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THE PACIFIC.
Commercial Advertiser
WALTER G. SMITH Editor
A. W. PEARSON Manager
WEDNESDAY.
JANUARY 1
Hawaii has been American in its
sentiment for the last thirty years, al
though it came under the flag as lately
as 1S98.
,
Strangers in Honolulu are not only
surprised to find a trolley system, but
a more complete one than they usually
see in the States.
Hawaii is pronounced Hah-wy-ee,
with the accent on the second syllable
and Honolulu Ho-no-lulu, withthe ac
cent on the first syllable. The early
navigators called the islands Owyhee,
spelling from what they caught of the
pronunciation of the natives.
Honolulu will soon have, In Pearl
Lochs, the entrance to which is about
to be dredged, the greatest insular
harbor of the Pacific- The Lochs are
large enough and deep enough to carry
the whole American navy and our
deep-sea merchant marine added.
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The tourist accommodations here are
probably the best in the tropics- Great
hotels, built to suit the climate, lighted
by electricity, furnished in sumptuous
style and served with a French cuisine,
are supplemented by a fair number
of homelike boarding houses. No one
need fear that in Hawaii he cannot
take his ease in his inn.
1
The article on the "Evolution of the
Sugar Mill," by Mr. Hedemann, man
ager of the Honolulu Iron Works, is
one of the best of the special articles
in today's Advertiser. Mr. Hedemann
is a master of the subject, and has
personally had more to do with the
. present leading position of Hawaiian
sugar mills than any other one man.
Though not represented by a signed
article in these columns, Mr. E. M.
Boyd of the Advertiser's staff has
contributed largely to the table of con
tents. He Is one of the special writers
of wide experience and facility whose
name should not be overlooked in ap
portioning the credit for whatever lit
erary excellence the New Year num
ber may have attained.
Uncle Sam has not made a bad finan
cial bargain in annexing Hawaii. Be
sides getting large and valuable blocks
of land, including a naval station,
docks and yards on Honolulu harbor,
and a first-class naval station at Pearl
Harbor, for a nominal price, the eus-
(toms receipts at Honolulu from June
14. 1900, to June 30, 1901. amounted to
$1,264,862. The rate of receipts since
June, has been about the same. Besides
this, the internal revenue office has
collected over $100,000. At this pace
three years' receipts will pay up all of
the Hawaiian debt assumed by the na
tional government upon annexation.
HAWAIIAN PROSPERITY.
THERE ARE those in every community and age who look through dark
spectacles, and those who see the bright side of things. Some of the for
mer temperament think that there is a business depression here and talk
gloomily of the future.
The Advertiser does not believe anything of the kind. It beliews that the
business outlook is a bright one, and that financiers may look forward with
confidence to the future.
Money is not plentiful, and cannot be readily borrowed, even rn good se
curity; bu this is no evidence of depression, or hard times. There are the
best of reasons for it. The legitimate, normal development of Honolu'u in
particular and Hawaii in general has been so thoroughly appreciated by our
people, and the opportunities so quickly responded to, that our expenditures
have exceeded our income and immediate borrowing capacity. No- fatally
sonot even seriously so but just enough so that we must econo nize and
financier somewhat to keep things moving until developing enterpri ?$ are
completed.
An incomplete compilation of the cash expenditures for permanent im
provements on old sugar plantations and development of new one., during
the past thirty months foots up $26,285,000. A complete canvass woi give
nearly if not quite $30,000,000. This does not include any estimated va rep
resented by paid-up stock, but is the amount of gold coin paid out in con
nection with but twenty-four sugar plantations.
A compilation of the expenditures of only fourteen other business organ
izations, such as the Hawaiian and Moana hotels, the Oahu Railwa - Co.,
the Hilo Railway, the Rapid Transit Company, the Brewery, the Her. lulu
Iron Works . nd a few of the principal office buildings erected during the
same period, shows a capital investment of over $3,800,000.
