The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-16


party sat down TO breakfast a chicken
| emerged from a turkey egg and an
| nounced its arrival with shrilI cheep-
ing Mrs. Anderson at once asked
Governor Frear's consent to name the
| baby gobbler after him, which being
cordially granted the chick from that
! moment became known as THE Gov
ernor."
At the table there was talk of an
other probable arrival in the incubator
and it was unanimously voted that il
should be named The Secretary" and
then odds were freely offered to Mr..
Mott-Smith that his namesake would
turn out a duck. In consequence he
wore an air of depression all day
until, down at Nahiku Landing, he
was called from the luncheon table
at Mr.. Austin's to the telephone. He
returned to announce in joyous tones
that another chicken had arrived at
Anderson's and it was a gobbler.
After breakfast Governor Frear and
others took stroll through the
nearby groves to where some trees are
soon to be tapped, directly after the
return of Fred. Waterhouse from Cey-
Ion. In general the trees are looking
well. The company has 10000 trees
from two to three years old. They
are doing better than last year, when
kona storm did some damage. There
are 10000 more trees in the nursery
stage or just planted out, $4,000 of
the Ceara and 10000 of the Hevea va
riety; The Ceara is the quicker grow
ing, Nut the Hevea the longer lasting
for profitable tapping.
With cordial leavetaking of the
hospitable Andersons the cavalcade
moved on for an inspection by SUI
perintendent Marston Campbell of the
landing. AT least that was the word,
but there was a whole lot of enjoy
able experience between places. A
halt was called a little way out while
Governor Frear inspected the Ulaino
school, where Samuel Hawaiaea car
ries on three grades in a single room.
Farther along the party We're met
by c. j. Austin, formerly Mr.. Craws
chief assistant in plant inspection at
Honolulu, who is now manager of the
Hawaiian American Rubber Co. Mr..
Austin has $4,000 of the Ceara trees
well advanced and $4,000 of the Hevea
coming along. He tells me that the
Hevehs are growing beautifully, in
fact vying with the Cearas in rapidity
of development.
We passed in sight of rubber plan
tation started by Hon. H. P. Baldwin.
It is in charge of Mr.. Sylvester. whose
wife and two little sons joined him
from Portland, Maine, only last week,
he having been in the islands over
Nv CYL, ~
acres, or about 10000 trees, but says
he will not plant so close as 400 trees
to the acre this year. He is also
changing from Ceara to Hevea.
You ought to impress on people,
Mr.. Austin said to me, that rubber
requires as much cultivation as any
plant in the world, because there is
wrong impression that rubber will
take care of ITSELF
In a beautiful tropic home near the
landing we met Mrs. Austin, mother
of the manager, together with the
Sylvesters. Here a sumptuous lunch
con, presided over by Mrs. Austin, was
enjoyed by the party. Again were
delicacies of home cookery in evidence
Immediately on arrival all were re-
freshed with glasses of grape juice.
Joviality abounded at the table, the
good-natured badinage ending in linn
ericks. Mcbride was merciless and
perpetrated a personal limerick on the
round robin souvenir autograph sheet
passed around. His victim gave him
this one in return:
There was a young man called Nc
Bride
Who as a poet was snide;
And when he went riding,
A gray mule bestriding.
He lost a good part of his hide"
Opposite the Austin place, in an old
home grounds, the party inspected the
original rubber tree of Nahiku. 1t is
now forest giant, and, to everybody
surprise, when lightly scored by Mr..
Austin with his knife, freely exuded
the white sap. Mr.. Howell, the civil
engineer, planted this tree eleven or
twelve years ago, having obtained the
seed from Joseph Marsden, then Com
missioner of Agriculture. Its chief
value has been in its living proof that
Nahiku is good rubber country.
Mr. Campbell found the landing in
fair condition. The engine he lately
had installed to work the derrick need |
ed some attention.
Mr. Austin discussed the road ques-
ton with me in riding along. The
road to the landing is not the best
that could have been devised for pres
ent conditions, as it was built to suit |
the Inflated Nahiku sugar plantation. |
1t gave an uphill pull of 750 feet in
two miles when an easier grade and
a shorter way to Hama was available |
in the old route.
Returning from the landing short
pause was taken to take leave of the
Austins and Sylvesters, and, short |
distance beyond, the main road was
left and the expedition make break
for the Koolau ditch trail. A diver |
sion of a few rods was taken to see
the head of the famous engineering |
work that carries water from the Hama |
mountains across vast gulches into
Makawao district to irrigate the great /
With its feed bitches and |
tunnels it is said to be seventy miles
long The trail follows the ditch clear
but the ditch is not always |
in sight. Often it lodges under : |
mountain spur or a mere knoll, now