The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-19
ISLAND FRUIT
TO BE TESTED
IN CHICAGO
Trial Shipment VIII Be Sent as Far East as the
Windy City by Federal Experimenters
in Hawaii.

A carload of fresh fruits is to be
taken to Chicago as a test shipment
by Horticulturist J. E. Higgins, leav-
ing by the Alameda next week, full
particulars of the test being given at
the meeting of the Promotion Com
mittee yesterday afternoon by Jared
G. Smith, director of the U. S. Ex-
pertinent Station, under whose auspices
the shipment is being made. Mr.. Smith
had been asked to be present at the
meeting in order that the committee
might be fully informed of the plans
of the Experiment Station and in
position to assist in the venture
The fruit to be taken to the main
land will consist of fifteen tons, prin-
-cipally pines, but including alligator
pears, bananas and papayas in the first
shipment, which is to go only as far
as San Francisco. This fruit will be
packed and handled in a number of
ways, taking advantage of the les
sons learned in the first experimental
shipment of this kind and also putting
into practise some later methods evOlv
ed at the station. This fruit will be
examined by Mr.. Higgins as soon as
1T is unloaded at the Coast and the
.cabled to Mr.. Smith. Then the Sec
ond shipment, this time of twenty
four tons, will be forwarded by the
Sierra, sailing about August Is. This
viii be transferred at once after it's
arrival on the Coast to a refrigerator
car and carried east, stopping at Og-
den, Salt Lake, Denver and Omaha,
being examined at each of these places,
and then on to Chicago
The idea of the experimenters is to
see in what shape the fruit can be best
handled and if it is possible to land
it from Hawaii in Chicago in good
shape for market. If this can be de
monstrated it will then be up to the
regular fruit shippers to establish the
market and take up the matter in a
commercial way. 1t is quite possible,
however, that a part of the expense
of the experiment will be paid from
the sale of the fruit shipped.
To assist in the experiment and to
make the trip of Mr.. Higgins s one in
which the various commercial bodies
of the cities visited will become in
terested. Secretary Wood was instruct
ed to prepare number of letters OF
introduction for Mr.. Higgins to the
officials of the commercial bodies IN
the cities visited and also to write
ahead TO these bodies and inform them
of the purpose of the trip and the
time of the probable arrival of the
fruit. An especial effort will be made
to interest the Chicago Commercial
Association. which body is already IN
4erested in Hawaii from the fact that
an excursion of its members to the
islands is being planned.
TO HALEMAUNIAU BY AUTO.
A scheme of Acting Governor Atkin-
son was brought to the attention OF the
meeting for ar endorsement, this be-
ing a proposition to have thirty or
more prisoners from the penitentiary
taken to Hawaii and put to work at
building a road from the Volcano House
around the edge of the crater ana
down into the crater from its lowest
side to the edge of the fire pit. The
road. as suggested, is to be one which
NAV be used by automobiles, and car
ried right across the floor of kilauea
If necessary. The idea of the Acting
Governor is that a trip in an automo-
bile right to the edge of the fire PIT
would make the volcano an attraction
to tourists much more than 1t Is at
present. If the scheme could be car
ried out the county of Hawaii would
be asked to cooperate by standing the
expense of feeding the laborers ana
lunas and tools.
The idea of utilizing prison labor
on the roads appealed to the members
of the committee but it was thought I
that it would be better to put the Ia
Dor on the roads of Oahu rather than
to send it to one of the other islands.
Chairman McCandless especially men |
toned the round-the-island belt road
as being a necessity.
The Volcano road matter was dropped