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PACIFIC" COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER JANUARY itf, 1888.
ti-:h daily
Pacific CoBiiaerciai AQvertisgr
IS PUBLISHED
EVERY MORNING.
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TKK32.N OF S UKSCIU PTIOJT.
Per annum $6 00
Six moult 3 00
Per uiontli 50c
fftf-.S5ibc,rijiIoii Payable Alwj'iu
Ad vmice.
Communictitions from all parts of the Kingdom
ill always he very acceptable.
Persr.ns residing lu any part of the United States
can remit the amonnt of subscription due by Post
Office money order.
Matter Intended for publication in the editorial
columns should be addressed to
Editor Pacific Commkkcial. Advkkttseb.
Business communications and advertisements
nnoulc' 'c addressed simply
" P. O. A DVKRTISER,
mi noi to individuals.
THE
raciSe Commercial Advertiser
Is now for sale daily at the Follawlns places:
i. II. KOPEU Merchant street
A. .VI. HE WET" Merchant street
T. (i. I IIRUM Fort street
WM. STK . LMANN Hawaiian Kote
Five Cent per Copy.
FRIDAY : : : : : January 27th
Only six more days and the quaran
tine will he raised, if
Who is to he Marshal is the question
now agitating the public.
Yektkrday was one of the dullest
known in business for a long time.
An Italian paper says that Italy has
"conceded to Spain for fifteen years terri
tory on the Baj' of Assab suitable for a
coaling station, reserving, however, the
right to use it herself to the exclusion of
all others in the time of war.
Ax exchange has the following:
Hindoo widow has raised $25,000 in
Boston to provide an institution for
Hindoo widows, whose lot is not a happy
one. When it is remembered that there
are several million such widows, the
eum is rather ridiculous. It is like send
ing one cat to clean out the rabbits of
Australia.
"The people of Tokio," says the
"Japan Mail," "have developed a cur
ious taste. They have taken to eating
horseflesh. Horseflesh has two recom
mendations ; it is meat and it is cheap-
costs only half as much as beef. There
is quite a demand for it. Plenty of
horses are driven cityward to replenish
the butchers' stall."
A bill has been introduced into the
U. S. Congress to restrict immigration,
The bill has no reference to the Chinese
It is designed to excluie anarchists,
nihilists, paupers and the criminal
classes generally. Instead of requiring
a certificate from a United States Consul
abroad as to the fitness of the person de
siring to emigrate to America, it re
quires the immigrant to provide himself
with proofs from the authorities of the
place of his previous residence of his fit
ness to become a law-abiding citizen of
America.
A GREAT SPEECH.
I am the only man on the Islands
with any common sense.
I am the mouth-piece of the Portu
guese colony.
I intend to drive out all the Chinese
on the Islands.
I intend, after this, to follow suit with
the Japanese.
I wish it to be distinctly understood
that in future I will only allow Portu
guese immigration.
I will force the people of Hawaii to
adopt my views."
I do like to have my own way.
I I. I, I, that is me, A. Marques, have
only one thing to say, and that is, that I
am right and everybody is wrong.
In fact, I am the great I am.
A RISE IN SUGAR;
and
ff
Ail Increase lu Consumption
IH-ereaxe iu tlie World's Produc
tion Kept Snsar Culture in California.
PICTUBESQUE CALIFORNIA.
We have received, with the compli
ments of W. T. Garrett & Co., of San
Francisco, an elaborately printed pam
phlet of some hundred pages, entitled
"The Southern Pacific Sketch Book,"
containing a series of beautifully en
graved illustrations and descriptive
notices of the principal health and
pleasure resorts of California and the
Southwest. The views are delicately
tinted and are above the average stand-
ard of merit in works of the kind.
S. F. Call, January 8th.
Within the past few months the prices
or different grades of sugar have ad
vanced on an average of two cents a
pound. In order to learn the cause of
this rise and the future prospect of the
market, a "Call" reporter visited a num
ber of leading dealers and manufac
turers of this important staple.
Herman Bendel of the firm of Till
mann & Bendel, when spoken to, said :
"The cause of the recent sharp ad
vance in the price of sugar is the resu:t
of a decreased production and an in
creased consumption of the article.
