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i J? Jf K " C , ff ff C f ft it WEATHER BU- U. S. ? SUGAR-- 96 Test 5 25-.-L2- REAU, April St Centrifugals, 4.455c.; 1 . hours' rainfall, .GO. k 24 Per Ton, $$9.10. SS k Temperature.max.82; Analysis Beets, Us. k min. 67. Weather, k f k fair. k HONOLULU, HAWAII TERRITORY, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1908. VOL. VI., NO. 278. FOURTEEN PAGES Entered J.n. It. 1909, t HoohU. BmwH, m4 : ght, win de DOING SOMETHING SIX HUNDRED DEAD St a. 13 V . IN THE LINE OF NEW M AI DYI1C AFTER THE th th v "s jr u on STEAMSHIP SERVICE GREAT WIND STOR no nom 0. Transportation Committee Learns of a Project Tornado Damage One Million Dollars Many SI. Which May Mean a Number of Good Towns Wiped Out British Cruiser in eet i Things for Honolulu. Collision a Total Loss. i FEEING THE SALUTE AT THE NAVAL STATION FOB ADMIRAL VERY. Honolulu is to be the center of a for our Japanese and Chinese popula- (Associated Press Cablegrams.) tion. Tiew transpacific line. The day that stop NEW April 26 appointed the member "I hope these boats will at more ORLEANS, Estimates of the number of fa Oovernor Frear than one Hawaiian port and carry Sec- CORNERSTONE LAYING AT talities due to the series of tornadoes that swept over the States of the transportation committee. passengers between for I understand retary A. H. Ford opened fire on a it is an American line. of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana on Saturday bring the dead S3 con- OAHU COLLEGE WEDNESDAY friend in the States who owns a "However, any way it goes one more up to five hundred, while one hundred others are injured so seriously trolling interest in a Texaa-Tehuante-p- ec passenger line tothese islands is a gain; one brings ' states that their deaths will probably occur. The total of those injured S. S. Co. Secretary Ford wanted this this the southern all-wat- er, Library J within twelve days of us by an The cornerstone of the Cooke and one from the College. Nine is one thousand. Many of the smaller towns in the paths of the , service from the Wed- -. dents' the college present line to extend its route. I be- - Oahu College will be laid on from will also Tehuantepec nesday. May 13th at 4 o clock The wind were wiped out, the property loss amounting one million Pacific terminal of the lieve that it is from the south that we entlUed ,In pMraisei'of Bookg to railway to Honolulu. By Saturday's will get our small farmers, and, per- program is tu usc "lu ' I These students are Edith Smith, dollars. College. Mr. "W. j mail he received word that the com- - sonally, I am working In that direction. Committee of Oahu Charles Davis, Reynold McGrew, Wat-- A. Kinney, a former Puna.hou student, son Ballentyne, Helen North, Vera pany is arranging for a Tehuantepec-Japa-n I . shall be pleased to hear from any will deliver the chief address. Judge "Damon, Alice Hopper, Alice Spaldln, service, thus giving southern merchants who deal with the southern Rexford Hitchcock. The Alumni will Antonio Perry, president of the Alum- GLADIATOR A TOTAL LOSS pine and cotton a direct route to Naga-eak- i, states, or who wish to, as well as those also furnish one piece of music. The ni Association, will speak for the stu- and Secretary Ford is asked what who have affiliations in Japan, Korea cornerstone will be laid by Miss Doro- past, present and future. Dr. thea Cooke, the oldest grandchild of Honolulu has to offer. Speaking of the or northern China." dents, AS RESULT 0FX0LLISI0N W. D. Alexander will give a brief his- Mr. and Mrs. Cooke. prospects of the new line yesterday Sec- The Territorial Transportation Com- The occasion promises to be most tory Library Punahou. W. a retary Ford said : "I am interested be- mittee started active life about of the at Interesting one and significant of a into F. Dillingham, of Build- cause it will give the tourist a direct ago, with avowed purpose chairman the good d;eal of progress in the school and April 26. a month the rep- community as well. SOUTHAMPTON, The American Line steamship all-wat- ings and Grounds Committee, will in the and cheap er route from New of lowering passenger rates wherever resent the corporation and will give a The new Librarian, Mr. Ernest J. St. Paul collided yesterday with the British cruiser Gladiator off the York and the southern states to Ha- it could, securing better service be- Reece, a graduate of Western Reserve promise pas- - brief statement in regard