The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-10
SPRECKELS TALKS.
He Thinks that Sam Parker is a
= Level Headed Man.


= Level Headed Man.
I Claus Speckels returned from the
Islands OH the oath by the Austria
liza. He had been away six weeks,
and evidently the trip has done
him lots of good.
He pulled vigorously at a cigar
and curls of smoke formed halo
about him as he talked to Bulle-
tin man.
81 had a pleasant voyage and a
good time. 1t was my twenty-sixth
trip to the Islands. / hadn't been
down before for fifteen months.
There was great deal to do, but I
got about most everywhere. We
have plantations on most all the
islands now, but principally on
Hawaii and Maui.
1.-THE sugar crop? 1t has looked
bad-awful droughts-and things
are hot and dry. We won't have
as much sugar as last year. The
islands last year sent up about
100000 tons this year it won't go
over 10000.
Business generally is dull, and
free sugar is the cause. Merchants
all complain, but still, guess
business is slow just now the world
over. The Legislature is in ses-
sion, but don't seem to be doing
anything startling. They are fig
uring on how to increase the rev.
enue of the islands, for they are
badly in debt and have got to do
something.
Political affairs are quiet-you
hear up here more about trouble
than when down there. The whole
row was that somebody wanted to
get somebody else out and to get in
himself. They were all in it for
what they could make. Both Will
cox and Bush are now in the
Legislature. They have no very
great following. Wilcox wanted to
get a place in the Cabinet-he
wanted most anything he could
get.
If'The Queen seems to be we'll
liked by every one. Sam Parker,
the Premier, has her entire conf
idence. He is a level-headed, we'll
educated man, not, perhaps, with
Gibson's force, but a good man.
His grandfather was a missionary
from Boston. I have known the
Queen many years. She invited
me to a breakfast and entertained
me.
Little is heard there of the
Johnston Island episode. The
Hawaiians didn't want the island
they have all they can do to take
care of the islands they have.
"What's new in San Francisco
politics? I haven't heard thing.
It's bad time in a Presidential
year to try to work reforms locally.
I've read a great deal of railroad
news. The railroad talk here is y
good thing. The more roads here
the better. Our city is not half
what it should be. / believe in
railroads.
at seems to me that a railroad
to bring out freights to this city
would be worth great deal. I
built a road from jacksonville to
Moss Landing, and now it runs to
Salinas. / built this line because
the railroad company charged me
too much. Now / can haul beets
for Is cents ton the Southern
Pacific charged me $1.25, yet my
road makes money. We carried
over 10000 tons of grain and other
products beside beets last year."
''Pm going down to jacksonville
in day or so. We will get big
beet crop there this year and will
begin crushing very soon."
If the sugar king may grow dis
consulate over the Hawaiian free
sugar output, which he and his
sons control, he brightens up when
he goes to the sugar-beet fields and
the bounty-gaining factory at Wat
sonville. If they don't get some
where near $500, 900 worth of sugar
from there this approaching sea-
son it will be because all signs of
promise fail. There are fully four
thousand acres in sugar-beets, and
a recent calulation places the pros
pective crop at fully $4,000 tons.
The Government bounty of 2 cents
a pound, awarded the jacksonville
output last season, footed up $751;
O00.-[S. F. Bulletin.
Work on the Canals.