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The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12
Government Reports.

Department reports for the year
1896, will show an unprecedented in
crease in business all along the line.
In the Interior Department more has
been attempted and carried out than in
years before. Its sub-departments
Bureau of Public Works and Land
Office, viii show an enormous increase
OF business.
In the Finance Department it IS
little TO say that more money has not
been handled since the big Kalakaua
loan days. Tax, license, Post Office
and Customs receipts have been great
er than in years. The number of ac-
counts in the Postal Savings Bank
have increased from $500 to 1900
during the year, an increase OF over
I 100 per cent. In the Customs depart
ment a great stride viii be noted. The
ieountry's shipping increased in sur
prising ratio. Exports have been far
in excess of 1895 and imports will also
show large increase. Taxable prop
erty has increased and opened the way
for larger revenues than ever in the
history of the country.
1t will be shown from the interior
Department report that more land ha:
been opened than in years before, anC
that it has been taken up by an in
dustrious class of people; that grea
strides have been made in roadbuild
ing, public structures. improvement
to landings and many other things.
The report of the Department o
Education will be one OF the most in
Iteresting in the lot. 1t will show tn
most rapid and substantial advance
merit in its work made in any yea
since the landing of the missionarie
, in 1920. This department has in tn
period systematized the work as it ha
never been before. and made improve
ments in the school systems of tn
, country almost TOO great TO be est
mated
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12
NUMBER OF RAINY DAYS IN DIFF
FERENT DISTRICTS.

Additional interesting and useful in
formation Is contained In the following
table. which gives for each Of the dis
tricts the number Of days distinguished
by light or heavy rainfall. a rainfall
of O.O1 inch or more constitutes Gay
of rain record. but throughout this
table only averages are used, so that
the number CT days of rain record =
probably greater than II would be for
any one station, while the number AZ
DAYS OF heavy rainfall Is likely to %
somewhat less than for an Individual
station.
DAYS are reckoned as relatively
rainy when the rainfall exceeds 80
per cent. OF the total rainfall for the
eurrent months. in some cases the
actual precipitation may not have been
more than 0.oe inch.
The remaining figures deal with act-
ual rainfall, and there bring out clear
I " the contrast In climate between me
windward and the leeward sides o.
the several islands. 1t it interesting
10 note that the leeward stations ges
a fair share OF the exceptionally ne&ES
rains.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12
FOR A SWEET TOOTH,
Candies Manufactured Here and
Sold to the Trade.

The Elite Ice Cream Parlor, OF which
James Steiner is proprietor, besides
furnishing sandwiches and coffee to
the hungry, ices and soda water to
the thirsty and chewing gum 10 the
little maidens, has within its walls the
most modern machinery for the manu-
featuring of candies of all sorts and
conditions, from the fancy creams, with
fruits or nuts, TO plain everyday but
ter scotch.
From small beginning this factory
has developed into one, the product OF
which is sufficient to stock every store
on the Islands Mr.. Steiner does a
large retail business, his goods being
fresh every day, and in addition to
this, his wholesale trade is with four
fifths of the stores on the Islands. He
furnishes all of the plantation stores
as we'll as the Chinese dealers and
white store-keepers on the other ISL
ands.
Candies for shipment to the other
Islands are packed in buckets, after the
manner of the manufacturers of the
United States. These buckets, howev-
er, are confined to use for stick and
broken candy. The finer grades are
packed in Jars and the best French
candies in boxes. For the dealers in
candy, Mr. Steiner's speciality is sta.
pie candies" and, being fresh, are con-
sequently more saleable than imported
goods, which reach here many weeks
after they leave the factories in the
East
Among the large assortment Mr.
Steiner makes cream candies of al
kinds, plain and fancy; some with
fruits, nuts and cocoanuts in greatest
variety; chocolate creams, the most de.
lieious, in 10 varieties: caramels, in
five varieties; fondans, plain and fancy
fringed motto bonbons; cocoanut can.
dies, in cakes, squares and balls: gum
drops. hard and soft: marshmallows
cream almonds; smooth almonds (ege
candy; burnt almonds; jelly beans
cachou candies. pastiles, cachous in
boxes and bottles; peppermint, winter
green and conversation lozenges; rocE
candy, red, white and brown; licorice
in bars and drops; hoarhound anG
cough drops: lemon drops, small anG
large; maple sugar, IN cakes and brick:
"a frst-class article; fruit tablets, as
sorted; fancy mixed cream candies
plain mixed candy; broken candy: stieE
candy; butterscotch. in bars and
squares.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12
BEE CULTURE.
An Industry That Has Made Rapid
Strides.

