The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1895-02-06
Splendid Sugar Maxine Plant In
Good Working Order,
Newspaper Men Take a Fay OF to
Sss the Sweet StulI Maze

When the Eva Plantation Com
pany started operations on the Ho-
nouliuli ranch property in 1890, it
put diffusion process plant into its
mill which was largely built in Ho.
nolulu. Although the diffusion pro.
cess is operated successfully iu other
sugar mills on the islands, it appears
it has not given anything like COM
plete satisfaction in the Eva mill.
There is no need here to discuss the
causes. The fact is sufficient.
Upon one OF his trips abroad II.
=. Baldwin, one OF the foremost
planters in the country, had his at
tention attracted to new crushing
process. He was very much taken
up with it, and on his report the
Eva Plantation Company determin-
ed to procure a plant OF the same
kind. The Fulton Iron Works OF
st. Louis, Missouri, are the builders
of this crushing mill. They supplied
one to the order of the company
herein named, and that at short no.
tice. The mill was landed at Homo.
lulu by sailing vessel, and j. +.
O'Neil, superintendent Of the Full
ton Iron Works, came here to set
up the mill 1t took just two weeks
from the time the machinery was
landed at Honolulu until the mill
was in working order This fact it.
self is creditable enough to the
capacity OF Mr. O'Neil. but there is
another big item to the credit OF his
establishment and himself. That is
that not a bill OF one cent was iu-
Cured here in connection with the
setting up Of the plant. 1t is said
that this is an unusual record, for
there is generally some little altera-
ton to be made, or defective part to
be repaired, before complete sugar
mill is installed, whether of foreign
or domestic manufacture.
The new mill is now in operation.
On Tuesday Il. d. Tenney, OF Castle
n Cooke and the Eva Plantation
Company, conducted a press party
to see the working OF the plant.
There were in the party: II. NJ.
Whitney, editor Of the Planters
Monthly; Ed. Towse, editor of the
Hawaiian Star; w. II. Coney, re-
porter Of the Advertiser, and Daniel
Logan, editor OF the DAILY BULLETIN.
They went down by the morning
train and were met at the Eva Mill
railway station by w. j. Lowrie,
manager OF the plantation, and in.
troduced to Mr. O'Neil, who at once
showed them the points OF the mill.
Before entering the mill, however,
new weighing scheme was shown
the newspaper men. The cars load
ed with cane are weighed on passing
up to the point Of delivery, and each
car is weighed on returning. This
ensures exactitude in getting at the
net weight Of the cane. BY going
on a record OF the weight OF each
car inaccuracies were liable to occur,
as, il the cars were out in the rain a
good while, the moisture they alb
sorbed would, in the aggregate,
make such a difference as to make
exact computation OF the weight OF
cane impossible. As correct Stats
tics are regarded as OF great import
ance in estimating the profit and
loss Of sugar manufacture in these
islands, the improvement effected
by this change OF system at Eva is
obvious.
Upon entering the Eva mill the
first thing to attract the eye is a
magnificent engine. 1t is a Hamil-
ton Corliss engine made at Hamil-
ton, Ohio, but furnished with the
rest Of the plant by the Fulton Iron
Works. The engine is an automatic
high pressure one, 2Sin. x4Sin., hav-
ing a fywheel OF 20ft. diameter
weighing 10 tons. Engineers will
know it by this brief description. 1t
has the latest style OF governor,
whereby it only uses the amount OF
steam required for the load. A
system Of prodigious cogwheels
transmits the power to the crushing
or maceration process. Mr., O'Neil
showed the visitors how the COVER
nor regulated the expenditure OF
power automatically by manual in
reference with its working while
the mill was grinding. He thus
varied the pulsations OF the huge
motor, with mere turn OF the wrist,
making them go fast or slow like a
thing of life doing his bidding. 1t
impressed the writer as astonishing
that 80 tremendous an expenditure
of power could be tempered with
thus without causing some violent
jar.