The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-25
T0wSE At HOME.
interviewed b. Cheyenne
Newspaper.
Gives His Views onIsiand Affairs
Generally-Says here VIII be
Contestfor Gvernor.

past SIA anu d nail year, arrived from
the west yesterday afternoon. He ex
poets TO be on the Minland about
three months, though Instructions TO
be received from the Islnds may de-
tain him considerable ,eriod longer.
In Hawaii Mr.. TOwse is CITY edi-
tor OF the Advertiser. a f-page morn
ing paper published by ne Hawaiian
Gazette Company. The fCmer citizen
OF Wyoming is in his naive country
again as the president of tie Hawaiian
Commission for the Omaha Exposition
of 1899. The display has aready gone
forward and is in place unar the care
of Mr.. Daniel Logan, the COMMISSIONS
secretary There is as wellan Island
show in the Midway. This is a pri--
vate enterprise. Mr.. Towse, who is a
member of the staff of Presient Dole
and who is identified with a number of
business enterprises of the Isl.nds. will
look into several matters which have
been entrusted to his keeping
Without going into extensive de-
tails" said Mr.. Towse last evening, Il
can add but little to what is general
knowledge concerning the Hlwaiian
Islands. 1t is a delightful country in
which to live-healthful and cmrming
in every way. 1t is now havin, re-
markable growth and is as PROSPEROUS,
dare say, as any section of the world
The principal industry is the p,Oduc-
ton of sugar. Rice, coffee, BAHAMAS,
pineapples and number of other trOp-
ical fruits are grown for export The
balance of trade in favor of the country
is not less than $12,000,0 900 or more
each year. Two or more merchant
IShipS enter our ports every day. Most
of the shipping is in American bottoms
and we buy everything from America
that we can. Nearly all businesses ire
in the hands of corporations and he
results prove that the system is
good one. The field for investors is
most inviting and limited number Of
skilled laborers can secure emplO!-
ment, but for man to go there with
but little money and without engage
ment is folly. English is the languag.
of the country and everything is done
pretty much the same as in the United
States While the American flag is up,
the old regime continues till Congress,
to meet the coming winter, shall have
enacted laws for the Islands. Money
can be made there in real estate. There
are openings in several merchandising
lines, but it takes more capital for a
business there than in the States, for
the reason that communication with
the Mainland is slow and, for the most
part settlements are made there only
quarterly.
There has been a Cheyenne colony
of from three to eleven members in
Hawaii all the time tor the past four
years. Harvey Carlyle is in charge of
the United States Government stock
corrals and seems to be enjoying life.
One of his principals is a fine young
fellow, a son of the Loucks family
here. Joseph G.. Pratt represents at Hi
10, on the Island of Hawaii, the Homo
lulu real estate firm of Bruce Waring
& Co., and is doing well. Mrs. Pratt
and the children are there with him.
Robert Single is with H. Waterhouse
& Co., brokers and real estate dealers.
Robert is one of the coming young bus
mess men of the place. ChaS. A. Bon
has a responsible position in the big
geSt and Oldest bank and is well liked
by his employers and is in line for pro-
motion. He went there a. sick man,
but is entirely we'll now. Mrs. Charles
A. Bon was a Miss Johnson of Laramie.
Will H. GoetZ is in charge of the bat
terry of linotype machines in the Ha-
waiian Gazette office.
"One good way to make money in
Hawaii Just now is to secure shares in
the new plantations. These enterprises
are being entered upon because there
is assured since the protectorate came
in stability in government, in values
and in tariff relations. The Hawaiian
planters are the leading scientific farm
ers of the world. They now produce
more sugar to the acre than the cane
growers of any country on earth. They
irrigate all districts excepting one,
where the rainfall is as high as 200
inches a year and where cane is tiumed
from the fields to the mills instead of
being carried on trains or hauled by
bullock or mule teams. On some OF
he most favorably situated plantations
money can be made by farmers who
are willing to raise cane and sell to the
mills. This is being done to some ex-
tent on a couple of the estates.
'.On the Island of Oahu, where is To-
Gated Honolulu, we have a narrow
gauge railway seventy-two miles IN
ength and it does a fine business. The
engines are from the States and every
hing else was imported till quite re-
Gently the company established shops
md a foundry and it is now building
is own cars. The first American steam
blow is soon to be installed on one OF
he largest estates. Heretofore all
steam plows have come from Scot
and The Blake pump people the Cor
ISIS engine people, the Fulton Iron
Works of st. Louis, the Union and Ris-
Ion of San Francisco, Fraser & Chal- !
ners of Chicago and score of other !
zig American concerns sell largely in /
Hawaii. Eighty per cent of San Fran :
isco's shipping is Hawaiian business. (
Since the Stars and Stripes went up
here is very little interest in politics.
There will be quite a contest for the
between President Dole, :
Harold NJ. Sewall, the American Minis ,
er. and S. NJ. Damon, the Minister of
'inance. The business men there as a