The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-29
Representatives of the Planters
Negotiating with SpreckeIs.
WANT MORE FAVORABLE TERMS.
If the Trust Refuses to Grant Conces-
sions Asked for IL Syndicate Is to be
Formed to Handle Product of the
IsIands-Don't Want IL known.

The San Francisco Chronicle of the
18th says: Three of the most promi-
nent sugar planters and sugar mer-
chants in the Hawaiian islands are in
San Francisco on a mission which has
for its object the securing of re-
newal of their contract with the sugar
trust. According to the terms of this
contract, which has been in vogue for
several years, the sugar trust has been
buying one half the entire sugar crop
of the Hawaiian islands at the price
prevailing in New York, with certain
commissions added. This contract is
now about to expire, and negotiations
have been entered into with Claus
Spreckels, as the representative of the
sugar trust on this Coast, for a re-
newal of the same on terms and con-
ditions more favorable to the plant
ers. 1t is understood that unless the
planters get what they ask for, they
will form a syndicate and handle the
Hawaiian sugar crop themselves.
The three gentlemen who have come
to San Francisco to open negotiations
with the sugar trust are j. B Ather-
ton, II p. Baldwin and G. NJ. Cooke.
Mr.. AthertOn is a member OF the big
Honolulu firm of Castle u Cooke, Mr..
Baldwin runs the biggest sugar plan
tatiOn in the world, and Mr.. Cooke is
a prominent millionaire of Honolulu
and a member of the firm of Levers
& Cooke. They control over half
of the entire sugar output of the
Hawaiian islands, the other half
being handled by w. @. Irwin d
Co, Mr.. Spreckels' representatives in
the islands. Their mission is thus
one of magnitude and importance.
One alf of the entire sugar output OF
the Hawaiian islands means good
large proportion of the total amount
of sugar refined and consumed in the
United States, and with this amount
of sugar at their disposal the delega-
ton of Honolulu merchants now in
this city could play havoc with the
market prices by divertiDg their por-
tiOn of the crop to other channels
They are anxious, it is understood,
to give the sugar TO the trust, aud
want a renewal of their contract for
period of five years, but up to the
present time they have failed to con-
sum mate any Tangement with Mr..
Spreckels, owing to the inability of all
pal ilC5 W oSItc OD tu6 very
important item of commissions. Dur
ing the past week or two there have
been several conferences between the
visitors from Honolulu and Claus
Sprt ckels, and telegraph lines be-
tween here and the East have been
kept hot with messages relating 10
the big sugar deal. Just how the
negotiations will terminate is not
known, but it is thought that the
matter will be settled one way or the
other this week. The visitors from
Honolulu have taken great paius to
keep the nature of their mission a
secret, and on this account have given
up their apartments at the o cidental
Hotel, where they stayed for a few
days after their arrival from the ISL
and, and have secluded themselves
in Oakland, coming to San Francisco
only to talk business with Claus
Spreckels.