The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-01
NEW YEAR PROSPECTS.


| for Hawaii along the following lines:
l. Steady gains in the good prospect:
of sugar indicate an easier money mar
ket about the middle of the season
There seems to be no doubt that -four
cent sugar is near at hand; and the
difference between sugar at that price
and the average price of the past year
would add four millions of dollars tc
the cash balances of Hawaiian planters
the figures being based upon the pres
ent crop of 100000 tons. Under the
stimulating influence of this addition
of profit all lines of business should
prosper.
! ?. An increase of tourist custom. The
coming of the cable has removed one
chief obstacle to the development of
| tourist business. A stranger in the
Territory win no longer be isolated
from the world of commerce and trade.
He can keep in touch with his personal
| interests wherever they may be in
civilized lands. Assured of a cable,
people will come here who, otherwise,
would have held aloof When they
come they will find, thanks to urban
growth in hotels and transit lines and
suburban growth in the means of gem
eral communication, comforts and con-
veniences such as they left behind
them and are accustomed to look for in
fashionable resorts. It is encouraging
to know that the commercial bodies
of Honolulu viii, during the new year,
put forth special efforts to encourage
and attract the tourist class.
g. "A better local administration The
old year saw the rule of the most dan
gerous and least reputable element in
the Home Rule party reach it's zenith
and decline. A political uprising of
the best class of natives and whites
elected clean and efficient legislature.
The fruits of this change will be gath
cred in 1903 They should include an
increase in business confidence aid of
administrative efficiency and a better
system Of local improvements. The
year may see city and county govern
ment. providing the Legislator does
not find the experiment too costly
for the taxpaying population as it
stands. 1t will assuredly see a higher
level of personal integrity in Territor-
ial office.
4. The opening of Pearl Harbor.
There is every reason to believe that,
1,ry.i
Pearl harbor. 1t may be deemed prob
able that, within the same period, the
Federal government will begin con-
struction work there on a large scale, |
looking toward the development of a !
naval base and of military defences. |
One of the adjuncts of this work will !
be the development of a town for hous- |
ing large numbers OF skilled laborers, |
employed in the government machine
and repair shops.
3. The settlement of vacant public |
lands. It is proposed to make such
lands more available to small farmers
and to induce them to settle upon ar
able tracts as individuals or as colonies.
LII SucA a movement hes the nope or
diversified agriculture, of cheaper liv-
ing, and of a steadier electorate Gov
ernor Dole's committaI to this policy
was foreshadowed by his inaugural adj
1ress and it bids fair to become the
chief feature of the closing years of his
administration,
6. The health of the Territory will
De conserved by more vigorous meas
Tres to keep. inhabited places clean and
% ward off the diseases of the Orient
Much has been done already on these
ines and the efforts of the Board of
Health will be bent, during 1908, to in
'rease the sanitary safeguards which
nave proved so effective in the recent
past.
The new year will doubtless see the
ocal transit system clarified by the
absorption of the Tramway line by the
Rapid Transit system.
So on the whole there is a bright out
ook, particularly SO when it is con-
-rasted with the forebodings of one
year ago.