The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-01-24

from "Trip 10 AiueIlca anu EulOlle'
A BULLETIN representative, knowing
that Mr.. Young does not travel for
Jun very considerably, gave him bare
time to recover his land legs, then
metaphorically bearded the Scottish
lion IN his den, extracting from HIM
the Information that appears below.
10 outside readers only is it neces-
sary 10 explain that Mr.. Young is i
large plantation stock owner as well
as an ironmaster of lifelong exper-
fence. .
"What went you out to see
and to du?" was in effect the re-
porter's first assault on the works.
The object of my trip abroad Gre
piled Mr.. Ioung) was, first of all,
to purchase materials and machinery
we do not manufacture here, 10 the
best advan age for the contracts the
Honolulu Iron Works had in hand at
the time of my departure, and for
other work anticipated at that time.
And, secondly, though not of less
Importance, | wanted to see for my
self the most improved method in
operation for preparing the sugar
cane for diffusion and also the most
improved diffusion batteries and
other sugar machinery recently erect
ed. For that purpose | visited
louisiana twice. On the first visit |
spent about a week in October, and
in December about the same time on
my return from Europe.
Why did you go there twice, Mr..
Young?
Because when | first went there,
owing to bad weather, many of the
factories were not fairly at work
and, besides, | wanted to see the
large new diffusion battery, then
being erected for Gov. Warmoth at
Magnolia, after it was in operation.
| also wanted to see Hyatt's new
patent cane cutter, or saver, at
work. | therefore had to visit Lousi-
ana the second time. In these two
things | was, towever, disappointed,
for neither had got to work when |
visited that place in December.
What cutters did you see most in
use III Louisiana!
All the factories | visited where
diffusion had been adopted were
using the Ross cutter together with
the communion | forget the make 5
name). The former cuts the cane
into pieces about one inch long, and
the latter-a revolving cylinder
about four feet long by one foot dia-
meter-has number of longitudinal
tubes projecting from its surface
about three siXteentbs of an inch,
and hooked forward like the teeth of
saw, against which the cut cane
from the Ross machine was fed
through an inclined chule--a method
which, though it takes two opera
tons, seems to answer fairly well.
TO this method | have, however, two
obj ions. One objection is the me-
cessity for two operations, even
though all the work is automatically
performed; the other, and perhaps
the most serious one, is that the
chips are very irregular in thickness,
much Of the stuff being somewhat
like chopped rope liber and the ba-
lance Jumps of varying thicknesses,
many OF them much too thick for
perfect extraction of the sacCharme,
in anything like the same time that
il needs for the finer portion. The
thickest pieces are the pieces Of rind
to which the inside OF The cane adj
heres closely add forms solid humps,
What is the principle Of the Hyatt
machlnci
The one now at Governor War
moths factory a. ii seems 30 me-
would bee best described hy stating
TINT ia be- supply housed drum
aNuut rs l,r long and say 800 iurhr
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