Competition in local manufacturing cir
cles resulted in a sharp decline in prices
during 1887, and as a natural result there
was a greater consumption.
"I look for an advance from present
prices within the next few months. The
London and New York markets rule the
world, and as the former handles almost
exclusively beet sugar, and as there has
been such a marked falling off in the
last crop, prices are sure to advance.
"M.Licht said, the leading European
authority on sugar has reduced his esti
mate of the last crop to 2,263,000 tons
against 2,625,442 tons in 1886, or a fall
ing off of 362,448 tons. The consump
tion for 1886 was 180,000 tons in excers
of the production, while in 1887 the con
sumption was 200,000 tons more than
the previous year, making a total con
sumption over production for 1887 of
742,000 tons.
"The 'Weekly Statistical Position,' an
organ devoted to the sugar interests, in
its last issue for 1887 says : Under the
continued influence of advancing mar
kets in all producing countries, the year
closes with the general feeling that a
corresponding rise must soon take place
in the United States.
"How about the rumored formation of
a pool of local manufacturers for the pui
pose of advancing the price of sugar?"
asked the reporter.
. "It is all nonsense, and what is more,
it would oe impossible. The New York
dealers, in case of a rise, would throw
their goods on the market and break any
combination of local dealers."
Gustave Spreckels gave similar opin
ions on the prospects of the market and
said :
"I think that sugar has been at its
bottom price, and I look for an increase
until the next European beet sugar is
marketed. If the crop is large and
there is not an increase in consumption
the prices may soften, but this will not
occur before next September.
"The California Sugar Refinery Com
pany have been experimenting lately
upon the cost of production of beet sugar
compared with cane sugar. The experi
ments made have encouraged us to erect
works at Alvarado and Watsonville, and
we contemplate building refineries in all
sections of the State adapted to the culti
vation of the ?ugar beet. These differ
ent refineries will have a capacity for an
annual production of 5,000 tons each.
"Beet sugar, when refined by the im
proved methods, is of as fine a quality as
that derived from cane, experts being
unable to detect the difference in the
two productions."
The Directors of the American Sugar
Refinery Company are not in favor of
the sugar beet industry. One of them
in conversation yesterday said: "The
American Company is not yet prepared
to give np the refining of cane sugar. It
would be disastrous for us to do so.
Many of the principal stockholders of
the corporation are Hawaiian planters.
Sugar raising on the islands has been,
and is to-day, a profitable business, and
I think that cane sugar can be produced
as cheaply as beet. The American Com
pany will continue to manufacture the
former until it is demonstrated that the
Litter can be more profitably produced."
IN A FRENCH PAWNSHOP.
3Iioe c'oiirr.
BEFORE POLICE JUSTICE DAYTON.
Thursday, January 26th.
Jack Sullivan and three kanakas were
eack fined $6 for drunkenness.
Ah Sam was sentenced to forty days
imprisonment at hard labor for being a
gross cheat. An appeal was noted.
Three other cases were continued.
Going Through the Whole Experience of
Pledging Proving One's Identity.
A person curious to see something of
the working of the Paris Mont de Piete
can do so without pawning any of hi3
property. He can mingle with the crowd
whom necessity or vice has brought there
without risk of. being questioned by offi
cials or being stared at inquisitively, for
every one is too intent upon his own busi
ness to give any thought to others. But
to obtain a vivid impression of the differ
ent circles of this inferno it is necessary
to go through the whole experience of
pledging and redeeming. No one who
did this once could possibly wish to re
peat the experiment. The lazar house
or the prison can alone offer a parallel to
the depressing influences of the Mont de
Piete.
We will take for illustration the one in
the Rue Bonaparte, which is an offshoot
to the parent house in the Rue des Blancs
Manteaux. but which is itself vast enough
to quarter a large Ixxly of soldiers. It
is entered from the street by an archway,
over which hangs a .dirty tricolor. A
sentry is also posted as a further token of
authority. The passage leads to a court
surrounded by buildings which are the
offices and storehouses of the Mont de
Piete. Those who come to pledge single
out the door on which the word "En
gagements" is painted. It leads to a low
room, so dimly lighted that on entering
the details cannot be distinctly seen. The
floor is paved with tiles and the walls and
ceiling are almost black with dirt. The
air is dense, stifling and malodorous.
