The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-01
English, Japanese, Chinese, POrtu

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Mr.. Jones is president of the board
of which DR.. Scudder is secretary.
I'VE live now in Honolulu much as
you do here in America. We have au-
tomobiles, a fine electric car system
and, indeed, everything up to date.
said Mr.. Jones. ''Our provisions, hay
grain. flour, implements, etc, are
brought from the main land as we
call it, Naturally the cost of living
with us is high
For servants we employ the Japa-
nese and Chinese. In my family we
have had one Chinese cook for thirty
years.
1.-THE housewives of America would
be much happier, according to my way
of looking at it. if they would settle
down to Japanese and Chinese SER
wants. These are always civil, sober,
we'll behaved. never in poiitics-in a
word, good citizens They give ex-
cellent service.
20, yes, English is pretty generally
spoken" continued Mr.. Jones. in reply
to a question All native children are
being taught in the English language.
You hear the little Hawaiians speak
English on the streets almost entirely"
From the Des Moines News:
Hon. p. C. Jones, multi-millionaire,
sugar planter. ex-minister of finance in
the Hawaiian cabinet and one of the
leaders in the revolution which unseat-
ed Queen Liliuokalani and made Ha-
wall an American territory, arrived yes
terday from Honolulu to attend the
Congregational couneia. He went to
GrinnelI this morning 10 attend the
American board meetings to which he
is a delegate.
Hawaii is prosperous now, said Mr..
Jones. AAnnexa ton has been good
thing for the islands and although some
of the natives are still little disgrun-
tied, the majority of the Hawaiians are
glad to be American citizens.
1.-The advance in raw sugar of over
half a cent per pound within the last
six months has been boon to the is
lands Most of the plantations were
paying dividends, but the advance from
3. rs to 431 per pound means an increase
of nearly four million dollars in the
value of the Hawaiian sugar crop. The
crop this year will exceed 100000 tons.
Most of the present crop will get the
benefit of the big advance through the
action of the sugar trust, which han
dies the entire Hawaiian crop, in re-
curing that sugar be sent by sea to
New York The sugar is sometimes
sent to San Francisco and then over
land by rail to New York. The pur-
chaser under our contracts has the OPP
ton of saying which way the sugar
shall go. This season the bulk of the
crop was shipped around the Horn at
the. request of the trust, and at a time
when raw sugar was only worth about
1856 While the cargoes were in transit
the price steadily advanced and when
the largest cargoes reached New YORK
two or three months later they got
the advantage of the quotation of AIS
per pound
Mr.. Jones is a member of the Con-
gregational Club of Boston. He went
to Honolulu when a boy of twenty, for
ty-seven years ago He has since
amassed a fortune of from ten to fifteen
million dollars, and gives much 10
charity and churches annually He
was one of the foremost workers In
the early missionary work of the Amer
lean board in the South Seas.
From the Des Moines News:
Hon. P. G Jones, sugar magnate of
Hawaii. and lay delegate from Homo
lulu to the Congregational National
Council, suffered from the change from
the mild and balmy climate of the Pa
cif1c islands by taking a severe cold
yesterday which kept him a close in
mate of his room in the Slavery today
Mr. Jones is not confined to his bed
by his illness. but suffers considerable