The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-27
RAILROAD men PROMOTED
Messrs. Kendrick and Hannaford
Elevated to Vice Presidencies.
CONDITIONS IN HAWAII
Northern Pacific Commissioner Makes
His Official Report-scalpers Want
to Buy Up Editorial Transpor-
tation-Railroad Gossip.

The official circular announcing the
promotion of General Manager Ken
drlck and General Traffic Manager
Hannaford of the Northern Pacific to
the positions of second and third vice.
president, respectively, was received
IN Butte yesterday It is probable that
the titles formerly held by these Off
GERS will be dropped. The vice-presi-
dencles were created for them Here
tofore there has been only one vice
, presidency. Colonel Daniel S. Lamont
IS vlce-president in charge of the finan-
clal affalrs of the company, with head
quarters in New York. 1t is under.
stood that the increased emolumants
Of Messrs Kendrick and Hannaford are
commensurate with the dignity of their
new titles. They have had all the au-
thority that the heads of the opera ting
and traffic departments of any road
could nave, and the principal advant-
age they Will derive from their new
Titles Will be that of wider prestige at
meetings of executive officers of rail-
roads Mr.. Hannaford. says the Piou-
eef-Press, last week attended a meet
ing OF executive officers of transconti-
mental lines in New York, and though
ne held only the title of general traffic
manager, his authority was as great as
that of any vice president in charge
or traffic, while his experience and
aplllty exceeded that of most of them
The appointments will give general
satisfaction to all officials and employees
and friends of the Northern Pacific, as
well as the personal and professional
friends of the two officers, each CT.
Whom has given almost his entire life
TO the service of the Northern Pacific
Mr.. kendrlck was born in 1858 in
Worcester Mass, and entered railway
service in 1879 as levelman of the con-
struct1on party in the Yellowstone val
ley for the Northern Pacific. He was
afterWard engaged in location work ard
mad charge of construction of 100 miles
on the Missouri and Yellowstone divis-
IONS From 1888 to 1888 he was chief
engineer of the Northern Pacific and
leased lines, when he became acting
general manager, succeeding W. S. Mel
len, deceased. He continued to per-
form the duties of chief engineer until
september l, 1888 when he became gem
eral manager In 1892 his jurisdiction
extended over the Wisconsin Central,
the Chicago & Northern Pacific and the
Chicago & Calumet Terminal roads.
Mr.. Hannaford was born in 1850 at
Clarenont, N. H, and began railroad
life in 1866, since When he has held the
/ FOLLOWING positions: Clerk in general
freight office of Vermont Central at ST.
Adams; May, 1872 to May 1879, chief
clerk in general freight office of North
ern Pacific; to May, 1881, assistant gen
eral freight agent of Northern Pacific;
to August l, 1888. general freight ,igent
of the Eastern division; to March, 1854,
ctcf1 -. :.
traffic; to May, 1886, general freight
agent of main line and branches: to
March, 1890, traffic manager; to date,
general traffic manager. After
April l, 1890, he was also
general traffic manager of the Wiscon-
sin Central until these lines were d.
vorced, September 1, 1893
1t is in no small measure due to the
ability and energy of Mr.. Kendrick and
Mr.. Hannaford that the Northern Pa
clfic is the wonderful railroad that it
is to-day, not only in roadbed, terni-
mails, equipment and officers. but also
in enormous current earnings with a
strikingly low ratio of cost of opera
ton.
The Northern Pacific, which rec entity
established steamship connections De-
tween Tacoma and Honolulu, commits
stoned ]. A. Nadeau to visit the Ha-
Walian Islands and obtain information
as to the commercial conditions which
exist there. Mr.. Nadeau has Just re-
turned, and in his report says, among
other things:
Sugar is the chief export from the
islands. and came entirely to the Unit
ed States, except 1928 pounds. It came
through San Francisco or by sailing
vessel round Cape Horn to Atlantic
ports. approximately two-thrds via
San Francisco. A statement of the Hs.-
Waiian sugar crop, 1S97-1S9S, from Oct.
|, 1897, to Sept. 30, 1898, issued by the
Hawaiian Sugar Planters association,
November, 1898, shows a total produce
ton to have been by the plantations
in its association, 229,414 tons, in adj
dition to which there was produced by
planters not members of this associa-
ton, crop variously estimated at So
600 to 10000 tons.
while coffee has been grown on the
island of Hawaii principally for many
years, and Kona coffee enjoys world
wide reputation, the amount exported
in 1897 was only 337,158 pounds, Of the
value of 500, 696.62. Coffee culture re-
ceived its great impetus three years
ago, since which time a good many
acres have been set out, and more land
is being prepared for planting; mas
much as it takes four years to bring
trees into bearing, the production in
few years will be large. 1t is esti-
mated there will be $4,000 to $4,000 tons
for export next year. Planters are con-
fident of realizing handsomely on their
investments, and all indications Justify
their belief.
Rice, the third staple grown, is also
almost all exported to the United
States through the port of San Fran
cisco. In 1897 there We're 1850 tons; IN
1898 there were 1000 tons. Rice is
chiefly raised on Oahu. the island UPON
which Honolulu is located.
81 There were exported in 1897, bana-
mas, pineapples, oranges and sundry
fruit to the value of s90435.16 Any
quantity of fruit may be grown, and
only the lack of reliable and frequent
steamship sailings has prevented larger
expectations to United States Pacific
coast ports.
The total imports at all ports of the
Hawaiian islands, and where from, dur
ing 1897, were as follows: