The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-24
ILLINOIS MAN
MAKING GOOD IN
HAWAII PINES

| Ottawa (Ill.) Free Trader-The old
friends of Mr.. Charlie II. Dickev. for
merly of Ottawa, and now of Homo
! lulu, may be interested in a letter re-
| Gently received from him in which he
| describes the canning of the Hawaiian
| pineapple. His son-in-law, James Dole,
| is the president of the largest company
on the Islands. The pineapple indus
| try is rather a new one in Hawaii,
where the sugar cane raising has been
almost the only industry for years, car
ried on with plantations of hundreds
of acres and sugar mills of immense
proportions with millions of money in
vested.
Mr.. Dickey writes: cit is an inter
esting sight to see the cannery IN full
blast-trains of care are run alongside
from the fields containing the ripe
fruit. These are carried to the pairing
tables, where forty machines pare off
the outside. Automatic belt carriers
(endless) take them to the shaping ma
chimes, one hundred and twenty in
number, where a simple stroke of the
machine cuts down the pine to the size
of the can and punches out its hard
center core Endless belts carry them
then to the canning tables, where at
each eight women stand with rubber
gloves on their hands ready to put the
slices into the cans. A patent slicing
machine is at the front end of the long
table, fed by another girl in rubber
gloves, which at one stroke cuts the
pineapple into even slices. 1t then
hol oh
runs before the line of women. The
first three select the even yellow slices,
the next three the white even slices,
and the other two make up cans from
the more uneven slices of both white
and yellow. The fruit seized by the
first six is extra and by the last two
standard The rest of the fruit
drops off of the end of the belt into a
receiver and is by other machines cut
into crushed pineapple and grated
pineapple for use in cooking and in
making sherbets, punches, lemonades,
etc. Then the open tins full of fruit
are run onto another endless belt
which carries them down into and out
of big tank of delicious syrup made
of the best white granulated sugar.
As they come out of this the incline is
just steep enough to pour off little
of the top so the can will not be too
full Another belt runs them through
heater. where the fruit is heated
enough to create vacuum when it is
covered Then on to the trimming
machine, where the tops are put on by
immense pressure without solder, SO
that they are perfectly alright. Then
they are loaded into huge crates and
hung on hooks connected with another
immense endless carrier ard by it they
are carried down and through a huge
boiling vat hundreds of feet in length,
end they have been cooked twenty
minutes. This finishes the business,
and the cans are ready to be packed.
Not bare hand touches the fruit from
the time it lands on the pairing table
until it is done. 1t is almost lncred-
ible the amount they can can in day.
| believe that the highest amount is
twenty eight carloads converted in two
thousand cases in twenty four hours.
They canned over five million tins in
side of four months last season.
"Jim s company is the biggest in the
Territory of Hawaii. He raises all his
own pines and has the most beautiful
farm | ever saw.
"The Hawaiian Pineapple Co. sends
out its fruit under several different Ia
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