The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-07
]. 5. N CANDLESS TALKS
HONOLULU MAN INTERVIEWED
IN SEATTLE.
Wants a Sugar Refinery on The Sound
And a Direct Line of Vessels to
Honolulu.

SEATTLE, Wash, August al. S. !
McCandless, an American sugar planter
who has been a resident of the Hawai-
ian islands for nearly a quarter of a
century and who is now in Seattle on
business and pleasure trip to "the
states" is authority for the statement
that sugar refinery could DE operated
with a prof. in this city and that there
is good reason TO believe that at no dis
tant day one will be established here
Mr.. McCandless Is also strong advo-
cate of the establishment of a class
steamhip line be -Ween the islands ana
Seattle. The trade between the Pacific
Northwest and Hawaii already large he
says is bound to increase MANIFOLD, and
he is anxious to see Seattle reap the
benefit of the application to the islands
of the United States navigation laws,
which prohibit the carrying of freight
and passengers between American ports
by foreign vessels.
The transportation facilities possessed
by the islands prior to annexation have
he says. been practically cut in half BY
the application of the American ship
ping regulations and the time is oppor-
tune for Americans to place in the
trade to the islands steamers to take
the place of those which can no longer
be used in it.
Seattle, he considers, in view of it's be-
ing the largest seaport of the Pacific
Northwest, from which Hawaii draws
annually large quantities of lumber
flour, feed. grain, hay, coal and manu-
featured products, is in a splendid sit
uation to become the Pacific coast ter
minus of a tirst-class freight and pas
senger steamship line. If the sugar
trust can be induced to look with favor
upon the establishment of a refinery
here, so much the better The estab-
lishment of a refinery would assure re-
turn cargoes for the steamers and
would make the success of the line GER
tain.
Communication between the islands
and the United States is now so much
more frequent than II used to be that
there is really very little new to talk
about" said Mr.. McCandless, at the
l-eattle last night. Probably the most
interesting story that one could tell
would be of the record breaking sugar
crop of the islands this year. We will
ship about 100000 tons this season. The
great output has encouraged everybody
and the islands are prosperous. | don't
know country in the world where
man with money stands better chance
of making money.
Most of the plantation hands are
Japanese They are strong, hearty little
fellows, and reliable. The Chinese are
| also good hands, steady and plodding
| We have some Portuguese, and recent
! ly we have tried Porto Ricans. The
Porto Ricans when they become ac-
| customed to the climate, | believe, will
| prove valuable field hands
1.-THE stories about the Porto Ricans
| being badly treated in the islands are
all nonsense. When they reach us they
are generally half starved and nearly
naked. When they land it has been the
custom 10 give they a bath, a new suit
of clothes and a small sum of money,
IS or less and send them out to the
plantation. Certainly they have no
complaint to make of such treatment
They can get any reasonable credit the
moment they reach the plantation and
all that is asked of them is that they GO
to work If the Porto Ricans prove in
dustrious there will be no trouble with
them
THE people of Hawaii would like very
much to see a first class steamship line
established between Seattle and lhe ISL
ands. The American navigation law:
which preVent the foreign vessels which
used to do a great deal of our carrying
trade from taking freight and passen
gers to the United States, render Amer
lean steamship lines necessary. Oul
transportation facilities have been Gu
down at least so per cent.
The line should be first-class though
, The people of the islands are great IraV
elers and have money which they ar
not afraid to spend for good accommo
datlons. Seattle could send large car
goes to us. We take enormous guam