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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26
PHILIPPINE LABORERS
do WELL in HAWAII

December, 1911: their earnings dur
ing that period were Sl.24 u. s. cur
rency per day. AT the expiration Of
this contract the men worked with
Japanese head contractors cutting.
packing and flunlng cane until June,
1912. and during these seven months
their earnings were Sl.3e u. 8. cur
rency per day. Mr.. Mead said. Il con-
slider these men. and We have many
other Filipinos equally as efficient.
were quite mp with the average work
man OF any Of the other nationalities
on the plantations.
Our association recognizes the fact
that in order to get good results la
Dor must be profitable for the the L.
borer and the conditions under which
he lives must be comfortable. The
standard Of living on the plantations
in the Hawaiian islands Is such that
the Filipino soon desires more IN the
way OF living than he Is used 10 IN the
Philippine islands. They live In good
houses, dress as well as the other IA
borers and while they naturally ASSOC
ciate with each other, yet they come
in contact to q large extent with Ia
borers from other countries and the
effect is invariably that they take on
higher standard Of living and their
opportunities for Advancement broad
en-. l believe that the Philippine ISL
ands gain by sending Filipin0s 70 the
Hawaiian islands to learn the sugar
business, and this win be more appar-
emit as the sugar industry here In
creases, as there win be supply -
skilled men to be drawn on for the
cultivation Of the Philippines sugar
fields. y
The businessmen OF the Hawaiian
islands realize the advantage Of closer
relations between the American pos
sessions OF the mid Pacific and the far
Pacific, and believe that the coming
to the Philippine islands Of the Ha-
waiian businessmen win be 8 large
factor In the development OF Industrial
and cpmmercia relations"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26
FORMER HAWAIIAN PLANTER
MANAGER IN PHILIPPINES

store where goods will be sold al
prices which will merely cover ad
ministrative expenses and half q
dozen schemes designed to contribute
to the material and moral welfare OF
the employees. Both in machinery
and planting Calamba sugar estate is
to be made a demonstration and ex.
pertinent station for the benefit OF
the sugar industry at large. Workers
are to be housed in sanitary barrios
and they and their families are to be
encouraged and assisted to develop
small paintings of their own and do.
mestic household industries.
Mr.. Barkhausen, in an interview
with a representative of this paper
made the following statement as to
the estate and the plans for it's de.
elopment:
First a word about the country
1 liked its general appearance very
much. Somewhere l got the impress.
sion that it was low-lying and un.
healthy. | found that it was neither
and not only the country but the peo-
pie look healthy. AS far as l could
see the soil looks good for cane and
the analysis of it is good. l saw con-
siderable quantity of cane and, con-
sidering that the islands have had an
exceedingly dry year, that no ferti-
lizers have been used on it and that
the blowing is shallow, it looks very
good. The property lies we'll and will
be easy to work.
OOYrr will ho Tho o1p
Struction and equipment of branch
railway to connect the mill site with
Manila railroad. Our mill site is dis
tant about one and one-half miles
from the railroad line and we can
undertake no large work until it's OPP
Grafton, because over it we must
handle our material and supplies.
Later we shall extend the line through
the Calamba estate and on to Santa
Rosa and Binan, this to handle cane
and work the plantation, and 'eventu-
ally will have about i miles Of rail-
way.
The mill will have a capacity Of
1900 tons of cane daily and it will be
designed for future enlargement to
2400. 1t will be a II roller mill and
the contract for its construction will
be awarded shortly. The plans for it
are completed and they call for all of
the latest modern improvements and
ideas. We expect delivery nine
months from the date of the award
and to have the mill in operation by
December /, 1914. The boiling house
will be correspondingly equipped and
with them will be modern machine
and carpenter shops an electric plant
and an ice plant.
We hope to be ready by Deem
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Der 1, 1914 and the plantation work
will be carried forward simultaneous
ly. Orders have been placed for the
necessary blowing equipment and de-
! livery is expected in December or JAN
uary next. Pending delivery we shall
clean a large area of land and have
1T ready for the blowing machines.
! We plan to pillow the same with day
and night shifts, using powerful scar
ch-lights to guide the latter.
| I'VE have given a great deal of
thought to the treatment of our labor
ers and have several plans that we
intend to put into effect, Speaking
generally, we shall use the contract
or premius system Of payment. In
cultivation we shall make computa-
tons as to acreage and set price on
it allowing a reasonable time for its
completion. We shall then award the
work to individuals or groups and give
them a chance to earn a premium on
it. 1t is an incentive to the men, 1t
increases their pay, it secures quick
and satisfactory results for US. Other
contracts like loading cane will be
based on a days work per man, and
here again the men by industry can
add materially to normal earnings.
This is being done with Filipino work
ers in Hawaii and the great majority
of them are now making much more
than they originally contracted for.
Il have always been against the
so called company store and find my
associates in the same attitude so
there is to be no company store, in
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26
HAWAIPS TRADE THIS YEAR
WITH MAINLAND SS5,00O,0OO

