The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-16
MR.. LOOMS GOES
HOME FROM JAPAN
He Is Full of Enthusiasm With Re-
gard to Japanese Friendly
Feeling.
MARKET FOR HAWAIIAN FRUIT.
Necessity of Care in Packing and
Shipment to Secure a Demand
for Products.
MARKET FOR HAWAIIAN FRUIT

Hon. Francis b. Iioomis, U. s. COM
which has been postponed to 1917, and
his secretary, j. c. OLoughlin, passed
through Honolulu in the Mongolia. In
an interview Mr.. Loomis was enthu-
siastic over the evidences Of goodwill
to America and Americans exhibited
by the Government and people of ia
pan, mentioning especially the recep-
ton to the Atlantic fleet, the courte-
sizes extended by officials and CONNER
cial bodies to the Pacific Coast bust
ness eXcursionists, including c. NJ.
Cooke and John Waterhouse of Homo
lulu, and his own experience in mu-
tual entertainments.
Asked about the market for Hawaii
an products in the East, Mr.. Loomis
said that there was unquestionably an
excellent opening for the sale, in a
large way, of the very superior pine
apples OF the Hawaiian Islands. He
considers the Hawaiian pineapple the
most delicious in the world and thinks
that if proper skill in the introduce
ton of it and due care as regards
packing and shipping are exercised,
that large sale could be found, in both
China and Japan, for pineapples and
other fruit products of the Hawaiian
Islands.
There is great complaint" said
Mr.. Loomis, Gin all the great Oriental
commercial centers, such as Shanghai,
Canton and Hongkong, IN respect to
the careless and wholly unsatisfactory
manner in which American dried
fruits, preserved fruits, crackers and
such like articles are packed and
shipped. Prunes, :aisins and citron
from the Pacific Coast in ninety ship
ments out of a hundred arrive there in
a mouldy, wormy condition. This is
due to the fact that they are not prop
.erly treated before they are shipped,
and they are sent out in wooden box
es. The same may be said of vari-
GUS kinds of cakes and crackers which
are sent to that market.
"There is a very large demand, and
the demand could be enormously in
creased, for such fruit products OF
this nature, but to satisfy the demand,
the good must be not only packed in
small alright tins. but they must be
presented IN a tasteful and agreeable
manner.
Hawaiian producers who think oil
entering the Oriental markets would
do well to bear these suggestions firm
ly in mind, and to address them
selves particularly to the needs anC
requirements of the Chinese market
never failing to remember that il
dealing with the Chinese, superior
quality; secure, scientific and tasteful
packing; packages of moderate siz
and uniformity in quality are the ele
ments which will be insisted upon.
"The Chinese market is one worth,
of the careful consideration of ever,
honest man who has anything to sell
The Chinese bankers and merchant
believe in square dealing. Anybod
who expects to engage in commercial
transactions with them may be safel
guided by the golden rule"
At Toxic the American commission
ers were received in private audienc
at the Imperial Palace by the Empe
ror and Empress of Japan, and tn
Order of the Sacred Treasure was con
ferred upon the men of the party.