The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-03-13
GOVERNOR FREARS TOUR OF MAUI ISLE
Plenty of Sightseeing
and a Fatherly
Address.
fstan Correspondence.)


KAHULUI, March This morning
was spare time within the meaning OF
the present xpedition-awaiting the
departure of the Claudine for Hama
but it was far from being lost time
in point either of enjoyment or of
practical account.
As noted in a line or two scribbled
in the few moments The train waited
to permit Mr.. Baldwin to telephone a
message. Governor Frear and party
were the guests of Hon. H. P. Baldwin
for breakfast and visit to the big
gest sugar mill and plantation in
the world They boarded a passen-
ger car in the plantation train
Immediately on landing from the Clau-
dine and in a few minutes were set
down at the front gate of the old
managerial residence OF Spreckelsville
when that was the site of the mill
and the headquarters of the estate.
Commissioner Pratt remained at ka-
hului. where he met Sub-Land Agent
w. O. Aiken and with him laid out
The land tour.
Secretary Mott-Smith had scarcely
ensconced himself on the lanai with
the other guests when Manager Harry
Baldwin of Paia plantation came TO
remind him of a prior engagement
made by mail. Miss Lily Patty, the
Secretary's sister-in-law, with Mrs.
Baldwin, was in big autocar at the
gate, and Mr. Mott-Smith and his lit
tie son were speedily whisked away
10 the managers home at Hamakua-
poko. After breakfasting there the
Secretary was shown through the mill
and over part of the plantation. He
found everything in splendid condition.
Paia is unique among Hawaiian sugar
mills in that its grinding and render
ing plant is installed upon one floor,
the centrifugals and delivery appara-
tus being in the basement. Mr.. Mott
smith left his son at Hamakuapoko
with Miss Patty, who is spending few
weeks there.
Upon arrival at Spreckelsville Mr..
Baldwin conducted his guests TO three
bathrooms where they refreshed them
selves from the journey. Then, for
short interval, they strolled about the
tropical lawn, inspecting and sampling
the growing fruits by way of enjoy
ing the freedom of the place to Which !
they had been bid on entering. The !
residence is a model one, judged by a
proper conception of a tropical home. !
TO the left of the front pathway going |
in is a jungle Of plants and ferns, |
making a wonderfully natural resem- |
biance to what one sees on some Ha- [,
waiian waysides, yet with the deft
touch of cultivation which reveals !
tasteful selection and refined husban- !
dry. To the righthand side of the
house, fronting a big lanai, is a spa
cious lawn fringed with orange and /
other fruit trees. When Mr.. Baldwin |
came to make this his chief home the
foliage at the front of the house was |
so dense as to shut out a splendid /
view. He had the trees culled and !
low the hospitable abode looks away /
out, over the fields and town hidden
somewhere between, to the magnif1-
cent Wailuku mountains cloven by the
peerless lao Valley.
At the breakfast table the rare
qualities of the hosts papayas and
oranges were remarked by the guests.
Mr.. Baldwin told where he had got
the seeds and divulged a wrinkle in
the treatment of oranges which ought
TO be known by ali who raise them.
This is that most people here pluck
their oranges too soon. By leaving
them on the trees a long time-three
or four months-after they are appa-
Iently ripe Mr.. Baldwin attributed the
mellow character of the juice that his
guests rel;shed and praised. i
On the subject Of fruits Mr.. Baldwin
uttered alarm for the fate of tree
growth in general on Maui. because of
some new blight that is infesting ohia
and koa trees. II had been reported
that kukui trees also had begun to be
smitten. He hoped that the govern
ment entomologists would not much
longer delay giving serious attention to
this pest, which is menace not only
to the forests and orchards of Maui
but to those of the other islands.
Mrs. Baldwin most gracefully per-
formed the part of hostess, adding
greatly by her amiability to the un-
affected efforts of her husband to make
the marty feel entirely at home HThat