The trade of the United ST rs with
its noncontiguous territori will
amount to $50 million dollar the
calendar year 1912. Tables j com
pleted By the division Of STAT IS oil
the Bureau Of Foreign and ID site
Commerce of the Department 4 pm
meree and Labor SHOW that ne
the eight months ended Augt
1912. merchandise shipped froi
United States to the nopconti
territories amounted to "a million
lars in value against 81 million ihV e
same months of last year; and Me
merchandise received from these ter
ritories amounted to 971s million dol
lars in value against S0k million in
the corresponding months of last
year. This showing of an increase oil
80 million dollars-a gain of more
than 20 per cent in the single year
gives assurance that the total value
of this trade in the current calendar
year will reach and probably exceed
$50 million dollars in value.
The gain in the trade with the non.
contiguous territories has been far
greater than that in the trade with
foreign countries The figures Of 1917
will exceed by $50 per cent those OF
a decade ago, while the trade with
foreign countries for the same period
shows gain OF approximately rs per
cent. The first year in which accu.
rate figures with all of the noncon.
tiguous territories were available was
the fiscal year, ended June 80, 1903.
Prior to that time no official data was
procuraEle of the trade with Alaska,
and figures were refused by those en-
gagged in the trade with Hawaii and
Porto Rico after their annexation to
the United States and ablishment
as customs districts. This condition
was, however, remedied by an act of
congress which required statements
of this troffic TO be made N terms sim.
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the popular sense, at Calamba. There
Is to be q store but It viii not be run
for the profit, 1t will carry supplies
of all kinds but they will be given to
the men at price which will merely
cover administration charges. It will
be an up to date institution and will
include a cold storage plant, along
the lines of the several excellent ones
that Manila has.
I'VE shall give preference to the
labor OF La Laguna. We want to en-
courage all Of our men to cultivate
small tracts of land and shall set
aside land for all who want 1t. We
also shall encourage them in domestic
and household industry, giving them
practical aid to make start and as
sisting them in marketing their pro-
duce. On the plantation and in the
mill there will be light work for the
women and older children can do and
here again there is to be preference
for our own workers.
I'VE have plans for what we be.
lieYe will prove the model barrios OF
islands. Sanitation is the chief aim
but there viii be comfort as well and
other things have not been overlook
ed. There win be school, q picture
show, a band and we hope several
baseball teams Several artesian wells
will be driven because pure water Is
the first essential to health.
I'VE intend to make machinery de
monstrations and to do large amount
of experimental work. Our experience
in Hawaii ras taught the value of co
operative experimental work. We
would like the planters of the Philip
pines to know that and to feel that we
can be counted on for cooperation
and any assistance we can give.
Work is to commenced at once
and, as have said, it's key is the
spur of railway that will connect US
with the Manila railroad system.
That will come first, the rest as soon
as that line is ready for business"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

