The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-22
FOR HOLI
Where the Masses May Buy
Presents.
AN EXCELLENT BUSINESS YEAR
ALI Lines Represented in
This Column.
Everything From a Needle to an
Anchor-TOoI Chests or
Diam onds.
AN EXCELLENT BUSINESS YEAR

The present season among the me"-
chants is the best they have had in
many years, due, no doubt to the
enormous crop of sugar and the conse-
quent loosening up of money. With
most of them the stock kept has been
larger and more varied than usual.
Some have gone into more expensive
articles, believing that with the good
times the inclinations of the public
would be toward a better class of
goods. But in shopping the people find
much to their surprise, that these
known-to-b e-high-rriced goods are
from 20 to 40 per cent lower than they
were two or three seasons ago. This
may be due to a reduction in the cost
of manufacturing, but the secret is
probably found first, in the fact that
there is greater competition, and again
because the Honolulu merchants have
learned to buy better than they for
merly did. Nearly all the large manu-
facturers in the East have found it
necessary to establish agencies on the
Pacific Coast, and the dealer, buying
from them instead of through their
own agents, get the benefit of larger
discounts.
The Hawaiian Hardware Company
on Fort street, near Queen, has been
known for several years to be the head
quarters for goods in useful lines suit
ed to the tastes of people who enjoy
giving and receiving Christmas gifts
The trade in this establishment has
always been large, and this year it is
not an exception.
The show cases in the store contain
many useful novelties at low prices and
suited to either ladies' or gentlemen 5
use Their special line is lamps, and
| they have them for every imaginable
use The brig Irwin brought them a
very large stock, which Will be put in
the show rooms today or tomorrow.
! But there are other things for people
who do not wish lamps. A specially
| here is sets and single pieces of solid
! silverware in beautiful designs.
''McInerny's" is where people go for
high-class haberdashery for the reason
that the goods are carefully selected
from the best English and American
markets. There is scarcely anything
in the first-cIass shops of New York OF
San Francisco that cannot be supplied
| by McInerny American soft hats OF
IChristy's celebrated Panama's are here
side by side with the best grades OF
American made umbrellas. There are
day shirts and night shirts, collars and
cuffs. Braces and handkerchiefs, tow
els and perfumery, smoking Jackets
bahamas. leather belts, Sashes and ties
of every shade and color, and the same
expression applies to gloves. These
goods are found in the corner store
next door on Fort street are two largt
warerooms filled with footwear fOI
men women and children. In thes,
lines the stock is as complete as mod
Tern manufacture, modern methods o
buying and unlimited capital can Oh
tain.
The Pacific Hardware Company linn
it's its stock of Christmas goods t.
handsome lamps, beautiful CROKER,
and a very large assortment of paint
ings by D. Howard Hitchcock, Mrs
Helen Kelley and Hugo Fisher. Be
sides the work of these artists, Their
are photo-engravures engravings an
handsome photographs on platinotyp
paper, which so closely resemble stee
engravings, as to deceive almost any
: one. For the assortment of pictures
there are frames to match and enoug
molding to build a fence around Ga
hu. This company has been so bus