The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-10
1T IS TO PAY
The Reckoning Of the
Plague.
Silver Plated Sugar-TOngs AID Pick
le-Forks, Rocking-Chairs
And Cow-BeIIs.

10 nave DteH suppressed II Is inter
esting to notice some of the things that
were deemed necessary in the great
campaign. The plague is about as
serious an enemy as may be striven
against and Honolulu during the last
few months has witnessed much noble
self-sacrifice in the fight against the
scourge. But aside from all this there
is a lighter vein running through the
history of the epidemic which is at
once interesting. amusing and peculiar.
Shelter and transportation, food and
clothing. medicines and the parapher-
MALTA for recreation for the thousands
rendered homeless by the great China
Gown fire as well as the hundred and
one necessities for fighting the plague
pass without remark, as essential to
the work in hand; but the eyes of the
masses are apt to blink and wink with
mild surprise. when, falling upon the
daily instruments of the plague bills
published in the Advertiser, they OBJ
serve such items as pickle forks at
- ents.sugar tongs at $l.O5, mattresses
at IS. moss-mattresses at $40 each, a
toilet stand at $3.50, lamps at SO. wnis-
key at SIS a case (the bill did not state
whether there were three or six bottles
10 the case and mosquito nets at $3.50.
The two largest bills are given first
Today: they are the accounts of Theo.
II. Davies * Co, Ltd, one for Sl3,DS4.9l
and the other for $5,S46.62, making a
total scarcely $40 less than $4,000.
The sixteenth lot of bills bubonic is
as follows:
Theo n. Davies & Co, Ltd, Jan. 81.
s13US4.91. for II or duck at 10 cents
per yard lime at 81 per barrel. axes,
cots. mattresses at IS, mosquito net
$3.50. floss pillows $3.50. blankets SIC
per doZ.. drawers, under shirts. glass
cloth. jumpers, pants, towels, soap.
sheeting. bags, pick axes, shovels, iron
beds. moss mattresses at $40. blankets
at s. per pair. l toilet set 81. ] toilet
stand $3.50. l colt and mattress S12.
towels at $3.50 per dOZ., tableware,
pitchers. bowls, one spittoOn, 81
cents. small jug. knives and forks,
spoons, glasses. cake tins, japanese
boxes. flour bins, buckets. wash tubs,
dust pans. ice chest S12, brooms, wash
boards. japanese mating. lanterns,
spray. lime at $3.50 per Dbl, blankets
at 81 per dOZ., mosquito nets at 500
per doZ., / Hitchcock lamp Sc, cocoa
mats. kerosene. filter 81. scissors Sl25.
mirrors at So per dOZ.. hammers, nails,
tennis shoes. jean drawers, mems hose,
handkerchiefs. denim pants, shaving
cups. canvas leggings. rapberry and
strawberry jam, marmalade, diaper,
hair brushes. rubbers, tape, blOuses
boilers. wheelbarrows. alarm clocks,
saws. cork-screws. sugar, kOna coffee,
salmon. pots. kettles, cle1vers, plain
beds. rocking chairs, plain chairs, meat
safes. can openers. cane knives, oval
tubs. tumblers. spades, waste paper
baskets. dippers, scoops, clothes pins,
canned beef. jelly. assorted pickles,
lard. ham. baking powder. bacon, as
sorted timed fruits, peas, corn, kegs OF
pork, rolled oats. biscuits, tea, crackers,
pears. peaches. apricOts. oats con
densed milk. salt. tapioca, memo.
booksI union flannel, Gordon blankets
Khartoum blankets. cameo tobacco
mustard, beans, asparagus. soda. APP
pies. prunes. lime juice. honey, sapolio
demijohns. mulpt, haddOck, herring,
herring. vermicelli. maccaroni, to-
bacco. pilot bread, saucers, lamp wtcks,
liquid glue. books, meat safes, twine,
milk cans. turkish bath soap. spOnges,
coats. suits. corn starch, sage. sauce
pans. muffin pans. cake turner's, roast
ing pans. sprinkler. rice. gloves, ladies
vests. st. Mary blankets at $4.G9 per
pair. basins. Il only q plain black bed
$3.50" carving sets. call bells, l case
whiskey SIS. spuds. onions. pepper
ivory soap. nuts. raisins. Goldfish. but
ter. bullion tobacco. combs. cotton
needles. vaseline, chalk. tea cups. coffee
pots. dairy pans. oil cans, sulphur
globes. sewing machines at $50. doz
COW bells. copper wire. pliers, hatchets
Dadlocks. bulls eye lanterns, water
cans. oil stoves. mugs, platters
matches. mons. tables. slop pals. POI
bowls. dinner plates, manila rope
blueing. etc. etc. The bill fails to show
what branch Of the Health Department
is responsible for the foregoing items
G.. r. Carter "incurring expense
Theo. II. Davies 4 Co. Ltd, Jan. 81
s5.S46.62. for bed spreads. quits. cuspi
doris. cash box. cream, vanilla, curtains
safety pins. oilcloth, envelopes, chol
sticks. charcoal irons, tobacco, thin
b!es. olives. catsup. child's dresses
socks. cheap pipes. lemon squeezers, CT
CARS. chocolate, cheese, molasses, pom
slickers" at $3S per dozen, besides nu
merous items already mentioned in tn
preceding bill. The branch of th'
Health Department responsible 70
this account is not indicated on th'
bill. g. r. Carter 'incurring expense.
+. o. Hall & Son. Ltd, Sl.499.O1. TO
manila rope. hooks, lanterns. butte
knives, clippers, buckets, tubs, soap
kerosene, rakes, shovels spray pump
cartridge belt, hammers, saws, nails
lamp black, turpentine. Irvine, wooder
faucets. red paint, brushes, carriage
mating. axes, hay forks, sperm oil
cork screws. nail scissors, chisels
wrenches. wire nails, chain. police
whistles, pocket knives, hatchets, hoes
noZzles, shears, sapolio. mosquito net
ting. filter. pistol holsters. Winchestei
repeating rifle SIC. cartridges, locks
oars. rowlocks. etc. G. r. Carter in
curing expense"
w. w. Dimond & Co. Ltd. Feb. 2S
s9397S. for / mason's tTowel 81. fol
kerosene detention camp per G. A
Doyle; / wooden faucet, for halihi de-
tention camp per G. Bolte: pickle