The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-22
MEETING Of THE LOCAL
CHEMISTS ASSOCIATION

The second annual all-day meeting of
/ the Hawaiian Chemists Association
was held in Honolulu on October 10.
The forenoon was taken up with bust.
ness meeting and the reading and dis.
cussion of the following papers: ''Glu-
cose Determinations" by S. S. Peck;
Deterioration of Sugars by R. s.
| Norris, and Handling of Press Cake, !"
by J. E. Biela.
In the afternoon a visit to the plant
of the Honolulu Gas Co. was made,
where an interesting and instructive
! lecture and demonstration on Practi-
cal Gas Making from Oil'' was deliver
ed by Mr.. Harry Strange, the superin-
tendent. From the gasworks the mem
bers went to Kalihi, where the fertilizer
works and acid plant were inspected.
The annual banquet in the evening
was held at the University Club. The
affair was brilliant and unique, the
toasts being interesting and in some
cases exceedingly humorous, and the
menus printed on filter paper in keep
ing with the spirit of the affair. The
menu has already been published in this
paper.
Most of the delicacies were served in
vessels familiar to laboratories, from
soup in covered easseroles to ice cream
in porcelain evaporating dishes, while
to each in cubic centimeters from
graduated glass burette. The table was
beautifully decorated with MALE and
flowers in glass graduated jars, and was
further adorned with groups of labor
atory apparatus, the center piece being
a large glass retort, set up for distilling
over a gas burner. The amber-tinted
distillate was caught in liter flask
and served to the diners in beakers.
Following is list Of those present:
VIM. Ebeling, Hilo Sugar Co., Ha-
wall; Jas. W. Donald, Honokaa Sugar
Co.; J. E. Biela, Laupahoehoe Sugar
Co.; Geo. w. Smith, DR.. O. E. Wall,
Noel DEER, L. Lewton-Brain, H. l..
Lyon, R. S. Norris, A. E. Jordan, S. S.
Peck, F. T. Dillingham;, W. J. MacNeil, J
Harry Strange, R. A. Duncan, c. G.
James, r. A. Lyon, j. Schmidt, j. A.
yerret, F. f. Greenfield, A. M. Schmidt,
T. D. Collins, Alfred Kraft, Waialua
Agricultural Co
The Hawaiian Sugar Chemists AS
ISOLATION was organized on November
a, 1902 The invitation to the chem
lists in the various mills to form this
met with ready response,
and the list of members for the first /
year included practically every sugar
chemist in the Islands. The~m most i'm !,
portant work done the first year of its j
existence was the adoption of uni I
form method of mill control. With the
final establishment of this method, in
terest in the society seemed to die out,
as regards the members on
the islands other than Oahu; so last
year it was decided to reorganize on
broader lines, 50 as to include in the
all chemists, and in its
papers and reports subjects of general
chemical interest, whether connected di
rectly with the sugar industry or not.
The first presiding officer of the new
association, renamed the Hawaiian
Chemists Association, was Mr. Noel
DEER, and it is principally due to his
4fforts that its first year has been such
/ successful one. He inaugurated a sys-
EN- of quarterly meetings, a paper or
,apers being read at each one and dis
.ussed. For the benefit of those mem
5ers who are not able to attend, the
,apers have been printed in the Ha-
yaiian Planters Monthly.