There are twenty or tluriy people waiting
here some standing, others sitting upon
benches placed against the walls. All are
silent, or they speak under their breath.
At least half of them belong to what
may be termed the respectable working
class; others wear all the signs of abject
misery and vice; others, again, belong to
the impenetrable, well dressed class, re
specting whose position in life only guesses
can be made.
At the opening through which cmes
the glare of the lamp is a counter, toward
which people make their way as they en
ter. On the other side of it a man in a
blouse appears every few minutes, takes
a bundle or a box that has been placed on
the counter, gives a metal number in ex
change for it, and disappears. The per
son who has given up the article he has
come to pledge waits attentively until he
hears his number called out by "somebody
whom he does not see, but who is on the
other side of a wooden partition that
serves for one of the walls of the room.
At the same time this oflicial calls out the
amount which the Mont 'de Piete is pre
pared to lend upon the article or articles
which correspond to ihe number. The
owner sometimes grumbles at the sum
offered, but the almost invariable reply is
4 'Bien, monsieur. ' ' The functionaries do
not condescend to bargain with the crowd
in the waiting room, whom they treat as
if they were paupers applying for relief.
The sum having been agreed to, it may
be supposed that the money is then paid
over the counter and the business ended.
Not at all; such a plain and straightfor
ward proceeding would be contrary to
the most sacred traditions of French of
ficial practice. Much forma lit-lias to le
gone through and much writing to be
done before the transaction is complete.
Meanwhile the applicant has to wait half
an hour or even an hour, if there are
many people before him, until he hears
his number called out again. He now
pushes open a swinging door in the
yvooden partition, and follows a railed
passage which brings him into the pres
ence of two surly clerks sitting lehmd a
counter. One asks questions and makes
entries in a huge book, and the other fills
up the pawn tickets, which are sheets of
paper closely printed and written over,
and pays the money. The applicant must
state his name, address and profession.
Then he must show papers to prove that
he is telling the truth. If it should hap
pen that he has not brought with liim the
receipt for the last rent he paid, or some
other document to prove his identit-, he
is sent away without the money. St.
James' Gazette.
ill fl
Absolutely Pure.'
This rowdcr n ever varies A marvel or purity.
Strength and vho'.csomeness. More economical
ttian the ordinary kind.-: . and cannot be scld m con
petitio i with the multitude of low test, short
weight, alum orphcpiintc powders. Sold OSLYp
r-k Hoyai E-iiiisa rowEEu Co.. 106 Wa&6&
M. V.
WM. T. COLEMAX A- CO., Asenls,
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
d (W
Ed. Hoffsclilasger & Co.,
KING STREET,
Opposite 'Messrs. Castle fc Cookv'm.
-AND-
BETHEL STREET, Opposite P. 0.
A new Invoice of
Ladies and Girls' Underwear,
CHILDREN'S FANCY WASHING DRESSES,
Infant's Outfits.
ALSO
Mens ami Youth's Clothing:, Boots nnul
Shoes, aiitl lints.
Furiiisliirig Goods
In General.
ED. HOFFSCHLAEGER & CO.
In the Supreme Court of the Haw a
liau Islnufls.
In the matter of
G. ON C1IONG,
Of Honolulu, agaiust whom
a petition for adjudication
was liied on the 12th day of
January, I808, in said Court. J
IN BANKRUPTCY
Before Mr. Justice.
Dole.
The first iron boat is thought to have
been built in 1777 on the River Foss, in
Yorkshire. It was fifteen feet long and
made of sheet iron.
In the center of the tobacco ware
houses at tVe London docks' there is an
immense kiln, which is kept continually
burning, day and night, and goes by the
name of the queen's tobacco pije. The
English government has a different way
of treating confiscated articles than that
in use in this country, one of them being
to utilize them as fuel for what is termed
the queen's smoking. "Whenever mer
chandise is seized for nonpayment of
duty, or because it is considered under
the law as in a damaged or unsalable
condition, it is taken to this great kiln
and burned there, the owners having no
remedy. The only utilization that is
made of these seizures is from the sale of
the ashes from the furnace, wliich, to
the amount of a great many tons a
month, are sold by auction to chemical
works, and to farmers and others to be
used in enriching fae soil. There is a
similar but smaller queen's tobacco pipe
m the government tobacco warehouses
at Liverpool, these two forming the
points of destruction for all
merchandise in the Unit!
