Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-04-14
san Francisco LETTER.

are rejoicing over the sufficiently wa,ered
country a, one time this promised to be
very much dried up state, but a continuous rain
for every day since Easter afternoon has blessed
us in many ways; assured our crops and changed
long faces into smiling ones. So can find no
better beginning for my usual letter and trust
California may accep, your congratulations.
Rain Is not such a necessity with you in
beautiful Honolulu as to make it a subject for
serious conjecture whether there shall be
enough, for your heavens drop their ganered
fullness" on all occasions, whether in season
or out Of season. With US, however. many
feel sympathy for the man who said lately
chang a country where the prosperity Of its
people depends upon the rainfall. +" But then he
was dealer in wheat and had gone short on the
market. The same individual said yesterday
that he had concluded that this was mot so bad
a country after all Which goes to prove that
We are apt to see things through the spectacles
Of our own circumstances.
Easter Sunday was celebrated here with more
Circumstance than usual. While Episcopal
and Catholic churches always do their best in
floral decorations and music, this year all the
churches had extra music and profusion OF
flowers. Grace Cathedral, Episcopal, which
always leads in the elaboration Of its trim.
mings, was the finest ever seen in this city;
ferns in most ingenious arrangement all around
the immense building, camelias, magnolias,
azaleas, tuberoses, orange blossoms, white roses
and choicest flowers Of all kinds, were found
in every conceivable design which ingenuity,
taste and plenty Of money could procure.
While many Of these named flowers are not
rare with you, they are very expensive here;
but our wealthies, contributed from their hot.
houses until the display was well worthy the
occasion, and deserved all the enthusiastic ad
miration bestowed by those privileged to wit
ness ii.
Lent has held in check many entertainments
which now will have additional interest from
being temporarily withheld, and while people
will "marry and be given in marriage, holy
days or holidays, still it is considered rather
the thing to marry early in Easter; so that
what with projected weddings, parties and din.
ners, all are busy, one-half of the world furn
ishing belongings for the other half.
San Francisco has now nothing to complain
Of. Rain enough has fallen to assure crops
through the country, which means plenty Of ord
ers from interior merchants, real estate chang
ing hands at prices to sui, buyers and sellers,
homes going up everywhere and none to rent,
and hotels full. The business outlook is alto.
ge,her satisfactory. II is true that money con-
tinues to command high interest, though with
disposition to weaken. But, if New York
merchants have TO pay ID per cent yer annum,
we must not expect to get any here for less
than or TO- In fact, some considerable ship.
ments have been made East on account of high
interes, there.
Our boss" corporation, the Central Pacific
Railroad Company, is about to have a bank for
its own use, probably; inasmuch as Charles
Croker, William Croker and K. w. Wool
worth; now President Of the First National
Gold Bank, are to open bank on Pine
street. opposite the Stock Exchange, with a
capital variously stated at from one to ten mil.
lion dollars.
Henry Willard, the coming railroad man, is
said to have in view the purchase Of the mar
row gauge railroad now in operation from
Alameda to Santa Cruz, extending the same
north to connect with the Northern Pacific,
south to the Atlantic & Pacific and thence
east. 1t looks as though the center of railroad
conflict was TO be through the South and there
was some foundation for the rumor that the
Central Pacific was selling out stock in the
Northern route via Ogden, placing earnings in
Southern Pacific and letting the United States
take the upper route by default. AT least
that's the talk now on the street.
Talking Of corporations, new enterprise is
now on paper, nothing less than sweetcning
rancid butter by process which is but little
more than placing the article in hot water and
charging the whole with electricity, when in
sweet and palatable as when first manufactured,
and as fit for the table. So confident are the
projectors of grand success that the stock has
been Immediately taken; SO there may be
'milions in tor "to get"
The new cable road on Market street is be.
ing pushed with great vigor; gangs of men
rs thick as hlackbeuies wosk not only all day
and night but Sundays as well. AS the land
from Battery street down is "made" ground,
the whole length to the ferry has to be piled.
For this purpose pile.driver is arranged on a
set Of ear wheels, and to the enlvening strains
Of the emphatic bang the car horses dance and
the crowds gaze as though the sigh, were no,
an everyday occurrence,
Marke, treet property still advances. W, w.
Montague & Co., pioneers in the stove, iron
ware and plumbing line, and whose art rooms
Of tiles, mantels and brass.work are well worth
visit, will soon take their stand on Market
street, opposite Front. J, c. Flood and other,
Of the bonanza firm have invested nearly mil
lion, and intend putting as much more, into
improvements on the corner OF Fourth and
Market.
Hopposition is the life Of trade, your people
should be stated, for II the 7. NJ. :. ). Co.
give YOU two steamers month, the Oceanic
furnish the Ma,if0sa and .4iamsda, and the
Chinese direct line by agency of Coodall
Perkins 4 Co., take regular trips your way
YOU ought to be satisfied tina, you are no, en-
tiIely neglected, The Oceanic steamship lin,
evidently mean business, II the Mayiessa'
model is any indication, as the bes, points o
both American and English steamers nov
running to your por, have been adopted. tn,
re-anangcment of,he company office on MaIke
street Is in keeping with the "Spreckels en-
e'gy." and will be Of grea, convenience to
those having business with the firm.
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