The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-21
A WORLD
BEATER
Biggest Sug ar. Mill
On Earth in
Maui.
CORNER sTONELAID
AT SPRECKELSVlLLE
The Mill Will Have a Capacity
of Five Hundred Tons
Per Day.

The Maui News says: A very inter-
esting bit of history was made on Maui
yesterday afternoon. the event being
the laying of the corner stone, or rather
placing the key column of iron al the
new Spreckelsville mill
Hon. II. P. Baldwin. Manager Lowrie,
Rev. E. G. Beckwith, Mr.. Williams and
a number of invited guests, both ladies
and gentlemen, assembled at the min
inspection the ceremony of erecting the
column was begun. A number of coins,
the charter of the H. c. & S. Co, and
several other objects of interest were
Theoretically sealed iii an iron receipt
able and placed in a niche underneath
the huge iron column, which also con-
tanned the following legend on water
proof paper:
The structure was laid out in No
vember, 1899. the first being driven in
the presence of Hon. II. P. Baldwin.
president of the H c. & S. Co., w. j.
Lowrie, general manager, c. Wander
naillen, plantation surveyor, and j. N.
5. Williams, representative of the Hon
olulu Iron Works Compony, and con-
sulting engineer of the II. c. & S. Co.
During July. 1900 a packet of papers
was placed underneath the chimney
base on the southwest side of the build
ing. Active work on this str'leture-conl-
menced October Il, 1900. Recent his
.torical events: Election of William Nc
Kinley, president. and Theodore Roose-
Welt. Vice-President of the United
States, in November, 1900: death OF
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, in
January, and accession of Edward VII,
King of Great Britain; practical term
ination of the wars in the Philippines
Islands, South Africa and China; most
noteworthy fruit of the present year,
the vast combinations of capital in the
United States for industrial purposes,
as exemplified in the founding of the
United States Steel Company.
This record was placed beneath the
principal column on the northwest cor
ner of main building, this 14th day of
June, 1900, in the presence of Hon. II. p.
Baldwin, w ]. Lowrie and others rep
resentative of and connected with the
H. c. & S. Co."
Miss Clara Lowrie took the trowef
and put the finishing touches to the re-
ceptacle, which will remain as con-
cealed witness of the days event for
centuries. The machinery was then put
in motion, and the huge iron column
was swung into place and securely bolt
ed. Miss Lowrie then inspected the
work and accepted it in the following
words:
in the name and on behalf of this
plantation, l pronounce this column
well and truly placed
! Rev. f. G.. Beckwith then delivered a
brief but eloquent address full of rem
! iniscence and rich with suggestive
thoughts. one of the most striking of
which was that 1.-THE man who pro-
vides honest labor for a thousand men,
whereby they can win support for
4 themselves, is a greater benefactor to
| humanity than he woh supports thou
! sand paupers." After a touching pray
/ err by the venerable minister. Hon. H. P.
/ Baldwin made short address, premis-
I ing his remarks by stating that the new
| mill had been christened the 'Punene
Mill and that hereafter the plantation
would be known as 'fPunene Planta-
| ton He then gave a short sketch OF
the sugar industry on Maui during his
tearly boyhood. stating that many years
since, Mr.. Beckwith, a brother of Rev.
E. G. Beckwith, was sent by syndicate
of Honolulu people to look up Haiku as
a sugar plantation. Mr.. Beckwith car
ried back to Honolulu a glowing report
1 of the possibilities of Haiku, but with
some hesitation, stated to the directors
that his estimate for a mill of the prop
| er size might be deemed~by them as
rather large. and when asked what ca
pacity of mill would be required. he re-
piled that nothing less than a mill of al
/ least three and a half tons a day would
answer, at which the hair of the direct
ors rose in horror. I'm less than one
mans life continued the speaker, 1--WE
see here today a mill which, when fin
ished, will be the largest sugar mill or
earth, with a capacity of 500 tons pei
day when fully completed
At the conclusion of the exercises, the
entire party were invited to a feast OF
ice cream and other delicacies, after
which the train whirled them back
through fields of waving cane to Ka-
hului, Spreekelsville and Paia-