The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-11-10
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per o. s. 8. Australia, San Francisco,
October 81, 1891.
From our own Correspondent
(Concluded.)
Ocean Mail Bids.

The Postmaster-Gene opened
bids for ocean mail service at Wash
ington on the 26th No bids were
presented for the Colonial service, the
Oceanic company deferring action I'M
til the propositions of the New Zea-
land Government were made mani
fest.
Since the bids were opened it has
been learned that the New Zealand
Government asked for fortnightly
service on the basis of lis. per pound
for all letters carried, and one steamer
to fly the British flag. This is con-
ditiOn which the Oceanic company
cannot meet and still get the Ameri-
can subsidy. Efforts are to be made
to have New Zealand withdraw this
condition.
The Pacific Mail has announced an
issue of 100000 in bonds, for new
boats on the China service. 1t will
need three new steamers for this line.
The two steamers now building will
be done by March 1.
San Francisco News.
a rumor has been in circulation
that ex-senator James @. Fair had
married Miss Mary Lake, of Miss
Lakes Seminary. The report came
from New York by wire, to the effect
that they were welded in Virginia
city, Nevada; but both parties deny
the soft impeachment. Fair says he
has not seen the lady within year.
Frank Godfrey, editor of the Para
disc of the Pacific, is at the Palace.
The California Traffic Association
has been organized. 1t is composed
of merchants and shippers, and is for
the purpose of compelling the S. P.
Railroad Company to give lower
freight rates, overland and local.
Edward Bruner, known as the boss
boodler of the last Legislature, has
been arrested on an Indictment by the
Grand Jury, and is now out on bonds
awaiting trial.
The Superior Court has decided that
the overhead wires must come down
from the roofs of houses.
A meeting was held in the Cham
Der of Commerce to protest against
the proposed pOst-office site, but the
friends of the interested property
owners and the commissioners packed
the meeting and defeated it's object.
Commissioner John P. Irish says the
site has been bought.
J. c.. Flood and party have made a
fast trip to New York, beating the
time made by the Mackay party ten
minutes.
J. L. Brown, of the Chicago Clock
Company, committed suicide by in
haling gas.
The Belt Line of railroad on the
water front has been opened for bust
ness. 1t will be a great saving to
merchants.
A Japanese crew went to sea on the
Robert S. Besnard bound for Calais,
recently. This is the first entire crew
of Japs which ever left this port.
Irving M. Scott, of the Union Iron
Works, proposes to raise $5,OOO,OOO
for the erection of a great gun factory
in San Francisco.
George w. Wicks, prominent
member of the Pacific Union Club,
blew his brains out in his rooms at
the club. Ill-health was the cause
assigned.
Two reindeer, from Siberia, have
been added to the Park Menagerie.
The two branches of the Heyden-
feldt family have begun fight in the
Courts for the estate of the late Judge
Solomon Heydenfeldt. The wife was
cut off without a dollar, and wants
some of the 100000 estate.
The reorganization of the local
Democracy indicates that the reign of
Chris. Buckley is at an end. He has
taken house for the winter at Mon
treal, Canada.
The Olympic Athletic Club have
laid the cornerstone of their new
building. 1t is to cost 100000 and
will be the most complete club build
ing in the world.
Mrs. Pratt of the notorious Pratt
case has been divorced, but the court
finds that she was guilty of adultery
with L. L. Bromwell. The divorce
was OH the ground of cruelty.
A compact has been entered into
between the cable railroads to fight
the omnibus company, which has
captured the lions share of traffic
during the past year. Cheap rides
for the public will be the result.
E. A. Denicke, manager of the
English Brewery Syndicate, which
controlled the beer business of this
coast, made a failure of his manage
ment and has resigned. His success
sOr is G. B. Stone, q well-known poll
tician.
Judge Orville G. Pratt, one of the
foremost members of the California
bar, is dead.
On November LIST the running time
between San Francisco and Chicago
was reduced six hours.
S. w. Gibbs, the merchant, has
given the Armitage Orphanage the
Laurel Hall College property for
home. It is valued at $4,000.
DR.. Russell of the Graeco-R Russian
Church has challenged the Russian
imperial Consul to q duel. Both are