THE GARDEN ISLAND, TUESDAY, AUG. 12, 1919
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I Notes From Hawaii j
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Ililo ami the lotion Ihernbouts
must surely be the best served sec
lion on 1 lie Islands, from the rent
seryiee point of view. There are
plenty of ears, and the rates are
very low. For instance, I was con
veyed from Ililo to Waiakea, a
distance. perhaps of a mile and a
half, spent the evening there, and
then taken home again, for the
very reasonable sum of fifty cents.
It was a seven passenger Hnick
car mid it had to make two round
trips. The fare from the Kuhio
wharf to any part of town, about
two miles and a half, is also only
fifty cents.
They attribute these low rates
to the number of cars and the
brisk competition. They are justi
fied, they say, by the' increased
business. More people ride be
cause of these low rates, and in
the long run they make more
money than they would -with high
rates ami less business.
I would respectfully commend
this point of view to the service
trade elsewhere.
Ililo certainly shows no sign of
a gasoline shortage, and fears
none, they say. So confident are
they of this that Ihey are shipping
gasoline to Honolulu.
What will happen to the Ililo
papers when they no longer have
the homesteaders' problems, plans
and grievances to report and dis
cuss? No one knows, but there
will be a big hole to till up. That
Unfortunate contingency, how
ever, seems to be some distance
away at present.
Now that Waiakea is settling
down and tailing off, Wailea is
breezing up. Wailea is the near
side of the Hakalau section, where
there are homesteaders' to the
amount of over oOOO acres, they
claim. They are growing restive
under the wing of the Hakalau
mill, and want a mill of their
own and they say they are going
to have it.
They are planning on a mill to
manufacture some :!." or 40 tons of
sugar a day. to cost, with the
necessary ' subsidary equipment,
about r00,000. They claim to
be very confident that they can
secure the money without any dif
ficulty, from one of the Ililo
banks, it is said. And they have
moved up the date of the complet
ion and inauguration of the same,
from 1!)21 to 1!)20 much of which
seems exceedingly improbable.
The pretty general conviction
along the coast is that it is simply
a blulf proposition to secure bet
ter terms from the Hakalau peo
ple, and that the Wailea mill will
never get beyond blue-print plans
and a dream construction.
It looks as though Hawaii was
in for another drought, the equal
of that which culminated in 11(17.
Even in Ililo they complain about
dry weather, but without justifi
cation if one may judge from the
looks of the luxuraut vegetation.
Hut as one conies down the coast
where the showers drop off, and
the wind increases and the rank,
green of the fields turns to a faded
brown the evidences of dry
weather are very apparent.
At I'apaaloa, still in the Ililo
district.they still have I.OOO tons of
the current crop to come off, and
no means of getting it off no
water for flaming. The streams
have shrunk to mere driblets, that
will hardly wet the flumes.
They have retained .lorgenson.
the water engineer, to wrestle
wilh the problems of the scarcity
of water for fluniing, and formul
ate plans for securing additional
water to renew the efficiency of
Iheir passive fluniing system, ne
has men in the mountains hunting
lor lost streams and hidden reser
voir sites, wlnle lie is tmsy figuring
on pumping plants and pipe lines
to lift what water there is up to
the higher levels where it will be
most effective. It remains to be
seen which of these schemes will
minister most satisfactorily to the
solution of the problem or . in
deed whether any of them will. A
somewhat intimate knowledge of
the whole country and the condi
tious involved, make me rather
pessimistic.
An unfortunate outcome of the
dry weather is the prevalence of
forest fires. Early in June a fire
got started in (lie back country of
Hauiakua, in the upper edge of the
dying forest, and ran through the
small scrub and withered grass
for several davs before anyone
knew about it. And it has been
going ever since, with more or less
avidity.
If, on a quiet day, the spread of
the devouring flames slowed up, a
windv day or two followed, which
whipped up the fire to renewed
activity, and when it was checked
Paper Making in Hawaii
The Olaa Taper mill is bigger
than an ordinary sugar mill, con
tains more machinery and cost al
most as much money. The process
of paper making, while simple in
fundamental principal, is quite
complex in the practical working
out. All that has to be done is to
grate up and reduce the woody
fibre of the cane to pulp, spread
it thin in a continuous sheet, dry
it out, and run it off in rolls. The
doing that involves a lot of ingen
ious mechanism and no small de
gree of skill.
The bagasse conies across from
the sugar mill to the paper mill on
a trash carrier, which delivers it
into two revolving cookers, where
it is boiled for a couple of hours,
to disintegrate it. and remove uu
desirable gummy substances. Then
it is ground liner and finer, until
it is the consistency of soft, homo
genous graham flour mush. This
mush is then deposited in a thin
layer on a long traveling cloth
belt which "runs over a series of
steam healed rollers, a long bat
tery of them, M) or ( feet long,
which finally delivers the paper in
a continuous roll 70 inches wide.
This is cut in two, and run olf into
smaller rolls, for field use.
In order to give the paper the
necessary durability and water
proof quality, it is run through a
bath of hot asphalt, after which
it looks and feels, and practically
is, for all the world, like roofing
paper.
Of course it is understood that
this is paper for agricultural pur
poses, anil not for any of the ordi
nary commercial purposes. Com
mercial paper, even the finer
grades, could be made with a
slight modification of the process.
The plant uses about ten tons
of bagasse-a day, which, of course,
takes that much from the fuel sup-
plv for the null. But as this is
only a small fraction of the total
bagasse output, it does not cut
seriously into the fuel supply; in
fact when the sugar factory is
running to full capacity, there is
in over-supply of trash, so that
the paper is made practically from
the waste product.