This does not take into account the several million dollars that have been
invested in land: as many more in buildings, nor the million and a half that
went up in smoke in the Chinatown Are, with a loss of business incidental
thereto as great
It is a conservative estimate that in the past two years and a lf over
$40,000,000 have been invested in permanent improvements in Ha v i from
scarce any of i hieh has there yet been any appreciable return. With the
exception of a million or so every dollar of this capital has been furnished
by island people either frori their surplus capital or from borrowing on their
securities.
Of this enormous investment, about $1,000,000 have been lost through aban
donment of the enterprises. The balance is in good shape. All that is need
ed for the Territory to make a magnificent showing is a little more time io
enable the people to realize on their investments.
It takes three years to get returns from a sugar plantation. The new
plantations and the enlarged old ones begin this month to take off the first
crops of sugar produced under this era of development.
The other enterprises above mentioned are now going and solvent con
cerns, almost without exception profitable ones.
This community has financial Indigestion, induce by swallowig more
than it can assimilate at one time, but it has no organ' ' or fatal ma ady.
The future Is not only reassuring, but brilliant.
The largest acreage in the history of the industry i" Hawaii wi'
ed into sntrar within the next few months. Last year's crop w..
tons. If this year's is no greater, and if the price of sugar goes on
$fi0 and there Is no nrobabilitv that it will the suerar returns will
to $21,600,000 by August or September next.
While labor is not abundant, there are more laborers on :he plantations
than ever before, and the labor situation is much more satisfacto-y now
than it has been at any time within the past eighteen months.
The work of opening Pearl Harbor has actually begun, and land con
demned on which to establish a naval station of the first magnitude, with
the assurance of early construction at a cost of several million of dollars.
The early construction of the Nicaragua canal is assured and the trans
Pacific cable is q practical certainty within the year.
The volume of business both export, import and internal is increasing.
A new monthly steam line begins operation with the year betw en Hilo
and San Francisco: as does also a newsemi-monthly service between San
Francisco,' Honolulu and Kahulul.
Within the year direct steam service has been opened with New York,
by 8.000 and 12,000 ton steamers: the Oceanic Companv has added hree 6000
ton steamers to Its line, and the Pacific Mail Co. will have its new iS.000 ton
passenger steamer in service in the spring.
Any other community of this sisse would have been broken under the
financial strain f the last two years.
Almost any other would think it had a boom on now.
Patience, courage, grit and a little more time are all that are needed to
once more show bulging bank accounts in Hawaii.
"e turn-
350,000
down to
amount
PRINTER'S INK IN HAWAII.
IP A MAINLANDER, not a dweller
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THIS PAPER.
1HE NEW YEAfl Adven .r is the
i
The cloud effects in Hawaii are the
on the Pacific Coast, were asked to product of Honolulu worKers. aie-
guess how many newspapers and other chanically it was made lr us own
public prints are issued in Hawaii, he plant, and in the past ten ua; s. during
would perhaps say that he did not think which time the fourteen and sixteen-
we had any. Tropical islands in the page daily came out as usual, and the
Pacific are supposed, by the provincial trade in job work and binding wna not
majority, to get along without an in- relaxed. This office set all the type, us-
digenous literature if not without an ing Mergenthaler hiachines, made its
rr-: , i: ,,.ino ,inn r,1eS arid half
!ollo-v,t nil i . ... . . r.M.iii: unr. i urn people pass ior loius own iinr n nn- . i -- -
Until recentlv TtmUt eaterP- or entle stages. To all such tone cuts, did its own color work and
them nhotolntn1 reproduce ,t wm be that there , h but for an eleventh-hour mishap to Its
tnem photographically have been re- n , ' , .wv tt t rtraw
i n c -r-r . - "i.. sruii-ncrKiy, wefK.iv ana mommy iikc ii t-M, ;m.n - -
- - -. --. - ... iiciisiidn ui Liie
Smithsonian
sev
his health and incidentally
studies of Hawaiian birds of which he
nas one of. the finest collections in ex-
isience nas. However. siirceerfe.1
ippines. Little is really known of its
high state of civilization, its material
progress, its modern aspects, its com
merce, Its wealth, its luxury. Among
people to whom tie truth about Ha
waii would be news, the holiday Adver
tiser will come like a Hood of understanding.
