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JL . f t a-. ; 238 9. LITY )ATLT as XT. S. WEATHER BUREAU, Jnauary 4. Last 24 Hours' Rainfall, .00. Temperature, Max. 74; Min. 64. Weather, fair. jiaTABLiSHKD JULY 2, 1858. SUGAR. 96 Decree Test Centrifugals, 3.70c. Per Ton, $74.00. 88 Analysis Beets, 10s. std. Per Ton, 532.40. VOL. XLIX, NO. 8240. HONOLULU, HAWAII TERRITORY, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. )AY OF The Mayor Shows Incompetence and the Supervisors Get Things Snarled. r - - ipV f a J?' K1." i? e if ip if ip t? tp ip ip ip 'ip ip ip ip iPPiPPPPP k p ,p ,p . The City and County of Honolulu was born yesterday at the hour of noon, 3nd the birth pangs were awful. If Speaker Cannon had been present at the initial session of the new Board of Supervisors, he would have learned more about rules and parliamentary procedure than was ever written in his little look; if Noah Webster had listened to the Mayor's inaugural address, he would immediately have issued an appendix to his dictionary; if Sam Johnson could bave seen Cummins and Wilson both sitting at his old desk in the road super visor's office, he would have lapsed into Cossack to say what he thought about it; and if dogs had been admitted at the muzzling, of . the. Mayor, they would liave received some ideal pointers on how to chase their tails. The old Board of Supervisors took the first trick in the political scrap now -well under way, abolishing all county offices and rescinding " all appointments. This was thought to spike Pern's guns in the matter of the appointments he had anade. Then, after the new Board had been seated, the Mayor read his address and announced that there would be nothing more doing. This failed to satisfy the new Supervisors, who forced the calling of a special meeting, and having thus gained an inch proceeded to take an ell. They went ahead and passed rules, called upon Supervisor Logan to act as temporary chairman when the Mayor refused to put the motions, appointed their standing committees, defied the Mayor, demanded their rights as the elected representatives of a free people, and generally proceeded to have their own way. The Mayor, in the meanwhile, floundered around between notes from his secretary, called attention to the law, pleaded for harmony, and finally sat tight and ruled everything and everybody out of order. Both parties in the Board announced a glorious victory last night. In the meanwhile the party pickets skirmished around the various outposts. The storming parties at the county stables found the gates locked and the Republican holdovers in entrenched possession; at the various quarries- the former watchmen locked themselves up with their fuse and giant powder ana declined to surrender their keys. By a skilful flank movement Johnny Wilson led his party into the office of the road supervisor and he and Tommy- Cummins glared across the boss's desk at each other for the balance of the afternoon, while the new office force watched the' old office force trying to appear busy. It had been supposed that the office was locked up against intruders, but an over-zealous clerk bad unlocked the door under the impression that he was double-locking it. , This morning, so it is announced by the Democrats, the Republican road workers are ordered to march out to their work under the marshaling lead of Jim Quinn, the Supervisor named by the bolting majority as chairman of the standing committee on roads and bridges. This evening, at the first regular meeting of the Board, it is expected that there will be a fight to the finish, with the odds in favor of the Republican majQrity. The Mayor proved himself a tactless tactician in his encounter with the Supervisors, while the Supervisors themselves, with their majority to back them up, fussed themselves into wrong positions and made confusion worse con founded. During the whole meeting of the Board yesterday there was not one clarifying statement made. A motion .to override the ruling of the Mayor ruling out of order a motion that he put a motion overriding his ruling on a motion was one of the things debated, and an example, only a trifle exaggerated, of the general trend of the meeting. Out of it all emerges the fact that Honolulu has a new city government. "Ring Out the Old; Ring In the New. At five minutes before the noon hour yesterday Chairman Hustace, Tapped for order at the meeting 'of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Oahu that lie might announce the changing of the government. All the members were present. "We are about to close our labor snd go out of office, the last Board of Supervisors of the County of Oahu," Itegan Chairman Hustace. "Before we disband, I want to thank the mem bers of this Board and the heads of the various departments for the sup port they have given me as chairman of this Board. , We have made a suc cess of county government, although it ceases from today and city government takes its place. "The second Board of Supervisors is now adjourned sine die." New Board Seats Itself. It was three minutes before time by the official clock when the old Board V 3 3 v v w -J 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 t L .