The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-05
THE ENGINE
ACCEPTED.
KaIihi Pumping Plant
Satisfactory.
AUXILIARY WATER SUPPLY
Five Million Gallons More a Day
for Honolulu Consumers
The Figures.

Yesterday afternoon at O'CLOCK, gu
perintendent of Public Works James A.
McCandless accepted from the agents
of the Edward p. Allis Pump Company
of Milwaukee. Wisconsin, the great
triple expansion engine of the new Ka-
lihi Pumping plant. which is to furnish
the city's auxiliary water supply.
| Mr.. McCandless, accompanied by AS
sistant superintendent w. f. Rowel, /
spent more than an hour viewing the
workings of the magnificent pump, the
details of which were clearly explained
by Mr. NJ. b. Wengler, the expert or
the company. Andrew Brown, Water
Commissioner, was also present. The
pump will be formally delivered over to
Mr.. Brown by Superintendent of Public
Works at once, and within week
James Quinlan, at present chief engi-
neer at the Beretania street pumping
plant, will be put in charge of the new
plant. Edwin Hughes will then take
charge of the Beretania plant.
Mr.. McCandless and Mr.. Rowell were
very well satisfied with their observa-
tons and Investigations. and comment
ed upon the smoothness with which the
engine and pistons worked.
The engine is one of the vertical type
= with steam cylinders on top of the
frames. The pumps are exactly below
o in line with the cylinders, connected
,r with steel rods of three-inch thickness
The cylinders are is. 80 and AZ inches in
diameter, with a 30-inch stroke. The
pumps are each single acting, with II
inc ctr If i.
very similar to the marine engines bull
by the same company, and represent
the highest type of pumping engir
constructed.
In the basement the water pumpe'
comes in from three wells in 20-lnc
pipe, which feeds the three pumps D.
tributary pipes of less diameter, and j
nc delivered into an 1S-inch pipe which a
present leads directly to the mains, an
A thus into residences. When the reSeI
voir is completed behind Kamehameh
ed School, 100000 gallons every twenty
four hours will be pumped in, and 5000
900 gallons sent into the city, or o,ooO,o '
gallons per day.
ill There is a large air cylinder at II
end of the pipe leading from the well
the pressure from which is intended
modify the action of the water
pumped in and prevent II from makii
too heavy a throw.
There is also a cutoff wheel near t
pumps and one outside whereby {
water can be saved in case of a bre
in the mains. On each balance stro
er of the plungers of the three pumps,
gallons of water are pumped INTO
IS-inch main. There are thlrty-t
strokes registered per minute-the o
cial test of yesterday by Mr.. NECTAR
less-making record OF about :,
gallons per minute. This would ma
an actual count of 4,141,2OO gallons
twenty-four hours.
For fire pressure the hywheel revo
tons could be increased to forty-eig
1t would take thirty eight revolutions
pump 100000 gallons day. The q
eminent officials carefully compu
the time on the engine while the wa
was pumped at the thirty-two revo
tions per minute schedule into
mains. which will lead into the res
voir when built The water was ALE
ed to go TO waste on the lands bach
Kamehameha School. The pressure
run up to the high point, and the
was satisfactory from mechan
point of view.
The small cylinder overlapping
main pump is the highest pressure Y
100 pounds of steam: the second or
ternediate requires 225 pounds ste
and the third. or low pressure, requ
or pounds below atmosphere.
The entire engine with cylind
pumps. hywheels and general wori
machinery operating the three pumI
set in massive compact frame I
are two flywheels operating on
shaft each ten feet in diameter, we
ing $500 pounds each. The whole
CINE weighs 125 tons. or 100000 pou
Commissioner Brown estimates
cost to the Government for the eng
boilers, building and smokestack
$10e, COO of which the engines alone
about So, 900 The two sterling DO
"A of $50 horsepower each will cost
over 81 500. The piping and the la
thereof has been a great expense.
thousand two hundred and eighty
of 1S-inch pipe has been laid on the
to the reservoir up to the present
AS soon as the formal certifica'
acceptance is turned over to the as
, ~ Of the pump company, Mr.. McCan
It'll will put the entire charge Of the !
It'll in the hands of Water Comm1ss
Brown.
The pump has been in operation a
three weeks.