The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-04-09

The organization of the Oahu Railway
and Land Company was effected III
1888 and the first completed part of the
road -~as turned over to the company
bysthe contractor in July |, 1890. Dill
lingham became general manager Of
the road, Nearly all the arabic lands
Of the island were waste and inacces
Sible until the foresight and enterprise
Of the pioneer builder bore fruit with
the completion Of the first link of the
railway. The company acquired an i'm
melse acreage of waste land capabl,
Of high agricultural development, as
well as grazing land. and land favor
ably situated for town and residence
property.
With the work on the railroad launch
ed soon various dependent enterprises
we're started. Pearl City was plattcl
and offered to the public. In 1890 tn
railroad, reached EVA and after several
wears Of general financial depression it
was extended to Waianoe in 1895 an !
the year Of 1898 saw its completion
to Kahuku, seventy one miles from
Honolulu.
The hotel at Haleiwa, one of the
as detail of the railroad project.
Ono after another the great sugar
| plantations of the island were brought
into being by the tireless industry of
the pioneer. Eva, Kahuku, Oahu, Wal
alua, Olaa, and McBryde were the pro
+ jects that grew Under his hands. The
Honolulu plantation was another h"
! helped 70 bring into being.
It will be remembered that the Pa
! cifc Hardware Company which had lie
come on of the big commercial con
Germs Of the Islands WAS disposed of to
f. O. Hall'& Son and T. II. Davies X
Co., in 1906.
/ mllingham's interest spread to the
other islands and in 1910 he organized
the Hflo Railroad Company, which, ex
tended along the Hamnkua Coast, he
came the Hilo Consolidated Railroad
! Company.
The Hamakua extension proved az
initial failure, due to variety OF
causes, and the line passed to the bond
holders and became the Hawaii Con
soIidated Railway. Besides the enter
prises enumerated, score Of lessee
projects have been started by the B
F. Dillingham; Company.
Incidental to his work Of railway
building and the opening up of The
great sugar np)fpstFy, Dillingham; saw
the need Of fuel for his railroad an,
for the plantations. He visited thu
great coal fields of Washington ant
there arranged to have coal brought t.
Honolulu by a feet OF ships. The de
volOpment Of the great oil fields in Cal
ifornia found him ready to take al
vantage of the new opportunity and h,
personally visited the Bakerfeld OF
district and set in motion an arrange
ment under which fuel oil was brough
to The Islands. In the food OF othe
fairs that surromded him he foun,
time to take keen interest in pub
lie questions In which his voice wa
often raised and for time he tool
a active part in politics, having bee
nominated us delegate TO the Republi
can national convention in 1900
Always a"0iyer
No one probably will ever know tn
extent Of his behefactiOns. The dolla
rs dollar was meaningless emu
symbol to him. He made and lost
, tunes with unehanging equinimit 50
5 he saw country grow and sspt
under his ewes and more tb1 ID IA
: proportion of the stream Of nth this
flowed through his hands Is diverte
into those channels the rid is please
e to call charitable. SCHOOLS, homes, il
d situations Of Nariods kinds hourishe
). IN part from the ready Lih he pAl
|. The Salvation Army, the Y. ". C. A