The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-08
AND NAME DR.. M'WAYNE
Good Points on Coffee and
Free Labor.
Mr.. Wait Satisfied to Have Annexa-
ton on Short MOTHERHOOD
fer for Market.


Coffee and Tea Company of North Ko
no, has been in the city the past week
on a short business trip, and possibly
to see what could be accomplished to-
wards aiding in the selection of the
right man for the position of District
Magistrate of North Kona, recently
made vacant by the resignation of
George Clark. But whatever his pri-
vate business, Mr.. Wait always has
something interesting to talk about,
and on this particular trip he has sur
prised some of his friends by announc-
ing himself as an annexationist.
In a short seance with representa-
tive of this paper last evening, Mr..
Wall said:
"Yes. | have come to the belief that
annexation to the United States is the
proper thing for this country, but be-
fore | say anything on that PROPOSE
ton l want you TO know that the Sc
lection of a District Magistrate is what
is occupying the minds of North Kona
folks Just at present. DR.. McWayne is
the man we want, and if heh doesn't
accept the position, our people will be
sadly disappointed. 1 know the Dis
trict Magistrates job isn't much sought
after, but the position is what the man
makes it, and we want man who
will make that particular billet q po-
sition and not a job. You understand
the distinction Yes? Well, the prin-
cipal work of the District Magistrate
at the outset will be to put a stop, if
possible, to the illicit sale of liquor.
This business is getting to be terri
| BILE nuisance in our section. Nearly
| every Chinese and Japanese store has
| liquor on tap, and it is getting so that
| a woman is hardly safe to go out on the
| highways of a Sunday. We have a
great many threats that have to be
| oiled on Sunday. Mind you, it isn't
| liquor from Honolulu, but concoction
| of strictly home manufacture, resulting
| from a combination of grapes and fer
mented sugar. Some call it wine, but
vulgarly speaking, it might be classed
with 40-rod lightning. Then, the Jap
anese are very apt in the manufacture
| of okolehao. The business is being
| carried on all over the district, and the
peace-loving public want stop put to
it, if possible.
1--WE want Dr. McWayne as Magis-
| trate, because he is q man of indie
penuent opinions, with no strings tied
| to him, and it is no reflection on the
| present incumbent to say the doctor is
| just the man for the place. l hope he
will accept, and have done what little
1 can to bring about that result.
| Coffee? That's something 1 take
more interest in than in politics, / adj
NIT. Generally speaking, the crop
| throughout the district has been a
| large one, but now we've reached the
| position where we can talk of coffee
crops, the thing most vital to this in
| dustry here is the condition in which
the coffee is put on the market. Some
of the coffee / have seen sent out is
simply wretched, not because the tree
isn't all right and the berry developed
but the manner in which some of the
| small planters are drying their crops
will, if the thing keeps up, drag the
fair name of our Kona coffee in the
mire. The proper color for the coffee
is. what is called a light horn green
In some lots l have seen shipped there
| have been the greatest conglomeration
of coffee beans imaginable; many
bruised, others white, others black and
marks of all stages of decomposition
apparent all through the bags.
THE condition is due to carelessness
or ignorance in drying. The coffee is
picked and allowed to remain in heaps
While the top layer is drying the lower
portions ferment, and from the stand
point of good coffee the result is 6
mess. This product, good, bad and in
different is shoveled in together and
shipped away as the far-famed Kona
coffee 1t doesn't take a prophet tC
prove the inevitable result,
There ought to be some provision
made for sorting the coffee before i
| leaves the country. 1t costs us more
to produce the bean than it does in
| other countries, hence you see every
thing depends on the quality of wha
we send out. Keep up the quality anC
we are all right, but let it become de
graded through shiftlessness. and you
cut off a good, big slice from our in
come. A good product always de-
mands a good price. In this sortine
business is just where the benefit Of
| Hackfeld's new establishment comes in
II the Hackfelds will insist on takins
only good coffee they will be doing the
country a great service.
LAS to drying this country is emf.
Dently fitted for machine drying. Sur
drying takes f~o-n eight to 10 DAYS
with one or two - ~. while with one
man and a machine ~ same work car
be done in % ~ and after all is
! said and dO~o fee from the ma
chine is mo ormly dried We
can't do her" hey do in Ceylon
| Labor is hi~r~ and at the elevation
| coffee Is crow sun can't. be de-
pended upC- - shine to the ADVANTAGE
of the coffe- planter. Drying houses
! I,