The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-12
GOVERNOR FREARS TOUR OF MAUI ISLE
Plenty of Sightseeing
and a EatherIy
Address.
(staff Correspondence

KAHULUF 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 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 a 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 We're 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 a big autocar at the
gate, and Mr.. Mott-Smith and his lit
tie son were speedily whisked away
to 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 a 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
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-
blance 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 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 splendid
view. He had the trees culled and
now the hospitable abode looks away
out, over the fields and town hidden
somewhere between, to the magEifl-
cent Wailuku mountains cloyen 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 all who raise them. |
This is that most people here pluck |
their oranges too soon. By leaving |