOTERS OF T
HAWAII.
.'
manager of the Cincinnati "Commer
cial Gazette" Company.
The year 3887 was one to him full of
adventure. He was sent by the United
Press to Paris during the Boulanger
excitement, with a view of becoming
war correspondent if that redoubtable
general succeeded in bringing on a re
newal of hostilities with Germany over
Alsace-Lorraine. He had a celebrated
interview with Boulanger, in which
that baffled agitator admitted he could
not raise sufficient forces to accom
plish his purpose, following up this
confesson by retiring to Belgium and
committing suicide.
From France Mr. Heath went to Rus
sia and studied Nihilism, obtaining
much important information, which
he contributed to magazines and aft
erward republished in book form, un
der the title of "A Hoosier in Russia."
These writings led to his obtaining,
after much difficulty, an interview with
the great Russian Nihilist, Sergius
Stepniak, in his secret retreat in the
outskirts of London., This adventure
was accompanied by many interesting
and mysterious features. He gained
Stepniak's confidence to such an ex
tent that when afterward a treaty was
sent to the United States Senate which
would have permitted the extradition
from this country of Russian political
exiles, Stepniak put himself in com
munication with Mr. Heath, came, to
Washington, was by him introduced to
the Senate Committee on Foreign Re
lations, to whom he made such repre
sentations (supporting them by read
ing extracts from Mr. Heath's book)
as led to the rejection of the treaty.
As if to crowd important adventures
into the smallest space of time, the
same year found Mr. Heath in Charles
ton, S. C, reporting the death-inflicting
earthquakes. In one of the nights of
inconceivable terror accompanying
that great convulsion of nature, when
buildings were falling all around him,
and terrified people were running into
the streets in their night-clothes, Mr.
Heath sat in the middle of the street,
dictating to a telegraph operator, who
had removed, his instrument to that
place of comparative safety, the only
full and connected acount given
through the press associations of the
memorable catastrophe which almost
laid Charleston in ruins. His various
services to the United Press Associa
tion were frequently recognized in the
proceedings of the directors.
The services rendered by him In con
nection with the last Presidential cam
paign have been mentioned. Mr. Heath
took a prominent part ' in previous
elections. He was one of the earliest
advocates of the nomination of Benja
min Harrison, with whom he was con
nected by ties of neighborhood and
friendship, for he himself was born
within a few smiles of the Harrison
homestead. He supported General
Harrison for the Senate, and for his
first Presidential nomination, and had
charge of the literary bureau at the
Minneapolis convention when Presi
dent Harrison was nominated a second
time. It is an open secret that Mr.
Heath was tendered and strongly urged
to accept the Governorship of one. of
the Western Territories, since admit
ted as a State, but declined the honor.
In connection with his present offi
cial position he has frequently been
called upon to perform important serv
ices. He was chairman of the Com
mittee of Arrangements of the Trien
nial Convention of the International
HE FIRST AMERICAN BANK OF
Postal Union, which met in Washing
ton City in 1S97 one of the most im
portant international bodies that ever
assembled in this country. " Congress
'appropriated $50,000 for their enter
tainment. Mr. Heath was also chair
man of the committee which disbursed
that fund, and turned back $7,0uu into
the Treasury probably the first in
stance when an undertaking' of this
kind did not result in a deficit.
He was chosen sole arbitrator to
pass upon a long-pending dispute be
tween the Government and the West
ern Union Telegraph Company as to
the rate of tolls to be paid on Govern
ment messages many hundreds of
thousands of dollars yearly being in
volved. and accreKatinc a total of
nearly $1,000,000. The investigation of
these accounts required great labor.
His report when made was promptly
accepted by both the Western Union
Telegraph Company and the Govern
ment as a satisfactory adjustment of
the controversy, and the United States
Court of Claims rendered judgment pro
forma, which judgment was satisfied
by Congress without question.
The arduous . duties performed by
him in organizing, establishing and
maintaining the military postal serv
ice during our late war with Spain are
matters of history. It was a work of
great responsibility, without any guid
ing line of precedent, for the public
records were silent as to how the mili
tary postal service was conducted dur
ing the war between the States, from
1S61 to 1SC5. The excellence and ef
fectiveness of the service established,
not only in the numerous miliary
camps in the United States, but in our
conquered and ceded new possessions,
attest in the most conspicuous manner
Mr. Heath's executive abilities, and
establish another bright marking-point
in his career as a public servant.
Jewish New Year.
