Our Honolulu Otremba

In my files are two newspaper clippings regarding Franz Otremba, the woodcarver, who lived in Hawaii at the turn of the last century.  We don't know much about him, or even how closely he was related, but here they are, for posterity.

It's interesting, I think, that a Polish immigrant who was a professional woodcarver tried managing a coffee plantation.  Don't you wonder how that came about?

 Evidently, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was held in Seattle in 1909, and Franz loaned a carved chair but didn't get it back. (Wow, check the link!) 

This article was from February, 1910. Hope he won.