The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-06-09
CANS JUST POUR
OUT OF MACHINES.
ONE HUNDRED A MINUTE MAKES
WONDERFUL SIGHT IN
IwnEI FACTORY.

Walls of tin cans, lanes of tin cans,
warehouses filed with tin cans, but not
a can for the waste pile, are fast accu-
mulating in the great storehouses of
the American Can Company at Iwilei
in preparation for the commencement
of the pineapple canning season which
is not expected to get under full speed
until the latter part of the present
month.
From the busy, ear-splitting interior
of theoAmerican Can Company's manu-.
factory, which adjoins the vast can
merry of the Hawaiian Pineapple Com
'pany (Dole's), tin cans, large and
small sizes, are fairly pouring and are
carried on endless belts from one build
ing to another where they are piled
higher and higher until they reach the
roof trees, thousands-and tens of thou
sands, all ready for the juicy pinapples
from the fields of Wahiawa, Ahuimanu
and Waimea.
One hundred cans per minute are
dropping out of the can-making ma
chimes. That means six thousand an
hour, or practically $4,000 per day, and
the can company expects to turn out
fifteen million cans this season.
Known over World.
Six years ago the pineapples grown
at Wahiawa were brought into Honos
lulu in wagons for sale among the fruit
stores and householders, II was just
the farmers contribution to the varied
products of the Islands. Today the
hawaiian pineapple is known in almost
every part of the civilized world, and
is being sent in millions of tins to the
United States mainland Canada.
throughout Europe and South America.
The sliced pine is to be found in the
ar; tocratic cafes of London, Paris and
Vienna, and in all those countries the
glace manufacturers use the Hawaiian
pineapple, sliced and as they find it in
the tins.
Cans were imported at first. Now
the tins are made within a few yards
of the canning machinery. The ma.
chimes are almost human in the way
they handle the blocks of tin plate
and afterwards cut them into sizes for
large and small cans, carry them from
one machine to another, circle them
carry them along through a bath Of
solder, then Into another machine
which crimps a bottom on, and then
on an endless belt transports Il aloft
and then down chute, under railroad
tracks to building across the way
where the thousands are received and
stacked.
Immense Output.
The machines are speeded to put out
one hundred a minute, but occasionally
a can gets wrong in the carrying belts
and occasionally the machinery Is stop.
ped until the one can is put right, so
that the full capacity of the machinery
is not available Probably ninety.fve
per cent of its capacity Is the result
of days labor of nine hours.
Fifteen million cans will be required
70 can this year crop. In addition
there will be millions Of bottles Of pine
apply juice put up and shipped away,
to be counted as one Of the most 70.
treshing summer and winter drinks on
the markets.
The Hawaiian Pineapple Company,
with its Juice factory putting up juice
will employ at least q thousand people
during the cannery season. The other
companies will employ hundreds Of
workers. The machinery Is being added
70 constantly and expense piles no, but
with the splendid advertising which
the Hawaiian pineapple has received
al over the United States, as we'll a.
~ Europe. The market FOR the pine"
has been made