The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-01-07

Scllu Oul PAlcS ~ AlSSlA OAANS.
t, COAST CAPITALISTS ON THE
d GROUND.
e Today, Mr. Dole is showing a part
e of Coast capitalists around his com
: pany's fields at wahiawa. At tn
y head of the visiting party is Mr.. Baum
: garten, of San Francisco, of the firr
:, of Hunt Brothers, the big Gamers @
s the Golden State. He is enthusiast
: in his praise of the Wahiawa country
That" and he pointed across tn
5 miles of rows of fresh green pines. a
r perfectly aligned in any direction yo1
might turn as well drilled soldiers, 81
the most nearly perfect agriculture
: ever saw anywhere. To me it look
absolutely f1awless." And 1 agreed
: with him, first because he was a capi
: talist and also because he said th'
thing that was.
OTHER INDUSTRIES.
Pineapples are not the only thing
grown at this favored spot. On the
land of the Wahiawa Consolidated are
two ten-acre patches of cane on which
the company is making money. Last
years the crop off one patch was sold
to the Honolulu plantation at the rate
of S6.75 a ton and brought in over a
! thousand dollars. The cane was not
irrigated in the regular sense of the
word, the main dependence being put
into the natural rainfall. Over to-
wards the Waianae hills the Hawaiian
Fibre company is planting a big
stretch of sisal. This is to be the sisal
plantation. The present one at Sisal
will be the branch.
This morning for breakfast my host
stepped out on the lanai and picked a
papaya, refrigerated, off tree and it
was the best favored tree melon
have had in the islands. 1t had the
flavor of the little ones from the Ma
noa valley and was as big as a fair
sized pumpkin. There are a good
many acres of the same kind of pa
payas in the colony Bidgood, OF Hale
strawberries when he heard that we
were driving to his place and q Japa-
nese picked the six boxes in as many
minutes from the acre patch of the
old Byron o. Clark land and no New
York fruit farm ever turned out bet
ter berries. The profits off that acre
of strawberries last year were over
one hundred dollars net. I had a
freshly picked grapefruit for breakfast
besides the papaya and there were
navel oranges. lemons and lines grow
ing in the same garden. The only
drawback to citrus fruits here seems
to be the sometimes high winds and
hereafter the trees viii be planted in
the gulches.
JAPANESE COLONY GROWING.
The japanese colony on the plains
here is growing and the first place of
worship promises to be a japanese
Shinto temple. The Japs are now look
ing for site for this and for school
house. The Japs now outnumber the
Chinese.
WAIPAHU GAMBLERS.
1 spent two hours at Waipahu on
the way up here. In the first hour
the sights of the town. The !
second hour exhausted me, for l passed
it on bench before a japanese notion |
shop waiting for the train from Ho- |
nolulu to arrive so that the train to |
could start.
There are some things to see in
Waipahu. There is there, for instance,
the best fitted up and guarded Chinese
gambling joint in the county, within
fifty feet of the o. r. & L. depot. 1t
IS over a collection of pake dope shops
and the entrance to it is as hard to
ind as the way out of the Marlybone
maze. Chief Detective Taylor was
with me, however, and he located the
irst barred door, where the outer
guard has his lookout. There was no
game on just then and we had a
'hance to explore the joint, passing
wo doors of double layers of two-inch
blanks in a narrow stairway on our
way in and running the gauntlet of
lalf dozen scowling but non-object-
ng Cinnamon. In the gambling room
we're paikau and fantan tables and
bout fifty bamboo stools for players. /
every window was strongly barred +,
md every approach guarded. Il is .
eported that this joint has a secret |
rap door through which evidence can I
re dropped into the river beneath and ,
lso a chute down which the players
an slide to safety if too hard pressed :
Y interesting police. We didn't take
ime to locate these, however, as the !;
axes seemed to be excited about :
This joint will be a hard :
ut for the police to crack, but Taylor
ellis me he has several nut-crackers
mong his men.
AN ORIENTAL SECTION.
In one hundred yards of Waipahu's I
lain street 1 counted forty-three Jap a
nese flags displayed Even some of s
lie Chinese shops were decorated with :
lie Rising Sun in honor of New Years, $
hich appears to be a japanese cele- G
ration. l saw one British flag lone "
'mely flying among the collection and
couple of Chinese dragons, but there t,
as no sign of the Stars and Stripes. I
! the evening there were two Japa- a
ese shows in progress. They told me Il
/ Waipahu that the New Year cele- RI
ration was quiet, everyone having o
'ent all their money on the Emper- II
IS birthday. le
There is branch office of the Ha- |,
ali Shinpo there, where was located e
lie only telephone in the town that f,
as working. 1 wandered into two Il
apanese billiard parlors, which flank b
lie Waipahu saloon, run by a Port Il
suese. Both were doing "a rushing 81
lsiness. In one l stayed a few min S
les to listen to dispute between two h
hinese, three Japs and a Hawaiian 7
; to who had pocketed number three cl
Ri. There were seven in the game, II