The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-01-18
THREE DEPARTMENT
HEADS WILL Retire.
Longtime Employees Of Hackfeid
n & Co. Resign-F. J. Linde- .,
man To Manage EhIers .


Reorganization and Americanizing Of
the firm Of II. Haekfeh & Company as
started last week continue to go steadi-
ly forward. Three designations from
old employees of the firm, department
heads ALL have been received and were
accepted, IL was yesterday announced
by J. F. G. Hagens, president of the
company. These designations are from
Carl Du Roi, manager of B. F., Ehlers
& Company, the retail dry goods bust
ness controlled by HackfeId 4 Com,
'pany,F. w. Klebahn, head Of the ship
ping department, and Bertram Won
Damn, head Of the insurance depart.
nient.
In the acceptance of the esignations,
Mr.. Hagens said, the company asked
the retiring employees to remain until
such time as their successors should be
named and "broken in" where there
are TO be successors. In the case of
+. W. Klebahn, however, it is not like
ly that successor will be named since
the department may well be discon-
tinued as there are now practically no
steamship agencies held by the com
pany.
Do Not Refuse Pledge
Mr.. Hagens added that in none Of
these three cases had the pledge which
Is being signed by the officers and di-
rectors of the company and is to be
presented to the employees for signature
as yet been received and their action
was not to be taken ASA refusal on
their part to sign such pledge nor rs
impugning their motives or their good
| citizepship. In each instance, he said,
the letter of resignation gave the rea-
/ son that the writer considered the ae-
| ton "best for him.
Iinderman Heads Ehlers
f. Following the resignation of Mr.. Du
| Roi and its acceptance came the an.
nouncement of the appointment of T.
| j. Lindeman to succeed him as head
Of b. F. Ehlers & Company. Mr.. Lin,
Z deman has been head of the dry goods
department of II. Hackfeld 4 Company
is an American citizen by birth, is well
| liked and has the confidence of the PEG
| pie of Honolulu and his selection will
! probably have the effect Of bringing
back to B. F. Ehlers & Company the
\ greater part of such custom AZ that
| firm has lost during the past two OIL
( three years.
One Vacancy Remains
Mr.. Hageus did not say whether any
4 other or further designations had as YET
been rendered or were expected. There
lis thus left to be named successor Il
Mr.. Won Damn as result of the resig
knatisns which were announced yester
kday.
4 This vacancy at the head of the in
4 suraHee department win probably meal
the pfomotion Of Frank A. Bachelor
4 who has long been nominally secont
but in reality at the head of this i'm
portaut branch of the business. During
Won Damn s long absence in Berlin
Stockholm and other foreign ports, thu
insurance business has been in Mr.
Batchelor's hanAs. He is Honolulu
born American and his promotion, if i
comes, will be in line with the an
pouneed new Hackfeld policy.
Length Of Service.
! OF the three employees who have ten
dered their resignations Mr.. Du Roi hao
been longest with the company, his as
ISOLATION with it dating back thirt,
years, to the time of his arrival her,
from Germany. He is a citizen b,
naturalization.
Mr.. Won Damn had been with thu
company for twenty-five years and i
also q naturalized American citizen
Mr.. Klebahn had been with the hOus
of Hack field for nineteen years and ha
never taken cut ,eitizenship, papers.
| 8 i !