The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-07-22

with EVA prosperous he launched the
Oahu sugar Plantation and made It a soc
und Eva. Still he pushed on and started
Maialua plantation where wild fields nad
been before. These three plantations fed
and made fat his inst big enterprise, the
oahu Railway and Land Compa ny.
Waialua WAS \ charming spot and, des-
pile the advice Of friends, Dillingham; built
there the hand.umest hotel in Hawaii
with fittings and accommodations as : BOD
as might be found on Firm avenue. lie
advertised his road in the United States
and made IL famous as tourist attrac-
tuu. Now no one goes to Honolulu who
does not journey from one end of the
road TO the other, and tarry a day or
week or month at Naialua. He made the
former chamberlain Of King Kalakaua
the manager of the hosiery, SO that one
Is received with the courtesy formerly
extended royalty, and ones gin hzz is
mixed by the hand that once mixed hzEes
for a monarch.
Dillingham; Is interested In a dozen hig
corporations. He has never been in poll
tics. When Uncle Sam took Hawaii.
Dillingham; saw that it was good, and
said SO, His sons are sturdy college
men, and his eldest daughter the wife
rhicf Justice Frear Of the supreme
Court of Hawaii. But Dillingham; ~ the
plainCst and most unpretontious man in
All'1 lhIllNbIAs nc won lhlk hpOul MINI
self but Is full OF Hawaii and its figures.
lie believes in young men The superin-
tondent of his railroad, George Deni-on,
is barely past thirty while his general
passenger agent, Fred Smith, Is youth.
DO you want to know what kind of a
inancler Dillingham; is7" asked an old
resident Of the Islands
| I'm give you an idea. When the Oahu
Railway and Land Company WAS being
organized a friend OF mine. whose bust
ness occasionally landed him in Yonolula
decided to buy fifty shares OF the stock
which was then about to be placed on the
market. With his usual good nature Dill
bingham promised to secure the stock, and
accepted a deposit of 81, 500 the balance
to be paid on delivery of the shares
year passed, and my friend heard moth.
ing of his purchase. Oahu stock was
; going up fast, but he felt no uneasiness
80 great was his confidence in billing
ham. Six months later he went to Ho
nolulu again and called on Dillingham;
for the stock. No trace of the transac
, ton could be found
( " Don't you remember my calling OF
= YOU eighteen months ago and asking you
a to get me nifty shares of Oahu as soon Il!
Y foatod? You promised to buy them fo
1 me. and | gave you 8, 500 to bind the bar
@ gain
q ~ guess you did replied Dillingham;
honts'lS, Hau forgotten all ABOUT IL
@ It's the first time j ever overlooked
. business promise in my life. II you vii
= forgive me. we'll get to figuring Let
r see, Oahu was worth so and whel
: issued and is quoted at so much today
V I'll return you the s.. 800 and pay 20,
G the difference between the price Of tn
n stock then and now. Will that be fair
Z My friend protested but Dillingham; in
r sisted. and finally the full amount was ac
r ccptcd."
X That was like Dillingham;. He is tn
i most easy-going fnancier one could fine
i His hat is no larger than II was tn
: day he was thrown on the beach OF liza
j. wall. though he is the biggest man there
and, II he lives twenty years mora, h
@ will be worth so 1000 With the cabl
n into Hawaii and the big steamers Of tn
f Pacific Mail line running there DillinG
L ham will do some development work /
Is the islands that will astonish the ma
5 tves