The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-01-30
Loewenstein Is Agent.

cauGht me In ITS maze.
Loewenstein Is Agent.
Maurice F. Loewenstein, head of the
firm of Castle Brothers, Wolf and Sons,
has been appointed agent of the Phil
ippines in San Francisco as special com
missioner to the Pan-Pacife Expedition
to handle all matters connected with
the Philippine exhibit
The appointment was made by Gov
ernor General w. Cameron Forbes ON
December 90. Mr.. Loewenstein is now
in California having been absent from
the Philippines for several months.
Echo Of Past.
As an echo of the days when teachers
In the employ of the bureau of educa-
ton had some danger to contend with
In pursuing their duties in the back
provinces of the islands, an item pub
lishea in the Cablenews. American OF
December "a last is of interest. 1t fol-
lows:
civilian NJ. Wooden, a teacher In
the bureau of education, who was onna
speared by Bontoc savage was drown
ed IN the Imagahuan river of Pala-
wan last Friday, according to cable
gram received by Director Frank R.
White.''
Further Use for Hemp.
In notable speech in Manila Decem-
Der %, George D. Adams of Cleveland.
Ohio. announced that there was a new
use for Manila hemp which could be-
worked right in the islands.
For years bag manufacturers in the
United States have used waste hemp
and eordage for making heavy bags,
TINS fioer being the only one strong
enough Tor the purpose. The supply is
diminishing, or rather the needs are
greater and experiments have been un..
dertaken touse the hemp in the ISL
ands. >The amount used for the mann.
faeture of bags is larger than the en-
tire tonnage now exported to the
United States from the islands. but r.
IS obtained from old hawsers and other
Manila rope of smaller dimensions
which has been discarded as of no fur.
ther USE Mr.. Adams proposes to use
tae eneire stalk of the hemp plant, and
VIII erect factory in the islands for
pressing and drying the stalks so that
tney may be shipped to the States as
cheaply as possible.
For several years the planters of the
islands have been up against two bio
difficulties, the inability of getting
labor to strip their hemp, and the
cordage trust which has set the price
OF this article in the markets of the
world. The price has been so low that
many planters have stripped only hemp
enough to pay their running expenses.
In part Mr.. Adams says of his plan:
We propose taking the complete
hemp stalk, just as cut on the planta-
tion, merely crushing, drying and clean
ing it. We have perfected machines
ior this purpose, and the machines
have been demonstrated to our entire
satisfaction and to the satisfaction of
a number of those interested in the
plantation end of the proposition. I
nave endeavored to show in a way the
necessity from the standpoint of the
paper maker, for steady, regular sup
ply of Manila hemp fiber at price
within a reasonable compass but be-
heving no business can grow to be
large, broad and strong without grant
ing that all concerned must be salts
fled in the way of reasonable profit.
we desire to show as well as we can
the planters side. In the first place
as we understand it, by the hand strip
ping process about one-third of the
hemp fiber is wasted, and in addition
to this 80 1-3 per cent of the fiber in
the hemp stalk they never attempt to
strip on account of its being very fine
and some of it not strong enough for
cordage purposes. Therefore by our
process every single fiber in the hemp
stalk becomes available for our purpose,
and the planter receives compensation
for it.
lowing to scarcity of labor for strip
ping there is large percentage of
hemp that cannot be stripped, and is
dead loss to the planter at the pres
ent time. Therefore our proposition,
which will enable the planter to cut
all of his hemp, and Immediately pat
it through simple process, thus on
abling him to turn it into money safe E
ly and quickly, to keep his labor en-
ployed practically the year around, and
to dispose of three times the quantity
with the same amount of labor, is rath-
err an interesting one.
Incidentally, it may tend to make
the planter trihe more independent of T
the hemp factors, and it is safe to say F
that there is nothing in the proposition
which will tend to lessen to the plan E
ter the price that he will receive for
such hemp as he desires to strip for
cordage purposes"