-rr,:..y.r- ..ZJli:: :j:tr.. . - ... ' Advertiser Thoto. CROWD OUTSIDE COUNTY OFFICES, WAITING FOR THE INAUGURATION OF CITY GOVERNMENT v J J & J J J 1 & w J Jt J J j J jt 3 3 JX 3 3 3 3 3 3 333 3 3 J3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3333 a V. In. 'a i. r 1ft is-' 0 T'l . p , I . THE AUTOMATIC BOTTOM OF THE FRKHISE 'j Can the New Corporation Be Kept Off the Streets? STRAIT FORGED UP 1400 FEET gave up the ghost and its chairs, and the new Board scrambled for seats. Cox retained his chair at the foot of the table, Kane dropped, in for Archer's warm place, Quinn fell heir to the spot where Kealoha formerly squirmed, Ahia succeeded Harvey. Av- Laltbe wWcrie Lr need d fat fully' took what was left, the seat of Dwight, while McClellan found a new chair and drew it up on the right-hand side of the Mayor. Citv and Counts Clerk Kalauokalani resumed his former MAYOR JOSEPH J. FERN. 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 of County Supervisors has adjourned and a new government of this city is about to begin, I want to say that county government has been a success, a government during the past three and a half years of the people and by the people. The last Board met four times every month, and the public had ut all times an opportunity to have their wants attended to, not like the Territorial Government, which met only once every two years and com pelled tne peopie to wait two years ion. County gov ernment has been a success, and I am proud to say that I had a part in making it a success. J'NowV let me appeal to you, Mr. Mayor and members of the Board of station and the County Attorney adopted a new seat opposite him. Sec retary Knodes sat on the wiudow-ledse. rrti 2 ... 0 his place and introduced him as fol lows: "Fellow Citizens: As the last Board Supervisors, to keep up the good work My advice to the new members of this Board is that you take off your coats nd give vour support to the first j ...... ' "",J V" ' V VJ. (ilV , V. crowd in the room and thronffinsr the corridor applauding, Mayor Fern took (Continued on Page Five.) r z il 'Yx . 'v4 "'X J' 'ft 5 J '"J " -Mil I M CHARLES L. RHODES, SECRETARY TO THE MAYOR. MARINE BATTALION WILL BE LOCATED AT CAMP VERY The Cruiser Buffalo Leaves Mare Island Today for Honolulu, to Arrive Here With Cavalry. Four hundred marines with fourteen officers leave San Franeisco or Mare Island, today for Honolulu, the van guard of a marine garrison which may in time number two thousand. The marines will be transported on the aux iliary cruiser Buffalo and will arrive here about the same time the two squadrons df the Fifth Cavalry come. In other words over one thousand army and navy men will be added to the population next week. Captain Bees, commandant of the naval station, stated yesterday that the Buffalo would probably arrive on the 33th or 14th. It is the intention of the naval authorities to establish the battal ion on the vacant grounds adjacent to tamp ery and quarter the men in tents m the same manner as the single company already camped on the grounds under command of Captain Fav. This will make Camp Very prettv a"rge and it the grounds are improved as those on which Camp Very is immediately located, the post will prove one of the attractions of the city. The development of Pearl Harbor has not proceeded far enough to warrant establishing the marines there yet When actual development begins 'and supplies are to be moved there,, a camp will he selected and prepared. The battalion is commanded by Major C. G. Long. Will the new automatic telephone company be deprived of its right to erect poles on the publie streets and dig conduits to conceal its wires under the ground? Has the new Boaid of Supervisors, under the Municipal' Act, the power to revoke street privileges given by the Territorial authorities? These two questions may yet have to be decided by the process of law, for there is a well-defined rumor to the effect that the Mutual Telephone Com pany will attempt to induce the new Supervisors to refuse the Hawaiian Wireless and Telephone company the right to use the streets. There is a pretty question of law in this matter. The present franchise which the new