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THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, HONOLULU, OCTOBER 30, 1903. TRANSPORTS MAY FOLLOW AFTERNOON DISPATCHES Crystal FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS PACIFIC CABLE ROUTE Art KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 29. Mrs. Emma Booth-Tucke- r, the commander of the Salvation. Army workers in the United States, was Mounts Springs killed today in a railroad wreck near this city. is for Calendars United States Army Quartermaster Department a r Is Mapping Out Lanes of Travel in Pacific, Butter and Honolulu is on Favorite Line. Imitations of beautifully! grained woods and so naturaj that you will hardly believe them imitation. These mounts! The advent of the Pacific cable to Honolulu and its subsequent are of a great Poorly fed cows are not extension to Midway, Guam, and Manila has at last broifght about variety of sises. productive of good butter. official recognition from the quartermaster's department of the United at different prices and each one The Crystal Springs Butter States Army, which has practically adopted the route of the cable as furnished with a 1904 calendar the route for the army transports. This route will be generally known pad. comes from the finest alfalfa as the Pacific cable route, jln fact, the cable is likely to change the dairy With an Island view for the section of California Pacific Ocean lanes. picture, these and is the best In the world. When the recent American movement to Asia began, Capt. McCalla make a specially Every pound guaranteed. of the navy conceived the idea of plotting out routes across the Pacific attractive holiday gift for which should be adopted by all transports and to which the merchant friends away. ships should be invited. The object of this plan was twofold. For one thing, if any accident befell a ship, it could, by being on beaten track, be picked up by the next vessel that came along, When MelroDOlii Meat Go. it is recalled that it is a very rare exception, in a twenty-si- x days' HONOLULU journey across the Pacific Ocean, to sight a solitary ship of any sort, Photo Supply Co. LIMITED. even on this recognized lane, the importance of getting into the range of possible manifest. OJRT1 TELEPHONE MAIN 45. companionship becomes very STREET The other advantage to be gained by the use of a uniform course come in the accumulated knowledge of its peculiarities and dangers. Each shipmaster keeps a record of the winds .and the currents, the temperature of air and water, 'as well as a constant watch for reefs C. Q. Yee Hop & Co. and rocks on the route. The results of all these findings are made available to every navigator through the publications of the Hydro-graph- ic N0TICI PROPRIETORS Office. Capt. McCalla projected two direct lines to Asia out of San ANT WOMAN OR OTRT, Ttfwrn route belp or advice, is invited to oomma Francisco, one to Manila and the other to Nagasaki. A thirl cate, person Market to Asia and means on the either in nr hv iott.r MikiDai Heat took the direct line to Honolulu "direct" Ensign Nora M. Underhill, matron! great circle and from there to Guam or to Manila by a line laid out tne baivation Army Woman's Indf AND Gn the flat surface, or Mercator charts. But the McCalla projections trial Home, Young street, between M Asia direct did not been abandoned tesian and McCully streets, to prove practicable, and they have THE LATE MRS. BOOTH TUCKER. mafl GROCERY for reasons growing out of the mysteries of great circle navigation. side, Honolulu. Any one who applies a string to the surface of a globe represent- It ing the earth will readily find that the shortest line between our north- is unlikely that the venerable head of the Salvation Armv, ONE !i west coast and Japan is one swinging so far north as actually to invade General William Booth, ever imagined that his favorite daughter, Emma MOMENT "We Booth-Tucke- sell all kinds of the Aleutian Islands. In this way the bulge of the globe is avoided. Moss r, would pass away before himself. The late Mrs. When a transport now starts out from the Golden Gate on the shortest BoottvTucker was the idol of the 'Salvation Army women of the HAVE YOU A BABY MEAT, possible line Guam, United States for in the last seven years to 2,000 miles southwest of San Francisco's latitude, she had become well and per- THEN TOU NEED A BOTTLE, FRESH BUTTER, she sets her prow boldly to the north of west. She makes 140 miles sonally known to many of them owing to her constant visits to cities,' 'THE TWO ARE INSEPARABLE, north of San Francisco, all told, in going to Guam on the great circle towns, and hamlets in every part of