The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-26
STRIVE FOR
4 MILLION
Wonderful Energy of
the People OF San
Francisco.

1T is really wonderful, the will.
people" Clinton J. Hutchins. the Pa
cifd Mutual Insurance Co.'S general
agent, said yesterday after landing
from the Alameda.
They are talking about a larger and
better city. with a million of popula
ton. in the year 1915. Placards bear
ing This prophecy and others OF a
cheering nature are stuck up al over
the ruined district.
Business is starting up in all diroc-
tons. Temporary buiIdings-just a
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES floor, plain board
walls and corrugated roof-are
springing up everywhere. The En-
porium has taken private residence,
of those spared on Van Ness avenue
ana it looks just like a great country
store. Another big store doing business
again is the City of Paris
Rebuilding is going to be very
rapid. Wright & Son. architects. have
orders on hand already TO the amount
of S25, 100000. There is no Jack OF
money. The banks have lots of it. You
can't force money on some of those
even VINO seem to be in want.
1T is simply astonishing to notice the
universal cheerfulness that prevails
People who have lost fortunes make a
joke of their troubles. saving they are
ready to start over again and recover
their losses
Mr.. Hutchins had much mere TO say |
of incidents and scenes of the unparal- |
leled situation, but for the most part |
his story was anticipated in general |
features by the mails previously re- |
ceived. He very feelingly eulogized |
the work of Mrs. J. F. Merrill, head of |
the Red Cross Society's work The |
restoration of Mr.. and Mrs. MerriII's |
from damage by fire a few |
months previously, had just been COM
pleted.
/ Before the fire reached their home" !
Mr.. Hutchins said, Mrs. Merrill went |
out to the procession of refugees pass
ing and invited all the aged, feeble, halt |
and lame folks into the house until it
was packed full.
But the fire was advancing and she
received notice that her house must be
lynamited and therefore be vacated
within an hour. Mrs. MerrilFs heart
sank for a moment. She glanced long
ngIy upward and around the apart
nents, saying My beautiful home
Then recovering her poise she cheer-i
July exclaimed: Well. if We have tej
cave. let us have something to eat
before we go
And the brave woman. with all her
lelp. went out to the kitchen and made
10 a great banquet of sandwiches ana
whatever else could be quickly prepar-
"a, so the unfortunate guests who had
o take up the line of march again
we're fortified with a substantial meal
before they left"
Mr.. Hutchins was much put out over
he necessity that arose. in his alb
:ence. for a contradiction by his wife
through the Advertiser of reports COM
ne back here to the effect that he had I
;iven an interview containing state j
nents liable to disturb confidence in
he cosmical security of these islands. |
Is q matter of fact, which Mrs. Hutch
ms stated, he had on the contrary been
Urging his wife's and his own relatives I
o come to Honolulu for assurance of,
afety and emancipation from nervous
isquietude.
The only explanation he could give \
f the purported interview, as he had {
iveu no interview whatever, was quite I
nipple. In an Oakland restaurant an
cquaintance had asked him about I
arthauake conditions in the Hawaiian y
stands. Answering the question he i