The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-19

With the exception of an occasions
carload of fruit, the fag ends of tn
seasons crop, the canning of pineap
| pies at the works of the Hawaiial
Pineapple Co. in Iwilei is over. i
the warehouse are piled tier after tie
of cans, tested, labeled and ready t.
box for shipment to the main center
of the mainland, to Canada and tt
points across the Atlantic, for til,
fame of Hawaiian pines has gon,
abroad and the entire pack was or
dered and sold before the workers IL
the fields at Wahiawa had begun tt
harvest the raw material. The season
has been successful to the highest eA-
pectations, the fruit arriving at the
factory in frst-class condition, the
new machinery was kept at work al
its highest speed, the employees learned
their duties rapidly and gave the best
of satisfaction and the run was per
formed without a breakdown of any
description and without mishap.
Two and quarter million cans, of
all sizes, was the season s pack, dur
ing the rush days as much as eighteen
carloads of fruit being received, pared,
sliced, cooked, canned and stacked
away within the twenty-four hours,
ready for the next shipment from. the
fields. Eighteen carloads of fresh
amount to sixty thousand
fruits, to handle which required force
on the cannery payroll of seven hun
dred men. - At one time, during the
height of the run, eight hundred men
worked in the two shifts at the can
merry, drawing down in their pay en-
an average of three thousand
dollars a week. The biggest output on
any one day was between eighty-flye
and eighty-six thousand cans.
The Hawaiian Pineapple Company s
,annery in Honolulu is the biggest
pineapple cannery in the world. THIS
fact is not realized by the great ma
ority of the people of this Territory,
out it is a fact and more than this
t is an indication in a slight way OF
What NAV be expected of the pineapple
industry of Hawaii when it attalns ITS
growth. Already the plans are drawn
10 for the doubling throughout OF the
liant and buildings at Iwllei and tor
he more than doubling OF the ware
houses. The supply this season during
he rush taxed the capacity OF the
works only just installed, the supply
from the four hundred acres
# pines planted by the company ana
rom two hundred acres planted by IN
liyidual growers. For next season the
company alone has one thousand acres
n Growing pines and the small farmers
re doubling and trebling their plant
nos To handle next years crop the
,abu Railroad & Land Company IS
to increase its rolling STOCK,
ecessarily so, as although the railroad
arvice this season was thoroughly sat
,faetory it kept the company busy In
andling the tons of fruit offered IL
or transportation.
Already over one-third of this sea
IN, % mack of the Iwilei cannery has /
cen boxed and shipped and the rest
ill follow as soon as the cans can be
,heled and the boxes filed. Job1
ars in San Francisco, Omaha, Chicago,
rooklvn. New York and London nave
,nnlied their own labels and these
re being pasted on the tins by nlinole
;rls All the labels bear the words
Hawaiian Pineapples One batch
: labels arrived describing the fruit
; Bahama pines, and these were
romptly put to one side. There is no
,tention of allowing the pines Of Ba-
anna or any other place to gain -