Business on the Honolulu Stock and
Bond Exchange for the six days ended
q. noon yesterday shows decline OF
Only so shares of stocks and Of $500.
SIN I'm proceeds from stocks, as com
pared with the corresponding period
ended last week. Sales of bonds were
less by SIS, 900 for this same time, sc
that the total deficiency this week Is
s24,540.S7k. Sales of stocks for the
week beginning on Saturday last were
1886 shares, with aggregate prices
$64,s5s and OF bonds at par value OF
$4,000. making total OF $92,S5S OF
business for six days.
There was a generally declining
market for sugar stocks, only three
cut of nine dealt in holding their own.
and none showing an advance. FAX
ing last sale prices on Saturday and
yesterday, the following declines ARE
noted: Eva, 20 to 2S.50; Hawaiian
Commercial, 41.75 to 40; McBfyde,
5.7s to 5.s7h; Oahu, 90 to 25.57Is:
oiaa, 5.62h to 5.12is; Waialua, 115 to
no. Honokaa, Kahuku and Pioneer
are unchanged. but with little doing
IN them. In other than sugar, Pine.
apple has advanced from Al to 44.50,
and Telephone from rs to 1925, whiic
Oahu Railway is unchanged.
Transactions in detail we're a. foi.
lows:
Stocks.
Eva Plantation Co., so shares for
sI425; price, $3.50.
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co.
23G shares for s1S,21S.25; high, 1925;
low, 40.
Hawaiian Pineapple Co, s25 shares
for sl4s405; high, 44.50; low, A..
Hiio Railroad Co., common, 10
shares for So; price, $50.
Honokaa Sugar Co.. 135 shares for
sI1I3.75; price, $50.
Kahuku Plantation Co.. 10 shares
for $3.50: price, Is.
Mcbride Sugar Co, $50 shares for
$1g23.75; high, $50; low, 5,37k.
Mutual Telephone Co, 105 shares
70. $2756.25; price, 26.25.
Oahu Railway and Land Co, s
shares for $1,000; price. $50.
Oahu Sugar Co., SOS shares for $14..
e24.25; high, IS; low, 25.37ls.
olaa Sugar Co.. So5 shares for
s164S.7s; high. 5.75; low, 5.121s.
Pioneer Mill Co.. 40 shares for $1240
price. 81.
Waialua Agricultural Co, 100 shares
for $4,000; price, ITO,
Bonds.
Hawaiian Irrigation skies. $1,000 at
lei.
Hilo Railroad Extension skies. 5000,
at 97.75. .
Hilo Railroad 1901 skies, $1,000 at
1e0.25.
Honokaa skies. $4,000 at 102.50.
McBryde fiyes. $1,000 at 100.
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liar to those in which the trade with
foreign countries is shown, and in
consequence of this enactment full
statistics of the traffic have been
available since 1903. These figures
show that the trade with Porto Rico
in 1903 amounted to about % million
dollars in value, while in the current
year it will amount to about Is mil
lion dollars, or more than three times
as much as decaae ago.
II The trada with Hawaii in the year
Ended June e. 1903, was 81 million
dollars in value, and in the calendar
year 1912 VII. amount to about IS mil
lion dollars, al increase of over $50
per cent in decade. With the Phil
irpines. the trade in 1903 was Is mil
lion dollars il value, and in the cal
endar Year 1S1: will amount to about
As million Ccllars. h ing trebled in
that period. With ska the trade
of 1908 was about Million dollars
in value and in the q dar year 1912
promises to be aboJ million dol
lars, an increase Of Simately 125
per cent in the perid question;
IACoC sASulCo UCdu$ OACi III 6OIu
received from Alaska ehS seems
likely to be greater in the current
year than ever Before-the figures of
the eight months ended with August
81 1912, being z 1-3 million dollars
against a little less than five million
in the eight months of 1910
Manufactures form the bulk of the
110 million dollars worth of merchan-
disc passing to the noncontiguous
territories in 1912, and sugar, tobacco,
fruits, fish, copper and hemp are the
principal articles forming the 40 mil
lion dollars worth of merchandise re-
ceiyed from HawaiiHand Porto Rico;
hemp and sugar are the largest single
items from the Philippines, and
canned salmon and copper the largest
in the merchandise received from
Alaska. -..,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

