Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-03-07
The HONOLULU IRON WORKS.


10 remember that the employees Of
the Honolulu Iron Works are all
linked together, that no one Of you
can get along without the assist
ance Of the others. There Is run
ming in my mind the refrain Of an
old English song about the miller
who dwelt on the banks OF the
Dee, who sang | care for nobody
and nobody cares for me- That
may be all very well for miller
but It won't do for blacksmith,
for every blacksmith and every
man in the 225 employees of the
Honolulu Iron Works. should
say there were 285 by the look of the
tables in front of me-is depen-
dent on the others. No man can
build a Stroller mill by himself but
many men working for the
common good can do so. Iron is
the symbol according to Solomon
of truth, loyalty, devotion and
brotherhood, and all L ask of you
men is that you will remember
this and that in your daily work
you will be loyal to your employ
ers and true to yourselves.
The next word in my text is
Works. Now there are several
classes of people who never think
that other people work. Take
the managers of plantations, for
instance. They never think of the
agents of the plantations as doing
any work, but rather as sitting
down and eating all day. There is a
verse in the 18th chapter of Job
which illustrates the way the man
ayers regard the agents. don't
know if | quote it correctly but
the words are L think: The oxen
were blowing and the asses were
feeding beside them Now that
is not true of the agents, for l am
one of the asses and l speak from
experience (Lsughter). You men
are all oxen and have to work but
you should remember how. much
of your work comes from the or
ders of plantation agents.
81 notice that it is quite fashion
able here now to wear a badge of
some organization, baseball, bicy-
cl- club and what not. | hope
you men will wear a badge in your
hearts if not on your sleeves,
and that Is the badge of
the Honolulu Iron Works. And
right here l want to correct O
statement that was made only a
day or two since about the capital
invested in the Honolulu Iron
Works. L want to make this state.
ment in the presence of you al
and | hope you will not forget it
Every bit of the stock of the Ho-
nolulu Iron Works not owned
here is owned by three ladies
widows and sister of those who
helped to make the Iron Works
what they are. Surely there is
not man in the hall who can be-
grudge those three ladies thedivi
, dends they receive from the fruits
of your toll cloud cries of No
MOI. We who manage and direct
the Iron Works have but one
, thought and that is How shall We
) keep the works going for another
year L am happy t.
say that there is abundance
, of work in sight to keep us going
for the year to come. When
came to Honolulu last one of tn,
first things l read was a descrip-
ton in the newspapers Of the new
9 roller mill for Honomu-l
rather think friend Kennedy haC
something to do with that. S,
much interest was taken in thai
piece of work that my friend Mr.
Hedemann was kept busy enter,
tanning plantation people VIII,
dropped in to see how the worl
was getting on-so busy, indeed
that he would have had no chanc,
to WORK in bad piece of iron il
that job if he had wished. Ant
Hedemann felt 30 bad over tina
splendid piece of work bein,
taken down and set up in tn
bottom of lonely gulch, As h
said, that he actually had to g
over there and take another loo
at it, and l expect he'll want to g
again soon. And he does we'll t
be proud of that achievement
and there is not maj
here who has not the RICH
to be proud of that work. Yo