The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-06-16
Gloomy Prophesies Of Agitators
Have Lost Their Force, says
Bradstrest's journal.

Bradstreet's journal Of May 80 notes
a falling on Of bank elearings for the
week Of about ten per cent from the
preceding week, out gain Of 40 pes
cent over the same week last year and
a gain of 20 per cent over 1872.
Favorable weather helped the retail
and jobbing trade in wearing apparel
and cotton goods. Higher prices for
sugar, wool and wheat were due to M.
gent demands
Cereal Drops Promising.
Cereal crops are reported in good
shape and a large fruit crop h in sight.
1t Is too wet for cotton 4, Texas and
too dry for tobacco in Tennessee and
Kentucky, and for general crops in the
Southeast. The largest business in rail,
road history il predicted tor next au.
tumn. Wheat exports during May were
the second largest FOR the year.
Agitators Hilsnced.
"Idleness has diminished Ia marked
degree AZ compared with tho winter
months, but there Is considerable room
for additional Improvement. In some
Of the leading industries slow time
while waiting for hetterment to come
is the rule. However leas loud talk Is
heard from aRitatorA who made the
situation of last winter seem TO be
worse than Il actually was, and lust
now the absence of these haranenes
tends to develop the belief that employ
ment Is better than Il really ia. What
ever the change for the better, Il is
largely due to seasonal conditions, pre-.
eisely a. the idlcness Of the winter
mouths was seasonal, though conceded
ly in an opposite direction aud more
noteworthy in the degree Of dulness
than in years Of smooth, sustained in
dustrial operations But with the adj
vent Of higher temperatures, QUITO door
work has Improved. while from the
farming regions Of the southwest come
urgent calls for help 70 garner big
crops,
Foreigners Answer Call.
Perhaps foreign born laborers.
many Of whom originally we're peasant
farm workers, are answering the calls.
II such is the case good deal Of the
surplus common labor available through.
out industrial districts, particularly Ia
the iron, steel and coke making cen
tiers, will be temporarily absorbed by
husbandry. Plus the movements, OBJ
viously healthy one, win tend to
Keep an overloaded market from being
liquidated through the channels Of low
er wages. But IL wages remain at
steady levels IL Is probable that those
now employed Ia manufacturing will
render more efficient service, the know
ledge that there are more seekers than
jobs being Of itself remarkably iniln-
entail In adding 10 ones efficiency. or
course there is a numerous class that,
owing TO domestic ties, cannot very we'll
migrate TO the farms, and there still
- another class who win not 90, these
being the kind that prefer the cool
shades than hard work in snn-focused
fields.
1918 has been awarded to two com,
panies Of these coast defenses, the
l4Srd, Captain Henry J. Hatch, Coast
Artillery Corps, commanding, and the
0Sth, Captain George A. Taylor, Coast
Artillery Corps, commanding.
The trophy is the gift of the So,
ciety Of the Sons Of the Revolution in
the commonwealth of Massachusetts,
il is awarded annually for highest eff
fciency in target practice without re,
gard 70 ealiber Of guns or type of arm
anlent, and il becomes the permanent
property of the. winner.
"The competition between compan-
les Of the Coast Artillery for the hon,
or of first place is keen but IT is 4
generous and fraternal rivalry, so that
all take a just pride and participate
in the ereditable achievement Of these
two organizations,
ssThe Coast Defense commander be-
lieves that the zeal, persistence and
enthusiasm displayed will be emulated
by all in the year 1914, and that the
high standard set can again be
reached BY these and other companies
in the Coast Defenses of Oahu. I.
BY order Of Colonel Rafferty,.
sfFRANCIS M. HINKLE,
Captain, Coast Artillery Corps, Ad-
iutant.n