Royal d. Mead, director of the labor
bureau Of the Hawaiian Sugar Plant
ers' Association, arrived in Manila re-
Gently to look over the work of his
agents in the islands, says late Ma
Mia paper. Mr.. Mead is probably the
best Informed man on labor for the
tropics in the Pacific. His bureau has
imported laborers from Southern Eu-
rope, Japan. China, Korea and the
Philippine islands.
Regarding the earnings of Filipino
laborers. on the sugar plantations OF
Hawaii, Mr.. Mead said: THE mini
mum wage of our laborers is $40 u. s,
currency per month of rs days. In
addition to this, on the first OF this
year we adopted system OF bonuses,
approaching profit-sharing, which boz
nus Is based on the price we receive
for our raw sugar. II this price ay-
erages for the year $71 per ton, boz
nus of per cent. of his years earn
ings is paid to the laborer receiving
$24 per month or less, and this bonus
is increased per cent. for each dol.
lar increase above said ST. in the av-
erage price of sugar. For the last
ten years the price of sugar has aver
aged approximately $50 per ton. SC
that we estimate that the bonus will
be about 10 per cent. per annuIn.
Nearly all of our work, however,
is done under contracts. and the
earnings of laborers under this sys-
tenn are far greater than under the
wage system
Mr.. Mead stated, as an instance OF
how well the contractors do, thai
shortly before he left Honolulu ten
men, Filipinos, came to his office and
told him they were returning home to
the Philippines; he ascertained that
they each had considerable money
and, being interested. wrote to the
plantation where they had been en-
ployed, for their record. He found
that these men, together with eight
others, had been working under a cul-
tiyation contract from July, 1910, to
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26
BIG PINEAPPLE OUTPUT.

So far this season the output of the
Hawaiian Pineapple Co.'S cannery is
365, 900 cases. This is $4,000 cases
over the estimate, yet it is expected
to bring the quantity up to 100000
cases by the end of the season.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26
DIED..

DE LA NUX-In Honolulu. October
25, 1912, Pierre Albert, son of Mr..
and Mrs. L. A. de la Nux, of Homo
lulu; aged twenty-five years and ten
months. Notice of funeral later.
WOOLINGTON-In Berkeley, Califon
mia, October II, 1912, Lillian n
daughter of Mrs. Hanna B. W.
ington, formerly of Honolulu.
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Raw Sugar Drops Again.

nav sugar DFOps HgdW.
NEW YORK, October 25.-(Special
to The Advertiser)-Raw sugar quiet;
Muscovado SO degrees test, 3.55c; CEN
trifugal, SO degrees test, 4.06c; mo-
I2sses, SO degrees test, 3.3Oc. Refined
quiet.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

American mine-owners in Mexico,
unable to prevent the rebels from
cutting wires, have installed wireless
outfits to communicate with the out
side world.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

Oahu Sugar Co. viii not pass its
regular monthly dividend of Is
cents share, but 1t is authoritatiyely
stated that no extra dividend can be
expected for the coming season.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

Onomea Sugar company's stock is
now on the basis of a capital of ST..
100000, increased from one million.
Prior to the change the stock was at
$3.50 last sale. and it is now quoted
at 80 asked. J
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BUSINESS NOTES

Honolulu Iron Works Co. has been
awarded the contract for 10000 feet
of pipe for the Palolo extension of
the water works.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26
HAWAIIAN STOCKS.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25.-The fol-
lowing are the closing quotations for
Hawaiian stocks:
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

ing amounts totalling $403,1O0, or an
average of 100000. One was a mort
gage for $20.500 by the Kapiolani Es-
tate to Charles G. Macomber, late
owner of the Kahuku Ranch, on pro-
perties in Honolulu. Second, deed of
trust from the Kehena Water Co.,
Ltd, to E. l. Spalding and F.. Klamp,
of the property of the company in
GLIDING that of the Kohala Ditch Co.,
Ltd, to secure an issue of s250,0O0 of
bonds, the proceeds of which are to
be devoted to completing subsidiary
bitches and reservoirs. Third, a mort
gage by Alfred w Carter, trustee of
Annie T. K. Parker Emart, to Bishop
& Co, for 100000 advances made for
the purchase of property on the is
land of Hawaii, the mortgage covering
147,447,20 acres of land in Waimea
and Hamakua districts. Fouth, a deed
from Mrs. Walter Macfarlane to Mrs.
George c. Beckley, of land at Waikiki
forming part of the estate of the late
James Campbell, the consideration
being $4,000.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

