The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-12-06
Merchants Association Hears
Of Steamers 10 Carry
Bananas.
WILL TAKE ENTIRE OUTPUT
Committee viii Investigate Form
of Contract Offered the
Island Growers.
(FrOm saturday 3 Adrerti.er.l

fN'N9 NhSAg bWthNg udNS TOT the IA.
cific Coast carrying tens Of thousands
of lunches of bananas, and having ac.
commodations for at least fifty passen.
gers, is a proposition laid before n
meeting of the directors Of the mer.
chants ASSOCIATION yesterday, Chair.
man w. F. Dillingham; presenting the
matter to the directors for careful con.
alteration,
Mr., Dillingham; stated that a repre-.
sentative Of a big fruit shipping CON
Germ of the mainland was here at pres
ent looking up the prospects for taking
over the banana business, and had made
several statements, which IL bona flde,
were worth beng investigated, and II
all statements were correct and prom.
ises capable of being carried out, the
association should be the organization
to endorse or Not endorse the same.
WiA Eake Entire output
Mr. Dilllhgham stated that thu marty
was willing to contract for all the ba.
mana output of the Islands, and in order
to sAip the product to the Coast. would
ANt ON steamer running out of the
Islands every twenty days of speed
capable of making the trip to the Coast
in six days, If the business warranted
and the banana industry was developed
70 big extent, another steamer could
be put on, giving a ten-day service.
These steamers it was represented
would nave the proper equipment for
handling this perishable fruit, and they
would be ventilated so that the best
results would come to the producer.
A. 90. I 4
the proposition the company stands
ready to accept the fruit on the wharf,
cash payments to be made there, or the
shipping receipt cashed at the com
pany's bank up town.
what n Contract F6rm9
The proposition sounded feasible and
an ipdueeAent to growers to cultivate
the banana industry, but the entire
.queFGon hinged on the form of con
tTact. If growers were to enter into
a contract to dispose of all their output
to the company, receiving cash in re-
turn for delivery of goods, that would
be AN inducement, bat a contract would
have to go further than that, and be
iron-clad for STATED period. Other
wise, if the importing company found
that he business was. not paying them,
they could withdraw their steamers and
thus leave the grower, with his addi-
tional acreage under cultivation, up in
the air.
Mr. Dillingham; felt that the oppOf-
tunity was at hand to bring the banana
| to the front as one of the chief exports
of the Islands, riYaling pineapples and
other products, but the entire scheme
should be fully Investigated before the
association gave its endorsement, as
with the endorsement would 90 the adj
vice to the small farmers to get busy
and develop the banana industry to the
fullest extent, so that the output every
year would be millions of punches.
no Supply Pacific Coast.
The speaker stated that in all prob
ability the big fruit company (the
United Fruit Company, although Mr..
Dillingham; did not mention the nancy
intended using Hawaii as a base of
supply for the Pacific Coast, turning
the Central American output into the
eastern market altogether.
! He stated also that the fruit steam
ers would have passenger acommoda-
tions for about fifty passengers. Two
such boats would give an extra passen-
! ger accommodation to and from the
Islands for about one hundred people
He believed that if the banana industry
was increased and made a chief prod
net, the alligator pear, the mango and
| other subtropical products would find q
steady market along the Coast. Mr.,
/ Dillingham; said that Honolulans prob
ably did not appreciate the fact that
| fine varieties of mango trees have been
planted during the past few years, and
| presently there would be an immense
crop, and this could also be shipped to
| the Coast.
| The result of his statement was the
suggestion TO appoint a committee OF
investigation, TO ascertain from the fed
eral and territorial experiment stations
the amount of land being devoted to
| bananas at present, and to ascertain
also what form of contract the banana
representative had to offer.
Billboard Nuisance.
The directors devoted some time to a
discussion of the billboards, which they
declared TO be a growing nuisance. The
| directors, almost 20 a man, criticized
the billboards as one Of the elements
which was preventing the city from
becoming mole attractive. The opinion
| Whp fAplthhtu iAht tlAhef iht luBihih
ture or the board Of supervisors. should
Regulate the billboards and prevent
them from encroaehing upon some Of
the more beautiful places, such as Nuu'
anu Valley, II was stated that Port
land, Oregon, has come nearest TO a
solution Of the problem, by requiring
billboard companies 10 pay license for
doing business, and then taxing them
so much square yard for the space
they erect as bilh0aTda. The supreme
court found this legal, and 40 q result
many VI the billbonrds are coming
down, owing 10 the Increased cost VI
advertising IN ihm manneT.
A Display o. Nerve.
There was considerable criticism
about the small galvanized boards whiel
tho loeal billboard company i plaeina
hero and There M front ~ stores 0n ihl
| bufineas HtTffi slaeWnlka5 particularly
b ne ade ~ flfal concerns aW plaeed
AheTf iLrY have ~ tight 10 pc INo
alienation DC ihf fhffin % 10 ~ called
~ thefe taWla apa pefBlply ihfy msl