Show i HOTEL AND CORRIDOR CORRIOR t i G B Owens of Honolulu was seen at the Templeton yesterday afternoon and told a neat little story concerning American trade at that place Mr Owens is from Chicago but has lived in the island for the last three years and is very familiar with trad2 eu ces He devoted about an hour to the Corridor man saying in substance American trade in Honolulu is suffering suf-fering terribly and all the trouble is caused by the little brown men from Japan Their encroachments in trade circles are raising Americans to a htgh pitch of excitement and there is now a petition before the legislature to do something to remedy the evil Japanese came as laborers on a three years contract to work on the plantations and after the three years are up are turned out upon Honolulu to do the best they can From 500 to 1000 of these contract laborers come every month and there seems to be no future stopping point Why there are now 35000 Japs in the country and still they come in swarming hordes They are obtaindng a complete mo nopoiy of all of the small trades and they have very extensive interests in the wholesale and jdbbing line You would be simply amazed to note the expansion of the trade with Japan For years past American straw hats have been sent to Honolulu to be sold at 2 3 and even higher in some cases and now the Japs deal out exactly the same article for 50 and 75 cents and as for shoes well they sell them foe just half as much as we can sell them for Even canned goods of every sort are coming into direct competition with the American article on terms in proportion pro-portion with those I have stated Some weeks ago a ship load of furniture fur-niture came in and upon examination it was found to be modeled after the latest American fashions and was just as good in every particular but sold for a third the money Naturally local lo-cal dealers are beginning to give their furniture orders to Japan They have brought down the price of clocks from 6 to 150 and Japanese agents are taking orders to lay down fine brick ait 4 less per thousand than the United States can sell them at SanFrancisco is the biggest loser by this awful competition but it must be felt from Maine to the Pacific The native of the island will buy the thing that is cheap and that lets San Francisco Fran-cisco out immediately for it is out of the questionvfor her to attempt to compete com-pete Scores of Chinamen and Japs are being given licenses to open saloons and although they sell the vilest of liquor it supplants American wine and this knocks another branch of trade in the head It is a most unfortunate state of affairs and American traders and merchants should be brisk in taking steps to better the conditions The stars of the Tavary company registered at the Templeton yesterday They were Marie Tavary and maid Theo Donna New York A L Guille and wife B Tomlins and Max Eugene London Charles H Pratt the manager man-ager is there also W H Burt and wife Wheeling and W I Goodfellow Chicago were other Templeton guests W M Mass Mammoth A W Pul len New York A C Sumner Brooklyn Brook-lyn E < W Sumner Minnesota Charles Hildebrand Chicago A W Taylor and wife Pittsburg A L Kean Elizabeth N Y Mr and Mrs Charles Sooy Smith New York D M Vanda walker and wife Indiana B T Hudson Hud-son Rochester L Kander New York C Dillman Milwaukee H J Hutch ins St Louis and George de la Boug lisa Paris were a few Knutsford arrivals ar-rivals I S S The Walker caught ten members of the Tavary company and also J W Kuanss Ogden J D Mooney New York A H Perkins and wife Chicago Chi-cago The Cullen arrivals were V H Thomas Euriker Tim Farrell Pocatello Poca-tello J F Brink Grand Junction S G Bailcey T peka and J W Deming Council Bluffs W W Cliff Coalviils M W Merrill sr and M W Merrill jr Logan and Dr Waite and wife of Colorado are av the Hampton |