The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-05-29
FOOD EXHIBIT IN
PAN-PAC|F|C PLANS
Club Hopes To Get Together All
Kinds Of Conserved Foods
"Made In HAWAII

With the cooperation of Manager
Dean Of the food commission, the Pan
Paeihe Club Is planning for an exhibit
Of conserved foods, to follow the art
ists' exhibition in the Pan Pacific build
ing on Bishop square. Men and women
Of every nationality in Hawaii who have
bad any experience in canning, bottling
iarring Or drying any kind Of food pre-
luet win be Invited TO assist in the ex-
libit, and the allied women 5 clubs viii
pc appealed to 10 give their cooperation
and that Of their members in making
he Pam Pacific Conservation Exhibit
the most instructive show ever offered
to Honolulu.
The food conservation exhibit sent by
Australia win be shown, as will be the
hundreds Of jars Of Hawaiian preserved
fruits the Pan. Pacific Club has gathered
Turing the past year for its commercial
museum. The methods Of the men and
women of the different Pacific races II
preserving every kind of fruit and veg.
stable win be demonstrated, and II IS
also probable that the fresh fruits AM
vegetables grown by those who are
planting under the direction Of the food
Commission viii be shown outside OF
the Pan-Paeifc building.
Cooperation Invited
The different companies that conserve
homes, fruits, dried poi and vegetables
win be urged to exhibit their wares, ane
the process Of grinding the algarobs
pean for cattle feed will be shown. Ths
Chinese methods Of drying fruits viii be
seen side by side with the latest patent
methods Of evaporating the water from
fruits so that by dipping them in watei
they again resume almost their pristin,
freshness and food value.
The women Of Honolulu are expected
to take most important part in the ex
hibit--in fact committee is being ap
pointed that win investigate the meth
DDS Of each Of the races in Honolulu 81
far as preserving fruit and vegetables
s concerned.
The chairman Of the eommitte
tmong the ladies Is Mrs. i. G. Anderson I
Who has had considerable experience Il
hawaii raising and preserving roselle
While In California she has studied
many of the methods of preserving anf
svaporating fruit. She Is at work nov
lmong the different Pacific nationalitie,
yathering data as to their methods.
Oriental Preserving
Mrs. Francis w. Damon, who wa,
born in Canton, and speaks Chinese a.
well as English, win assist in getting
the Chinese women who understand
food conserving to take part in the ex
libit. MrA Philip Dodge, who spent
even years among the Japanese, will
assist in getting the Japanese womer
here Interested Miss Helen Alexander
If Laniakea will interest the Hawaiian
uen and women in preparing exhibitr
n the food they have learned to con
serve, and bread fruit poi should not Il
the least of these. Mrs. II. 3. Campbell
porn in Petrograd, viii gather local ex
hibits of Russian-made marmalade, anC
1ther ladies' who are interested in the
Pan-Pacifc work and speak the Ian
guages of the different tribes Of the Pa
ciac will assist in securing the coopera.
tion of all nationalities in Honolulu.
Unusual Containers
An interesting feature OF the exhibit
viii be the display Of containers othei
than tin and glass in which food may b.
preserved. There are the sanitary way
paper tumblers that, filed with jam
ind covered with layer Of parafne
keep their contents in perfect shape in
definitely, and there are the containers
Belonging TO the Pan Pacific Club made
Of compressed bagasse that will hold
any amount of preserved fruit as well
As would tin or glass, and bagasse In
Hawaii is drug ON the market
In the very heart Of the city the Pan
Pacific building is the spot ideal for ar
educational exhibit of conserved foods
and the newest methods Of preserving
food stuffs. The entire building can be
shrown open so completely that every
archway is an entrance. and the groundf
without may well be utilized for a dem.
onstration as TO how the foods that are
conserved are grown,