The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-24

Nothing has occurred during the
week to affect general business for
either the worse or the better. The
strike affair, as factor in the import
ant routine of buying and selling, has
dwindled into insignificance and prob
ably need never be figured upon again
in any average calculations. Whole
sale business has been fully up to eX
pectations for this seaBon of the year,
and in all retail lines there seems to
be feeling of cheerfulness which was
not so pronounced at corresponding
periods of the past. Merchants who
have gone after the trade of the mill
tary posts in and around Honolulu
have added materially to their sales,
and the trade is proving satisfactory in
every respect. Several houses are
now sending "drummers" regularly to
the different posts and they invariably
return with quite large orders While
the bulk of supplies to the camps prob
ably arrives there in the old way, short
ages are made up and numerous extras
are purchased in the city. This keeps
I'M a constant stream of business which
is definitely felt by household supply
houses, hardware stores, grocers, etc.
During the week one of the mer-
camille bodies queried the military es-
tablishment as to the class of goods
the local merchants might have the
chance to bid on under the new rules
of the department. A copy OF sche-
duIe "a was submitted in reply with
the further statement that figures
might be given on anything named
therein lat the same time allowing for
freight between Coast points and Ho-
nolulu Schedule A. it may be eX-
planned, embodies practically every
thing i'm the way of merchandise which
an army post could use. 1t is clear
at a glance that the arrangement is
destined to prove eminently satisfac-
tory. With the difference in freight
allowed for, the local merchants will
be placed on an equal footing with those
of the coast, with the result that they
win be able to capture the bulk oil
the business. Heretofore the freight
difference gave the dealers OF the coast
the upper hand in every case-so much
of a lead, in fact, that it was useless
for local merchants TO submit tenders
even had they been invited so to DO
The copy of Schedule A. when was
received on Thursday, is being passed
around among the merchants and mas
in some particular or particulars III
terested all of them directly; and L
seems certain that, under TINS new
arrangement, the army posts VIII II
future be supplied entirely or Target!
from Honolulu.
Shipping facilities have again beer
a topics of serious consideration AM
the atmosphere in regard to TINS iii
portant matter seems scarcely NOR
clear than it was a week ago. In thl
issue Mr.. w. H. Hoogs calls attentlol
to the progress being made IN SINAI
farming in Kona, and points 10 OK
orbitant freight tariffs as the chie
impediment in the way OF successlu
and profitable operations. lhe coiii
merciaI bodies are aroused on the sam
subject, in a general way; and Will ap
parently soon reach point where
will be seriously considered In delar
Shining facilities between here an
the coast have also come ntor dis
cnssion. In this matter, however
there is a ray of hope in the comm
of the new Matson steamer and the re
mort (which has recently been cor
firmed) that the American-HaWalla
6 6 Co. will add one or more pas
senger carrying steamers to their flee
early in the coming year. This DOE
for these boats) will have capacity &c
about thirty passengers of the frs
class Interest has also been taken !
an effort in Congress to permit tram
in foreign bottoms between America
ports under certain circumstance
The terms of this (the Hamilton pl
are not clear from the published a.
counts, but there are those VINO nav
figured out that the plan Will DC
considerable benefit locally
The cabled quotation OF $3.50 IL
sugar on Friday bore out the preulctio
that four cents sugar is not a gre'
way OFF. The market is strong al
seems likely to remain so Tor mar
months to come. BY the mail yeste
day the Sugar Factors Company +
ceived advices from New York OF sho