The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-05
Residents Of The Rainy City are
All Working Together.
MAKING MANY IMPROVEMENTS
Say They Have no Boom - Call
1t a "HiIo Hustle" A
Bright Future.

Honolulu might, with pfOHt 10 ner-
self, take a lesson from Hilo in some
| respects. Laugh if you will, it is fact
just the same. Hilo people are unit
| in working for the good of Hilo. The
people there realize, most of them, that
what is for the good of the city is good
| for it's inhabitants, and when they are
convinced that thing is desirable they
pull shoulder to shoulder and accomp-
| lish wonders, in what is comparatively
a small town. 1t will not rest satisfied
| to be called a small town much longer
We may be assured, for at the rate they
are now forging ahead few years will
thousand in Hilo, and if they continue
in their present harmonious way it is
hard to tell where they will stop.
Hilo people say they have no "boom."
They call it "a Hilo HUSTLE, but call it
by what name you please, Hilo is GER
tainly making wonderful progress in
every way. New buildings are going
up on every hand, stores, offices and
/
and improved, bridges built, new
wharves put in and residence lots
lbeautified, while nearly every man YOU
meet has an alert expression betoken-
ing that he is wide awake and ready
for business. Riverside Park is proving
a valuable addition to Hilo's residence
property. 1t is a beautiful spot and
shows a phenomenal growth
| One great drawback that Hilo has to
contend with, and of which, by the
way, we know considerable in our
own community, is the "sore-head"
This is the man who feels that the
world owes him a living which it is
| trying to cheat him out of or what is
worse, make him work for. This is the
man who is found in all communities
predicting nothing but disaster, seeing
no good in anyone or anything, the
genuine calamity bowler Of the States
| 1t is from this class that the constant
filings at Honolulu and the Govern
ment emanate. Luckily for Hilo they
have but few of these men, but they
make up i'm noise what they lack in
numbers, giving out wrong impress
sion of the community as a whole and
/ deterring outsiders from casting in
their lot with them
| The "Hilo hustler is so busy hustl-
| that they have it all their own way in
this respect. The business man knows
that Hilo is sure TO profit from advance
ment in any part of the Islands and
the other sections of the Islands know
that Hilo's prosperity must rebound to
their benefit
Kamaainas who have lately gone to
Hilo after an absence of three Or four
years, have hardly been able to
recognize the place, so greatly has it
changed and so numerous are the i'm
provements.
| Now HiIo wants an Exhibition Build
ing and they do not propose to fold
their hands and wait for some liberal
them at his own expense, but they have
put their heads together and propose
to raise the necessary funds by popu-
| lar subscription.
/ Then all will be interested in the
! success Of the exhibitions which may
/ be held there, thus insuring their sue
cess before the start. There is nothing
like being interested in an enterprise
to make one see that it is a good thing