The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-07
THIS MAN
MUST WORK
Isaac Noar's Energy
Won't Down.
is HERE TO EXPEND II
Nearly Seventy But Sees For Him
/ self Great Business Chances
in Honolulu.


political and business veins some New
York blood that promises to make itself
felt in the body mercantile and polite. |
Isaac Noar has come here to stay. Mr. !
Noar is sixty-four years old, a German
by birth but with an experience CT dec !
AIDES of years in the fiercest CONNER
cial strife of the Metropolis and in the |
ranks of the Republican stalwarts of
that city.
Isaac Noar is an interesting talker
With the SHOWS of nearly three score
and ten years silvering his head and
beard he has the restless energy of a
college youth and the intricate knowl-
edge of finance gained by a lengthy
residence near the Bowery and long
touch of the active money pulse CT New
YQkk. He also has that gratifying feel
IN of independence in the matter Of
9TH that comes to a self-made man
w4A has not been undone by the tricks
of fortune
y month ago he landed in Honolulu.
He saw and was conquered. Now he
1 viii send to New York for his unmar-
ried children and may induce some OF
his other olive branches and their little
limbs to take up their permanent home
in Hawaii. Mr.. Noar foresees a great
future for Honolulu and wants to get
in early. He has invested in business
properly already and says that he may
open a general merchandise store in
- near future. Besides he is going to
be factor in Republican politics or he
is mistaken.
'In as full of life as q mango of
juice said Mr.. Noar yesterday. "a
few months ago 1 had to make up my
! "
Billiards, zero weather. sunstrokes and
the other discomforts of such change
, able climate discouraged me and
wanted no more of trade or New York.
was tired out. For years 1 had been
, q manufactures, inventor, merchant
and student of science, besides taking
a deep interest in politics. i was chair
, man of the executive committee of the
I sixth assembly district of New York
an ardent worker for good government
J and friend of Governor Roosevelt.
Il gave it all up and struck cut for
Los Angeles. There ! found everyone
] blue. In the park all the loungers look
ed sick. They had bags under theil
eyes their faces were worn and l got
scared They made me melancholy.
went to San Francisco. It's all right or
4 Kearney street but turn into Market
and, Great Methusalehl the wine
strikes you in the back of the neck and
4 you think you are IN the grip of death
got enough of that city soon. 1 tried
San Jose. Beautiful climate but every
! one asleep. No amusement and moth
} ing TO do.
II got hungry for work. / read o.
) Honolulu. talked with the Sutros. the
} bankers, and hurried aboard the Aus
I traiia. What a relief, 1t was heaven
D Honestly you won't meet nicer peopl'
; in the hereafter than I met on tbs
: Australia. Here it is paradise.
) "And business. Why here are thu
3 greatest opportunities in the world
had letters to Colonel Macfarlane anC
! he has been a kind adviser. He intro
I duced me to Cecil Brown and he, too
is delightful TIC me. I brought ny
> money that 1 had banked in San Fran
Z cisco and sold my railroad stocks anC
propose to get in here There are peo
] pie who have come here and gone ava.
4 and said they saw nothing in which t.
invest. The people lack sagacity. 1 an
} a shrewd man and know what's wha
from long experience.
Shall ] enter politics?" / SHOULD
D say So i have to have an outlet 70
my energy and I'm q born politician
! I like to help the right officials int
Office and know the ways of the polit
zeal world. Another thing. I'm goin,
I to start a mutual fire insurance com
pany here that will insure our propert.
at low rates and keep the money in Ha
! wall. Here bought this house on For
street next to the Orpheum a day o
SO ago. Two companies want six pc
cent insurance and the others won
touch it at any price. That's foolish
= We want a local company and ! hav
the energy to initiate one. l must d
\ something as I'm getting tired of loaf
= ing. i shall open merchandise stor
> and through my New York connection
! I will be enabled to handle goods a
= very favorable prices"
. Isaac Noar is refreshingly active
q Despite his age he could give lesson
z in llveliness of mind and gait to boy!
x He has the frankness of a young gi
q and the wisdom of his race. When h
g is fully in the business race Honolulu
8 young men will have to keep the
9 weather eyes open for MIR. Noar ha
y energy to burn.
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