The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-01-05
UNION iron WORKS.
A Great Addition 10 H3n0Iula'S In
dlStTiaS.
The Nest Modern MschIu~ry- -E.arxr
staff of Skilled labor.

have been established about min
months, and the BULLETIN has givel
them time to get fairly under wa,
before attempting description
They occupy plot Of ground front
ing on Queen, Haekauila and Alake;
streets, or an area of 225 feet by 35t
feet. The originators of the enter
prise are Mr.. j. n. S. Williams anC
Mr.. Robert More. Mr.. Williams
who is business manager, had beer
well-known as local agent for the
Union Iron Works o. San Francisco
while Mr.. More, who is superintend
ent of the works, had been long anc
favorably known as master ma.
chinist of this city.
A BULLETIN reporter called at the
works Saturday, to take notes OF
their extent and equipment, and was
/ pilOted all over the establishment by
Mr.. More. To begin at the right
place the drafting room was first
visited. This is situated on Hale
kauila street, but, as new room is
being prepared on Queen street,
nothing needs be said about it other
than that Mr.. f. Orton, the head
craftsman, formerly of San Fran
cisco, was found busily engaged
with his assistants preparing designs
for the pattern shop. The particu-
lar work in hand, it may also be said
were the details for the Eva Planta-
tion diffusion plant, for which the
Union Iron Works Company has the
contract at 100000. Behind the
drafting room, in the regular row of
buildings, opposite the mechanical
shops, reaching from Haek auiIa TO
Queen street, are store rooms for
material and finished work.
The pattern department is natur-
ally the next to be visited. Mr.. h.
b. Ellis, late of San Francisco, is in
charge. Power for this shop is sup
piled by an Independent engine.
The latest machinery in vogue is EN-.
ployed for every detail of pattern
making.
Carpenters are found at work in
the Queen street end OF the row of
buildings already mentioned. They
are finishing the new offices and
drafting room, which are to be trans
ferred from the Halekauila street
front. The drafting room will be
the full width of the building and 80
feet deep. A snug office for the
superintendent will divide the width
in front with the main office, and
will look handsome IN mahogany
grained wainscoting and embossed
paper ceiling.
The moulding shop comes next to
the pattern shop in order. Mr..
William Miles Is foreman and has
his hands full, for there are 1900
pounds ION the floor" to-day. This
shop was originally 80 feet by 20
feet, but it has been found neces-
sarv to add a building of 20 feet by
60 feet, which was erected in two
days within the past week. There
are two melting cupolas, one with
capacity of two tons at a time the
other, "Colliau," with a capacity of
five tons an hour which can be main
tanned for twenty four hours conse-
cutively. This larger cupola dis
charges the iron at one side and the
Stag at the other. The core ovens
are of the latest design. A travel
ing crane of ten tons capacity faciIi-
tates the handling of the ore. In
the rear of the shop is the brass
foundry, on one side of which is sta
toned No. 5 Baker blower supply
ing draft TO the cupolas.
The blacksmith SHOP is well fitted
up with torges, but it has been prov
ed too small and will be extended.
1t is in charge of Mr. George Sander
man, an old resident mechanic of
the islands. A bot-heading ma
chine is here in operation, finishing
bolts at the rate of 1900 a day. The
company is able to make all its own
bolts. The new blacksmith shop to
be constructed Immediately will have
ten fires.
The machine shop, of which Mr..
John Sanders is foreman, is equipped
with the latest machinery. There
are three large lathes, and a larger
than any is coming to the works
from the Eastern States. A Pedrick
< Aver milling machine is great
labor-saver in cutting gears, etc. A
shaping machine, from Could &
Eberhardt, Newark, n. j Hen
dey planer, from Torrington, Conn.
Reed turret lathe, for brass work
seven drilling machines, two emory
wheels, three bolt-screwing ma
chimes; horizontal boring mill,
from the Newark Machine Tool
Works; an extension lathe, capable
of taking 20 feet betv cen centers,
from <. Harrington & Sons, are
parts of the plant. Another very
ingenious piece of mechanism is
portable drill press, which, although
operated by steam power, will drill
inside boiler or anywhere, as Mr..
More says, and at any angle, without
the work having to be shifted This
implement is from Haisey's, Norris
town, n. j. Power for alt these
machines is supplied by rs h. p.
Valley automatic steam engine, but
this having proved insufficient the
company is putting in new 400 h.
p. Putnam engine.