The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-10-01

Honolulu till deemed wise to bring
it back.
It is impossible now, for the
poorer class of brandy-makers to
compete with the richer men, be-
cause while they might be able to
let the capital invested in the
brandy itself lie idle, they cannot
afford to pay 80 cents gallon In
cash and let the brandy lie in the
warehouse. For that reason the
brandy business is bound to be more
or less of a monopoly. They talk OF
putting up cooperative brandy dis
tilleries, but these distilleries would
soon become the property Of those
who had the most money, for brandy
has to be kept just as wine now
does, and they can't keep 1t If they
have to pay revenue tax.
Wien this warehouse is built,
then the cooperative distillery of
the small wine men will become
possible. They can make brandy
and send it out of the country till
needed and bring it back as it is
ordered in lots to suit and then pay
a high tax. It is useless to cry for
a reduction of the tax. The big
whiskey men won't have it. The peo-
pie of California could howl for
years and it would do no good. The
only way is to avoid the law.
Storage in Honolulu will not be
one-half so expensive. Instead of 10
cents gallon, the maximum charge
over there would probably be 5 cents.
The few cents it costs for freightage
to the islands and return would be
wiped out in month or two in the
reduction of the cost of storage.
This idea is not a new one. It has
long been the custom of American
whiskey men who wish to age their
goods to send them across the water.
Thousands upon hundreds of thous-
ands of gallons of United States
whiskey are now stored in Bremen,
carefully guarded, never opened and
always under seal. By so keeping it
an enormous interest is made on the
money invested and Uncle Sam gets
nothing until you have your Gus
toner with the cash in hand. It
means much for the wine and brandy
men of this State-much more than
anything proposed for years.
San Francisco wine and brandy
merchants are all heart and soul in
favor of the enterprise. Your CORES
pondent has talked with several re-
garding it and they say that all that
is wanted is for Honolulu to offer
proper warehouse inducements and
the brandy will come. The quantity
Of brandy which will be made in
California this year will not be short
of a million gallons. The tax on
this is 100000 which will have to be
paid three years hence, before the
brandy is properly aged, unless some
such scheme as above is carried out.
General News.
The plans for two 3000-ton new
warships are being prepared in the
Navy Department at Washington,
and it is believed that the present
appropriation is sufficient to build
them. The tenders for their con-
struction will be advertised for in a
few days.
There are four products of Cali
fornia that now seek outlets abroad,
VIZ: raisins, figs, prunes and olive
oil. Efforts are being made to intro
duce these into Australia; and for
few years, or until the colonists can
produce these products themselves,
there Will doubtless be a good de-
mand and profitable trade can be
evolved.
Book Hing has sued Liang Ting
tsan the Chinese Consul General for
81 900 due to him and others from
the fund appropriated by Congress
for the benefit of the Chinese
driven out of Rock Springs. The
particulars of how Liang Ting-tsan
sought to pocket all the money
have already been published.