The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-11-26

/ We have already in words expressed thanks, We
take this opportunity TO reiterate them TO Messrs
! McGregor, Webster. Evarts, Newman and others
! From the moment when entered the mill We
| tered n most pleasant time, enjnyed in the
genial society Of those intelligent gentlemen oasis
in the long and dreary blank Of our life. Although
shall endeavor give your readers descrip ption OF
the mill ami sugar house, fear it be lame
without the addition of a plan, showing the most
perfect arrangement, that cannot fail TO strike the
perception of eveh a neophyte. The buildings them
selves. forming right angle. thus, erected un-
der the personal supervision Of Ths Heuck. Esq.
architect another instance Of complete
and another argument that those who enter the
erection Of costly and extensive buildings should
avail themselves Of the services OF scientific builder.
On entering the buildings the behoder is struck with
the ariness, the room and light which they present
in contrast with most mills and sugar houses. The
looks light but is of the most substantial
kind You perceive no heavy and clumsy iimbers
and the injudicious waste Of material so often met
with in similar buildings, but every brace gives the
desired strength and every bolt s just there where it
tells and warrants strength and durability.
The ponderous rollers which are fed by an endless
carrier. and by which carrier the expressed
begasse s also discharged outs OF the building are
placed in lofty and airy room, partitioned from but
in close proximity 10 the engine. The engine ITSELF
bright and polished, is perhaps the finest machinery
imported IL was manufactured by Merrlies &
TAFT of Glasgow, and is of splendid workmanship.
Near the engine. embedded in solid masonry, lies the
great boiler, and upon a raised platform with suffi
cien space walk between, four double bottOmed
CHARTERS Of $50 gallons each. heated by steam, and
each be filled by the powerful engine in less than
20 minutes time Fronting the CHARTERS on another
oblong platform, stand a Wetzll and de Bour pan,
two ingenious inventions that mark era in the
science of sugar manufacturing On the left you
descend few broad steps to the range of open ket
ties fed from the CHARTERS. second boiler closes
the kettle range and is heated by the kettle range
hues Near the "teach." most valuable contriv-
is placed in the shape of powerful crane, ON
which immense bowl descends into the teach; by
opening O valve, il swallows the whole of the
tents in big gup, swings round and empties the
precious fluid into elevated tank, from which pipes
lead il when required into the pans. All danger of
burning. 10 which the juice would be liable by the
slow process of baiing ladling, is avoided Rail-
roads facilitate every operation of hauling. lnuu-
merable coolers placed in a building by themselves
commencing from the corner as shown in the above
6gure are out Of the way and undisturbed, till after
the time being fulfilled the granulated mass enters
in the centrifug gals from which the molasses is dis
charged through pipes into reservoir the pans,
pumped from there into~an elevated tank, to flow
again into the pans for rebong. One side OF the
cooler building is occupied by the sugar room, which
receives the finished sugar and where it is packed,
weighed and marked, and from the door of this room
the barrels slides directly into q large scow
for shipment. The end Of the building is a large
room occupied n cooperage, and when you listen
to the perfect tact in which the hammer descends
upon the barrel hoops, you will not be astonished
when you have the pleasure of making the acquaint-
ance Of our musical friend Newman. Step outside
the cooperage and you the frewood tumbng
down from the mountain side several hundred feet
high. Farther you the neat cottage like
houses occupied by the officers Of the estate, and the
white walls and red roofs look quite picuresquely on
the wood-cad mountain side where orange and citron
vie with each other in luxuriance. On the opposite
side Of the river you overlook the extensive panta-
ton under the charge Of Mr.. Alex. McGregor; so
well known as scientific and successful sugar boiler.
10 be Continued.