the Union where bands of the army VEGETABLES, were located. before her course loses its northerly bearing. WHILE THET LAST. AND POULTRY. It does not begin to dip southward much before the second week Mrs. Booth-Tuck- er was the second daughter of General Booth. of the journey. Thus, to go south, a vessel actually sails north. She was born in i860 in London and spent the first twenty-eig- ht years 8 oz. Graduated Beef has been reduced two cents In southern waters, between Guam and Manila, there is little dif- of her life there. At the age of twenty Mrs. Booth was placed in per pound from former prices. ference between the great circle route and that on the parallels, because charge of the International Training Homes of the Salvation Army. In there the parallels are almost great circles. It is toward the north, in a big headquarters in London the young woman spent eight years in Nursing Bottle: every ocean, that the differences are most marked. training young women, picked up from the streets and everywhere, to Beretania street cor. Alakee. Capt. McCalla's great circle lanes would have worked well, had go out as officers of the Salvation Army. It was while she was engaged WITH NIPPLES all the Philippine business been outward bound. But in bringing back ha una nuiK nidi sue met ncutntK 01. oeorge ue laiour 1 ucKer. invalids and convalescents from Manila, the officers found it perilous He Had had a 'remarkable career and her admiration for him quickly WILL GO FOR became great. Tucker had been in w. & to expose them to the cold of the Aleutian Island region. With the born India. He was sent to Eng- w mm co. sick in the hospitals it made little difference, but for those who had land, educated in Cheltenham College, and then passed the Indian Civil progressed toward recovery far enough to insist oh remaining out on Service examinations. He was sent out to India to fill a judgeship, but Limited PURCHASES LIMITED TO 1 DOZEN. deck, the change from the sultry climate of Manila proved too sudden. at the age of twenty-eig- ht he resigned his position to enter Salvation These. great circle routes also threw the ships into a region of Army work. He was such a man as Booth needed to establish his KEEP UP THE RUSH. Merchant Tailors frequent storms and heavy currents. Accordingly, the acting marine army in the great Indian empire, and within a years' time Tucker had THE STORM WILL SOON BE OVER, superintendent, Captain George H. Pierce, decided to plot out some accomplished it. He put the Salvation Army on a good footing there Waity Building, King St. routes of his own, based on a more comprehensive survey of practical and continued in charge of the work for nine years. In 1888 he went W. W. Dimoiid & Co., Lid. conditions. to England and married Emma Moss Booth. 'At the wish of General Phone Bine 2741 Importers Booth he then changed his name to Booth-Tucke- r. of CROCKERY, GLASS- - Captain Pierce began by projecting the great circle between San Mr. and Mrs. W ARE, Opposite Advertiser Booth-Tuck- er HOUSE FURNISHING Oflce Francisco and Guam. This is the most southerly of the three Astatic returned to England in 1891. For five years they labored GOODS. points which our transports have in view, the other two being Naga- in the metropolis and then came the falling out between General Booth Sole Agents in the Hawaiian Terri American and Foreign, saki and Manila. and his son Ballington Booth, the latter at that time being in charge of tory for Detroit Jewel Stoves, Gurney Worsteade Guam's the Salvation Army in America. Ballington Booth left Cleanable Refrigerators, U. S. Cream great circle route, as already described, does not get far 'his father and Separators, Dey established the Volunteers of America, an organization which threat- Time Register, Mon- north of San Francisco. This line was accordingly made a main street, arch Blue Flame Oil Stoves, Puritan as it were, of Pacific navigation, with branches thrown out from a ened for a time to undermine the Salvation Army in the United States. Blue Flame Oil Stoves, Primus Stoves point in mid-ocea- n to the other two ports. This makes something very Gen. Booth sent the brilliant ian from India and his daughter, the and "Dandy" Wind Mill. three-pronge- 5357 King street. T. like a d fork as the basis of the Pacific system. former's wife, to America to place the Army on its right basis again. Honolulu, H. Fukuroda, Booth-Tuck- er Transports bound for these three Asiatic ports all use the same Since then the Uvo have been in cvnmand. Mrs. holding a turn fmn$M JAPANESE! track for the first half of their journey out of San Francisco.

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