The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-12-02
TRADE Will Be Brisk
PROSPECTS FOR HOLIDAY SALES
BY RETAIL HOUSES.
Effect of the Amateur Shows and the
Frawley, Engagement-Money Let
Loose-The Hack Princes.

| NOW JnaI lnankSPlNlnP mas come
and gone and Christmas and New Year
are drawing near, the merchants
about town are a little bit anxious to
know just how brisk the holiday trade
is going to be with them, or whether
it is going to be brisk at all
\ great majority of the business
houses have got in large line of hol-
iday goods with the anticipation that
trade will be as good this year, if not
better, than ever before. Then there
are those who are confident in their
own minds that the season is certain
to be dull, if for no other reason than
that the people have expended the
money which they otherwise would
have invested in holiday goods, for
theater tickets, hack fare and flowers.
They say that the amateur perform
ances, although reaping nice har-
vest, would not have done any harm to
trade, but that the Frawley engage
ment capped the climax.
yes, sir, the Frawleys will take
heap of money away with them when
they leave Hawaii. Their engagement
here has just knocked the bottom out
of holiday trade this year for u.s."
The merchants who size up the sit
uation in this light are very few in
| deed. \ Fort street business man eX-
pressed his views about the matter
thusly:
in my opinion it is a mistaken idea
that some of the business men have
about the Frawley engagement caus-
ing a dull Christmas trade. For my
part | take the very opposite view of
the matter. | say that the amateur
plays and the Frawley performances
are the very things which are going
to make trade brisk for us in the next
three or four weeks. My reasons for
thinking this way are these: The
new theater has been very well pat
ronized since it's opening and as a
result there has been considerable
amount of money brought into circu-
lation. Nor has all of it gone to the
theater managers. | might say with
almost absolute correctness that every
merchant in the city has been benefit
ted more or less during the present
theatrical season. The ladies have
been obliged to purchase new dresses.
shoes and other wearing apparel. The
men have also needed new suit of
clothes, or hat, pair Of shoes, and
there is hardly a man who has not
invested in linen or neckwear during
hack millionaires' who have come in
for their share and the florists have
been enriched.
1--WE know that the receipts of the
The Frawleys are very liberal with
their money and are spending it quite
freely about the city. No, sir, l for
one say that if anything the Frawley
engagement will prove boon to hol-
iday business"
King street merchant when seen
this morning gave it as his opinion
that a good month was at hand. Sew
eral other merchants on Fort seemed
delighted with the prospects for a
lively trade that December brings to
them.
The Chinese and japanese mer-
chants are anticipating big rush and
are preparing themselves for it.
HOW TO PREVENT PNEUMONIA.
At this time of the year a cold is
very easily contracted, and if left to
run its course without the aid of some
reliable cough medicine is liable to re-
suit in that dread disease, pneumonia.
We know of no better remedy to cure
cough or cold than Chamberlain S
Cough Remedy. We have used it quite
extensively and it has always given
satisfaction.-Olag Ind. Ter. Chief
This is the only remedy that is
known to be a certain preventive of
pneumonia. Among the many thou
sands who have used it for cold and
la grippe, we have never yet learned
!, of a single case having resulted in
= pneumonia. Persons who have weak
o lungs or who have reason to fear an
7 attack of pneumonia, should keep the
. remedy at hand. For sale by all drug
{ gusts and dealers. Benson, Smith &
Co., wholesale agents for II. |.