Strides.
1t would be difficult thing TO fix the
date Of the beginning of the bee in
dustry in the Hawaiian Islands, As far
back as the oldest inhabitant" can
run his thoughts, honey has been gath
cred in the mountains Back in the
sos one of the characters of the city
was Dwight Holcomb, known to the
small boys and natives as "old Oak
UNI" He was an eccentric individual
and was the "bogie man" TO the young
boys of that time.
Holcomb had no business and lived
mainly through assistance from his
friends and lived in a small shack at
the head of Fort street. His attire was
picturesque, if rags and tatters may be
SO-called outside of art circles. Often
he would patrol Fort street carrying
double-barrel shotgun and with a
game bag hanging from his shoulders.
On such occasions it was noticed that
he would leave the town and make a
trip TO the mountains Tantalus being
favOrite spot He mingled much with
the natives, and in his conversations
with them he would caution them
against going over the mountains by
way Of Tantalus, telling them that
there was bear up there that would
eat them up. This caution was so fire.
qUent and given 80 earnestly that the
natives began 10 suspect, and when on
his return one day he was found with
a stock of honey in his possession,
they told him his bear was the nell
fbsel and they were not afraid
The object Of HOlcomb's trips 10 the
mountains becoming known, boys Of
l. or Is would frequently beg permits
sion from their parents to accompany
him on his jaunts; sometimes the boys
would follow after him or run across
him in their search for land shells In
relating his experience when a lad with
-Old 0akum,- a prominent Government
official said the other day:
While my father was always IN
tensely religious, and man devoted &c
the church, he was at once a rather
hard tasknaster I remember very
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12
w. w. WRIGHT.
Carriages Built in Most Approved
Style.

Good roads and climate that takes
the starch out of peoples energy Is
what puts half the residents of Homo
lulu on wheels seven days in the week
And nowhere do you find carriages
better suited to the conditions or better
built than in Honolulu.
W. W. Wright, on Fort street, op-
posite the Club Stables conducts a large
establishment for the manufacture of
vehicles. He is a thoroughly practical
man. and has been in the business
great many years. His men are so well
up in their respective lines that under
Mr.. Wright's directions duplicate OF
any carriage illustrated in catalogue
can be produced in his shop.
Honolulu-built brakes and carriages
are conceded 10 be better suited 10 the
conditions here than the imported art
icle. and Mr.. Wright enjoys the dis
tinction of seeing every day the result
of his handiwork on Honolulu roads.
He imports all of his material from the
United States, and employs white and
Hawaiian labor.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12

Kauai at length an ample supply. IL
would seem that the belt Of calms NOV
inE southwark gave the most norther-
ly island the first benefit.
DECEMBER.--In December. after
the first week, northerly winds again
prevailed until near the close Of the
month with the rise Of the barometer on
Dec. Sd and 9Th. giving us thirty per
cent of the total rain of the month.
Again a high barometer and northeriy
winds brought notable rains on Dec.
oath and 25th, but the greatest preci-
pitation OF the month was in connec-
ton with the Kona storm at its close,
which reached Kauai about So hours
earlier than 1t did Hawaii. and added
nearly two inches to the rain record Of
the month, which stands as $50 inches.
| Hawaii received less than its average
of rain, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and
Oahu a generous supply, less useful
than it would have been II distributed
through the month. Kauai had less
rain but better distributed.
TOTAL RAINFALL 1896
The highest total rainfall reported
is that Of Olaa. which reached nearly
1S6 inches. In the Hilo districts the
highest total is that OF Laupahoehoe
at 900 feet elevation. viz: 152 inches
although the figures for Honomu at
$50 feet elevation would probably
/ somewhat exceed this. were all the dats
| at hand.
| On Maui the highest record is tina
: of Hama at 1900 feet elevation. nearl,
70 inches; on Oahu, Luakaha reports
| nearly 1912 inches; on Kauai, Hama
t lei, heads the list, as usual, but witt
2 the modest figure of 6S % inches.
r The minimum figure for Hawaii |
n that of Pahala, 80 Ia inches; olowalr
e Maui. maintains its reputation 70
r rainlessness, with a record Of 10.
e inches, Kula standing second wit
g 23.2 inches. Waianae, Oahu, receive
J. only PIG inches; Makaweli, Kaua
22.9 inches.
+ There were only seven days in tn
It year with reported rainfall ayerae
It ing for all stations less than 0.O
e inches; not single day which ha
Is not at several stations a rainfall II
IT cord. In April and in May there Wa
n no day having an average precipiti
II ton for all districts less than 0.0S incl
d Following is a tabualted statemer
N of rain record of 76 stations groupe
Is in twenty districts. The most remark
II able fact brought out is that the HI
$ waiian Islands as whole cannot
If said to have a dry season. The ave.
ir age monthly rainfall during 1896 wa
4.475 inches. Omitting the month
le August which was exceptionally WI
IL and January and November whic
m were exceptionally dry, the average Il
a the dry season months was 3.51 inche
N for the wet season only 5.54. AS II
IN record stands the dry" months ha
II 3.S7 inches, the wet months ABS.
< RAINFALL BY DISTRICTS (AyET
Id AGES 1896.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12

