Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-11-18
f|iLD FOR INVENTOR
LABOR SAVING MACHINERY
NEEDED IN CANE FIELDS
IMPORTANT SUBJECT HANDLED
BEFORE PLANTERS ASsociA-
TON BY MANAGER
JAS. A. Low.

| The report of James A. Low, chair
man of the Committee on Labor Saving
Devices, read at the Planters meeting
yesterday, contained a voluminous
amount Of important matter, and the
suggestions made were discussed at
length, being continued into today.
| The report made the following gen.
eral comment:
The duties of the committee as ap.
pointed take consideration Of all ap.
labor saving devices, yet the writer
does not understand that II Is within
the province of this committee to rec.
Commend the outlay OF moneys on all
devices coming under such title. but
to the contrary on only such apparatus
as cane leaders and cane cutters. or
such other labor saving machines as
would be of a marked benefit to the
industry generally.
There will be many. one, two, three,
yes, as high as five men labor saving
devices exhibited to Labor Saving
Device Committee for It's consideration,
but it would not be good business for
! the association to eXpend moneys on all
such small apparatus. While for ma.
chimes of q. nature of cane leaders aud
cutters, ia cases where exhibition mod.
els appear practical or feasible, II Ger.
! fft Fs1s 1. h,ts
ulation as II Is possible for machines
Of this nature to be built which will
| lcrgely cut the labor occupied on such
work and be a great benefit to tho plan
tatiOns as whole. The fact IL, II q
committee was to take up all small
matters. their whole time would be oc.
cupied.
Therefore where pateutecs who pre-.
sent practical mechanical ideas I'm the
form OF well devised plans. showing all
details and mechanism. OF better still
exhibition models, and where such
plans or models showing originality
would appeal to n committee of plan.
tation managers made up from the sev.
eral Islands which represent every
manner of work to be performed, the
| Association could afford to assist In
finances in the building of working
machine. From the nature of the ap
plications made to this committee II
would appear that the public got the
, impression that your committee was
ready to advance money on ideas so as
!, to assist those who conceived of some
scheme to develop patent on the same
The subject of labor saving device,
is one which is constantly before tn,
planter, not only first In the doins
, away with hand labor or libeTating II
, from one branch of the work to anoth
er, but second by cheapening OF pro
cess, third reduction of time of per
. Torrance of work, and fourth by appar
atus which automatically records ant
:, checks up records. Under the late
three objects we are constantly intro
ducing machinery and apparatus whlcl
: are of a nature labor saving devices
but principally In the factory end o
our work What Is most needed Is ap
puratus and machines which will en-
,out large percentages OF our han,
labor. i'm our fields and nj those classe
L of work where Oriental labor only viii
:. work and that reluctantly, thereb,
u bringing up the standard of labor.
This can be done upon the advent o
r successful cane leaders and cane cut
: tiers for field work. The class OF labo
4 performing this work will become bel
|. ter paid and more varied. II is sal
=. proyed the elevation of the laborer b