Records in Purple Ink.
During Gen. Grant's term as president
one of his cabinet officers discovered that
the records of an important branch of
one of the departments liad been for two
years written in purple ink. He at once
issued an order forbidding its use in the
department, purchased a new set of
books, into which two years' records
were copied, and thus saved what in a
few years would otherwise have been
lost. It is one of the problems of chem
istry to rind something winch will make
permanent tho beautiful aniline colors,
but thus far all efforts have failed. It is
growing more and moe the custom to
have deeds, contracts and valuable docu
ments printed on a typewriter in aniline
ink. This is a great mistake, because in
a few years they are sure to be obliter
ated. The Argonaut.
The Sun is Not Blue.
A 3-ear ago Professor Langley, the dis
tinguished American astronomer, per
formed an experiment in the theatre of
the Royal institution to show that tho
true color of the sun is blue. He argued
that the atmosphere cut off a large pro
portion of the blue rays, and that, if the
observer could get beyond it, the sun
would look blue. Capt. Abney, in a
lecture on "Sunlight Colors," "rejected
this experiment, adopting Prof. Langley 's
figures with mathematical accuracy, but
dispensing with his paper disks, which
this lecturer held vitiated the result, and
he showed that the color of the sun was
not blue, but very nearly tliat of the
white light to be seen at high elevations
in a clear, dust-free atmosphere. London
Telegraph.
The 20th day of January, 1S88.
Upon reading the said petition, and upon
proof before me taken, I do find that the said G.
On Chong has become a bankrupt within the
true intent and meaning of the Act approved on
the -yth day of August, 1884, entitled "An Act to
regulate proceedings iu bankruptcy in the Ha
waiian Islands."
And I do hereby declare and adjudge him bank
rupt accordingly.
And I do further order that the creditors of the
said bankrupt come in and prove their debts be
fore such Justice of the Supreme Court as shall
be sitting in Chambers at Aliiolani Hale, Hono
lulu, on the :k)th day of January, 183, between
the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and
noon of the said day, and elect one or more as
signee or assignees of the said bankrupt's es
tate. And that notice thereof be published in the
"Daily Pacific Commercial Advertiser," news
paper, published in Honolulu, in the English
language.
And that the said bankrupt shall immediately
file 'With the Clerk of this Honorable Court a
schedule of his creditors and assets, as required
by the said Act.
SANFORD B. DOLE,
Justice of the Supreme Court.
Attest;
HENRY SMITH,
Deputy Clerk. 5t
By the S. S. Australia,
J annary lOth.,
The Following Variety of Apples:
New Tom Pippin, Greenings,
Belle Fleur, Baldwin,
Oregon Apples, Oregon Pears.
HARD AND SOFT SHELL NUTS.
Italian Chestnuts. Peanuts.
Smyrna Figs. Cal. Oranges.
SICILY LEMONS.
Woman and Her Work.
"Could a man make a shirt for six
cents?" asks Charles Dudlev Warner in
Harper's. "No! What lirnit is there to
a woman's ambition or performance!
She drives a stage, plays the violin, sews,
sings, dances, acts, paints (both in oil
and water colors), teaches, is a clerk, a
typewriter, a typesetter, an editor, a
marvelous producer of short stories (said
by critics to be the most difficult art in
the world), a telegrapher, and as a yeller
through the telephone probablv will never
have an equal. Go where you will there
is woman, lovely or plain, ready to cure,
to chide, to guide, to aid, to instruct, to
amuse, to rule, to lead, and lwint tho
way for halting man.'
On Consignment Potatoes and onions,
canned iruits, jams and jellies, tomatoes;
tuau, t;i;rai eraies 01 prime
cabbage.
white heart
California - Fruit Market,
Kins' Street.
NOTICE.
M
ESSRS. J. E. BROWN & CO. AJtr. attttto'R
ized to collect subscrintio
PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
Honolulu, Jannary 17, 1888.