a big success. At first only a small
amount of soap was turned out; today
500 boxes are loaded on the trucks
from the works every month The
soap has met universal endorsement.
and is now shipped 10 every hamlet
and plantation in the group
This particular branch of the bust
ness Of MeChesney & Sons is strictly
a home industry, and. in a way, a saw
ings institution TO the town at large.
Material from which the soap ingre-
dents are obtained were in former
years thrown away at the slaughter
house and elsewhere Now il is all
collected and put TO practical uses.
The business at Iwilei employs a
number of men at good wages. F. ".
McChesney is now president of the
company and principal owner Of The
enterprise.
Another important enterprise which
this house has been instrumental in
launching is the Woodlawn Fruit Co.
This business is new, but has every
promise of the success which has at
tended all previous ventures made by
this enterprising firm A cannery is
now talked of, and, with this in, the
business will take the leap forward
which is confidently expected OF it.
4 fourth great enterprise, one in
which the MeChesneys have been Won
derfully successfully, has been the
preparation of island coffee for the
trade. They stand today supreme.
the pioneers and leaders in this i'm
portant business. Roasting machines
were imported from New York, ana
now the finest coffee is prepared al
most ready for the table. Before the
enterprise was started, Hawaiian
coffees went 10 San Francisco to be
roasted. sacked and returned here for
sale. Messrs. McChesney & Sons have
by their scheme, saved TO their patrons
from three TO five cents per pound on
this commodity.
This latter fact is becoming appre
ciated. The quality of the coffee, also
has so far commended it that il has
suppIanted many of the foreign roast;
formerly brought 10 this market. The
demand for the McChesney article ha:
become so great and positive tina
wholesale houses have found 1t neces
sary to place large orders for II tol
their jobbing trade. One of the larges
wholesale houses of Honolulu recently
adopted the McChesney coffee for eX
elusive sale in its business.
With all these enterprises on han'
at once, the business of the firm run
on as smoothly as a mechanical sys
TEN. Nothing is allowed to suffer
II is constant progress ali along tn
lines. Only by the keenest bushes
tact and untiring energy Of Messrs
F. W. and ]. NJ McChesney has thi
record been kept up. Outside OF busi
ness. these gentlemen are highly re
spected in the community and ar
exemplary and useful citizens.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12
AN AppRECIATIvE LADY
Miss Goldstein Writes to Mr..
Wight on Her Hawaiian Trip.


