The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-06
CONVENTION ENDS
WITH BANQUET
Sugar Mil Engineers and Chem.
lists Close Five Days Profit
able Work Last Night

With the annual meeting and election
Of officers Of the Hawaiian Engineering
Association followed by the banquet
Of the mill engineers and the chemists
and sugar boilers, the fifth annual CON
vention of the mill engineers and the
annual meeting of the Hawaiian Chem.
ists' Association came TO an end last
night after FIVE days Of sessions. Il
Hold Annual Meeting ..... 'E,HI
AT half past six last evening the
Engineers met In, the Commercial Club
lotFngfng room and heard the reports
for the year and elected the following
officers; Carl b. Andrews, chairman;
j. A. Gibb,, vice-chairman; Irwin Spald-
ing, treasurer; Frank o. Boyer, score.
tary; Directors at large for the year
are r. Renton Hind, A. Gartley, T..
Kopke; for Hawaii, A. c. Wheeler;
for Maui, II. McCubbin and for Kauai,
II. Kopke. M +a#H
A resolution was passed which asks
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Associa.
tion to take up the matter of boiler in
spection and the appointment of boiler
inspectors. ttae. @
Banquet Jolly Affair
The convention came TO q close
shortly after eleven last night at the
Commercial Club, when the curtain fell
on the clever entertainers whose songs
and pointed jests kept the engineers
and chemists and their friends in laugh,
ter and applause after the annual ban.
quet, The banquet--as dry as the
latest style Of bagasse--was served in
the Commercial Clubs best style, the
big dining room being filed with the
banquetters.
The evenings after dinner program
opened with some turns Of the song and
dance line and concluded with the stir.
ring drama ''Pifhe MILL" in which
the cast Of characters included the
superintendent, engineer, sugar boiler
| chemist and manager Of the mill and a
visiting expert from the Hawaiian
Planters Experiment Station. The
manager was miniature Charley Chap
lin, who was run through the rollers
when he got too inquisitiye.
Act III Of this drama was a session
of the Near Engineers' Convention, at
which various papers were read. The
play abounded with personal references
and timely humor and was helped out
with several exceedingly clever par
! odies, popular songs being Transmitted
into verses Of the mill, laboratory and
office. &#N @'a% r..'
Last Business Session ght .. .... .
Engineers and chemists gathered to.
gether in the Library Of Hawaii at half
past eight yesterday morning for the
last combined business session of their
] conventions. "Sugar Mill Machinery
aud " Curing and Marketing y were the
subjects for discussiorlf R4lStige u
marketing the point was Brought out
that one Of the problems this year has
been storage Of sugar before shipment
and this bids fair TO be a much more
serious problem in handling the next
crop with the probability of fewer yes
sells available for transportation.
Use Washed Sugar ... =. -. P
| Two especially well taken points
were made by L. w. Howard in his
report on this subject, one Of then
dealing with the food conservation
problem and the use of washed sugar
On these two points the report said:
"This year we have all felt the in
creasing stress which the refners ar,
putting on their demands for An i'm
provement in the refining value Of oul
sugars. In his report for last year
Mr.. Pratt explained this problem very
thoroughly. Since then we have, per
force, concentrated our efforts on tn,
production of a grain, medium size an,
very even,' to meet the new marketing
conditions. That there has been |
marked progress along this line is gen
orally true. But the problem Of making
a sugar profitable alike to buyer AM
seller has not yet been satisfac
torily solved. ". e. $3.50
ga timely suggestion offered by on
chemist is that, in line with the pres
ent question of food conservation, W
might do well to initiate a moVemen
to educate the people in the use 0
washed sugar" Hg