Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-30

depot quartermaster's office today,
there are rations enough on hand in
the army storehouses to feed all
troops on this island, under ordinary
conditions. for 6 months. and In addi-
ton, sufficient stores are kept; for
sale to army post exchanges to last
for three months.
Among the ration articles raised.
manufactured, or grown in the terri
tory, and purchased locally, SO that
the strike woIld have absolutely no
effect on them, are fresh beef and
mutton, fresh potatoes, coffee, gran
ulated sugar, fish and numerous other
items. Enough flour is also carried
to supply Oahu troops for months
even If the supply were cut off.
However, a strike would materially
interfere with shipments of supplies
and materials from the mainland to
the Hawaiian department. Shipments
to Honolulu fo.' the army from all
sources, transports and Matson steam
ers, range from $4,000 to 212,000
pounds a month In the fiscal year
from July /, 1915, to June 80, 1916,
the depot quartermaster's office re-
ceiyed a grand total from the main
land, on all boats, including trans
ports, of 137 100000 pounds The lowest
monthly shipment arriving here from
the mainland was $4,000 pounds in
August, 1915, and the highest 212,000
pounds in February, 1916
Would Affect canneries Seriously.
Although not greatly concerned
over the threatened mainland railway
strike, pineapple Gamers admitted to-
day that the walkout, If materially
prolonged, would be felt by their COM
panies.
L. E. Arnold, superintendent of the
Hawaiian Pineapple Company, thinks
that tff strike will last only short
time, even If 1t comes, and he hopes
it will not come.
IF the strike continued indefinite
ly," he says, 'the movement of can
ned pineapple, especially to the east
ern states, would certainly lessen and
undoubtedly the coast receiving sta.
tions and our storing space here would
become congested. j. ~. + I'll. -. r:
Congestion would be about the
only bad effect it would have on us,
however Our rush season is past and
we are only working half days now
or full days with half crews" 5.
Will P. Thomas, president of the
Thomas Pineapple Company, says a
cessation of freight shipments in the
states would seriously affect his con-
Germ The entire 1916 output of the
Thomas cannery is sold, he says, and
shipping instructions, mostly from
eastern or interior states. have been
received. Especially noticeable would
the discrimination of railway service
be felt now, since so many freight
steamers running between San Fran
cisco and New York have been called
into the Atlantic for munitions.
'Pineapples have been piling up on
US after canning more extensively
than ever before, due to shortage of
bottoms out of Honolulu" says
Thomas, and if this strike should en-
due for some time we'd be walled in
here with cases" IL. s..
Thomas says the strike probably
would net advance the retail price Of
canned pineapples in the states un-
less it continued longer than the wild
est predictions because a large am
cunt Of the 1916 crop has already been
sold and shipped to the states.
F. W. Macfarlane, president of Lib
by. McNeil1 & Libby, was not In his
office when called Dy the Star-Bulle-
tin relative to the effects of the
threatened strike, nor was William L.