The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-03

Dor are at least encouraging TO resi-
dents of Hawaii who hope to see Hilo
4 metropolis of note. The necessity Il
for d h"eakwater has been apparent
since shipping begun, but the neeas of
the p ace were overlooked by the old
government and are but now getting
recognition al Washington. When |
JucIe Samuel sees something in his .
own domain that is necessary to the !
better transaction of his business he /
ixes it up TO suit him. Hilo harbor is |
necessary, if not at the present time /
{ viii be in very few years or about |
the time breakwater is finished. The |
9fficials quoted tell the people that the |
harbor is the best on the islands; /
nearly every sailing master who has !
visited here during the past twenty
years has said the same thing but in
spite of this Honolulu people think
they have the whole thing.
Hilo's Harbor.
r The Tribune says: hilo has reason
to be pleased at the very favorable
views held by the Pathfinder people
relative to Hilo bay They are of
course the only views that could be
held, for the natural excellence of this
harbor is undisputed. 1t is one thing
however, to know we have a good har-
Dor, and another thing that the United
States Government should know it,
and the latter fact is certainly long
step in the direction of harbor i'm
provement, and toward the making of
this a naval station of greater or less
importance for the Government.
Every commander of vessels either
commercial or governmental, who en-
ters this port goes away most favorably
impressed and disseminates views in
accordance with those impressions.
1t is not therefore too much to hope
that the sanitary troubles which have
made Honolulu largely a closed port
| will react for our benefit, Since many
vessels will be turned in our direction.
Honolulu has always aimed to paint
| Hiio in the blacklist colors of the nayi-
gator in her own harbor, and it is only
| in contingencies like this that we can
hope to counterfeit these falsehoods.
A Former Drouth.
| The Tribune says: sThe citizens of
long standing are beginning to rec
ancient history to determine when t
| last time was that it quit raining
4 Hilo and didn't seem likely to ey
4 commence again. AS nearly as
Kamaaina. can make ont it was in
| winter of 1ST1-72 that pillars of d
occupied the principal Hilo streets
| the exclusion of all other traffic. The
heavens went in the dry dock along in
October and consistently stuck to it
until March. Then the clouds went on
a grand spree which lasted the rest of
the year, and the survival of the f1ttest
\ so far as the inhabitants was concern
ed was brought down to a swimming
basis. Rain in Olaa is supposed to have
originated at that time and never to
have stopped since until the present
drought. Government records show
that at that period the inhabitants OF
Hilo petitioned Honolulu for water
ing cart, a deputation of suppliants
being sent down with samples of HilC
dust. They were received with derision
and thrown into lunatic asylum
charged with having water on the
brain, and the government chemist an
alyzed the alleged dust and proclaimed
it machine dried mud.
Wilder's Agency.
The Tribune says: Commodore
George Beckley having been allowed
TO tread the sacred soil of Hilo pro-
poses to set up a general agency of the
Wilder S. S. Co. in the presence Of
his enemies and conduct business as
of yore, only more so. He is not at al
embarrassed over the indignation Of
the common herd, and though he vii
not lie awake nights seeking to make
Hilo happy, nor make free gifts o.
steamers to bring in mail languishins
at Mahukona, yet he is arranging tt
keep as many steamers as possible EN-
} ployed along the whole coast, anG
} since freight is not to be brought into
) and out of Honolulu, he will take i
| into and out of Hilo at the same modes
rates as of yore. The two inter-islan(
steamship companies will divide up thu
whole coast trade of the Island between
them and make Hilo their headquar
ters while Honolulu is afflicted George
says the kinau has gone to Makawel
: for sugar, which she will take direct
ly to the coast. This is probably, how
ever a joke intended to brighten Hill,
into the belief that they will "neve
see their darling any more" There il
a report that Kauai sugar will be large
ly shipped to Hilo to be loaded OIL
: Coast bound vessels. This report
t however, has not been so far confirme,
as to put it beyond the pale of doubt
Hilo's Health Committee.
: The Tribune says: At the meetin,
of the local health committee on Sun
day last the matter under discussion
, was the work of whitewashing tn
, dwellings and business places of Chi
nese and Japanese on the Front stree
, mauka. 1t was decided to push tn
work to completion as rapidly as pos
sible. The question of whether or no
quarters all over town should be treat
ed in the same way was left for fur
[ Their discussion. DR.. Philip Rice mad
:, the statement in the meeting that prio
: to the cleaning-up crusade on From
y street a great portion of his time eac1
e morning was devoted to the treatmen
: of fever patients there. Since tn
o cleaning up he reports but one feve
n case in that locality. The patient wa