Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-02-03
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oUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER
san FRANCISCO, January IS, 1881.
FpiroR SATURDAY. Pass: It Is generally I
conceded that person whose stock eunversa' |
ticu seems TO always introduce the weather As
n, principal topis must have ba, few ideas OF
little else to talk OF write about, bot when one
has fot days and nights 20 ty and solve the
problem II "h5v 60 keep waim' one could
wer bc excused fot harp,ng upon u. Our
winter So f,r has been one q few storms OF
rains, bu, the eoldes, Of cold nights and days,
frost and ice everywhere. and no one pleased
outside Of dealers in fuel and warm clothing.
Children delen from exposure, physicians are
more than busy, and al are wishing iot lesser
disc5mlorts, even desiring tain IN unlimited
quantities.
RAIN
Is much needed for crops now, and holders Of
stock in the Spring Valley Water Company
have 10 take their medicine as well as others
in the prospect of cessation Of dividends tenn
p,orsily. as the water IN reservoirs Is so low as
TO necessitaie pumping from other receptacles,
which means unusual expense, and in consc-
quencs the quotations of ;. V. W. ". are
somewhat lower, the hears taking advantage
of everything calculated TO denreSs the stock.
Talking Of scarcity Of water. the trouble does
not seem confined to our own state but extends
east and through the Middle States, telegraph
news telling US that in Maine the flow has no,
been 70 low Tot over a century, the loss TO mills
being incalculable, so tia, water is still nee.
essary adjune; Of mans happiness and welfare,
the whisky dealers to the contrary no,wi,h.
standing.
PREss DISPATCHES.
Our dispatches from the associated press are
full Of the horrible disaster in Milwaukee by
the burning Of the Newhall House. This trap
was capable Of accommodating eight hundred
people, but fortunately had not quarter that
number At the time Of oonhagraiion. The
structure being siN stories high was neverthe-
less withou, a single interior brick partition,
built entirely Of light material. 1t was but 4
shor time after the hre broke out before egress
from the building by regular means was i'm
possible, and a, this writing fully seventy.hve
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 suiii-
cient fulIneSs to satisfy the most sensational
reader Of blood-curdling romance. Truly the
greed for money passes all understanding, and
in this case although parties interested in this
building admi, that they though, i, unsafe in
case Of fire, little or no means Of escape were
furnished, when many appliances are to be OBJ
tanned for small expenditure. 1t IS not un.
charitable TO wish that the owners should
themselves have been FIRST to be scorched.
OUR CONGRESS
Has at last been awakened to the delay Of oui
American shipping and the necessity for a
once doing something for its relief, for, look a
it as one may, though benei,ting few ship
owners and builders, it must also benefit tn,
country at large. The condition Of affairs nov
Is and has fOt sometime been 4 disgrace t,
our grca, land. "God helps those who hell
themselves, 7" and when We can so legislate a
TO DIVE away one Of the great helps of the ma
ton, We must expect to take the consequences
II Sayors too much Of Saving a, the spiggo
and running at the bunghole.n The "Shippin.
bill'' IS expected to give new life to the ship
building interest, particularly in iron, and it
believed just as good il not better iron vessel
can be furnished at from ten to fifteen dollar
per ton less than foreign yards, certainly
denomination devou,ly to be wished.
Another good thing Congress proposes to d.
i to furnish US with a new postofhce, bat tn
sum spoken of IS entirely inadequate for ou
requirements What is $4,000 for such
building as this large and rapidly growing ei,
needs, the distribution point TO all parts Of th
globe, and in the face OF such appropriation
as $4,000 for little town OF 10000 inhab
,ants it seems unjus, TO US OF the Pacific Slop,
bu, the amount will be beginning with th
trusting TO the generosity Of another congre.
TO make ii a million. The amount OF it
Eastern States, caring little for interests on
side their own county, reading the papers by
seldom, happy in their own secluded lives, sii
think OF and believe California to be in th
same spaIsely settled semi-civili1ed state
thirty years ago, and as they are no, progres
i've themselves cannot realize that the worl
has moved on, leaving them in the backgroun,
METROPOLITAN TEMPLE.
The evidence Of Holy wnt is to the effe-
that our Saviour drove from the temple none,
changers and Others, saying; 81, is written NJ
house shall be called the house Of prayer, b,
ye have made j, den Of thieves, =" which sa,
ing was very foreibly brough, to mind this pa
week, first BY the announcement OF a "sparir
match to take place at Metropolitan Temp
on Monday evening. Many Of your reade
probably know this IS where Baptist socier
hold their services. The building, I beiiev
was dedicated as the house Of God, and Il
pastor has always been the notorious Or. Ia
loeh, bu, the building having reverted to Il
heirs Of an estate, whose principal inieres,
to receive some returns on the inyesimen
rent the audience-room as they do the stor
underneath. which. in this case, they did wit
oat respect ior the eternal fitness Of things,
the intense indignation Of the society and Il
city at large. The pulp, Vas removed, plu
form .eanyassed, the pugilis,s made their a
pearanee from the pastors study, disrobcd
the ladies' meeting roam, and made their a
PeAanee before the motley crew in full hgi