The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-29
-FOUR SUPPLY
IS WAY DOWN

and now the rate in San Fr.no,s :.
$ls. Here the prices have eone, - 80.
% s0A oio, out there is none In the
oh bacon the advance has
zen marked, the same supply which
cost us fourteen cents in the spring he
ing now quoted at seventeen ami ono
NAH cents pound. This has ad vance,4
'he prices here and we have been com
peiieo 10 make the higher rate. We
WIN not advance rates unless the :, Is
higher price quoted on the Coast"
Mr.. Lewis of Lewis & Co. said: '"rhere
VIII De a shortage of supplies until we
can get new stock from the Coast
Flour is so short that we are compeIlsd
10 mold all that we have for our ree,,-
lar customers. The same is true of no.
tatoes and several lines of canned
goods. There is hope that the Olymnic
VIII have fair supply and that we will
eli get enough to give our customers
without any serious contraction of sun
pnes. Canned goods In general are in
sood supply, but there is a decided
shortage of cheese. There is some little
shortage or butter, and we hope that
the Sonoma will have a supply for us.
Inc cheese supply will come by steam
er, too. All smoked meats are in de-
mand, too, and no one has a heavy sup
ply of them, but enough to keep the peo
pie without suffering for a few weeks
yet. We are informed that Hiio will
have a fair supply of all kinds of goods
by the Santiago, which was said to
have had a load and a Few about fbe
same time as the Olympic.
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yesterday spoke rather reassuringly of
the threatening shortage. While thu.
holdings of flour are very close at bres
ent, still the firm does not believe that
the shortage will assume serious d.
mansions. News had been received
ed in San Francisco and in case she
sailed, as she was expected to, she is
now twelve days out. Upon this vessel
the firm has $500 barrels of flour. On
the Santiago. which should have sail
ed for Hilo little later than the
Olympic, the firm also has a supply
As well the firm expects 1000 barrels
of flour on the Sonoma
AS far as groceries are concerned Ii
is said, the supply on hand would prob
ably be sufficient for present needs, and
as supplies are on their way now, there
seems to be no reason for serious fear
of shortage in this direction
M. j. Bissell, manager of the Wash
ington Mercantile Company, took
more serious view of the situation. The
fact of the Sonoma's being overdue
seemed to indicate, he said, that the
strike is still in full swing. In tna.
case it is probable that l.:ther the
Olympic, upon which the firm has &c
or 300 barrels of -four or the Santiago,
has been able to get a crew to get
away. There is nc bran here at ALL"
said Mr.. Bissell, and there is next to
no barley, no flour, and very few
oats. The plantations have no bran
whatever, and the local market de-
mands it, but as there Is no bran on
the Coast, there is no prospect OF hav-
ing the need supplied. The firms rep
resentative on the Coast got a lot of
BRAN which was being milled for the
firm, and received several offers for
it in San Francisco. The supply of
hay is also low here. Though the COM
pany has received numerous offers for
feed they refuse them all, as they pre-
fer to keep the stock on hand for their
customers.
with groceries the situation is about
the same as with the feed. several
lines of groceries, as for instance, YER
micelli, being entirely out.
Things can go on all right for
short while, but If the strike should
keep on for two or three weeks more
there will be pilikia, as the Albert,
which went to the Sound, cannot be
expected for quite while yet, and sew
eral Sound steamers are tied up in
San Francisco"