Applications for trees for Arbor Day
planting should be made at the gov
eminent nursery not later than No
yember S, in person or by mail.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

For the year ended July 81, 1912,
the trustees of the estate of the late
w. C. Lunalilo. the king who devised
all his property to found the Lunalilo
Home for the Aged and INDECENT Ha-
waiians, report that receipts were
$72.490.3O and disbursements $780,
1859. Investments and securities to-
tailed $21o. 333.2S, of which $54,694 re-
presented real estate book values. On
the date mentioned there were 80
inmates in the Home, 3S males and %
females, and the institution was be-
ing well kept by Mr.. and Mrs. Al
fred Smith.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

l., s. CONFESS, promoter of the Hilo
street railway for which he obtained
franchise from Congress last ses-
sion, has given out statement that
work on the first section will short
.ly be started, the $4,000 bond to the
county of Hawaii required having
been approved by Governor Frear.
Front street, which has a heavy traf-
fic, win be the thoroughfare prinei-
pally covered in the first section.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

In two months the Lord. Young En-
cheering Company expects to be able
to begin work on It's contract for re-
claiming lands on the Kewalo flats,
Honolulu, under the sanitation law
passed by last legislature, which the
supreme court has lately pronounced
valid. The price OF this first job is
about 100000. r..
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

Within a space of four days in
struments were filed for record cover
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26
SIX SUGAR STOCKS HAVE
DECLINED IN'PAST SIX DAYS

a thousand gallons. to take effect Jan.
uary next. 1t Is estimated that the
reduction will mean a :aving Of $500
a. year to the shipping interests.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

All of the many friends of L. Bark
hansen, formerly manager of Pioneer
Mill Co.'S plantation at Lahaina, will
be interested in the following account
Of large new plantation in the Phil
ippines of which he is the manager
II is from the Manila Times of Sep,
TENDER 90:
l.. Barkhausen, the we'll known Ha
waiian planter who consented to re
turn to bushes for the purpose of de-
veloping Calamba sugar estate, has
completed his preliminary survey oil
the project and sketched in outline
the work that he is to direct as man.
ager. He went to La Guna early last
week and spent several days on the
property; he returned enthusiastic
over what he saw and ready for bus
mess. He has already begun placing
large preliminary orders for material
and supplies and within the next week
actual work is to commence. The
problem ahead of him is a two-side0
one, involving upon one hand the con
struction, assemblage, and operation
of a great modern sugar mill, and up
on the other the simultaneous devel
Cpment Of a great sugar plantation
that will be ready to furnish cane in
large quantities when the central is
ready for operation.
Two years time and two million
pesos have been allotted to this great
task and the plan of their expenditure
includes. many features of large in
terest to the people of the Philip
pines. First in order comes the
treatment of labor which is to be on
the contract anu premium system, a
form of profit sharing, a company
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One hundred thousand dollars is
the estimated cost of the new build
ings to be erected by the Hawaiian
Pineapple Co., to replace their pre-
sent cannery and Office at Iwilei.
Cation, Neil & Co., Ltd, has taken
out permit for an Office building at
Alakea and Queen streets to cost $780,.
600. Theo. III. Davies & Co, Ltd, has
taken out permits for alterations in
buildings on .Kaahumanu and Hale.
keuila streets aggregating $3.50 in
cost. e. W. Sutton is having a $4450
dwelling erected in Maona.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-26

Treasurer Conkling reports a net
increase of $1S,0e0,O00 in the assessed
valuation of real and personal prop
erty in the Territory. and he antici-
pates that lowering of the I AK rate
may be practicable.
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d. s. K. .Pahu, a young Hawaiian
who went to take a civil service posi-
ton in Manila last year, is reported to
have become associated with business
men there in a new sugar plantation
project. They are said to have 1000
acres of land and expect to have
10000 acres altogether. Mr.. Pahu may
return to Honolulu when his two
years engagement is up and place
an order here for the sugar mill. e