The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-11-01
No GASOLINE LEFT HERE.
STOVES AND ENGINES WILL BE
USELESS.
Great inconvenience to Housekeepers
and Loss to Business Firms-An Ex-
pected Shipment Not Sent

There is no gasoline left in Honolulu
excepting a few very small lots i'm the
drug stores, and before any arrives a
troublesome famine is bound to develop.
In addition to something like hundred
gasoline stoves used in private resi-
dences, there are about a dozen gaso-
line engines in use here, and the owners
Of them are making strenuous efforts to
get hold of all they can to tide over the
period of shortage. The prices quoted
at the drug stores have gone to IS cents
and a dollar a gallon.
l.. T.. Pinkham of the Pacific Hard
ware Company agent for gasoline here,
ordered a shipment by the Mauna Ala,
which is expected here any day, but the
oil is not on board. Mr.. Pinkham or
dered the stuff delivered at the wharf
in San Francisco on the Sth of October,
but the San Francisco agent did not
make the delivery till the 18th. and
then the ship refused to receive it. 1t
is not known now what vessel the oil
Will come on. No advice of a shipment
was received by the Gaelic, which left
san Francisco on the oath. 1t is sup
posed that the shipment would be made.
however, on the next sailing vessel to
leave after the Mauna Ala, which left
on the 18th
I'VE have done everything possible to
get the oil here" said Mr.. Pinkham,
when asked about the situation. land
now we can only wait. If our instruc-
tons had been carried out in San Fran
cisco the present situation would not
have developed. or if there was only
proper wharf room here so that ships
could be unloaded and loaded in reason
able time The port business is grow
ing rapidly, but the wharf room re-
mains the same. | do not know how
people will manage. Gasoline is not
stun that can be carried in stock in
large quantities and the local demand
has greatly increased recently We
nope to have some before many days
pass"
The number of inquiries from owners
OF gasoline stoves in private homes is
constantly increasing, and there are
many houses in which the inconveni-
ence has already been great. 1t is es-
timated that about a hundred stoves
will soon be useless unless a shipment
of oil arrives.
The lack of oil will also seriously
cripple number of business firms that
use gasoline engines and require the oil
for various other purposes. At the new
building next to the Brewer building
an engine is being used for hosting and
Arthur Harrison is also employing one
at his planning mill. Three bicycle re-
pair shops,-those of f. O. Hall q Sons,
j. 5. Bailey and Pearson and Hebron
also use gasoline engines. Fred. Har-
rison has one on the foundation of the
new building on Merchant street, the
California Feed Company uses one in
rolling barley and hosting grain, a To-
cal soda water company has another
and the salt water for street sprinkling
is pumped from the harbor by one at
Brewers wharf. Many of the owners of
these engines have been hustling
around, with poor success, to get some
of the coveted oil. Five other engines
have been ordered through George H.
Paris, and will be ready for use at once
if oil arrives.
The engines may be supplied before
the housekeepers get out of the difficult
ty, as the former use dstillate and a
shipment of this is believed to have left
San Francisco before the oil. 1t is ex-
pected in few days, on the brig j. D.
Spreckels, which is already due here