Some S00 acres of the planta
tion is now papered, an area
which will be raised by the end of
the summer to l."00 acres.
The paper is applied, immedi
ately following the cutting of the
cane, the long strip being unrolled
over the actual row of the cane,
covering, say a foot and a half
each way from the line of cane.
This leaves a gap of about two!
feet in the center of the row, be
tween strips. This must be culti-i
vated and the weeds kept down
by other methods. The sprouting;
cane conies up and pushes its way
through the paper or through slits
made for the purpose when need
ed. The paper is so durable that
it will last as long as the growing
cane needs assistance in keeping
down the weeds that is for sev
eral months.
A very careful series of experi
ments has been conducted over a
sufficiently long period of time to
give very conclusive results, and
these seem to demonstrate that the
use of paper reduces the labor cost
of cultivation to less than one
third of what it is, at Olaa, under
the hoe cultivation system, and
that the increased yield of sugar,
due to the use of paper, more than
pays for the paper, so that the
labor saving is net. And this, it
is claimed, is of more significance
than appears on the face of it, be
couse in a time of labor scarcity
the value of a man's day is much
more than the wages that he gets.
The difference between a good
crop ami a poor one, in value, is
ama.ing, and that turns on the
services of, comparatively, a few
men ami this gives those few
men a phenomenal value. Manager
Eckhart is confident that the pa
per mill is indispensible to the
success of Olaa, and his figures to
(his effect have convinced the di
rectors hence the mill.
Hairing some minor mechanical
difficulties, contingent on a new
enterprise, under new and differ
ent conditions, the mill has been
a great success, and is more than
justifying the most confident ex
pecta tious. It is the only success
ful bagasse paper factory iu the
world others have been tried but
have proved failures.
fresh one, so that the ravages have
been continuous and wide spread
covering, it is said, some (!()00
acres. The worst of it is that the
end is not yet, and that it is likely
to continue all summer, or until
there is a good rain. The Parker
Ranch has a gang of a hundred
ren fighting it night and day, nnd
cither interests have smaller gangs
Tuesday August 1 2
Kilauea Hall
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Tip Top Theatre
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Thursday August 14th
Kapaa Hall
Friday August 15th
Waimea Hall
Saturday August 1 6th
Kekaha
Monday August 1 8th
Eleele Hall
JgWILLIAH FOX PRQPU!
William Farnum
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"L
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Miserables"
In 9 Reels or Film
It Takes Heart Interest to Make
A Truly Great Picture
Ask any one who saw this picture in Honolulu. There
can be only one answer:
LES MISERABLES is the greatest -story ever written.
More people have read Les Miscrahles than
any book ever published except the Holy
. Bible. Don't fail to see this picture.
General Admission 35c Reserved Seats 75c
Children 15c
Reserve Seats now on sale at LIHUE STORE
for the Tip Top Theatre
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Les Miserables
When Victor Hugo's greatest
work, Les Miserables, was put out
iu 1S(!2, he insisted that it should
be published simultaneously -in
Loudon, Paris, Brussels, Leipzig,
Milan, Madrid, I'estli, Rotterdam.
and New York.
He believed so implicitly in Les
Miserables that he wanted it read
everywhere. He received $S0,000
for tne manuscript, but the pur
chaser came very nearly refusing
the story because of the publicat
ion in so many cities.
The picturized version of Les
Miserables, which William Fox
has made with William Farnum
playing the part of Jean Vnljeau,
will be shown in a hundred times
more cities than the nook was
printed in. and to millions of more
persons than read the book. It
will be shown at the Tip Top on
Wednesday evening, Aug. l.'lth.
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Summer and Fall Cooking
The housewife must do her can
ning and preserving during sum
mer and fall, when the earth gives
up its best in the way of food
stuffs. Unfortunately it is during
tins season that the weather is the
hottest. It is 'a strain upon any
woman to stand over a hot stove j
on a sizzling day, while she is not
only getting through with her
daily cooking, but is also putting
up those fruits ami vegetables
which will be so much needed six
or eight months ahead.
A lot of drudgery is done away
with if she has a modern oil stove.
With such a stove the kitchen is
kept cool because it is so con
structed that all the heat goes into
the cooking. Radiation into the
kitchen is practically eliminated
because the kerosene is burned up
completely and scientifically.
An oil stove is intensely practi
cal. As on a gas range, the flame
can be adjusted so that it is pos
sible to have exactly the proper
heat for canning operations with
out interfering with regular
household cooking. It is a thor
oughly clean, comfortable stove
and adds to the appearance of the
kitchen.
Burning Ktnr Oil. the Standard
Oil Company's kerosene, the mod
ern oil stove is odorless aud'clean ;
and further, it concentrates the
heat on the cooking, not on the
cook.
Mr. Everett Hrown, who spent
some time as house guest of the
Fayes, returned to his home iu
Honolulu last Tuesday on the Ki-nau.
TONIGHT
Tip Top Theatre
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The Eleventh Chapter of "HANDS UP'
Pathe Weekly News Pictorial
Thursday Aug. 14
ENID BENNETT
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"When Do We Eat?'
Never play poker with a cashier-it ain't his
money. Funniest picture in months.
also
THE LION'S CLAW
The Twelfth Chapter
Pathe Weekly News Pictorial
ENID BENNETT
Wlieu Do'We Eit?'
Saturday, Aug. 16
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J'SUCH A LITTLE PIRATE"
This 20th Century Miss takes possession of a ship that a wealthy young "slacker"
was about to embark on to evade the draft.
Another Big Comedy Screen - Pathe weekly News Pictorial
Coming Tuesday, August 12th
Mary Pickford in "Johanna Enlists"
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doing the same thing.