Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-03-28

generally considered TO have q milder
and finer flavor than that shipped from
Rio. It is estimated that we take
about 80 per cent OF the Santos crop
and about 70 per cent of oil shipped
from Rio so that the bulk Of the coffee
used in our country is Rio coffee.
At both Rio and Santos the great
coffee houses OF the United States
have their agents, who buy the coffee
OF the dealers and ship It direct to
their houses in New York, Baltimore
and Chicago. They have large estab.
lishments for preparing the coffee for
shipment, and some OF the brightest
coffee men Of the United States are
here watching the markets and buying
by the thousands of bags.
Handling the Coffee.
Coffee is handled in different ways
at the two great ports. During my
stay in Santos / spent some time
among the dealers and watched them
shipping the vast quantities OF coffee
which come to that port. The coffee is
put up In bags Of 1872 pounds each, and
In this shape II is sold to the export.
ers. The buyers in Santos deal direct.
~ with the planters agents, taking the
coffee as usual thing in lots.
In Rio the coffee first comes to com.
mission men. They dispose Of II to the
wholesale coffee dealers, who grade II
and put It into the bags for the OK.
porter. IN this case the coffee has
passed through three hands before II
starts for New York.
Consumer Pays Profits.
Since the remarkable fall In the
prices Of coffee, however, the big OK.
porters have sent agents out among
the planters and they are now buying
their coffee direct As !. has been the
consumer has had to pay half.dozen
or more profits on every pound Of cof-
fee. In the first place he has had to
keep the planter. then the commission
merchant in Rio, then the wholesale
dealer In Rio and the New York man.
ayers agent here. He has had TO pay
tho cost Of shipment to New York, the
wholesale dealer or rooster there. the
commercial drummer. the railroads.
and lastly his retail dealer at home.
With all this he is able to buy coffee
for Is cents and less a pound. the
same coffee costing mere not more than
G cents, and delivered in New York at
Ct cents a pound.
If he is particular about his coffee
he will pay from 80 TO 40 cents for
some OF this same coffee which here
sells for a triHe over the amounts
above mentioned, the only difference
being that the beans are of little diff.
ferent shape or larger size and that
they have been graded into certain so.
called wcllknown varieties.
Sorting Of Coffee.
have already written of the Mocha
coffee of Brazil. A large part OF the
Mocha used in the United States Is
grown here. Indeed there Is practi.
cally no genuine Mocha coffee In our
markets. The Mocha coffee fields Of
Arabia are SO small that very few Of
the berries are sold outside the Mo.
hammedan countries. w. G. .Palgrave.
the well known Oriental traveller, says
that two.thrds of the Mocha crop Is
consumed In Arabia. Syria and Egypt,
and that the rest is almost altogether
taken by the Turks. The coffee is sift-
ed over grain by grain, and the best Is
taken out for the Mohammedans.
The Rio coffee which is sold as Mo.
cha Is largely made up of the little
round beans which are found on nearly
every tree. In many places they grow
near the end OF the stalk, and they are
to some extent imperfect berries. a
coffee cherry containing one instead
OF two berries. They are known as
pea berries by some Of the dealers.
There is another class Of berry
which Is fiat. Some OF these are very
much like the Java and are often sold
as such. so that many q man when he