Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-01-27
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san TRANcIsco, January Is, 1882.

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rn,ro, sammy pspss. I, il generally
co,ceJs,I ,b., a re,.,., yb,,e stock converse.
,ior se,m, 10 aIvay, introduce the weather as
nj. p,incinaI tonic must have lst few ideas or
r,,,e sis. -, ,,tl ,, ,,rit. about. but when one
h.. T., H.. ,,i ,i,,b,. IN ,tv and solve the
probicr, a "b5u 10 keen warm one could
,otI he .,c,,scd "a, harpine upon H. Our
white, so far has been one Of few storms or
rains. bu, the eoldc,, Of cold nights and DAYS.
ftos, and ice cyery,,here. and no one pleased
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Children s,eLcn from exposure. physieians are
NOR, Than t,,s, and ali are ,,i.bipg for lesser
d,.,o,,r,,,, ,y., Jcei,ipg r,in in unlimited
or,n,f,ies
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was capable of accommodating eight hundred
people, bu, fortunately had not quarter that
number at the time Of connagration. The
structure being six stories high was neyerthe
less without single interior brick partition.
built entirely of light material. It was but n
short time after the FIRE broke out before egress
from the building by regular means was i'm
possible, and at this writing fully seventy. five
lives have been lost either by jumping from
the windows TO be dashed TO death ON the
pavement, or burned in the building itself:
the details are too awful for repetition, the
daily papers furnishing every item with sufi
cient fulncss to satisfy the most sensational
reader of blood.curdlinp romance. Truly the
greed for money passes all understanding and
in this case although parties interested in this
building admit that they thought il unsafe in
case of fire, little or no means of escape were
furnished, when many appliances are TO be oh.
tanned for small expenditure. # is NOT nm.
charitable TO wish that the owners should
themselves have been first to be scorched.
o,,p co,op,ss
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W. e0 N"'"s AT 'ne SPiseo'
80, ~ ,'e 9"PPins
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believed me, os ,,aod n 40, -. h., -
can be furnished at from ten to fifteen dollars
per ton less than foreign wards certainly n
Contamination devoutly to be wished
Another good thing Congress proposes to do
Is to furnish us with new postofice, but the
sum spoken of is entirely Inadequate for our
requirements What is $4,000 for sucb
building as this large and rapidly growing city.
needs, the distribution point to all parts of the
globe, and in the face Of such appropriations
ms $780, 200 for little town of 10000 inhabi.
tants il seems unjust to us of the Pacific slone.
but the amount will be beeinninc with tho
trusting TO the generosity of another congress
to make it a million. The amount of il is
there are not few people who, living in the
Eastern States, caring little for interests ont.
side their own county. reading the n,n.rs In,
seldom, happy in their own secluded lives. still
think of and believe California to be in the
same sparsely settled semi.ciyilized state Of
thirty years ago, and as they are no, PROGRESS.
i've themselves cannot realize tina, the world
has moved on. leaving them in the background
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"e e'''enee o' iioy VIM Is TO the effect
. 80 eN' ''''''ou, u'o'e from 'he temple money
."'s "'' o'"e,S' saying II : written my
s""" W ''",' "e mouse 0, prayer but
- '"''e "'''' " uen o' 'meVeS, whieh say