automatic company holds came from the old wireless company. When Hutehins sprung his big deal, the new company was incorporated and the franchise of the wireless concern was included in the incorporation. This gave the con solidation the necessary right to erect telephone wires or place conduits under the streets. The published plan of the new hello firm is to run its wires under ground in the districts between Kala kaua avenue and King street to Palama. The franchise to the wireless company for this purpose was given by the Ter ritorial Superintendent of Public "Works when Mr. Holloway was the head of that department. The Municipal Act, while it gives the power over the streets to the Board of Supervisors, is not re troactive, according to one authority. It is stated, however, that the Super visors may have the right to revoke the street rights which were given the auto matic company by Holloway. . E. M. Watson was communicated with but he knew nothing of. such proposed action, nor did L. A. Thurston, who is the attorney for the Hawaiian Wireless and Telephone Company. Clinton D. Hutehins stated that such a move was news to him. It is known, however, that there was a conference of Terri torial officials on this matter yesterday afternoon. Eumor has it that the new Supervis ors were made aware of their power over the streets by the Mutual Tele phone company, or its agent, but Mayor Fern . and Supervisor Ka ne, who were seen, denied that they knew anything about it. By whom the question was presented to the Territorial officials is not known, and whether or not any actioa wvl! be taken by them cannot be learned. It is understood that no definite decision on the matter was reached at the con ference yesterday. .. , A MIDNIGHT VIGIL. Last night the Kakaako stables were in a state of siege. Cummins' men held the inside under command of Lieuten ant Coster of the militia, and Wilson's men marched up and down outside. The Road Supervisor has men watching . quarries, crushers and rollers for fear 1 the Democrats will capture them. , t (Associated Press Cablegrams.) MESSINA, January 5. The earthquake shocks continue and scientists predict more. Soundings have established the fact that seismic energy has lushed up the bottom of the strait 1400 feet. RESCUING LIVING VICTIMS. " Ten thousand soldiers are working in the ruins of the city and some victims are still being taken out alive. SCORPION ARRIVES AT MESSINA. The U. S. S. Scorpion has arrived here. THE POPE VISITS SUFFERERS. ROME, January 5. Fifteen hundred wounded refugees have been takea to the Vatican hospital, where the Pope visited and blessed them. Many of the sufferers tried to kneel at the Pontiff's feet. ROYAL COMPLIMENTS. The King, in a royal order, commends the heroism of the Army and Navy and that of the sailors on the foreign warships. PARLIAMENT SUMMONED. Parliament has been convoked on the eleventh. CULGOA TO HELP. PORT SAID, January 5. The Culgoa has sailed for Messina. AFTERNOON ADVICES. MESSINA, January 4. Fifteen thousand people have been rescued from the ruins in, this city. The ammunition in the forts has been found uninjured. The cities are being abandoned. j The villages about Reggio have been completely obliterated. Much of the treasure has been recovered and taken to the warships. WASHINGTON, January 4. Congress has appropriated $800,000 for the relief of the Italian sufferers in Sicily. - . j. LARGEST SHINGLE MILL BURNED. BELLTNGHAM, Washington, January 5. The largest shingle mill in the world burned here last night, involving a loss of $415,000. 4 PACIFIC FLEET HEARD FROM. TALCAHTJANO, January 5. The United States Pacific fleet, Admiral Swinburne commanding, has arrived here. : . PALACE FOR OUR EMBASSY. WASHINGTON, January 5. The Senate has passed the bill calling for the expenditure of $400,000 to erect a home for the United States Embassy in Paris. o-t-a TRIAL OF CALHOUN. SAN FRANCISCO, January 4. The trial of Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railways, is set for January 12. He is charged with bribery of City Supervisors. STANDARD OIL WINS. WASHINGTON, January 4. The Supreme Court handed down a decision today in the famous case in which the Standard Oil Company was fined $29,000,000. The decision is against the government. FLEET ENTERS SUEZ CANAL. WASHINGTON, January 4. The first division of the Atlantic battleship fleet entered the Suez Canal today. It has been ordered to proceed to Naples. BERLIN, January 4. President Castro of Venezuela underwent an opera tion today for a disease of the kidneys. SACRAMENTO, January 4 The California Legislature met today. Wolfe was elected President of the Senate, and Stanton Speaker of the House. A 3 ir