Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-21
LETTERS ON
TIMELY TOPICS
THIRD PARTY THOUGHTS.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin,

Editor Honolulu Star-Bulfetin,
Sir:-The Bull Moose or Third par
| ty (does anybody here know the real
business name of the new party that
is headed by Roosevelt?) does not
seem to be the coal-oil cOnflagration
that it was intended, or perhaps bet
| ter say that its advent was certainly
shy the curtain calls that were looked
for by those pushing it along.
l have also tried to CLEAN from the
mainland papers any crumbs of COM
fort regarding this new party. for |
| will confess that | was of a mind that
something along reform lines was
ne eded, but the Third party has lost
its charm for one American citizen.
at least.
Undertaking of the other two par
| ties seems to be the stock in trade OF
the Third party, and in that event an
nexing to its ranks any easy-going and
possibly well-known men who have
never caused any deep flashes of bril-
liancy in the politics of the country.
The new party, in making it's claims
as to what it will do after it comes
out victorious from the battle of bal
lots, simply overreaches itself to that
extent that one with an insight into
political matters of a consistency
thicker than soft-boiled custard or
tapioca pudding, would claim Mis-
souri, as home state.
Never an instance, since the Bull
Moose party has been sharing the pub
licity of the newspapers throughout
the mainland, have | seen a statement
from that party that they would try
to do so and so, but it mas been We
will do so and So" Naturally those
will dos" will be Incorporated in the
Bull Moose platform, but such a plat
form, with every plank I'VE will do
might add impossibilties) is chiefly
made up of balloon essence. Such
promises may seem good to the man
who does not know that Rome was not
built in day, and to the man who
sings 'All coens (platforms) look
alike to me-"
There is really nothing new in the
Third party, and if the Chief Bull
Moose were elected he wouldn't be
anything new; would simply be a sec
ond-hand president If Roosevelt were
to die suddenly, it is our opinion that
the New Party would beat him to the
grave. MISSOuRIAN
THE DRIED BANANA INDUSTRY.
Editor Honolulu Star-BulIetin.
Slr:-ln your paper of July %. 1912.
You stated that a man named Bailey
started to dry bananas about Is years
ago. Now. l would like to correct
That. In 1884 the first bananas were
dried in Wailuku, by. the Alden pro-
cess. company was formed by DR..
Enders and A. Barnes, in 1888. to
make taro flour of raw taro, and in,
1884 they started to dry bananas. As
FAR as the bananas were concerned,
they were a success; lit was the way
they were put up that,was the failure.
And then things went wrong. A ship
ment was sent to New York, and while
the cases were in the warehouse the
building took fire and they lost the
whole shipment. The company was
sold out by order of the court in 1885.
e. A. Beilenberg and King Kalakaua
bought it. Shortly afterwards Beilen-
Derg sold out to the king, and he in
turn sold out to w. H. Cummings, w.
II. Daniels and Judge A. N. Kepoikai.
L was sent for to run the factory for
the new owners, as l had had charge
OF the factory from the time the foun-
sdatlons were laid. We started in to
experiment to make cooked taro flour.
and to make poi if we could only get
machine to make the poi instead of
making it by hand. Mr.. A. Young of
the Honolulu Iron Works made us
machine to make poi and paiai. That
was in 1886. We then got the con-
tract to furnish paiai for the settle
ment. We used to cook 120 sacks of
taro of 80 pounds each day. I then
began to experiment on dried bananas
iof my own benefit, and / found that
by putting them up in a different way
from the way we put them up for.
merly that they would keep forever
The new owners wanted to try new
methods of making poi and paiai, and
as they had no money to work on,
they went behind and others came
into the concern. J. Richardson came
in in 1887; then came in W. o. Smith
and E. H. Bailey, but all the work
that was done in the factory then
was making little taro flour and
furnishing the settlement with paiai,
which kept the factory running about
three days week. | left the concern
in 1888, and l know that up to that
time there was never a banana dried
there after l left. l would like to
say this much for the dried banana.
There is no finer dried fruit in the
world than dried bananas, and you
have the world for a market | have
often wondered why some of these
big moneyed men did not put up
factory to dry the banana. There's
more money in one acre of dried ba-
nanas than there is in three acres
of pines, and the amount of money
required to start a factory to dry ba-
nanas is not one-tenth of what it costs
to start a factory for pines. And the
overripe bananas make the best vim
egar in the world We sold all the