The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-30
LARGE SAN FRANCISCO HOUSE
MAKING HEAVY PURCHASES.
Their Representative Interviewed on
the Subject-A Coffee Inspector
Should Be Appointed.

lnere is every assurance UnaI Ha- I
waiian coffee will find ready sale in |
the wholesale markets of San Fran
cisco. The big firm of Schilling d
Company, of that city, is now endeav-
oring to establish coffee trade be-
tween the islands and the Pacific
Coast.
This firm now has a representative
in Honolulu in the person of Mr.. w. IL.
Baugh, who is working to accomplish
this end. Within the past month Schil-
ling & Company have purchased near
ly 500 bags of coffee from IL. May Sc
Company and other coffee plantations.
In speaking of Hawaiian coffee, Mr.
Baugh has much of interest to cell.
"Kona coffee, began Mr.. Baugh thisi
morning, has been coming into San'
Francisco in small lots, as well as
from the various other coffee ranches
Most of this coffee has been sem to
San Francisco in such conditions as
not to obtain the highest favor for
the merit which is actually due such
a splendid coffee. This is due, pcl-
haps, to the fact that the coffee grow
ers on the islands have not supplied
themselves with the proper machin-
cry for cleaning, separating and pol
ishing, which is necessary prepara
tion to develop the highest favor with
the coffee dealers handling it. This,
in turn, for the reason perhaps that
the amount of Kona coffee raised upon
the islands is enough to justify them
in the expense and attention required
to handle it.
"The California fruit people, until
more recently, made the same mistake
in respect to handling their fruits in
the Eastern markets and have set
about with vim to correct their mis-
take, for they have found that the
sale and appreciation of California
fruits depend almost entirely on the
quality, which alone is preserved by
proper grading and care in shipping.
"Now the Kona coffee is to the Ha
waiian Islands what the fruit industry
is to California, and as Emerson well
saws: "It should be worked for all
there is in it." When country has
as good thing as the meritorious
Kona coffee, the public spirit of the
parties interested in it should make
the most of it.
d, III would be of great advantage to
the Kona coffee interests if there were
appointed for the port coffee in
spector whose special business it
would be to see that no coffee was
shipped from the islands except in the
proper grade, quality and condition.
This would do more than anything
that could be done to get the coffee
before the people of the States in n
proper and lasting favor. This being
done the balance of the way would be
smooth sailing. For no coffee
connoisseur who has ever tasted well
prepared Kona coffee would desire to
|
drinking in the neurological spring
of Rome, having tasted it, there is a
desire to turn TO it again.
"Another suggestion, since you ask
for such, shippers of coffee should
should see to it that all sacks contain
| ing Hawaiian coffee are so marked
| that there could be no question as to
shipper OF about 400 bags of coffee
shipped from Honolulu to the Coast
of five different lots and bought at my
suggestion this month by the house
which | represent in San Francisco,
was able to trace but two lots. With a
little attention this fault could BE-
remedied."
II make no mistake when | say that
there is demand in the States, partic-
ularly on the Pacific Coast, for Kona
coffee, wherever it has oeen used. In
the first place it carries its own
strength, style and flavor, which is
sufficient without the aid of any other
coffee, and in blend with the Costa
Rica, Java, even Guatemala, its parent
seed, it produces superb effect"
GOOD PRICES PAID FOR STOCK.
l.. l.. McCandless purchased twenty
five shares of Eva plantation stock to-
day at Morgan's sale for S167 a share