The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-01-23
Sketch of the Development Of the
Enterprise.
FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANT
An Undertaking Which is a Credit to
HOnOlulu-Three Powerful Engines
in PIace-Dynamos For 5000 Six
teen Candle-Power Lamps.
Communicated

/ The electric plant was located on
( King street and had capacity of
/ about eight hundred Is c. 2. lamps,
with number of motors used during
! the day time, and was worked up to
its full capacity. \ bill granting a
franchise to erect poles and run wires
| in the streets of Honolulu, was passed
by the Legislature of 1892 and signed
lust one wear ago. This franchise was
offered at auction and purchased by
w. w. Hall for the Hawaiian Elec-
trio Co. In May of last year the
company was reOrganized and the
capital stock increased to $4,000
and the following officers elected:
VIM. G. Irwin, President; Alex.
Young. Vice-President; VIM. w.
Hall, Treasurer; E. o. White, Secre-
tary; and Thos. May, Auditor. Since
then Mr.. May has resigned and Mr..
Godfrey Brown was elected to take
his place. The stock has all been sold
and 20 per cent. has been assessed
and paid in.
Four lots have Teen purchased on
the Esplanade, on the north side of
the new market building, corner of
AIakea and Halekauwila streets.
Upon this property, measuring 100 by
200 feet has been erected one OF the
largest and most substantial brick
buildings in town, and well adapted
for the work for which it is Intended.
This building is of brick, set on
stone foundations feet deep by feet
thick, built on the coral rock. The
roofs cover separately the two rooms
formed by the dividing brick wall,
and are of galvanized corrugated iron,
and for the purpose of light and venti-
latiOn each roof has a ventilatOr the
whole length of the building, COM
posed partly of glass and partly of
louvres. The roof trusses are made
heavier than usual, for the purpose OF
lifting the heavy parts of machinery
during erection, examination or re-
pairs. The walls have been built with
a view to a second story when re-
quired in the future. The dividing
wall between the rooms has been so
placed that q width Of % feet in the
clear has been given to the dynamo
and engine room, while the other
room, devoted to the boilers, coal
storage, etc, is only A feet wide in
the clear. The steam boilers are
placed at one end of the room, and
when completed will consist of four
multi-tubular steel boilers, 20 feet by
7 feet, the tubes being inches; capa-
able of sustaining working pressure
of 100 pounds to thesquare inch. They
are of the ordinary type-fired under
and returning through the tubes. The
smoke stack is 5 feet inches in dia-
meter and about 10 feet high. 1t is
built of 1-inch steel plates, and, after
being well painted inside, is lined
with brick and so protected by an an
nular cap at the top that no moisture
is allowed to get between the steel
plates and brick lining. At present |
but two of the boilers are in place, |
these being considered sufficient for |
present requirements; the foundations |
only for the other two being Quilt, so |
that they may be added as soon as |
needed The steam pipes are led across
the boilers into and along the wall of |
the engine room. the whole being of |
ample dimensions for full capacity of |
the four boilers. The steam pipe for |
each engine branches off just where
required. The steam engines at pres
ent in place consist of:
One cross compound cOndensing |
Ball engine of 200 H. p.
One cross compound condensing |
Ball engine of $50 H. p.
One Arlington & Sims single en-
CINE of 100 II. p.
(The horsepower given is for nom
The exhaust pipes are so construct
ed that the engines may be changed
from condensing to On-cOndensing
I'm |
cOndensing or not, all the
eXhausts have to pass through "a
counter current feed-water heater be-
fore reaching the condenser or being
exhausted into the atmosphere. The
condenser is Of the ordinary shower
type, and takes its injection water
rom a series of five 10-inch artesian
wells drilled in corner of the engine
room close to the condenser and air
pump The air-pump is an ordinary
Blake's vacuum pump,
IA in. steam cylinder, Is in. air cylin-
Ter and "a in. stroke. Besides the air.
pump, small Blake's service pump
s used to drain the exhaust pipes and
bottom of feed-water heater. The ex-
laust pipes, feed-water heater, con-
lenser and air-pump are of full capa
,ity for all the power ultimately to be
developed by the four boilers.
The water supplied by the artesian
wells is almost fresh, and, in case of
accident to the city water pipes, is
Intended to feed the boilers. All the
for boilers, engines and
lynamos are built of ample dimen-
ions and on the coral rock, the lower
part being of stone and the top of
pressed brick, so that notwithstand-
ng the high velocity of engines and
lynamos when in motion, not a jar is
o be felt: in fact, these ponderous
when doing their work,
make as little ado as so many family
ewing machines. The plans for the
were prepared by Mr.. e. B.
Ripley, the brick and stone work done
" Mr.. R. Lishman, the carpenter
york by Mr.. A. Petrie, the plumbing
" Messrs Emmeluth & Co., the
Oiler settings by Messrs. Harrison
Srothers, and the plans for the ar
angement of the machinery and
together with the steam v
machinery itself and connections, s
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