The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-12

Oli any puII WHICH may break down
and have il placed on the cars out
side and RIM down to the steamer to
be shipped to Honolulu. Every
thing throughout the mill is beauti-
fully clean and neat, reminding one
of nothing so much as u man-of-war
cleaned and prepared for visitors,
and yet this is its ordinary working
condition. Order and discipline
reigns throughout.
Outside are the furnaces on the
leeward side. The Jarvis furnace is
used here, and the green and dry
trash and cane tops mixed together
are fed to the furnace, but in wet
weather coal has to be used. An
immense brick chimney, 100 #. 0
in. high, erected in 1879, carries off
the smoke, and double 0ue has
been built so that in case of acci-
dent work may be carried on without
delay. Trash houses and sheds
occupy considerable space on this
side, but at present are rather
empty. Beside the sugar room is
the machine room and the machine
shop, well-equipped with lathe, drill
press, vice, and the necessary tools
for working. Here also is donkey
engine for pumping water to four
large water tanks, holding 5000
gallons of water. The locomotive
house comes next, wherein are kept
the two engines used for hauling
the cars, each being used week
about. Throughout the whole mill
and appurtenance the systematic
ordcrliness strikes one rs promi-
nent feature in the management.
Within easy distance of the mill
are the quarters for the officers and
men employed. These are kept
wonderfully clean and tidy, and
every care is taken to make them
comfortable On visiting the mess
room we found it well-filled and
clean, and splendid dinner of
fresh beef, soup, vegetables, bread,
butter, tea and coffee provided.
Regular meal hours are established,
and the various classes of workmen
have each their own table.
A run was then taken round the
l,200 acres of cane that composes
the plantation, first in Il break and
then on the cars. There are nine
miles of track { English and German
steeD including the portable track,
solidly and well-laid on wooden
sleepers, and the grades vary from
two and four feet in the hundred to
nine feet. The speed attained is
greatest on the line to the wharf,
distance of two and a quarter miles,
which is reached in six minutes with
a load on, and the return journey
occupies seven minutes. Covered
cars are used for taking the sugar
down to the wharf in case of rain.
The average yield from the fields is
3! to four tons of sugar per acre.
The mill buildings are of iron and
therefore there is no fear of fire.
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plantation was the uniform polite
ness and civility of the men en-
ployed. None of the hands are
shipped. All are free to come and
go as they please, without having
recourse to court of law to hold
them to their engagements. There
are probably 430 inhabitants all told
in Waimanalo, natives, foreigners
and Cinnamon, and the latter are in
the majority. The place is we'll
watered, having four springs and a
running stream. There is also an
artesian well, which does not flow
but requires to be pumped.
Every where throughout the plan
tation and mill the same cleanliness,
neatness, orderliness and discipline
is observable, and reflects the
greatest credit on the management.
Our thanks are due to Mr.. j. A.
Cummins the manager, and to Mr..
Martin the engineer, for their cour-
tesy in explaining matters of detail
to non-professional visitors and to
the agent, Mr.. G. Bolte, for many
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