The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-26
Oahu Railway Carpenter Shop
an Active Place.
COACHES TO Be CONSTRUCTED
Cane Cars BY Hundreds-New Ma
nery-Repairs-A Transfer.
Bridge-Bicycles.

In the big carpenter shop of the
Oahu Railway and Land Company
there are building ten box and ten fiat
cars. There is an order booked for
200 cane cars. The Company will so
soon as it can get around to the work
build for itself a number Of fine
coaches. Moreover, the Company is in
the field for the job of supplying the
Rapid Transit corporation with cars
for the new city electric or compressed
air street lines. The Oahu company
has the plant and the men for this
work and is out for anything in the
line of exhibition of enterprise and ex-
pansion. General Manager Dillingham;
is a regular industrial imperialist.
Since the new machinery was installed
in the new carpenter and erecting
shops of the Company, Master Build
er ]. A. Hughes has been directing on
full time a corps of no less than thir-
ty first class. wood mechanics. The
Company has ordered material in
large quantities and when anything
new in laborsaving machinery is an
nounced will annex the same without
delay.
The Oahu Railway Company has just
received per bark S. G. Allen new
lathe for the machine shops. This
tool weighs six and a half tons and
has long been coveted by Master Me-
chanic Roberts. 1t is a device of the
day and is still lacking in many first
class modern shops in the States. In
the bit of lull at this time between
sugar hauling seasons time is afforded
to make some repairs to engines and a
considerable force of men is employed
in the work. However, general traffic
is having such steady and marked
growth that locomotives are kept rath-
er busy.
One new plan of the Railway Com
pany's recently adopted in the operat-
ing department on the instance of
superintendent Denison, has proven
success and has been made a fixture
A transfer" engine and coach is used
altogether on the Peninsula instead of
having entire trains make the run
down from Pearl City. After a trial
of three months this has been found
to be a satisfactory economy. A lit
tie shed for the engine has been pro-
vided on the Peninsula and the deni- |
zens of that locality can often hear
the engineer and fireman telling each |
other hard luck stories and recounting |
the victories of American arms and |
legs.
The Oahu Railway Company has
built a sixty-foot bridge for the Oahu |
Company and has placed it |
over a gulch twenty-four feet deep. |
The bridge looked like a special table |
for a soldier luau when it was loaded |
on the cars in town, but presents a |
fine appearance since it has been |
placed in position and is a substantial |
structure.
Jerry" can ''go lie the. car" more |
than ever now in the Oahu service |
The Company has just added to it's
light but necessary rolling stock six |
new hand-cars, with beard combs and |
scissors for cutting hair from the
teeth. With the growth of traffic on
the road the section gangs have been
made stronger and more of them have
been organized. This will count in a
marked manner at election time, un-
less this railway has departed from the
traditions of all other railways in the
land of the free and home Of the brave.
Three railway bicycles are owned by
the Oahu Company. Two are singles
and one is a companion" This last
is for the use of Genialfred Smith.
All railway ticket and passenger
agents are either genial or urbane.
Smith is both and more too. He uses
the companion car when he takes a
newspaper man out to give a good
story on how the Oahu railway charges
less per mile in passenger tariff than
any other road. This is no fighting-top
story, either.
The eloquent Mr.. Frank Bergstrom
cannot escape a notice in this column.
He is wharfnger or head luna at the
COmpany's personally conducted
wharf. Material is due at this dock
from both the S. G. Wilder and S. c.
Allen for Oahu plantation. This new
plantation is furnishing the railway
company whole lot of freight. So is
that remarkable Chinese concern, the
Oahu Building & Lumber Company.