The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-11-19
SIX-PAGE EDITION
SUMMARY.

No striking events have occurred
since our last summary, but what
we have to report is all in the way
of progress.
The large new we'll at Eva was
visited on the 31st ultimo by a
party of gentlemen at the invita-
ton of Mr.. J. n. S. Williams, the
Manager of the Union Iron Works,
who had contracted for the whole
of the machinery of the mill, the
first and largest diffusion plant con-
structed in these islands.
A full description of the mill was
given in the issue of the I'd instant,
and it only remains to state here
that the diffusion battery consists
of twenty-eight cells. There is q
double two-roller mill for express
ing the water from the sliced cane,
a quadruple effect, two vacuum
pans and sixteen centrifugals. The
cane slicers, Mr.. Williams patent,
were running, and everything in a
very advanced stage of construc-
ton. Work is expected to COM
mence January Is.
Another notable sign of progress
is the completion and opening of
the new Volcano Hotel, which is
now ready to accommodate board
ers. Twenty-ei bedrooms, with
reading, smoking, billiard and dim
ing rooms, ample verandas over
looking the greatest active crater
on earth, a singularly healthful and
agreeable climate, facility of access
and liberal arrangements for pro-
longing the stay, either at the era
ter or at other points on the way,
ought to make the new hotel
famous and attract numbers of
tourists in search of change, or of
health, or of sightseeing. In this
connection, attention may be called
to the interesting letter of Mr..
Wesmann, who has received much
benefit from the sulphur baths,
which are now available to all
tourists at the hotel. Mr.. w. has
been an invalid from rheumatism
for years.
Another completed undertaking
is the large and handsome red
brick block at the corner of Fort
and Merchant streets, which has
been finished and Immediately oc-
cupied, the Pacific Hardware Co.
taking the whole of the upstairs
floor and half of the ground floor.
The new building for the British
Club is also finished and occupied,
though the furnishing is not yet
complete. 1t contains large and
handsome dining room, smaller
rooms for private parties, billiard
and reading rooms and magnificent
verandas upstairs and down; the
whole lighted by electric light.
Of social events the most notice
able were the dance given on board
the U. S. S. Pensacola by the Cap
tain and officers of the ship, to
which a large company was in
vited and attended, and passed a
very pleasant evening, though rain
fell during part of the time it did
not hinder the dancers. The other
occasion was the celebration Of the
Wooden Wedding of the Hon. w.
G. and Mrs. Irwin, when their
beautiful seaside residence at Wal
kiki was brilliantly illuminated and
thrown open to one of the largest
assemblages of beautifully dressed
ladies and their attendant gentle
men, and the Royal Hawaiian
string band supplied the music, to
which the dancers kept up their
enjoyment well into the morning
hours.
The weather has been favorable
on the whole to growing crops of
all kinds. Our reservoirs have
been filled and our lawns and
flower gardens frightened up, and
even old Punchbowl has got rid of
its dry brick dusty look, and is
covered largely with sweet potato
patches, or what is not so pleasant
to contemplate, with lantana
bushes.