The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-04-07
SO 90
The Arcade-EGAN & co.
For your
Full Dress White Vests,
THE MILK TRUST.
MR.. DILLINGHAM; INTERVIEWED.

whether there Is any truth IN the |
current report that the Woodlawn
Dairy Co. is attempting TO create a
milk monopoly under its control,
Mr.. Dillingham; replied:
The said dairy has never during
its eight years existence attempted
to drive out any competition or
sought TO buy up its competitors.
just before the Pawaa and Wood |
lawn diaries were starting in bust
ness, it had been rumored that sew
eral diaries then attempting to sup
ply the city with milk, would raise
the price to 10 cents per quart. The
presence of these two new diaries
prevented the rise in milk, and in
stead of competing fairly with their
new competitors those old
hands at the business offer
ed their milk at two cents
per quart under the price asked
and maintained by their competitors
to April LIST, 1888, period of over
eight years. The Pawaa and Wood
lawn DIARIES commenced their bust
ness with only few canes of milk
required for each days supply, and
Notwithstanding all the COMPETE
ton from cheap COWS, cheaps lands.
cheap labor, and cheap milk, the
trade of the Woodlawn Dairy now
requires and is supplied with nearly
$50 gals. of milk daily.
Has tho husineSS paid2
About the middle of January the
Pawaa Dairy was offered for sale
and was known to be in the market,
but no one interested in the Wood
lawn Dairy approached the proprietor
upon the subject, and it was not
until after the Pawaa was offered to
the Woodlawn, and price many
thousand dollars below the cost,
agreed upon, that the sale and trans
fer was made. Some years since
Hon. j. L. Dowsett started his son
(Hon. j. l. Dowsett, Jr.) in the
milk business. 1t was said that his
! thousands of acres of land at old
time rental, and his thousands of
cows which must be MIXED to be
kept tame, would enable them to
supply milk for the whole town at q
price which wcould take the trade. For
time milk was rushed into town,
offered at 6 cents to our large Gus
toners who were paying 8 cents,
and we lost for time considerable
trade, but what we lost on the one
hand was always made up on the
other. Our milk did not go heg-
ging. Within month Mr.. j. L.
Dowsett, Jr. of his own accord,
made the Woodlawn Dairy Com
pany an offer in writing, in
which he proposed to transfer his
trade to us asking that we bind our
selves to buy say 20 to 80 cans of
milk per day throughout the year,
saying that he wished to rid himself
of the "bother expense and loss of
peddling milk" Since this offer
was made, several other offers have
been made to us by people who
want to sell their milk upon the
credit of the Woodlawn Dairy,
which offers we have rejected.
As the largest stakeholder in the
w. d. & S. Co., / am quite willing
to take all the blame of advancing
the price of milk, telling at the same
time that have not received l per
cent. per annum upon my invest
ment in that business during the
eight years since L commenced.
There has been no time during the
past seven years when | would not
have been glad to sell out my entire
interest in that business.
We hear of public spirited mer
who say they have ceased to work
for themselves, and have commence
ed to work wholly for the "deal
public" l think have done my
share (without taking any credit to
myself), for the "dear public" ant
now propose to work for myself
If the public are not willing to al
low interest and small profit or
the capital invested (and l think
well managed), to supply one o
the common necessities of life,
can only ask that the Company
be made into cooperative
concern, by which each of TIN
( consumers take small investment il
/: stock. They can appoint their owl
directors, and manager, and if the,
: chase to charge by common consen
l 25 cents per quart (the price o
t milk in San Diego) and divide tn
g profit, or cent per quart AM
1 divide the loss they can do so, an
: thus, possibly serve themselve
cheaper and better than it is noN
being done for them.
t | quite agree with you that th
y cost of living is too high, but q
|. improvement may not be looked fol-
until domestic or foreign capital an
: enterprise open up this country b
railroads leading TO lands which ca
! be utilized at one tenth of the pres
V ent cost, to those who supply OF
" market with vegetables, dairy PR
ducts and other necessities. In Il
II mean time | cannot afford to suppl
: anything at loss to myself.
e Then there is no truth in Il
v statement that the Woodawn Dali
is attempting TO make combinatio
g with the view of putting up prices