The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-13

DIAMOND HEAD, SIGNAL STA
TON, Nov. II, 10 p. m.-The weather
is clear; wind, light; northwest.
The Kaala is expected to arrive from
Oahu ports today.
The steamer w. G. Hall will be in
from Maui and Hawaii ports this after
noon.
The steamer Kauai sailed for Maka-
we'll with a load of coal yesterday af
ternoon.
The German bark Spica, Krouse mas
ter, sailed for Punta Arinas early yes
terday morning.
The Toyo-Maru is beginning to take
on 300 tons of ballast. She will sail
for Kobe, Japan, on Monday.
The bark Colusa is taking on ballast
preparatory to leaving for the Sound
during the early part of next week.
The bark Oakbank hauled in along
side the Fort street wharf yesterday
for the purpose of discharging her car
go of coal.
The American bark Edward May
Johnson master, sailed in ballast for
Hongkong at about 80 p. m. yester
day. She was taken to sea by the
tug.
The Kaena is now at the Inter-Is
land wharf, where she is being re-
paired and ref1tted in preparation for
the new boiler which will arrive on the
new Inter-Island steamer soon.
The Hawaiian bark Rosalie will fin
ish discharging her cargo of coal dur
ing the first of next week, and will
then sail for Esquimalt for orders. 1t
is probable that she will go from that
port to Shanghai
The bark H Hackfeld will finish dis
charging her cargo of general mer-
chandise at the railroad wharf on or
about Saturday She will then haul
over to one of the other wharves to
discharge 200 tons of sand.
The o. S. S. Alameda, Van Oteren-
dorp commander, continued on her
voyage to San Francisco at 11:15 a.
m. yesterday, an hour and half late.
Her delay was caused by the loading
of the large cargo of bananas exported
by her. The Alameda will be back in
port on December 17th
The comfortable and nicely uphol-
stored bench which used to stand out
side of the wharf office of the I. l. S.
n. Co. has been removed, not only be-
cause it was so popular with the loaf
ing fraternity, but because certain cap
tains of Inter-Island steamers lost so
much chance for exercise by occupy
ing it. The rumor is that a petition
will soon be circulated to have the
piece of furniture replaced.
80 t-a "a
Discussing the question of economy
in steamship propulsion before the Ma
rine Engineers Institute England
ing considerations, namely, the fric-
ton of the mechanism, the maximum
horsepower and the fuel. AS respects
the efficiency of modern machinery, he
thinks there is little to boast of, en-
forcing this opinion with the state
ment that if we reduced one pound Of
coal to horse power we would have 327
horse power, and for every pound of
coal burned, there should be, if the
and the boiler and the fur
mace were all fulfilling their purpose
with perfection, 327 horse power, in
stead of merely 171a horse power. A
unique illustration was given by Prof.
WeightOn by means of diagrams rep
reSenting discs, of the various approx
mate losses of power from the boiler
to the propeller, showing how such
losses of power accrued-namely, at
the furnace by radiation of heat, by
latent heat and by heat passing off in
the form of oxides. Abiding to the
difference between Welsh coal and the
and Scotch, and the best
methods of burning them, the coal re-
CURED he said, for 1000 horse power
was SO tons a day, but if the machin-
cry utilized all the latent heat in the
fuel only about two tons would be
neceSSary.-EX.