The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-10-14

resume if you do not make another con-
tract with u.s." they said.
"Wery well" replied Claus, go aheau.
l don't care What you do" They Went ou'
to their idle refinery and found that as
use had completely ruined II. Inc ihieiAif
cry was worthless
About twenty years ago Spreckels MADE
his first voyage to Honolulu. the source OF
his sugar supply. He had beaten oown
an opposition in the United States. Spreon-
els. at the time, was rolling in wealth.
He had found something which pays pee
ter than a gold mine, brewery ol
corner grocery 1t costs a large sum VI
money TO establish q sugar plantation on
the Sandwich Islands, because every iooe
of land must be irrigated
looked over the field ana was so
what dismayed. 1t would require ihii'
to buy out the planters. many oil wnoil.
are Germans, liko hlmSelt, anu equaiy GO s
shrewd and ambitious. lie iouho 49,
acres of land, however, low, conn. ms
, two mountain regions, and considered uSe-
Hess He leased this barren waste rum
KaIaKaua for a song and went u VIZ"
There was plenty of water IN the ihou
#lins, twenty miles away. lie aug d Caa
M1urteeu feet wide and three lee- ue0f'
Nuilt aqueducts, blasted thirty tuhheie
rough solid rock, and got water 70 ms
eeert at n cost something like S'oo'ooc'
founded a town, calling it Spreckelo
H. He macadamized the streets there
placted shade trees, built church anu
REGULATING library, and e suaoiisneu
for the entertainment of his army VI
l,loves He extended his MAN cahd'
Iii il penetrated every part OF MS paI-
n estate lie caused five immense
.servoirs to be built high up in the noun,
aims so that he coulu have perpeluai
urply of water. Meanwhile the cane nI
had planted had been growing, ana a MN
4 of sugar a Oay
| was heinz. built under his personal super
! vision Spreckels ris1Cd q fortune 10 &c.
| a stnl larger fortune, ana won. an 49,
| him were planters who were nakilG pot'
| Of money The Pioreer mills and plahla-
| tion were valued at 81, 100000, and were re-
| turning to their two owners oiVlueho u
| 90 Ger cent on that vast sum- LABOR m"a
| procticallv free Chinese and South BED
| islanders worked in the fields ana IN tht
| mills and got but n pittance. 1hey oou"u
| themselves out like slaves, ana IL lleS
| failed to regard their contract they "ere
thrown into Jail.
After this Spreckles played the game
of "freeZe-out'' with the other sugar
| planters He got to be a fast friend o
| old KaLakaua loaned him a mllHoh d
! G per cent payable in gold anu pecaii
a knight commander of the Kings oFder
| When this little blue-eyed German cahe'
at the palace the prime minister took OF
| his hat and made a bow. the quee
smiled on him, for the queen knew ina
when she wanted a new rinG or a sprih
bonnet and the king was short OF money
which was the invariable rule, the rat an
Jolly Californian would give ii TO him.
0 ! After his Hawaiian conquest ne can
$ / hack to the United States and on to I'M
Y adclphia He had another battle to figh
The eastern rcfiners must be subdue
e They were taking some or his trade. III
e Old man had been out Of the country. !
+ built an immense refinery at Philade1ph
= and began competing for business on IN
al / side Of the Mississippi valley. Meah"hi
he planted hundreds Of acres OF bects
"A | southern California and reared great m
h. 10 convert them into sugar. lie took
ID vantage of every circumstance ana Q
.. portunity TO make himself what he real
If is. the uncrowned sugar king OF the wor