The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-05
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per S. S. Alameda, San Francisco,
July 81, 1889.

(FrOm Our San FRANCISCO correspondents
Sugar.
The local sugar market is weak
and prices have receded half cent
a pound all around since the Aus
tralia departed. Granulated is quo
ted at 81 cents, Confectioner's A.
at 81 cents, other whites at 81 cents,
extra Cal. Z cents and Golden G. IS
cents.
Death of Andrew WEIGH.
Andrew Welch died at Portland;
Oregon, on the morning of the 25th
inst. MIR. Welch was sufferer from
complication of stomach troubles
during the past half year, and his
death was fastened by overwork.
He leaves wife, three sons and one
daughter, we'll provided for by the
earnings Of a we'll conducted bus
mess.
Mr.. WEIGH was a native Of Scot
land. He came to America in 1865
remaining for awhile in British Col
umbia, where he founded the we'll
known house of Welch, Rithet & Co.,
and built up almost Immediately a
large and lucrative trade.
For the past twenty years he has
welded a great influence in the bus
mess community in this city and
Honolulu. On coming to San Fran
cisco from British Columbia, his re-
markable shrewdness and sound
business sense soon caused him to
be recognized, and it was not long
before he was the acknowledged
leader in many business enterprises.
Becoming interested in the Hawaiian
trade he acquired and admirably
conducted large interests in the is
lands. For years he was one Of the
leading island traders, his line OF
trading packets which is still run
ming is doing much to build up trade
between the two countries. With
him the sugar business became OF
great interest, and of late years he
devoted his extra time to sugar. He
became interested in the American
Refinery, and has long been acknow-
lodged as one of it's warmest support
ers. While he was the Presi
dent of the company, positi on
from which he resigned only re-
Gently, he conducted it's buiness with
great sagacity.
His business interests however
were not confined to the island trade
His original house of Welch, Rithet
& Co., at Victoria, has grown to ar
immence concern, and his business
connections in Portland were nu
merous. A Liverpool agency of his
firm of WEIGH & Co., transacts 6
large business across the water anc
his connection in the South Amer
lean trade were considerable and Of
much value.
Personally Mr. Welch had host:
of friends. In business he had al
of a Scotchman's shreWdness anC
ability to foresee and calculate. II
his moments of leisure he was {
thoroughly pleasant companionable
gentleman whose conversation wa!
always valuable being enriched by
as varied an experience as is gran
ted to most men.
Flags were displayed at half mas
on many San Francisco business
houses when the news of his deatl
was received, and appropriate resol
utions will be adopted by the Cham
Der of Commerce, the Board of TRADE
and other commercial bodies with
whom he was associated.
San Francisco News.
Raymond Bierce, son of Ambros,
Bierce, prominent writer for tn,
Examiner, was to have been marriet
last Sunday evening to Miss Ella
Adkins of Chico. The wedding die
not come off. She eloped with Nei
Hubbs, who was selected as best mai
! on the previous evening, and the,
were married at Stockton. Bierc,
followed Mr.. and Mrs. Hubbs t.
Chico, and on the evening of tn
26th he shot Hubbs through tn,
abdomen and his faithless lover il
the head, afterward committing sui
eide. Hubbs will die, but the wo
man will recover. The affair hal
created great stir in this city.
The Union Iron Works Compan,
has got a contract to build anothe
cruiser. The vessel will be 2,OO(
tons displacement, will have speed
of Is knots an hour and will b,
armed with two 6-inch breech loader
and four 4-inch breech leaders. Sh,
will cost 100000. This will be tn,
fourth man-of-war from the Unior
: Works. The Charleston will sool
be ready for another trial. The Sal
Francisco is to be launched shortl,
and the company has a contract t.
build an armored coast defense
vessel.
About 4:30 a. m. on the 24th a fir,
broke out in the middle of the blocl
in Sacramento's Chinatown on tn,
south side Of I street, between Third
and Fourth, and the entire block OF
that side Of the street was reduced
to ashes. All the buildings wer,
light frame structures, and one
started the flames spread as though
burning fuse.
The steamer Belgic arrived from
China on the 23d, and among he
passengers were Ii Ching Fong, sol
of Lii Hung Chang, Premier O
China, and Chew Shu Yiu, Consu
General of Cuba,