WHAT THE CABLE WILL DO.
THE LACK f a cable has detorr.,1
thousands of tourists and home
seekers from coming to see Hawaii ot
to live in it. Business men cannot lili'
a place, however beautiful and health
ful it may be, which is 2000 miles from a
telegraph wire and six days from a mall
train. They feel the need of keeping in
touch with the market and with their
friends. But for that Hawaii would be
overrun with tourists, for there is prac
tically no end to popular curiosity to see
the place of which Mark Twain wrote:
"No alien land in all the uorld has any
deep, strong charm for me but that one;
no other land could so longingly and be
seechingly haunt me. sleeping and
waking, through half a life-time as
that one has done. Other things leave
me, but it abides; other things change,
but it remains the same. For me its
balmy airs are always blowing, its
summer seas flashing in the sun; the
pulsing of its surf-beat is in my ear; I
can see its plumy palms drowsing by
the ghore: its remote summits floating
like islands above the cloudrack; I
can feel the spirit of its woodland soli
tude; I can hear the plash of Its
brooks; in my nostrils still lives the
breath of flowers that perished twenty
years ago."
Happily the Hawaiian cable has
been provided for- The Mackay-Ben-nett
Cable Company have deter
mined to lay it, and have let con
tracts accordingly. By next September,
just before the winter travel sets in.
Hawaii will be In electric touch with
the world at large. As the result a great
detachment of the 50,000 or 60,000 tour
ists who annually seek warm weather
in the frost-bitten desert belts of
Southern California, or in the rain
smitten valleys and foggy beaches of
Northern California ought to be induced
to come further to the Paradise ofthe
Pacific.
MORE VEGETABLES AND LESS MEAT-
f 1 . . T . 1 .r.F 1 1 .1 ii- n il V. t 1 .. 1 .l. .1.11 J tUt flna f'WiHU. ilf f V e Ktaf flTtd the
n thsnniAn TnotihHl.,., ..-i 1 -" J -c-'K i i'uuin-n.u,ln i..r .... ---- - - . . .
veral veVrs Wr , ni V Vr 7 t of n,lrel' ,oral oriin- Printed in Eng- Paradise of the Pacific, it woui.l nave
s health bfl' ?,,in H,l fr lis. Hawaiian. Portuguese. Chinese and all the press work to its credit as well.
(Continued from page 3.)
opinion meat is necessary. A great deat
of harm comes from eating indiscrim
inately of fruit, and I believe that if
bananas are eaten constantly trouble
will result. Many physicians think
they are nutritious, but I differ in that.
I am fully in favor of a meat diet, for
anyone who works physically or men
tally requires meat here as much as '
in a temperate climate."
Dr. C. B. Cooper "Not too much
n.eat, plenty of vegetables and not too
much fried food. The restaurants and
hotels do too much frying, rather than
broiling. I don't see, though, that the
diet here should be much different from
that in temperate climates, though the
tendency is to eat too much meat."
Dr. Augur "I think the diet here
should be nearly the same as any
where. But our people eat too much
meat, as a rule; once a day is enough,
with plenty of fruit and vegetables
People as a rule here overeat. I thinlc
there are more ills due to over-eating:
than under-eating. I, myself, eat but
two meals- a day, omitting breakfast..
The peoplo do not give their stomachs
time to rest; some eat three meals and
then a lunch in between. The stomach
should be allowed to rest and assimi
late the ftod taken in."
, Japanese: that one monthly is in its
For the taking of Its photographs
sixtieth year of continuous appearance: Messrs. Davey. William and Kice &
that Honolulu nlrmf snsfjiin five Pnc Perkins were employed. Obligations
catching some exquiitelv artiti f "M'-i,nn(' nnd tnat fantnrnia. are a.so ieu iu i .01
fects. The cloud pictures published in
.his number of the Advertiser are ex
amples of Professor Henshaw's deli
cate work.
