The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-26
hawaiian Hardware Go.,b'd
Nav %, 1904.

NAY %, 1884,
Complaints against the Blu
reau of Information, if the
newspapers are to be relied up
on, are piling up thick and fast.
The trouble seems to be that peo-
pie interested in organizing it are
inclined to devote their time to
their legitimate business rather
than to side issues and neither
the government or the mer-
chants see direct returns sufh-
Gent to warrant an organization
that would require salaried
clerks to transact the business.
The Bureau has been like a good
many monument associations; in
the beginning every one signified
his willingness to dig up but
time kills the desire. And this
reminds us of the contestant of a
certain will. She used to tell her
friends "if the good Lord only
help her in getting a verdict IN
her favor she would contribute
literally to all sorts of charities. -
After a time she won her suit
and got the money and lady men,
bers of organized charities called
upon her for subscription only
to be meet with a refusal. One of
them had the temeritv to remind
her of her promises when the suit
was in court. That's true
enough she replied, "but when
the good Lord gave me the
money he took from me all de
sire to part with it"
There is some remedy for get
ting the bureau out of its como
tose state; and if there is not why
not turn the business over to the
tourist paper published here and
let the proprietors OF it hustle
for a boom. Every legitimate
effort to bring tourists here has
its return in some form. Adver-
Using will do the business all
right, but it cannot be done for
nothing; if the Paradise of the
Pacific is to be the organ of the
Bureau of Information, perhaps
its editor may be persuaded to
make things hum-for a con-
sideratiou.
While it may be difficult tor
the average business man to see
direct returns from tourist travel,
it comes nevertheless. One
particular line may get most of
the coin, in the beginning, but
the owner Of that line keeps it in
circulation; the hackmen get their
portion and through them the
feed mer get theirs ahd so on
until finally no person has enough
left to open a jack pot. From
tourists themselves the hardware
people get nothing, but they get
it from others. We know of one
particular instance where a man
made enough money out of
tourists to paint his house with
Hendry's Ready Mixed Paints.
He expects to make enough out
of the next lot to build new
house, SO the lumber dealers will
get their share.
The dry weather keeps on and
people who have no AermotOr
to help them out are going TO
suffer for the want OF water. A
small sum OF money spent in one
of these wheels will come back
to the purchaser by way of in
creased crops, three times over,
the first season it is in use, We
have them in different sizes from
the S-foot pumping to the Io-foot
geared or pumping-the 8-foot
being used tor stock or where
irrigation is not carried on to any
considerable extent.
The dealings in material for
building the Jones Locked fence
is large with indications pointing
skyward. Its no wonder! Here's
a man who builds fence on the
old style and pays fifty dollars a
mile more than his neighbor,
who builds a Jones Locked. His
first impulse is to hire a small boy
to kick him. We've met lots of
such people since we have been
selling fencing, but the number
is decreasing. 1t is hard work
to convince some people that a
new thing is better than some
thing old. Not so with this ienc-
ing a great many people buy it
upon our representation, while
others do the Veni Vidi business
and leave the Vici to the fence.
Eight cents for stay and five
washers that takes the place of a.
post that costs seventeen cents.
THE HAWAIIAN HARD.
WARE CO.,