Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1893-02-25

Aneh the cane - good for nothing further
but 70 use as seed in replanting. As this
cane IL cut in the fields and stripped. il
is in most cases pitched into one Of the
rickety fiumes used to carry the water
for irrigation and fioated down TO the
mill. which is often run by the same
water.
In other cases the cane is carried 70
the mill in OK carts. It is then run BE-
tween heavy rollers and the Juice pressed
ont. The jnice Is run first into Clarity
ing tanks with copper steam pipes in the
bottom. Upon being boiled the dirt and
foreign substances rise to the surface
and are SKINNED Of. The evaporatinc
pans are very similar, but shallower. ard
are used to clear the water from the
juice. The pure jnice is then sucked up
into the vacuum pan-a gigantic incloSed
tank, from which the air can be exhaust.
ed in order TO save time in boiling the
juice. After being boiled down 10 a
thick, granular substance. it is turned
into the centrifugal circular iron lars.
which are set to whirling at the rate of
/ 500 revolutions a minute and so sepa-
rate the sparkling sugar crystals from
the fluid. The sugar is then dumped.
still hot. on clean floor and from there
shoyeled into sacks Then il used 10 be
slowed away until Claus Spreckels came
along and offered his price for it.
This was the tranquil and easy going
way of doing things which it struck Claus
5preckels 10 years ago could be improved
upon to his own advantage The island OF
Maui, next north Of Hawaii in the group.
Is made up Of two separate clusters
Of mountain peaks 20 or 80 miles apart
and joined together by a low lying strip
of land-so low lying that it looks as
though Maui had once been two islands.
with the sea flowing over this strip.
There are several hundred square miles
Of this lowland, and there are no natural
water courses flowing through il.
The planters on Mani had consequently
never attempted to plant sugar in il, and
had confined themselves TO the mouths
of the valleys on either side Of il. But
Spreckels thought it was good land and
that water could be brought to it. So
he set to work to build an enormous
waterway or ditch from the southern
cluster Of mountains. There We're sew
eral formidable gulches to be crossed on
the way. Through these he laid gigantic
iron pipes and proceeded on his way To
the plain, while the Hawaiian planters
looked on at what seemed to them the
scheme of madman. 1t took 81 900, 600
to finish that ditch, but it was finished.
Then Spreckels proceeded to plant seed
cane over this seemingly desert land and
to turn his water supply upon it, and it
was not long until his faith was justified
Several sugar mills, made with American
machinery and on a scale never before
attempted on the islands, were erected,
turning out in the aggregate several
hundred tons day. Steam plows were
introduced and patent devices Of various
sorts. In 1881 there was unique rail-
way running from one of these mills 20
the shipping place. the motive power of
which was the trade wind, utilized by
sails. Now there are locomotives 20
pull trains of cars along temporary
tracks to various parts of the plantations
and bring in the cane.
1t had always been the custom in the
islands to take the sugar up to Honolulu
and reship it from there to San Fran
cisco, owing to the lack of landing facil-
tiles on the other islands. But Spreckels
built himself wharves and had vessels
come to his plantation. This offended
the Pacific Mail Steamship company,