The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-07-03
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NEE, with its due reward. We arrive az
OGDEN.
This point is Of greater inportanee than any other
On the line-unil We reach Omaha-for the simple
reason that here we have 70 " change cars The
place consists Of q large rail read depot. two trains OF
cars, a lot Of express men. eonauc,oEs, here ana 'here
an engineer, ham sandwiches. baggage checks steam
an awful noise, bnffalo heads. aud baggage smashersi
Quite a lively trade Is driven by a man Sho announce
himself as The sole authorized agent Of the con-
pAny fer the better protection Ct baggage aud be
hauuts the transfer platform with a loud voice ana
several coils of rope. The arst he uses In calling
attention 20 the wrecks Of trunks and boxes which
pass under his observant eye, and the last are USED
p-iecemeal, 'for . confederation" in binding To-
gether disrupted tops aud wrsnehed frames OF iranks
handled by the tends who authOritstveiy ding
them from car TO car.
THE USIoS PACIFIC.
From Ogden. cast, there Is much of interest to
note, but the successive snow-sheds interrupt the
! view, the latest novel. game Of cards, or contem-
pIative gaze without the window. The Platte valley
shows that irrigation will do as much for an alkaline
desert as it will. prOspectively. for MsalAia plains
Broad fields Of corn and wheat cover ground that a
few years ago was given over wholly to the Indians
while grazing lands under the foothills now support
cows and calves in lieu of the risky buffalo.
OMAHA.
Here we change again; and find ourselves upon
civilized soil. No more red-men, mOnte-men, or
Mcrmens. Towns, cities, farms, and ell that sort OF
thing succeed each other with beNildering rspidi'y.
until we reach
This city vas burnt down a short time ago, and
has been very much benefited by the calamity"
In the first place. enough money was contributed by
the world generally TO build a good sized city; then
the insurance companies came down literally, and
every one who was in business before went into il
again; while those who never did a stroke Of work
till then struck heavy on " the FIRE"
NEW YORK.
There is nothing between Chicago and New York,
A country, cities, stations, etc, are passed by, and
have 80 a local habitation and name" but when the
city is reached, we feel that the many thousand miles
we have come have been a necessary Inconvenience
TO enable US TO reach the metropolis Just beyond
here is a town called Bostoa. II is built around
Bunker Hill, and is said TO be known because 1t IL
the point that breeds a ~pestilent east wind.
NEW BUILDINGS.
The upper part of New York is being dotted osel
with huge buildings; charitable, classical. ecclesias
teal, scientific and problematic. On one hand rise
a huge hotel. ON the other a piebald building, calle'
a church, and near it q prototype used ms a depot
One is, or might be, called 1.-The New York refng
for one-legged poor another, "HOme for ORTHODOX
Cripples.'' and still another. " House Of Erie Wet
inns" The iast one was crowded.
NOBLE CHARITIES,
Joking aside, the city has done wonders in provid
ing public relief for the manned, the halt, and tn
blind. Business may be. and is now. depressedi bu
the work of providing for unfort0pate humanity zoe
steadily on.
I'VE find here, Mr.. w. r. Castle, busted in lookin
after the legal interests of one department Of the city
bMessrs. I. NJ. Coan and n. b. Emerson, combining tn
two arts of medicine and authorship in a highl
creditable manner; General Armstrong on n nyin
trip from Hampton; and others whom we may en-
islanders, resting here for a while.
THE HAWAIIAN CONSULATE.
+, You have, l know, heard of the death of s. U. !
Odell, who has for so long a time acted as our repr'
, sentative at this port. Now that the necessity ht
arisen of appointing q successor, we would sugge
\ that the post be offered to Mr.. W. r. Castle. We a
~ know him, and Hawaii might well be proud Of ha'
ing one of her sons to represent her here.
PIE HAWAIIAN LOAN.
Something has been said in reference to negotia
+ ing the proposed 81 600 900 Hawaiian Goyernmei
ell loan in this market. Just now, If the effort wei
made to get the money on the fnancial merits Of Il
scheme, nothing could be done in this market at
, less rate than fifty per cent discount. Business
not good; stocks Of all kinds are deprecated, and al
solutely nothing Is being done in the class Of secur
e ties to which Hawaiian Government bonds Won
: belong. Whether there are not political consider
u tons that would enhance the value of the loan; o
o in other words, whether the reasons that have d
: duced the United States to grant us a reciproci
U treaty might not lead to q desire 10 keep the futu
= of the islands free from foreign monied complicatiol
D which might enable our financial ogent to place q
loan here on favorable terms. remains TO be seen.
RENISIscEEcEs OF THE KING.
Everybody remembers and speaks with pleasure
the late visit of His Majesty to this city. We he
B.. pleasant things said of him every day, and XIII
wishes are often expressed for him and his kingdol
, * MASONIC.
The dedication, of the new Masonic Temple, Ju
I'd, was q grand affair. Twenty-Five thousand Of {
Craft were in line, and it IL often said that the
\, never was a body Of men yet gathered together he
that looked 90 finely or behaved themselves so VIC
As for the Temple itself, it is a magnificent buildir
From the basement to the roof it is filed with
:. that is beautiful and distinctive, and it will 10
stand as a monument Of the order Of which all m
feel proud. UBIo.
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