Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-08-08
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'bou, cane planning and fertilization AMI sugaf
manufacture and The like, and psfhap. you
may pick up. ie- IDEAS useful 20 yourself
and your readers
/ so spake the wiscst and tmest Of monitors
a. the kinau whistled Zoe al aboard e. and
all ashore O. ono lovely TUESDAY afternoon
in March
! know il is treason to editorial traditions to
admit ones fallabihiy The editor who does
not know that IS, pretend to know everything
about everything. from journalism to iurispru
dence, from newspapers to gnotci'm, is an
outlaw. hut had ceased tor the nonee to
be an editor There was a long vacation he
fore me no proof 10 read, no manuscripts Ia
deupner, no quArrels TO aveuge, no injured
Innocence to defend, no mslevolent political
spirits to exercise | was student OF tho
picturesque aS well as Of the practical and
could afford to acknowledge my ignorance Of
Hawaiian localities, " Hawaiian human na
iure, of Hawaiian resources
remembered something o. this at Kaiwila
hilahi because it was the last sugar mill that
visited because in some OF its features Il was the
most interesting and because me, there one
Of the several men met on my trip who made
me realize how much there is in the sugar
industryand howlittle learned about, after all.
Some one has told me that Kaiwiahilahi
means long bone. Perhaps it does. But An
drewsmakes the eompoundmcaning Of "Kawi
and "lahilah' squeezed.dry"-a most ap.
pTopriate nSne for a sugar mill but. uniorlu
na,ely, the word lacks an !.
When was there Mr.. X. Mckenzie was
mill manager. though did not meet him; ano
Mr. Gail Armenian was the sugar boiler. The
mill was under the general control Of Mr.
J. M. Lydga,e, manager Of Laupahoehoe Mil.
Messr. A. Lidgate 4 Co had put in AS
acres for kawilahilahi. The mill had been
built for different location than the one OF
which il stood, but storm dashed the founda
tions Of the mill away. fortunately before tn;
mill was erected-and so a position on the bluf
was chosen. several hundred feet above the one
FIRST intended. The sugar room is 600 feet above
the water and near the edge OF the bluff From
platform near the hoor of the sugar room :
steel rope dcscends to rock in the sea not IA
from the base Of the sheer plecipce abov,
which the platform is built. On this steel rop,
sugar cars, OF rather cages, ascend empty anC
descend with sugar, the loaded cages as thel
( 60 down hauling up the empty ones 1t is :
dizzy sight. There is another elevator Of les
height for unloading lumber and other freigh
from the lighters OF visiting schooners OF steam
boats. Waiakea and kawilahilahi are tht
J antipodes of Hawaiian plantation scenery
Mr.. Lydgatc suggested how admirably til,
right sort Of an artist might illustrate the suga
plantations OF the Hawaiian Islands, and wha
effective letter press might be made TO accom-
pany his sketches
| did not visit Laupahoehoe Mill hut haC
luncheon in the Laupahoehoe store. 1t
, proprietor, Mr.. J. ID. Fraser, has recent!
opened a lodging house-a convenience whicl
late.at-night arrivals by the Kinau will bt
likely to appreciate.
Mr.. T.. w. Barnard was sugar boiler a
Laupahoehce when ! was there. Messrs. X
K. ard Thomas Hind, for whom Mr.. Georg
w. Patty was managing, had about 800 acre
in when l was there. 4. Lidgate * Co. ant
the Laupahoehoe Mill Co together had abou
700 acres in, to be taken off during the season
then we'll along,
The number of acres taken off by the tw,
mills this season has been I,I45 acres, aggrc
eating =, $50 tons. {
: Laupahoehoe gulch is one Of the finest Q
he liilo gulches in many of its features
though it lacks the fine stream tina, tumble
4 down each of several Others. Laupahoeho
has the only good landing between Pepeekc
comparison. The plantation--c considering al
the land tributary to both mills-is notable 70
having what believe to be the longest syster
Of fumes existing on the islands-over ?
miles in extent. The Laupahoehoe Mil ha
the largest trash house OF which | have hear
100 feet long The two mill management
pride themselves upon the economy with whic
they do good work-;,re Kaiwilahilahi Mi
employs only so men.
Messrs. T, II. Davies & Co. are the Honc
lulu agents Of the sso mills above mentione
n and of Hanakua, Paauhau and Kukaia
Mills, Hamakua. The latter is considered OF
r. OF the most complete and most modernly.aI
poinled mills on the islands.
The first plantation beyoad Laupahoehc
gulch is that Of the Messrs. Hind, aboy
mentioned. Beyond that, Ookala.
On approaching Ookala | saw the fine
/. held OF plant cane-to my pro eyes-,hat
had seen during my trip. 1t was an in!e,
green running back 10 the edge of the ohia an
koa forest that rose like bluff above it, fair
y counterpart Of the restless sea a thousand fe
& below us. We could not see the ground an
II where within the field we rode past.
o 1t had been raining all day and it was du
- when we approached Ookala. knew whe
Manager Wright lived by the flag pole III
y rose in from, cs the house. | knew 50 becau
'e knew how true an American the manag
is was. Blu, the hospitahle greeting that n
a comrade and and our weary horses receiv
was of no land and no locality; il was what II
hospitality is evcrywhere-the fine gold
humanity. Perhaps our muddy, wet, tire
y hungry condition made the cheerful wood fire, !,
to dry clothing, the fragrant the tempting bre
~ and milk and cold meat and poha sauce perha
,s all that combination Of discomfort followed
comfort made US doubly appreciative. AT a
rate We enjoyed that evening to the iull.
:" Irwin q Co. are the Honolulu agents
C. Ookala, and Haekfeid 4 Co. arc agents Of /
o. Soper a Wright plantation, the cane Of viii
te is ground at ookala Mill. Mr.. John wis
m manages ookala mill and plantation, assis,
by Mr. George Thicker. Their sugar boil
y" when was there, was Mr.. W. Z Elster a
Mr. J. b. Hopkins, well-known as form
Honolulu apo,hecary, was book k'keeper WI