The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-26
BANKERS.
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be doing business as before. Our banl
is at present in temporary quarters a
my residence on the corner of Franklin
and Clay streets, and we are shaping
matters so that we shall soon have 6
one-story building on our old bank
! site, corner of Pine and Sansome and
| expect to occupy it in about three
weeks.
1T will not take very long before
San Francisco will be herself again.
Il have just returned from New
York, where I was at the time of the
catastrophe. I have just finished read
ing your letters of May and tc
Mr.. Steinhart. This is the third letter
you may receive by this mail, but un-
der the confusion existing we must
adjust matters as fast as we can
THE banks propose to reopen on
May %, of which you will doubtless
be advised by public cable, and then
matters are expected to get down into
the old ways of business, although it
may be some time before the former
activity can be reached.
THE fact of the banks opening has
already produced a spirit of buoyancy
and as most of them will be at their
old quarters it will, with the exception
of the waste places, look a little like
former times.
Your own descriptions and feelings
concerning the disaster so thoroughly
coincide with our own that we will
not attempt to make history by mail
but take it up when next we meet
In a postscript to one of Mr.. Lilien-
that's letters Mr.. Steinhart says:
My best regards. I feel in the best
of health and spirits and not in the
least disheartened or discouraged by
our late misfortunes. (Signed) I.
Steinhart.''
sentiments such as the foregoing ut
tered by San Francisco capitalists at
this trying hour, as Mr.. Macfarlane
offers them publicity to show, contain
the highest and brightest promise of
the rehabilitation at the earliest posi-
bic time of the metropolis of the Pa
cific
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
AS evidencing the widespread sym
pathy for San Francisco in other lands
Mr. Macfarlane quoted the following
extract from a letter he received yes
terday from John Fowler 81 Co, Lon
don, saying he had received a letter
of similar tenor from Hoffnung & Co.,
the London bankers. Messrs Fowler
& Co., write:
We have been staggered for the last
week by the accounts of disaster fol-
lowed by disaster arriving from San
Francisco, and although the appalling
character of the catastrophe is in no ]
way diminished by the more recent adj
vices we are thankful to find that the
death roll is considerably re-
lucad
I'VE are glad to know from the in
formation about your movements con-
tanned in your letter that you had the
good fortune to be called away in time
to escape any personal experiences of
that awful week, but the knowledge
that many of our friends We're in San
Francisco and cut off for the moment
from all possible communication made
us exceedingly anxious and it was only
on Saturday last that Mr.. Alfred Fou-
Ter received a telegram from Messrs.
& Co. of Bremen informing
him that all friends were safe We
have had no other information so far.
but this telegram is a relief to our
minds as to the personal safety of our
friends ana we must wait for further
news by mail.
We do not know if Mrs. Macfarlane
and Your daughter were in San Fran
cisco, but If they We're no doubt they
v ere included in Messrs. Pfeugers'
message and, in any case. we sincerely
trust that they are safe and well. We
trust also that our friends Mr.. Lilien-
thai and Mr.. Spreckels and all belong
ing to them, have escaped all personal
injury, but we are afraid that we can
rot hope that they have otherwise es-
capped damage and loss. Spreclzels'
sugar house is mentioned in the cable
grams as having suffered by the fire
and We fear that Messrs. Lilienthals'
premises can not have altogether es-
capped although We shall be delighted
that such has been the case.
Kindly express to them all our
very sincere sympathy and when YOU
have sufficient leisure we would like I,
to receive from You all the details you
can give u.s.