The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-23
Sugar.

sugar.
NEW YORK, Dec. I5.-Cuban GEN.
trifugals, So degrees, 2 $40 cents;
granulated 31-lOO cents.
The San Francisco market is with
out feature.
Eastern refiners are now taking
kindly to the tariff proposed by the
wilson Bill, as the following dispatch
from New York, dated the 9Th, plain
~ shows: There is every indication
that the passage of the Wilson tariff
bill will cause either a general closing
OF all the refineries in the eastern dis
trict of Brooklyn, or q big reduction
IN the wages of employees. A. J.. Mol
lenhauer, an officer OF the Molten
hauer Sugar Refining Company of
Brooklyn, whose refinery was only
recently completed at cost of 81, OOO,-
900, spoke forcibly of the injurious
effect of the new tariff bill should it
become law. Between 10000 and
$1,000 barrels of sugar are used daily
In the United States, which shows how
important the sugar industry is. If
the Wilson bill becomes o law this
country will become the dumping
ground for the refineries of all the
other countries, and we cannot COM
pete with them unless we reduce our
prices and to reduce the price of sugar
we would have to cut wages. At
present we are paying uuskilled labor
from S1.50 to SLS0 a day, while in
Germany the prevailing rate is so
cents a day. III we want to keep run
ming we would have to make an ex-
tensive cut and pay unskilled laborers
as little as so or 30 cents. According to
Mr.. Mollenhauer there are between
$500 and 5000 men employed in the
different refineries along the Will
liamsburg water front, and nearly all
are heads of families. This would in
dictate that at least 10000 persons
would be affected if the refineries in
Brooklyn Close"
The Ways and Means Committee
has yet to report on the matter of
bounty. This is an internal revenue
measure. and the internal revenue
bill of the committee is yet to be re-
ported.
The Brazilian Revolution.
The war in Brazil still RACES, with
little advantage to either side, except
ing that Peixoto has thus far sue
ceeded in repulsing the rebels in all
their efforts to make a landing in the
harbor of Rio. Several sorties have
been made in the past two weeks with
severe loss to both combatants. The
splendid fort, Victheray, in Rio har-
Dor has been bombarded till it is now
little less than a ruin, although its
armament is still good and it keeps
up the fire on the rebel fleet and forts.
On December 1st Mello succeeded in
escaping from the harbor with his
flagship after hot engagement. He
has been shut in for months and his
other vessels are still in the trap. 1t
is thought that he proposes to meet
the warships of Peixoto that are now
on the way to give him battle. Some
of the new Government vessels are
very formidable, and when they come
into an engagement the first oppor-
tunity will be afforded to test the dy-
Mantle cruiser in actual war. In adj
dition to this there Is Erricson's
famous monitor, Destroyer, which ia
about to start south In company with
the dynamite cruiser. A hot conflict
is expected and the chances are
against the rebels. The Government
forces on the 18th succeeded in setting
fire to one of the rebel gunboats in the
harbor, but the patriots were shelled
and driven away before they could
finish their work. The Destroyer car
ries two tons of gun cotton for use in
the dynamite gun, which is fired I'M
der water and is calculated to sink a
vessel with one shot.
The Brazilian cruiser America,
which left New York for Rio on De-
cember 4, was disabled off the Barba-
does by some traitor, who broke one
of the principal valves of her engine.
She will be delayed long time.
Cost of Trans-Pacifc Cable
A dispatch from Montreal dated the
4th says: The new proposal of San
ford Fleming for q Trans-Pacific
cable, which he intends submitting
to the Canadian and Australian Gov
ernments, contains four alternate
routes, ali of which have Vancouver
as the Canadian terminus. The length
of the shortest route, including
branches, will be 6264, and the long
est 1924 nautical miles. The cost of
the former is estimated at f1,3SO,0OO
aud the latter at Ct, 325, 900. The pro-
posed rate of shilliDgs word for
transmission over the new cable
would reduce the rate between Aus
tralia and England to IS. Cd. a word
instead of Is. 3D., as at present.
Assuming the fixed charge to be
el44,3 year and the cable COM
pIeted in 1897, Fleming estimates a
deficiency of $4,000, 10000 and
eSOOO for 1897, 1895 and 1899, respect
lively. The fourth year there would
be surplus of $4,000, which will be
increased gradually to 100000 in 1906.
These figures also include provision
for extiDguishing the subsidies now
paid.
San Francisco News.
Some miscreants wrecked freight
train on the road to San Jose near the
Industrial School recently. Two en-
oines and two cars were smashed and
three men were Injured.
Ir is announced that the Princess di
Colonna (nee Eva Mackay), will soon