Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-23
OFFERS CASH TO
SEND SALESMAN
TO Middle west
Progressive Small Farmer at
Wahiawa Will Finance Sell
inu Plan for Pine Growers

A progressive small farmer at Wa
hiawa, man well known in the ter
ritory, has started the ball rolling to-
ward sending a man to Chicago to
create an eastern market for the pine
apples grown by homesteaders on this
island which are not contracted for at
the canneries. -
Not with slight touch has the ball
been started on its way, but with an
impact that should give it sufficient
momentum TO see the entire project
through TO a successful development
This is how it has been done:
In the first place, 1t will cost about
$500 To send a man to Chicago, pay
bis expenses while he is in that city,
and finally return him to Honolulu. II
bis plan meets with the approval of
his fellow homesteaders, this progress
sive small farmer will pay one-half of
the expenses out of his own pocket
and loan the rest to the small farm
ers as body. -: 49, -
This proposal was made to A. T.
Longley, superintendent of the mark
citing division and father of the perma.
nent working fund scheme, following
meeting which the division held with
the Wahiawa pineapple growers Sun
day. At that time the details of the
permanent working fund, and of the
proposition OF creating an eastern mar
ket for pines were explained to the
growers. ..~.> T..
Longley says that both plans met
with the hearty approval of those who
attended the meeting. He says the
question of ready money was raised.
and that some doubt as to raising
funds for sending man East was ex-
pressed. Ii was then that the pro-
gressive small farmer in question
came forward with his offer. q
But there is another angle to the
story involving a plan which, If it
materializes, may eventually mean the
sending a man to Chicago at small
er expense to the homesteaders than
was first estimated.
The marketing division has sent a
requisition to the department of agri-
culture in Washington, d. c., asking
for $500 to pay part of the expenses
of sending man to Chicago to create
the market Should this money be
forthcoming, however, It will mean
that the man who is sent will have.
to be on tie payroll Of me federal
government.
According to Mr.. Longley the pro-
ject will work out successfully one
way or the other. He is certain, he
says, that a man will be on his way
to Chicago within a month.
The division will have meeting
with the Pearl City growers next Sun
day. 1t is expected that arrangements
will be made whereby the general
meeting of growers or their delegates
may be held in Honolulu next Mon
day.
Today the marketing division ship
ped 19 tons of fresh pineapples to the
mainland in the Siberia. This will
mean about 800 in commissions,
which will be used to get the San
Francisco agency in working order.
Within short time the division will
take up with steamship companies,
both locally and on the Pacific Coast
the matter of their putting ventilators
On their steamers.
This would mean the expenditure of
quite q little money on the part of
the steamship companies" says Mr..
Longley, "but the additional business
which they would receive in the way
of fruit shipments would soon make
up for 1t. II the boat which left to-
day had ventilators the division could
have shipped three more tons of
pines"