The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-29
l),aIers Have Only
Few Sacks on
Hand.
|aIlNGCUSTOMERS
TEN POUND LOTS
n Stock Expected in Olympic.
inok.d Meats and Mary
Canned Goods Short.

v,HEN the lookout reports the
bark Olympic off Diamond Head
/ " there will be several easy minds
h. dty The grocers are already in
-,ts for -four, but as the sailing
IN got away on time and is within
~ days journey of this port there
Sai be no actual famine. While
= usual supply of -four in the local
,gset is in the neighborhood of $4,000
as At present there are in the hands
he dealers not more than 500 sacks.
gt IS not wise to endeavor to accu-
,.ate supply, for the retailers will
s. u sell any -four in large quantities.
!, fact, the trade seems to be down to
en.pOund basis, and yesterday all
rlsg for sacks of flour were scaled
sgn 80 per cent.
he bakers are in fair shape, the
rrage supply being for ten days at
average rate of consumption. In
X tie shortage for households is such
n there must be a drawing upon
T. ]. supplies Of bread usually served to
ggl2r customers of the various bak-
re- then the supply will not last
~ than few days. Put in the words
me grocer, IF there was no supply
he various households, the flour in
d would not last the people of the
more than two days. This under
ass the case, however, in that there
2 an underestimate of the supplies of
81 IN the hands of the bakers, as
y Of the grocers thought there was
more than two days stock in their
l4' while it is five times that
1aqlt
i0af Is not the only article supplied
ae groeers which is short. Perhaps
Il 70 the list would come all kinds of
@Ssd meats. For some time there
oeen shortage in these lines, but
y las been nothing like a famine.
0aeon and hams which are being
~ eat TO consumers are the remains
Mge supply which was on hand
q me strike at San Francisco as
81 proportions. But there has been
y brought in since that time. Po-
- also are in short supply, and so
= las become the demand that
= most grocers are keeping their
'-at customers in shape. there are
asalers who are offering two cents
%'aa more for the goods than they
ringing at retail.
'--neo goods are not in good supply
There are several kind of fruits
are getting short, and the can
.aiA supply is much below what it
~ There is canned cream but
-s not move so rapidly. The
~ VI canned corn is only fair, and
'o's' Of 1t all is that there seems
nance for the filing of the sup
mis- commodity. The practical
=, u this crop on account of the
- Will cause a shortage in all the
supplies into which it enters.
'M De with the fruit crop of Cal
iof The strike has kept the
'ut OF at least half of the sup
'ae truit which usually comes to
ser Auerbach of May & Co. said
So We will have enough of
,4ns for our customers, but we
very short with them. We are
3, ~ one more than ten pounds of
e Hil not be able to do so until
!, 'ai OF supply. The Sonoma
-eSe some -four and the
). surely has, but until
stock received we will
I sv So sh&ious. We win have enough
s, Sans else, however, as we laid
= s,,sf pnss sufficient to carry us
N mere has been no advance of
b M, YET on account of the short
= II. Nefe have been advances on
Is On account of the great ad-
h. ;, me Coast market. For In
sreatest rise Is in corn.
at,, 0upie OF months ago we could
"a W sIo.0 now the same article
ID =, Sran could have been .pur-
he same time for about $14,