The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-05
PUMPING PLANT AWARD.
ERECTION CONTRACT REMAINS AT
HOME.
The Honolulu Iron Works Successful
The Blake Company win Make
the Pumps.

The contract for erecting the new
pumping plant has been let to the Hon
lulu Iron Works, az stated in Wednes
days STAR. The price to be paid is $50.
500. These figures are for the plant
complete, erected and with a guaranty
of effective service for a period of two
/ years. Part payment for the work Wi
be made in Government bonds. the con
tractors having agreed TO accept $40, OOC
that way.
A portion of the machinery will be
built here, and all of the work will be
done by local laborers. Besides, the
Honolulu Iron Works offered q plant
which suited the requirements of the
Government, and an even weight of
merits resulted in the award being
made to the local firm.
The other tenders for the plant were
as follows:
George w. Dudley & Co.. st. Lours,
$780, 5O; Union Iron Works, San Fran
cisco, S34 COO: Honolulu Iron Works
(A), $40, 800; Honolulu Iron Works (B),
sos, 200; j. l.. Loriiz, Brooklyn, n. V,
S2i 900: w. Z. Garrett e Co., San
Francisco W, $2O,5iO; (2), S2O,Oi4; (3),
$lS,994; az slS,s1l.
OF the Blake manufacture of pump
ing plants, the type comprehended in
the tender of the Honolulu Iron Works,
an exchange has this to say:
After the investigation. lasting about
three weeks, the Commissioner of
Public Works has awarded the contract
for the high-duty pumping engines for
the new aqueduct to the George +.
Blake Manufacturing Co. This contract
consists of four of the most economical
type of vertical triple-expansion crank
and hy-wheel pumping engines. They
are to be operated with 100 pounds of
steam pressure and built on the most
advanced ideas of engineering at the
present day.
These pumping engines are to be
placed in a beautiful structure located
between High Bridge and Washington
Bridge, just west of the new speedway,
and the contractors say the plant is to
be one of the finest ever built in this
country. The engines, when completed,
will be tested under the supervision of
the best engineering talent, with view
to establishing the superiority of this
class of pumping engines over any
other type made
With the reputation that The George
F. Blake Manufacturing Company has
already attained by breaking all
records in the building of high duty
pumping engines, the results of the
engines referred to will consequently be
looked upon by expert engineers with a
deal of interest; for the reason, that
with these newly designed engines
many of the old.time customs will be
such as low steam pressure,
slow piston speed and complicated
mechanism in the way of attachments
for securing economical working. From
an examination of the extensive works !
that The Blake Company possess ami
with the modern systems and thorough |
equipment, it is without doubt one of |
the finest manufacturing plants of the |
this country.
The city of Boston has also followed |
New York in the selection of a high
duty pumping engine. having just
awarded the contract to the George |
f. Blake Manufacturing Co. for "a ten
million gallon pumping engine of the |
vertical crank aud fly. wheel com
pound condensing type, to run at a
speed Of over 400 feet of piston travel !
per minute.
This company is also largely inter
ested i'll the manufacture of pumping |
for marine purposes, and /
their pumps have been adopted by the !
Navy Department. The famous three. |
screw cruiser Columbia, which recently |
made such successful trip is |
equipped with an entire outfit of |
Blake steam pumps, including indie !
pendent air pumps, as are also the u. |
S. cruisers New York, Brooklyn, Min !
neapolis, Philadelphia, MarbIrhead, !
Detroit Chicago, Boston
and Atlanta; the battleships Maine,
Indiana. Massachusetts and Iowa: the
gunboats Dolphin, Machias, Castine;
the monitors Puritan and MianConu-
NAH; the ram Katahdin and the dyna-
mite cruiser Vesuvius, and many others.