Hawaii for Its first printing press. The management hopes the local pub-
In brief, the stamp of the New Eng- 1! will find much to int t it in these
lander Is indelible here. When he came columns and much wortn riling away,
he brought his faith in printer's Ink. as The paper has been notably written. No
n. )m nt,HAl ,.t i i-k. r-.w.v, t.rtiiiint pnrni: of Krifr-in1 writers
landed y encouraging small and other adjuncts of the higher life, was ever before induced to meet in the
nounr h pt0rSh'P in Hawail- aM- The sounds of prayer and praise in the columns of any local print. T'te con
work n h les.ldent Roosevelt, will mission stations were followed by the tributions herewith published are au
the suh? t e m l0fal treatment of clank and hum of a press turning out thoritative and they make the New
the poH : Te rnisslonaries initiated Bibles, leaflets and tracts in the native Year number a handbook of Hawaiian
legislator p" -a' Sanfurd n- 1)0,6 as language. Soon a newspaper was start- affairs.
with unu'a Cnt Governor- nas ed; and since then there has been a As a town is judtred by its newspa-
tlnuous snRKI"t zeal- S'ven it his con- continuous and Increasing flood of pers. a citizen of Hon.. ilu cannot do
'. PPOrt, in the face Of malie- rrintf.1 mnttsr ltnv v.na H.m-eH in more mi hi ie service for t .e in-tnev than
' ' ' "eil la IZOn aiKl lllemilMcv. f,.r.m K.rt A 4 1-1. i. l- Cl,. r.t Un. t,i i5fn.1 f rhia K-Ul .
Governor W. H. Solf, of Apia, Samoa
was a through passenger to San Fran cisco
on the Ventura. He is gofTj
East on a six months' vacation. The
Governor said that everything wj-s
quiet in Samoa when .he left, and ti-.n
the march of progress was evident aH
over the group. He stated that Nich
olas Weaver was making good he id
way w ith his cocoa plantation schein .
lOUS
mg results,
More has flowed
A - f t-ii filoo r.f tilO til vprtil piinip of
I lie UlSl.OKltlon nf tka f,.. I i i n m y-. li . J .1 ,. 1 f:..r..ic 1. ,1 , .-!
remainiti"- i 1 It 1 ic t-.uuoi i-;ti-iiu- rninri i:n .iiHiMnin, i n-i nn j i iin-im.T fimwmi ,iii.i
such vital i lands 's a subject of those of 1SSC. will how that the Hono- who would make good use ot
this Territor -"".tam'e l" tne People of lulu book stoles cat rled a large stor k of knowledge they might t.avi
special articl . We ,res,ent three the principal m-wspapers and magazines tions here and throughout
ernor Dole JS pntLerr ins il- b' Gov- of the English-speaking world. Today This land is widely mlsrepre
Commissioner i Wn and Lan1 th("lr trade in rertodieal literature and hundreds of thousands, if n
fitted to Estate thlf th thre" men best in books would be creditaWe to any of people, it is thought to
e not mainland city of !tb.P 2lZ& of frMo one avage reerion like St.moa o
to his
i people
ny-exact
f eondi
e group.
ite.i: By
t millions
. a, semi-
the Phil-
The annual business meeting of the
Central Union Church was held . las-,
evening. The report of the nominating
committee submitted November 22, was
adopted. The three trustees whose
terms expired, were re-elected. Officers
of the church and Sunday school were
both elected.
A small fire in the roof of a Chinese
shack In the rear of the Oahu Lumber
Company's mill in Palama. at 11
o'clock last night, called out the de
partment. The fire was out before th?
engines arrived.
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Today Moderate north
east winds and fair weather.
CURTIS J. LYONS.
Territorial Meteorologist.