The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-13

fence. This building with many others
of like character near by is occupied
by II Hackfeld & Company Limited. one
Of the largest wholesale houses on the Isl
and. Fifty years ago Captain II. Hack
field established himself here in a little
retail dry goods and notion store. This
small store gradually grew into
larger one. and during later years into
one of the largest wholesale establish
ments in the country, with branch
European house in Bremen. They now
have eight vessels plying between here
and Europe, also a number OF large .
sailing vessels between here and San .
Francisco On entering, the first thing
that met our eyes was large sales .
room, running the full length Of the
building. neatly filed with samples Of
dry goods of every description. TO .
the left of this room is a large Office
where quite a little army of clerical
| force were as busy as bees. We heard
/ the familiar cuck Of the Remington
| Typewriter and learned that this com
! pany not only used several in their
| own Offices. but were sole agents for
| this standard machine which is known
| throughout the world as the best yet
| put upon the market. Mr.. w. VOTERS,
! one of the company, who by the way
! has won a host of friends by his cOur-
conducted us through the different
| buildings and made plain the man
ner in which this enormous business
! was managed. We passed from one
! large building into another, and an
| other. the floors of each filled with
| different line of goods giving one the
impression that they were visiting a
numuer of wholesale houses instead OF
one. We walked through avenues, each
| 81 no tn
| rafters with fine European and Ameri-
can goods; through cellars lighted here
and there with electric lamps, filled
with wines champagnes and liquors OF
all kinds This firm has branch house
in HilO also one in Kailua, Hawaii,
and many retail stores on the different
Islands They handle about $4,000 tons
of sugar yearly and employ thousands
Of natives on their sugar plantations.
They are also sole agents for thirty
coffee plantations, and one large build
ing is devoted to coffee and contains
a large coffee mill. No one should miss
visiting this special part Of the bust
ness 1t is indeed interesting. We
took an elevator and went to the top
floor of the building, here we stepped
off into a room directly under the roof
2 called the drying room Spread out on
, the floor were thousands Of pounds or
not remain here long as it was the
| hottest place we have as yet found
} in Honolulu. The coffee coming from
5 the other Islands is nearly always
2 damp. so it is first thoroughly dried
2 in this room before it is discharged
t down on the next floor into large
e hopper On the ground floor is the
r coffee mill The coffee is thoroughly
2 cIeansed from dirt and dust after it
i is thrown into the hopper and then
D passes down a chute into hulle1
i where the parchment is separated from
t the bean. The bean then passes
S ! through another chute into the pOllshel
. and from there it goes into the separat-
/ ing machine where it is distributed
S and thrown into six different pockets
/, according to the size of the bean. AT
e tached to these pockets are bags WhlcL
0 receive the coffee which by this time
v is ready for the test room. In this
d room you will find many japanese
|, women sitting before what you WoulC
S first think was a sewing machine, bu
+ on investigation we found this machin'
e to have a large muslin band on which
a the coffee passed back and forth before
It these women while they operated the
e machine with their feet. 1t was won
k derful to see how quickly they WOuI(
= nick ND the yellow bean and cast l
= aside while the good bean would pas
J. on into a large bin to be put into sack
e ready for the market. This compan!
: also handle rice in large quantities
n being agents for several plantations
d Nowhere in the United States VII
d YOU find such a we'll equipped whole
e sale house. 1t would take a book o
ii MANY pages to even mention In a DrIe
Y wav the volume Of business this com
"a Dany handles. and yet their system I
g such that the work is carried on VIII
the regularity of a well adjusted ma
C. chine.
II The above experience was simply
lie commencement of our surprises at IN
re way merchants do business in Homo
lie lulu. We, like many in the States, ha
ct a different opinion of this city and 1t
ic Deople. We expected to see houses wit
l. low matched roofs, small cOuntr
9 stores and very slow people instead
Y. we find that all Honolulu really lack
4 is an electric street railway and cable
n, These. it will both have before man
20 moons.
3 We next visited a wholesale and re
re tail hardware store called the Pacih
a Hardware Company. The main foo
of is one immense room filled from foo
D. To ceiling with hardware of every dc
tn scriptiOn. In the rear, slightly elevate
er from the ground floor are the O1nceS. l
s. the center of the room there Is lar9
a omen winding stairway leading to tn
ne second floor. On the first landing is
e. large palm which can be seen from tn
ly doorway and street Directly back {
of this main floor is a large warehous
ly full of heavy hardware, plOws, agrlcu
of tural implements and even wind mill
mt among which is the famous CycIon
he mill they also have large stock an
e. are sole agents for the famous vacuum
at oils manufactured by the Vacuum O
Sc Co. of Rochester. \. Y. On the secOn
ely floor there is quite transformation
st The first room we entered was file
de with artists materials and here "
ge found among a complete stock dire
Is from England: WinsOn & Newton
IN, A CD1pTS color boxes. (lanNS