The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-19

I in 1877, and after remaining for a short
time on the Atlantic Coast, went to Cal
ifornia and established himself in the
fruit business in San Francisco. Upon
the death of Mr.. Cook, the Greek consul,
brother of Mrs. Henry Highton of
this city, Camarinos was the acting
Greek consul until a commission arrived
for a new official.
Reaching California about boom times
the development of the fruit trade occu-
pied the attention of Camarinos, and
! his name soon became known wher-
ever fruit was grown or consumed. He
widened the borders of the supplying
region, reaching to the South Seas for
seasonable goods, and sending all over
the United States oranges from Japan.
There was not an edible fruit with
which he was not acquainted, and few
that he did not offer to his people. He
was ever a friend of the good livers, and
his Sparta restaurant is still memory
among the men who liked good things
in San Francisco.
HIS LIFE IN HONOLULU.
Mr.. Camarinos made his first visit toI
Honolulu in 1892, while his late younger
brother, P. G.. Camarinos was in busi-
ness here. His visit was made primar-
lily for conference with local shippers
of bananas, and to arrive at a friendly
understanding with them. p. G. Cam
arinos was large shipper of bananas,
D. G. Camarinos practically owning the
local house and distributing the goods
in San Francisco. Mark Robinson, A. j.
Campbell and Mr.. Marshall were en-
gagged in the same business and the two
interests conflicted. The result of the
conference was that Mr. Camarinos ac-
cepted 81 900 to keep out of the export
ing of bananas to San Francisco for
five years. Some time in 1888 Mr.. Cam
arinos had experimental in the ship
ment of bananas from Guatemala, but
being unable to procure lands contiguous
to a good shipping port, the scheme was
a financial failure. After his agreement
with the Hawaiian shippers Mr.. Cam
arinos entered into the Importation of
BluefieIds and Port Limon bananas via
New Orleans, and was the first Pacific
Coast operator TO attempt the enter
prise The result was a cut in the
price of bananas in San Francisco, Sc
riously affecting the price of the Ha-
waiian product.
Upon the death of P. G. Camarinos
in 1897, Mr. Camarinos came to Hawaii
and continued the business, enlarging it
year by year One of Mr.. Camarinoss en-
terprises was large pineapple ranch in
Kalaihi. which was given up more than
a year ago. On arriving here it is be-
lieved that Mr. Camarinos had amassed
a fortune of about 100000. but he is be-
Iieved to have sustained losses in busI-
ness since then. In time his retail fruit
business had grown to a wholesale bus
mess, and during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war he enjoyed much of the trade 4
with the army transports and warships.
while supplying many of the passenger
liners. He engaged in restaurant bus
ness and two years ago opened a Primo !
peer saloon, one of whose features was
tropical garden.
When Mr.. Camarinos came TO Homo
ulu he was we'll along in middle life.
md it was his desire to spend the re-
nainder of his days in the comparative
.ase of the tropics.
He has been unique figure in the
ity's mercantile development, exercis-
ng his privilege to live a semi-Bohe- .
nan life and surrounding himself with
riends in all walks of life Cartoonist
yardley discovered in Mr.. Camarinos a
ype for cartoons which gave the SUBJ
ect more or less local fame, and in time
'amarinos' oft-quoted phrases, Very