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TIIE PACITIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISES, HONOLULU, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1909.
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Office Revolving Chairs
$6.50-UP---$6.50
Largest stock on the Islands
Coyne Furniture Go.,
LIMITED
Wholesale and Retail
How About
Your Auto?
Royal Hawaiian Garage, Ltd.
Geo. S. Weils, Mgr.
Hotel St, opp. Hawaiian Hotel. Phone 191.
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Shown by us commend themselves to particular peo
ple, no matter the point of view. The material, silk
and silk crejfe has the admiration of judges of ma
terial. The prices are satisfactory.
JAPANESE BAZAAR
Fort Street,
There Is Only One Peerless Preserving Paint
AND IT'S MADE AND SOLD ONLY BY US.
Give us a chance to figure on your work; we guarantee the cheap
est prices in town.
Celebrated Peerless Paint Felt, Pitch and Gravel Eoof i Eepairing.
Peerless Preserving Paint Co., Ltd.
Telephone 28L Office Tort St., Opp. Irwin & Co. P. 0. Box 757.
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iOCIETY GATHERS AT-
"When there is a dance. The event of the
night, when the moon will be at the full.
Health for the Children
Every parent notes with anxious eye the first symptoms of the children's
failing health: the pale cheek, listless manner and capricious appetite speak more
plainly than any words, for the well child is a veritsble storage battery of animal
pirits.
Benewing the appetite is the first step back to health and
Steams' Wine of Cod Liver Extract
given faithfully for a short time will do it. The children need not even know
it is a medicine for the taste is very pleasant and does not suggest cod liver oil
in the least. But the effect is certain.
For persons of every age Stearns Wine of Cod Liver Extract is an unfailing
tonic, appetizer and strength renewer. Get it at your chemist's, and be snre yon
get STEABNS-' the genuine. . j
WE HAVE EVEEYTHETG INCLUD
ING THE KNOW-HOW TO PUT
YOUR USED AUTOMOBILE IN A
CONDITION ' EQUAL TO A NEW
MACHINE. WE WOULD LIKE TO
TALK OVEE WITH YOU THE SUB
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season will take place next Saturday
1 ARMY AND
Siege guns and all the equipment to
make up three full batteries, together
with store wagons, ammunition wagons
and ordnance stores, were received by
the army department yesterday on the
Lurline, the first shipment to these
Islands of mobile guns for the use of
the artillery branch of the service. The
materials will all be transported to
Fort Euger and deposited in the Battery
j Harlow casemates until further orders.
me war mareriais -were aescrioea in
Tuesday's issue.
Uncle Sam After Trim.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. The War
Department is looking for a man who
claims to be Lieut. Earl B. McFarland,
and who, it is charged by the recruiting
officer at Pittsburg, passed worthless
checks in that city on May 25. The
penalty for impersonating a United
States officer is $1000 fine and three
years in the penitentiary at hard labor.
Only recently in San Francisco an im
poster confessed to the impersonation of
Lieut. Harry King.
The War Department gives the fol
lowing incidents affecting the new case
of imposture: Had a check cashed at
Philadelphia May 26. Cashed another
in New York for $100 July 30. Passed
himself off as Lieut, D. C. Thompson in
St. Louis, Aug. 10.
Magnet of Destruction.
A ' submarine magnet,'' which is to
be used as a weapon of destruction in
the naval warfare of the future, has
been patented in, Germany and experts
believe that this country has thereby
acquired a valuable asset ia maritime
operations. If their opinion is correct,
the twentieth century will have realized
a fable of the "Arabian Nights." Pat
ents, it must be remembered, are only
granted in Germany after all aspects
of the invention in question have been
thoroughly investigated by numerous
experts, all of whom incline much more
to skepticism than to credulity. The
mere fact of an invention being patent
ed in Germany is thus to some extent a
guarantee of a certain amount of prac
ticability. i '.
The weapon in question consists of a
huge magnet far surpassing in strength
any of the kind that have hitherto been
manufactured. The magnet, which has
the same shape and form as a gigantic
cog-wheel, will be connected with 'the
shore by means of electric cables run
ning into a power station, which will
be quite invisible from seaward, and
will be what is technically called
"sunk." The magnet will be placed
primarily at the mouths of ports or
rivers or bays which have to be pro
tected against hostile attacks. The
effect on steel ships passing near these
magnets will vary according to the size
of the ship, but the general result, it
is claimed, would be to render them
unmanageable and entirely at the mercy
of their adversaries on the spot. The
attractive force of the magnet, accord
ing to the inventor, would be so tre
mendously powerful that all iron and
steel machinery on board would cease
to Operate and would be thrown out of
gear, probably coming to a standstill
or working so erratically that disastrous
results would be produced.
