Popular Science Monthly 



505 



Detail drawing of the 

 rollers and cutting 

 frame of the cigar- 

 making machine 



action of these rollers is similar to that of a 

 hand shaping the cigar. 



After the familiar spindle-shape is ob- 

 tained, a binder is placed on the porous 

 belt which passes 

 over the suction box 

 15. One end of the 

 binder being glued 

 and moistened, it 

 is at once fastened 

 around the cigar. 

 Then the lower roller 

 moves to one side 

 and the finished 

 cigar drops into a 

 pipe below, through 

 which it is conveyed 

 to the cigar box. 



By this method 

 a great quantity of 

 cigars, uniform in 

 blend and quality-, 



may be cut, shaped and packed in boxes in 

 a mere fraction -of the time formerly re- 

 quired and at little expense after the cost of 

 installation of the machinerv is met. 



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How a Boy Started the Hawaiian 

 Pineapple Industry 



BEFORE the United States acquired 

 them the Hawaiian Islands were 

 famous chiefly for their natives and their 

 leper colony. There were no special culti- 

 vation of the soil, no trade, and no 

 commercial industries of 

 value. But since 



the annexation to the United States in 

 1900, American enthusiasm and American 

 progressiveness have invaded the land. 

 The pineapple industry is one of the best 

 illustrations of the 

 result of this i\mer- 

 icanizing. It was 

 started almost by 

 chance, by a compar- 

 atively uneducated, 

 inexperienced New 

 England lad, the son 

 of a clerg> man. He 

 chose to locate in 

 Hawaii on account 

 of its wonderful cli- 

 mate, and finding 

 that the pineapples 

 were especially lus- 

 cious and that they 

 grew quickly and 

 abundantly, he per- 

 suaded his father to secure a few thousand 

 dollars for him to start him in the pineapple- 

 raising business. It was a veritable get- 

 rich-quick scheme. It has netted fortunes 

 to each one of those friendh" parishioners 

 who advanced money for the venture. 



At first the fruit was sent to the United 

 States fresh and was marketed along the 

 Pacific coast. But now there is a cannery 

 with a capacity- of ten thousand cans an 

 hour, from which the fruit is shipped to all 

 parts of^the world. 



Two thousand acres of pineapples, laid out in geometrical designs over the undulating valleys of 

 Hawaii. The land is of wonderful fertility in spite of the fact that it is of volcanic origin 



