The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-12-17
RUBBER MEN
join IN BANQUET
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time, but petered out like the invest
ments already mentioned and, to hear
Mr.. Castle tell it, one would imagine
that everything he touched at this time
was failure, only that he occasion
ally slipped in little smiling allusion
to the fact that he was saying nothing
| about sugar.
The pith of Mr.. Castles talk was
that all industries are thankless to the
l,pioneers who introduce them. He drew
attention to the fact that few of the
| original sugar people now own any Of
the plantations. They worked only to
lose, but the fruits of their experience
were gathered by others who saw how
to make a success where they had
failed.
He spoke of the tobacco industry
and how well it was doing on Hawaii.
He compared this with liquor manu-
facture and defended it as "A thorough
ly iustifiable business.
He also referred to the pineapple in
dustry and promised a bright future
for it. He said that when he was in
Boston he had occasion to go into
Pierce & Co s store, one of the big
groceries of Massachusetts. He saw
| canned pineapple with the name
"Pierce & Co. very large and cha.
waiian pineapples" very small on the
tin. Inquiry elected the information
that people all wanted Hawaiian pine
apples and that there was far greater
demand than supply.
Finally Mr.. Castle referred to rubber.
He stated that he knew little of IL
and was not financially interested in it
at present but might be in the future.
AT present he has a man on Hawaii
experimenting in tobacco, sisal and rub.
Der and he could see a chance to make
final success of all three of them.
Mr.. Castle finished with the quota.
ton that appears above. Coming from
man of his financial and social posi-
ton, his speech was great encourage
ment to the rubber men who had gath
cred to have a friendly reunion after
the more or less tedious business of the
day.
J. L. Coke of Maui, was the next
speaker, he spoke in a straightforward
way about the money and interest that
the Maui people had put into rubber
and he felt confident that they would
not>lose by it, II
Dan Logan made a very witty
oPNpr'r he was intr0uuceu, as the
father of the rubber industry in I'M.
wall, and he explained how heeame to
gain the title 1t seems that nbe wrote
an article on an interview with some
men who had come down to exploit
rubber. 1t was more or less OF roast
on the government for not allowing
them to use lands on Oabn for the
purpose. But the result was that some
Maui people took tho matter up and
the first Hawaiian rubber plantation
was started Mr.. Logan, with his quito
pronounced brogue, interpolated great
many witticisms that kept everybody
laughing.
c. d, Lufkin made short speech. I'm
which he spoke Of the rubber business
and raised many q laugh by his pun.
ming remarks on "elastic coinage. -
lie was In excellent form, and the vein
Of humor that ran through his speech
pleased everybody
l., q, Blackman, W. w. Thayer and
q, H. Ewart also spoke, The latter
has had experience with rubber trees In
herleo aud South America, and he
gave Il ~ BIZ opinion that tbs new Ia.
dustry had iust ~ good possibilities
here aa anywhere else,