Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-08-07
Fluent LIEUT.. WOLTERS
DEsCANTs ON ISLAND PROSPERITY
y IN A HIGH KEY.
money Made Rapidly by Mechanics
In HonoIuIu-Tw wo-thirds of Its
Beer from Seattle.

Lieut.. Edward III. +. Wolters of
company II, Hawaiian national
guard, and daughter have been
spending two or three days in the
city, with the Occidental hotel as
their headquarters, says the Seattle,
Wash, Times of July %. The
lieutenant leaves this evening for
home by way of Oakland and San
Francisco. Lieut.. Wolters knows
any number of old time Seattle
people who now make the island
capital their home, and many are
doing we'll. A few had met bad
luck and are not prospering very
well. The commercial world of
Honolulu looks at Seattle as next
in importance to San Francisco,
and they are eager to push trade
relations with the Sound metro
polls in every way they can. Lieut..
Wolters is away on sick leave.
Back of this, however, is more
important object, which he is fost-
ering and which will become of
much importance to the trade of
Seattle. He does not tell just the
nature of the business enterprise
he and three other associates on
the island are going to launch,
but he says it will be one in which
Seattle will be much interested.
The lieutenant, while pro-
minent member of the ISL
and army, is also en-.
gagged in business and is making
money. He runs a hotel in the
capital and handles the beer i'm
ported by the Seattle brewing and
mailing company of this city, and
he says it is fact that this COM
pany supplies two thirds of the
beer sold on the islands. There
is great prosperity on the islands
this year. The sugar business is
paying great dividends, probably
on account of the Cuban rebellion,
and it is proving a gold mine to
the California sugar men. Homo
lulu is growing, new streets are
being made and the city is extend
ing and new buildings going up
everywhere. Labor is well paid
and carpenters, plumbers, tin
smiths, blacksmiths and artisans
generally do we'll. He would not
advise any one going there ex-
pecting in a very short time 10
make a lot of money and crawl
out again. Mechanics, however,
can make money very quickly if
they try. He cited the case of
one Seattle man, Buttertield by
name, who went there but short
time ago without any money, and
has since made enough money to
pay for a $4,000 home, all his, all
paid for.
Lieut.. Wolters said he had been
in Honolulu nine years, and when
urged to state what he is worth at
th9 present time put his wealth at
about $4,000, good showing,
which he appeared to think any
man with thrift might equal. The
lieutenant says his company fills
post of honor to the president
and it is composed of some of the
best man over there. They stand
ready to be called out at any time
occasion demands. The govern
ment likes to have the most pro.
minent men at the head OF the
guard. Such men are double as
surance of safety, for having pro-
perty of their own at stake they
may be counted on at all times to
do their full duty. Honolulu
maintains daily newspapers in
several languages, English, Ha-
waiian, Chinese and japanese,
besides several weeklies, circula-
ting in all parts of the republic.
Education and general intelli-
gence is progressing among all
classes, and, in fact, there is but
one thing Hawaiians seem to de-
sire, and that is, as Lieut.. Wolters
expressed it, "the flag Grover
Cleveland stole from us four years
ago"