The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-10-16
Hawaiian Hardware Co., Id
SATURDAY., Oct. IL, 1898.

There has been an air Of
business along the water front
during the past week that has
permeated a good many of the
stores of Honolulu, principally
ours. The indications are
strongly in favor of increased
trade during the next six
months and we are taking time
by the fore lock and preparing
ourselves for what we think,
will be an era Of good times.
Honolulu and the Islands gen
orally have passed through a
period of depression that will
be long remembered; the
people of the United States
are suffering from a more ag-
gravated form of the disease
and the people there look for
relief through legislation while
it has come to us through nat
ural, at the same time, unex-
planned course-it just came.
The prospect of a higher price
for sugar in the near future
has given the managers con-
fdence and they are willing to
expend money for improve
ments and repairs, fact which
would not have existed had the
outlook not been bright. For
/, years Hawaii has been depend
ent upon sugar to an extent
that when there was good
year almost every inhabitant
, shared in the prosperity and
when a poor season came
along they linked arms in ad-
versity. TO a certain extent
the same state of affairs exist
today, the sugar producer
looks with a bright eye and a
light heart to better times, and
, he invests accordingly. The
laborer who has worked dur
ing the past season on the CO.
operative plan finds himself
: better off than he expected by
several hundred dollars and he
, yearns for an outlet for his
savings. Diversified industries
+ on Hawaii are practically in EN-.
: bryo; that they will develope
and be numbered among the
resources of the country there
: can be no doubt. When that
: times comes, though sugar will
: ever remain the leading pro
duct of the islands, coffee ane
a fruits will occupy such promi
t nence that when there is an of
{, e year in sugar, the loss to the
h merchant will be made up from
S the money spent by the promo
> tors of other industries.
) Unless all signs fail thi'
r country will be connected will
9 the United States by com
e mercial treaty that will be a
,. great a boon to the fruit grow
g e er as was the reciprocity treat,
;; to the sugar planter. Lane
d that now lies idle will be plant
ed in fruits and canneries will
spring up like mushrooms
. The prohibitory duty on canned
I goods entering the Unitee
IF States from this port will b.
!. !, wiped out and canned Hawaii
d an fruits will be known through
y. out the world. The prospect
for Hawaii's advancement
N among the worlds commerce
't are brighter now than the,
= have been for years, and 70
that reason we have adde'
" thousands Of dollars worth c
let goods to our stock during tn
20 % last few days.
" Notice the stacks of fin
% grade "Aloha" and plain coco
'e mats in our show rooms. Gu
London buyer hunted Englan
n over for the best products c
le the manufacturers, and W
10 ne have never had mats ofa bette
quality of fibre or closer wove
= backs than we offer today as
result of his efforts in your an
. our interests. The same ma
. be said of scissors, we've neve
= haI To- os ,11o.a -;