The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-02

NAMED in the hands OF ]. c. Pfiuger,
who was most successful in building
up large business; and was towards
the end of the COS, assisted by j. Boil
mann; further plantation agencies,
such as Lihue, Grove Farm and Laha-
ina, were taken up and the importation
Of lumber from Puget Sound received
special attention. In 1871 J. G. Pfuger
left the Islands to reside at Bremen,
where he joined H. Hackfeld in estab-
fishing a firm of the same name In
Bremen, which represented the Homo
lulu firm in Europe. At that time j.
c. Glade and Ed. Furstenau were taken
in as partners of the firm. Mr.. j. c.
Phuger made two visits to Honolulu,
one in 1874 and one in 1S8O-S1, and died
very unexpectedly in October, 1888, be-
ing only so years old. The firm held
the agency OF the first line of steam
ers between San Francisco and Aus
tralia, which was later taken up by
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
until turned over to the Oceanic
Steamship Company in 1884.
Upon ratification of the reciprocity
treaty with the United States the firm
| lent financial assistance to many new
plantation enterprises, among others,
| the Waimanalo Sugar Company, Wal
anae Company, Kilauea Sugar Com
| pany, Kipahulu Sugar Company, Oo-
kaia Sugar Company, and Kukaiau
| Plantation Company.
| In 1874 the old Court premises were
purchased from the Hawaiian Govern
ment and the business of the firm was
removed to that place.
Ed. Furstenau left the firm in 1873
and H. w. Schmidt was admitted as a
partner. and in 1881 Hon. Paul Isen-
| berg, H. F. Glade and J. F. Hackfeld
entered the firm, H. Hackfeld, &C.
Pfuger and j. w. Pfluger becoming
special partners.
In 1886 Ed. Muller was admitted as
partner, but retired again in $780, and
H. w. Schmidt left the firm in 1889 in
order to establish business of his
own. In 1890, at the instigation of
Hon. George N. Wilcox, the firm took
an interest in the guano business,
(which led to the establishment of the
Pacific Guano e Fertilizer Co., with
large works at Kalihi, using the Lay
san Island guano beds for. supplying
raw materials.
| The business of the firm, especially
in the merchandise line, was rapidly
increasing, necessitating a large office
>. ,forse and enlarged warehouse room
I <sI,er tie retirement of II. f. Glade
from the firm, in 1894, the latter was
; incorporated in 1897 under the name
H Hackfeld & Co., Limited. The firm
has taken considerable interest in cof-
fee cultivation, and partly for this
reason branch house was established
in Hilo in 1897 under the management
of George ROdiek and another branch
house in Kailua in 1898 under the man
agement of G. Castendyk; at both
places complete coffee factories have
been erected by the firm after first put
ting up cOffe-cleaning machinery in it's
| warehouse at Honolulu, which proved
very useful and satisfactory. A large
| tract of land in coffee at OIaa is owned
by the firm, and a thorough test will
be made of the success of this new in
dustry. The Hilo house also estab-
iished a large lumber yard at that
place.
The present capital stock of the
firm is $2,000,000 all paid in, of which
$300,060 are preferred stock. The pres
ent officers are: Paul Isenberg presi-
| dent; J. F. Hackfeld, vice president;
| w. WOlters, director; Ed. Suhr, di-
| rector; H. A. Isenberg, secretary; w.
Pfotenhauer, treasurer and auditor
| Plans are now being prepared to
erect for the firm a large 3-story mod
| ern block, with stone front, on its
premises corner Fort and Queen
| SIfeetS, the Ola quarters having be-
come entirely too small for the in
creased business now transacted by
| the corporation.
The following sugar plantations are
| represented by the firm: Lihue Plan
| tation Company; Grove Farm Plan
| tation, koloa Sugar Company; Kekaha
Sugar Company, Oahu Sugar Company,
Pioneer Mill Company, Kipahulu Su-
gar Company, Kukaiau Plantation
Company, and Hilo Portuguese Sugar
Mill Company, producing an annual
output Of about $4,000 tons of sugar.
The firm holds the agency for the
| Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Occi-
dental & Oriental Steamship Company
| and Togo Kisen Kaisha; also for
regular line of sailing vessels between
Germany and Honolulu, and between
San Francisco and Honolulu, consist
ing of the ships Marie H kfeld, H F..
Glade; barks H. Hackfeld, J. G. Pf1u-
ger, Paul Isenberg and J. G.. Glade;
bark Albert, G. D. Bryant; schooners
| Aloha, Robert Levers, Alice Cooke,
and new bark Princess Kaiulani now
being built at Bath, Maine, and others.
The firm has for long time held the
German and Russian Consulates, and
now employs at Honolulu thirty clerks
] and thirty laborers.