Rplifrious services of the new vear
Mi t ! T),n TJo11 Vl,0
will be held at Progress Hall this
(Monday) evening at 7:30 o'clock. Lec -
ture in English on the subject, "The
Jew," by Leon M. Strauss.
On Tuesday, September 5, there will
' A. ' nnn
be services at 8:30 a. m. and at 10:30
a. m., prayer for the government and
English reading, interspersed with He-
brew prayer. The public are cordial-
ly invited to attend both services.
The U S. T. Grant.
In consequence of the discovery of a
suspicious case of illness on board, the
U. S. transport Grant was sent to the
quarantine station at Nagahama on
Sunday morning. She returned to"
port on Monday noon. The medical
men agree in thinking that the case is
a mild small-pox attack. Japan Ga- I
zette, August 19. I
-AXT UUd fffeWQPEE
Absoluxeev pure
Makes the food mere delirious end wholesome
. ,i0 PCwOES
TERRIBLE FIRES
Thousands of Hoases Destroyed in
Japanese Cities.
MILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH
Engagement of the Crown Prince Wireless
Telegraphy la Japan -Address from
French Consu'.
The following advices were received
by the Pacific Mail steamship Rio de
Janeiro last Saturday:
Fire broke out in the neighborhood
of Kumoicho in the native town, at
Yokohama, at about 8:30 o'clock on
Saturday night (12th) and in conse
quence of the strong southerly gale
blowing at the time, spread with fright
ful rapidity over an enormous area of
streets, involving the loss of several
lives, thousands of houses and much
valuable property. The quarter over
which the fire spread, however, being
one of the poorest in the city, with
some exceptions, including Isezakicho
and several public schools, the loss
was not so extensive as it .would have
been had the fire occurred elsewhere.
Had it not been for the barrier offered
by the creeks it is safe to say that al
most the whole of the native town,
would have been , included in this
wholesale destruction. Fortunately,
the flames were unable to overleap
these extremely narrow boundaries, so
that the area of devastation was re
stricted and veryclearly defined. The
fire raged until morning and only sub
sided when there was virtually noth
ing left to burn within the area men
tioned. Fifteen lives were lost and a
large number of people injured. Sev
eral native theaters and other ,large
buildings were burned. The official
reports show that 3,173 houses con
tained in seventeen streets were to
tally destroyed. The insurance to be
paid by the various insurance compa
nies amounts to about 603,000 yen and
several companies are bound to be
come bankrupt in consequence: Nearly
60,000 yen has been raised for the ben
efit of the homeless sufferers. . Since
the fire prices of the various staples
have risen 20 per cent on an average
and the rise in price of lumber, wood
plates, etc., is extraordinary. Carpen
ters, plasterers, matting-makers, stone
cutters and bricklayers, etc. now ask
20 or 30 per cent more wages and still
the supply is unequal to the demand.
Another big fire occurred. at 12:30
a. m. on August 20th at Toyama, where
some 6,000 houses, including a number
of public buildings, were, reduced to
ashes in twelve hours. The loss was
between six and ten million yen.
A second fire in Yokohama oh ' the
morning of the 17th destroyed seventy
six houses and partially burned four
teen more. " ; ' " '
On the 19th ult. judgment was given
in the. Yokohama Chiho Saibansho
(District Court) in the triple murder
. MI1W wna alieo. nf f. "V
case, in wbich an American named
; was KPntpnp, to ,WH i,llf M0 n.
appeal was immediately given. The
trial, being the first under the new
regime in which a foreigner is con
cerned, has naturally excited consid
erable interest, and the courtroom was
crowded by a large audience, which
included many foreigners, when sen-
fence was passed. The prisoner main-
tained a perfectly unmoved demeanor
throughout '
j Tne engagement of the Crown
Prince to Princess Kujo Sadako, third
, daughter of. Prince Kujo Michitaka was
to. be flounced on the 31st instant,
when the Crown Prince attained his
majority. The Kujo family is one of
five oldest and hjghest families of
Japant known as Gossekke. and the
, latfi rcmnrPSS nowaepr wa -a rinhtpr
of the late Prince Kujo Hisatada, 28th
descendant of the Kampaku Kiyo Ka
nezane. Fujiwara Kamatari, the an
cestor of the Kujo family, is deified as
a god in Yamato Province. The Im
perial Bride, Princess Sada, Was born
in April, 1884, and is the sister of H.
H. Princess Yamashina and of the
young Count Otani, of the Hongwanji
Buddhist Temple, Kyoto.
A treaty relating to extradition will
shortly be concluded between the Brit-
ish and the Japanese Governments and
also with Belgium and Mexico.
CO.. t.Tw rOR