The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-09-27


With the exception of an occasional
carload of fruit, the fag ends of the
season s crop, the canning Of pineaP
pies at the works of the Hawaiian
Pineapple Co. in Iwilei is over. In
the warehouse aye piled tier after tier
of cans, tested. labeled and ready TO
box for shipment to the main eeEters
of The mainland, to Canada and TO
points across the Atlantic, for the
fame of Hawaiian pines has gone
abroad and the entire pack was or
dered and sold before the workers IN
the fields at Wahiawa mad begun to
harvest the raw material. The season
has been successful 10 the highest ex-
peetations, the fruit arriving at the
factory in frst-elass condition, the
new machinery was kept at work at
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 a mishap.
Two and a 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
pineapples 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-
velopes an average of three thousand
dollars week. The biggest output on
any one day was between eighty-fve
and eighty-six thousand cans.
The Hawaiian Pineapple COmpany's
cannery in Honolulu is the biggest
pineapple cannery IN the world. This
fact is not realized by the great ma
jority of the people OF this Territory,
but it is a fact and more than this
il is an indication in slight way of
what may be expected of the pineapple
industry of Hawaii when it attains its
growth. Already the plans are drawn
up for the doubling throughout Of the
plant and buildings at Iwllei and for
the more than doubling of the ware
houses. The supply this season during
the rush taxed the capacity of the
works only just installed, the supply
gathered from the four hundred acres
OF pines planted by the company and
from two hundred acres planted by in
dividual growers. For next season the
company alone has one thousand acres
in growing pines and the small farmers
are doubling and trebling their plant
ings. To handle next year 5 crop the
Oahu Railroad & Land Company is
preparing to increase its rolling stock,
necessarily so, as although the railroad
service this season was thoroughly sat
isfaetory it kept the company busy in
handling the tons Of fruit offered it
for transportation.
Already over one-third OF this sea-
son s pack of the Iwilei cannery has
been boxed and shipped and the rest
will follow as soon as the cans can be
labeled and the boxes filed. job
bers in San Francisco, Omaha, Chicago,
Brooklyn, New York and London have
supplied their own labels and these
are being pasted on the tins by nimble
girls All the labels bear the words
Hawaiian Pineapples". One batch
of labels arrived describing the fruit
as Bahama pines, and these were
promptly put to one side. There is nc
intention of allowing the pines of Ba-
hama or any other place to gain a
reputation belonging only to the pine:
OF Hawaii.
The Iwilei plant this season handled
between fifty and sixty per cent OF
che whole product of al the islands
There are several other canneries ac
lively at work, three others on Oahu
two on Hawaii, one on Maui and an
other on Kauai, and the sales Of eaci
OF these is limited only by the amount
each can turn out. Next after tn,
Honolulu cannery, the Maui plan
handled the greatest pack, turning ou
IN the neighborhood of twenty-five