The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-09-17
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n. Invariably in Advance.
!, vIIl1IcAULIS MANIA.

,,,.,ry Fever Which Prevailed Fifty
Years Ago.
-, 1926 marked the origin OF
srs muIacaults mania, which
fever from 1880 until it Gull
= and collapsed in 1889. Con-
ID referred an inquiry on silk
!. IN 1925, to the Committee on
. ! n which, in 1926, reported
lis promotion, stating in the
! hi the imports of silk goods in
-. nearly double the exports OF
.,+nE,-s fact scarcely credible
The same year Gideon B. Smith,
,l5more. planted there what is
y 10 have been the first Mor1ts
'Sa,E, tree in America. The
.t,r Of the Treasury, Richard
VS. directed to prepare a manual
.5EeuIture, and the famous crush
= Vas accordingly issued in 1928,
-, with several other treatises,
4 Grulated broadcast. In 1880
Ticls by a DR.. Pascalis,
M N0r4s multicGuItS, in
igncqn Journal of Science
m started the mulberry
The Massachusetts, Legislature,
81 provided for a manual of silk
In which was made by a manu-
rsr Of Dedham, Mr.. Cobb, and
Gdt the States began to offer boun-
md premiums on trees, cOcOOns
neled sili-commonly ten cents a
aion cocoOns and fifty on silk. A
nb Congress in 1880 proposed a
u Of forty thousand dollars to
A. D'Hormergue for the
asshment of, a normal school of
he at Philadelphia, where sixty
g men might have gra-
us Instruction for two years, and
nysEng about the country to
ak-gowing to farmers; and this
aHl, though defeated in 1882,
nPOrted against as unconstitu-
A in 1885, would not down till
Il Vhen still another committee re-
raE substitute a scheme to lease
Del nds without rent for the cult
POI Of the mulberry tree or the
rbeet
u whole country now went wild.
aiEa seemed only to get fresh fuel
Gdtsment from the panic of 1887.
s.iTds Of the muEticauli8 were plant
llEey State; farmers everywhere
saaf wives and children to feeding
aaS muldtudinous books, public
ansnk, periodicals. on silk-culture,
.aa'ulsd the bulk of the reading of
saF stock companies for raising
! 9ln1ufseturing silk sprang up like
i @Il'; silk conventions were held,
-iVllted States Silk Society was
qsiGla.
!, a11a'! narseryman on Long Island
n AlP to the excitement by a canny
&. Ater selling a considerable
n! Of the trees to New England
10 10 he started of one: night BY the
T. y boat, and With great pre-
M eagerness made the rounds of
{, y 49,. Customers, excited y offering
EIs a3s apiece for trees. OF course
,TI get them, but he presently
~ ~ y 70 sS Seu all he had for a dollar
sst q fifty cents apiece.
s..I lallgtOn, New Jersey, over three
|S5 J thousand trees were raised and
d ~ UseemOer, 1888, offerings at one
|a,t p d Hee or per twig, were re-
|eSn. boston sales. and five dollars
& T'ulleS got for trees one season
Ion was was satisfactorily proved
! w. va. BBaper-that an acre of trees
! I TOc., 'or one thousand dol
b Of u OF silk, but the
Ia .. ueeS had no relation to
|sh,,0"a'e wen the most rose-colored.
|&d ~. sOld six thousand dollars
.ess T T. from three-quarters of
b S,l u single week in Pennsvl-
|a nv ,Se hundred thousand dollars
"a Es,. NE bubble burst, and the
Saa,I. ClI'en. Among them was
assSt M Long-Islander. He
Sd "a sn '9e disease by which he had
ss ri,S u had sent an agent to
Il % eighty thousand dol
lN Why a million more
sEortb > 81 they came, they
s.eph. SP part Of a cent apiece for
Pet a some SPECTATORS endeav-
70 fro T1e4 ?, with fate by shipping
|edSevS WI A. the East to Indiana by
AarIy i Hrleans in an unseaworthy
satel lT r insured, but the goods I'M
ed ss ~ rttaehed their destination.
ButV u men We're ruined bv the
sg on americans have a faculty
asspDy mel .lelr feet, and some of
bsss mmaG1iberry-growers Of the
Of lsfase the successful manufac-
|S aIer DAYS U',-I-I - II q L!otAac-