TJ"r3 -m- . 8. H. BROWN
T. J. BASS & CO.
Importers of and Dealers in
Artists' - Materials,
Paints, Oils, Glass, Tarnishes, Turpentine
Manufacturers of Mouldings, Picture
, ' , Frames, etc., etc., etc.
14 ami 16 Ellis Street near Market,
8AN FRANCISCO, CAL.
, 63lmayl4tf
JJMHrfisttntms.
Underwear ! Underwear
A FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
LADIES' MUSLIN UNDERWEAR
A T T II E
1
Popular Millinery
1G4 Fort St.s Honolulu,
N. S. SACHS, PKOPKIETOIi.
House
Low,
Square
Ladies' Chemises.
vui, aim jruou ruling, 111 x nun, rme and V
Liadies5 Skirt Chemise.
ai:cv
Ten Dozen Extra Large Size, Fine Cambric and Trimmed with -i
will be Offered at a Sacrifice. whroider
Ladies' jVXother Hubbard N"ighfc Q0wa
Plain Tucked Yokes, Lace or Embroidery, very handsome and well m tdo
Ladies' "White Skirts. .
An Immense Variety at Low Prices, Handsome Embroidered
Skirts, Linen Lace Trimmed Skirts, Kuflled and Tucked Skirts at Priivs
1- I.-.M.. E
the Times
Ladies' Corset Covers.
Low, Cut Square, Neatly Made, and Good Fitting High Necked Cor-i tv,
with Embroidery Yoke. 1 u,?n
SPECIAL BARGAIN
Imlies' Merino Vest? .lO Ioz.
Vests, Uijrli Aeck, KHorf Slopes, i .WVVut
LADIES' BLACK SILK HOSE A fine assortment, all sizes, all
offer a fine Black Silk Hose at $2, the best value in town.
qualities.
L
1876. GEO W. LINCOLN. 18Sc!
BUILDER
75 and 77 Kino- Street, - - - - Honolulu
Bell Telephone No. 275.
es
Mutual Telephone 65.
J O I I NT
NOT rX
c-: tCTy i WS,Vo:S'f ?' S',vS-.''.jA.
Stoves, Ranges and Housekeeping Ooottn.
Plumbing, Tin, Copper and Sheet. ' Iron Wort
R7
H. E. Mclntyro & Bro.,
IMPORTERS AND DEALKKM IN
(xroceries, Provisions and Feed
EAST CORNER FORT AND KINO STREETS.
PrcAnZll Li T by e.7ery Packet from the Eastern KtatPS anrl Europe. rsh Cnliforn!
Htv trL L f y 8tea?Jf r- A!1 -rs faithfully attended to. and Goods delivers! to any part of the
S'Lhrenno Tch"P- lHland orders solicited. Satisfaction guaranteed. PostoDice Kox No. M
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MAMMOTH SHIPMENT
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Just received and
Sale at
GRAIN,
for
LOWEST MARKET PRICE.
OIOX FEEI CO., II.
F00K LUN & CO.,
113 Nuuanu Street,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS
IN
Chinese & Japanese Goods,
Fire Crackers, New Designs in Cups and
Saucers, Tea, Cigars, and all kinds of Fancy
Goods.'
Regular shipments by every steamer.
7
CARRIAGE COMPANY.
IIKST-CLASS CAR WAGE?
Atall honrs d&v and nifibt, with comt
drivers and steadv borpei.
teot
TO LET!
SADDLE HORSES, BUGGIES, WAG
ONETTES, VILLAGE CARTS
AND BRAKES,
With good, reliable horses.
Having just received a fine lot of
Horses from California
inducements tj
We are prepared to offer extra
parties wanting Family, Road, Express or i'
Horses. Guaranteed as represented or ;,4
t 2 a i a. j. t as Tuva TTt QO r-r ft Pin J 1
riites iv suit ice iiiues vr ex -
MILES & HAYLEY,
727je24tf Hawaiian Hotel StaM'
ISTOTlOB.
MRS. A. M. M ELLIS having removed
dressmaking establishment to
No. 17 Emma Street,
bet
POST OFFICE BOX NO. 255.
pa
Jy
Will be pleased to se her friends and
there from and after Jannary 3, 1888.
Bell Tlerhone 410. 1m Mutual iff
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