In the case of smaller ships, it is even
asserted that they would be drawn from
their set course by the attractive force
of the magnet. It would thus be pos
sible to run a hostile ship of a moderate
size ashore by means of this weapon.
In the ease of still smaller ships, it is
further suggested that they might be
drawn under the water by-the attractive
power of the magnet. Experts declare
that this weapon can be effectively used, communications, while an armored deck
not only for home defense, but also in covered in all the machinery. Each
offensive operations far away from ' vessel mounted four 12-inch guns of
home ports. It might be possible, for the thirty-five-ton, muzzle-loading
instance, to sink such a magnet at the type.
mouth of some hostile port and connect ' These ships were the British adapta
it by submarine cables with a dynamo j tion of the all-big-gun principle, aud
ship anchored sufficiently far away to gave rise to endless controversy, for
ue invisible ana oucsiae tne immediate .
area of danger.
The inventor of this weapon is a
German naval engineer, whose name has
hitherto been kept secret. The magnet
ean be constructed cheaply, and its
handling is simple. Two experts who
were asked to draw up a technical re
port on this invention expressed their
opinion that it may prove so effective
as to revolutionize some of the prevail
ing methods of naval warfare. Until,
however, a modern battleship has been
actually deflected from her course by
one of these magnets and her twelve
inch guns rendered useless by its means,
there will necessarily be some skepti
cism as to its value.
Lieut. Houston Promoted.
Lieut. Victor Houston, U. S. N., in
charge of the lighthouse service ill Ha
waii, acting captain of the yard at the j
Naval Station, and commander of the
U. S. S. Iroquois, is now a lieutenant- !
commander with rank from July 6 last.1
The promotion was caused by the death
of Lieut. Daniel Mahoney who died at
Mare Island August 10. Lieut.-Com-mander
Houston is considered an island
boy as his mother was one of the mem-!
bers of the Brickwood family, marry
ing into the navy. He is one of the
xiuebi swordsmen in rne war marine.
Prince on Cruiser. 1
Prince Shimazu will be aboard the
Japanese cruiser Iznmo which is to
leave Japan, September 15 next month,
tor Honolulu and San Francisco. The
Prinee will be entertained during the
five days' visit of the cruiser in Ho
nolulu. On the return voyage the
cruiser will arrive here about Novem
ber 5 and remain five days. Captain
Takeshita is in command of the war
ship. Monitor Was Model.
LONDON, August 9. The naval ex
pert of the Daily Telegraph says:
The British battleship Dreadnought, son. Smith & Co., Ltd., agents for Ha
whieh flies the flag of Admiral Sir Wil- waii. .
NAVY NEWS
liam H. May, as commander-in-chief of
the home fleet, is the descendant of
Ericsson's Monitor. She is indeed a re
version to the original type. We owe
her to America. When Eriesson design
ed his revolutionary man-of-war he had
the British government in his eye. In
a letter to the assistant secretary of
the United States Navy Department
in 1862 he stated that "the impregna
ble and aggressive character of thi3
structure will admonish the leaders of
the southern rebellion that the bat
teries on the banks of their rivers will
o longer present barriers to the en
trance of the Union forces. The iron
clad intruder will thus prove a severe
monitor to those leaders."
And then his thoughts traveled
across the Atlantic, and he added:
"There are other leaders who will
also be startled and admonished by
the booming of the guns of the im
pregnable iron turret. Downing street
will hardly view with indifference this
last 'Yankee notion' this monitor. To
the lords of the admiralty the new
craft will be a monitor, suggesting
doubts as to the propriety of complet
ing those four steelclad ships at three
and a half million dollars apiece."
On these and many other grounds he
concluded:
"1 propose to name the new battery.
Monitor."
Ericsson was quite right in his anti
cipations. This new "ironclad in
truder," without mast, spar or sail,
gave the board of admiralty of that
day a shock and changed the whola
development of naval design.
The Monitor was a modification of a
design which Ericsson had submitted
to Napoleon III. in 1854. Eight years
had merely confirmed his original ideas,
and when his ugly, grim, "impregna
ble" man-of-war made her appearance
all the navies of the world were ren
dered obsolete. Yet she was a little
ship as vessels are reckoned in these
days. She was only 210 feet long,
with an immense beam of 45 feet; her
deck and low Bides were plated, and
she had two 150-pounder guns in a
single turret amidships. This turret
was, the feature of the ship.
