15 Jan L’Orange is enjoyed and you will acknowledged by all the ethnic classification

Whatsoever these ages, Kaku Kumasaka however appreciated this new like and you can generosity L'Orange got getting the plantation someone

Hans L'Orange, the field management to the plantation at the time. “Yearly, new Oahu Sugar Team anticipate all family-Hawaiian, Chinese, Foreign language, Portuguese, Japanese, Puerto Rican, Filipino, and Korean, all of them-to the grand facility getting a christmas cluster, proper over the railway music from where i resided. The families strolled on grand warehouse to commemorate Xmas. The Japanese was in fact Buddhists, but it did not matter. Just what a goody it absolutely was! This is the merely big date I consumed ice-cream, once a year within Christmas time. From the the fresh new sound from ‘Jingle Berus' [bells], and you may a big weight man wearing a beneficial Santa gown merrily passing doing handbags away from snacks.” For individuals who lived-in separated konpan camps, there was not a chance to get to this new Christmas class. However, the family unit members acquired a good-sized plan away from apples, apples, crazy, and candy canes. Mr. Hans L'Orange, who had been a compassionate guy, wanted to render specific brighten towards the alone group surviving in the fresh new konpan camps. Annually he loaded his Harley-Davidson cycle having handbags regarding goodies making of a lot trips as a consequence of this new konpan camps, zooming because of clouds from red dust and you may jumping more than railroad tracks, so you can bequeath Christmas time perk into hardworking plantation household.