The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-03-12

ager of the Works His resignation
was received with great reluctance by
the Company. After considerable per-
suasion ne consented 20 serve in the
capacity of consulting engineer. The
Company was exceedingly fortunate in
having at hand at this juncture man
thoroughly capable and available for
the Office of manager. Mr.. c. Hedemann
was the natural successor to MI.
Young.
The Iron Works, as the institution
appears today, through the endeavors
of its two successive managers, meets
all requirements and is great credit
TO the town and country. Anything
from repairing ronlng pin 10 turning
out q complete milling outfit, or equip
ping a steamer with machinery, is IN
dertaken and successfully carried out
with neatness and dispatch. During
the busy summer and autumn season,
roller mills, boilers, triple effects, va
cum pans, water piping, molasses
tanks and innumerable parts OF ma
chine1S were being manufactured,
while the great repair shops were in
as 275 men were employed. The ser
vices Of every available mechanic IN
the city were secured and a number of
skilled artisans were brought down
from San Francisco for special work
in the shops Machinery was in motion
all day and, most of the time, well
into the night.
A trip through the works is a rare
treat, and affords the only definite
means of gaining an idea of the mag
nitude of the business there carried
on. Fronting on Queen street is a
large two-story building, which will
be recognized as the front entrance
10 the Works Downstairs is the gen.
eral business Office where all contracts
are ratified and the business Of the
Works is carried on. There manager
Hedemann has desk. Upstairs is the
draughting room, where all the plans
for contracts are drawn. This de
partment has the appearance of the
main room of an architectural firm in
q great city.
Parallel with the building just de-
scribed, but running back half
through the block, is another, brick
structure, in which are located the
most important shops of the Works.
In il is the foundry, where the great
est machinery is manufactured and
handled with the smallest amount of
muscular force. Here from 80 to 40
tons of iron casting is turned out
every week Next to it, though adjoin-
ing the same department, is the black
smith shop, where anything from
small bolt TO an immense mill shaft Is
constructed
There are three machine shops, al
equipped with the most modern appli-
ances. Back of them is the smiths de-
partment. another large building on
in the lower yard is the boiler shops,
a most important adjunct of the WORKS.
Out of it have come the largest boilers
in the country today Plantation mills
have been equipped and majority of
the boilers used by the island steamers
have been supplied from this shop
With Mr.. Hedemann, the manager
over all. no man has done more for the
success of the enterprise in the past
wear than Mr.. James 4. Kennedy. That
gentleman has conducted negotiations,
had charge of the principal contracts
and carried out the business part Of
each one of them.
Another important factor in the
works is Mr.. R. c. Monteagle. head OF
the draughting department. By him all
plans of contracts taken by the concern
are prepared. and every detail is care
fully figured out. Other important
functionaries are: Cushingham, fore
man machine shop; James Lycett, fore
man boiler maker; Thomas Smith, fore
man moulder; H. c. Reid, foreman pat
tern maker; Chas. Crozier, foreman
blacksmith
Coming back TO the works again, 1t
may be added that, on account OF the
UNPRECEDENTED increase of business
during the past year, it has been found
necessary TO build a new and larger
machine shop. In it, besides the rou-
tine of heavy machinery, there will be
a crane capable of lifting 40 feet in
the clear. This will handle with ease
the largest and heaviest piece OF ma
chinery in the Islands.
The future of the works is estab-
lished. 1t fills a most important mis-
sion. and does it in the most saistac-
tory manner. The most courteous
treatment is accorded all who have
business with the establishment. En-
blowing. as is done, the most skilled
mechanics TO be procured, the work OF
the shops has been eminently salts
factory in every respect.