Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-04-28
SATURDAY PRESS
san FRtNoIscO LETTER


cisco in particular, and California in general,
my eye rests upon a highly colored illustrated
timetable Of the Central and Southern Pacific
Railroads, which contains the name Of every
place on esther route, the time Of arrival and
departure and other items Of interest and profit
TO the traveller. Not only docs this apper.
tain TO these two particular routes, but to the
side attractions like Yosemite Valley, the
Geyser, Santa Cruz, Monterey and other
places All are so plainly laid out that the
wayfaing man--tbough awfully stupid-may
nor en- therein. What | am getting at, is
this: Why don't your interisland steamship
companies issue similar publications, sending
them broadcast through this land for the
benefit Of yourselves, very surely, and to the
satisfaction Of those who now depend on
chance friends who may have visited your
beautiful country
Now this is not intended to ignore that
reliable and popular publication Thum's
Annual, wherein this information can be
found, but to rather suggest multiplication, il
need be, Of extracts from its pages. Let the
world know still more than now Of the delight.
ful sea trip, and its utter change Of scene and
climate from our rush and turmoil, our harsh
winds, and Our ohangeablc temperature.
! introduce this topic because an unusually
large number OF eastern people are here for a
change. and are anxious to find pastures new.
To many, the Hawaiian Islands present fair
field for commercial expenditure. To others,
Hawaii offers the rest they seek In view Of
the many questions propounded the writer,
these few remarks are submitted.
So Kalakaua, the king, desires his profile
perpetuated in gold and silver, and why not ?
Has he not as much right as any other poten.
tate TO the PRIVILEGE Anything were better
than deprecated coin, Struggled into the
country at profit to the parties interested at
from to 10 per cent And why should our
papers BLACKBOARD him about it, IL he can pay
the expenses Of coiningp
Hawaiian matters continue TO interest the
papers. The latest item is the spoke placed
in young Banker Belnon's wheel by your
Residen, Minister Daggett. The whole state.
ment about reshipping sugar was so absurd
that 1t seemed almost waste of ink and
paper to try controverting it. But people did
believe it, and II is difficult to beat q change Of
heart into any case hardened sinner who has
self-interest continually between him and the
truth.
ny this steamer my emaciated friend Samuel
Hubbard may revisit the tropics to realize the
extent TO which his small infant, the Hawaiian
Bell Telephone Company has grown, to
renew old acquaintance, and perhaps convince
your good people that rancid butter can be
made better than when first from the churn,
and ordinary coal oil rendered palatable and
preferable to salad oil. The theory is a
shocking one-at least it is all to be done by
electricity, which amounts to abou, the same
thing. The invention is attracting much atten.
ton here, as noted in my last, and IL what is
claimed for IT is true, will be invaluable to
many, and great boon to the boarder whose
bills are weekly but whose butter is not.
Another enterprise, of different nature and
grea, magnitude, is calling for comment from
our papers. 1t seems that Texas is deed.
ing away an immense tract Of land to Chicago
capitalists, the consideration being the erection
oil capitol building within six years, at cost
OF not less than ST., 10000. This tract of
land has Just been transferred TO an English
syndicate for the small advance of $40, 600, 900;
neat turn, that.
Money must be easier to get at the present
time. Vanderbilt is said to have so much
more than SIoo, 600, 900 that no one claims to
know the extent of it. He recently gave
party at his New York place, the expense of
which is estimated variously from $500, 600 to
100000, which provokes the comment from
our Occident newspapers that such really great
philanthropists as Peabody, Dodge, Cooper
and Others would have used the money to
alleviate suffering, preferring the pleasure of
giving during their life-times rather than have
posthumous glory, which is often but scram.
bic over the remains.
And now comes Jay Gould, another million
aire, reputed worth at least 100000, ooo
launching steam yacht costing $500, 900 or
more, and fitted up with every luxury which
money and taste can procure. Yet Gould is
said TO hate the sea- Blu, he has been so many
times shipwrecked on shore---in fortune--that
the terrors Of the briny deep seem triiing in
mother n'iaw GU, at Pixies Peak
With sore throat could hardly speak,
ST. Jacobs Oil cured her
And those who endured her
Say she talked RICH, along for week.
Such is the sen,imen; in different form,
which is presented every morning for the un.
wary who make it a point to read the papers
thoroughly. II the man who composes the
doggere would only take his medicine himself
perhaps he would be cured; but il would take
more than one bottle, and several vigorous
applications, for the above is only mild
sample.
Our public prints are fine educators of the
young. should think the headlines would
melt from the fevent heat incident to being so
often set up in such announcements as g Brutal
Prize Fights, Assassinations," "Defalca.
TONS Methods OF the Dynamite Party"
Twenty Apache Murders" ETC., and now
the Chronicle speaks Of the Bulletin and Cali
as the Evening Ananias and the Morning
Sapphire. As my knowledge Of the Bibles
liars Is confined 10 two, do not see where the
Chronicle has lefi any place for ITSELF do
no, know as il is policy to admit the influence
OF the Chronicle, but, il I should, il would be
to say that il has done more real damage to
yoar interests by its way OF harping on the
distorted sugar question and the leprosy than
II can ever do you good. ADoLpHus.
San Francisco, April s, 1883.
The New York money market was very