The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
FOR
ISLANDERS
A Mandatory May Be
Started.
HENRY HILL is NOW HERE
massachusetts, Man Comes From the
East with a Home Industry
Proposition.

Henry Hnl Of Boston. Afassa tuse Is.
who arrived on the Alameda. comes with
a proposition to start big mems shoe
manufacturing industry in the Islands
with output of at least 1000 pairs a
day Mr.. Hill is highly recommended to
the business men of the Islands 1t is
due to w. r. Castle, who is visiting on
the Mainland, that Mr.. Hill first gave Sc
rious thought to coming here and estab-
fishing an industry of this kind and he
has high hopes of the enterprise being
started within the next few months.
| In an interview with an Advertiser rep
Preventative yesterday, Mr.. Hill explained
the reasons for his believing that such
Manufacturing concern would pay here,
removed as the Islands are from the
Mainland by such a stretch OF water
II met Mr.. w. r. Castle in Boston,"
said Mr.. Hill, "and in talking over. mat
tiers in general We touched upon the
manufacture Of shoes in the Islands From
my conversation with Mr.. Castle 1 be-
lcame convinced there was a great field
for manufacturing industries IN Hawaii,
and / at once began to lay plans for in
w stigating your resources. i believe
there Is big opportunity here although
/ have been in the city only two days.
What convirces me of this is that on the
steamer / met a business man of New
rs sland. dealer in shoes, and he thought
we might catch some of the New Zealand
trade.
You have goat skins in abundance / am
ltold and other hides as well. i am in
lclose touch with tanner in England am
he. l. foil inn of inn boz
take hold of the shoe manufacturing
lpi opposition. The idea is to utilize the
labor you have here outside of very
few skilled workmen. heads of depart
monts. whom 1t would be necessary to
bring down here.
"It is not such a vast undertaking to
start a shoe mandatory as people gen.
lerally suppose. The labor of turning out
, 1000 pairs of shoes a day is not a grea,
task by any means. The machinery Is
made with the main idea to save labor
and. in fact, the machinery is intended
to be mechanical workman with an en-
; pcye merely to watch the mechanism.
II submitted this matter to some of thu
conservative business men of Boston
r among them were Lieut. Gov. Yates o.
Massachusetts. ex-Mayor Martin of Bos
: ton, and they thought 1t a wise move
to investigate the resources of Hawai-
preliminary to organizing shoe com
pany.
Three pairs of mems shoes can b.
made out OF one goat skin, so for 100
q pairs of shoes per day 333 1-3 skins a da.
would be used. For each pair of shoe
about ten square feet of floor space /
necessary.
Are you intending to enlist local capt
tai in this enterprise?" was asked.
Yes: that done. Boston capital viii
. also he put into the concern. The sho
men OF Boston are thorough believers /
the Hawaiian Islands and their future
and they are ready to stake their none
on 1t. But the mandatory is intende
to be a home industry pure and simple
using all the resources at hand. w
would employ from 125 to 115 hands I
start with and increase the number
the output warranted IL. Our first air
would be to supply the Island trade an
ltEen endeavor to take in other islands @
the Pacific-Samoa, New Zealand an
= % ssibly Australia-or wherever tn
steamers which pass by your door woul
make port"
Mr.. Hill has already had some talk
with several business houses in the cit
end his proposition has received favorabl
consideration so far. Within a few week
Mr.. Hill expects 10 be in full possession {
a; statistics bearing upon the resource
of Hawaii for the shoe MANUFACTURER
Industry. Only light shoes are to
made The manufacturing houses on II
Pacific Coast have rarely attempted
make light shoes. putting all their lab'
on heavy footwear. The styles are chant
ing. says Mr.. Hill. and the heavy, Gun
bersome shoe is rapidly being discarde