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

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shall do his level best even IL be
has but to drive n rivet. Let every
man build Up bic own character
M be builds mp n piece of machin
Try, bit by bit Never sbirk your
work and never be afraid 10 point
out n defect In all the yea we
were associated together Young
and ] we're never ashamed 60 look
each other in the face, there was
nothing ever hidden between us,
we worked for the common good
aud 30 II should be with all Of
you. / notice many of the old
boys here tonight, they were boys
when the works started and now
| call them old boys. Well,
the Honolulu Iron Works is not
ashamed of her children, old or
young They are established for
the good of the country, the good
of the people and everybody con
nected With them.
I" 1t is a pleasure to see SO many
of you tonight, bot especially to
see such a large baud of Hawai-
ians, and to those / would say or
rather ask them to take their
stand not on political or social
opinions but on principle, to be
true to themselves aud their ma
ton: Seek We the peace of the
city whittier 1 carry you, saith
the Scriptures. Work for the
welfare of your city and always
have il 10 mind.
have been trying to get Mr..
Hedemann to say a few words to
you bur he will not. But il we
can't get live manager to talk
we'll get a dead one and call on
Mr.. Young
Alex. Young was greeted with
such deafening and prolonged APP
plause that it was some minutes
before he could be- heard. He
said:
| seem to be well enough under
stood without speaking. Since /
have been sitting among you to.
night | have been looking back
over old times as far as 1869. The
Honolulu Iron Works was a very
small institution in those days
com pared with what it is now. Ii
there is one thing more than an
other that pleases me it is to see
so many Hswaiians among the
employees. 1t is said, probably
with some truth, that Hawaiians
don't stick to it like baoles. ] say
to you Hawaiians, "Don't be con
tent with your present jobs, stick
to your trade till you get to the
top. You don't know what you
are capable of until you try" 1
would like to say a word about
the plantation agents, too, those
gentlemen who have patronized
us so loug and so literally, and /
am proud to see SO many of them
honoring us with their presence
here tonight. The Honolulu Iron
Works would have little to
do we're it not for these
agents, and you have to thank
them for bringing SO much
of their work to Honolulu instead
of sending abroad for it. L want
to say also that the Works have
lost no character for good work
since L left the management aud
that only the best material and
best labor obtainaule is employed.
Let the world know that if man
is not good mechanic the Homo
lulu Irou Works has no use for
him. l wear in my pocket a gold
watch given me by the employees
of these works as a token of their
esteem just nineteen years ago to
night less two days. / treasure it
as highly today as l did then, and
l treasure also the renewed evi.
dence of kindly esteem testified
by your cordial greeting tonight.
But the greatest token of your
kindness that you can give me is
that you be steady, honest and
earnest. l hope you will remem
Der that it is mean to conceal
defect in your work that has been
caused by negligence or misfor
tune. 1t is source of much re-
greet to me that so much of the ten
or twelve thousand dollars month
that has been paid out by the Iron
Works has not gone to the pur-