to the gift University and of Library School, Isle of Wight in the worst storml that has swept the English Channel waii. I have the that tween Hawaii and , the Pacific coast, its i from Mr. and Mrs. Cooke of this li will May will once V sengers will be carried, and take up plac- -' arrive in and at or years, the severe weather being responsible for the accident. The and uniting with Australasia in brary buildlne begin big of cataloguing once. wrote and the clans. The the work the the matter of rates at I ing the advantages of Pacific ocean school will aDDear in two chorus num- - books, and making them ready to go Gladiator was badly damaged and had to be beached on the Isle - a month ago suggesting certain reason- travel before the American tourist, bers, one from the Preparatory school into the new building in the fall. of Wight to prevent her sinking. She will be a total loss. It is Able, in. fact tempting, through pas- Aipng all these lines it Is making prog-- suc- or on the cruiser is thirty, is senger rates, and as I believe this is ress. is Instrumental in inducing for "several hours two nights in reported that the number of killed injured If it - practically assured I shall at once take new steamship lines to make these cession, and were abundantly com- including her commander, but this is undetermined, as yet. No one 1-0- MIMA'S FIRE 1 j 1 1 1 ITT- - J 1 up the matter of direct Nagasaki islands a port of call and reducing the -- pensaieu ior me wuik, ;uu ) euaeauaji on board the St. Paul was injured, though the vessel suffered badly Japanese night the cone explode! just about freight with the merchants. passenger rates by bringing about in the collision. ir-- at All northern China and Manchuria is healthy competition. Much will b GFIQVJS dusk, a few minutes after our; arrival also tributary to Nagasaki. I have solving BRILLIANT at, the crater and the molten lava done toward the transportation - The cruiser Gladiator is one of the older vessels in use in the British bonaa traveled all over this country and problem now so vexes spread all over the surface of the pit. that tourists fleet, having been laid down in 1896, and finished two years later at a cost of think it will have something to offer I There did not seem to be a spot that and Hawaiians alike. 57 having a displace- was not fully covered, and two foun- a million and a half. She is 320 feet long and feet beam, Volcano 5750 principal armament is ten Bix-inc- h guns ami three season, including sharks' fins, bird's Returning Travelers tains were playing continuously. Man- ment of tons. Her was designed originally as a ram, and has double rudders. BANQUET fN HONOR OF nest soup, bamboo shoots, turtle and Report Activity ager Lycurgus marks the height of the torpedo tubes. She the as ' was used in the American Navy during the Spanish War, and numerous other dishes as novel as they lava floor every" day or two and notes The St. Panl Rear-Admir- al Charles D. Sigsbce, who was captain of th were palatable for the haoles. Magnificent. the increase. From present indications was commanded by WELL-KNOW- N Maine the time she was blown up at Havana, Cuba. CHINAMAN Among the guests were F. M. Hatcn, and what the visitors told me it does at The present captain of St. Paul is P. W. Passow, who has been in the ' J. A. Magoon, E. I. Spalding, Rev. E. t not seem to, me that it will be very the Reports from the volcano brought American line for many years. W. Thwing, David Dayton, J. A. Gil-- 1 long before the lake will be on a level down b passengers on the Mauna Nearly one representative man, W. A. Green well, Bruce Cart-wrig- ht, with the pit opening. There is con hundred Kea yesterday tend to show that there citizens, including professional L. H. Halsey, T. Katsunuma, siderable heat all around the opening. and has been no exaggeration of. the con- men nearly J. K. Brown, Geo. S. Curry, R. C. and the fire is continuous. EVANS WILL THE business and officials and dition in any of the stories previously REJOIN id Stackable, R. W. Breckons, L. L. ss, "In all of my travels I have never all the prominent Chinese merchants given out. gathered John A. McCandless, E. A. witnessed a scene that compares with and planters of the island, E. A. Aldrich, of Moscow, Idaho, has FLEET ON APRIL THIRTY yesterday do Y. Ahln, Mott-Smit- h, W. R. Castle, W. L. Cas-t- e, Kilauea," continued Mr, Aldrich to honor to the traveled considerably around the world pio- Oliver Carter, E.