It was protected by eight 1-inch steel
plates screwed together and was turn
ed round by steam, so as to bring her
guns to bear on an enemy. She was
the most repulsive ship on which sail
ors had ever looked lacking all that
comeliness which they had hitherto as
sociated with the great "sailing men-of-
war, to which they still clung with j
pride and devotion. The Monitor had i
no bulwarks and her deck was barely;
two feet above the water level, while '
there was nothing for an enemy to
hit on the deck except the funnel and ;
a pilot house, which, like the turret,
was also steelclad. She was the first
all-big gun ship and banished the
broadside system of mounting guns, for
the time, at least.
After some hesitation, the British
admiralty realized that it had to fol
low the American lead, and three large,
low, f reboard, mastless, turret ships
were laid down, the Dreadnought, the
Devastation and Thunderer, the first
ships without sails, and thus a sorrow;
to the seamen of the old school.
They were given a higher freeboard
than the Monitor about four feet
because a British man-of-war must be
able to meet any sea. On their sides
they had a belt of fourteen inches of ,
arnlor, of course, of very poor resist
ance, and above this, for about two-.
thirds of the entire length, was a
brestwork of twelve inches of armor
for the protection of the base of the j
turret, the loading gear and the vital
tnougn tnev onerea a very smaii xar-
get to an enemy, owing to the near
r.ess of the deck to the water, they
could not steam against a heavy sea.
Their gun power, however, was re
garded as marvelous.
Thus we came by. our first ship of
the all-big-gr.n principle. In the de
sign of the old Dreadnought may be
seen the germ of the Dreadnought of
today.
iHn FISHES ST
SEATTLE LOOK WELL
He's here again. H. W. Green, the
well-known and gentlemanly collector
of bills, is in town once more, having
arrived yesterday on the Lurline from
a visit to the Coast of several weeks.
He traveled all over California, "Wash
ington, Oregon and the lake section,
and of course, visited the Hawaii ex
hibit at the Seattle fair.
"The fish exhibit from Hawaii makes
one of the biggest hits at the exposi
tion," said Mr. Green. "I inquired at
the Hawaii building whether many of
the fish had died and they told me a
few had at first, due to negligence.
They are fine looking, their color has
been retained, and their curious shapes
attract general attention. The Hawaii
exhibit is fine, and people certainly
want to eat Hawaiian pineapples."
Mr. Green found the fountain of
youth while away and comes hack to
his duties full of vigor.
SOLD THE WORLD OVEE.
"We have m stock many colic and
diarrhoea medicines," says R. M.
White, a prominent merchant of Turtle
Bayou. Tex., U.S.A., "but sell more of
Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy than of all others put
tntretlipr- TVir salo 1w oil rtealam Tta.
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THE HAWAIIAN GAZETTE COMPANY, LIMITED. J
65 King Street. j
and sold in book shops generally.
Price, $2.00. Postage, 25c extra.
Hawaiian Ballasting Com pany
BUILDING CONTh ACTORS
151 MAUNAXHA STREET, NBAS KINO. P. O. Box 820; Tel. 395.
' K. Matsumoto, Manager
Black Sand, Coral, Garden Soil, delivered anywhere In Honolulu, from
corner Hotel and Fort streets, at LOWEST PRICES.
AS THE DEVIL SHUNS HOLY WATER
so the Osteopath shuns "drugs and surgery." Osteopathy is a sys
tem of healing, which treats the human body by manual therapeu
tic and naturopathic methods. Its unparalleled success speaks for
itself. ;
Dr. F. Schurmann, Osteopath
Specialty Treatment of the eyes osteopathically and fitting of glasses.
HOURS Consulting, 2-3 p. m., Saturdays excepted. . "
Operating, 8-12 a. m. Telephone S3.
3- 6 p. m. Office 222 Emma Square.
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Call at the Honolulu Wire Bed Co.'s retail store and see
what spot cash will buy. You will have a revelation in prices.
This applies to furniture of all kinds and to BAILEY'S CELE
BRATED "DUPLEX" WIRE MATTRESSES. -
Honolulu Wire Bed Co.
Kapiolani Building, King and Alakea.
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Underwear, B. V D. Athletic
Poris Net and Lace Weave
YOUR SIZE
152 Hotel Street, Opposite Young Hotel.
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with the most delicate materials to
be cleaned and dyed. We send them
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