The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-04-05

yesterday and the men who hs5 made i
ra-r ar their lives for four weeks were
cc-65s-r that il would prove successful
Besides The manager and his Immediate
Ifz--z-arts- the heads Of three depart
--z--s AZ the Iron WORKS are important
rrz-. with great responsibility. in s mat
-s- az This character. First the patterns
are made In This room. H C Reid is
The veteran foreman. HIS establishment
: me at carpenter shop and wood
wo-Sf-s mill re ana his men make,
from blusprir-s. the castings for the
mods. California redwood Is the favored
material TrcS- smith is the chief OF
The -oE5s-s- Everyone knows that the
Iron wu-zs Company imports a lot OF
sand for uoldizg- The large majority OF
#reovIs are under the impression that when
q pattern Is ready, this sand. perhaps
slightly 1oiste-ed. Is packed around the
form. thar then the form Is Withdrawn
and the molten metal poured in Well.
ne sand Is only a portion OF the mold
co-posicio1- Every year the Iron Works
Company uszS IONS OF -four and thousands
Of SAILORS OF rrolassss 70 mix with the
imported sands fo- uoI5ing. once made
the mods are baked in 8 huge even and
then faced with plumbagU- They are
then almost like iron. AR smith looks
after all This. and much more This
new high pressure cylinder VIII weigh
ou- in the leIEhborl0o5 OF four tons To
lz certain Of enough metal with several
technical allowances. the head molder had
I'VE tons o. iron melted up for the run
II vas picked scrap. 100. Old castings
are smashed up down there in rather
primitive way They are laid our under
a tripod derrick and massive weight
Is hauled mp by steam and dropped on
them a casting Ike the high pressure
cylinder is quite Cr=c and cools rapidly in
comparison 10 the setting Of q roller.
for Instance After the caSting IS released
by the chief UClEzr IL goes 70 the head
man OF the machine shops. GIr- Cushing
ham. in rlzS instance. He must see that
the trimming and finishing are properly
done. on large piece Ike the cylinder /
twenty-five OF thirty men are employed
under the direction of the master uechan- I
iC for q couple Of days When Job like /
this Is completed, IL Is a handsome thing
70 look upor-1ev and shining. tribute
20 the skin Of a whole lot Of trained and
careful men who take the greatest pride I
il their work When the cylinder is de- I
l5ve-e5 20 the Wilder Company. Engineer I
Johnson places IL in the Kiaau. This part I
VIII De done in quite a rush, for the pre- |
sent Is the busy season with the company [
in the transportation lire and the vacation I
Of the EiEau means lot Of idle moneys [
considerable loss.
There are buster times at the Iron /
WORKS here these days than even on any
gt the big plantations with grinding in
fun blast. Twenty-Five new men came to |
the Works by the Noa1a yesterday. but
there viii be no stoppage OF overtime !
operations Men come from the Coast
reacuy. leaving certain positions up there, /
because the wages are better and the
hours shorter here.
A steamship man who was at the Works
yesterday while the Advertiser reporter
was making visit said that it was be-
coming palmer every day that il would
bs necessary for ths Works 20 complete
It's marine repair department. This
place is a station fin ocean business" said
he. ard must BE equipped to do the
work Here they have work for the
KioatiSe steamer. That ship would have
drifted about on the Pacific for a month
or six weeks unless tt was able 20 get It's
work done here. The Honolulu Iron
Works has saved those people from max
Ing a failure Of The voyage The same
thias has happened a dozen times IN
few years.
one OF the gentlemen heavily Interested
IN the Works limited that the marine re-
pair department was 20 De enlarged.
Work Is piled everywhere about the
Foundry. In the boiler making annex
men are using from a recently arrived
shipment or order Of l2,ooo tons Of steel
plate. Nearly an Of this is going into
water pipe for various plantations. Five
teams have been at work for some time
hauling this material from the wharyes.
The steel was shipped from New York TO
Panama. thence TO san Francisco, then
down here In The sugar and other packets.
Besides the rush or emergency work on
the Elondike steamer. the Iron Works
people are making some pieces Of engine
for the local Electric Light Works
Probably half a hundred men are labor
ing in various ways on rollers for Oahu
and I-ahaIna plantations.
It's a grand thing 10 drop into the Iron
Works once in awhile and see how men
use steam and master metal