The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-05-21

distant. The two places are con-
nected by railroad, which is being
completed at the present time. The
grade of this road is very easy, and
the rails are LAID with exceptional
eveuness, on strong and durable
sleepers. A locomotive is ulti-
mately to supply the motive power
OF transport.
The plantation employs from seven
to eight hundred hands. Americans
and Europeans fill the principal
positions of control and RESPONSE
bility, such as managers, engineers,
sugar boiler, etc. The laborers
comprise Portuguese, Chinese, and
japanese. People of the last named
nationality are found to be specially
apt, useful, and reliable in and
around the mill.
The Makee Sugar Company has
an extensive cattle ranch adjacent
to the plantation, from which its
working oxen and beef-supply are
drawn. The stock is maintained at
about 5000 head. The more ele-
waited lands back of the plantation,
and unsuited or not so well suited
to cane culture, are used for pastur-
age.
Before speaking of the mill, it
may be remarked that the company
has recently erected and has in run
ming order, within little distance
of the mill, commodious hotel,
where excellent meals are served
three times day and wayfarer
may procure first class sleeping ac-
commodation. The building is
two story structure, with dining
rooms, kitchen, etc., on the ground
floor, and six large, furnished bed
rooms upstairs. Verandahs extend
nearly all around the building, both
above and below. Water is supplied
through pipes, and a choice may be
made of hot or a cold bath. A
skilled and experienced cook pre-
pares the meals, and attentive wait
ers wait at table. The food is of
the best quality, embraces consider
able variety, and is very nicely
cooked. The boarding department
of the hotel is intended primarily
for the benefit of employees of the
company, and secondarily for the
accommodation of visitors and
travellers.
Coming to the mill we find an i'm
mense pile of lofty buildings, con-
structed of iron, with a gigantic
stone smoke-stack, rising to q
height of 13O feet. The machinery
in every department is of the latest
and most approved kinds, and is
operated by two engines, one of 80
and the other of 100 horsepower.
AS before stated, the bulk of the
cane is flumed from the field to the
mill. After being once dumped
into the fumes it requires no more
handling, other than little equaliz-
ing Immediately before passing be-
tween the rollers which express the
Juice. The cane is shunted by the
tlume right on to an automatic feed
er, which is in constant motion,
The water is siftcd through the bot
tom of the travelling feeder at the
place where it deposits its load, and
is carried off by ditch, while the
cane, which is cleansed of dirt and
dust by the tiumlng process, is
slowly moved up an incline, and as
it descends on the opposite side Is
drawn in between ponderous rollers
which crush out its juice, or the
greater part of it.
Now begins the maceration pro
cess, which is simply second crush
ing of the same cane, after it ha
been saturated with hot water
When the crushed cane leaves tn
first set of rollers it falls on to
second automatic feeder, and in it
T course is sprinkled with the heate
water just now referred to, by pei
forated tube from above, reachin
, across the full breadth of the feed
, er. This crushed cane keeps o.
travelling as before, until it passe
\ through a second set of rollers an
receives Il second crushing, expires
, sing considerable juice which tn
first process had left behind.
: This operation completed, til
q crushed material is conveyed ava
v by the same method as that b
n which it was first brought to tt
+ crushers, and is used as fuel fl
e heating the furnaces, to produC
i steam. The expressed juice is CO..
i veyed, without handling, throue
If pipes to the boiling-house, where
is subjected to the various process
1T of clarifying, boiling, granting, DIR.
,r ing, etc., to convert it into market
,s bic sugar.
Ie Here there are two large doubl
,s effects and two vacuum pans. Ol
If of these pans has capacity of nea
ly eight tons, and the other is abo
;s double that size. There are twel
# centrifugal machines for drying Il
Sc sugar, after the vacuum pan h
Of done its work. 1t passes to the
,e through tubes, without handlin
,r and, in the case of No. suga
l.,