Before the departure of the o. S. S.
Australia yesterday afternoon, Mr.. c..
L. Wight of the Wilder Steamship
Company received the following letter
from Miss Amelia Goldstein, the Cali
fornia lady who guessed correctly the
name of the new Wilder boat-HeIene:
Honolulu, H. /. Mar. 10, 1897.
To Mr.. Charles Wight,
President Wilder Steamship Co.,
Dear Sir:I wish to thank the
Wilder Steamship Company, through
You, for my Hawaiian trip I am
deeply sensible of the pleasure and
profit it has been to me. In the space
of a few weeks, l have had a variety
OF scene and incident in connection
with your land, that win ever be a
source of realistic Impressions
L wish TO state that from the many
different tourists ! have met during
my trip, have heard only express
ions of surprise 1T the magnitude of
the sugar industry, and the great fut-
ure Of the coffee industry culture.
While it is generally known that coffee
grows in these islands. but very few
realize that coffee culture has taken
such step forward | shall be one
of the many who viii spread abroad
your hopes for the future industry.
Thanking you one more for my en-
joyable trip. / remain, most cordially
yours, AMELIA GOLDSTEIN.
Hawaiian Hotel
Miss Goldstein left for her home on
the Australia carrying away as she
states in her letter. the most pleasant
recoileetions Of Hawaii nei.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12

balmy air. Finally she tremblingly
spreads her long, silky wings and
with graceful movement unequalled
anywhere in the entire scope OF ami
mated nature, she swings from her
feet, while her body sways pendu
lously as she hovers about the en-
trance of the hive"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12

RAINFALL exceeding per cent Of total
rain OF the month.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-20
"Courted Into Court" Keith's.

The engagement of "Courted Into
Court" At Keith's Opera House will begin
on Monday next and will last thr hroughout
the week with the usual Tuesday. Thurs
day and Saturday matinees. Messrs Rich
and Harris, the managers Of "Courted
Into Court" have besn most careful in
the selection Of the players who interpret
the several roles in the comedy, fact
fully vouched for in the persons sf Marie
Drassler, John G. Rice. jacques Kruger.
Bill Clifford. Maude Hutb. together with
an environment of supporting come
dians and comediennes to the number of
more than score.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-20
A FIERCE BATTLE.
Prize Fight in a Barn at New Mark 81
Junction.

Prize Fight in Barn at New Mark 81
Junction.
Newmarket junction, N. H., Oct TO-
The old barn q short distance from the
centre OF the town, which has been tho
scene of many hard fought contest, was
used again last evening by Boston and
Lawrence sports for the contest between
Bob Allen, the colored fighter of Boston,
and Tim Ksarns of Lawrence.
The battle was the iercest that has
been seen for n long time. and at the
end of I5 rounds the referee declared 1t u
draw. There were about 100 sports from
both cities at the ringside, but little bet
ting was done. Though the purse was a
small one, the fighters did their utmost
TO win. Kearns WAS the heavier and In
the best condition. but he lacked the
hitting power of his colored opponent.
Allen started off at such a rapid pace
that the sports expected to see quick
finish. He went at kearns in hurricane
fashion and IL the Lawrence man had not
been in such good shape be could not have
stood up under the blows that were rained
on his body and hcad
For nine rounds Allen had the better
of the going. though occasionally kearns
would get in some good counters Oh the
face. but they did not appear to have any
effect on Allen.
In the lUth round Kearns hit Allen be-
low the belt and the blow nearly doubled
Allen up, but he managed to hold the
round out. The minutes rest did A lien
n world Of good and he was fresh at the
call Of time.
In the next round Kearns paid atten
tion to Aliens wind, and in clinches he
soaked Allen hard and often on that
tender spot BY good defensive work
Allen was all right after another round
and he resumed his hurricane style of
fighting. but i'm his eagerness to win he
hit wildly.
AT the opening of tho last round both
were tired, but their work was of the hot
test kind. The referee declared the con-
test draw, and the sports boarded their
teams and got out of town as quickly as
possible.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-20
WILLIAMS AT TURNER'S FALLS.

Turner's Falls, Mass. Oct. .o-George
Fred Williams and Pierre Humbert. Jr.,
were the speakers at the Democratic
rally held in Coils Opera House last
night, the audience numbering 700.
Greenfield, Millers Falls and surround
ing sections were we'll represented. The
presiding officer was Mr.. Atherton. Mr..
Williams said: Everything has fallen
when measured in gold. There is but
one explanation OF it, and the economists
of the world are now agreed that there
Is no possible explanation except this.
and that is that commodities have
stayed where they always were. but the
gold that assures them has risen year
by year in value until IL measures out
more and more OF the products of labor
every year. II spells ruin. Is IL any
wonder that the factory owners of New
England are now anxious for their
credit. when year by year the value of
their factories has been falling until
their factories are no longer real assets 10
give for loans; until the value OF their
yearly product has so fallen that there
Is no profit to them in transacting busi-
ness, and all because OF this dreadful
everlasting fall in the prices of their
products and of their property? How
much longer. owners of the factories OF
this town, do you mean your assets TO
fall In the future? My friends, IL is
for presenting such a cause as this that
j and mine are branded as 'repudiators
and anarchists (Applause). We seek
the rescue Of the people. We demand
the saving OF the industries of New Eng
land. we call back the wages that ex-
listed before this awful process began.
That Is orr cause i'm n nltshell''
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-20
WITH BARE KNUCKLES.

