Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-08-01

Rauoons Resting New Plant Mature Plsni
The third yeas as fellows
Resting. New Plant. Mature Plan, Rat,oons
The fourth year IS follows
New Plant Mature Plant. Ratloons. Resting
II ! do not misrepreseni the plan, il is a
good one-at least on paper
The cultivation At Onomea seemed thorough
The plantation has a daily average Of I4o EN-.
| ployees.
Pepeekeo is the next plantation beyond
Onomea. Its owner is Mr.. {. Along Of this
city, and Mr.. Chun Lung Along is resident
manager. Mr.. sum Chun is sugar boiler, Mr
Charles lIorsman is engineer and Mr.. Anthony
Along is assistant field oyerseer. When wa.
there the cultivated acreage was i,Ioo acres,
| from $50 acres Of which this crop has been
| taken. The estate includes the lands Of
limano, some 6,ooo acres in all, Of which fully
one half is good sugar land The land Of this
plantation is admirably suited to easy and sys-
tematic cultivation. Its slope to the sea is
gradual. Its land /, rich. Its water power is
abundant It5 virgin soil is still in excess Of
its worn out soil. Its mill is modern and will
next year be made even more So When
was there it employed 400 Chinese, 50 la
saiians and so of other nationalities.
Honomu is small plantation, owned largely
by {. Brewer Co. Of this city and managed
by Mr.. William Kinney, whose principal as
sisants are-or were recently Mr. NJ. NJ.
Wilson, sugar boiler Mr.. Edward Wiiehey,
engineer Mr. B. II. Scholtzy, book.keeper.
! did not visit Honomu mill, but had a good
dinner with Manager Kinney and head some
entertaining plantation talk from him.
Honomu, Hilo, and Pahala, kau, are at sntip-
odes in sire and consequences and the labor
odes. Manager Foster Of pahala believes in
the contract system-so firmly that he will
employ no unskilled labor except under con.
tract. Manager Kinney is radical dsbe
lever in the contract system. He wants only
free labor. His system, as | understand it, is
to discharge all superhuous men in the interval
between the planting and the grinding season,
thereby saving wages for considerable
period. OF the two systems think the latter
is the more mischievous to society generally.
Contracts-even for one year-make men al
the mercy Of unjust employers but for only a
limited period and under legal protection.
The other system is the best | know OF to
create here tramp class, with the Objectionable
features Of the tramp class everywhere. Un.
steady employment fosters unsteady habits.
The man who is sure Of work for only one
half, two.thirds or threc.iourths of the year is
more likely to employ his idle time unprofita
bly, and to spend his earnings foolishly than il
he had steady employment, even a, less wages
OF all the evils possibly in store for the Ha
waiian Islands, the tramp evil would be among
the mos, deplorable. think system Of coop
Grafton, whereby both Portuguese and Japanes,
or reven Chinese labor might be made 10 cultivat,
all the sugar lands in the islands, ON shares
would prove n satisfactory solution OF the labo
problem. believe it would do away with til,
contract system and prevent the tramp evil
believe it could be brought about by unsel6.i
effort
/, A little beyond Honomu the world fainou
Hio gulches take on a deeper, darker, NOR
desperate character. To enjoy them ont
needs to go into them gingerly and come GU, o
them leisurely. They are neither to be en-
joyed in an hour nor described in paragraph
r Hakalau mill-at least the one that was be
ing operated when was there's in the bot
tom Of one Of those incom pa rab'e gulches, s,
low that the tide washes its foundation walls
and the spring ireshets threaten it--not as tn
sword threatened Damocles, but quite as terri
E bly,. Few plantations are blessed precisely a
4 Hakalau plantation is, 1t has two managers
Messn. Christian Lehman and II. NJ. Morri
son. Mr.. Henry Willgeroth was its suga
boiler and Mr.. Fremoa, Perry its engineer
when | visited it, Irwin * Co., Of this cit
e are its agents, Mr., Spreckels is its princips
| owner. Its crop this season has been abou
a,Soo tons.
Beyond Hakalau the nearest plantation
S Honohino, at present a plantation without
( mill, and its owners were trusting when We
there to have its first crop ground by Hakala
mill. Messrs. w. Y. Horner, Jr., and II
, George Homer, sons Of Mr.. w. Y. Homer {
e Lahaina are part owners and managers Of tn
a plantation. Mex, year they will probabl
7 erect mill. They put in last year $50 acre.
t Kaiwlahahi and Laupahoehoe, manage. re
Z, spcctively by Mr.. r. Mckenzie and Mr.. ]. NJ
o Lydgate, must be described in another le,te
c two Of the pleasantest nights Of my trip-mu
Il also be left unsung for another week. 5.