Webster, Mass, Oct 20. "A bout 200 per-
sons witnessed lively boxing contest
yesterday in the town of Dudley, between
James Hart of tins town and Diuk Grant
of Webster, for purse of $500 and the
championship of Worcester county. They
fought with bare knuckles for seven
rounds, when Hart was knocked out and
the referee declared Grant the winner.
fought with broken finger after the
second round.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-20
LAST NIGHT OF JEFFERSON.
A Brilliant Audience Assembled in the
Providence Opera House.

The contrast between clothing or rags
and dress suit and the character of =
poor half-starved man and fop Of fash
ion, afforded an audience that filed tho
Providence Opera House last evening. an
opportunity to enjoy the matchless art of
Comedian Joseph Jefferson in widely
different plays. Indeed. the change wos
so radical from Caleb Plummer in "The
Cricket on the Hearth" to Golightly in
Lend Me Five Shillings." that the
audience did not recognize the venerable
actor in n blonde wig and abridged
Dundreary whiskers. When he stopped
in the dance and spoke, the tones of his
voice betrayed him, but the audience felt
that il had been trifle slow and omitted
the customary stars" reception on the
first appearance in the farce.
MIR. jefferson also made a speech in re-
Spouse to the evident desire o. his friends,
and in the course of his witty remarks
he called attention to the tone Of the
press which conveyed the impression
that he was making farewell to the
scenes Of lifetime. He said that he had
no intention of retiring just yet, and
would remain before the public until he
realized that his powers were waning.
He didn't know that he could retire, but
when that time came he hadn't decided
whether to leave publicly or sneak out
like a well-brei dog who realized he was
going to 10 kicked out and went out to
save trouble
II rlo h.
tlokled the big audience i'm nensely. They
appea red to &c rclished bstter than the
play, for the episode afforded an oppor.
tunity to hear the player In his sturai
way.
Mr.. Jcfferson's impersonation OF Calet
Grip" IL is not difficult character but
rs Mr.. jefferson plays it the old toy
maker is as clear cut as n cameo. The
beautiful character of the poor old
man, hi, touching tenderness for his
blind daughter, his simplicity and cheer
fulness in condition Of poverty that
would sour nine. tenths of humanity and
the bopelcssness OF his See what 1 have
done" when he realized that the idol of
hrs fffu- huti bern made to iovc his hard
task master. because Of the deception he
practiced to make the blind girl happier.
wcre conjured with supreme sloquencs
aud naturalness.
The play was pioturesauely put upon
the stage and the various characters were
interpreted intelligeDtly by the members
OF the suppoftipv companv.
MIR. Jefferson's imrersonatiop Of
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-20
CYCLE TRACK AT THE Park.

A new cycle track Is to be built Mar
ragansett Park. For the past week +. K.
Perkins has had Surveyor Latham and
his assistants at work figuring out the
levals and now the course is all staked
out and ready for tho grading.
The details of the proposed track are
about all completed aud within week
or SO will be made public. The main
facts about the proposed track have al
ready been published in these colum MS,
that it Will be three lap track, banked
on the curves and from 20 to 10 feet wide.
The advantages of track at this To-
cation are many 10 the wheelmen of this
city. There is grand stand already
erected which will seat about 10. 600 per-
sons. and conveniences for restaurants,
dressing rooms and cycle checking are al
ready there.
The new track will probably be con-
trolled by an association, and the asso.
ciated cycle clubs. il that body becomes
n power, will be asked To conduct meets
on its surface. The track will be run in
the interest of wheeling and for the pro-
motion of sport.